Shows Like Odd Taxi

A detective wakes up in a hospital with no memory, covered in someone else's blood, and holding a wedding ring that isn't his. As he reconstructs his identity, every clue suggests …

If you loved Odd Taxi's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Black Out delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — memory and identity — is the same. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: memory and identity. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…

If you loved Odd Taxi's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Steins;Gate delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A zombie with no memory of his past life takes a job as a private detective, using his undead abilities to solve cases while secretly searching for clues about who he was before de…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: memory and identity. The pacing is delightfully weird in a way that takes some getting used to and then becomes the whole appeal.

A group of bounty hunters drift through space in the Bebop, each running from a past they can't escape. Spike Spiegel is a former syndicate hitman. Jet Black is an ex-cop with a pr…

If you loved Odd Taxi's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Cowboy Bebop delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — loneliness and identity — is the same. Same funny and melancholic energy throughout.

A Korean-American woman builds an elaborate false identity as a high-society luxury brand executive, targeting the ultra-wealthy elite of Seoul. When her fabricated persona — and t…

If you loved Odd Taxi's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, The Art of Sarah delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A woman insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet streamer, setting off a chain of dark events.

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Two families become entangled when a school bullying incident triggers a collapse of carefully maintained facades. As the truth unravels through the perspectives of mothers, father…

If you loved Odd Taxi's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Red Balloon delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — truth — is the same. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A former detective turned social media influencer uses viral investigations to solve cold cases that the police abandoned, building a following while navigating dangerous real-worl…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: truth.

Bo Jinyan is a genius criminal profiler — arrogant, socially impossible, and the best at what he does. Jian Yao is a recent graduate who applies to be his assistant as a way to pra…

Like Odd Taxi, it leans hard into crime investigation. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.