In 1948 Tokyo, Kanna Kusakabe has just entered her second year in high school. There, she meets her new language teacher, Akihiko Chuuzenji, who also enjoys the rare books section in the school library.
Coinciding the Chuuzenji’s appearance, a number of supernatural things keep happening around Kanna, but luckily, her teacher is always waiting in the library to help her solve these mysteries.
Another for the pile of showing how mythology and legends are often steeped in pretty normal stuff happening. If you looking for more anime recommendations like The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei: He Just Solves All the Mysteries, then head on down below.
Anime Like The Mononoke Lecture Logs of Chuzenji-sensei: He Just Solves All the Mysteries
For Fans of Supernatural-Seeming Mysteries With Normal Explanations

Hyouka
After his sister’s nagging, energy-conservative Oreki joins the Classic Literature Club. However, he gets more than he bargained for when he is dragged into a 45-year-old mystery that surrounds their club room by the endlessly curious and intriguingly cute Chitanda.
Alongside his club mates, he also finds himself dragged into a host of other cases by Chitanda’s curiosity, using his keen mind to come to logical solutions.
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Hyouka
- At least one kid in a high school gets wrapped up in mysteries that seem supernatural
- A boy or man then elucidates on the normal, non-supernatural cause of the mystery
- Long periods of verbose exposition
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Hyouka
- Hyouka is about two high school-aged main characters, not one girl and her teacher.
- The mystery-solver is more a stoic kid rather than a stoic teacher
- Hyouka has a bit of a romantic element building very subtly on the side while Mononoke Lecture Logs makes sure to shut any hints of that between its main characters down.

Shoshimin – How to Become Ordinary
Jougorou Kobato has a bad habit of inserting himself into other people’s problems, using excellent detective skills to unravel their small mysteries. However, after the revelation that his detective skills are neither wanted or appreciated, he makes a deal with his friend Yuki Osanai to become completely ordinary together.
Now entering high school, the pair spend their school days trying to be ordinary, but Jougorou cannot help but fall back into his old deductive ways when he finds himself faced with mundane everyday mysteries.
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Shoshimin
- At least one kid in high school gets involved in mysteries that seem supernatural
- A boy or man elucidates on the normal, non-supernatural cause of the mystery
- Long periods of verbose exposition
- Two characters of the opposite sex work together without romance.
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Shoshimin
- Shoshimin is about two high school-aged main characters, not a girl and her teacher
- Both main characters are somewhat emotionally muted in Shoshimin, it lacks the more normal type of character that Kanna provides to Mononoke Lecture Logs to her emotionally muted teacher. Two emotionally muted characters makes Shoshimin definitely offers a different sort of dynamic.
- Shoshimin’s cases get more serious and grander as the story progresses.

Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective
In Tenikai General Hospital, patients with illnesses that just can’t be solved by other doctors are sent to Ameku Takao, an eccentric, difficult to deal with doctor that lives and works at the hospital.
Ameku is renowned for her ability to find the root cause of even the most mysterious illnesses, so much so that even the police contact her when they can’t figure out their strangest murder cases.
After helping him cure his patient, young doctor Takanashi Yuu becomes Takao’s assistant and is pulled into her brilliant, mysterious world.
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Ameku MD
- A duo investigate supernatural-seeming cases with normal explanations
- Male-female duo investigating the mysteries while one party eventually walks through the solution
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Ameku MD
- Ameku MD is a medical-based mystery series about doctors and diseases the seem supernatural, but have real causes.
- Ameku MD follows two adult doctors, not a high school girl and her teacher
- The female part of the duo is the mystery-solver in Ameku MD.
- Ameku MD does sort of bait romance
For Fans of Historical Mysteries

Box of Goblins
In the early autumn of 1952, a series of unusual crimes take place in the cities of Musashino and Mitaka that all seem to be related to a series of gruesome murders where pieces of a girl’s body are delivered in strange, custom-fitted boxes around town.
Abhorred by the event, news writer Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate the crime with the help of onmyoji Akihiko Chuuzenji that unravels a series of bizarre truths and family secrets.
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Box of Goblins
- Historical-set mystery series set in Shouwa Era Japan
- Box of Goblins shares an author with Mononoke Lecture Logs and is set in the same world as a bit of a prequel for many characters.
- Supernatural-seeming mystery that is grounded in reality
- An array of interesting adult male characters. In fact, Box of Goblins and Mononoke Lecture Logs share some characters.
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Box of Goblins
- Box of Goblins has non-linear storytelling, which can make it very hard to follow, especially if you are only paying casual attention. Mononoke Lecture Logs is much easier to follow.
- Box of Goblins follows adult men all tangled up in one very gruesome murder mystery. No school kids in this one.

