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Shows that feel likeArcane (2021–2024)

Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.

If you loved Arcane, the closest series we have are Dragon Ball Super (2015), INVINCIBLE (2021) and Solo Leveling (2024). All three share Arcane's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is X-Men '97 (2024).

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If Arcane hit the spot, these will too

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Dragon Ball Super
2015–2018 · 1 season · Fuji TV
★ 8.3animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Both are built on the same subject: battle

With Majin Buu defeated, Goku has taken a completely new role as...a radish farmer?! With Earth at peace, our heroes have settled into normal lives. But they can’t get too comfortable. Far away, the powerful God of Destruction, Beerus, awakens to a prophecy revealing his demise at the hands of an even more formidable being. When his search for the Saiyan God brings him to Earth, can Goku and his friends take on their strongest foe yet?

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INVINCIBLE
2021– · 5 seasons · Prime Video
★ 8.7animation · drama · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Adult animation with real consequences and a family tearing itself apart

The difference: Superhero storytelling, cruder in look and blunter in feeling

Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father's tutelage.

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Solo Leveling
2024–2025 · 1 season · Gunma TV
★ 8.5animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Gorgeous action animation where getting stronger clearly costs something

The difference: A straight power-fantasy climb — no class politics, no family wound

They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo. After being brutally slaughtered by monsters in a high-ranking dungeon, Jinwoo came back with the System, a program only he could see, that’s leveling him up in every way. Now, he’s inspired to discover the secrets behind his powers and the dungeon that spawned them.

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His Dark Materials
2019–2023 · 3 seasons · BBC One
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureMax

A fantasy world where institutions grind children in their gears

The difference: Stately book adaptation — measured where Arcane hits like a fist

Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.

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Warrior Nun
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A chosen young woman shouldering a power she never asked to carry

The difference: Live-action YA gloss — none of the painterly craft or class rage

After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.

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Black Clover
2017– · 2 seasons · TV Tokyo
★ 8.2animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Rivalry between two who grew up together, with magic as a class marker

The difference: A long shounen grind, bright and loud — hundreds of episodes to get through

Asta and Yuno are two orphans who want the same thing: to become the Wizard King. Locked in a friendly rivalry, they work hard towards their goal. While Yuno excels at magic, Asta has a problem uncommon in this world: he has no powers! But, on the day they receive their grimoires, they surprise everyone. To reach their goal, they’ll each find their own path to greatness—with or without magic.

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Super Dragon Ball Heroes
2018–2024 · 6 seasons · Fuji TV
★ 6.6animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Game-derived animation where every episode builds toward a fight

The difference: Thin plot-light spin-off shorts — no characters to break your heart

Trunks returns from the future to train with Goku and Vegeta. However, it disappears without warning. Then the mysterious Fu bursts in, telling them that Trunks has been imprisoned in the Prison Planet, a mysterious complex in an unknown place in the universes. The group seeks the dragon balls to free Trunks, but an endless battle awaits them! Will Goku and the others rescue Trunks and escape the Prison Planet?

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Overlord
2015–2022 · 4 seasons · AT-X
★ 7.6animation · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureNetflix

A fantasy world where the most powerful side is not the moral one

The difference: Isekai game logic, dryly comic — no sibling tragedy at its heart

In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.

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Cursed
2020 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 6action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A young woman remade by loss into the weapon her world demands

The difference: Generic Arthurian YA, cancelled after one unresolved season

In this fresh take on the Arthurian legend, teenager Nimue joins forces with mercenary Arthur on a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword.

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House of the Dragon
2022– · 3 seasons · HBO
★ 8.2sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureMax

Two sides of one family sliding toward a war neither can stop

The difference: Live-action political slow burn — years of talk before the fire

The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.

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Fullmetal Alchemist
2003–2004 · 1 season · TBS
★ 8.5animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Industrial magic, class and the cost of tampering with people

The difference: The earlier adaptation — bleaker, and it diverges badly

Two young brothers are raised as alchemists, but when they are severely injured trying to perform a forbidden act, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them; the fabled philosopher's stone.

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X-Men '97
2024– · 2 seasons · Disney+
★ 8.7animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

Beautiful animation carrying real grief about people the world discards

The difference: Superhero serial with legacy characters — episodic and less intimate

The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

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