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Shows that feel likeSolo Leveling (2024–2025)

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.

If you loved Solo Leveling, the closest series we have are Kaiju No. 8 (2024), X-Men '97 (2024) and Overlord (2015). All three share Solo Leveling'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 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023).

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If Solo Leveling hit the spot, these will too

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Kaiju No. 8
2024– · 1 season · TV Tokyo
★ 8.2animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

An underdog who gains a monstrous power and must hide what he is

The difference: Military-team monster combat, more comic and much less solitary

In a world plagued by creatures known as Kaiju, Kafka Hibino aspired to enlist in The Defense Force. He makes a promise to enlist with his childhood friend, Mina Ashiro. Soon, life takes them in separate ways. While employed cleaning up after Kaiju battles, Kafka meets Reno Ichikawa. Reno's determination to join The Defense Force reawakens Kafka's promise to join Mina and protect humanity.

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

Spectacular powered fights animated with real weight and momentum

The difference: An ensemble with decades of history, political rather than personal

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

Game logic made literal, with a player becoming something far bigger

The difference: Strategy and empire-building from a villain's chair, much less kinetic

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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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
2023– · 1 season · Nippon TV
★ 8.9animation · action & adventure · dramaNetflixHulu

A world of hunters, dungeons and a hero apart from everyone

The difference: Slow, quiet and elegiac — almost the opposite tempo

After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity's mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends' dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.

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KENGAN ASHURA
2019–2024 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.9animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Brutal, escalating fights where each opponent resets the ceiling

The difference: Grounded gladiator brawling — no magic, no dungeons, no system

Ohma Tokita enters a hidden world where corporate disputes are settled in brutal gladiator bouts. Forget the money, he just wants to fight — and win.

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

A nobody handed impossible power and a secret war to fight

The difference: Cancelled mid-story — the mythology never gets to pay off

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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Record of Ragnarok
2021– · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.6action & adventure · animation · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Duels staged as enormous events with everything riding on them

The difference: Tournament bouts between gods, with no leveling arc to follow

Before eradicating humankind from the world, the gods give them one last chance to prove themselves worthy of survival. Let the Ragnarok battles begin.

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Primal
2019– · 4 seasons · Adult Swim
★ 8.6action & adventure · animationMax

Both are working the same pair: magic, survival

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Solo Leveling

A caveman forms a bond with a dinosaur as they struggle to survive in a hostile world.

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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
2021– · 3 seasons · TOKYO MX
★ 8.2action & adventure · animation · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: anime

When a 34-year-old underachiever gets run over by a truck, his story doesn't end there. Reincarnated in a new world as an infant, Rudy will seize every opportunity to live the life he's always wanted. Armed with new friends, some freshly acquired magical abilities, and the courage to do the things he's always dreamed of, he's embarking on an epic adventure—with all of his past experience intact!

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La Brea
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · NBC
★ 5.8sci-fi & fantasy · drama · action & adventureNetflixPeacock

Ordinary people dropped into a hostile world whose rules they must learn fast

The difference: Network-budget effects and soapy detours — far clumsier than it sounds

An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have no choice but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Disney+
★ 7.8animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

A specialist unit fighting through a galaxy that keeps raising the stakes

The difference: Western animation and Star Wars politics, with no leveling fantasy

The 'Bad Batch' of elite and experimental clones make their way through an ever-changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars.

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ONE PIECE
2023– · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.3action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: superpowers

With his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure.

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