The Top 20 Mystery Anime Series of All Time

Tenma, a brilliant neurosurgeon with a promising future, risks his career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. The boy, now a charismatic young man, reappears 9 years later in the midst of a string of unusual serial murders.

Tired of his mundane life, Mikado Ryugamine decides to move to Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, when a friend invites him. Ikebukuro is full of connected mysteries where people"s pasts intertwine with the present.

A group of students on summer vacation find themselves transported to another dimension and granted superpowers to survive there.

The cases of a detective whose physical age was chemically reversed to that of a prepubescent boy but must hide his true mental development.

Two girls wander a world destroyed by war.

A detective is called upon to solve a murder in a virtual reality world. But how can he manage a case when its rules can and are constantly being changed?

In a post-apocalyptic future where humans live in domed cities surrounded by wasteland, wolves are assumed to be two hundred years extinct.

A mysterious man called the Medicine Seller travels along feudal Japan, uncovering and slaying evil spirits called "Mononoke".

In present day Okinawa, a young amnesiac girl named Saya combats vicious, shape-shifting vampires. Her adoptive family and friends help her track down their source and uncover her past.

When someone wants revenge, they post about it on a special website at midnight. Then Hell Girl appears to do their bidding.

Occult detective Inugami travels to a rural village to investigate a case. There he finds the half-human boy Kabane, who wants to find his parents.

Using superpowers to enter their clientele"s photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at "Time Photo Studio," a small photography shop set in the backdrop of a modern metropolis.

The futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team.

Seemingly unconnected citizens of Tokyo are targeted for bludgeoning by a boy with a golden baseball bat. As detectives try to link the victims, they discover that following the assaults, the victims" lives have improved in some way.

A rich but eccentric detective and a middle-class cop team up to solve cases in Tokyo.

Sion"s life turns upside down on his 12th birthday when he aids a fugitive named Nezumi. Four years later, their paths cross again as Sion unravels the dark secrets hidden within the utopian city of No. 6.

William James Moriarty lives as a regular noble while also being a consultant for the common folk to solve their problems. However, deep inside him lies a desire to destroy the current structure that dominates British society.

In a city which should be familiar, there is the feeling of something a little different.

When a nameless student at Kyoto University encounters a demigod one night, he asks to relive the past three years in order to win the heart of Ms. Akashi, the object of his affection.

A young maiden is kidnapped and sold into servitude at the emperor"s palace, where she secretly employs her pharmacist skills with the help of the head eunuch to unravel medical mysteries in the inner court.

A boy grows up behind the safe walls of an apocalyptic Japan full of monsters. Tokyo flourishes as a paradise, while outside the walls of hell dangers lurk. However, a small group searches for heaven.

The crazy adventures of the SOS Brigade, led by the insane but charismatic Haruhi.

Due to the death of his childhood friend, Shinpei returns to his native home, but beneath the surface this island seems to hold some secrets.

Following a mysterious missile attack in Japan, Saki, a student, meets an amnesiac man, Akira, in Washington DC. Despite his lack of memory, Akira possesses a gun and a phone loaded with a massive digital cash amount.

A human wields a magic book that can cure vampires of their bloodlust, and sets out to find vampires to cure with the book.