Boku Dake ga Inai Machi

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1. Death Note

   2015 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   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.

2. Over the Garden Wall

   2014 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

   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.

3. Death Note

   2006 · Anime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   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.

4. Koukyuu no Karasu

   2022 · Drama, Anime, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

   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.

5. The Case Study of Vanitas

   2021 · Anime, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Rumors revolving around The Book of Vanitas, a clockwork grimoire of dubious reputation, draw Noé, a young vampire in search of a friend's salvation, to Paris. What awaits him in the City of Flowers, however, is not long hours treading the pavement or rifling through dusty bookshops in search of the tome. Instead, his quarry comes to him...in the arms of a man claiming to be a vampire doctor! Thrust into a conflict that threatens the peace between humans and vampires, will Noé cast in his lot with the curious and slightly unbalanced Vanitas and his quest to save vampirekind? 

6. Friendly Rivalry

   2025 · Thriller, Mystery · ended

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   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.

7. The Twilight Zone

   2002 · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery · ended

   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. ¿Quién mató a Sara?

   2021 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

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

   His sister was killed in a freak "accident", for which he was blamed. While trying to find what actually happened, Alex Guzmán will uncover the darkest secrets of the Lazcano family, stopping at nothing until everyone is held accountable.

9. Behind Her Eyes

   2021 · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery · ended

   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.

10. [Oshi no Ko]

    2023 · Drama, Anime, Fantasy, Mystery · returning

    Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile.

    Sixteen-year-old Ai Hoshino is a talented and beautiful idol who is adored by her fans. She is the personification of a pure, young maiden. But all that glitters is not gold.Gorou Amemiya is a countryside gynecologist and a big fan of Ai. So when the pregnant idol shows up at his hospital, he is beyond bewildered. Gorou promises her a safe delivery. Little does he know, an encounter with a mysterious figure would result in his untimely death—or so he thought.Opening his eyes in the lap of his beloved idol, Gorou finds that he has been reborn as Aquamarine Hoshino—Ai's newborn son! With his world turned upside down, Gorou soon learns that the world of showbiz is paved with thorns, where talent does not always beget success. Will he manage to protect Ai's smile that he loves so much with the help of an eccentric and unexpected ally?