Best detective anime
346 anime about detective, ranked by community score. Tags come from AniList voters; the percentage on each title page says how strongly the tag applies.
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3.4Tactics
TV · 2004 · 25 ep
TacticsTV · 2004 · 25 ep3.4Ichinomiya Kantarou grew up with the ability to see demons, but was isolated and bullied by others who did not share the same gift. Instead, he became being friends with the demons, gaining a great attachment to their existence. One day…
3.4Cybersix
TV · 1999 · 13 ep
CybersixTV · 1999 · 13 ep3.4A genetically engineered soldier created by the sinister Von Richter, Cybersix now hides from her creator as she struggles to discover who she really is. By day, she poses as male high school teacher Adrian Seidelman, hiding the feelings…
3.4Anyamal Tantei Kiruminzoo
TV · 2009 · 50 ep
Anyamal Tantei KiruminzooTV · 2009 · 50 ep3.4While searching for a run-away cat the twins Riko and Rimu Mikogami find a strange device that transforms them into "Kirumin". It also enables them to turn into real animals. Their older sister Nagisa soon joins them. Now the three have…
3.4Lupin III: Prison of the Past
Special · 2019 · 1 ep
Lupin III: Prison of the PastSpecial · 2019 · 1 ep3.4To rescue a famous gentleman thief from imprisonment, Lupin and his team infiltrate the Kingdom of Doruenthe. While the skillful thieves from around the world are gathering, Lupin tries to reveal the secret hidden in the kingdom.
3.3Occult Academy
TV · 2010 · 13 ep
Occult AcademySeikimatsu Occult GakuinTV · 2010 · 13 ep3.3In the year 2012, the world is a wasteland invaded by aliens. Time travelers like Fumiaki are sent back to the year 1999 in order to destroy the "Nostradamus Key" to prevent the apocalypse. In 1999, Maya, the daughter of the former…
3.3Armitage III
OVA · 1995 · 4 ep
Armitage IIIOVA · 1995 · 4 ep3.3The year is 2046. Detective Ross Sylibus is transferred to Mars when a country singer on his flight is murdered. Making matters more complicated is that the singer is a "Third"—a robot that looks and feels like a human. Sylibus is…
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3.3Red Garden
TV · 2006 · 22 ep
Red GardenTV · 2006 · 22 ep3.3Strange suicides have been taking place in New York. One day, four girls from the same high school wake up in the morning feeling tired and dizzy and not being able to remember anything about the previous night. In school, they find out…
3.3LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline
Movie · 2025 · 1 ep
LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal BloodlineLupin the IIIrd the Movie: Fujimi no KetsuzokuMovie · 2025 · 1 ep3.3A special invitation has been sent to Lupin and his crew to an uncharted island. The invitee is believed to be the mastermind who controls the world's top mercenaries and is connected to crimes throughout the world! Who could this…
3.3Detective Opera Milky Holmes: Summer Special
Special · 2011 · 1 ep
Detective Opera Milky Holmes: Summer SpecialTantei Opera Milky Holmes: Summer SpecialSpecial · 2011 · 1 ep3.3A special program of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes produced by the staff of the TV series. After some pushing by Irene and her father and a lack of support otherwise, Kokoro stubbornly quits her job as a police detective to become an idol. She…
3.3Case Closed: The Fugitive Kogorou Mouri
ONA · 2014 · 1 ep
Case Closed: The Fugitive Kogorou MouriMeitantei Conan: Toubousha Mouri KogorouONA · 2014 · 1 ep3.3File 594 that was never animated. To celebrate Detective Conan Movie 18 premiere, it was animated and streamed on NOTTV. This is where Kogorou Mouri is the fugitive.
