Boku Dake ga Inai Machi

Series Similar to Boku Dake ga Inai Machi

If you enjoyed Boku Dake ga Inai Machi, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Death Note

   2006 · Anime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended85% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.8).

   Death Note is an anime series based around a manga of the same name whereby a human finds a death god's notebook. Any person's name written in this notebook will die. The main character who finds this noteboook is Light Yagami who faces off against an unfaced character named L who tries to challenge him.

2. Death Note

   2015 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · ended85% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile.

   Light Yagami is an ordinary university student. One day, he receives a death note which changes his life. The death note awakens his warped sense of justice and genius. He becomes murderer Kira and punishes criminals. L is a well known private detective. L appears in front of Light Yagami. L defines Kira as evil and decides to catch Kira. Then N, who has a beautiful appearance but dangerous existence, appears.

3. Friendly Rivalry

   2025 · Thriller, Mystery · ended84% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile.

   Woo Seul-Ki grew up in an orphanage out in a province. She moves to Seoul and enrolls in Chaehwa High School, which is a school for the top 1% students in South Korea. Woo Seul-Ki doesn't get along with the other students. A student named Yoo Je-Yi approaches her and they become friends.Yoo Je-Yi is the most powerful student in the school. She has a high IQ, comes from a wealthy family background, and is attractive physically. She has lived as the envy of other people since she was born and she is aware of her superiority. She is also cunning enough to know how to take advantage of her position. She shows special interest in transfer student Woo Seul-Ki. They soon develop a dangerous relationship between friendship and obsession.

4. Over the Garden Wall

   2014 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended83% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Created by Patrick McHale (Adventure Time), the 10-episode tale follows two brothers, Wirt and Greg (voiced by Elijah Wood and Collin Dean), who mysteriously find themselves outside of the world they know and in a forest called the Unknown. In a Wizard of Oz-like twist, they have stumbled into a fantasy universe of the past filled with the things of folk tales, as well as talking and singing animals, all wrapped up in the seemingly constant backdrop of harvest time.

5. Behind Her Eyes

   2021 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · ended82% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile, also on Netflix.

   Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job in a psychiatrist's office. Her world is thrown off kilter when she begins an affair with her new boss David and matters take an even stranger turn when she's drawn into an unlikely friendship with his wife Adele. What starts as an unconventional love triangle soon becomes a dark, psychological tale of suspense and twisted revelations, as Louise finds herself caught in a dangerous web of secrets where nothing and no-one is what they seem.

6. Infinity Train

   2019 · Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery · ended82% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Infinity Train follows Tulip, a headstrong 13-year-old girl, who must use her wits to uncover the train's many secrets - and hopefully return home. Tulip's mind-bending journey will find her forging friendships with One-One, a robot with dueling personalities, and Atticus, the canine king of Corginia. But with new surprises awaiting in every car, will Tulip ever find a way off the train?

7. The Twilight Zone

   2002 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · ended82% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile.

   In this continuation of the original CBS series, each hour-long episode presents two half-hour stories of the strange, the science fiction, and the supernatural. Several of the stories are remakes and sequels to stories from the original, but most are all-new tales of horror and imagination.

8. Tunnel

   2017 · Crime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended79% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   In 1986, Park Kwang Ho works an excellent and enthusiastic detective. To save his daughter, he travels in time to the present day. Wherever he goes, he causes trouble and creates problems, but his antics are funny and bizarre because he is an old-fashioned detective from the past trying to adjust to life in modern day.

9. Koukyuu no Karasu

   2022 · Drama, Anime, Fantasy, Mystery · ended78% match

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Deep within the inner palace lives a special consort who does not serve the emperor despite her position, known as the Raven Consort. People who have seen her say she looks like an old woman, while others say she looks like a young girl. Stories talk of her use of mysterious arts and how she can take on any request, be it death curses to finding lost things. Koushun, the current emperor, goes to visit the Raven Consort with that intention, without knowing that their fated meeting will become a taboo that will overturn history.

10. Историк

    2021 · Thriller, Mystery · ended77% match

    Recommended for similar Thriller / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

    Andrey Viktorovich Izvorin is a very creative person. He draws comics and publishes them under the pseudonym Hunter, and the rest of the time he teaches history at university and sincerely loves his subject. Izvorin came up with a theory according to which every unsolved crime, including if an innocent person was punished for it, inevitably repeats. The ability to draw and think with pictures, as well as knowledge of history, help him and investigator Anna Rybakova to follow the trail of the most unusual maniacs and solve the most complicated murders.‎