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10 animes to watch if you love Hyouka

by Hyouka The anime adapts the first four volumes of the light novel series of the same name. Hyouka follows the students who join their school’s Classic Literature Club to keep it from closing. During their time together, they solve many mysteries. These mysteries take place inside and outside your club, leaving Hyouka with many general plots. The characters, including the main hero Hōtarō, use logical deductions to solve their problems.

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The anime adaptation has twenty two suspenseful episodes and there are many similar series that will entertain the fans. Some include general mysteries, such as Mr. Love: Queen’s Choice. Others also have literary themes involved, such as book girl and black butler.

10 Mr. Love: Queen’s Choice Presents an Overarching Mystery


Heroine of Mr. Love Queen's Choice

Mr. Love: Queen’s Choice is a shoujo romance anime that also features an overall mystery. The unnamed main heroine investigates the sudden death of her father and learns of the existence of EVOLs, humans with supernatural abilities. This causes her to fall into many dangerous situations.

Despite the risk, he learns more about EVOL, his father’s death, his abilities, and his love interests. They all have different EVOL abilities and work with it in different ways. One of them is an old friend who currently works in law enforcement, while another is a celebrity.

9 Book Girl has several OVAs and a movie for book lovers


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For book lovers who enjoyed watching Hyouka, book girl could be right up your alley. book girl features Konoha, who wrote a best-selling romance novel when she was younger. Since she wrote the book under a female pseudonym, no one knows that she wrote it.

He joins the school’s literature club, where he meets Tohko. Tohko is the president of the literature club, but she also eats stories as “snacks”. The two investigate literary-inspired mysteries together, while Tohko has Konoha write stories for her to eat as snacks in the future.


8 Diabolik Lovers Presents An Overarching Mystery About Its Heroine


Yui Komori looking worried in Diabolik Lovers

diabolical lovers features vampires and contains an overarching mystery about its heroine, Yui. The main story focuses on her researching her origins. This comes after learning that the man she first met as her father adopted her. She must also deal with the vampires and love interests that she lives with.

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Viewers have a mixed reception diabolical lovers’ main story because love interests harass Yui and get away with it. However, many fans enjoyed Yui’s anime investigating her past.


7 DRAMAtical Murder makes the hero find out more about his past


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dramatic murder It has many mysteries that the characters discover. A great mystery is Aoba Seragaki, the main protagonist, who discovers his past and learns more about his powers. His past is connected to the main villain, Toue.

As Aoba learns more about her past, she also discovers that Toue has many connections to the rest of her friends and allies. Some episodes focus only on investigating the background of each of Aoba’s friends, as the anime adaptation combines all the routes from the original visual novel.


6 My Next Life As A Villainess investigates dark magic, especially in its second season


Catarina facing destruction

My next life as a villain it focuses on his reverse harem, but also has some mystery-driven plotlines. A major overarching plot is the use of dark magic, and Catarina and her love interests have encountered some dark magic users thus far. One of the main users is Raphael Walt, whose real name is Sirius Dieke.

Two other dark magic users appear in the second season, including a mysterious girl who kidnapped Keith and Sora, who first works under the alias Rufus. a movie for my next life it will come in the future, but fans are hoping that a possible third season will also discuss dark magic.


5 This art club has a problem! Has Fun Group Dynamics


this art club has a problem

Similar to Hyouka, this art club has a problem! It has a lot of fun group dynamics. The main girl, Usami Mizuki, has a crush on Uchimaki Subaru. They are both members of the art club, but Uchimaki only likes 2D girls and not real life 3D ones. As the art club grows, many mischief arises. Its members must learn to help each other with the various problems that affect their lives.

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I like Hyouka, this art club has a problem! It doesn’t have super melodramatic situations. Instead, it focuses on handling smaller problems that are more likely to occur in real life.


4 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Solves Mysteries in Court


Anime Ace Attorney Season 2 Full Cast

Phoenix Wright: Ace Lawyer see defense attorney Phoenix Wright solving many cases. Since he is a defense attorney, this leads him to defend people accused of murder or other crimes. Unlike Hyouka, these mysteries often cover matters of life and death rather than everyday occurrences. But some mysteries have overarching stories, rather than just being open-and-closed murder mysteries.

These older mysteries have connections to characters involved in past cases. Viewers were blown away to see how all of these characters connected to cases past and present.




3 Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast For Spirits has the heroine learning more about her grandfather.


Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits he has the heroine betrothed to an ogre to pay off her grandfather’s debts. However, the heroine tries to avoid this by opening a restaurant to pay off debts. As she tries to pay off her debts and survive in the new world of ogres, spirits, and other supernatural beings, she learns more about her grandfather’s past.

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As he learns about the past ties the other beings have with his grandfather (both good and bad), he also ends up meeting many new people and helping them with their problems.


two Black Butler has Ciel and Sebastian solving supernatural mysteries


Ciel and Sebastian from Black Butler

black butler focuses on Ciel and his demon butler, Sebastian, solving various supernatural mysteries. The OVAs emphasize their mystery solving by adapting “The Book Of Circus” and “The Book Of Murder”. “The Book Of Murder” introduces a young Arthur Conan Doyle. He, Ciel, Sebastian, and other house guests get caught up in a murder mystery at Phantomhive Manor.

Meanwhile, “The Book Of Circus” has Ciel and Sebastian investigating Noah’s Ark Circus and missing children cases. They pose as new members of the circus to get information.


1 Phantom In The Twilight has the heroine learning more about her supernatural past.


ghost in the twilight sees the heroine traveling from Japan to England. After entering England, she finds a mysterious cafe that only opens at midnight. She later finds out that her friends and love interests are supernatural beings.

She also discovers that the ring her great-grandmother passed on to her is magical and gives her powers. The cafe is a front for a much larger organization called Twilight, and its goal is to bring about coexistence between humans and shadows. However, trying to reach coexistence is not easy.

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