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Alice in Borderland (2020 - 2022)

0 /10

With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.

Average Episode Run Time: 56` . Year(s): 2020 - 2022

Director: Shinsuke Sato , Yoshiki Watanabe , Yasuko Kuramitsu

Producer: Kaata Sakamoto

Stars: Kento Yamazaki , Tao Tsuchiya , Nijiro Murakami , Aya Asahina , Ayaka Miyoshi , Dori Sakurada

Tokyo Revengers (2021 - 2023)

0 /10

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 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.

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2021 - 2023

Director: Kana Kawana , Masato Tamagawa , Yu Harima

Producer: Hiroaki Matsuura , Yoshio Kaneko , Hiroo Maruyama

Stars: Yuuki Shin , Azumi Waki , Ryota Osaka , Yuu Hayashi , Tatsuhisa Suzuki , Takuma Terashima

Monogatari (2009 - 2019)

4.9 /10

Although there are still traces of the brief period he became a vampire, third-year high school student Koyomi Araragi is human again. He happens upon others with their own supernatural problems and finds that he can empathize. Koyomi becomes involved in their lives, seeking to help them and occasionally asking for advice from Meme Oshino, the homeless man who helped him become human again.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2009 - 2019

Director: Yoshito Mikamo , Sumito Sasaki , Akiyuki Simbo

Producer: Akiko Yoda , Atsuhiro Iwakami , Tomoyo Kamiji

Stars: Yui Horie , Maaya Sakamoto , Satsuki Yukino , Miyuki Sawashiro , Marina Inoue , Saori Hayami

Bungo Stray Dogs (2016 - 2023)

0 /10

Atsushi Nakajima was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Osamu Dazai, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2016 - 2023

Director: Daisuke Chiba , Kazuhiro Yoneda , Takebumi Anzai

Producer: Mari Suzuki

Stars: Mamoru Miyano , Yuto Uemura , Masaaki Mizunaka , Hiroyuki Yoshino , Sumire Morohoshi , Junichi Suwabe

Tokyo Ghoul (2014 - 2018)

7.7 /10

Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul – a kind of monster that lives by hunting and devouring human flesh. When part of her special organ – "the red child" – is transplanted into Kaneki, he becomes a ghoul himself, trapped in a warped world where humans are not the top of the food chain.

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2014 - 2018

Director: Seo Hye-jin , Shin Matsuo , So Toyama

Producer: Hiroshi Kunosato

Stars: Natsuki Hanae , Sora Amamiya , Shintaro Asanuma , Takahiro Sakurai , Sumire Morohoshi , Yuuya Uchida

Black Lagoon (2006 - 2011)

0 /10

The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand near the border of Cambodia.

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2006 - 2011

Director: Takao Abo , Kenichi Kawamura , Takanori Suzuki

Stars: Megumi Toyoguchi , Daisuke Namikawa , Tsutomu Isobe , Hiroaki Hirata , Shigeru Ushiyama , Ryuji Nakagi

Darker than Black (2007 - 2010)

7.7 /10

Ten years ago, a mysterious spatial anomaly now known as "Heaven's Gate" appeared in South America, shortly followed by the opening of "Hell's Gate" in Tokyo altering the sky and wreaking havoc on the landscape. The real stars disappeared, replaced by false stars. During this time, people possessing various special abilities — called "Contractors" — emerged, each capable of different supernatural feats. Following the disastrous Heaven's War, the United States lost its dominant position as a superpower to a mysterious organization named the Syndicate. The story revolves around a Chinese contractor codenamed "Hei" as he undertakes various espionage and assassination missions in Tokyo.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2007 - 2010

Director: Tarou Iwasaki , Shingo Kaneko , Daisuke Chiba

Stars: Hidenobu Kiuchi , Kiyomi Asai , Ikuya Sawaki , Kana Hanazawa

Mysterious Joker (2014 - 2016)

7.3 /10

The thief Mysterious Joker doesn't just steal things. An audacious and elusive miracle-maker, he travels the world searching for treasure with his partner and cook Hachi. As they circle the globe, they must avoid traps set by the police and compete in various competitions to reach their final goal, the Timeslip Treasure.

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2014 - 2016

Stars: Kenichi Ono , Yumiko Kobayashi , Yumi Hara , Hiro Shimono , Takehito Koyasu , Misaki Kuno

BAKI (2016 - 2020)

0 /10

While martial arts champion Baki Hanma trains hard to surpass his legendary father, five violent death row inmates descend upon Tokyo to take him on.

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2016 - 2020

Director: Shigeki Awai , Oyunam , Yusuke Onoda

Stars: Nobunaga Shimazaki , Kenjiro Tsuda , Takehito Koyasu , Issei Futamata , Banjo Ginga , Chafurin

Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW (2020 - 2021)

0 /10

New kid Keiichi Maebara is settling into his new home of peaceful Hinamizawa village. Making quick friends with the girls from his school, he's arrived in time for the big festival of the year. But something about this isolated town seems "off," and his feelings of dread continue to grow. With a gnawing fear that he's right, what dark secrets could this small community be hiding?

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2020 - 2021

Director: Tomoko Hiramuki , Keiichiro Kawaguchi , Hironori Aoyagi

Producer: Hirotaka Kaneko , Yuko Hirata , Takayuki Nagatani

Stars: Takuya Makimura , Sayumi Suzushiro , Yasunori Matsumoto , Yuko Natsuyoshi , Naoko Matsui , Rie Kawamura

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon (2012 - 2021)

0 /10

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.

Average Episode Run Time: 47` . Year(s): 2012 - 2021

Director: Naoki Tamura , Takeshi Kitano

Stars: Ryoko Yonekura , Yuki Uchida , Kenichi Endo , Ittoku Kishibe , Toshiyuki Nishida , Kosuke Suzuki

Hell Girl (2005 - 2017)

7.4 /10

A supernatural system allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the services of a mysterious entity and her assistants who implement this system. Revenge, injustice, hatred, and the nature of human emotions are common themes throughout the series.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2005 - 2017

Director: Masahiro Hosoda , Yuuta Takamura , Tomoko Hiramuki

Stars: Masaya Matsukaze , Mamiko Noto , Takayuki Sugo , Takako Honda , Kanako Sakai , Hekiru Shiina