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 Westworld'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. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
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 questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
2022
10 eps
Disney+
Thriller Sci Fi Mystery
Thirty years ago, a mysterious figure called The Ghost appeared and saved humanity from solar winds that would have destroyed all electronics on Earth — and then vanished. Now a wa…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same cerebral and dark energy throughout.
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.
2020
16 eps
SBS
Sci Fi Thriller Romance
A detective discovers time travel exists and that his murdered mother traveled from the future to give birth to him.
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same mind bending energy throughout.
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.
2016
12 eps
Fuji TV / Crunchyroll
Mystery Thriller Sci Fi
Satoru Fujinuma has an involuntary ability: he gets sent back in time moments before a disaster, just far enough to prevent it. When his mother is murdered, the ability sends him b…
If you loved Westworld's rug-pull ending that reframes everything you thought you knew, Erased delivers exactly that. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2021
6 eps
Netflix
Thriller Horror Sci Fi
Supernatural beings appear to condemn humans to hell, sparking a religious movement and societal chaos.
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
2023
6 eps
Netflix
Action Sci Fi Thriller
In a post-apocalyptic Korea where only deliverymen can move between territories, a legendary courier fights oppression.
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.