Shows Like The Dinner Table Detective

If you liked The Dinner Table Detective (2025), 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.

1
Case Closed: The Culprit Hanzawa (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and comedy
A silhouetted suspect moves to the crime-infested town of Beika with murder in mind.
2
Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and mystery
Ron 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…
3
City Hunter (1987)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and comedy
Ryo 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…
4
Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and mystery
A detective who's also a public security agent and a member of a shadowy organization juggles his triple identities.
5
Hyouka (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and mystery
Oreki 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…
6
Duckman (1994)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and comedy
Together 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.
7
Mike Tyson Mysteries (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and animation
Mike 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…
8
Detectives These Days Are Crazy! (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedy
Once 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…
9
Maison Ikkoku (1986)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedy
Godai 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…
10
KILL BLUE (2026)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedy
Legendary hitman Juzo Ogami has never failed an assignment. But after a mission, he’s stung by a mysterious wasp and wakes up in the body of a 13-year-old boy! And to make things even weirder, he receives a bizarre new…
11
Marriage Toxin (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedy
For centuries, the deadly arts have been perfected by Masters, and Five Great Families hold the greatest power and influence. Hikaru Gero, an heir to the Gero family, lives in the underworld as an elite assassin. When…
12
PERSONA 4 the Animation (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and mystery
When 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…
13
Inspector George Gently (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also mystery and crime
Crime 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.
14
Patlabor: The TV Series (1989)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and animation
Patlabor: The TV Series is an anime television series, created by Headgear, animated by Sunrise, and based on the Patlabor anime franchise.
15
The Dangers in My Heart (2023)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and comedy
Kyotaro 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…
16
Death Note (2006)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and mystery
Light 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…
17
Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedy
When aspiring duelist Yuma meets Astral, a mysterious visitor from another universe, it seems like destiny. Yuma needs Astral to teach him how to duel, and Astral needs Yuma to help him regain his memories!
18
GetBackers (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and mystery
Ban Mido and Ginji Amano run a freelance business of recovering anything lost or stolen. They call themselves the GetBackers, and they're a super powered duo.
19
Mitsuboshi Colors (2018)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedy
Residing 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…
20
Princess Jellyfish (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and comedy
Amamizukan is an apartment complex where no boys are allowed. Tsukimi, a girl who adores jellyfish, lives there happily with her friends who all have nerdy obsessions of their own. Their peaceful lives gradually start…