36 Shows Like Scissor Seven (2018) to Watch When You're Done
Seeking to recover his memory, a scissor-wielding, hairdressing, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among feuding factions.
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This inventive Chinese animated series follows a bumbling, amnesiac hairdresser-slash-assassin armed with scissors, caught up in feuding clans and a search for his lost past. Wildly stylised, absurdly funny and surprisingly poignant, it became a streaming cult hit. If its zany action and offbeat charm hooked you, seek out stylish, comedic action animation that hides real feeling beneath the chaos.
If you loved Scissor Seven (2018), here are 36 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 Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations. 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.
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