Anime like Akuma no Riddle

Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

Also known as Assassination Classroom.

Studio: Lerche , Funimation , Kansai TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Supernatural

The students of class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any of them have ever had?

Tags: Assassins , School , Teacher , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Aliens , Tentacles , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Guns , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Crime , Bullying , Found Family , Femboy , Artificial Intelligence , Baseball , School Club , Tragedy , Suicide

Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road

Also known as The Executioner and Her Way of Life.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Warner Bros. Japan , SB Creative , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , EGG FIRM , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

When interdimensional travelers from an otherworldly land known as “Japan” appear, they often bring death and destruction. It’s up to Executioners like Menou to track and exterminate the Lost Ones before they wreak havoc. When Menou encounters a beguiling Lost One named Akari, it’s bloody business as usual… until Menou discovers Akari can cheat death, that is. Even so, Menou has a job to do, and she is committed to her executioner’s mission come hell or high water — provided her newly stirring feelings don’t get in the way.



Note: The first two episodes received an advance release on Abema on March 20, 2022. The regular TV broadcast started on April 2, 2022.

Tags: Anti-Hero , Magic , Memory Manipulation , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Isekai , Yuri , Assassins , Religion , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gore , Travel , Dissociative Identities , Swordplay , Reincarnation , Primarily Teen Cast , Yandere , Post-Apocalyptic , Medieval , Guns , Body Horror

Munou na Nana

Also known as Talentless Nana.

Studio: Bridge , Nippon Columbia
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

It is the year 20XX. Earth has been assaulted by monsters known as 'the Enemy of Humanity'. In order to deal with this threat, special schools comprised of teenagers with extraordinary abilities were formed. These people, who came to be known as 'the Talented', have abilities that defy the rules of reality. Among these superpowered individuals was an outlier, someone who was sent to one of these schools despite having no innate special abilities whatsoever. This is the story of our protagonist, who attempts to defeat the Enemies of Humanity through the use of intelligence and manipulation.

Tags: Assassins , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Female Protagonist , Conspiracy , Crime , Primarily Teen Cast , Detective , Espionage , Tragedy , School , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Rural , Gore , Survival , Memory Manipulation , Shapeshifting , Necromancy , Kuudere , Revenge , Bullying , Time Manipulation , Zombie , Photography

Mirai Nikki

Also known as The Future Diary.

Studio: Funimation , Lantis , Kadokawa Shoten , Asread , Rakuonsha , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , KLOCKWORX , chara-ani.com , 12 Diary Holders , Dwango , Sakura Create
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

This psychological thriller, based on the manga written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno, is about Yuki, a loner who's not very good with people. He prefers to write a diary on his cell phone and talk to his imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina – The God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is more than a figment of his imagination when he makes Yuki participate in a battle royale with eleven others. The contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future, each diary possessing unique features that give it both advantages and disadvantages. Within the next 90 days, the contestants must try to survive until there is only one left standing. The winner will become the new God of Time and Space.



Tags: Battle Royale , Death Game , Survival , Yandere , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Psychosexual , Slapstick , Body Horror , Gore , Gods , Male Protagonist , Suicide , Crime , Urban , Heterosexual , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Anti-Hero , Clone , Terrorism , Guns , Super Power , Netorare , CGI , Meta , Adoption , Nudity , Orphan , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Tanned Skin

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 , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Tanned Skin , Yandere , Crossdressing , Kuudere , Suicide , Femboy , Gyaru , Meta , CGI , Surreal Comedy , Post-Apocalyptic , Idol

Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku

Also known as Magical Girl Raising Project.

Studio: Lerche , flying DOG
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror , Mahou Shoujo , Psychological , Thriller

A social game called The Magical Girl Raising Project allows one in tens of thousands of people to be a "magical girl" — possessing extraordinary physical capabilities and looks, as well as special magical powers that set them apart from the rest of the human race. But one day, in a district containing 16 magical girls, the administration announces that it must halve the number of magical girls to solve the problem of magical energy.



Tags: Super Power , Magic , Urban , Video Games , Battle Royale , Death Game , Tragedy , Kuudere , Primarily Female Cast , Swordplay , Urban Fantasy , Witch , Robots , Ensemble Cast , Chibi , Tsundere , Revenge , Denpa , Female Protagonist , Gore , Henshin , Crime , Spearplay , Superhero , Guns , Nun , Suicide , Angels , Tomboy , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Elf , Gender Bending , Yuri , Twins , Ninja , Cowboys , Bullying , Pregnancy

Mahou Shoujo Site

Also known as MAGICAL GIRL SITE.

