Anime like Guimi Zhi Zhu

Shiguang Dailiren

Also known as Link Click.

Studio: BeDream , Studio LAN , bilibili , Aniplex , Sony Music Solutions
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

In a corner of a bustling city, there is a small shop called "Time Photo Studio" operating as usual. Although the entrance looks abandoned, it's actually run by two men with special abilities: Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang. In order to fulfil customers' requests, Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi work together and use their special abilities to enter photos. However, things don't go as planned...



Note: The final episode aired with a runtime of ~31 minutes.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Super Power , Body Swapping , Photography , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Memory Manipulation , Natural Disaster , Episodic , Suicide , Family Life , Police , Martial Arts , College , Office Lady , Office , Basketball , School , Boys' Love

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: Finished
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: Dystopian , Superhero , Conspiracy , Urban Fantasy , Achronological Order , Philosophy , Super Power , Ensemble Cast , Mixed Media , Tragedy , Cyberpunk , Anti-Hero , CGI , Urban , Henshin , Body Horror , Revenge , Idol , Suicide , Orphan , Heterosexual , Cult , Satire , Assassins , Robots , Animals , Aliens , Kuudere , Anthropomorphism , Creature Taming , Acting , Kaiju , Disability , Love Triangle , LGBTQ+ Themes , Arranged Marriage , Shrine Maiden

Yuukoku no Moriarty

Also known as Moriarty the Patriot.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Namco Arts , Shueisha , BANDAI SPIRITS , Yomiuri TV Enterprise , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological

In the late 19th century, the British Empire nobility reigns while its working class suffers at their hands. Sympathetic to their plight, William James Moriarty wants to topple it all. Frustrated by the systemic inequity, Moriarty strategizes to fix the entire nation. Not even consulting detective Sherlock Holmes can stand in his way. It's time for crime to revolutionize the world!



Note: The first episode received an early screening on September 21st, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 11th, 2020.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Class Struggle , Crime , Foreign , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Detective , Primarily Male Cast , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Mafia , Politics , Episodic , Ships , Guns , Gore , Shounen , Adoption

Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Also known as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-.

Studio: WHITE FOX , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , Media Factory , AT-X , TV Tokyo , Magic Capsule
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Romance , Thriller

In the story, Subaru Natsuki is an ordinary high school student who is lost in an alternate world, where he is rescued by a beautiful, silver-haired girl. He stays near her to return the favor, but the destiny she is burdened with is more than Subaru can imagine. Enemies attack one by one, and both of them are killed. He then finds out he has the power to rewind death, back to the time he first came to this world. But only he remembers what has happened since.



Notes:
The first episode aired with a runtime of ~50 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
In the Winter 2020 season, Re:ZERO was rebroadcast and re-edited to fit into an hour time-slot. This edit included the first OVA and added slight modifications to certain scenes throughout. It also added an additional scene at the end of the final episode.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Isekai , Time Loop , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Medieval , Curses , Witch , Magic , Cult , Gore , Cohabitation , Body Horror , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Maids , Politics , Elf , Primarily Female Cast , Twins , Demons , Femboy , Kemonomimi , Travel , Butler , Coming of Age , Assassins , Body Swapping , Kuudere , Crossdressing , CGI , Tomboy , Dragons , Nekomimi

Fangkai Nage Nüwu

Also known as Release that Witch.

Studio: Thundray , Tencent Penguin Pictures , Yuewen Animation & Comics
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Romance

Roland, a modern man reborn as a prince in the dangerous Border Town, rescues the witches Anna and Nana Pine from the Church. Harnessing their extraordinary powers, he fuses magic and technology to craft weapons, armies, and steam engines to defend his people. As the Demon Moon rises and conspiracies close in on his family, Roland must lead a revolution to protect his allies and reshape the world.



Tags: Kingdom Management , Medieval , Witch , Male Protagonist , Magic , Economics , Isekai , Military , Politics , Anachronism , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Love Triangle

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Viz Media , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a renowned Japanese brain surgeon working at a leading hospital in Germany. One night, Dr. Tenma risks his reputation and career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy over that of the town mayor who had been planning to support the hospital financially. A string of mysterious murders begin to occur soon after the operation, and Dr. Tenma emerges as the primary suspect despite no incriminating evidence.