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3.3Occultic;Nine
TV · 2016 · 12 ep
Occultic;NineTV · 2016 · 12 ep3.3The "paranormal science" story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Choujou Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Yuuta Gamon. Little incongruities that occur…
3.3Futakoi Alternative
TV · 2005 · 13 ep
Futakoi AlternativeTV · 2005 · 13 ep3.3The Futaba Detective Agency, being run by Rentarou, who has taken over the family business, after his father's death 3 weeks ago. Along with Sara & Souju, his live-in identical twin assistants, he ends up running afoul of the local…
3.3Demon Prince Enma
OVA · 2006 · 4 ep
Demon Prince EnmaKikoushi EnmaOVA · 2006 · 4 ep3.3Enma is a character created by the genius manga artist Go Nagai. Now, the popular character makes his appearance in an alluring Japanese horror anime for adults. It's a hair-raising erotic suspense in which Enma takes on complicated and…
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3.3Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective
TV · 1998 · 12 ep
Nightwalker: The Midnight DetectiveNight Walker: Mayonaka no TanteiTV · 1998 · 12 ep3.3Shido Tatsuhiko is not only a private eye... he is also a vampire with no real memory of his past. Joined by Yayoi Matsunaga, a female government agent, Riho Yamazaki, an orphaned teenage girl working as his girl Friday and Guni, a little…
3.3Case Closed: The Miracle of Excalibur
OVA · 2012 · 1 ep
Case Closed: The Miracle of ExcaliburMeitantei Conan OVA 12: Excalibur no KisekiOVA · 2012 · 1 ep3.3The Miracle of Excalibur is the twelfth OVA of the anime and manga franchise Detective Conan. The plot is based on Gosho Aoyama's short story "Excalibur".
3.3Lupin the 3rd: Goodbye Partner
Special · 2019 · 1 ep
Lupin the 3rd: Goodbye PartnerLupin III: Goodbye PartnerSpecial · 2019 · 1 ep3.3Inspector Zenigata is arrested, and the press claims ol' Pops was the true mastermind behind all of professional looter Lupin's heists! It doesn't take long for Lupin's pride to get the better of him, and wealthy magnate Roy Forest…
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3.2Ninja Kamui
TV · 2024 · 13 ep
Ninja KamuiTV · 2024 · 13 ep3.2Higan is a Nukenin - a former ninja who escaped his clan and is hiding from his violent past in rural America with his family. One night, he is ambushed by a team of assassins from his former organization who exact a bloody retribution on…
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3.2Cop Craft
TV · 2019 · 12 ep
Cop CraftTV · 2019 · 12 ep3.2The story is set in San Teresa City on the fictional Pacific island of Kariaena. The "buddy police action" series follows the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana. 15 years ago, an unknown hyperspace gate opened over…
3.2Case File nº221: Kabukicho
TV · 2019 · 24 ep
Case File nº221: KabukichoKabukichou SherlockTV · 2019 · 24 ep3.2The East Side of Shinjuku Ward … In the center of this chaotic neighborhood, the neon-lit Kabukicho district is expanding. Where light shines, there are also deep shadows. The curtain rises on this night stage where bizarre murders…
3.2The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window
TV · 2021 · 12 ep
The Night Beyond the Tricornered WindowSankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa YoruTV · 2021 · 12 ep3.2Bookstore employee Mikado always had a tendency to see creepy things. He had lived his life pretending he didn't see these things but then he has a fateful encounter with an exorcist named Hiyakawa. Mikado ends up being forced to help out…
3.2Blue Miburo
TV · 2024 · 24 ep
Blue MiburoAo no MiburoTV · 2024 · 24 ep3.2It's 1863, the twilight of the shogunate, and Japan is on the cusp of monumental change. The streets of the nation's capital are soaked in blood as political upheaval and rising tensions between masterless, wandering ronin and government…
3.2Descendants of Darkness
TV · 2000 · 13 ep
Descendants of DarknessYami no MatsueiTV · 2000 · 13 ep3.2Even after death, life is full of paperwork and criminals. Tsuzuki Asato is a 26 year old, happy-go-lucky, and dorky shinigami (god of death) whose job is to makes sure that those who are dead remain dead and stay in their proper realms…
3.2Batman: Gotham Knight
OVA · 2008 · 6 ep
Batman: Gotham KnightOVA · 2008 · 6 ep3.2Batman animated anthology based on the DC Comics superhero of the same name. Episodes 1) Have I Got a Story for You (俺たちのスゴい話) - Shoujirou Nishimi (STUDIO 4℃) 2) Crossfire (クロスファイア) - Futoshi Higashide (Production I.G.) 3) Field Test…
