Shows Like Sword Art Online

Monkey D. Luffy wants to become King of the Pirates. It sounds absurd — and it is, gloriously so. Across over a thousand episodes, One Piece builds a world of unmatched scope: isla…

Both are built around found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.

Netflix's live-action adaptation of the world's best-selling manga. Monkey D. Luffy, a rubber-bodied optimist, assembles a pirate crew to find the legendary treasure One Piece. Wha…

Both are built around found family that ends up messier and realer than the biological kind. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.

A Korean emperor discovers a parallel universe and falls for a detective from the other world.

The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A CEO on a business trip to Spain tests a revolutionary AR game and becomes trapped inside its deadly virtual reality.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

Chu Qiao is a slave girl in a brutal feudal world who escapes her fate, trains to become a warrior, and finds herself at the center of a war between kingdoms — and at the heart of …

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.

The son of a legendary nine-tailed fox who was betrayed by humans grows up hiding his supernatural nature in the Joseon period, longing for the mythical book that will make him hum…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.

A genius engineer from the present and a warrior from the future team up to prevent an apocalyptic disaster.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.

A freelance reporter with combat skills and a mysterious broadcast journalist form a secret team to uncover the truth.

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.

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 questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.

In a world where hunters fight monsters in dungeons, Sung Jinwoo is the weakest hunter alive — until a near-death experience in a double dungeon grants him a unique ability: a syst…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.