The Best Top 20 Psychological Anime Ever
This is a list of anime which focuses on the psychological aspects of the characters and story, either it's mind games or characters changing and questioning themselves and the world around them. Most of them are aimed at adult audiences and some don't have a tag in genres "psychological" but rest assure they surely feel like it and/or their source material does have this tag. This is strictly just my personal opinion.
P.S. After many comments about Code Geass and why it isn't on the list the answer is simple. Code Geass is not a psychological anime, at least according to MAL, and honestly it never felt like one to me. I really like Code Geass and if you check my other list "..Top 100..", you'll spot it there. Peace guys, have fun.
P.S.#2 Steins Gate is not a psychological anime. Have fun.
P.S. After many comments about Code Geass and why it isn't on the list the answer is simple. Code Geass is not a psychological anime, at least according to MAL, and honestly it never felt like one to me. I really like Code Geass and if you check my other list "..Top 100..", you'll spot it there. Peace guys, have fun.
P.S.#2 Steins Gate is not a psychological anime. Have fun.
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- StarsMamoru MiyanoBrad SwaileVincent TongAn intelligent high school student goes on a secret crusade to eliminate criminals from the world after discovering a notebook capable of killing anyone whose name is written into it.Genres: Mystery, Supernatural, Police, Psychological, Thriller
- CreatorNaoki UrasawaStarsHidenobu KiuchiLiam O'BrienMamiko NotoTenma, a brilliant neurosurgeon with a promising future, risks his career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. The boy, now a charismatic young man, reappears 9 years later in the midst of a string of unusual serial murders.Genres: Mystery, Drama, Horror, Police, Psychological, Thriller, Seinen
- CreatorHideaki AnnoStarsMegumi OgataMegumi HayashibaraKotono MitsuishiA teenage boy finds himself recruited as a member of an elite team of pilots by his father.Genres: Action, Dementia, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Psychological
Plus the movie "The End Of Evangelion" for the last 2 episodes. - StarsShintarô AsanumaHiroyuki YoshinoRin MizuharaWhen a nameless student at Kyoto University encounters a demigod one night, he asks to relive the past three years in order to win the heart of Ms. Akashi, the object of his affection.Genres: Mystery, Romance, Psychological
- CreatorYôji EnokidoShin'ya HasegawaKunihiko IkuharaStarsTomoko KawakamiYuriko FuchizakiRachael LillisA tomboyish schoolgirl finds herself forced into repeated duels for another girl who has a role in a world revolution.Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Shoujo, Psychological
Extensive use of symbolism, needs deciphiring. - StarsKôki UchiyamaAaron DismukeMicah SolusodFive ping pong prodigies learn to navigate the harsh climate of competitive sport and the even more frightening realm of self realization.Genres: Sports, Psychological, Seinen
- StarsMasato HagiwaraTsutomu IsobeKappei YamaguchiHiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the Lycaons, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and find a new pitcher for the team. There, he meets Toa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Outs". At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen for every point he gives up. A high-level psychological game of baseball, gambling and logic is about to begin..Genres: Sports, Psychological, Seinen
It's baseball with mind games(like the mind games in death note anime) - CreatorYasuyuki UedaStarsMichael ForestLiam O'BrienPatrick SeitzIn a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned prize fighter, loses a leg and an arm to satisfy an enraged fight promoter.Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Psychological
- CreatorKeiko NobumotoStarsSarah HauserDarren PleavinKenta MiyakeIn a post-apocalyptic future where humans live in domed cities surrounded by wasteland, wolves are assumed to be two hundred years extinct.Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Psychological
Plus the 4 Ova episodes for the ending of this. - StarsJeran UgokweJack StansburyMasato HagiwaraA young japanese man finds himself in a strange game to recover from his debts.Genres: Game, Psychological, Thriller, Seinen
Kaiji Itou is a drifting deadbeat who releases his frustration with life through vandalism. One day he learns that by unthinkingly co-signing on a former workmate's shady loan he has made himself liable for a crippling amount of compound interest... Survival and psychological mind games at their best. Nice characters and a gripping story. - CreatorYoshitoshi AbeStarsRyô HirohashiJunko NodaEri MiyajimaA young girl is reborn as an angel-like creature called a haibane, with no memory of who she once was.Genres: slice of life, mystery, psychological, drama, fantasy
- CreatorKunihiko IkuharaStarsMonica RialBrittney KarbowskiHilary HaagA terminally ill girl is revived by a magical penguin spirit. In return, her brothers are sent on a quest for the mysterious 'Penguindrum'.Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Drama, Psychological
Extensive use of symbolism. - CreatorShirow MasamuneStarsShirô SaitôAtsuko TanakaOsamu SakaThe futuristic adventures of a female cyborg counter intelligence agent and her support team.Genres: Action, Military, Police, Sci-fi, Mecha, Seinen, Psychological
- CreatorGen UrobuchiStarsKana HanazawaMiyuki SawashiroNoriko HidakaBelieving in humanity and order, policewoman Akane Tsunemori obeys the ruling, computerized, precognitive Sibyl System. But when she faces a criminal mastermind who can elude this perfect system, she questions both Sibyl and herself.Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Police, Psychological
- StarsYutaka KoizumiYui MakinoMichael C. PizzutoThis surreal dramedy follows Satou Tatsuhiro as he attempts to escape the evil machinations of the NHK.Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Psychological
- CreatorYasuyuki UedaStarsKaori ShimizuBridget HoffmanDan LorgeStrange things start happening when a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with an interconnected virtual realm known as "The Wired".Genres: Dementia, Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Psychological
This is pretty "heavy". - CreatorShûkô MuraseStarsKôji YusaAkiko YajimaLiam O'BrienIn 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.Genres: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Psychological
- CreatorUme AokiAtsuhiro IwakamiAkiyuki ShinbôStarsAoi YûkiChiwa SaitôEmiri KatoA creature named Kyubey offers Madoka and Sayaka a wish if they agree to become 'magical girls' and fight abstract beings called 'witches'. However, a magical girl named Homura is, for uncertain reasons, determined to stop this agreement.Genres: Drama, Magic, Psychological, Thriller
- StarsTôru FuruyaMasato HagiwaraRikiya KoyamaGenius gambler Shigeru Akagi competes with members of the mafia in mahjong.Genres: Game, Psychological, Thriller, Seinen
- StarsAya HiranoNobunaga ShimazakiRinka H.B.B.17-year-old Shinichi Izumi is partially infected by a Parasyte, monsters that butcher and consume humans. He must learn to co-exist with the creature if he is to survive both the life of a Parasyte and a human as part monster, part person.Genres: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Psychological, Seinen