3.2Cat's Eye (2025)
ONA · 2025 · 12 ep
Cat's Eye (2025)Cat's♥EyeONA · 2025 · 12 ep3.2Cat’s Eye is a secretive trio of art thieves relentlessly pursued by Detective Toshio. Unbeknownst to him, the middle sister of the elusive thieves is none other than his girlfriend, Hitomi. (Source: Disney+)
3.2Daphne in the Brilliant Blue
TV · 2004 · 24 ep
Daphne in the Brilliant BlueHikari to Mizu no DaphneTV · 2004 · 24 ep3.2In the future, water has covered much of the Earth due to the effects of global warming. The orphaned Maia Mizuki, 15, just graduated from middle school and has already applied for employment in the elite paramilitary Ocean Agency, part of…
3.2CLAMP School Detectives
TV · 1997 · 26 ep
CLAMP School DetectivesClamp Gakuen TanteidanTV · 1997 · 26 ep3.2The CLAMP school, with its integrated curriculum from kindergarten to post-graduate studies, was founded by the largest of Japanese business empires, the House of Imonoyama. Funded entirely out of its own deep pockets, it was hoped that…
3.2Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD
TV · 2015 · 12 ep
Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TDTV · 2015 · 12 ep3.2In the story, the Great Era of Detectives — when detectives and thieves with a power known as "Toys" compete — has given way to the Great Era of Idols. However, someone starts stealing the idols' songs in Yokohama. When super idol Marine…
3.2Shuangsheng Lingtan
ONA · 2016 · 20 ep
Shuangsheng LingtanONA · 2016 · 20 ep3.2Twin detectives Xiaotu and Xiaohu set up a business that specializes in dealing with supernatural occurrences. However, when they investigate what seems to be an ordinary “Supernatural” case, a series of bizarre events unfold. To that end…
3.2Phantom Quest Corp.
OVA · 1994 · 4 ep
Phantom Quest Corp.Yuugen KaishaOVA · 1994 · 4 ep3.2In a country where companies are categorized into many subdivisions and corporations, only one of them is a ghost corp - the Phantom quest corp. When otherworldly supernatural phenomenon threatens the city and its populace, Ayaka Kisaragi…
3.2Lupin the 3rd - Italian Game
Special · 2016 · 1 ep
Lupin the 3rd - Italian GameLupin III (2015): Italian GameSpecial · 2016 · 1 ep3.2The stage is set in Italy. Rebecca has been kidnapped! She belongs to one of the most prominent families in the Republic of San Marino and the young woman is the CEO of the Rossellini conglomerate which operates the largest chain of hotels…
3.2Majokko Tsukune-chan
OVA · 2005 · 6 ep
Majokko Tsukune-chanOVA · 2005 · 6 ep3.2In this surreal comedy, the witch Tsukune-chan travels the countryside doling out just deserts, be they good or bad.
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3.1Umineko: When They Cry
TV · 2009 · 26 ep
Umineko: When They CryUmineko no Naku Koro niTV · 2009 · 26 ep3.1Considered as the third installment in the highly popular "When They Cry" series by 07th Expansion, Umineko no Naku Koro ni takes place on the island of Rokkenjima (六軒島), owned by the immensely wealthy Ushiromiya…
3.1Persona4 the Golden ANIMATION
TV · 2014 · 12 ep
Persona4 the Golden ANIMATIONPersona 4 the Golden AnimationTV · 2014 · 12 ep3.1Spring. Far from the city, time flows peacefully in this rural town. As the cherry blossoms scatter in the wind, a young man named Yu Narukami steps off the train at Yasoinaba Station. Yu has come to this town, where his uncle lives, for…
3.1Holmes of Kyoto
TV · 2018 · 12 ep
Holmes of KyotoKyoto Teramachi Sanjou no HolmesTV · 2018 · 12 ep3.1The "light, antique mystery" series revolves around a "spiteful," handsome Kyoto boy and a high school girl. The story is set at an antique shop in Kyoto's Teramachi Sanjou shopping district. High school girl Aoi Mashiro unexpectedly runs…
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3.1Supernatural: The Anime Series
OVA · 2011 · 22 ep
Supernatural: The Anime SeriesSupernatural The AnimationOVA · 2011 · 22 ep3.1The anime re-imagining of the original live-action series follows the Winchester brothers Sam and Dean as they hunt creatures and other supernatural phenomena across the American landscape. The anime covers the storyline of the live-action…
3.1Mobile Police Patlabor: WXIII
Movie · 2002 · 1 ep
Mobile Police Patlabor: WXIIIWXIII Kidou Keisatsu PatlaborMovie · 2002 · 1 ep3.1When the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological…