Best espionage anime
126 anime about espionage, 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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3.5LAZARUS
TV · 2025 · 13 ep
LAZARUSLazarusTV · 2025 · 13 ep3.5The year is 2052 — an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle cure-all…
3.5Spy Classroom Season 2
TV · 2023 · 12 ep
Spy Classroom Season 2Spy Kyoushitsu 2nd SeasonTV · 2023 · 12 ep3.5Four members of the Din Republic's spy team Lamplight embark on a mission to capture an enemy spy. Although they struggle to work together due to their clashing personalities, Thea, Monika, Erna, and Annett complete their objective. While…
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3.5ISHURA Season 2
TV · 2025 · 12 ep
ISHURA Season 2Ishura 2nd SeasonTV · 2025 · 12 ep3.5The second season of ISHURA .
3.5Cyber City Oedo 808
OVA · 1990 · 3 ep
Cyber City Oedo 808OVA · 1990 · 3 ep3.5It is the year 2808. Three convicts are recruited as members of the Cyber Police to keep major criminal activity in Oedo (formerly Tokyo) in check. In return, their life sentences will be reduced by a few years for every mission…
3.5Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet OVA (2014)
OVA · 2014 · 2 ep
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet OVA (2014)Suisei no Gargantia: Meguru Kouro, HarukaOVA · 2014 · 2 ep3.5Six months has passed since the battle with Kugel's fleet. Fleet that has been released from the tyranny of the machine caliber Striker is about to join the Gargantia fleet, and new people are coming onboard.Ledo, while working with…
3.5Harlock: Space Pirate
Movie · 2013 · 1 ep
Harlock: Space PirateCaptain HerlockMovie · 2013 · 1 ep3.5Many years into the future, battle has been raging across the galaxies as 500 billion humans, whose forebears were exiled from Earth, plan to return to what is still called home. Forced to flee a ravaged Earth, humans have now depleted the…
3.5Synduality Noir Part 2
TV · 2024 · 12 ep
Synduality Noir Part 2Synduality: Noir Part 2TV · 2024 · 12 ep3.5Despite returning victorious from a dangerous struggle, Kanata and his friends have, in a sense, lost a key ally, the amnesiac magus Noir. Having partially recovered her memory, Noir reverted back to her former personality: that of…
3.5ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - Regards
OVA · 2020 · 1 ep
ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. - RegardsACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka - RegardsOVA · 2020 · 1 ep3.5The special's story is set in the capital city of Badon one year after the events of the television anime, and shows Jean and the rest of the ACCA department preparing for the one-year anniversary of the establishment of the new order. For…
3.5Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Fuzai Shoumei
Movie · 2021 · 1 ep
Meitantei Conan: Hiiro no Fuzai ShoumeiMovie · 2021 · 1 ep3.5The Akai family, is a dangerous family shrouded in mystery, with members of the family entangled in various intrigues. Centering around Shuuichi Akai, who was thought to be dead at the Raiha pass, this movie gets up-close with the…
3.5City Hunter: Million Dollar Conspiracy
Movie · 1990 · 1 ep
City Hunter: Million Dollar ConspiracyCity Hunter: Hyakuman Dollar no InbouMovie · 1990 · 1 ep3.5Beautiful American Emily O'Hara offers the City Hunter (Ryo Saeba & Kaori Makimura) one million dollars to protect her from a man named Douglas. Ryo & Kaori take the job, but things are not quite what they seem. The real target…
3.5Muteki Koujin Daitarn 3
TV · 1978 · 40 ep
Muteki Koujin Daitarn 3TV · 1978 · 40 ep3.5Souzou Haran was a brilliant scientist that was conducting research on Mars. He created a form of cyborg life with the ability to think for itself. These cyborgs, dubbed the Meganoids, soon ran out of control and killed Dr. Haran along…
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3.5BLACK TORCH
TV · 2026 · 12 ep
BLACK TORCHBlack TorchTV · 2026 · 12 ep3.5Jirou Azuma is no average high schooler. A descendant of ninjas and trained in the ancient warrior art of the shinobi, Jirou is also able to talk with animals. After a mysterious encounter with an injured cat named Ragou, Jirou discovers…
