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Shows that feel likeTokyo Ghoul (2014–2018)

Ken Kaneki, a bookworm college student, meets Rize, a girl his own age with whom he shares many interests.

If you loved Tokyo Ghoul, the closest series we have are Akame ga Kill! (2014), Silo (2023) and The Man in the High Castle (2015). All three share Tokyo Ghoul's contemplative and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is 12 Monkeys (2015).

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If Tokyo Ghoul hit the spot, these will too

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Akame ga Kill!
2014 · 1 season · TOKYO MX
★ 7.7animation · drama · action & adventure

Young people forced into violence by a system that made them

The difference: Cruder and much cheaper, with less interiority

Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor. Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating corruption by mercilessly killing officials and privileged nobles.

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Silo
2023– · 4 seasons · Apple TV
★ 8.1sci-fi & fantasy · dramaApple TV+

A closed society whose rules exist to keep the truth from surfacing

The difference: Slow live-action mystery, restrained where Tokyo Ghoul turns grotesque

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

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The Man in the High Castle
2015–2019 · 4 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflixPrime Video

Living a double life under a regime that would kill you for what you are

The difference: Live-action alternate history and political dread; no body horror at all

Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

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The Promised Neverland
2019–2021 · 2 seasons · Fuji TV
★ 8.1animation · drama · mystery

Children discovering what they really are to the people feeding them

The difference: Tighter and cleverer, and about escape

Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House orphanage. And under the care of the woman they refer to as “Mom,” all the kids have enjoyed a comfortable life. Good food, clean clothes and the perfect environment to learn—what more could an orphan ask for? One day, though, Emma and Norman uncover the dark truth of the outside world they are forbidden from seeing.

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Snowpiercer
2020–2024 · 4 seasons · TNT
★ 6.9sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime VideoHulu

A caste system that keeps the hungry out of sight so it can keep working

The difference: Live-action class allegory on rails, trading horror for politics

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

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The Handmaid's Tale
2017–2025 · 6 seasons · Hulu
★ 8.3drama · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

A person reclassified as something less than human by law

The difference: Live action, contemporary and far more grounded

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

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12 Monkeys
2015–2018 · 4 seasons · Syfy
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime Video

A haunted survivor caught between two worlds that both want to use him

The difference: Time-travel puzzle-box plotting; the dread is clinical rather than bodily

The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

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Plunderer
2020 · 1 season · TOKYO MX
★ 6.5action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · animation

One thread runs through both: based on manga

The difference: Trades the stillness of Tokyo Ghoul for an angle of its own

In a post-apocalyptic world dominated by the so-called "Numbers," each human will have their identity branded with their own "Count," which could define any number related to their life. May it be one's walked distance or amount of compliments given to them by others, this Count could lead them to the abyss when it has dropped to zero. In the year 305 of the Alcian calendar, Hina has inherited a mission from her Mother, whose Count has depreciated to zero, to search for the Legendary Red Baron. In her adventure, she meets a half-masked swordsman named Licht who tries to hide his identity, as he is known as a degenerate for having an incredibly low Count.

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Attack on Titan
2013–2022 · 4 seasons · MBS
★ 9.1animation · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

Becoming the monster in order to survive the monsters

The difference: Much larger in scale, and far more political

100 years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. Only the members of the Scouting Legion dared to stray beyond the safety of the walls – but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive. Those within the city clung to the illusion of a peaceful existence until the day that dream was shattered, and their slim chance at survival was reduced to one horrifying choice: kill – or be devoured!

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Sweet Tooth
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.7drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A half-human hybrid hunted for what his body can do

The difference: Warm storybook tone — hopeful where Tokyo Ghoul stays bleak and bloody

On an epic adventure across a postapocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's part human and part deer searches for family and home with a gruff protector.

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Raised by Wolves
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · HBO Max
★ 7.4sci-fi & fantasy · drama

Contemplative and cerebral in the same breath

After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

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Sweet Home
2020–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.2sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureNetflix

Both are working the same pair: monster, dystopia

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Tokyo Ghoul

As humans turn into savage monsters and the world plunges into terror, a handful of survivors fight for their lives — and to hold on to their humanity.

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