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 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Tokyo Revengers delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. 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 …
If you loved Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, My Hero Academia 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.
2020
47 eps
TBS / Crunchyroll
Action Supernatural Dark Fantasy
Yuji Itadori, an unnaturally strong high schooler, swallows a cursed finger belonging to the King of Curses and becomes a vessel for an ancient evil. Now enrolled in a school for s…
If you loved Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Jujutsu Kaisen delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2022
12 eps
TV Tokyo / Crunchyroll
Action Dark Fantasy Horror
Denji is a teenager so poor he sold organs to pay his dead father's debt to the yakuza. His only friend is Pochita, a chainsaw devil. When the yakuza betray him, Pochita merges wit…
If you loved Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Chainsaw Man delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath.
2019
44 eps
Fuji TV / Crunchyroll
Action Fantasy Drama
Tanjiro Kamado returns home to find his family slaughtered by demons and his sister Nezuko turned into one. Rather than kill her, he joins the Demon Slayer Corps to find a cure — f…
If you loved Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same heartbreaking and action packed energy throughout.
2020
13 eps
MAPPA / Crunchyroll
Action Martial Arts Supernatural
A nationwide fighting tournament where the winner gets any wish granted. Mori Jin enters for the thrill, but the tournament is a front for something far more dangerous — a supernat…
If you loved Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, The God of High School delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
2022
24 eps
TV Asahi / Crunchyroll
Sports Action Drama
Japan's Football Union recruits 300 of the country's best young strikers and locks them in a facility called Blue Lock. The goal: create the world's most ego-driven striker. The ca…
If you loved Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Blue Lock 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.
2020
16 eps
OCN
Action Sci Fi Thriller
A detective framed for murdering his own wife by a powerful criminal organization is given a second chance — rebuilt with bionic enhancements by a covert unit — and sent back to de…
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.
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. Now they search for t…
If you loved Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.
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…
If you loved Cyberpunk: Edgerunners's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Tower of God 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.