Anime like Mirai Nikki OVA

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 , Assassins , Curses , Kuudere , Male Protagonist , Ghost , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Twins , Teacher , Philosophy , Death Game

Elfen Lied

Also known as Elfen Lied.

Studio: VAP , Arms , Genco , ADV Films , A Line
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The Diclonius, a mutated homosapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possess two horns on their heads and have a "sixth sense" which gives them telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murders most of the guards in the laboratory where she is being held, only to be shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives, falling off a cliff into the ocean and manages to drift along to a beach where two teenagers, Kouta and Yuka, discover her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the psychotic side of Lucy is not dead just yet...



Tags: Gore , Fugitive , Amnesia , Super Power , Monster Girl , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Revenge , Body Horror , Yandere , Love Triangle , Conspiracy , Incest , Primarily Female Cast , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Military , Heterosexual , Family Life , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Coastal , Female Harem , Slapstick , Tsundere

Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei - The Animation

Also known as Danganronpa: The Animation.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Funimation , Lerche , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

A group of 15 elite high school students are gathered at a very special, high class high school. To graduate from this high school essentially means you'll succeed in life, but graduating is very difficult. The school is presided over by a bear called Monokuma, and he explains to them that their graduation hinges around committing a murder. The only way to graduate is to kill one of your classmates and get away with it. If the other classmates discover the identity of the killer, the killer is the only one executed. However, if they fail to catch the killer, only the killer graduates and the others are annihilated. Which of the 15 will survive the bloodbath to come?

Tags: Death Game , Battle Royale , Tragedy , Survival , Detective , Dystopian , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , School , Ensemble Cast , Gore , Dissociative Identities , Twins , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Suicide , Tanned Skin , School Club , Meta , Crossdressing , Yandere , Femboy , Kuudere , CGI , Surreal Comedy , Gyaru , Idol

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 , Kuudere , Fugitive , Memory Manipulation , Gods , Urban Fantasy , Unrequited Love , Urban , Primarily Male Cast , Yandere , Amnesia , Espionage , Shounen , Suicide , Tennis , Acting , Time Skip , Assassins , Feet , Achronological Order , Asexual

Deadman Wonderland

Also known as Deadman Wonderland.

Studio: Manglobe , Funimation , AMG MUSIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Sci-Fi

Ganta is the only survivor after a mysterious man in red slaughters a classroom full of teenagers. He's framed for the carnage, sentenced to die, and locked away in the most twisted prison ever built: Deadman Wonderland. And then it gets worse.

At Deadman Wonderland, convicts are forced into brutal deathmatches for the amusement of the masses, the cheers of the crowd drowning out the screams of the dismembered. Even when Ganta befriends Shiro, an unusual female inmate, his dark fate crushes all hope —until he discovers the strange ability to wield his spilled blood as a weapon. Ganta learns his new skill might be related to the murderous man in red and uncovers disturbing secrets that could expose those who stole his freedom. He's determined to see justice served —but first he'll have to fight for his life in a prison that holds a million ways to die.



Tags: Prison , Tragedy , Survival , Super Power , Gore , Death Game , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Memory Manipulation , Orphan , Guns , Rehabilitation , Tanned Skin , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity

BTOOOM!

Also known as BTOOOM!.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Sci-Fi

In the blink of the mind's eye, Ryouta Sakamoto suddenly finds himself transported from playing the hit Btoom! video game to being stranded on a mysterious island, equipped with a day's worth of provisions, a bag of bombs, a strange crystal embedded in his left hand and a huge gaping hole in his memory. But it doesn't take long to figure out what's going on, especially after the first person Ryouta meets tries to kill him. Someone is attempting to recreate the ultra-violent Btoom! game in real life, and the island has been filled with an army of other unwilling players, each armed with one of the multiple variants of explosive weapons called BIM. Fortunately, Ryouta's an ace Btoom! player, but this insane version of the game has no reset switch or second lives, and there's only one way off the island: kill seven other people before they can kill you! Can Ryouta repurpose his game based skills fast enough to survive?



Tags: Battle Royale , Survival , Death Game , Video Games , Hikikomori , Gore , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Suicide , Achronological Order , Age Gap , Nudity

Higashi no Eden

Also known as Eden of the East.

Studio: Production I.G , Dentsu , Asmik Ace , Sony Music Entertainment , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi , Thriller

On November 22, 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. However, this unprecedented terrorist act, later to be known as "Careless Monday," does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten by almost everyone. Then, 3 months later... Saki Morimi is a young woman currently in the United States of America on her graduation trip. But just when she is in front of the White House, Washington DC, she gets into trouble, and only the unexpected intervention of one of her fellow countrymen saves her. However, this man, who introduces himself as Akira Takizawa, is a complete mystery. He appears to have lost his memory, is stark naked, except for the gun he holds in one hand, and the mobile phone he's holding in the other. A phone that is charged with 8,200,000,000 yen in digital cash.



Tags: Amnesia , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Terrorism , Death Game , Battle Royale , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Conspiracy , Software Development , Crime , Heterosexual , Hikikomori , College , Love Triangle , Politics , Nudity , Police , Foreign , Josei

Tasuuketsu

Also known as Tasuketsu -Fate of the Majority-.

Studio: Satelight , Nippon Television Network , VAP , BS Nittele , NetEase Games , Comic Smart , NTV Music , Marui Group
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Thriller

Saneatsu Narita finds himself in a game of survival as half of the human population disappears each night!

The game began suddenly. It was "Tasuketsu", a brutal survival game in which the majority is eliminated. In order to fight back against the immensely powerful emperor masterminding the game, young men and women create their own futures using the mysterious special ability known as "Special Right."



Tags: Death Game , Super Power , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Ensemble Cast , Survival , Zombie , Religion , Time Manipulation