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The concept of death games has existed for a long time, but Squid Game was able to get on top of the genre. Squid Game received global attention and became one of the highest-streamed series on Netflix. Its commentary on social disparity and human nature was much appreciated by fans. So it didn’t take long for people to try and find other series that are just like it.

Thankfully, the anime space offers plenty of series that are just like Squid Game. Death games are a popular genre in anime and manga, and there are countless series that have provided their own perspectives and spins on it. This list of anime like Squid Game is just the thing that fans of the K-drama need for an adrenaline rush.

10. Talentless Nana Talentless Nana offers an overwhelming twist | Credits: Bridge Episode Count13Where to StreamCrunchyrollAnime StudioBridge

Talentless Nana draws its audience...

Many anime fail to impress not because they did not have an interesting setting, but because they are unable to strike a balance between an intriguing premise and proper execution.

Aira, Okarun and Momo | Credits: Science Saru

Some shows boast extremely unique ideas but usually fail to deliver engaging storytelling, or if they do, they do not plan properly and end up having the quality take a massive dive halfway through.

On the other hand, others might end up taking a basic premise and elevate it through good character development in the narrative and decent world-building.

A weird premise that shouldn’t have worked

Dandadan is an anime that definitely does not look good on paper. Dandadan reinvents the wheel by placing a budding teenage love story smack in the middle of a setting with ghosts, aliens, and humans with supernatural abilities. The idea might seem like a joke, but...

The recently released role-playing video game by Marvelous, Farmagia, has become the talk of the town as an anime adaptation of the video game has been announced. The character designs of the game were done by Fairy Tail creator Hiro Mashima, and the anime adaptation comes as a big shock to many people as the game was just released worldwide for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Steam.

Farmagia | Credit: Studio Bridge

Farmagia is a combination of action role-playing and farm life simulation that allows the players to grow different categories of monsters from seeds. These monsters can be used for different purposes and are the most important aspect of Felicidad, the fictional land where the entire game is based. The game came out on November 1, 2024, and it has instantly become quite famous.

The intriguing aspect of the upcoming anime adaptation of Farmagia is that the entire staff of Fairy Tail is...

Welcome, readers, to Late to the Party , a column that's right on time when it comes to catching up on anime everyone's already watched. This column addresses a universal truth in regard to being an anime fan: an anime backlog is quite the powerful beast. Many of us have one, where we amass more and more content we have designated in the "planning to watch" category. How and why it takes so long to actually address this task varies from person to person, but the gratification of finally allocating the time is really quite splendid. Related: Why Did It Take Me So Long to Watch Buddy Daddies? Occasionally, it’s by watching a classic anime from yesteryear that you’ve had your eye on for quite some time. In other instances, it’s a more recent premiere that just slipped by. This October, I have been overly spooked by all the anticipation for Halloween.

While My Hero Academia and Junji Ito are rarely, if ever, mentioned in the same breath, elements of both are mixed together with exquisite touch in the psychological thriller anime Talentless Nana that fans of both should check out. Looseboy and Iori Furuya's Talentless Nana centers around teenagers studying at an elite school on a secluded island. The students have been identified as "talented" or having special superhuman abilities, much like Quirks in My Hero Academia, but their lives quickly take a horror turn.

The students in Talentless Nana have been sent to the island to learn how to master their abilities to eventually help humanity fight the monsters that have infiltrated society to destroy it from within. The problem is that some people in the government have deemed the talented as the real threat to humanity and inserted a normal "untalented" agent into the student body to kill every last one of them.

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With live-action depictions of “Cowboy Beebop” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender” in the works, anime content might be more popular than ever. And if you consider yourself a fan of the genre, you might already be familiar with Funimation.

The streaming service offers hundreds of titles and over 15,000 hours of anime content to deliver incredible fan experiences across TV, movies, mangas, events, collectibles, and the Funimation App. To give you a little more insight into the service, we put together a short breakdown of what Funimation offers and how much it costs.

In Early August, the Sony-owned company announced its acquisition of Crunchyroll, the top direct-to-consumer anime service offering AVOD, mobile games,...