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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
Best tv shows and movies like The Perfect Insider (2015):
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That is the Bottleneck (2020)
Plot Summary:
Themed around the ambiguities of modern communication, the story of Soredake ga Neck is set in the Hot Hot Mart convenience store, where the mysterious young man known as Muto works in the company of Nekomaru, the slightly sinister store's cat. Is Muto the savior of the Hot Hot Mart? Or is this merely an ominous existence? What sort of stories await at the convenience store?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, enigmatic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Neuro: Supernatural Detective (2007)
Plot Summary:
Yako Katsuragi is an acclaimed high school detective, who, despite her young age, has solved many cases. In fact, there seems to be no case that she can't solve, or any culprit that escapes justice. But within the walls of her detective agency lies the secret to her prolific crime-solving skills: the cases are actually solved by her assistant, Neuro Nougami. However, to call Neuro an ordinary man would be incorrect. In reality, he is a demon, who came to the human world in search of the ultimate mystery, having already solved every mystery in the demon world. With Yako as his proxy, he feasts on the negative energy released by humans when they commit crimes. Thus, he promises to help Yako solve the mystery of her father's death. But to do so, he must avoid drawing too much attention to himself, which is why Yako plays the role of the detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, anime, enigmatic, humorous, disturbing
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The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (2020)
Plot Summary:
The novel follows Richard Ranashinha Dvorpian, a handsome British jewelry appraiser, and Seigi Nakata, a bright and upright Japanese college student. The duo solves various jewel-related cases by unraveling the hidden.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Animation, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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xxxHOLiC The Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005)
Plot Summary:
Invited to a wealthy client's mansion, time-traveling witch Yuko and her companions arrive to find a group of collectors assembled to participate in a mysterious auction. And the mystery only deepens when the collectors go missing one by one. As more guests disappear and strange occurrences abound, Yuko and her friends realize they must solve the mystery before they vanish as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, adult animation
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Kaze no Yojimbo (2001)
Plot Summary:
George Kodama is investigating an incident that occurred in the small town of Kimujuku over 15 years ago. George is soon caught up in the middle of a bloody gang fight for control of the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Animation, Action, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004)
Plot Summary:
Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple is an anime television series that adapted several Agatha Christie stories about Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. A new character named Mabel West, Miss Marple's great-niece, who becomes Poirot's junior assistant, is used to connect the two detectives. The series was broadcast from 4 July 2004 to 15 May 2005 on NHK, and continues to be shown in re-runs on NHK and other networks in Japan. The series was adapted as manga under the same title, which was released in 2004 and 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Dexter: Early Cuts (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dexter Early Cuts is a web-based series in the form of an animated comic about the character Dexter Morgan and his earliest kills, thus the name "Early Cuts". The series is narrated by Michael C. Hall from the Showtime series and chronicles characters from that series (not the novels).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, dark, disturbing, anime
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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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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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Black Butler: Book of Murder (2014)
Plot Summary:
At the Queen’s request, Ciel and the demon butler Sebastian host an extravagant dinner party for the who’s who of the London underground. But an evening that begins with the promise of unmatched elegance quickly spirals into mayhem when their most distinguished guest is found murdered in his room. Now, trapped in the Phantomhive Manor by a dark and stormy night, Ciel and Sebastian must work together with their high-class guests, including the legendary author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to find the murderer in their midst before the blame falls on the host and his somewhat suspicious staff.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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YUREI DECO (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story begins when Berry, an average girl from an average home, meets Hack, a girl who looks like a boy. Charmed by Hack, Berry meets up with the team Hack leads, the Ghost Detectives Club. Members of this club are “socially dead,” working invisibly within the digitally controlled society of Tom Sawyer. As she works with the group, Berry learns about Zero, a mysterious figure who lurks within Tom Sawyer’s underground. She and Hack decide to chase down this figure, and in time, the truth behind the city is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Ingress: The Animation (2018)
Plot Summary:
After scientists discover a mysterious substance that can influence human minds, two factions wage an all-out battle to control its awesome power.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing, mecha
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Aragne: Sign of Vermillion (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman in a decaying apartment complex finds herself seeing worms and moths everywhere, bursting out of beetles, animals, and people, and sets out to find how this is related to a rash of murders across the city.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Chaos;Child (2017)
Plot Summary:
ChäoS;Child takes place in October 2015, six years after the events of ChäoS;HEAd. Abnormal events begin to occur in Shibuya district, including mysterious deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window (2021)
Plot Summary:
