2021
6 eps
Netflix
Thriller Horror Sci Fi
Supernatural beings appear to condemn humans to hell, sparking a religious movement and societal chaos.
Like Lovecraft Country, it leans hard into supernatural horror. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
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…
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2021
16 eps
tvN
Fantasy Horror Drama
Bulgasal is an immortal creature that cannot be killed — but 600 years ago, a human woman took his ability to feel and his humanity with her when she died. Now she has been reborn,…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2021
6 eps
Apple TV+
Sci Fi Mystery Thriller
Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
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…
Both are built around the intoxication of power and what it costs to keep it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
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 …
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
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…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2021
23 eps
Fuji TV / Crunchyroll
Fantasy Adventure Drama
Prince Bojji is deaf, tiny, and considered the weakest prince in a world that ranks kingdoms by military strength. When he befriends Kage, a shadow creature and the sole survivor o…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2019
35 eps
TBS / Crunchyroll
Sci Fi Adventure Comedy
A mysterious phenomenon petrifies all of humanity for 3,700 years. Senku Ishigami, a science genius, wakes up and immediately begins rebuilding civilization from scratch using noth…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of.
2024
8 eps
Netflix
Horror Action Thriller
The final chapter of the monster apocalypse saga, as Cha Hyun-soo and surviving humans face the collapse of civilization and the final confrontation between human desires made fles…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.