you watch
you'll love
2021
50 eps
MBS / Crunchyroll
Action Drama Thriller
Time Travel Underdog
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 Kaiju No. 8's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Tokyo Revengers delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
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you'll love
2023
8 eps
Netflix
Horror Action Drama
Monster Apocalypse Ensemble Cast
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…
Like Kaiju No. 8, Sweet Home is built around underdog story you're desperately rooting for. 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.
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you'll love
2020
47 eps
TBS / Crunchyroll
Action Supernatural Dark Fantasy
Underdog Found Family
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 Kaiju No. 8's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Jujutsu Kaisen delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
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you'll love
2022
10 eps
Studio Trigger / Netflix
Action Sci Fi Cyberpunk
Underdog Moral Descent
David Martinez, a broke kid in Night City, installs experimental military cyberware after his mother is killed. He becomes an edgerunner — a mercenary operating outside the law — a…
If you loved Kaiju No. 8's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 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.
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you'll love
2016
138 eps
ytv / Crunchyroll
Action Superhero Drama
Underdog School Competition
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 Kaiju No. 8's underdog story you're desperately rooting for, My Hero Academia delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
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you'll love
2011
148 eps
Nippon TV / Crunchyroll
Adventure Action Fantasy
Underdog Found Family
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 Kaiju No. 8'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 relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
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you'll love
1995
26 eps
TV Tokyo / Gainax
Mecha Sci Fi Psychological
Reluctant Hero Daddy Issues
Fourteen-year-old Shinji Ikari is summoned by his estranged father to pilot a giant bio-mechanical robot against alien monsters called Angels. It sounds like a typical mecha show —…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
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you'll love
2020
16 eps
OCN
Action Sci Fi Thriller
Bionic Hero Revenge Mission
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…
The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
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you'll love
2023
6 eps
Netflix
Action Sci Fi Thriller
Underdog Rises Dystopian Society
2071. A catastrophic meteor strike has turned Korea into a near-uninhabitable wasteland. Less than 1% of the population has clean air; everyone else depends on deliverymen called '…
The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.
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2026
8 eps
Netflix
Action Thriller Drama
Buddy Combat Corporate Villain
Kim Geon-woo and Kim Woo-jin survived the brutal money-lending wars of season one — but taking down Smile Capital only cleared the board for something larger. In the second season,…
Both are built around a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.