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Television Shows Set in Tokyo (Japan)

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Great Pretender(2020)

FSK: 16+ years
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Comedy, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 48 votes)

Supposedly Japan’s greatest swindler, Makoto Edamura gets more than he bargained for when he tries to con Laurent Thierry, a real world-class crook.

Directed by Hiro Kaburagi

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters(2023-)

4.0/5 (with 271 votes)

After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo(2002-)

1h 51min per episode | Drama, Crime, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

With Yutaka Mizutani, Ittoku Kishibe, Kōji Ishizaka, Saya Takagi, Kakko, Yasufumi Terawaki, ...

Watashi no Aozora(2000)

15min per episode | Kids & Family, Drama

This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father, Murai Kento had aspirations to be a professional boxer but due to a detached retina he was forced to abandon his dream. Leaving Nazuna behind, he left for America, with another woman, to get treatment for his eye-problem, unaware that Nazuna was pregnant. As his life is boxing he quickly returns to the ring after the operation turns out to be successful and once again he dreams of becoming a professional boxer. However, success eludes him and he returns home to Japan. Nazuna meanwhile has given birth to her son and moved to Tokyo to search for Kento. By chance she finds Kento. When discovers he has become a father, he tries to make up for lost time. The show picks up their story as Nazuna, Taiyo and Kento begin family life together. Of course things are not as simple as they appear.

Alice in Borderland(2020-)

FSK: 16+ years
| 56min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure
4.1/5 (with 883 votes)

With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.

Lycoris Recoil(2022)

24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 68 votes)

A spirited secret agent and her aloof colleague work in an unassuming, charming cafe while happily helping their customers' out in any way they can.

Directed by Shingo Adachi

Like, la Leyenda(2018-2019)

3.9/5 (with 230 votes)

The experiences of a group of young people interned at the Life Institute of Knowledge and Evolution (LIKE), a prestigious and cosmopolitan educational institution, with a supposedly modern and open educational system, but in reality it is deeply traditional and schematic.

Sailor Moon(1992-1997)

FSK: 12+ years
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.2/5 (with 443 votes)

One day, Usagi Tsukino, clumsy 2nd-year middle school student, stumbles upon a talking cat named Luna. Luna tells her that she is destined to be Sailor Moon, "champion of love and justice", and she must search for the fabled Moon Princess. Usagi finds friends that turn out to be destined senshi as well, and together they fight to save the world from the certain doom brought upon by the Dark Kingdom.

Sherlock: Untold Stories(2019)

45min per episode | Mystery
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated with how people become criminals and in original sin. He is a genius, but he also has an impulse to commit crimes. Shishio Homare works on cases which interests him among police or customer requests. Meanwhile, Junichi Wakamiya (Takanori Iwata) is a psychiatrist. He is smart and cool-headed. Due to a case, Junichi Wakamiya gets involved with Shishio Homare. At first, Junichi Wakamiya thinks Shishio Homare is ignorant and arrogant, but, as they work together, Junichi Wakamiya gets comfortable with Shishio Homare.

Directed by Hiroshi Nishitani, Kozo Nagayama - With Dean Fujioka, Takanori Iwata, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Maho Yamada, Yutaro

NANA(2006-2007)

23min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 37 votes)

Nana Osaki is a guarded and ambitious young woman with a strong will and a rough past. She is the vocalist for a punk band called Black Stones and she desires fame and recognition more than anything else. Nana Komatsu is an outgoing and flighty young woman with a weak will and a stable past. Her life revolves around her desire to find love and marriage. The two meet for the first time while traveling to Tokyo - in pursuit of their respective dreams - and they later decide to be roommates. Although drastically different people, the two become very close and together they find out if their biggest dreams have room for their best friend.

Giri/Haji(2019)

58min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 57 votes)

Soulful thriller set in Tokyo and London, exploring the butterfly effect of a single murder across two cities. A dark, witty and daring examination of morality and redemption.

Great Teacher Onizuka(1999-2000)

24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama
4.2/5 (with 86 votes)

About Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-gangster member and a virgin. He has one ambition that no one ever expected from him. His solely life purpose is to become the greatest high school teacher ever.

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Steins;Gate(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 24min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Comedy
4.2/5 (with 339 votes)

A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

Directed by Kanji Wakabayashi

Modern Love Tokyo(2022)

39min per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

This seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of "love," such as love almost forgotten, love between sons and mothers, and love that transcends borders.

Durarara!!(2010-2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 87 votes)

In Tokyo's downtown district of Ikebukuro, amidst many strange rumors and warnings of anonymous gangs and dangerous occupants, one urban legend stands out above the rest—the existence of a headless "Black Rider" who is said to be seen driving a jet-black motorcycle through the city streets. Mikado Ryuugamine has always longed for the excitement of the city life, and an invitation from a childhood friend convinces him to move to Tokyo. Witnessing the Black Rider on his first day in the city, his wishes already seem to have been granted. But as supernatural events begin to occur, ordinary citizens like himself, along with Ikebukuro's most colorful inhabitants, are mixed up in the commotion breaking out in their city.

Infinite Stratos(2011-2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 65 votes)

Girls from all over the world gather at IS Academy to learn how to become IS pilots. However, since Ichika can somehow pilot the IS even though he is male, he was forced to attend IS Academy as the only male in this school.

