Shows Like Made in Abyss
If you liked Made in Abyss (2017), 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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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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Dusk Beyond the End of the World (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyWhen tensions around AI spark civil unrest, Akira is caught in the crossfire when he protects his girlfriend from an assassin. Hundreds of years later, he awakens from cryogenic sleep to an unfamiliar world and bonds…
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Deca-Dence (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and dramaMany years have passed since humanity was driven to the brink of extinction by the sudden emergence of the unknown life forms Gadoll. Those humans that survived now dwell in a 3000m-high mobile fortress Deca-dence…
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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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Dimension W (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and dramaHumanity 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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Plastic Memories (2015)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and dramaAfter failing his college entrance exams, 18 year-old Tsukasa Mizugaki is offered a position at the renowned SAI Corporation, known for its production and management of Giftia, androids that possess human emotions…
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NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (2023)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventureThe distant future, 5012. The sudden aerial invasion of Earth by <Aliens> and their creations <Machine Lifeforms> led mankind to the brink of extinction. The surviving number of humans who took refuge on the moon to…
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Gachiakuta (2025)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and action & adventureAccused 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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Elfen Lied (2004)
★ 8.3/10Also action & adventure and animationThe Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic…
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (2016)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventureNatsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know…
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To Your Eternity (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and action & adventureAn immortal being takes on the form of a human boy, wandering the earth and experiencing the pains and joys of life throughout his story without end.
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Plunderer (2020)
★ 8.3/10Also action & adventure and sci-fi & fantasyIn 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…
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ATRI -My Dear Moments- (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and dramaIn the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and one of his legs in an accident some years earlier, returns…
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The Big O (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and dramaForty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm…
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BACK ARROW (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and action & adventureLingalind is a land enclosed by the Wall. The Wall covers, protects, cultivates, and nurtures the land. One day in Edger, a village on the outskirts of Lingalind, a mysterious man named Back Arrow appears. Arrow has…
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Tower of God (2020)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventureReach the top, and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower exists everything in this world, and all of it can be yours. You can become a god. This is the story of the beginning and the end of Rachel, the girl…
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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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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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Pandora Hearts (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and action & adventureOz Vessalius, heir to one of the duke houses, has just turned fifteen. His life is rich and carefree, darkened only by the constant absence of his father. At his coming-of-age ceremony, however, everything changes. For…
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Mushi-Shi (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and dramaGinko, a Mushi master, travels from place to place researching the Mushi and helping people who are suffering because of it.