
50 Shows Like Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (2009) to Watch When You're Done
The Sacred war tale that took place during the 18th century is now unveiled. Tenma, Alone and Sasha, three orphans living their childhood protecting each other and then separated at diferent ages made
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If you loved Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (2009), 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 Candy Candy, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Saint Seiya. 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 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas

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1976
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
2006
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Saint Seiya
1986
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Golden Time
2013
Banri Tada is a freshman at a Tokyo law school. After an accident, he suffers severe memory loss. Despite the incident, he befriends fellow freshman, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, which leads him to the beautifu
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Charlotte
2015
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2009
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High School of the Dead
2010 · Hiroyuki Omori
A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this n
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Vinland Saga
2019
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BLUE LOCK
2022 · Junichi Kimura
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Black Lagoon
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Your Lie in April
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My Dress-Up Darling
2022 · Hirotaka Kaneko
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Horimiya
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DON'T TOY WITH ME, MISS NAGATORO
2021 · Noriyuki Akita
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2018 · Yumi Taniike
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2018
The distant future: Humanity established the mobile fort city, Plantation, upon the ruined wasteland. Within the city were pilot quarters, Mistilteinn, otherwise known as the “Birdcage.” That is where
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2019 · Yoshio Kaneko
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Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
2017
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Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
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In common: Animation · Drama

Captain Tsubasa
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Tsubasa Ozora loves playing football since he was a little child. After moving to the japanese town of Nankatsu together with his mother, the 11-year-old boy quickly finds friends and joins the local
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The Rising of the Shield Hero
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Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold
2015
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In common: Action & Adventure · Animation

Pokémon
1997
Join Ash accompanied by his partner Pikachu, as he travels through many regions, meets new friends and faces new challenges on his quest to become a Pokémon Master.
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Naruto Shippūden
2007
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Fullmetal Alchemist
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
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Hellsing Ultimate
2006
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