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, …
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.
2021
6 eps
Apple TV+
Sci Fi Mystery Thriller
Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysterie…
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.
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…
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.
2020
32 eps
KBS2
Comedy Mystery Fantasy
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 …
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.
1998
26 eps
TV Tokyo / Sunrise
Sci Fi Action Drama
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…
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.