Shy bookstore clerk Kosuke Mikado has the ability to see ghosts and spirits, an ability he wishes he didn't have, since what he sees usually terrifies him. Rihito Hiyakawa, an exorcist whose supernatural powers are as strong as his social graces are weak, doesn't seem to fear anything, mortal or otherwise. When this odd couple gets together to solve the bizarre cases that come their way, their work methods may not be entirely safe for work!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, detective, yaoi
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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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Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween (2022)
Plot Summary:
Shibuya, Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, where Detective Miwako Sato of the Metropolitan Police Department is dressed in a wedding dress. While Conan and the other invited guests are watching, an assailant suddenly bursts in, and Detective Wataru Takagi, who was trying to protect Sato, is injured. Takagi survived and the situation was settled, but in Sato's eyes, the image of the grim reaper that she had seen when Detective Matsuda, the man she had been in love with, had been killed in a series of bombings three years ago, overlapped with Takagi's.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing, 2d animation
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Pet (2020)
Plot Summary:
The psychic suspense story revolves around people who possess the ability to infiltrate people's minds and manipulate memories. Their powers have been used in the underworld for covering up incidents, assassinations, and other deeds. These powers can not only destroy other people's spirits, but also corrupt the users' own hearts at the same time. The users had to protect their fragile and insecure hearts, as if chained to each other. They are called "pets" out of fear and despising.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Animation, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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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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Persona 4 The Golden Animation (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the spring when the cherry blossom petals fall, Yū Narukami moves to Yaso Inaba to live with his uncle and cousin due to his family's circumstances. He transfers to Yasogami High School, where his event-filled school life begins. However, when serial murders begin occurring in the peaceful town, Yū is awakened to the power of his heart turned to physical form: A Persona. Within these new mysteries is Marie, a resident of the alternate world, the Velvet Room, who has no memories of her past. Together with his friends, Yū must solve all the riddles set in front of him and save Yaso Inaba from further violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tsundere
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Trickster (2016)
Plot Summary:
It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Kensuke Hanazaki, meets the boy Yoshio Kobayashi. Kobayashi's body cannot die due to the effects of the "Unidentifiable Mist," but he yearns for death, and shirks from contact with other people. Taking an interest in him, Hanazaki invites him to join the Boy Detectives Club. Their meeting is connected to the fate tying together Kogorō Akechi, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Magic Kaito: Kid the Phantom Thief (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kaito Kuroba, a normal teenage high school student, stumbles across the secret of his father's death: his father was not only a magician, but the famous phantom thief Kaitou Kid, and was killed by an organization for reasons unknown. Taking up his father's mantle in an attempt to bait the killers, Kaito performs a number of thefts and eventually learns that his father died for interfering in the organization's quest to find the Pandora Gem. Pandora is said to glow in the light of the moon, and beneath the moon and a certain comet, will shed a tear granting immortality to whomever drinks it. Kaito then decides to search for Pandora as Kaitou Kid and destroy it, in order to prevent the organization from obtaining their goals.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Psychic Detective Yakumo (2010)
Plot Summary:
In order to help a friend possessed by a spirit, Ozawa Haruka knocks on the door of her university's movie research association. There she meets Saitou Yakumo, a rude, unkempt young man with a red left eye, who is said to have spiritual powers. At first Haruka is skeptical, but she comes to believe him when he conveys messages from her older sister, who died when she was a child. Together, they work to shed light on the terrifying events happening at their university. But this is only the prologue of what's to come.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Animation, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, captivating, atmospheric, bleak, humorous, detective
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Summer Time Rendering (2022)
Plot Summary:
Upon hearing of Ushio's death, Shinpei returns to his hometown of Wakayama City on Hitogashima and reunites with his childhood friend's family. The funeral goes smoothly, but under the surface something strange is brewing on the island. What mysteries await him on this secluded summer island?.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, mystical
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ID: INVADED (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sakaido is a genius detective who can track down any criminal. But when his daughter is murdered, revenge lands him on the other side of the law. Now in prison, he helps the police solve mysteries using a system that invades a person’s identity. Little by little, a trail of blood forms, and it all leads back to his daughter’s murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, detective, psychological thriller
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Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the Heath Oslo incident, the existence of the US-Japanese anti-terror organization CIRS has become a matter of public knowledge. CIRS has been rebuilt from the ground up, and its most covert functions spun off to a new agency: SORD (Social Ops, Research & Development). The goal of SORD is to train a new generation of operatives to defend the country against future threats. To that end, the organization has established a series of schools up and down the country. Mihama Academy, more-or-less left to rot after its abrupt closure, has been given new purpose as one such 'specialist training school'. It now entrusts the misfit girls who attend it with guns and live ammunition. No matter how much life grinds them down, what future awaits these girls, who've themselves chosen the path of the gun?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, disturbing