Studio: production doA , Avex Pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Sotsu , Studio Mausu
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Mahou Shoujo , Psychological , Supernatural

Asagiri Aya is a young girl who has fallen victim to bullies at her school. Looking for a way to escape her troubles, she looks to the internet for distraction, when a mysterious website called "Magical Girl Site" appears. Simply viewing the page is all it takes to hurtle Aya headlong into the deadly world of the Magical Girl Apocalypse. There, it’s fight or die, against a seemingly endless array of savagely adorable, frilly-skirted killing machines, each armed with magical powers and an unquenchable thirst for blood and chaos.



Tags: Magic , Female Protagonist , Bullying , Primarily Female Cast , Tragedy , Revenge , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Gore , Witch , Battle Royale , Yuri , Torture , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Time Manipulation , Body Horror , Nudity , Idol , Crossdressing , Transgender

"Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omou na" to Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou Sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai

Also known as ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword!.

Studio: A.C.G.T. , FuRyu , Micro Magazine Sha , Crunchyroll , ANICI , BS11 , TOKYO MX , Bandai Namco Music Live , Daiichi Shoukai , Kadokawa Media House , capibara
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror

Flum has been chosen by God to be in the hero's party despite having stats of zero across the board. All she has is the "Reversal" ability that she still doesn't fully understand. Predictably, she proves useless in battle, but she refuses to give up and continues to do all she can for the party. Her partymate Jean, a genius and renowned sage, picks on her at every opportunity and eventually sells her off into slavery. Even as a slave, she's treated as incompetent and persecuted, and ultimately thrown to monsters as bait for her master's entertainment. Flum is left with two options: take up the cursed sword that inevitably brings death to its wielder, or be eaten by monsters. The moment she chooses to fight back is when the "Reversal" of her life begins...



Tags: Female Protagonist , Gore , Yuri , Swordplay , Slavery , Conspiracy , Medieval , Magic , Body Image , Religion , Body Horror , Demons , Chimera , LGBTQ+ Themes , Zombie , Witch , Disability , Found Family , Werewolf , Foreign , Age Gap , Tragedy

Yuri Kuma Arashi

Also known as Yurikuma Arashi.

Studio: SILVER LINK.
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Psychological , Romance

At some point, somewhere in outer space, the small planet Kumalia exploded. As the particles of what used to be Kumalia showered upon Earth as a meteor shower, for some reason all the bears on earth stood up to attack humanity! In due time, a great "Wall of Extinction" was built between humans and bears, and they could no longer show aggression towards one another... One morning, Kureha Tsubasa and Sumika Izumino were alone watching lily flowers blooming. Just then, a Bear Warning pierces loudly through the air! Mystery brings on more mysteries, a series of one raging blow after another!



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Bullying , Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Satire , Achronological Order , Fairy Tale , Henshin , Nudity , School , Anthropomorphism , Meta , Animals , Amnesia , Guns , Tragedy , Gods , Cohabitation , Religion

Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica

Also known as Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Movic , Nitroplus , Aniplex of America , Madoka Partners , Houbunsha , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Psychological , Thriller

One night, 14-year-old Madoka Kaname has a terrible nightmare - against the backdrop of a devastated city, she witnesses a girl fight a losing battle against a dreadful being lingering above, while a cat-like magical creature tells Madoka the only way to change such tragic outcome is for her to make a contract with him and become a magical girl.

The next day, the teen's dream seemingly becomes reality as the girl she saw in her dream - Homura - arrives at Mitakihara Middle School as a transfer student, mysteriously warning Madoka to stay just the way she is; but when later on she and her best friend Sayaka encounter the same cat-like magical creature from her dream - who introduces himself as Kyubey - the pair discovers that magical girls are real, and what's more, they can choose to become one. All they must do is sign a contract with Kyubey and agree to take on the duty to fight abstract beings called 'witches' that spread despair to the human world, and in return, each one of them will be granted any single wish they desire. However, as Homura's omen suggests, there might be far more to becoming a magical girl than Madoka and Sayaka realize...

Notes:
Due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the broadcasts of episodes 11 and 12 were delayed and were later aired as a double feature on April 21, 2011.

Tags: Magic , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Witch , Primarily Female Cast , Time Manipulation , Cosmic Horror , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Time Loop , Primarily Teen Cast , Alternate Universe , Henshin , Coming of Age , Survival , Yuri , Primarily Child Cast , Kuudere , Urban , Aliens , Ensemble Cast , Gods , Mixed Media , Suicide , Spearplay , Heterosexual , Guns , Swordplay , Anti-Hero , Achronological Order , Denpa , School , Tomboy , Anthropomorphism , Archery , Yandere , Isekai , Class Struggle