3.5Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2
TV · 2025 · 12 ep
Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Season 2Sentai Daishikkaku 2nd SeasonTV · 2025 · 12 ep3.5After Sentouin D successfully infiltrated the Ranger Force in the disguise of Hibiki Sakurama, he is closer than ever to defeating the heroic Dragon Keepers. While strategizing his ideal placement in the Force, he discovers that he is…
3.5Dead Leaves
Movie · 2004 · 1 ep
Dead LeavesMovie · 2004 · 1 ep3.5Pandy and Retro awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. They embark on a devastating crime spree in search of food, clothing and transportation, but are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous lunar penitentiary…
3.5Altair: A Record of Battles
TV · 2017 · 24 ep
Altair: A Record of BattlesShoukoku no AltairTV · 2017 · 24 ep3.5For generations the Türkiye Devleti and the Balt-Rhein Empire have stood in stern opposition to each other. Then one night, when an imperial minister is found assassinated, the two nations are plunged into a potentially explosive…
3.5Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time
TV · 2022 · 6 ep
Detective Conan: Zero's Tea TimeMeitantei Conan: Zero no Tea TimeTV · 2022 · 6 ep3.5A detective who's also a public security agent and a member of a shadowy organization juggles his triple identities in this "Detective Conan" spinoff. (Source: Netflix)
3.4Knight's & Magic
TV · 2017 · 13 ep
Knight's & MagicTV · 2017 · 13 ep3.4A Japanese mecha otaku dies in a car accident and his soul is reincarnated into another world as Ernesti Echevarria. Eru inherits memories and interests from his previous life, and aims to be a pilot of a Silhouette Knight, a large…
3.4Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
TV · 2025 · 12 ep
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuXKidou Senshi Gundam: GQuuuuuuXTV · 2025 · 12 ep3.4Amate Yuzuriha is a high-school student living peacefully in a space colony floating in outer space. When she meets a war refugee named Nyaan, Amate is drawn into the illegal mobile suit dueling sport known as Clan Battle. Under the entry…
3.4Beyblade: Metal Fusion
TV · 2009 · 51 ep
Beyblade: Metal FusionMetal Fight BeybladeTV · 2009 · 51 ep3.4A new cast of characters take on the continued battle between good and evil. Ginga, our hero, and his group of loyal friends take on a dangerous group called the Dark Nebula. The Dark Nebula’s sole mission is to take over the world…
3.4Blue Comet SPT Layzner
TV · 1985 · 38 ep
Blue Comet SPT LayznerAoki Ryuusei SPT LayznerTV · 1985 · 38 ep3.4The SPT Lazner is a super-powered, computerized Tracer robot. It is the strongest robot in the universe. The story's hero, Eiji, is the child of an earthman and an alien from another planet. He happens to find out about a conspiracy to…
3.4Lupin the 3rd: Voyage to Danger
Special · 1993 · 1 ep
Lupin the 3rd: Voyage to DangerLupin III: Lupin Ansatsu ShireiSpecial · 1993 · 1 ep3.4Someone sent orders to assassinate Lupin! Will he survive or die trying!? After the intrepid Inspector Zenigata is reassigned from the Lupin case to destroying the international weapon smugglers Shot Shell, master thief Lupin the Third…
3.4Crayon Shin-chan Movie 19: Arashi wo Yobu Ougon no Spy Daisakusen
Movie · 2011 · 1 ep
Crayon Shin-chan Movie 19: Arashi wo Yobu Ougon no Spy DaisakusenMovie · 2011 · 1 ep3.4
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3.4RELEASE THE SPYCE
TV · 2018 · 12 ep
RELEASE THE SPYCERelease the SpyceTV · 2018 · 12 ep3.4Momo Minamoto is a high school girl living an ordinary life in Sorasaki City – until she is recruited to join a private information agency called “Tsukikage”. As it turns out, Tsukikage is actually a spy organization whose mission is to…
3.4Kiddy Grade
TV · 2002 · 24 ep
Kiddy GradeTV · 2002 · 24 ep3.4After fighting in numerous interstellar wars, mankind forms the Galactic Union to bring stability and to prevent conflicts between different planets. However, disputes between members of the union itself persists. In the Star Century year…
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3.4Resident Evil: Damnation
