Movies and TV shows like Ajin

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Ajin (2016)
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Ajin (2016)
Original name: 亜人
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: 17 years ago, immortals first appeared on the battlefields of Africa. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.
Style: anime, exciting, suspenseful, manga, tense, bleak, super sentai
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, creature, life is a bitch, danger, villain, gunfight, immortality, vengeance, destiny, police investigation, superhero, undead, heroes, twists and turns, rivalry, friendship, hopes, redemption, crimes
Place: japan

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Most similar movies to Ajin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, exciting, serious and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about danger, rivalry, heroes, supernatural, escapades, imaginary and murder mostly in Animation, Action and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Ajin: Parasyte: The Maxim (2014), Tokyo Ghoul (2014), K Project (2012), Gungrave (2003), Ikki Tousen (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Parasyte: The Maxim (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Shinichi Izumi is a normal high school boy whose right hand has become infected with an alien parasite that names itself "Migi" ("right"). Migi is the first parasite to develop a symbiotic relationship with its host, as he and ...
Style: anime, exciting, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: body horror, danger, alien, rivalry, supernatural power, supernatural ability, fight scenes, murder, violence, survival, parasite, tragedy ...
Place: japan
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Tokyo Ghoul (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul - a kind of monster that ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, exciting, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: supernatural, murder, danger, supernatural ability, youth, secret identity, deadly creature, friends, survival, genetically altered, heroes, good versus evil ...
Place: tokyo, japan, asia, east asia
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K Project (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Shiro is an easygoing teenager content with just being a student—until his seemingly perfect life is halted when a bloodthirsty clan, glowing red with fire, attempts to kill him in the streets. Unbeknownst to Shiro, he is suspected of murdering a ...
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, entertaining, tense
Plot: superpower, gang, rivalry, swordsman, amnesia, murder mystery, investigation, murder, uncover truth, friends, twists and turns, friendship ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
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Gungrave (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Gungrave is a Japanese animated television series based on the video game of the same name, created by Yasuhiro Nightow. The series is directed by Toshiyuki Tsuru, from a screenplay by Yousuke Kuroda, and produced by Madhouse Studios. The series ...
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Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: betrayal, friendship, murder, leadership, heroic mission, escapades, ambition, supernatural, superhuman powers, obsessive quest, tragic hero, rise and fall ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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Ikki Tousen (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 325 min.
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Story: Seven schools are constantly "at war" with each other, and the students have become skilled fighters and constantly battle with rival schools. Their lives and fates are guided by strange jewels that contain the spirits and destinies of ...
Style: anime, ecchi, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, female warrior, female nudity, against the odds, teenage life, fight for supremacy, martial arts, opponent, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, ambition, nude bathing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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Duration: 23 min.
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Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Corpse Princess is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshiichi Akahito. Premiering in Monthly Shōnen Gangan on April 12, 2005, the series centers around the "Corpse Princess" Makina Hoshimura, an undead girl who is ...
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Persona 4: The Animation (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Persona 4: The Animation is a television anime series produced by AIC ASTA and directed by Seiji Kishi, based on the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 video game by Atlus. The story revolves around the protagonist, Yu Narukami, who acquires a mysterious ...
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Audience: teens
Plot: uncover truth, supernatural, riddles and clues, parallel world, friendship, teenage life, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, escapades, danger, youth, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Story: Blood+, pronounced as "Blood Plus", is an anime series produced by Production I.G and Aniplex and directed by Junichi Fujisaku. The series premiered in Japan on Sony's anime satellite channel, Animax, as well as on terrestrial ...
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Audience: teens, kids
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, okinawa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Blood-C (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 287 min.
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Story: Blood-C focuses on Saya Kisaragi, an outwardly normal girl who serves as the shrine maiden to a country town; in reality, she is a skilled swordswoman charged by her father to defeat Elder Bairns, monsters who feed on human blood. As her battles ...
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Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Inuyashiki Ichirou is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world around him and he’s constantly ignored and disrespected by his family despite all that he’s done ...
Style: anime, suspense, tense, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 25 min.
TV show
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Duration: 23 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Tokyo Ghoul: Root A (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story: Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor is a Japanese anime series based on the long-running manga series, Bio Booster Armor Guyver, written by Yoshiki Takaya, adapting chapters 1 - 59 of the manga. The production was in association with ADV Films and Kadokawa ...
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Story: Kurau Phantom Memory is a 2004 science fiction anime series, produced by Bones and Media Factory, which was broadcast in Japan by the anime television networks Animax and TV Asahi. Set primarily in the year 2110, it explores themes such as ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
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Audience: kids, teens
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Duration: 24 min.
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Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
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Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 85 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A long time ago, there was a valiant swordsman who came to be known simply as "the hero." There was a demon who has caused people suffering. The hero and his companions arrived to challenge the demon to a battle and by combining their ...
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Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Bleach: Memories of Nobody (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In Karakura Town, unidentifiable spirits begin appearing en mases. While attempting to deal with these strange souls, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki meet Senna, a mysterious shinigami who wipes out most of them. Senna refuses to answer any ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was alive and well. His Father, Ging, is a Hunter—a member of society's elite with a license to go anywhere or do almost anything. Gon, determined ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In response to the worsening crime rate, Japan creates Tokyo Butei High, an elite academy where "Butei" or armed detectives hone their deadly skills in hopes of becoming mercenary-like agents of justice. One particular Butei is Kinji ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Tactics (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Tactics is a Japanese manga series written as a collaboration between Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama. It was serialized in Comic Blade Masamune. Kinoshita supplied the character "Kantarou," and Higashiyama supplied the character ...
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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