Anime like ChäoS;Child

Occultic;Nine

Also known as Occultic;Nine.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , MAGES. , Aniplex , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Sci-Fi , Supernatural , Thriller

The "paranormal science" story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Choujou Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Yuuta Gamon. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to a larger, unimaginable event that may alter what is considered common sense in this world.



Tags: Conspiracy , Ghost , Male Protagonist , Afterlife , Super Power , Detective , Suicide , Cult , Denpa , Dissociative Identities , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Urban , Achronological Order , Meta , Religion , Otaku Culture , Bar , Tragedy , Time Manipulation

Steins;Gate

Also known as Steins;Gate.

Studio: Frontier Works , Funimation , Media Factory , Movic , AT-X , White Fox , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Nitroplus
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages.

The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Alternate Universe , Time Loop , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Urban , Dystopian , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Dissociative Identities , Philosophy , Chuunibyou , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Suicide , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , Transgender , War , Post-Apocalyptic , Gender Bending , Denpa , Maids , Shrine Maiden , Trains

Robotics;Notes

Also known as Robotics;Notes.

Studio: Production I.G , Aniplex , Funimation , Fuji TV , MAGES.
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

2019, Divergence Ratio 1.048596 (Steins Gate worldline). The near future, where a device popularly called the PokeCom, packaged with PhoneDroid OS, spreads, bringing the Augmented Reality world close to existence.

Central Tanegashima High School's Robot Research Club is in danger of losing its club status. Kaito Yashio, one of only two members, is only obsessed with robot fighting games, showing no interest in the Robo Club even in this situation. The reckless, useless club head, Akiho Senomiya, aims to complete a giant robot, struggling hard to avoid losing the club's status.

Then, one day, Kaito discovers the A.R. annotation that becomes the Kimijima Report. Written in that report is the indictment of someone named Kou Kimijima's conspiracy involving the world.



Tags: Robots , Conspiracy , School Club , Video Games , Augmented Reality , Artificial Intelligence , Heterosexual , Hikikomori , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , School , Real Robot , Love Triangle , Otaku Culture , Tanned Skin , Mopeds

Another

Also known as Another.

Studio: Lantis , Kadokawa Shoten , P.A. Works , Toho , Sentai Filmworks , KLOCKWORX , Bandai Namco Live Creative , NTT Docomo
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

When Kouichi Sakakibara transfers to a new school, he senses a frightening atmosphere in his new class, a secret none of them will talk about. At the center is the beautiful Mei Misaki. Kouichi is immediately drawn to her mysterious aura, but he begins to realize that no one else in the class is aware of her presence. Soon after his arrival, what is known as the Calamity begins, and it claims the lives of many students.



Tags: Tragedy , Gore , School , Memory Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Survival , Rural , Seinen , Assassins , Curses , Kuudere , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Ghost , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Twins , Teacher , Philosophy , Death Game

Gokukoku no Brynhildr

Also known as Brynhildr in the Darkness.

Studio: Arms , VAP , YTV , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

The original manga revolves around high school boy Ryōta Murakami, who cannot forget his female childhood friend whom he let die in an accident. Feeling that he must fulfill their promise of proving the existence of aliens, he has continuously looked up at the sky as a member of the astronomy club. One day, a girl named Neko Kuroha who looks exactly like his childhood friend appears as a transfer student. It turns out that she is a magic-user that has run away from a research lab.



Tags: Magic , Amnesia , Seinen , Female Harem , Gore , Tragedy , Nudity , Astronomy , School Club , School , Feet

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai

Also known as When They Cry Kai.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Studio DEEN , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Continuing from the first series, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai begins to shed some light on the dark mysteries prevalent in the preceding season. The young group of friends in the town of Hinamizawa continue to enter terrible conflicts with one another in their never ending summer of 1983, often ending with the brutal murder of one of their numbers. Furude Rika, with the help of her spiritual friend Hanyuu, tackles challenges over and over, trying her best to keep their lives from coming to a tragic end. With no end to the torture in sight, Rika must call upon the bonds of friendship and trust among her friends to discover the true villain of this eternal June.

