2006
50 eps
MBS / Crunchyroll
Action Political Thriller
Lelouch Lamperouge is a Britannian prince-in-exile who acquires the power of absolute obedience: anyone he looks at must obey his command, once. He uses this to build a resistance …
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.
2016
50 eps
TV Tokyo / Crunchyroll
Fantasy Thriller Drama
Subaru is transported to a fantasy world with one ability: when he dies, he returns to a fixed point in time and must live through events again. He can't tell anyone this. He canno…
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.
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 Neon Genesis Evangelion's rug-pull ending that reframes everything you thought you knew, Attack on Titan 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 a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2011
24 eps
TV Saitama / Crunchyroll
Sci Fi Thriller Drama
A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…
If you loved Neon Genesis Evangelion's rug-pull ending that reframes everything you thought you knew, Steins;Gate 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 a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
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…
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
10 eps
Studio Trigger / Netflix
Action Sci Fi Cyberpunk
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…
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.
2019
18 eps
tvN
Fantasy Historical Drama
In the ancient land of Arth, warring tribes, prophesied heroes, and political power struggles play out on an epic scale. Eun-seom, born under a cursed star, rises from slavery to l…
Like Neon Genesis Evangelion, it leans hard into reluctant hero. At its core, it's about 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.
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 a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2023
6 eps
Netflix
Action Sci Fi Thriller
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 '…
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.
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…
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.