23+ Best Anime Like Shiguang Dailiren

If you loved Shiguang Dailiren, chances are you'll really enjoy Steins;Gate, ERASED and the others too. They share that same energy—whether it's the intense Drama, Mystery, Supernatural, Thriller, or just the vibe that keeps you hooked. While you wait for the next episode to drop, it’s the perfect time to explore something new that still feels familiar. These picks aren't just similar—they're fan favorites for a reason, and they might just become your next obsession.

1. Steins;Gate

Synonyms: S;G, סטיינס;גייט, 命运石之门

Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages. The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.

2. ERASED

Synonyms: Bokumachi, Desaparecido, Miasto beze mnie, รีไววัล ย้อนอดีตไขปริศนา

Satoru Fujinuma is a 29 year old manga artist struggling to make a name for himself following his debut. But, that was not the only thing in his life that Satoru was feeling frustrated about… He has a unique supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.

3. Summer Time Rendering

Synonyms: Summertime Render, ปริศนาบ้านเก่า เงามรณะ, A Ilha das Sombras, 夏日重现

A sci-fi, summer story filled with suspense set on a small island with Shinpei Aijiro, whose childhood friend Ushio Kofune died. He returns to his hometown for the first time in two years for the funeral. Sou Hishigata, his best friend, suspects something's off with Ushio's death, and that someone can die next. A sinister omen is heard as an entire family next door suddenly disappears the following day. Furthermore, Mio implicates a "shadow" three days before Ushio's death. (Source: Disney+)

4. Tokyo Revengers

Synonyms: 重生之道, โตเกียวรีเวนเจอร์ส, โตเกียว卍รีเวนเจอร์ส, 东京复仇者

Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that's reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had in his life that he dated in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang. The day after hearing about her death, he's standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people. He closes his eyes thinking he's about to die, but when he opens his eyes back up, he somehow had gone back in time 12 years. Now that he's back living the best days of his life, Takemichi decides to get revenge on his life by saving his girlfriend and changing himself that he'd been running away from. (Source: Crunchyroll)

5. ID: INVADED

Synonyms: 异度侵入 ID:INVADED

Welcome to Kura, an organization that investigates crime using the Mizuhanome system which senses the drive to kill. Sakaido is a brilliant detective and pilot of the Mizuhanome. To solve a case, he enters the world of the killer's unconscious mind: the id well. In the shadows of brutal and puzzling cases lurks John Walker, the Serial Killer Creator. Where will Sakaido's pursuit lead? (Source: Funimation)

6. To Be Hero X

Synonyms: 凸变英雄 第三季, To Be Hero 3

This is a world where heroes are created by people's trust, and the hero who gains the most trust is known as X. In this world, people's trust can be quantified through data, and these values are reflected on everyone's wrist. As long as one gains enough trust points, an ordinary person can possess superpowers and become a superhero who saves the world. However, the constantly changing trust values make the path of a hero full of uncertainties... (Source: Official To Be Hero X home page)

7. Your Name.

Synonyms: Your Name. - Gestern, heute und für immer , Mi a Neved? , 你的名字。, 너의 이름은.

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl, yearns to live the life of a boy in the bustling city of Tokyo—a dream that stands in stark contrast to her present life in the countryside. Meanwhile in the city, Taki Tachibana lives a busy life as a high school student while juggling his part-time job and hopes for a future in architecture. One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another. Kimi no Na wa. revolves around Mitsuha and Taki's actions, which begin to have a dramatic impact on each other's lives, weaving them into a fabric held together by fate and circumstance. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

8. Lord of Mysteries

Synonyms: Lord of the Mysteries, LOTM

In a Victorian world of steam, dreadnoughts, and occult horrors, Zhou Mingrui awakens as Klein Moretti. He walks a razor’s edge between light and darkness, entangled with warring Churches. This is the legend of unlimited potential…and unspeakable danger. (Source: Crunchyroll)

9. X&Y

Synonyms: Aiyou's Secret Room, Ruang Rahasia Ai You

When Yan moved back to his hometown, he never expected to be at the center of an eerie mystery. One day, he heads to XY Escape Room where he meets the owner, Xu, and finds himself completely captivated by her. But after this fateful encounter, Yan begins experiencing one creepy illusion after another—some that even involve his friends. Can he uncover the truth behind these strange events? (Source: Crunchyroll)

