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Series Similar to Pluto

If you enjoyed Pluto, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

   2021 · Anime, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile.

   The story takes place in "Nearland," a theme park where "dreams, hope, and science" exist together as an AI theme park. The theme park is where the first automated human-type AI is born. Vivy is an AI who sings on stage for park attendees every day, as it is her directive to "make everyone happy through song." She performs wholeheartedly for the attendees in the park. One day, an AI named Matsumoto appears before her. He says he has come from 100 years in the future with the directive of "working with Vivy to correct history, and to stop the war between AI and humans that breaks out 100 years from now." The 100-year journey of the AI songstress Vivy begins.

2. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

   2022 · Action, Anime, Science-Fiction · ended85% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile, also on Netflix.

   Set in Cyberpunk 2077 universe, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

3. The Promised Neverland

   2019 · Anime, Horror, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended82% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile.

   At Grace Field House, life couldn't be better for the orphans! Though they have no parents, together with the other kids and a kind "Mama" who cares for them, they form one big, happy family. No child is ever overlooked, especially since they are all adopted by the age of 12. Their daily lives involve rigorous tests, but afterwards, they are allowed to play outside.There is only one rule they must obey: do not leave the orphanage. But one day, two top-scoring orphans, Emma and Norman, venture past the gate and unearth the harrowing secret behind their entire existence. Utilizing their quick-wittedness, the children must work together to somehow change their predetermined fate.

4. Ergo Proxy

   2006 · Anime, Crime, Science-Fiction, Mystery · ended81% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile.

   In the utopian city, Romdeau, where humans and their android servants live, the landscape is broken by a series of murders. Real Mayar, a female inspector from the Citizen Information Bureau, along with her android partner Iggy, are tasked to solve the cases. Mayar is soon attacked by a creature which is neither human nor android, and learns about the mysterious phenomena called "Awakening".

5. YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world.

   2019 · Anime, Science-Fiction · ended79% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile.

   Takuya Arima is a young student whose father, a historian who has conducted various researches, disappeared recently. During a summer vacation Takuya receives a peculiar package from his missing father, along with a letter containing information about the existence of various parallel worlds. At first Takuya doesn't take it seriously, but soon he realizes that he possesses a device that allows him to travel to alternate dimensions. Is his father alive, after all? If so, where is he?

6. 7SEEDS

   2019 · Drama, Anime, Science-Fiction · ended79% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile, also on Netflix.

   In the immediate future, a giant meteorite has collided with earth. All living organisms, including mankind, have been wiped off the face of the planet. The government, who had foreseen this outcome, took measures to counter the worst-case scenario called Project 7SEEDS, in which five sets of seven young men and women were carefully selected and placed into teams. Each participant sought ways to survive on a deserted island.

7. Kuromukuro

   2016 · Action, Anime, Science-Fiction · ended79% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem.

   During the construction of the Kurobe Dam, an ancient artifact was discovered, and so the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute was established. Intellectuals from all over the world gathered to study the object, and the children of those researchers attend Mt. Tate International Senior High School, including the institute head's daughter, Yukina Shirahane. In the summer of 2016, a lone samurai once again awakens.

8. ID-0

   2017 · Anime, Science-Fiction · ended78% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile.

   I-Machines are the general term for robots that operate in extreme environments. While Alliance Academy student Maya Mikuri is in the middle of operating an I-Machine, she gets involved in an incident with pirates, and ends up serving as a crew member on an excavation company's spaceship.

9. Moriarty the Patriot

   2020 · Anime, Crime, Mystery · ended78% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   In the late 19th century, the British Empire has become a global power. Due to the strict class stratification, the average citizen has little chance of successfully rising up to the top, where the despicable nobility rules over them all. William James Moriarty, the second son of the Moriarty household, is a young mathematics professor who has displayed great cunning and intellect since he was a child. Along with his brothers Albert and Louis, he lives the simple life of a noble. Outside of school, William is a well-known private consultant willing to solve the problems of anyone in need. However, his gentle demeanor belies his position as the head of a group prepared to wreak havoc in pursuit of its desire—a new world built from the ashes of the old. Yuukoku no Moriarty puts a new spin on Arthur Conan Doyle's original work by putting the spotlight on its main antagonist and exploring how he came to be the first and only "criminal consultant."

10. Terminator Zero

    2024 · Action, Anime, Science-Fiction · ended78% match

    Recommended for similar Anime / Science-Fiction profile, also on Netflix.

    A single-minded cyborg sent from the future, known as the Terminator, has been programmed to assassinate Sarah Connor and her unborn son, John, who will one day thwart the malevolent artificial intelligence known as Skynet.