2024
7 eps
Netflix
Thriller Survival Drama
Three years after surviving the deadly games, Gi-hun returns — not to move on, but to hunt down the organization that runs them. What he finds is a new cycle of…
Like Alice in Borderland, it leans hard into deadly competition. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2020
26 eps
Telecom Animation / Crunchyroll
Action Fantasy Mystery
Bam enters the Tower — a massive structure where each floor is a world unto itself — to find Rachel, the girl who showed him the stars. But the Tower isn't a re…
Like Alice in Borderland, it leans hard into survival game. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2021
50 eps
MBS / Crunchyroll
Action Drama Thriller
Takemichi Hanagaki, a washed-up 26-year-old, learns his middle-school girlfriend was killed by a gang called the Tokyo Manji Gang. He time-leaps back to middle …
If you loved Alice in Borderland's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Tokyo Revengers delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2013
87 eps
NHK / Crunchyroll
Action Dark Fantasy Thriller
Humanity lives behind walls built to protect them from Titans — monstrous humanoids that devour people without reason. When the outermost wall is breached, Eren…
Like Alice in Borderland, it leans hard into survival game. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2022
16 eps
KBS2
Crime Thriller Action
Kim Yo-han is a promising judicial trainee sent undercover inside a maximum-security prison to expose an illegal gambling ring run by powerful inmates. When his…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.