Shows Like Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture
If you liked Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Alternative Architecture (2015), a animation and crime 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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THE GHOST IN THE SHELL (2026)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure2029, a near-future Japan. The full cyborg Motoko Kusanagi envisions a task force that preemptively strikes emerging threats. She and her team are scouted by Daisuke Aramaki as Public Security Section 9, AKA the "Shell…
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and action & adventureIn the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters…
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PLUTO (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyWhen the world's seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, Inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and action & adventureIn the year 2045, cybernetic mercenary Motoko Kusanagi returns to Section 9 to face a dangerous new threat: the posthumans.
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Dimension W (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyHumanity has found a way to achieve infinite energy by using coils to draw it from the fourth plane: dimension "W". With the production of coils having been monopolized by the New Tesla energy company, freelance…
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Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyLos Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt…
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and action & adventureIn a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.
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Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall (2022)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventureThe year is 2062. Earth has been left in ruin after the failure of a labor automation project when the AI called Artemis waged war against humanity. A girl, Empress, awakens in a research lab. As one of the three…
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Texhnolyze (2003)
★ 7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyDenizens of Lux have come to call it "The City" and treat it as a sentient force. Three factions vie for control of the city: the Organo, a strictly professional conglomerate with ties to the criminal underworld in the…
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Eden of the East (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and action & adventureWhen Saki Morimi gets into trouble with the police while in Washington D.C., she is helped by a Japanese man who calls himself, Akira Takizawa. Akira has only two things, a gun and a cell phone loaded with 8.2 billion…
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Active Raid (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and action & adventureSet in a part of Tokyo that has descended into a quagmire, the story follows Unit 8 of the 5th Special Public Security Section's 3rd Mobile Assault Division — popularly called "The Eighth" — who don powered armor…
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Tengoku Daimakyo (2023)
★ 8/10Also animation and action & adventureIn 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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Darker than Black (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and action & adventureTen years ago, a mysterious spatial anomaly now known as "Heaven's Gate" appeared in South America, shortly followed by the opening of "Hell's Gate" in Tokyo altering the sky and wreaking havoc on the landscape. The…
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Psycho-Pass (2012)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and crimeIn the year 2113, people are given brain scans to determine how likely they are to commit a crime. Those who fail are apprehended, or even killed.
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Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (1998)
★ 6.7/10Also action & adventure and animationMegaTokyo 2040: Tokyo’s workforce is riddled with robots that tend to go on destructive killing sprees. Four young women gear up in cybernetic suits to battle an evil corporation’s bionic pawns while its grip on the…
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Ergo Proxy (2006)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyThousands of years after Earth’s atmosphere was destroyed, adventure blooms in the strangest of places. The domed city of Romdo is supposed to be perfect, but Re-l Mayer, a young female inspector from the Civilian…
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Paranoia Agent (2004)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyMusashino, Tokyo. An elementary schooler repeatedly attacks people in the streets. Known only to the public as "Lil Slugger", none of the victims can recall the young boy's face and only three distinct details are left…
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No Guns Life (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and action & adventureHumans that have been physically altered and turned into dangerous weapons are known as the Extended. Juuzou Inui awakens as one of these weapons — with amnesia. But his job as an agent investigating the Extended leads…
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Steins;Gate 0 (2018)
★ 8.1/10Also sci-fi & fantasy and animationEccentric Rintaro falls into a depression after failing to save Kurisu, but then a neuroscientist offers him the chance to interact with an AI copy.
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B: The Beginning (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also action & adventure and animationGenius investigator Keith Flick rejoins the royal police force just as serial killer "B" emerges. Mysterious youth Koku may be an ally, or a target.