Anime like Kakegurui

No Game No Life

Also known as No Game, No Life.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Media Factory , Movic , Frontier Works , AT-X , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy

Bored with life and considering the real world to be just a “crappy game,” savvy sibling shut-ins Sora and Shiro have withdrawn into their own fantasy world filled with video games.

However, one day they find themselves summoned to another world by a boy who calls himself “God,” their abilities are about to be put to the ultimate test! Now not only their fates — but the fate of all of humanity — will be decided by a series of games that may just be the hardest these super-geniuses have ever faced!



Tags: Isekai , Gambling , Alternate Universe , Video Games , Hikikomori , Magic , Male Protagonist , Politics , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Gods , Female Protagonist , Travel , Kuudere , Memory Manipulation , Kemonomimi , Meta , Class Struggle , Kingdom Management , Female Harem , Nudity , Nekomimi , Elf , Super Power , Judo

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e

Also known as Classroom of the Elite.

Studio: Lerche , KADOKAWA , Crunchyroll , AT-X , AKABEiSOFT2 , Bandai Namco Music Live , Sony Music Solutions , Toranoana , Kadokawa Media House , Lantis
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading school with state-of-the-art facilities. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is like a utopia, but the truth is that only the most superior students receive favorable treatment.

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its "inferior" students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Suzune Horikita and Kikyou Kushida, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka's situation begins to change.



Tags: School , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Anti-Hero , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Survival , Battle Royale , Kuudere , Tsundere , Nudity , Seinen , Female Harem , School Club , Female Protagonist , Yandere

Death Parade

Also known as Death Parade.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , DAX Production , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

When two people die at the same time, they’re sent to a place that’s neither heaven nor hell—a lavish bar between worlds where the stakes are high and the rules are simple: if you win you live again, if you die… you’re gone for good.

Decim is the bartender charged with serving the souls who enter Quindecim. He may make a mean cocktail, but his true profession is to play the role of arbiter—a judge who determines whether or not a soul is worthy of reincarnation. To aid in his judgment, the bar’s patrons are forced to play simple games laced with sadistic twists designed to bring their true natures to light. To Decim, judgment has always been black and white—that is—until he meets a mysterious young woman whose fate seems impossible to decide. His indecision shakes the very foundation of the games and raises the biggest question of all: Who is fit to judge the dead?



Tags: Death Game , Afterlife , Philosophy , Tragedy , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Reincarnation , Bar , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Suicide , Gambling , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Mythology , Kuudere , CGI , Ice Skating , Revenge , Gyaru , Bowling , Tanned Skin

Liar Liar

Also known as Liar, Liar.

Studio: GEEKTOYS , CyberAgent , KADOKAWA , Shouchiku , GEEK PICTURES , TOKYO MX , BS Asahi , qooop , Bushiroad Move
Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance

A mind game of lies and deceit begins! At Academy Island, students battle in Games to win stars, hoping to earn the prestigious title “Seven Star.” Sarasa is last year’s champion and is on track to win again until Hiroto, a new transfer student, hits the scene. Surprisingly, Hiroto defeats her by sheer luck! Now, he must use bluffs and trickery to stay on top.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Gambling , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Tsundere , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Shapeshifting , Maids , Chuunibyou , Love Triangle , Femboy

Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen

Also known as Kaiji - Against All Rules.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Thriller

Several months after the events of the first season, Kaiji, with his appendages reattached and his debt now run up to 9.5 million yen, is still desperately seeking the elusive big score that will cancel all of his markers. Unbeknownst to him, Hyodo’s company, the Teiai Corporation, is actively searching for Kaiji, and have sent Kaiji’s old “friend” Endoh, who entered him in the high stakes games in the past, to find him.

The two meet when Kaiji chances to walk in front of Endoh’s car at a stop light, and thinking that he has found the answer to his prayers, Kaiji gets in the car with him. While Kaiji and Endoh are “happy” to see one another, and both want to see Kaiji’s debt repaid, their means to that goal couldn’t be more different.

Instead of leading Kaiji to the big score, Endoh delivers him drugged and docile to the Teiai Corporation’s secret underground labor camp where Kaiji will have an opportunity to repay his debt… with 15 years of hard labor.



Tags: Gambling , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Class Struggle , Philosophy , Survival , Slavery , Card Battle , Crime , Torture , Bullying , Food , Tragedy

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e 2nd Season

Also known as Classroom of the Elite Season 2.

Studio: KADOKAWA , Lerche , Crunchyroll , Bandai Namco Music Live , AT-X , Sammy , Movic , Kadokawa Media House , Studio Hibari
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

The second season of Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e.

Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School seems like a paradise, but in reality, it is an extreme meritocracy. In the class of underachievers, Kiyotaka has begun working with Suzune, who seeks to ascend higher. After a survival test on an uninhabited island, they get to enjoy a luxury liner, but a new class-scrambling test will begin.



Tags: School , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Fugitive , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Delinquents , Battle Royale , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Conspiracy , Bullying , Torture , Tsundere , Rotoscoping , Kuudere , Athletics , Martial Arts , School Club , Seinen , Yandere , Love Triangle , Asexual

DEATH NOTE

Also known as Death Note.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Viz Media , Nippon Television Network , Konami , Ashi Productions , Shueisha , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Light Yagami is a genius high school student who is about to learn about life through a book of death. When a bored shinigami, a God of Death, named Ryuk drops a black notepad called a Death Note, Light receives power over life and death with the stroke of a pen. Determined to use this dark gift for the best, Light sets out to rid the world of evil… namely, the people he believes to be evil. Should anyone hold such power?

The consequences of Light’s actions will set the world ablaze.



Tags: Crime , Detective , Anti-Hero , Male Protagonist , Police , Philosophy , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Unrequited Love , Kuudere , Gods , Urban Fantasy , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Male Cast , Urban , Yandere , Amnesia , Espionage , Shounen , Suicide , Tennis , Time Skip , Acting , Feet , Assassins , Achronological Order , Asexual

Tomodachi Game

Also known as Tomodachi Game.

Studio: Okuruto Noboru , King Records , Kodansha , Nippon Television Network , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

High school student Katagiri Yuuichi, who values friendship above all else, enjoys a fulfilling life with his close friends Sawagiri Shiho, Mikasa Tenji, Shibe Makoto, and Kokorogi Yutori.

However, after a particular incident, they're dragged into a debt repayment game.

The only way to beat the "Tomodachi Game" is to not doubt their friends. Bound together by solid friendships, the game should've been easy, but– The hugely popular comic that sold over two million copies is finally becoming an anime! Will they trust or betray their precious friends? The true nature of humanity is exposed in the ultimate psychological game!



Note: Premiered on Hulu and d Anime Store at 0:00 on Wednesdays, 1 hour 29 minutes ahead of Nippon TV's broadcast.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Survival , Anti-Hero , Shounen , Crime , Battle Royale , Revenge , Death Game , Torture , Acting , Tragedy , Gambling , Ensemble Cast , Bullying , Heterosexual , School , Love Triangle , Gangs , CGI , LGBTQ+ Themes

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e 3rd Season

Also known as Classroom of the Elite Season 3.

Studio: KADOKAWA , Lerche , Crunchyroll , Bandai Namco Music Live , AT-X , Sammy , Movic , Kadokawa Media House , Studio Hibari
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

The third season of Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e.

The third semester kicks off in high gear with a special boot camp deep in the mountains. Forcibly separated into groups along grade and gender lines, the first, second and third years alike must work together to survive the rugged terrain. Even worse? The leader of the group that comes in last will be expelled. Can Class D make it back to campus intact, or is this where they finally say goodbye to one of their own?



Tags: School , Fugitive , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Battle Royale , Politics , Primarily Teen Cast , Denpa , Philosophy , Conspiracy , Coming of Age , Revenge , Survival , Bullying , Disability , School Club , Board Game , Suicide , Rehabilitation , Crime , Boarding School , Dissociative Identities , Seinen , Love Triangle , Kuudere , Athletics , Female Harem , Delinquents , Tsundere , Yandere

Prison School

Also known as Prison School.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Hachimitsu Private Academy was a revered and elite all-girls' boarding school on the outskirts of Tokyo...once upon a time. But with the new school year comes a revision to school policy: Boys are to be admitted into the student body for the first time ever. But on his first day at Hachimitsu, Kiyoshi Fujino discovers that he's one of only five boys enrolled at the school. Their numbers overwhelmed by the thousand girls in the student body, is it heaven or hell that awaits these five (un)fortunates?!.



Tags: School , Surreal Comedy , Prison , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Parody , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Large Breasts , Torture , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Female Cast , CGI