10. Link Click: Bridon Arc

Synonyms: Time Agent, ข้ามเวลาพิชิตภารกิจ ภาคเมืองไบรดอน

In order to save the deceased Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang returned to the beginning and started anew along the path of destiny. However, a photograph carrying clues about Cheng Xiaoshi's parents appeared at the Time Photo Studio. To uncover the truth, Lu Guang, with a heart full of anxiety, went to Yingdu with Cheng Xiaoshi. Facing people with different purposes, such as the seemingly friendly popular model Xia Fei, the eccentric leader of Chinatown Vein, and the mysteriously appearing Liu Xiao... can Lu Guang break the destined dead end? (Source: Bilibili) - The first episode aired with a runtime of ~65 minutes.

11. Heaven Official's Blessing

Synonyms: 天官賜福, Tenkan Tamamono Fuku, La bendición del oficial del cielo, สวรรค์ประทานพร

Xie Lian, the crown prince of Xian Le Kingdom, successfully ascends to Heaven during his third trial in spite of successive demotions. However, he accidentally breaks the Gold Palace of heavenly officials. With no human worshiping him, Xie Lian has to descend to the secular world to exorcise ghosts, which may help him sustain his divinity. (Source: Funimation)

12. The Founder of Diabolism

Synonyms: Mo Dao Zu Shi, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, The Founder of Evil Magic, 魔道祖師

The Wen Clan's rampage caused untold sufferings, and the other cultivation clans launched the "Sunshot Campaign" to join forces against the Wen Clan. Although Wei Wuxian, the Yiling Patriarch, had made great contributions to overthrowing the Wens, he was stigmatized and punished because he was considered too powerful and dangerous. He was persecuted by ten thousand people. Thirteen years later, Wei Wuxian has been brought back by a sacrificial ritual and has met again with old acquaintances such as Lan Wangji from the Gusu Lan Clan and Jiang Cheng from the Yunmeng Jiang Clan. The mysteries of Wei Wuxian's past remain, and conflicts in the cultivation world have resurfaced - all of which began from when they were all once youths. (Source: QQ, translated)

13. Ringing Fate

Synonyms: Ringing Destiny, リンギングフェイト

A Gan is seriously ill, and falls into a world called "Kong" at the moment of dying. Here, people can drive mechas to fight in the ring of fate, and the winner could get a chance to live again. By coincidence, A Gan partners with Zhang San, an evil mecha with a soul, and begins her adventure in "Kong".

14. Scissor Seven

Synonyms: Cike WuLiuqi, Ci Ke Wu Liu Qi, Assassin Seven, 刺客伍六七 第一季

Seeking to recover his memory, a scissor-wielding, hairdressing, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among feuding factions.(Source: Netflix)

15. Ya She

Synonyms: Silent House

In a busy and bustling city, history is soundlessly scattered throughout. Those legends that speak of rare treasures, lost in the flowing river of time. At this place, in this time, they are here--in an antique shop named "Ya She".

16. Heaven Official's Blessing Season 2

Synonyms: None

The second season of Tian Guan Ci Fu.

17. Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Synonyms: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika, Magical Girl Madoka Magica, PMMM, MSMM

One night, 14-year-old Madoka Kaname has a terrible nightmare - against the backdrop of a devastated city, she witnesses a girl fight a losing battle against a dreadful being lingering above, while a cat-like magical creature tells Madoka the only way to change such tragic outcome is for her to make a contract with him and become a magical girl. The next day, the teen's dream seemingly becomes reality as the girl she saw in her dream - Homura - arrives at Mitakihara Middle School as a transfer student, mysteriously warning Madoka to stay just the way she is; but when later on she and her best friend Sayaka encounter the same cat-like magical creature from her dream - who introduces himself as Kyubey - the pair discovers that magical girls are real, and what's more, they can choose to become one. All they must do is sign a contract with Kyubey and agree to take on the duty to fight abstract beings called 'witches' that spread despair to the human world, and in return, each one of them will be granted any single wish they desire. However, as Homura's omen suggests, there might be far more to becoming a magical girl than Madoka and Sayaka realize... Notes: - Due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the broadcasts of episodes 11 and 12 were delayed and were later aired as a double feature on April 21, 2011.

