2011
24 eps
TV Saitama / Crunchyroll
Sci Fi Thriller Drama
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 nigh…
Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
2022
10 eps
Disney+
Thriller Sci Fi Mystery
Thirty years ago, a mysterious figure called The Ghost appeared and saved humanity from solar winds that would have destroyed all electronics on Earth — and the…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
2024
12 eps
MBC
Thriller Mystery Crime
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, …
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.
2016
12 eps
Fuji TV / Crunchyroll
Mystery Thriller Sci Fi
Satoru Fujinuma has an involuntary ability: he gets sent back in time moments before a disaster, just far enough to prevent it. When his mother is murdered, the…
Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2021
13 eps
TV Tokyo / Crunchyroll
Mystery Drama Comedy
Hiroshi Odokawa is a walrus who drives a taxi in a city populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals. He's antisocial, blunt, and an excellent conversationalis…
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.