Movie · 2012 · 1 ep
Resident Evil: DamnationBiohazard: DamnationMovie · 2012 · 1 ep3.4United States Special Agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into a small Eastern European country to verify rumors that Bio Organic Weapons (B.O.W.s) are being used in war. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave…
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3.3Devils' Line
TV · 2018 · 12 ep
Devils' LineDevils LineTV · 2018 · 12 ep3.3Everything you thought you knew about vampires is wrong. They can walk in the daylight and holy water doesn't burn them. In fact, vampires can pass as normal humans so perfectly that even other vampires have trouble spotting them. Until…
3.3Joker Game
TV · 2016 · 12 ep
Joker GameTV · 2016 · 12 ep3.3In 1937, before World War II begins in earnest. Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki of the Imperial Japanese Army forms the "D Agency," an army intelligence outfit under his command and tutelage. Army General Staff attaches Lieutenant Sakuma to…
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3.3UNDER NINJA
TV · 2023 · 12 ep
UNDER NINJAUnder NinjaTV · 2023 · 12 ep3.3Ninjas still exist in Japan today. They number around 200,000. The ninja organization NIN (National Intelligence of NINJA) is not controlled by the civilian government, with its elite members performing assassinations and sabotage in…
3.3Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
TV · 1986 · 47 ep
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZKidou Senshi Gundam ZZTV · 1986 · 47 ep3.3It is the year 0088 of the Universal Century in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ. The badly damaged assault cruiser Argama docks at the run-down space colony of Shangri-La for much-needed repairs. While the Argama is in drydock, a young junk dealer…
3.3Shangri-la
TV · 2009 · 24 ep
Shangri-laShangri-LaTV · 2009 · 24 ep3.3In the distant future, earthquakes and the effects of global warming have splintered Japanese society. Some struggle hand-to-mouth in the jungle-tangled ruins of civilization. Some live comfortably within the closed-off city of Atlas…
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3.3ISHURA
TV · 2024 · 12 ep
ISHURAIshuraTV · 2024 · 12 ep3.3In a world where the Demon King has died, a host of demigods capable of felling him have inherited the world: a master fencer who can figure out how to take out their opponent with a single glance; a lancer so swift they can break the…
3.3Night Raid 1931
TV · 2010 · 13 ep
Night Raid 1931Senkou no Night RaidTV · 2010 · 13 ep3.3The year is 1931. The city is Shanghai. Ten years before America will enter World War II, the hydra's teeth planted by the first great global conflict are beginning to germinate. Hatching like spiders, they weave the complex web of plots…
3.3Gatchaman
TV · 1972 · 105 ep
GatchamanKagaku Ninja-tai GatchamanTV · 1972 · 105 ep3.3Due to dangers of decreasing resources and growing pollution, the International Scientific Organization is established to improve environmental conditions throughout the world. But an international criminal group, Gallactor, tries to…
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3.2BABYLON
TV · 2019 · 12 ep
BABYLONBabylonTV · 2019 · 12 ep3.2The suspense story centers around Zen Seizaki, a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles across a conspiracy over an election for…
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3.2Like the Clouds, Like the Wind
Special · 1990 · 1 ep
Like the Clouds, Like the WindKumo no You ni Kaze no You niSpecial · 1990 · 1 ep3.2The country of Sokan is in turmoil. Following the death of the Emperor, a power struggle over the line of succession ensues. To cement the crown prince's rule, he must find a suitable bride. And so, the hunt for a new empress begins! Ginga…
3.2Gravion Zwei
TV · 2004 · 12 ep
Gravion ZweiChoujuushin Gravion ZweiTV · 2004 · 12 ep3.2After Gravion was able to use its ultimate attack, the Zeravire threat seemed to have temporary stopped. However when it rises back up all of a sudden, the Earth Gult and its trump card, the super robot Gravion, is needed to defend this…