Anime like Shiguang Dailiren

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 , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Dissociative Identities , Denpa , Chuunibyou , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Suicide , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , War , Post-Apocalyptic , Gender Bending , Maids , Trains , Shrine Maiden , Seinen

Boku dake ga Inai Machi

Also known as ERASED.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Kansai TV , Aniplex of America , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

Satoru Fujinuma is a 29 year old manga artist struggling to make a name for himself following his debut. But, that was not the only thing in his life that Satoru was feeling frustrated about… He has a unique supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.

Tags: Age Regression , Time Manipulation , Crime , Tragedy , Time Skip , Primarily Child Cast , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Detective , Snowscape , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , School , Fugitive , Revenge , Teacher , Rural , Rehabilitation , Amnesia , Heterosexual , Bullying , Kuudere , CGI

Summer Time Render

Also known as Summer Time Rendering.

Studio: OLM , Shueisha , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , MAGES. , Toy's Factory , TOKYO MX , Movic , BANDAI SPIRITS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

A sci-fi, summer story filled with suspense set on a small island with Shinpei Aijiro, whose childhood friend Ushio Kofune died. He returns to his hometown for the first time in two years for the funeral. Sou Hishigata, his best friend, suspects something's off with Ushio's death, and that someone can die next.

A sinister omen is heard as an entire family next door suddenly disappears the following day. Furthermore, Mio implicates a "shadow" three days before Ushio's death.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Time Loop , Shapeshifting , Reincarnation , Super Power , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Mythology , Religion , Coastal , Rural , Body Swapping , Alternate Universe , Ensemble Cast , Dissociative Identities , Cosmic Horror , Survival , Gods , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Gore , Amnesia , Shounen , Aliens , Ghost , Body Horror , Guns , Unrequited Love , Denpa , Tanned Skin , Love Triangle , Nudity , Clone

Tokyo Revengers

Also known as Tokyo Revengers.

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Kodansha , Pony Canyon , Ultra Super Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that's reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had in his life that he dated in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang.

The day after hearing about her death, he's standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people. He closes his eyes thinking he's about to die, but when he opens his eyes back up, he somehow had gone back in time 12 years.

Now that he's back living the best days of his life, Takemichi decides to get revenge on his life by saving his girlfriend and changing himself that he'd been running away from.



Tags: Gangs , Delinquents , Time Manipulation , Age Regression , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Crime , Revenge , Alternate Universe , Shounen , Motorcycles , Heterosexual , Bullying , Suicide , School , Detective , POV , Mopeds

Tu Bian Yingxiong X

Also known as To Be Hero X.

Studio: BeDream , bilibili , Aniplex , Paper Plane Animation Studio , B.Cool Studio , Studio LAN , Pb Animation
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

This is a world where heroes are created by people's trust, and the hero who gains the most trust is known as X. In this world, people's trust can be quantified through data, and these values are reflected on everyone's wrist. As long as one gains enough trust points, an ordinary person can possess superpowers and become a superhero who saves the world. However, the constantly changing trust values make the path of a hero full of uncertainties...



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Conspiracy , Superhero , Tragedy , Henshin , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Idol , Achronological Order , Mixed Media , CGI , Suicide , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Robots , Assassins , Animals , Anthropomorphism , Heterosexual , Episodic , Unrequited Love , Band , Aliens , Archery

ID: INVADED

Also known as ID: INVADED.

Studio: NAZ , Funimation , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Welcome to Kura, an organization that investigates crime using the Mizuhanome system which senses the drive to kill. Sakaido is a brilliant detective and pilot of the Mizuhanome. To solve a case, he enters the world of the killer's unconscious mind: the id well. In the shadows of brutal and puzzling cases lurks John Walker, the Serial Killer Creator. Where will Sakaido's pursuit lead?



Tags: Detective , Virtual World , Crime , Alternate Universe , Police , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Augmented Reality , Urban Fantasy , Prison , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Meta , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Amnesia , Cyberpunk , Gore , CGI , Time Manipulation , Guns , Suicide

Kimi no Na wa.

Also known as Your Name..

Studio: CoMix Wave , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Funimation , NYAV Post , Toho , Madman Entertainment , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl, yearns to live the life of a boy in the bustling city of Tokyo—a dream that stands in stark contrast to her present life in the countryside. Meanwhile in the city, Taki Tachibana lives a busy life as a high school student while juggling his part-time job and hopes for a future in architecture.

One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another.

Kimi no Na wa. revolves around Mitsuha and Taki's actions, which begin to have a dramatic impact on each other's lives, weaving them into a fabric held together by fate and circumstance.



Tags: Body Swapping , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban , Rural , Gender Bending , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Environmental , Mythology , Alternate Universe , Trains , Shrine Maiden , School

Guimi Zhi Zhu

Also known as Lord of Mysteries.

Studio: B.CMAY PICTURES , Tencent Penguin Pictures
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

In a Victorian world of steam, dreadnoughts, and occult horrors, Zhou Mingrui awakens as Klein Moretti. He walks a razor’s edge between light and darkness, entangled with warring Churches. This is the legend of unlimited potential…and unspeakable danger.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Religion , Cosmic Horror , Cult , Magic , Body Horror , Gods , Steampunk , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Gore , Astronomy , Acting , Lost Civilization , Alchemy , Isekai , Cultivation , Dissociative Identities , Guns , Angels , Anti-Hero , Acrobatics

Aiyou De Mishi

Also known as X&Y.

Studio: Lingsanwu Animation , bilibili
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Thriller

When Yan moved back to his hometown, he never expected to be at the center of an eerie mystery. One day, he heads to XY Escape Room where he meets the owner, Xu, and finds himself completely captivated by her. But after this fateful encounter, Yan begins experiencing one creepy illusion after another—some that even involve his friends. Can he uncover the truth behind these strange events?



Tags: Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Ojou-sama , Tragedy , Revenge , Primarily Adult Cast , Noir , Philosophy , Urban , Denpa , Office Lady , Tomboy , Memory Manipulation

Shiguang Dailiren: Yingdu Pian

Also known as Link Click: Bridon Arc.

Studio: bilibili , BeDream , CMC Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

In order to save the deceased Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang returned to the beginning and started anew along the path of destiny. However, a photograph carrying clues about Cheng Xiaoshi's parents appeared at the Time Photo Studio. To uncover the truth, Lu Guang, with a heart full of anxiety, went to Yingdu with Cheng Xiaoshi. Facing people with different purposes, such as the seemingly friendly popular model Xia Fei, the eccentric leader of Chinatown Vein, and the mysteriously appearing Liu Xiao... can Lu Guang break the destined dead end?



- The first episode aired with a runtime of ~65 minutes.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Super Power , Age Regression , Estranged Family , Urban , Tragedy , Foreign , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Travel , Body Swapping , Bisexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Photography , Martial Arts , Guns , Otaku Culture , Classic Literature , Espionage , College , Bullying