Best mind-bending Japanese web series on Prime Video in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
24 web series on Prime Video in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 7.5. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.
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1. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Web series · Japanese · 3 seasons · U/A 16+ · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 9.0 (2.1L votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatMature
Gon, a young boy who lives on Whale Island, dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father, who left when Gon was still young.
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2. Vinland Saga (2019)
Web series · Japanese · 2 seasons · Animation, War & Politics · IMDb 8.9 (1.5L votes)
Visually stunningMatureTwistyDark & gritty
For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his
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3. JUJUTSU KAISEN (2020)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · U/A 16+ · Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 8.5 (2.2L votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most
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4. Chainsaw Man (2022)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · A · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 8.3 (1.1L votes)
MatureVisually stunningDark & grittyTwisty
Denji has a simple dream—to live a happy and peaceful life, spending time with a girl he likes. This is a far cry from reality, however, as Denji is forced by the yakuza into killing devils in order to pay off his crushing debts. Using his pet devil Pochita as a weapon, he is ready to do anything for a bit of cash.
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5. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (2016)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Animation, Mystery · IMDb 8.3 (99.6K votes)
TwistyDark & grittyVisually stunningMature
Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determine
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6. 【OSHI NO KO】 (2023)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · U/A 16+ · Animation, Drama · IMDb 8.3 (18.5K votes)
TwistyFast-pacedDark & grittyMature
A small-town doctor gets sucked into the ruthless world of show business when he crosses paths with a popular teen idol who holds a secret.
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7. Psycho-Pass (2012)
Web series · Japanese · 3 seasons · Animation, Crime · IMDb 8.1 (26.5K votes)
TwistyVisually stunningMatureDark & gritty
In the year 2113, people are given brain scans to determine how likely they are to commit a crime. Those who fail are apprehended, or even killed.
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8. Assassination Classroom (2015)
Web series · Japanese · 2 seasons · U/A 13+ · Animation, Comedy · IMDb 7.9 (30.4K votes)
Visually stunningFunnyEdge-of-seatFast-paced
The students of Class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any o
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9. Classroom of the Elite (2017)
Web series · Japanese · 5 seasons · U/A 16+ · Animation, Drama · IMDb 7.7 (27.9K votes)
TwistyCold & detachedFast-paced
Kiyotaka Ayanokouji enrolls at the prestigious Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Academy, but is assigned to Class 1-D, where students with behavioral problems are housed. The school awards points equivalent to 100,000 yen per month and allows unusual freedom in classes, masking a more complex system.
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10. Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 (2025)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Animation, Drama · IMDb 7.9 (3.3K votes)
TwistyMatureVisually stunning
Six studios and seven directors adapt the early works of Tatsuki Fujimoto, the mastermind behind "Chainsaw Man," into an anime anthology. Each episode is an anime adaptation of a short story he drew from ages seventeen to twenty-six, including the first manga he ever submitted for competition. Watch as vivid tales of y
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11. Marry My Husband: Japan (2025)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Drama, Comedy · IMDb 7.7 (1.7K votes)
Twisty
Misa has been a supporting character all her life, blindly trusting her best friend and husband. When she discovers their affair, the betrayal results in her death. Waking up ten years in the past, Misa vows to become the main character of her own story. She plans to ruin her betrayers by making them marry each other,
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12. THE GHOST IN THE SHELL (2026)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 7.3 (2.8K votes)
TwistyVisually stunningCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
2029, a near-future Japan. The full cyborg Motoko Kusanagi envisions a task force that preemptively strikes emerging threats. She and her team are scouted by Daisuke Aramaki as Public Security Section 9, AKA the "Shell Squad." An international conspiracy hints at a hacker known as The "Puppet Master." What fate awaits
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13. Hell Girl (2005)
Web series · Japanese · 4 seasons · Animation, Drama · IMDb 7.4 (2.3K votes)
Dark & grittyCold & detachedTwistyMature
A supernatural system allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the services of a mysterious entity and her assistants who implement this system. Revenge, injustice, hatred, and the nature of human emotions are common themes throughout the series.
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14. Sword of the Demon Hunter (2025)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Animation, Drama · IMDb 7.2 (1.5K votes)
TwistyVisually stunningSerious
Jinta journeys through a century-spanning epic, all while questioning why he wields a sword.
