5 Psychological Thriller Anime Series That Will Mess Up Your Mind

The thrill is something we all want in our lives. Anime is popularly known for having dark plots that can shake your world. Psychological thriller anime focus less on physical trauma, and more on the mental state of its characters as well as the audience. Here is our list of  5 Psychological Thriller Anime to make your day and really mess up your head.

5. Death Parade

Death Parade is a 2015 anime series created, written, and directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa. It is available both as a short-animated film and series, in which whenever someone dies, they are sent to one of many mysterious bars run by bartenders serving as arbiters inside a tower of the afterlife. The people must compete in various death games to stay alive.

4. The Promised Neverland

The Promised Neverland is a Japanese Manga written by Kaiu Shirai. It was first serialized in the Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. It is a two-season anime series in which an agreement named ‘The Promise’ is made to end a long war between humans and demons.

An orphanage is set up which has kids for human trafficking. The people of the orphanage believed that when the kids reached a certain age, they would be taken to feed the highest demons.

3. Another

Another is a Japanese horror novel by Yukito Ayatsuji. The anime takes place in 1972 around what happened to Misaki, a popular student of Yomiyama North Middle School who suddenly died in the middle of the school year. In the Spring of 1988, Kochi Sakikabara meets Mei Misaki, a quiet student in the class.

Soon the class is caught up in a strange phenomenon where the students and people started dying in gruesome ways. The people started realizing that the students started dying in strange ways like the ‘Misaki of 1972’. Now, Kochi and Mei need to figure out how to stop it before more people die in strange ways.

2. Kakegurui

Kakegurui meaning ‘compulsive gambler’, is a Japanese manga series written by Homura Kawamoto. It also gave a jump start to many spin-off series. The story of Kakegurui takes place in the Hyakkou Private Academy, one of Japan’s most prestigious schools.

But unlike in other schools, the hierarchy is determined by gambling. The new transfer student, Yumeko Jabami, changes the whole system of the school as soon as she steps in.

1. Death Note

Death Note is a Japanese Manga Series written by Tsugumi Ohba. The story revolves around a teen boy, Light Yagami who one day discovers a mysterious notebook, ‘Death note’. The notebook belonged to the Shinigami Ryuk, who grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written on its pages.

The series centres around Light, who is hell-bent on creating a world of massacre. Death Note ran in the Shueisha’s weekly shonen magazine from December 2003 to May 2006. It is one of the most famous anime among beginners.

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