Anime like Yuugo: Negotiator

GREAT PRETENDER

Also known as Great Pretender.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Fuji TV , Production I.G , Toho , BS Fuji , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Thriller

Self-styled “Japan's greatest swindler” Makoto Edamura is mainly targeting elder people and occasional foreign travelers. But when he tries to scam an apparently clueless French tourist in Tokyo, he can't possibly imagine that what looked like just another ordinary job is going to take him all the way to Los Angeles, tied upside-down on the famous Hollywood sign… And he is yet to find out what fate awaits him!



Tags: Crime , Anti-Hero , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , Work , Mafia , Language Barrier , Triads , Filmmaking , Drawing , Drugs , Gangs , Acting , Heterosexual , Aviation , Tragedy , Bisexual , Slavery , Tomboy , Detective , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , War , Mahjong , Baseball , Tanned Skin , Guns , Terrorism , Football , Boys' Love

MASTER Keaton

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mystery

Taichi Keaton is a half-British half-Japanese archeologist and SAS veteran of the Falklands War. He solves mysteries and investigates insurance fraud for Lloyd's around the world.



Tags: Episodic , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Seinen , Travel , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Detective , Crime , Guns , College , Teacher

Meitantei Conan

Also known as Case Closed.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Yomiuri TV , Animax , YTV , TMS-Kyokuchi
Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mystery , Psychological

Kudo Shinichi is a seventeen year-old high school detective whom people call the "Modern Sherlock Holmes." However, one night after a date with his childhood sweetheart, Ran, Shinichi witnessed an illegal trade and, caught off his guard, was knocked unconscious and fed a drug that was supposed to kill him... but he woke up and found himself shrunken to a seven year-old. In order to track down the men who did this to him, Shinichi hid his identity and lived with Ran, whose father happened to be a hopeless detective, and with that came a series of murders and mysteries that he must solve.



Note:
Includes Keisatsu Gakkou-hen - Wild Police Story in episodes 1029, 1038, 1042, 1061
Episodes 11, 52, 76, 118, 162, 184, 208, 342, 356, 449, 452, 487, 488, 489, 490, 515, 516, 521, 522, 651, 734, 804, 805, 927, 928 aired with a runtime of ~50 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
Episodes 96, 129, 174, 219, 263, 304, 383, 479 aired with a runtime of ~90 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.
Episode 345, 425 aired with a runtime of ~115 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.


Tags: Detective , Tragedy , Crime , Espionage , Age Regression , Conspiracy , Police , Male Protagonist , Fugitive , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Primarily Teen Cast , Criminal Organization , Heterosexual , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Educational , Tsundere , Crossover , Love Triangle , Football , Martial Arts , Tanned Skin , Ojou-sama , Female Harem , Tomboy , Karuta , Magic , Idol , CGI , Video Games

MASTER Keaton (OVA)

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery

Taichi Keaton is a man of many talents: father, historian, frequent traveler, negotiator, archaeologist, former survival instructor, and all while working as an insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London. While his methods may seem a bit unorthodox, he gets the job done when needed, but not without a little something to learn or teach in the process. Through all of his adventures, some people call him a quack. Those who know him well call him a master of life...



Tags: Episodic , Foreign , Travel , Historical , Work , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast

Gallery Fake

Studio: Tokyo Movie , Tokyo Kids , Aniplex , TV Tokyo , Trinity Sound
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery

Fujita Reiji is the owner of an art gallery, Gallery Fake. He deals with fake items, and is also familiar with the black market. However, he has a special talent for art, and used to work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a curator.



Tags: Seinen , Episodic , Work , Tanned Skin , Male Protagonist , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast

Golgo 13 (TV)

Studio: TV Tokyo , Sotsu , Half H.P Studio , The Answer Studio , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

Golgo 13 has been called a Japanese counterpart to James Bond, except with a darker character, a much more hardcore attitude towards sex, and a complete lack of morality. Golgo 13 is described as a mystery man of undetermined origin, possibility being at least part Japanese, who takes any assignment for any employer (it has been said he has worked for the CIA and the KGB) as long as the right price is given and will always fulfill his contracts, even if he has two or more opposing contracts at the same time. He is an uncanny sharpshooter, with near 100% accuracy and capable of lethal trick shooting, and regularly uses a customized, scoped M-16 rifle in his assassinations. He also is a heavy smoker of cigars.



Tags: Noir , Assassins , Episodic , Guns , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Military

THE Big O

Also known as The Big O.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Visual , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Paradigm City is a place without a past. 40 years ago, something happened that wiped the memories of everyone in it. Unfortunately, the people of Paradigm City were very busy before then, making Megadueses (giant robots) and monsters. People who were born after the memory wipe are gaining/recovering memories of the past and using them to build newer threats. With the help of The Big O (a faithful giant robot), his butler Norman and the android Dorothy, Roger Smith keeps Paradigm City safe. As problems mount and more memories surface, Roger's past and Paradigm's future begin to become suspect...

Tags: Super Robot , Amnesia , Philosophy , Noir , Robots , Episodic , Butler , Dystopian , Foreign , Cyberpunk , Real Robot , Politics , Kuudere , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Police , Steampunk , Seinen

FLAG

Studio: Aniplex , The Answer Studio , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha

In the mountainous Asian country of Uddiyana a civil war rages. No end lay in sight for the war-torn nation until a lone photographer snapped an iconic image that would come to be known simply as "Flag." Hope arises as the many factions involved begin an approach to peace, rousing the call for a ceasefire behind the featured flag.

When an unknown guerilla sect steals this symbol of unity, a U.N. Special Development Command unit is dispatched using the latest in military technology, a transforming bipedal exoskeleton known as the HAVWC system. Recruited to document this mission is a war-time journalist, the author of the "Flag" photograph, Saeko Shirasu.

Witness the trials and triumphs of a peacekeeping taskforce behind the camera's view-finder as they take their first steps towards the recovery of the road to peace and discover the truth behind a struggle.



Tags: Military , Photography , Politics , Foreign , War , POV , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Real Robot , Meta

Pumpkin Scissors

Also known as Pumpkin Scissors.

Studio: GONZO , GDH , Nomad , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

Alice Malvin commands a military propaganda unit, but she idealistically yearns to cut through the deception. When she uncovers a super-soldier program known as The Invisible Nine, she finds herself trapped in a web of deadly secrets. Malvin turns to an unlikely ally—Randel Orland, a hulking veteran who may hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of The Invisible Nine.



Tags: Military , Tanks , Female Protagonist , Historical , Politics , Tomboy , Tragedy , Conspiracy , Guns , Episodic , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Henshin , War , CGI , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Gore

Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor

Also known as Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor.

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

Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which Kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 300,000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji.

Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay off their debts. After some coercion Kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear his debt and make a bit of money as well...

Tags: Gambling , Survival , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Class Struggle , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Death Game , Philosophy , Tragedy , Crime , Card Battle , Revenge , Yakuza , Torture , Ships , Anti-Hero , Urban , Athletics , Body Horror , Nudity , Work , Prison