A doctor is taught to believe that all life is equal; however, when another series of murders occur in the surgeon's vicinity, Dr. Tenma's beliefs are shaken as his actions that night are shown to have much broader consequences than he could have imagined. Leaving behind his life as a surgeon he embarks on a journey across the country to unravel the mystery of the boy he saved.

Tags: Crime , Seinen , Detective , Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , Fugitive , Primarily Adult Cast , Twins , Memory Manipulation , Tragedy , Noir , Conspiracy , Revenge , Urban , Adoption , Police , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Orphan , Dissociative Identities , Amnesia , Medicine , Politics , Travel , Historical , Suicide , Time Skip , Guns , Primarily Male Cast , Torture , Episodic , Crossdressing , Gore , Rescue ,

Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!

Also known as The Eminence in Shadow.

Studio: Nexus , KADOKAWA , Aiming , newgin , AT-X , BS Nippon , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy

Some people just aren’t suited to playing the part of the flashy, in-your-face hero or the dastardly, mustache-twirling villain with larger-than-life panache. Instead, they operate in the shadows and pull the strings of society through wit and cleverness. That’s the role Cid wants to play when he’s transported to another world. Cid spins a yarn or three and becomes the unlikely leader of the underground Shadow Garden organization that fights against a menacing cult (which he totally made up). However, there’s a catch even his wild imagination didn’t see coming: the cult he concocted actually exists, and they’re beyond displeased that his power fantasy just got in the way of their evil plans!



Tags: Isekai , Chuunibyou , Male Protagonist , Parody , Anti-Hero , Magic , Cult , Acting , Swordplay , Reincarnation , Primarily Female Cast , Meta , Satire , Female Harem , Assassins , Espionage , Nudity , Elf , School , Politics , Terrorism , Conspiracy , Gore , Kemonomimi , Heterosexual , Seinen , Medieval , Boarding School , Age Regression

Long Zu 2

Also known as Dragon Raja II -The Mourner's Eyes-.

Studio: Tencent Penguin Pictures , GARDEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

The second season of Long Zu.

Tags: Dragons , Male Protagonist , Alchemy , Mythology , Conspiracy , Artificial Intelligence , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Super Power , Urban Fantasy

Modao Zushi

Also known as The Founder of Diabolism.

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

The Wen Clan's rampage caused untold sufferings, and the other cultivation clans launched the "Sunshot Campaign" to join forces against the Wen Clan. Although Wei Wuxian, the Yiling Patriarch, had made great contributions to overthrowing the Wens, he was stigmatized and punished because he was considered too powerful and dangerous. He was persecuted by ten thousand people.

Thirteen years later, Wei Wuxian has been brought back by a sacrificial ritual and has met again with old acquaintances such as Lan Wangji from the Gusu Lan Clan and Jiang Cheng from the Yunmeng Jiang Clan. The mysteries of Wei Wuxian's past remain, and conflicts in the cultivation world have resurfaced - all of which began from when they were all once youths.



Tags: Cultivation , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Wuxia , Reincarnation , Demons , Primarily Male Cast , Necromancy , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Historical , Magic , War , Time Skip , Swordplay , Politics , Zombie , Foreign , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Found Family , Achronological Order , Boys' Love , Adoption , Gore , CGI , Torture , Archery , Slavery , Crime , Suicide

91Days

Also known as 91 Days.

Studio: Shuka , Shouchiku
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

The "classic mafia drama" takes place during the prohibition era. In the Lawless district the law has no power, the mafia rule the streets, and the illegally made liquor flows freely. At one time Avilio lived in this district, but after a mafia dispute ended in the murder of his family, he went into hiding. Later, Avilio receives a letter from a mysterious person that ignites his passion for revenge and leads him to return to Lawless. There, he infiltrates the Vanetti family and gets close to Nero.



Tags: Mafia , Revenge , Crime , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Gangs , Anti-Hero , Noir , Foreign , Guns , Assassins , Criminal Organization , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Espionage , Blackmail , Fugitive , Politics , Orphan , Bar , Found Family , Tanned Skin , Time Skip , CGI , Cannibalism