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 about a boy with a big…
Like Blue Lock, 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.
2020
16 eps
Netflix Japan
Thriller Sci Fi Survival
Ryohei Arisu, an unemployed slacker obsessed with video games, suddenly finds himself trapped in a deserted Tokyo alongside his two best friends. To survive, they must complete a s…
Like Blue Lock, 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.
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 Yeager watches his …
Like Blue Lock, Attack on Titan is built around underdog story you're desperately rooting for. 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.
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 rescue mission; it's a…
Like Blue Lock, Tower of God is built around underdog story you're desperately rooting for. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2023
8 eps
Netflix
Horror Action Drama
Season 2 of the survival horror epic. In the aftermath of the Green Home apartment's collapse, survivors scatter across a world that is fully monstrous — and Cha Hyun-su grapples w…
If you loved Blue Lock's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Sweet Home 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 relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2024
24 eps
A-1 Pictures / Crunchyroll
Action Fantasy Supernatural
In a world where hunters fight monsters in dungeons, Sung Jinwoo is the weakest hunter alive — until a near-death experience in a double dungeon grants him a unique ability: a syst…
If you loved Blue Lock's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Solo Leveling delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. 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 school and tries to …
If you loved Blue Lock's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Tokyo Revengers delivers exactly that. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2016
138 eps
ytv / Crunchyroll
Action Superhero Drama
In a world where 80% of people have superpowers called Quirks, Izuku Midoriya is born without one — and still dreams of being a hero. When the greatest hero alive passes his power …
Like Blue Lock, My Hero Academia is built around underdog story you're desperately rooting for. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2023
8 eps
Disney+
Thriller Action Crime
By day, Kim Ji-yong is a top police academy cadet. By night, he tracks down criminals who escaped justice through legal loopholes — and kills them. When a tenacious journalist begi…
Both are built around 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.
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 cover is blown and …
Both are built around 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.