2023
8 eps
Netflix
Adventure Action Comedy
Netflix's live-action adaptation of the world's best-selling manga. Monkey D. Luffy, a rubber-bodied optimist, assembles a pirate crew to find the legendary tre…
If you loved Ranking of Kings's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, One Piece (Live Action) delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2009
64 eps
TBS / Crunchyroll
Action Adventure Fantasy
Two brothers use forbidden alchemy to try to resurrect their dead mother. It goes catastrophically wrong — one loses his body entirely, the other loses limbs. N…
If you loved Ranking of Kings's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 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 emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
1999
1100 eps
Fuji TV / Crunchyroll
Adventure Action Comedy
Monkey D. Luffy wants to become King of the Pirates. It sounds absurd — and it is, gloriously so. Across over a thousand episodes, One Piece builds a world of u…
If you loved Ranking of Kings's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, One Piece delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2011
148 eps
Nippon TV / Crunchyroll
Adventure Action Fantasy
Gon Freecss, a 12-year-old who grew up on an island, takes the notoriously dangerous Hunter Exam to find his absent father. What starts as a shonen adventure ab…
If you loved Ranking of Kings's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Hunter x Hunter delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
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…
If you loved Ranking of Kings's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Tower of God delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.