Killed Again, Mr. Detective.

Meet Sakuya Otsuki — a high school detective who keeps dying on the job. Not metaphorically — he literally gets murdered in every case he investigates. The twist is he comes back each time, waking up next to his assistant Lilithea, who's just... ready to keep going like it's Tuesday. Together they use the details from his deaths to actually solve the mysteries, which is a genuinely clever premise for a detective story. The first case drops them onto a luxury cruise ship where, naturally, Sakuya ends up dead before the investigation even gets rolling. From there it becomes this loop of him piecing together what happened from the victim's perspective — his own. The tone walks a line between genuine suspense and something lighter, especially in the dynamic between Sakuya and Lilithea. There's a romance thread woven through it that doesn't feel forced, more like it develops because these two keep going through something pretty intense together. LIDENFILMS is handling the animation, and from what we've seen they're putting real care into it. If you liked the death-and-revival mystery loop of Re:Zero but want something more grounded in detective work, this scratches that itch. Fans of The Detective Is Already Dead will recognize the assistant-detective chemistry, though the vibe here is less melancholic. There are also shades of Bungou Stray Dogs in how it blends supernatural abilities with investigative storytelling. It's a neat concept that hasn't really been done this way before.