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Anime rankingsTop Mystery anime of 2023
A small detail can overturn everything you thought you knew. Browse the top mystery anime of 2023 and follow hidden motives, puzzling events, and clues that invite a closer look. Pick a story, build your theory, and see how long it holds.
#10Shaonian Ge Xing: Haiwai Xianshan Pian
Great Journey of Teenagers: Season 3 - Overseas Immortal Mountain Arc
The battle at Lei Family Castle leaves a terrible price behind. Lei Wujie loses someone precious, while Xiao Se forces his damaged inner power far beyond its limits and falls into a condition that ordinary medicine cannot cure. Their remaining hope lies across the sea, on a legendary immortal mountain said to shelter a figure capable of saving him.Lei Wujie, Sikong Qianluo, Tang Lian, and their companions set out on the perilous voyage with Xiao Se, chasing a cure through waters surrounded by rumor and danger. Yet the struggle for power in Beili has not paused for them. Court factions and martial forces continue moving in the shadows, and the journey to save one life is drawn into conflicts that may determine who controls the realm.
#9Meitantei Conan: Haibara Ai Monogatari - Kurogane no Mystery Train
Detective Conan: Ai Haibara's Story - Black Iron Mystery Train
Before she became Ai Haibara, Shiho Miyano lived under the Black Organization as the scientist Sherry, continuing research tied to the drug APTX 4869. The murder of her older sister Akemi pushes Shiho to rebel, swallow the drug herself, and escape after her body unexpectedly shrinks. Under a new identity, she eventually finds an ally in Conan Edogawa, another victim of the same poison.Her past catches up with her aboard the Bell Tree Express, where a staged mystery game turns into a real locked-room murder while members of the Black Organization close in. Gin believes Sherry is on the train, and Vermouth and Bourbon set their own plans in motion. Trapped among suspects and enemies, Haibara must survive a journey designed to expose the identity she has fought so hard to leave behind.
#8Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri
Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions
Ron Kamonohashi was the most gifted student in the history of the elite detective academy BLUE before a mysterious incident got him expelled and permanently barred from investigative work. Five years into his isolation, police detective Totomaru Isshiki seeks his help with a case the department cannot solve. Ron's ability to read a crime scene remains extraordinary, but his ruined career hides a far more dangerous problem.Whenever Ron corners a culprit, a mysterious condition can drive him to compel that person to die, and he cannot stop himself once it begins. Totomaru, unexpectedly, can. Their partnership is therefore as necessary as it is strange: a brilliant detective forbidden from investigating and a well-meaning officer who lacks genius, each possessing exactly what the other needs to pursue the truth without turning justice into another death.
#7Migi to Dali
Migi & Dali
The wealthy Sonoyamas adopt a polite thirteen-year-old boy named Hitori, never realizing their perfect new son is actually two people. Identical twins Migi and Dali switch clothes, meals, and even family moments with such precision that no one suspects they share a single identity. They chose this scheme because the Sonoyama home stands in Origon Village, the place connected to their mother's death. Beneath the often ridiculous coordination, the brothers have one goal: find her killer. Small clues hidden in houses and childhood memories point toward a family whose pleasant appearance conceals something deeply unsettling. Living as one child also begins exposing how different the twins really are, and solving the murder may require learning who each brother is when he no longer has to disappear into Hitori.
#6Princess Principal: Crown Handler 3
Princess Principal: Crown Handler 3
The assassination of Prince Edward places young Princess Mary first in line to Albion's throne and throws the royal court into a struggle over succession. Prince Richard, Duke of Arkham, approaches Princess with an offer to join him, even as his connection to the murder makes every promise dangerous.Ange and Dorothy infiltrate the palace as Mary's maids to observe the royal family for the Commonwealth. With Mary collapsing under pressure and the Duke of Normandy watching every faction, Team White Pigeon is drawn deeper into a plot that threatens to consume both the princess they serve and the Princess they hope to protect.
#5Tengoku Daimakyou
Heaven's Great Demon Realm
After a catastrophe destroys civilization, man-eating creatures roam the ruins of Japan. Through this broken world, Maru and Kiruko travel in search of a place called “Heaven,” guided by little more than a mysterious image and scattered promises while passing settlements that reveal different ways people have learned to survive.Elsewhere, children live inside an isolated facility that appears safe and almost perfect, surrounded by walls that keep the outside world completely hidden. Their curiosity grows as contradictions begin appearing in the life adults have designed for them. As the two journeys unfold, clues start connecting the ruined world to the sealed sanctuary, and the truth about what happened to humanity may prove more disturbing than the monsters wandering its remains.
#4Wu Liuqi: Anying Suming
Scissor Seven: Shadow Fate
Seven returns to Xuanwu to confront the past his lost memories have kept from him, but his arrival turns him into prey for the kingdom's most dangerous assassins. After fighting Black Bird to protect Thirteen, he is left weakened while multiple Shadow Killers move with different motives around him.At the same time, Green Phoenix finally sets a long-prepared revenge plan in motion against the leader of the Killer League, and the danger spreads back toward Chicken Island and the people Seven wanted to protect by leaving. With his old identity, his friends, and rival assassins pulling him in different directions, Seven must decide what kind of person will define his fate now.
#3Pluto
Pluto
Android detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate the murder of Montblanc, one of the world's most powerful robots and a former war hero. Soon after, a human robot-rights activist is killed in a similar manner, followed by another elite machine, convincing Gesicht that the murderer is choosing targets with a specific purpose.The robot victims were among seven extraordinary machines who took part in a devastating past war, and Gesicht himself is one of them. He turns to Atom, an advanced robot boy, for help understanding an enemy that may be able to violate society's most important rule: robots do not kill humans. As the name Pluto emerges, memories of war and buried guilt return, turning the hunt for a serial killer into a deeper question about hatred and whether machines can inherit it from the people who created them.
#2Shiguang Dailiren II
Time Agents: Season 2
The hunt for the person capable of possessing others ends in disaster. Lu Guang is left fighting for his life, while Cheng Xiaoshi is taken into police custody under suspicion of a crime he did not willingly commit. Even with Qiao Ling and Chief Xiao trying to piece the case together, the enemy remains hidden behind borrowed bodies and carefully timed attacks.The investigation draws in Qian Jin, a ruthless former officer turned lawyer, and a pair of siblings whose connection to the possession ability begins to expose the tragedy behind the killings. Cheng Xiaoshi is forced to use his power more carefully than ever, knowing that one wrong leap into the past could cost another life, including Lu Guang's.
#1Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
The Apothecary's Monologue
Maomao grew up as an apothecary's daughter surrounded by herbs, medicines, and poisons, but kidnapping and sale into the imperial palace reduce her to a servant who wants nothing more than to avoid attention. Her plan is to finish her term quietly and return home, until the emperor's infant children develop mysterious symptoms everyone whispers about as a curse.Curiosity and medical knowledge lead Maomao to the real cause, and she tries to deliver the answer anonymously. The observant palace official Jinshi identifies her talent anyway and moves her into service under Consort Gyokuyou. From then on, Maomao becomes entangled in poisonings, illnesses, and court intrigues she cannot resist solving. The harder she tries to remain an insignificant maid, the more obvious it becomes that her mind is far too useful for the palace to ignore.