Tags: Denpa , Time Loop , Alternate Universe , Conspiracy , Time Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Rural , Torture , Female Protagonist , Gods , Twins , Urban Fantasy , Shrine Maiden , Primarily Female Cast , Body Horror , Gore , Kuudere , School , Historical , Politics , School Club , Mythology , Military , Primarily Teen Cast , Crossdressing

Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fuukei

Also known as the Garden of sinners Chapter 1: Thanatos. (Overlooking View).

Studio: Aniplex , ufotable , Kodansha , Aniplex of America , Notes
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

September, 1998: In the city where Shiki lives, something triggers a spate of mysterious schoolgirl suicides. The connection between the girls who've leapt to their deaths is unclear, although all of them have jumped from the Fujou Building, a skyscraper scheduled to be demolished.



Tags: Suicide , Ghost , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Super Power , Urban , Philosophy , Tragedy , Gore , Achronological Order , Kuudere , Primarily Adult Cast , Denpa

Shingetsutan Tsukihime

Also known as Lunar Legend Tsukihime.

Studio: J.C. Staff , TBS , Movic , Geneon Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

Shiki Tohno sustained a life threatening injury as a child, and due to that incident he was sent away from the Tohno household and was given to a relative to be raised. Years later, when Shiki is in high school, the head of the Tohno household—his father—dies, and he is ordered to move back in by his sister Akiha, who is the new head of the household. However, Shiki holds a huge secret. Ever since that injury, he has been seeing lines on objects, and only with a special pair of glasses is he able to stop seeing them. Also he is unable to remember anything well from the time before his accident. The day he moves back to the Tohno household is the day he stumbles upon a woman named Arcueid Brunstud and decapitates her with one stab of his knife in a temporary fit of insanity. When she suddenly showed up beside him later alive and well, and ask him to be her bodyguard, Shiki's journey to unravel the mysteries of his past begins.



Tags: Vampire , Super Power , Adoption , Urban Fantasy , Amnesia , Gore , Nun , Maids , Heterosexual , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Reincarnation , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Twins , Kuudere

PERSONA5 the Animation

Also known as PERSONA5 the Animation.

Studio: Aniplex , CloverWorks , Sammy , Movic , Atlus
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Supernatural

Ren Amamiya is about to enter his second year after transferring to Shujin Academy in Tokyo.
Following a particular incident, his Persona awakens, and together with his friends they form the “Phantom Thieves of Hearts” to reform hearts of corrupt adults by stealing the source of their distorted desires.
Meanwhile, bizarre and inexplicable crimes have been popping up one after another…
Living an ordinary high school life in Tokyo during the day, the group maneuvers the metropolitan city as Phantom Thieves after hours.
Let the curtain rise for this grand, picaresque story!



Tags: Crime , Henshin , Mythology , Memory Manipulation , Super Power , School , Alternate Universe , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Delinquents , Achronological Order

Shakugan no Shana

Also known as Shakugan no Shana.

Studio: J.C. Staff , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Funimation , Toshiba Entertainment , Cosmic Ray , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

He had thought his normal days would last forever, until they were ended abruptly by an encounter with a girl with red hair and eyes. He named her Shana.

Not long after he enters high school, Sakai Yuji’s normal days come to an end. He sees something bizarre on his way home: people are frozen in a strange fire, and a monster that looks like a large doll is attacking them. Just when he's about to be killed, a girl in a dark cloak wielding a large sword appears, and slices the monster in half. Although Yuji survives the strange encounter, the girl informs him of a desolate truth: " 'You' don't exist anymore."

She calls herself a Flame Haze who hunts "Guze no Tomogara"; intruders from another world. She explains to him that he is a "Torch", a substitute of Yuji whose “existence” has already been devoured. She also told him that he is a special Torch, "Mystes", which contains a precious item in it. When he looks at his chest, he sees within himself a faint flame, just as she said.

It is in this way that his eternal struggle alongside the girl begins.



Tags: Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Tsundere , Religion , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , School , Swordplay , Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Kaiju , Primarily Adult Cast