What is Thriller anime?

The thriller is a genre of fiction in which tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world. The hero of a typical thriller faces danger alone or in the company of a small band of companions. The protagonist may be a law enforcement agent, a journalist, or a soldier, but typically he or she is cut off from the resources of "their" organization. More often the hero is an ordinary citizen drawn into danger and intrigue by circumstances beyond their control. (Source: Wikipedia)

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Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu

(The Summer Hikaru Died)

0

Description:

Two boys lived in a village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. The two did everything together...until the day Hikaru was encompassed by a mysterious light. That was when everything changed—Hikaru most of all. Yoshiki still wishes from the bottom of his heart to always stay by his side...but is there even a Hikaru left to be with? (Source: Yen Press)
Type

TV

Rating

Teens 13 or Older

Status

unreleased

Aired

2025-12-31

Lazarus

0

Description:

The 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 drug with no apparent drawbacks called Hapuna. Hapuna soon becomes ubiquitous... and essential. However, soon after Hapuna is officially introduced, Dr. Skinner vanishes. Three years later, the world has moved on. But Dr. Skinner has returned—this time, as a harbinger of doom. Skinner announces that Hapuna has a short half-life. Everyone who has taken it will die approximately three years later. Death is coming for this sinful world—and coming soon. As a response to this threat, a special task force of 5 agents is gathered from across the world to save humanity from Skinner’s plan. This group is called "Lazarus." Can they find Skinner and develop a vaccine before time runs out? (Source: Adult Swim, edited)
Type

TV

Episodes

13

Rating

Teens 13 or Older

Status

unreleased

Aired

2025-12-31

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising

0

Description:

The 10th anniversary online event for the Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica anime revealed on Sunday that the franchise is getting a new anime film titled Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica: Walpurgis no Kaiten. The film will be an official sequel to the Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari film that opened in October 2013. The tagline on the new film's visual reads, "Now, let's continue the story." (Source: Anime News Network, edited)
Type

movie

Episodes

1

Status

unreleased

Aired

2025-12-31

TASUKETSU -Fate of the Majority-

6.11

Description:

Saneatsu Narita finds himself in a game of survival as half of the human population disappears each night! The game began suddenly. It was "Tasuketsu", a brutal survival game in which the majority is eliminated. In order to fight back against the immensely powerful emperor masterminding the game, young men and women create their own futures using the mysterious special ability known as "Special Right." (Source: Crunchyroll, edited)
Type

TV

Episodes

24

Rating

Teens 13 or Older

Status

current

Aired

2024-07-03

The Grimm Variations

(The Grimm Variations)

7.29

Description:

Once upon a time, brothers Jacob and Wilhelm collected fairy tales from across the land and made them into a book. They also had a much younger sister, the innocent and curious Charlotte, who they loved very much. One day, while the brothers were telling Charlotte a fairy tale like usual, they saw that she had a somewhat melancholy look on her face. She asked them, "Do you suppose they really lived happily ever after?" The pages of Grimm's Fairy Tales, written by Jacob and Wilhelm, are now presented from the unique perspective of Charlotte, who sees the stories quite differently from her brothers. (Source: Netflix, edited)
Type

ONA

Episodes

6

Ep.Length

40 Min

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Aired

2024-04-17

The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story

0

Description:

Miles Morales experiences a panic attack that forces him to confront the manifestations of his anxiety and learn that reaching out for help can be just as brave an act as protecting his city from evil. (Source: IMDB)
Type

special

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

7 Min

Status

finished

Aired

2024-03-27

GREAT PRETENDER razbliuto

(Great Pretender: razbliuto)

7.25

Description:

Sequel to GREAT PRETENDER. Presumed dead, master con artist and recovering amnesiac Dorothy is discovered by Shanghai Longu-bang, a mob who wants payback for her conning them. With no memories and nowhere to go, she must rely on a local crime underboss to elude Taipei’s criminal underworld all while tracking down leads to her mysterious past. (Source: Crunchyroll) Note: The movie was screened early in select American theaters on January 9, 2024.
Type

ONA

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

88 Min

Rating

17+ (violence & profanity)

Status

finished

Aired

2024-02-23

Pantheon Season 2

0

Description:

Would you survive the upload? The cult classic animation Pantheon is back for Season 2, only on Prime Video. Maddie, a bullied teen, receives support from someone online - her deceased father, David. His consciousness has been uploaded to the cloud after an experimental brain scan. Turns out, he's not the only one.
Type

ONA

Episodes

8

Status

current

Aired

2023-10-15

Collar×Malice: deep cover

(Collar x Malice)

0

Description:

A dangerous shadow organization launches a campaign of fear and violence in the city of Shinjuku, pushing society to the brink of chaos. As a young police officer tasked with restoring order, you become the target of an attack, and have a poisonous collar attached to your neck. With the situation spiraling out of control and time running out, five mysterious strangers appear to aid you in your quest for the truth. Who can you trust? Will you be able to save yourself and the soul of Shinjuku from the clutches of oblivion? (Source: Aksys Games)
Type

movie

Episodes

2

Ep.Length

55 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or Older

Status

finished

Aired

2023-05-26

Dead Mount Death Play

7.47

Description:

It's a showdown for the ages as the legendary hero takes on the corpse god necromancer, but when the dust settles, something isn't quite right... In the final moments of their epic confrontation, the corpse god's final gambit shot was wholly unexpected -- reincarnation magic! Across space and time, a boy named Polka Shinoyama awakens feeling...not quite himself...... Who could've expected that the climactic battle between good and evil would turn out like this?? (Source: Yen Press)
Type

TV

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

24 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or Older

Status

finished

Aired

2023-04-11

My Home Hero

(My Home Hero)

7.08

Description:

Tetsuo Tosu, an ordinary salaryman, discovers his daughter, Reika, has been physically abused by her boyfriend, Matori Nobuto. Trying to learn more about him, Tetsuo uncovers Matori's scheme to extort money from Reika's wealthy grandparents, and finds out that he is a member of a crime syndicate, with a history of murdering his former girlfriends. Filled with rage and fear at the thought of Reika being in danger, Tetsuo ends up killing Nobuto, and with the help of his wife, Kasen, successfully disposes of the body. Now, as the members of the syndicate begin to question Nobuto's sudden disappearance, Tetsuo and Kasen must work together to ensure the safety of their daughter and prevent her from getting involved in the predicament any further. (Source: MAL Rewrite)
Type

TV

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

24 Min

Status

finished

Aired

2023-04-02

Make My Day

(Make My Day)

6.52

Description:

On a cold planet of ice and snow, mysterious creatures suddenly have appeared from the dark underground and have begun to attack the inhabitants. Can humanity survive the terror lurking beyond the horizon? (Source: Netflix)
Type

ONA

Episodes

8

Ep.Length

26 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or Older

Status

finished

Aired

2023-02-02

Itou Junji: Maniac

(Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre)

6.83

Description:

From the horror master of manga comes a new anime series: JUNJI ITO'S MANIAC A Netflix produced anime series adapting 20 stories chosen by Junji Ito, including from: - Tomie - Souichi - The Hanging Balloons - The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance - Unendurable Labyrinth - The Long Hair in the Attic - Bullied - Where the Sandman Lives - Ice Cream Truck - Tomb Town - Library Vision - Headless Statue
Type

ONA

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

24 Min

Status

finished

Aired

2023-01-19

San Ti

0

Description:

Adaptation of the 2015 Hugo Award winner novel by Cixin Liu. 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces. (Source: Amazon)
Type

ONA

Episodes

15

Ep.Length

31 Min

Status

finished

Aired

2022-12-10

Bokura no Yoake

(Break of Dawn)

0

Description:

In 2038, Sawatari Yuuma is an elementary school kid who loves everything about space and astronomy. He was initially excited when his parents bought a robot called Nanako, but he was disappointed when he learned that she was basically just a boring housekeeping robot. However, when he does finally try to talk to her about space, something strange happens. Her system crashes and is taken over by what claims to be a marooned alien ship! The alien ship wants Yuuma's help to get back to space!
Type

movie

Episodes

1

Rating

Teens 13 or Older

Status

finished

Aired

2022-10-21

Akiba Maid Sensou

(Akiba Maid War)

7.61

Description:

Akihabara is the center of the universe for the coolest hobbies and quirkiest amusements. In the spring of 1999, bright-eyed Nagomi Wahira moves there with dreams of joining a maid café. She quickly dons an apron at café Ton Tokoton, AKA the Pig Hut. But adjusting to life in bustling Akihabara isn’t as easy as serving tea and delighting customers. Paired with the dour Ranko who never seems to smile, Nagomi must do her best to elevate the Pig Hut over all other maid cafés vying for top ranking. Along the way she’ll slice out a place for herself amid the frills and thrills of life at the Pig Hut. Just when Nagomi’s dreams are within her grasp, she discovers not everything is as it seems amid the maid cafés of Akihabara. (Source: HIDIVE)
Type

TV

Episodes

12

Ep.Length

24 Min

Rating

Violence

Status

finished

Aired

2022-10-07

Pantheon

(Pantheon)

0

Description:

Based on a collection of short stories from award-winning author Ken Liu about Uploaded Intelligence, or, human consciousness uploaded to the 'Cloud', Pantheon focuses on Maddie, a bullied teen who receives mysterious help from someone online. The stranger is soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being: an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI,” but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.
Type

ONA

Episodes

8

Ep.Length

0 Min

Rating

13 teens or older

Status

finished

Aired

2022-08-31

Ori no Naka no Soloist PV

(Soloist in a Cage PV)

0

Description:

Promotional video for the Shounen Jump+ manga Ori no Naka no Soloist.
Type

ONA

Episodes

1

Ep.Length

1 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2022-05-20

Summer Time Rendering

(Summer Time Rendering)

8.24

Description:

A sci-fi, summer story filled with suspense set on a small island with Shinpei Aijiro, whose childhood friend Ushio Kofune died. He returns to his hometown for the first time in two years for the funeral. Sou Hishigata, his best friend, suspects something's off with Ushio's death, and that someone can die next. A sinister omen is heard as an entire family next door suddenly disappears the following day. Furthermore, Mio implicates a "shadow" three days before Ushio's death. (Source: Disney+)
Type

TV

Episodes

25

Ep.Length

23 Min

Status

finished

Aired

2022-04-15

Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Final Season

(Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Final Season)

7.04

Description:

The third and final season of Magia Record: Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica Gaiden.
Type

TV

Episodes

4

Ep.Length

24 Min

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Aired

2022-04-03

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