18. Shuangsheng Lingtan

Synonyms: Twin Spirit Detectives

Twin detectives Xiaotu and Xiaohu set up a business that specializes in dealing with supernatural occurrences. However, when they investigate what seems to be an ordinary “Supernatural” case, a series of bizarre events unfold. To that end, Xiaotu and Xiaohu conquer hardships with every step they take, to clear the hazy path towards the truth.

19. Ai Zai Xi Yuan Qian

Synonyms: Immemorial Love For You

Some aliens come to the Earth and one of them, become Babilonia's King, building the Babel Tower in order to come back to his world. But, due to technical failures his spaceship explodes, killing the main female character. The male lead and his troop stay in the Earth to find a way to come back. The female main character reincarnates 2500 years ago and met with him one more time. Then, what will happen now?(Source: TV Time)

20. To Be Heroine

Synonyms: 凸变英雄2, To Be Hero Leaf, To Be Hero 2, TBH2

Yuye Hua is a clever high school girl. One day, she is suddenly sucked into another world. This dark world is a world without light and the inhabitants are only children wearing panties. Arriving there, Yueye is the only one wearing clothes and she will become the heroine of this world where clothes are the strongest weapons.(Source: Anime News Network) Note: This entry reflects the original 12 episode Chinese broadcast version, the Japanese broadcast version was recut to condense the original 12 episodes into 7x24 minute episodes and aired from 19.05.2018 till 07.07.2018.

21. Swallowed Star

Synonyms: Penakluk Bintang

One day, the RR virus of unknown origin appears on earth and disaster strikes the world. The infected animals mutate into terrifying monsters and attack on a large scale. When humans faced destruction, they built walls and founded cities as humanity’s last strongholds. The trials that mankind experiences during this period are called the “Nirvana Period”. In such an extreme living environment, human physical strength also gradually evolved and developed, martial arts sprang up, and human physical strength was qualitatively increasing compared to before. And the best of them is called “Warriors”. 18-year-old Luo Feng also dreams of becoming one of them. Right now, he was about to take the college entrance exam and face a choice at a crossroads in his life, but suddenly a monster attack affects the trajectory of his life.

22. YOUR FORMA

Synonyms: None

In 1992, a pandemic of viral encephalitis shook the world. The medical technology that saved humanity evolved into “Your Forma”—an invasive information device implanted into the brain. In this world where every sight, sound, and even emotion is recorded, investigating major crimes means diving into the collective data, a job reserved for special detectives called “Electronic Investigator.” Echika Hieda, a prodigious “Electronic Investigator” assigned at an astonishingly young age, stands isolated by her exceptional talent. Her newly assigned partner is Harold, a blonde, blue-eyed humanoid “Amicus.” Together, this unrivaled duo will expose every hidden secret. (Source: "It’s Anime" YouTube Channel)

23. Death Note

Synonyms: デスノート, 死亡笔记, מחברת המוות, Notatnik śmierci

Light Yagami is a genius high school student who is about to learn about life through a book of death. When a bored shinigami, a God of Death, named Ryuk drops a black notepad called a Death Note, Light receives power over life and death with the stroke of a pen. Determined to use this dark gift for the best, Light sets out to rid the world of evil… namely, the people he believes to be evil. Should anyone hold such power? The consequences of Light’s actions will set the world ablaze. (Source: Viz Media)

24. The Summer Hikaru Died

Synonyms: Lato, kiedy umarł Hikaru, O Verão em que Hikaru Morreu, صيف وفاة هيكارو, 光死去的夏天

Two best friends living in a rural Japanese village: Yoshiki and Hikaru. Growing up together, they were inseparable… until the day Hikaru came back from the mountains, and was no longer himself. “Something” has taken over Hikaru’s body, memories, feelings… and everything they know begins to unravel. (Source: Netflix)

If you're anything like me, once you finish something amazing like Shiguang Dailiren, you're left wondering—what now? Luckily, there’s a whole world of stories out there that give off the same energy, whether it’s the intense fights, emotional backstories, or just that feeling of being completely hooked. The titles like Steins;Gate, ERASED... I’ve shared aren’t just similar—they feel right. They hit that same nerve that made Shiguang Dailiren special in the first place. Of course, everyone’s taste is different, but I really think you’ll find something here that pulls you in. And hey—if you’ve got a favorite that didn’t make the list, I’d love to hear about it. I’m always looking for my next obsession.