Shows Like Battle Game in 5 Seconds

If you liked Battle Game in 5 Seconds (2021), a animation and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Yu Yu Hakusho (1992)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
After dying to save a boy, delinquent tough guy Yusuke Urameshi is granted another chance at life by redeeming himself as a "Spirit Detective."
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Scarlet Nexus (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
Saved by the Other Suppression Force as a child, psychokinetic Yuito enlists in this elite team formed to fight Earth’s enemy. Meanwhile, prodigy Kasane was scouted for her abilities. Kasane’s dreams tell her strange…
3
I'm Standing on a Million Lives (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Ninth grader Yotsuya Yuusuke is practical, friendless, and not active in any clubs. Then one day, he and two female classmates are suddenly sent to another world where they must work together to battle for their lives…
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Classroom of the Elite (2017)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and drama
Kiyotaka Ayanokouji enrolls at the prestigious Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Academy, but is assigned to Class 1-D, where students with behavioral problems are housed. The school awards points equivalent to 100,000 yen per month…
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Karakuri Circus (2018)
★ 8.1/10Also action & adventure and mystery
Narumi Katou is a middle-aged man who suffers from the bizarre ZONAPHA Syndrome: a rare and inexplicable disease that causes its victims to endure severe seizures at random, with the only cure being to watch someone…
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JUJUTSU KAISEN (2020)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking…
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ID: INVADED (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
Sakaido is a genius detective who can track down any criminal. But when his daughter is murdered, revenge lands him on the other side of the law. Now in prison, he helps the police solve mysteries using a system that…
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Tomodachi Game (2022)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and drama
After his class' school trip fund is stolen, Yuichi and his best friends are abducted to play a debt repayment game; there is more than money on the line, as their bonds are tested with dark secrets and a lingering…
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Gachiakuta (2025)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and action & adventure
Accused of murder and thrown into the Pit, a young orphan joins a group of monster fighters with special powers to uncover the truth and seek vengeance.
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Darwin's Game (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and mystery
Sudou Kaname, an ordinary high school student, receives an invitation email to try a mysterious app called "Darwin's Game." Kaname, upon launching the app, is drawn into a game where players fight one another using…
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Blood+ (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Unable to remember the past, high school senior Saya Otonashi must rediscover her destiny in order to defeat the chiropteran vampires that threaten her loved ones' existence.
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Solo Leveling (2024)
★ 8.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
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…
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T・P BON (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and action & adventure
After Bon accidentally intervenes in a Time Patrol case, he must join Agent Ream in saving innocent lives from the past — while watching history unfold.
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My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's (2025)
★ 7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Akira Oda and his high school classmates are summoned to another world! While the other students are granted cheat abilities through the summoning, Akira merely gains the abilities of a mediocre "assassin." However…
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Kemono Jihen (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and mystery
When a series of animal bodies that rot away after a single night begin appearing in a remote mountain village, Inugami, a detective from Tokyo who specializes in the occult, is called to investigate. While working the…
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Sagrada Reset (2017)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and drama
Nearly half the population of Sakurada, a small town near the Pacific Ocean, has some sort of unique power. These powers range from being able to enter the mind of a cat, to resetting the world back to a certain point…
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Tengoku Daimakyo (2023)
★ 8/10Also animation and mystery
In the year 2024, the world has collapsed. Grotesque monsters lurk amongst the ruins of Japan, while remaining people scrape together what they can to survive. Kiruko, an odd-job girl in Nakano, accepts a mysterious…
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The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and drama
Mihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has…
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SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
Yuki plays death games for a living, but when she wakes in a mansion with five other women, can she survive a new lethal maze of locked rooms and traps?
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HIGH CARD (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and drama
Fourland Kingdom is an island nation in the North Atlantic. In this country, there are 52 X-Playing Cards, considered the origin of playing cards. A card with a unique supernatural ability can gift its abilities to a…