Best Japanese Thriller TV Shows of 2021

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Best Japanese Thriller TV Shows of 2021
Best Japanese Thriller TV Shows of 2021
TOP TV Shows: Odd Taxi (2021), Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song (2021), Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy (2021), Baki Hanma (2021), Wonder Egg Priority (2021), Record of Ragnarok (2021), Godzilla Singular Point (2021), Platinum End (2021), High-Rise Invasion (2021), Guilty Flag (2021), Yasuke (2021), Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021), Otherside Picnic (2021), Night Head 2041 (2021).

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 8.4
 6K
Odd Taxi (2021)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: This town should look familiar, but suddenly, it's not. The taxi driver Odokawa lives a very mundane life. He has no family, doesn't really hang out with others, and he's an oddball who is narrow-minded and doesn't talk much. The ...
Style: anime, humorous, tense, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: anthropomorphic animal, anthropomorphism, animal that acts human, slice of life, animal, animal life, society, talking animal, social relations, anthropology, lifestyle, anthropomorphic dog ...
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Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The female looking and first autonomous AI named Diva is created for one mission to make everyone happy by singing. Shortly Diva is confronted by an unknown "program" from the future with objective to make Diva join him and destroy AIs.
Style: anime, futuristic, tense, captivating
Plot: humanoid robot, time travel, music, female robot, artificial intelligence, destruction, sentient robot, showdown, fantasy world, robot, escapades, female singer ...
Time: future
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Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Makoto Misumi is just an ordinary high school student living a regular life, but all of a sudden gets summoned to the other world to become a "hero." The goddess of the other world, however, insults him for being different and strips his ...
Style: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Plot: dragon, isekai, magical creature, survival, creature, fantasy world, heroes, teenage protagonist, conscription, struggle for survival, wizard, showdown ...
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 6.9
 4K
Baki Hanma (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: To gain the skills he needs to surpass his powerful father, Baki enters Arizona State Prison to take on the notorious inmate known as Mr. Unchained.
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, tense, powerful ...
Plot: prison fight, fight, prison brawl, scuffle, warrior, combat, fistfight, jailed, battles, fight club, prison, ambition ...
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Wonder Egg Priority (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Ai, a young girl with shut-in tendencies, who tries not to interact with others. She keeps one of her eyes hidden behind her hair. One day, she happens to stop by a deserted arcade, where she meets "Acca." Spinning the gacha at their ...
Style: anime, psychological, surreal, surprise ending, ambiguous ending ...
Plot: friendship, magical creature, self harm, teen suicide, alternate reality, bullying, suicide, slice of life, tragic past, moral dilemma, dream, self mutilation ...
Time: future
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Record of Ragnarok (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Before eradicating humankind from the world, the gods give them one last chance to prove themselves worthy of survival. Let the Ragnarok battles begin.
Style: anime, suspense, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Plot: fight, mythology, survival, superpower, fight to the death, goddess, battles, humanity, fate of humanity, humanity in peril, struggle for survival, mortal combat ...
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Godzilla Singular Point (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Brought together by a mysterious song, a grad student and an engineer lead the fight against an unimaginable force that may spell doom for the world.
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, kaiju, chaos, creature, danger, chase, death, violence, murder, friendship, youth ...
Time: future, 2030s
Place: japan
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 6.1
 2K
Platinum End (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans ...
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, shounen ...
Plot: angel, supernatural, fight for supremacy, fallen angel, survival, battles, showdown, supernatural power, struggle for survival, demon, supernatural ability, school ...
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High-Rise Invasion (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: High-school girl Yuri suddenly finds herself on the rooftop of a high-rise building. She's trapped in a bizarre world surrounded by skyscrapers, where a masked man cracked open a man's head with an axe before her eyes. Finding a way to ...
Style: anime, mysterious, ecchi, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, violence, parallel world, fight, battles, female nudity, life, survival horror, weapons, parallel universe, struggle for survival, showdown ...
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 6.6
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Guilty Flag (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Ryōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a good-natured person. His family consists of his wife Maho, high school student daughter and elementary school student son. Maho works part-time at a ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing daughter, missing woman, missing wife, mysterious disappearance, investigation, search and rescue, social media, secret, missing child, disappearance, wife ...
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 6.2
 6K
Yasuke (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a peaceful existence after a past life of violence. But when a local village becomes the center of social upheaval between warring ...
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, tense, mecha ...
Plot: ninja warrior, samurai, magic, sword, battles, legend, warrior, fight, showdown, struggle for survival, protector, good versus evil ...
Time: 16th century
Place: japan, africa
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Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 298 min.
TV show
Story: Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for ...
Style: anime, suspense, futuristic, tech noir, neo noir ...
Plot: cyberpunk, bounty hunter, mission, heroes, danger, superpower, death, mercilessness, ex soldier, rivalry, dishonesty, freedom fighter ...
Time: future, 2030s
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Otherside Picnic (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Friendless college girl Sorawo finds a door to another world one day — a strangely post-apocalyptic-feeling Otherside with serene emptiness, which becomes her new “special place.” There, she meets one other human, the beautiful and independent ...
Style: anime, sincere, entertaining, colorful, contemplative ...
Plot: female protagonist, survival, spirit, couples, friendship, friends, rescue, youth, supernatural, chase, ghost, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Night Head 2041 (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The story follows the Kirihara brothers who from a young age were incarcerated in a secure scientific facility due to their supernatural powers, having escaped after the barrier that was preventing them malfunctions. The story also follows the ...
Style: anime, suspense, tense, exciting, captivating
Plot: experiment gone awry, supernatural, superpower, supernatural ability, child abandonment, supernatural power, struggle for survival, death of brother, on the run, experimenting, experiment, fight ...
Time: distant future
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