Princess Principal プリンセス・プリンシパル

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, Spies,

 

Description: 

 

Five girls live in 19th century London, a city within the Albion Kingdom divided into east and west by a large wall. The girls serve as undercover spies enrolled as students at the prestigious Queen's Mayfair school. The girls make use of their individual abilities to remain active in the underground world of disguise, espionage, infiltration, and car chases.

 

Episode: 12 + 1 ONA + 6 Special + 6 Movies + 6 Specials

 

Original Run

Series: July 9, 2017 – September 24, 2017

ONA: September 16, 2017
Special: September 27, 2017 – February 23, 2018

Movie: February 11, 2021

Special: September 28, 2021

Movie: September 23, 2021

Special: March 29, 2022

Movie: April 7, 2023

Special: November 22, 2023

Movie: May 23, 2025

Movie: TBA

Movie: TBA

Studio: Actas & Studio 3Hz (Series) / Actas (Movies)

Moriarty the Patriot 憂国のモリアーティ(Yuukoku no Moriarty)

Alternative Name: 忧国的莫里亚蒂 (Yōu Guó De Mò Lǐ Yǎ Dì)

 

Genre: Mystery, Historical, Psychological, Thriller, Crimes, Death,

               Espionage,Secret Agents/Spies, Detectives,

 

Description: 

 

James Moriarty is an orphan who assumes the name William James Moriarty when he and his younger brother are adopted into the Moriarty family. As a young man, he seeks to remove the ills caused by England's strict class system.

 

Episode: 11 + 13 + 2 OVA

 

Original Run

Season 1: October 11, 2020 – December 20, 2020

Season 2: April 4, 2021 – June 27, 2021

OVA: April 27, 2022

Studio: Production I.G

 

Karneval カーニヴァル (Kānivaru)

Alternative Name: 狂欢节 (Kuáng Huān Jié)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Circus, Bishounen, Sci-Fi, 

               Mutants, Special Abilities, Secret Agents/Spies, Adventure

Description: 

Nai searches for someone important to him, with only an abandoned bracelet as a clue. Gareki steals and pick-pockets to get by from day to day. The two meet in a strange mansion where they are set-up, and soon become wanted criminals by military security operatives. When Nai and Gareki find themselves desperate in a hopeless predicament, they encounter none other than the country's most powerful defense organization, "Circus". The Circus is a Defense organization that works for the government. They perform raids to capture criminals and solve crimes that the Security force otherwise cannot handle. After their raids, they put on shows as an apology for scaring the citizens. Their group consists of the strongest, most capable fighters that use a special type of bracelet, known as Circus I.D., to fight.

Episode: 13 + 11 Special + 1 OVA

Original Run

Series: April 3, 2013 – June 26, 2013

Special: June 21, 2013 – November 22, 2013

OVA: October 25, 2012

Studio: Manglobe

Heaven's Memo Pad 神様のメモ帳 (Kamisama no Memochou)

Alternative Name: 神的记事本 (Shén De Jì Shì Běn)

Genre: Mystery, Detectives, Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Crimes, 

               Conspiracy, NEET, Secret Agents/Spies, Yakuza

Description: 

Narumi Fujishima is an ordinary high school boy who remains isolated from his fellow classmates. One afternoon fellow classmate Ayaka Shinozaki invites Narumi to join the gardening club and introduces him to a reclusive detective named Alice. Alice hires Narumi as an assistant and puts him to work solving the strange mysteries of Angel fix, an illegal drug. Little does he know it could put him and Ayaka in serious trouble.

Episode: 12

Original Run: July 2, 2011 – September 24, 2011

Studio: J.C.Staff

Joker Game ジョーカー・ゲーム (Jōkā Gēmu)

Alternative Name: 代号D机关 (Dài Hào D Jī Guān)

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Historical,  World War II, Espionage,

               Secret Agents/Spies

Description: 

In 1937, before World War II begins in earnest. Lieutenant Colonel Yūki of the Imperial Japanese Army forms the "D Agency," an army intelligence outfit under his command and tutelage. Army General Staff attaches Lieutenant Sakuma to observe the unit's performance. D Agency casts a wide net to find agents beyond Japanese military personnel, and Yūki establishes D Agency's tenets, which go against IJA doctrine: "Don't kill, don't get killed, don't get captured." With this, Yūki trains a team of operatives who conduct missions against domestic and foreign powers.

Episode: 12 + 2 Special

Original Run

Series: April 5, 2016 – June 21, 2016

Special: July 27, 2016 – September 28, 2016

Studio: Production I.G

Live Action Film: January 31, 2015

Night Raid 1931 闪光のナイトレイド (Senkō no Naito Reido)

Alternative Name: 闪光的夜基 (Shǎn Guāng De Yè Jī)

Genre: Action, Historical, Sci-Fi, Military, Superpowers, Thriller, Espers, 

               Espionage, Secrets Agents/Spies

Description: 

The story is set in Shanghai in 1931, when the Imperial Japanese Army has been dispatched to mainland China due to the relatively recent First Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I. In this cosmopolitan city of intrigue, there is a special military spy organization called "Sakurai Kikan" that has since been buried in history.

Episode: 13 + 3 Special + 1 Special + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: April 5, 2010 – June 28, 2010

Special: June 23, 2010 – December 22, 2010
Special: May 18, 2010
Special: December 21, 2010

Studio: A-1 Pictures

Agent Aika アイカ (AIKa)

Alternative Name: 海底嬌娃藍華 (Hǎi Dǐ Jiāo Wá Lán Huá)

Genre: Ecchi, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Treasure Hunting, Fanservice,
               Comedy, Secret Agents/Spies

Description: 

A catastrophic earthquake has left Tokyo, and most of the Earth for that matter, under the sea. Aika is a salvager who retrieves various remains from the watery ruins. When Aika accepts the dangerous mission of locating and obtaining the mysterious Lagu, she discovers that she's not the only one after it.

Episode

Aika 16~Virgin Mission: 3 episodes

Aika Zero: 3 episodes + 3 Special

Agent Aika: 7 episodes + 1 Special

Original Run

Aika 16: Virgin Mission: April 25, 2007 – September 25, 2007

Aika Zero: July 5, 2009 – December 22, 2009
Special: August 25, 2009 – December 22, 2009

Agent Aika: April 25, 1997 – April 25, 1999
Special: May 25, 1998

Studio: Studio Fantasia

R.O.D: Read or Die リード・オア・ダイ (Rīdo oa Dai)

Alternative Name: 读或死 (Dú Huò Sǐ)

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Conspiracy, Superpowers, 

               Secret Agents/Spies, Supernatural, Espionage

Description: 

Three girls named Anita, Michelle and Maggie are hired to protect Japanese author, Nenene Sumiregawa during her stay in Hong Kong. In an incident where the "Paper Sisters" save Nenene from a disgruntled author, Nenene discovers that the sisters have the capability to control paper at their own will - an ability once used by her long-lost friend Yomiko "The Paper" Readman. Arriving in Japan after an airliner incident, the Paper Sisters move into Nenene's apartment and become her freeloading bodyguards.

Episode: 26 + 3 OVA

Original Run

Series: October 1, 2003 – March 16, 2004

OVA: May 23, 2001 – February 6, 2002

Studio: Studio Deen (OVA) / J.C.Staff (Series)

009-1 ゼロゼロナイン・ワン (Zero Zero Nain Wan)

Alternative Name: 霹雳娇娃009-1 (Pī Lì Jiāo Wá 009-1)

Genre: Action, Espionage, Sci-Fi, Assassins, Cyborgs, Ecchi, 

               Fanservice, Secret Agents/Spies

Description: 

In an alternate world, the Cold War has continued to persist for 140 years. As a result, the world was divided into two factions: the West Block, and the East Block. As the Cold War drags on, the tension between the two factions, as well as the amount of nuclear weapons they have, rise. Mylene Hoffman is a female cyborg who is a spy for the West Block. Together with three other agents, Mylene partakes in various missions issued by her superiors.

Episode: 12 + 1 Special

Original Run 
Series: October 5, 2006 – December 30, 2006 
Special: April 25, 2007

Studio: Ishimori Entertainment

Live-Action Film: September 7, 2013

Television Drama: October 10, 1969 – December 30, 1969 (13 Episodes)