Shows Like Serial Experiments Lain

If you liked Serial Experiments Lain (1998), a animation and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Wonder Egg Priority (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and drama
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 "Aka." Spinning the…
2
Boogiepop and Others (2019)
★ 7/10Also animation and mystery
There is an urban legend that tells of a shinigami that can release people from the pain they are suffering. This "Angel of Death" has a name—Boogiepop. And the legends are true. Boogiepop is real. When a rash of…
3
Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and mystery
New kid Keiichi Maebara is settling into his new home of peaceful Hinamizawa village. Making quick friends with the girls from his school, he's arrived in time for the big festival of the year. But something about this…
4
No Guns Life (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Humans that have been physically altered and turned into dangerous weapons are known as the Extended. Juuzou Inui awakens as one of these weapons — with amnesia. But his job as an agent investigating the Extended leads…
5
Texhnolyze (2003)
★ 7/10Also animation and drama
Denizens of Lux have come to call it "The City" and treat it as a sentient force. Three factions vie for control of the city: the Organo, a strictly professional conglomerate with ties to the criminal underworld in the…
6
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.
7
Kaiba (2008)
★ 8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
In a world where memories can be stored like computer data, a young man named Kaiba searches for his lost memories and discovers a connection with a mysterious girl.
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Hell Girl (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and drama
A supernatural system allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the services of a mysterious entity and her assistants who implement this system. Revenge, injustice, hatred, and the nature…
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7SEEDS (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and drama
Shy Natsu awakens as part of a group chosen to ensure the survival of humanity. Together, they have to survive on a changed Earth.
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Fractale (2011)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Clain lives quietly amongst doppels—holograms that replace his parents and friends. Alone on a typical day, he saves a shrine maiden from pursuers and treats her wounds. He’s mystified by her worldly charms, but she…
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World's End Harem (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and drama
The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world's male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his…
12
Ergo Proxy (2006)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and mystery
Thousands of years after Earth’s atmosphere was destroyed, adventure blooms in the strangest of places. The domed city of Romdo is supposed to be perfect, but Re-l Mayer, a young female inspector from the Civilian…
13
Parasyte -the maxim- (2014)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and drama
A species of parasitic aliens descends on Earth and quickly infiltrates humanity by entering the brains of vulnerable targets; insatiable beings that gain total control of their host and are capable of transforming…
14
Elfen Lied (2004)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and drama
The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic…
15
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and drama
In the year 2045, cybernetic mercenary Motoko Kusanagi returns to Section 9 to face a dangerous new threat: the posthumans.
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Tengoku Daimakyo (2023)
★ 8/10Also animation and mystery
In the year 2024, the world has collapsed. Grotesque monsters lurk amongst the ruins of Japan, while remaining people scrape together what they can to survive. Kiruko, an odd-job girl in Nakano, accepts a mysterious…
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ID: INVADED (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
Sakaido is a genius detective who can track down any criminal. But when his daughter is murdered, revenge lands him on the other side of the law. Now in prison, he helps the police solve mysteries using a system that…
18
RESIDENT EVIL: Infinite Darkness (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and drama
Years after the horrors of Raccoon City, Leon and Claire find themselves consumed by a dark conspiracy when a viral attack ravages the White House.
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Night Head 2041 (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
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…
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The Big O (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm…