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Plot Summary:
High schooler Hajime Kindaichi is a brilliant detective beneath his slacker habits. With his old friend Miyuki, he solves cases the police can't.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, clever, dramatic, manga, detective, smart
Best tv shows and movies like The File of Young Kindaichi (1997):
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Beastars (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, herbivores and carnivores coexist with each other. For the adolescences of Cherryton Academy, school life is filled with hope, romance, distrust, and uneasiness. The main character is Regoshi the wolf, a member of the drama club. Despite his menacing appearance, he has a very gentle heart. Throughout most of his life, he has always been an object of fear and hatred by other animals, and he's been quite accustomed to that lifestyle. But soon, he finds himself becoming more involved with his fellow classmates who have their own share of insecurities and finds his life in school changing slowly.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, enigmatic, social, romantic, captivating, sentimental, funny, adult anime, shounen
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Hyouka (2012)
Plot Summary:
Oreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into an embodiment of curiosity once she says, "I'm curious." Fukube is a smiling boy with a fantastic memory who calls himself a database. Ibara is a short girl and is strict with others and herself. They begin to investigate a case that occurred 45 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Classics Club. The collection is titled "Hyouka.".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, detective, romantic, touching, light
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Detective School Q (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story began in a classroom of a middle school. Our main character, Kyu, when called by the guidance counselor, declared that he wanted to be a detective. He took the entrance exam to Dan Detective School where talented people from the whole country gather. He passed the difficult entrance exam for the so-called "Q class" (Q = qualified), which is personally instructed by the founder and head master of the school, the legendary famous detective, Dan Morihiko. There he got to know Minami Megumi (Meg) with her photographic memory ability, Touyama Kintarou (Kinta) - the descendant of "Kin-san" from Touyama, Narusawa Kazuma (Kazuma) - a genius programmer, and Amakusa Ryu (Ryu) - the weird Todai (Tokyo University) student. The five of them work together, as well as competing each other, heading towards graduation.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, detective
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Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Shōtarō Tatewaki is a normal high school student with a serious demeanor hangs around with Sakurako Kujō. Sakurako is an extraordinarily beautiful woman in her mid-20s from a rich family who loves "beautiful bones." The two live in the city of Asahikawa in Hokkaido, and they get involved in various incidents regarding bones.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, seinen, detective, super sentai
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Case File N° 221: Kabukicho (2019)
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Shinjuku ward east side... The center of the street with most chaos, There's a Kabukicho with full of neon lights. When the light is stronger, the shadow is deeper. The story begins when certain bizarre murder happens one night! Suspense? Or Comedy? Drama that cannot identify begins!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, intellectual, captivating, suspenseful, detective, odd
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Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place at a certain middle school where several murder cases take place. Kobayashi, a boy who goes to this school, meets genius detective Akechi, who comes to the school to investigate. Kobayashi takes an interest in Akechi and, in spite of his friend Hashiba's worries, he volunteers to be Akechi's assistant.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Animation, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, tense, sincere, unusual plot structure, detective, contemplative
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Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School (2016)
Plot Summary:
Despair Arc serves as the "prelude" to the series, as it tells the backstory of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B and how they became corrupted Remnants of Despair.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 915
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Holmes of Kyoto (2018)
Plot Summary:
Holmes, a young man whose family runs an antique shop in Kyoto, has the unique ability to read people and instantly distinguish genuine and high value antiques. When a local high school student, Aoi Maki, starts working alongside Holmes, together they begin to unravel the many mysteries surrounding the antiques brought to the shop.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, semi serious
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Tokyo 24th Ward (2022)
Plot Summary:
The Far Eastern Special Administrative Region, also known as the 24th Ward, is a man-made island. Shuta, Ran, and Koki were born and raised on the island. Their family backgrounds, preferences, and personalities are completely different, but they always stuck together. However, one incident changed their relationship forever. A year afterward, the three friends are reunited by chance at a memorial service held for the incident. All three of their phones suddenly ring simultaneously. Their friend, who is supposed to be dead, is calling and demands that they make a decision about the future.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Spiral: Bond of Reasoning (2002)
Plot Summary:
Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning is a fifteen-volume shōnen mystery manga series written by Kyou Shirodaira and illustrated by Eita Mizuno. It was published by Enix and then Square Enix in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from February 2000 to October 2005 and collected in 15 bound volumes. The series focuses on Ayumu Narumi and his efforts to solve the mystery of the Blade Children, cursed geniuses with cat-like eyes lacking a seventh rib bone. A prequel series by Shirodaira and Mizuno, called Spiral: Alive, was published in Gangan Wing and Monthly Shōnen Gangan from April 2004 to June 2008 and collected in five bound volumes. Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning was originally licensed for an English language release in North America by Tokyopop, however the company dropped the series. Yen Press acquired the license for Northern American release, and published the first volume in October 2007. The series was adapted as a twenty-five episode anime television series broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1, 2002 until March 25, 2003. The anime is licensed in Region 1 by FUNimation, who released it on DVD and broadcast it on the FUNimation Channel programming block on CoLours TV in 2006. The series was also adapted as four light novels and a series of CD dramas.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mysterious, enigmatic, captivating, detective, smart, mystical, clever
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Pretty Boy Detective Club (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mayumi Dojima, a second-year student at the exclusive Yubiwa Academy middle school, has lost something—a star she glimpsed just once, ten long years ago. But help is on the way, in the form of the unofficial, secretive, and thoroughly mysterious Pretty Boy Detective Club! Rumored to solve problems within the school (most of which they themselves might as well created) for reasons aesthetic rather than financial, these five gorgeous boys sweep Mayumi into their world of excitement, danger, and overwhelming beauty.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Animation, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Perfect Insider (2015)
Plot Summary:
Souhei Saikawa is a college professor who is obsessed with genius Shiki Magata’s work. He, Moe Nishinosono, and a group of his other students plan a retreat to the remote island where Magata currently resides, which may put them in danger’s way.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Animation, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, super sentai, psychological
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City Hunter (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, exciting, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious, fast, detective, vintage
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Detective Conan: Episode One - The Great Detective Turned Small (2016)
Plot Summary:
The "Detective Conan" TV special is a retelling of the first and part of the second episode of the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, detective, shounen
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7Seeds (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shy Natsu awakens as part of a group chosen to ensure the survival of humanity. Together, they have to survive on a changed Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, stylized, mecha
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Master Keaton (1998)
Plot Summary:
Master Keaton is a Japanese manga series created by Hokusei Katsushika and Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Original between 1988 and 1994 and ran for 144 chapters. The chapters were combined into 18 tankōbon volumes. An anime adaptation was created, with 24 episodes airing between 1998 and 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television. An additional 15 episodes were created and released as OVAs, bringing the total to 39 episodes. The manga's target audience was Japanese men in their 20's and 30's, a comparatively older target audience than is common for most anime series. Though the manga series has not been translated into English, the anime and OVA series were dubbed into English and released by Pioneer Entertainment. Naoki Urasawa will be writing a sequel to the series, titled Master Keaton Remaster, with writer Takashi Nagasaki. Beginning in the March 2012 issue of Big Comic Original, it will take place 20 years after the original series ended.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, detective
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Cinderella Boy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Cinderella Boy follows the adventures of impoverished private detective Ranma Hinamatsuri and his thrill-seeking rich girl partner Rella "Cindy" Shirayuki in a futuristic city named "Kirin Town". Kirin Town is a lawless European city-state with its own currency with the name of the city being a pun on the English word for "killing". The two are badly injured when they stumble across an organised crime operation and are put back together into the same body by a mysterious doctor. Every night the stroke of midnight, their shared body changes both form and identity. Ranma becomes Rella, or vice versa. Neither is aware of any actions or situations their partner is involved in, completely losing consciousness until twenty-four hours later, when the change comes around to them again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, detective
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Danganronpa: The Animation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Being just a normal student without a special talent, Makoto Naegi wins a lottery to attend the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy where only the top prodigies attend. However, instead of this being the beginning of a wonderful high school life, it's a ticket to despair, because the only way to graduate from Hope's Peak Academy is to kill one of your fellow students or be one of their victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, semi serious, captivating, manga, psychological horror, tense, humorous, psychological
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The Millionaire Detective: Balance - Unlimited (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around millionaire Daisuke Kambe, the heir to one of the wealthiest families in Japan, who is assigned as a detective to the Modern Crime Prevention Task Force (aka MCPTF), at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Taking full advantage of his vast family wealth, he spares no expense in solving complex crimes, and has the tendency to evaluate everything including individual human lives in terms of their monetary value. Haru Kato, a detective with a compassionate heart who believes that money isn’t everything, is chosen as Kambe’s partner but is repulsed by his materialistic attitude. Having diametrically opposing personalities, witness how the two join forces to tackle seemingly unsolvable crimes and mysteries!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, tense, detective, unusual plot structure
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The Skull Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