Hiyokko(2017-2019)

15min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The 17-year-old Yatabe Mineko grew up in a family of seven in a mountain village in northeastern Ibaraki Prefecture. Her father Minoru has gone to Tokyo to work in order to earn extra money. However, her life completely changes when her father does not come back for the New Year. Mineko asks her family to let her go to Tokyo to find him and promises to send money home. In the autumn of 1964, she and two childhood friends Tokiko and Mitsuo are hired to start working at a small factory in Tokyo’s working class neighborhood. After work each day, Mineko searches for her father and gets disheartened at times. Mineko overcomes challenges and starts to lay down roots in Tokyo as she experiences many meetings and farewells amid the laughter and tears with regulars, people of the shopping street, friends, and colleagues. But will she be able to find her father?

Amachan(2013)

15min per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 4 votes)

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Neon Genesis Evangelion(1995-1996)

FSK: 16+ years
| 25min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Animation, Drama
4.3/5 (with 763 votes)

At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.

Directed by Hideaki Anno

Akiba Maid War(2022)

24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Crime
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Akihabara is the center of the universe for the coolest hobbies and quirkiest amusements. In the spring of 1999, bright-eyed Nagomi Wahira moves there with dreams of joining a maid café. She quickly dons an apron at café Ton Tokoton, AKA the Pig Hut. But adjusting to life in bustling Akihabara isn't as easy as serving tea and delighting customers. Paired with the dour Ranko who never seems to smile, Nagomi must do her best to elevate the Pig Hut over all other maid cafés vying for top ranking. Along the way she'll slice out a place for herself amid the frills and thrills of life at the Pig Hut. Just when Nagomi's dreams are within her grasp, she discovers not everything is as it seems amid the maid cafés of Akihabara.

Directed by Sōichi Masui

Marvel's Hit-Monkey(2021-)

25min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
3.9/5 (with 58 votes)

A Japanese snow macaque's clan meets a stranded hitman, Bryce, and nurses him back to health. But when Bryce bites the dust, it's up to the titular simian (guided by Bryce's ghost) to follow in his assassin footsteps and seek vengeance.

The King of Braves GaoGaiGar(1997-2005)

4.4/5 (with 3 votes)

In the year 2005 a race of alien monsters emerge from underground and launch a series of attacks on the city of Tokyo. The only defense against these creatures is the awesome giant robot GaoGaiGar and its pilot, Guy Shishio.

Oshin(1983)

15min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family, War & Politics
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.

Love Live! Superstar!!(2021-)

24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Yuigaoka Girls High School is a newly established school that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The story centers on its first batch of students. With no history, no upperclassmen or alumni, and no reputation, it is a school full of unknowns. Five girls, among them Kanon Shibuya, have a fateful encounter with school idols. Kanon decides, "I love singing. I want to make something come true with song!" Many feelings converge upon a star that has only started to grow. The future is blank and full of possibility for these girls, and their story that everyone will make possible has only just begun. Soar with your wings, our Love Live!

Directed by Takahiko Kyōgoku

Steins;Gate 0(2018)

4.0/5 (with 99 votes)

The dark untold story of Steins;Gate that leads with the eccentric mad scientist Okabe, struggling to recover from a failed attempt at rescuing Kurisu. He decides to give up and abandons his lively scientist alter ego, in pursuit to forget the past. When all seems to be normal, he is seemingly pulled back into the past by meeting an acquaintance of Kurisu, who tells him that they have begun testing a device that stores the memory of a human and creates a simulation of them with their characteristics and personalities. Okabe begins testing and finds out that the simulation of Kurisu has brought back anguish and some new unexpected tragedies. Zero is a side story that explores events from the Beta Attractor Field's future that contribute in making the end of the original story possible.

Guilty Crown(2011-2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 24min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 90 votes)

The story revolves around Shu Ouma, a high school boy who inadvertently obtains an ability called "The Power of the Kings" that enables him to draw out items called "Voids" from other people. He is then thrown into the conflict between a resistance group called Funeral Parlor which aims to restore Japan's independence from a quasi-governmental organization known as the GHQ. In the process, Shu has to deal with the burden his ability puts on his shoulders and the horrific mystery of his past.

Directed by Tetsurō Araki

The Iron Heart(2022-2023)

30min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.8/5 (with 25 votes)

An undercover agent goes on a dangerous mission to bring down a crime ring. Fueled by a bitter and painful past, he along with his allies faces the grueling task that will challenge his resolve and strength.

Umechan Sensei(2012)

15min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Umechan Sensei is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 2, 2012. It is about a girl named Umeko Shimomura who, despite being overshadowed by her talented older brother and sister, and despite being thought of as a clumsy child, decides to follow in her father's footsteps and become a doctor. It is the 86th NHK Asadora.

Re:Creators(2017)

3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

Humans have created many stories. Joy, sadness, anger, deep emotion. Stories shake our emotions, and fascinate us. However, these are only the thoughts of bystanders. But what if the characters in the story have "intentions"? To them, are we god-like existences for bringing their story into the world? Our world is changed. Mete out punishment upon the realm of the gods. In Re:CREATORS, everyone becomes a Creator.

Directed by Ei Aoki

Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020(2019-2020)

45min per episode | Reality-TV, Drama, Soap / Telenovela
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Six strangers share a fabulous house in Tokyo, looking for love while living under the same roof. With no script, what happens next is all up to them.

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