Shows Like Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time
If you liked Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time (2022), a animation and mystery 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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Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and comedyA silhouetted suspect moves to the crime-infested town of Beika with murder in mind.
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The Dinner Table Detective (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and mysteryRich heiress Reiko Hosho lives a double life as a novice detective, fighting crime under Inspector Kazamatsuri—also from a wealthy family. After work, Reiko sheds her pantsuit to don a lovely dress for dinner each day…
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City Hunter (1987)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and comedyRyo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with…
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Detectives These Days Are Crazy! (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedyOnce a legendary detective, Nagumo Keiichiro now stumbles through middle age baffled by smartphones and modern life. His quiet decline gets disrupted when Mashiro, a bold high school girl, bursts into his office…
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Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and mysteryRon Kamonohashi was once regarded as a genius at the top detective training academy. But after a fatal mistake, he was expelled and forbidden to become a detective. Years later, police officer Totomaru Isshiki knocks…
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Maison Ikkoku (1986)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyGodai is a ronin (someone who has failed university entrance exams) living in a run down apartment house called Maison Ikkoku. Among the other residents are the nosy Ichinose, the sexy Akemi Roppongi, and the…
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Hyouka (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and mysteryOreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful…
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Mike Tyson Mysteries (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and animationMike Tyson is taking the fight from the boxing ring to the streets … by solving mysteries! Aided by the Mike Tyson Mystery Team — the Ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry, Mike’s adopted Korean daughter and a pigeon…
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SPY x FAMILY (2022)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and comedyA spy, an assassin and a telepath come together to pose as a family, each for their own reasons, while hiding their true identities from each other.
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Death Note (2006)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and mysteryLight Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written…
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Mitsuboshi Colors (2018)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedyResiding within Tokyo’s district of Ueno are the Colors, three individuals who protect their city by performing good deeds and aiding their community. Or, at the very least, they pretend to be the city’s defenders. In…
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Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedyEven after turning 40 years old, Tojima Tanzaburo still seriously wants to be a Kamen Rider. Just when it seems like his dream may never come true, he gets caught up in a series of infamous Shocker-inspired…
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Duckman (1994)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and comedyTogether with Cornfed, his portly, porcine partner in crime solving, this defective detective amazingly manages to solve crimes and be a single parent to his hilariously dysfunctional sons at the same time.
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Mission: Yozakura Family (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and comedyTaiyo Asano has been on his own ever since his parents died and the only one who seems to care for him is his childhood friend and classmate, Mutsumi Yozakura. But Mutsumi has a secret—she is the head of a family of…
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Patlabor: The TV Series (1989)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and animationPatlabor: The TV Series is an anime television series, created by Headgear, animated by Sunrise, and based on the Patlabor anime franchise.
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School Rumble (2004)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and comedyHigh school can be hard enough with just academics alone, but when love enters into the picture, it can unravel into a comedy of errors. Tenma has fallen for oblivious Karasama and class delinquent Harima has fallen…
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Spy Classroom (2023)
★ 6/10Also animation and comedySpy-in-training Lily is desperate to score a passing grade. Eager to prove herself, she leaps at the chance to join the mysterious team Lamplight and beat the Impossible Mission. Too bad the task ahead is even more…
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The Dangers in My Heart (2023)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and comedyKyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his…
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PERSONA 4 the Animation (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and mysteryWhen Yu Narukami moves to the rural country town of Inaba to live with his uncle while his parents are away on business, he's expecting a lot more peace and quiet than he's been used to in the big city. Instead, the…
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Inspector George Gently (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also mystery and crimeCrime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.