Anime like Suteki Tantei☆Labyrinth

Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon

Studio: WOWOW , TMS Entertainment , Victor Entertainment , Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Thriller

The dark-haired bishounen is Sakon Tachibana, a puppeteer, and the other is Ukon, his favorite puppet and best friend. Sakon is the (only) grandson of Saemon Tachibana, a national treasure of Japan famous for his manipulation of Bunraku puppets. Ukon is a child doll puppet made in the early Meiji era by the famous female dollmaker Unosuke. Together they run into murders and solve them.



Tags: Detective , Episodic , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Shounen

CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan

Also known as CLAMP School Detectives.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Bandai Visual , Maiden Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery

The CLAMP school, with its integrated curriculum from kindergarten to post-graduate studies, was founded by the largest of Japanese business empires, the House of Imonoyama. Funded entirely out of its own deep pockets, it was hoped that the school would be a haven for young men and women on whose shoulders our future would rest.

The School is open to any talented individual, irrespective of his or her lineage or financial standing and is known to count scores of singularly talented pupils. It is furthermore also famous for its harboring of a remarkable percentage of party animals. Not even the bright and talented minds of CLAMP School can keep the campus free of crimes and mysteries. Or can they? Join Nokoru, Suoh and Akira, our case-cracking kid detectives, as they save the day and even the odd damsel in distress!



Tags: Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Detective , Age Gap , Crossover , Shoujo , Episodic , Primarily Child Cast , School Club , School , Revenge , Primarily Male Cast , Skateboarding , Crossdressing

Tantei Gakuen Q

Also known as Detective School Q.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Group TAC , Kodansha , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery

Kyuu is your average boy with a knack for logic and reasoning. Desiring to become a detective, he finds out about the existence of the Dan Detective School (DDS); a famed school where students are allowed to bear arms. Together with Megu, a girl with photographic memory, the martial arts master Kinta, the genius programmer Kazuma and the mysterious Ryuu, Kyuu tackles many well planned out crimes, always seeking the truth.

Tags: Shounen , Detective , Crime , Police , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , School Club

Matantei Loki RAGNAROK

Also known as Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Studio DEEN , ADV Films , Rakuonsha , Sentai Filmworks , MediaNet
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Supernatural

Loki, the Norse god of mischief, has been exiled to the human world for what was apparently a bad joke. Along with being exiled, he's forced to take the form of a child. He's told the only way he can get back to the world of the gods is if he can collect auras of evil that take over human hearts, and so to do this he runs a detective agency. Loki is soon joined by a human girl named Mayura who is a maniac for mysteries, and she soon helps out in her own way. However, soon other Norse gods begin to appear, and most have the intent to assassinate Loki for reasons unclear.




Tags: Male Protagonist , Mythology , Gods , Magic , Shounen , Detective , Isekai , Revenge , Heterosexual

Meitantei Conan

Also known as Detective Conan.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Animax , YTV , TMS Entertainment
Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Psychological

Kudo Shinichi is a seventeen year-old high school detective whom people call the "Modern Sherlock Holmes." However, one night after a date with his childhood sweetheart, Ran, Shinichi witnessed an illegal trade and, caught off his guard, was knocked unconscious and fed a drug that was supposed to kill him... but he woke up and found himself shrunken to a seven year-old. In order to track down the men who did this to him, Shinichi hid his identity and lived with Ran, whose father happened to be a hopeless detective, and with that came a series of murders and mysteries that he must solve.



Note:
Includes Keisatsu Gakkou-hen - Wild Police Story in episodes 1029, 1038, 1042, 1061
Episodes 11, 52, 76, 118, 162, 184, 208, 342, 356, 449, 452, 487, 488, 489, 490, 515, 516, 521, 522, 651, 734, 804, 805, 927, 928, 1187 aired with a runtime of ~50 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
Episodes 96, 129, 174, 219, 263, 304, 383, 479 aired with a runtime of ~90 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
Episode 345, 425 aired with a runtime of ~115 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.


Tags: Detective , Crime , Espionage , Tragedy , Age Regression , Conspiracy , Police , Male Protagonist , Fugitive , Criminal Organization , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Educational , Tsundere , Love Triangle , Football , Martial Arts , Crossover , Tanned Skin , Ojou-sama , Female Harem , Tomboy , Magic , Karuta , Idol , CGI , Video Games