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15. Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture (2015)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Animation, Crime · IMDb 7.3 (1.1K votes)
Visually stunningTwistyCold & detachedDark & gritty
The story follows Motoko Kusanagi, a highly skilled member of the military, whom upon meeting Daisuke Aramaki, a current chief of the Public Security Section 9, in less than desirable conditions struggles to clear her name whilst forming her own independent team with the highest priority under the sponsorship and guida
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16. Kamen Rider Black Sun (2022)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Action & Adventure, Drama · IMDb 7.1 (1.1K votes)
Visually stunningTwistyDark & grittyMature
The year is 2022. It is an era of chaos, half a century after the government announced the coexistence of humans and kaijins. Aoi Izumi, a young human rights activist calling for the elimination of discrimination, meets a man named Kotaro Minami, the one called "Black Sun," who is a candidate for the next Creation King
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17. Alice in Borderland (2014)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · IMDb 6.8 (1.2K votes)
TwistyEdge-of-seatMatureDark & gritty
Antisocial misfit Ryohei Arisu wanted nothing more than to leave his mundane life behind, but a wish on a firework transports him to the post-apocalyptic Borderland, a sinister parallel reality where danger lurks around every corner and survival is not guaranteed. To live to fight another day, Ryohei and other unwillin
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18. Karakuri Circus (2018)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Action & Adventure, Mystery · IMDb 7.0 (615 votes)
TwistyMatureDark & grittyVisually stunning
Narumi Katou is a middle-aged man who suffers from the bizarre ZONAPHA Syndrome: a rare and inexplicable disease that causes its victims to endure severe seizures at random, with the only cure being to watch someone laugh. One day, during Narumi's part time job, a young boy with a giant suitcase fleeing from three adul
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19. Babylon (2019)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 6.5 (957 votes)
TwistyCold & detachedDark & grittyMature
Zen Seizaki is a prosecutor with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office. While investigating illegal acts by a certain pharmaceutical company, Seizaki stumbles upon a page stained with a mixture of blood, hair and skin, along with the letter "F" scribbled all across the sheet. As he investigates further, the cas
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20. OSHINOKO (2024)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 7.2 (302 votes)
TwistyFast-pacedMatureDark & gritty
Two fans of pop idol Ai are reincarnated as her "secret" baby twins, Aqua and Ruby, and grow up supporting her until the tragic day she is stabbed by a stalker. Flash forward a few years later, and Aqua and Ruby are high-school students determined to make it on their own in the cut-throat world of entertainment for per
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21. The Silent Service (2024)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Drama, War & Politics · IMDb 7.0 (289 votes)
Edge-of-seatVisually stunningCold & detachedTwisty
An MSDF submarine collides with a U.S. nuclear submarine, crushing all 76 people on board, including its CO, Shiro Kaieda. However, the crew survives. The accident is a cover story to get the MSDF submarine's crew on board the Seabat, a nuclear submarine secretly built by the Japanese and U.S. governments. However, Kai
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22. Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · IMDb 6.3 (807 votes)
MatureDark & grittyVisually stunningEdge-of-seat
Manami suddenly encounters mass murder at a pub on her 22nd birthday as she is hunted down by two warring vampire clans, the Draculas and the Corvins. Manami is a child of prophecy who is meant to help the Draculas overcome their Corvin enemies who have driven them underground. Meanwhile, droves of young men and women
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23. The Dinner Table Detective (2025)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · U/A 16+ · Animation, Mystery · IMDb 5.7 (318 votes)
FunnyTwisty
Rich heiress Reiko Hosho lives a double life as a novice detective, fighting crime under Inspector Kazamatsuri—also from a wealthy family. After work, Reiko sheds her pantsuit to don a lovely dress for dinner each day. Difficult cases force her to confide in her butler Kageyama, who proceeds to savagely ridicule her in
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24. Übel Blatt (2025)
Web series · Japanese · 1 season · Animation, Action & Adventure · IMDb 5.8 (881 votes)
TwistyCold & detachedMatureVisually stunning
Fourteen warriors set out to prevent an invasion, but only seven return. Three died along the way, and four were slain for betraying the empire. In truth, it is the Seven Heroes who turned on their allies so they could take all the glory. Ascheriit was their victim, but now, 20 years later, he is back to get revenge.
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