50 Shows Like Chainsaw Man (2022) to Watch When You're Done
Denji has a simple dream—to live a happy and peaceful life, spending time with a girl he likes. This is a far cry from reality, however, as Denji is forced by the yakuza into killing devils in order t
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This visceral anime follows Denji, a destitute young man fused with a chainsaw devil, who becomes a monster-hunting weapon while chasing the simplest of dreams. Brutal, raw and surprisingly poignant about poverty and longing, its bold animation made it a sensation. If its grime, gore and aching humanity hooked you, seek out dark action anime that pair extreme violence with raw, melancholy emotion.
If you loved Chainsaw Man (2022), here are 50 TV series that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, High School DxD, JUJUTSU KAISEN. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Shows Similar to Chainsaw Man
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1997
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2020
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2020 · Sho Tanaka
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2009
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