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Anime rankingsTop Mystery anime of 2026
A small detail can overturn everything you thought you knew. Browse the top mystery anime of 2026 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.
#10Arne no Jikenbo
Arne's Casebook
Lynn Reinweiß, a nobleman's daughter fascinated by vampires, loses her way in Lügenberg, a city where humans and non-humans live side by side behind layers of secrecy. There she meets Arne Neuntöte, an eccentric vampire detective whose supernatural abilities let him investigate what ordinary humans cannot.When murders and impossible incidents begin surfacing, the unlikely pair are drawn together by the same need to uncover what really happened. Each case leads deeper into the city's hidden lives and toward people concealing more than they reveal, forcing Lynn to discover that loving stories about vampires is very different from standing inside a crime where she cannot tell which monster she should fear.
#9Mao
Mao
Nanoka passes through a mysterious gateway into the Taisho era, where the exorcist Mao saves her from a grotesque yokai. After returning to the present, she discovers that her body has gained impossible abilities, driving her back into the past in search of answers and straight into Mao's investigation of a string of gruesome murders.Every answer only deepens the mystery. Mao himself is cursed by a cat demon named Byoki, and his sword is equally dangerous, condemning anyone other than Mao who tries to wield it. When Mao's life is threatened, Nanoka has no choice but to take up the blade, revealing that the curse surrounding him may be far more connected to her than she ever expected.
#8Eris no Seihai
The Holy Grail of Eris
Constance Grail lives by her family's creed: honesty above all else. That virtue offers little protection when her fiancé's lover frames her for theft before a room of nobles willing to accept the lie. As her reputation collapses, her plea for help is answered by the ghost of a woman executed ten years earlier: Scarlett Castiel, the infamous "villainess" who never learned to fear anyone.Scarlett temporarily possesses Constance and turns the accusation back on its author, then names her price. She was executed for attempting to poison the princess, a crime she insists was arranged to destroy her. As the only person able to see Scarlett, Constance becomes her partner in investigating the nobles and secrets surrounding the execution. Every answer they uncover brings them closer to people whose lives now depend on the truth remaining buried.
#7Oneechan Gokko
Playing Big Sister
In the distant future, the mountain village of Kagami has been left behind by the extraordinary scientific progress reshaping the cities. Its residents still repeat an old warning: "If you misbehave, your Double will come." Akane Higure pays little attention to the legend, because she is too busy awaiting the return of her older sister Sui after an entire year in the hospital.Sui finally comes home, but Akane's happiness does not last. Soon afterward, an anonymous phone call delivers one terrifying message: the girl in the house is not her sister. Caught between modern technology and the village's folklore about doubles, Akane is forced to doubt the face she knows best and discover what has returned home wearing Sui's identity.
#6Meitantei Precure!
Great Detective Pretty Cure!
On her 14th birthday, Anna Akechi receives a mysterious pendant from the fairy Pochitan and is suddenly thrown from 2027 back to 1999. There she meets Mikuru Kobayashi, a girl who dreams of becoming a detective, and quickly realizes that returning to her own time will not be simple.A band of phantom thieves soon begins stealing the possessions people treasure most. When Anna and Mikuru gain the power to transform into Pretty Cures, every theft becomes a mystery to solve, and every clue may bring Anna closer to uncovering the thieves' purpose and finding a way home.
#5Koukaku Kidoutai (TV)
Mobile Armored Riot Police
In 2029, the boundary between human and machine is thinner than ever, with cybernetic bodies and direct network connections woven through every level of society. Motoko Kusanagi, a full-body cyborg, leads an elite combat unit including Batou and takes on crimes and emerging threats conventional security forces are not equipped to handle.The unit is not presented as a finished institution from the start. Motoko herself recognizes the need for a specialized force capable of acting before digital and political threats grow into disasters. In a city where memory can be stolen like any other data, cyberterrorism, corruption, and manipulation of consciousness become parts of the same daily job. Between operations, one question follows Motoko constantly: when bodies can be replaced and information copied, what remains that is enough for a person to call themselves “I”?
#4Shiguang Dailiren III
Time Agents: Season 3
Time Photo Studio seems peaceful again after the Li Tianchen incident, but Xia Fei's disappearance pulls Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang, and Qiao Ling back into a web of unfinished secrets. With Vein returning and Qiao Ling awakening a new power, clues surrounding the old Bahati fire begin to surface, reaching all the way into the past of Cheng Xiaoshi's own parents.Every step toward the truth draws more dangerous players into the chase. Liu Xiao moves on behalf of a mysterious organization, while the involvement of Yingdu police officer Jae further complicates the investigation. With photographs, memories, and abilities capable of altering other people's fates, uncovering the past may once again reshape everyone's present.
#3Guimi Zhi Zhu Specials
Lord of Mysteries: Prey - Special
Qilangos, one of the Seven Pirate Admirals, arrives in Backlund, giving Alger Wilson an opportunity to remove a dangerous enemy. During a Tarot Club gathering, he asks Audrey Hall to use her aristocratic connections to gather information on the pirate's whereabouts, while hoping the Fool's influence can turn the hunt into a successful operation.Audrey's search brings her into contact with Fors Wall and Xio Derecha, and as the net around Qilangos tightens, Klein turns to Mr. Azik for assistance the club cannot provide alone. It becomes the Tarot Club's first major shared mission, testing how secrets, influence, and supernatural power can cooperate when most of the people involved still know very little about one another's true identities.
#2Jiyi Guanli Ju (2026)
Memory Management Bureau (2026)
Guan Chao is obsessed with returning to the past, hunting for a mysterious Burning Stone that he believes can power a time gun. His search instead drops him into the Memory Management Bureau, a strange place where people can become trapped inside layers of their own memories.To return to reality, Guan Chao must confront dangerous memory anomalies while administrators Fang Tang and Bai Zhong help him understand the rules of this unstable world. Every memory he enters brings a new crisis and pulls him closer to the question behind his entire quest: even if the past can be reached, is changing it really the way to save the present?
#1Steel Ball Run: JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken
Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
In 1890, America turns its attention to the Steel Ball Run, a race spanning thousands of kilometers from San Diego to the East Coast for an enormous prize. Johnny Joestar, a former genius jockey who can no longer walk, watches the start without much purpose until he witnesses the mysterious technique used by Gyro Zeppeli.A brief encounter with Gyro's Spin lets Johnny feel movement in his legs for the first time since his injury, convincing him to enter the race and uncover the secret behind that power. The journey soon becomes far more than a contest for money, as killers, conspiracies, and sacred relics with strange abilities pull Johnny and Gyro into a struggle capable of reshaping the nation.
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