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15 Psychological Anime That Are Absolutely Worth Watching

I have added 15 Psychological Anime to this list, that you should totally watch it. Some are way beyond epic, I suggest watching these anime.

No.10, No.9 and No.2 are really awesome and my personal favorite as well!

15. Kuuchuu Buranko

Genre : Comedy, Drama,Psychological, Seinen

Many patients with different problems visit the psychiatric ward of Irabu General Hospital; a trapeze artist suffering from insomnia after suddenly failing his jumps, a gangster afraid of knives and sharp objects and a business man who has an erection 24 hours a day.

They undergo counseling by Dr. Ichiro Irabu, who is the child-like son of the hospital director. His assistant is the sullen faced sexy nurse Mayumi.

With his mysterious injections, and advice that does not make sense, Dr. Irabu confuses his patients. But at the end of his unique treatments, the patients are lead to digging further into their souls to find peace of mind.

 

14. Ghost Hound

Genre : Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi,Supernatural

In an isolated region of Kyushu lies the town of Suiten. Though seeming small and modest, Suiten is not a picturesque place for a vacation, unless it is from the “Unseen World.”

Taro, Makoto, and Masayuki, three boys with traumatic pasts, learn to let their souls cross between the two parallel worlds. However, the Unseen World is no mere copy of the real Apparent World.

The Unseen World is the home of ghosts, but changes are now allowing the souls of the dead to pass over into the Apparent World, with unpredictable effects. Follow the journey of Taro, Makoto, and Masayuki, as they cross between the two worlds, trying to unravel a great mystery.

 

13. Bokurano

Genre : Drama, Mecha, Psychological,Sci-Fi

During a summer camp, 15 children, 8 males and 7 females, find a grotto by the sea. Deep within they discover working computers and some electronic equipment, and later the owner, a man called Kokopelli.

Kokopelli claimed to be a programmer working on a brand new game, in which a large robot has to defend the Earth against alien invasions.

He persuades the children to test the game and sign a contract. All but one of them sign, barely a moment later they mysteriously awaken on the shore believing what happened was just a dream.

 

12. Aku No Hana ( Flowers of Evil )

Genre : Drama, Psychological,Romance, School

Takao worships the class beauty, Nanako, from afar. When he is alone in the classroom one day after school, he notices her bag of gym clothes on the floor.

He can’t resist picking it up. He plans to return it, but the next day, all the girls are commiserating with Nanako that some pervert has stolen her gym clothes.

Worse than that, their classmate Sawa quietly lets him know that she saw him take the clothes and will tell Nanako if he doesn’t make a contract with her to do whatever she asks of him and then their strange relationship begins.

 

11. Mirai Nikki/Future Diary

Genre : Action, Mystery,Psychological, Shounen, Supernatural,Thriller

This psychological thriller, based on the manga written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno, is about Yuki, a loner who’s not very good with people.

He prefers to write a diary on his cell phone and talk to his imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina – The God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is more than a figment of his imagination when he makes Yuki participate in a battle royale with eleven others.

The contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future, each diary possessing unique features that give it both advantages and disadvantages. Within the next 90 days, the contestants must try to survive until there is only one left standing. The winner will become the new God of Time and Space.

 

10. Ergo Proxy

Genre : Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi

In a post-apocalyptic future humans live in peace with androids in a domed city. However, a strange series of murders has intruded into bored inspector Re-l Mayer’s life.

 

9. Zankyou no Terror

Genre : Psychological, Thriller

In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been stricken by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet.

The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population.While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children—children who shouldn’t even exist—masterfully carry out their heinous plan.

Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form “Sphinx,” a clandestine entity determined to wake the people from their slumber—and pull the trigger on this world.

 

8. Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji

Genre : Game, Psychological, Seinen,Thriller

Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector.

The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which Kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 300,000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji…………….

 

7. Serial Experiments Lain

Genre : Dementia, Drama, Mystery,Psychological, Sci-Fi, Supernatural

Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers.

Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired, where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to be… not even Lain herself.

 

6. Tokyo Ghoul

Genre : Action, Drama, Horror,Mystery, Psychological, Seinen,Supernatural

Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They’re the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close.

Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul – a kind of monster that lives by hunting and devouring human flesh. When part of her special organ – “the red child” – is transplanted into Kaneki, he becomes a ghoul himself, trapped in a warped world where humans are not the top of the food chain.

 

5. Paranoia Agent

Genre : Drama, Mystery, Police,Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller

An elementary school kid dubbed with the title “shounen bat” or “lil slugger” has been going around attacking people with his bent, golden bat.

Now, two detectives are investigating so they can stop this kid from making any more attacks, but they will find out soon enough… that this case is much more than they expected.

 

4. Neon Genesis Evangelion:The End of Evangelion

Genre : Dementia, Drama, Mecha,Psychological, Sci-Fi

Nerv is being attacked by Seele and Rei becomes one with Lillith.

Together with the Spear of Longinus and the completed EVA-series, Shinji will decide whether or not mankind will cease to exist.

He has to decide now if he wants to stay alive or be dead, but his decision will affect all of humanity.

 

3. Parasyte : the maxim

Genre : Action, Drama, Horror,Psychological, Sci-Fi, Seinen

They arrived in silence and darkness, descending from the skies with a hunger for human flesh.

Parasites – alien creatures who must invade and take control of a human host to survive – have come to Earth. No one knows their secret except high school student, Shinichi Izumi, who’s right hand has been invaded by an alien parasite.

Shinichi and Migi, the parasite in his hand, begrudgingly form a friendship and find themselves caught in the middle of a war between humans and parasites.

 

2. Monster

Genre : Drama, Horror, Mystery,Police, Psychological, Seinen, Thriller

A brilliant neurosurgeon living in Germany finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.

 

1. Death Note

Genre : Mystery, Police, Psychological,Supernatural, Thriller

A shinigami, as a god of death, can kill any person—provided they see their victim’s face and write their victim’s name in a notebook called a Death Note.

One day, Ryuk, bored by the shinigami lifestyle and interested in seeing how a human would use a Death Note, drops one into the human realm.

 

Source: otakukart.com


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