Woodpecker Detective’s Office
In 1909, fictionalized version of poet Takuboku Ishikawa runs a private detective agency to support his family. There, he and his acquaintance, a fictionalized version of Kyousuke linguist, Kyousuke Kindaichi, get caught up in a case of a supposed ghost appearance in the Asakusa Hunikai building that kicks off a series of strange cases.
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Woodpecker Detective’s Office
- Historical Japan-set mystery series
- Bookish men solving mysteries that sometimes seem supernatural, but have normal explanations
- An array of adult male characters solve episodic cases
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Woodpecker Detective’s Office
- Woodpecker Detective’s Office is set in Meiji Era Japan, near 50 years before Mononoke Lecture Logs.
- Woodpecker Detective’s Office follows a private detective office ran by two fictionalized versions of a historical Japanese cultural figures. No high school kids here.

Undead Murder Farce
In an alternate 19th century, supernatural creatures exist among humans, but have been hunted and persecuted to the point where they have become quite rare.
Tsugaru Shinuchi is an experimental half-oni that has been used by a freak show to destroy the supernatural for the entertainment of the crowd. One night, he is approached by a woman carrying a bird cage containing a severed head. The head introduces herself as Aya Rindo, and asks Tsugaru to help her find and retrieve her immortal body that was stolen from her by a mysterious foreign man.
Leaving Japan for Europe, the trio decide to become detectives who come to be known as, “The Cage User,” investigating supernatural mysteries hoping they might hold clues to the mysterious body thief.
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Undead Murder Farce
- Historical-set mystery solving series
- A mystery is introduced, and a detective then elucidates the solution
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Undead Murder Farce
- The mysteries in Undead Murder Farce are very supernatural.
- Undead Murder Farce may start in Meiji Era Japan, but it swiftly moves to Europe.
- Undead Murder Farce is more arc-based in its mysteries, not episodic.
- Undead Murder Farce has more action to it at times, though can’t really be called an action series.

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
Hanako is said to be a ghost that occupies the third stall of the third floor girls’ bathroom in the old building. When summoned, she is said to grant any wish.
Nene, an occult lover with dreams of romance, summons Hanako, only to find out that this traditionally girl ghost is a boy!
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
- Supernatural (or supernatural-seeming) mysteries in high school often built around common Japanese urban legends.
- A duo solves these mysteries
- The male character is the one who often elucidates on the cause of the mystery
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
- Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is very much a supernatural mystery series, and one with a fair bit more action to it.
- The mystery-solving duo in Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is a boy-girl duo of similar age, though one is a ghost.
- There is a romantic element in Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun.

Beautiful Bones – Sakurako’s Investigation
Initially, high schooler Shoutaro is suspicious of Sakurako Kujo, a cool beauty in her twenties, for the disappearances in his neighborhood. However, he soon learns her true talent is analyzing bones as an osteologist.
Accompanying her on her outings, he finds himself embroiled in a number of mysteries.
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Beautiful Bones
- Supernatural-seeming mysteries with normal explanations
- An adult solving mysteries with their teen assistant
- No romantic element between the male-female duo
- Episodic mysteries with no greater overall plot stringing things along
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Beautiful Bones
- Beautiful Bones follows a teen who takes an interest in a reclusive osteologist, which means the mysteries are often centered around bones.
- Beautiful Bones does have real basis in forensic science.
- Beautiful Bones doesn’t always try to bait you into thinking the mystery is supernatural like Mononoke Lecture Logs, but it does in a few cases.

Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplance
On an otherwise ordinary day, junior high student Yoshio Kobayashi wakes up in his classroom to find his teacher brutally murdered, and he holding the weapon that did it.
After the initial shock wears off, Yoshio is secretly thrilled by the attempt to frame him and drags his friend into the case. Together, they embark on a brilliant mystery to try and prove Yoshio’s innocence.
Similarities Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Ranpo Kitan
- A high schooler and someone older solve supernatural-seeming mysteries that have normal explanations
- Side cast of other characters, sometimes somewhat eccentric ones
- Episodic mysteries
Differences Between Mononoke Lecture Logs and Ranpo Kitan
- Ranpo Kitan is adapting the mysteries of novelist Edogawa Ranpo, which are grounded in reality, but particularly gruesome.
- Ranpo Kitan follows a middle schooler and a high school detective rather than a high schooler and a teacher like Mononoke Lecture Logs. They are also both males.
- The side characters of Ranpo Kitan are all more like Reijirou in Mononoke Lecture Logs—pretty eccentric.
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