Otomo City: where freedom and justice have atrophied to the bone; where conspiracy rules the day and death stalks the night... Death in the form of the Skull Man, a literal Grim Reaper whose skeletal grin presages grisly mayhem and murder, even to the monstrous mutants that haunt the city's underworlds! To investigate a bizarre slaying, journalist Minagami Hayato and photographer Kiriko Mamiya must stalk this ultimate predator, through a festering cadaver of a city where the corruption flows in rivers as deep and foul as the sins of the reigning elite, and unearth a secret so shocking that an entire city has been turned into a tomb to contain! In a nightmarish necropolis where nothing is as it seems, vengeance comes in the form of a living Death's-Head!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, scary, rough, serious
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Pet Shop of Horrors (1999)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the most magnificent pet shop in Chinatown! Operated by the shadowy Count D, the shop specializes in rare and hard to come by pets... but with each sale comes a contract. And if that contract is broken, watch out! Detective Orcott has linked many odd and unexplained deaths to Count D's shop. Will he solve the mystery or fall prey to it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, manga, detective, super sentai, dark fantasy, weird, josei
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K Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shiro is an easygoing teenager content with just being a student—until his seemingly perfect life is halted when a bloodthirsty clan, glowing red with fire, attempts to kill him in the streets. Unbeknownst to Shiro, he is suspected of murdering a member of their clan and will need a miracle to escape their vengeance. Miraculously, a young man named Kurou Yatogami swings in and aids Shiro in his getaway, only to reveal he's also after Shiro's life. Now a hunted man, Shiro will have to evade the clans of seven powerful kings and desperately try to prove his innocence—before it’s too late!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, tense
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Anne Happy♪ (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around class 1-7 of Tennomifune Academy, where all the students with "bad karma" or misfortune seem to have been gathered. Hibari, a student in this class, meets the unlucky Hanako and the perennially unhealthy Botan on her first day of school, and together they try to find a way to turn their school life into a happy one.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Ex-Arm (2021)
Plot Summary:
2014: Akira Natsume seems to almost have a phobia of electrical devices while also being very good at diagnosing them. He resolves to change himself for the better and get a girlfriend like his older brother did. …But then Akira suddenly dies in an accident. 16 years later a special policewoman and her android partner retrieve and activate a highly advanced AI and superweapon called EX-ARM and put it into full control of their ship as a last resort. Turns out the AI is actually just Akira’s brain!.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, ecchi, seinen
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Police in a Pod (2022)
Plot Summary:
Officer Mai Kawai has had enough! She’s sick of being a police officer—but just when she’s about to hand in her resignation, the arrival of a brilliant (and beautiful) ace detective named Seiko Fuji changes her mind. Will Fuji reignite Mai’s passion for policing? And will Mai uncover the mystery of why Fuji was transferred to this ordinary police box?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, seinen
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Black Butler (2008)
Plot Summary:
In Victorian-era London, on the night of Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday, a fire destroyed his manor and killed both of his parents. In a moment of despair, Ciel strikes a deal with a demon - his soul in exchange for revenge. This demon becomes his butler, to protect and serve Ciel until the deal has been completed and calls himself by name of Sebastian Michaelis. One month after the fire Ciel returns from being missing, with his new butler Sebastian. Ciel is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the work as the Queen of England’s guard dog and looking for his parents murders.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, dark fantasy, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, manga, stylized, shounen, detective
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Case Closed (1996)
Plot Summary:
The son of a world famous mystery writer, Jimmy Kudo, has achieved his own notoriety by assisting the local police as a student detective. He has always been able to solve the most difficult of criminal cases using his wits and power of reason.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, feel good, captivating, manga, light, humorous, detective, rough, serious
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Love of Kill (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two assassins face off at a certain "workplace." The cool bounty hunter Chateau and the mysterious and powerful Ryang-Ha. Chateau and Ryang-Ha become enemies after this fight—at least, they should have, but for some reason Ryang-Ha takes a liking to Chateau and begins following her around. Little by little, Chateau develops a cooperative partnership with Ryang-Ha, which gets her caught up in the struggle against the organizations hunting him down. Furthermore, that battle is related to her past as well. Why did Ryang-Ha approach Chateau? What is Chateau's secret past?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, 2d animation, josei
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Kakegurui Twin (2022)
Plot Summary:
Determined to climb up the social ladder, Mary Saotome invests everything she has into what her elite high school values most: high stakes gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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Real Drive (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the "Net society" that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or "Metal" for short — was developed. People's personal memories are reduced to information and placed within "protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves" called bubble shells online. The result was a virtual "explosion" of creative freedom as people felt safe enough to explore instincts and desires on Metal that they would not otherwise explore in real life. This "friction" between the Metal's alluring lack of restrictions and rules-bound reality led to trouble and incidents that investigators known as "cyber divers" must handle. Masamichi Haru is one such cyber diver.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, cyber