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 Jujutsu Kaisen'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. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
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 Jujutsu Kaisen'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.
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 Jujutsu Kaisen'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. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
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 Jujutsu Kaisen's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, My Hero Academia 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.
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 Jujutsu Kaisen'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.
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…
If you loved Jujutsu Kaisen's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Hunter x Hunter 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.
2019
48 eps
NHK / Crunchyroll
Action Drama Historical
Young Thorfinn watches his father — a legendary warrior turned pacifist farmer — murdered by Viking mercenaries. He joins the mercenary band to get close enough to their leader to …
If you loved Jujutsu Kaisen's ensemble where every character earns their screen time, Vinland Saga delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2016
37 eps
Bones / Crunchyroll
Action Comedy Supernatural
Shigeo 'Mob' Kageyama is the most powerful psychic alive, and he couldn't care less. What he wants is to be normal: good at talking to people, fit enough to impress a girl, brave e…
If you loved Jujutsu Kaisen's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Mob Psycho 100 delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same funny and action packed energy throughout.
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 Jujutsu Kaisen'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 a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
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 …
If you loved Jujutsu Kaisen's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Attack on Titan 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.