Sisyphus: The Myth

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

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   2022 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on jTBC.

   After ten years, a loyal employee is framed for embezzlement, then murdered by his employers, only to be reborn as their youngest son, with a yearn for revenge guiding his hostile takeover.

2. The King: Eternal Monarch

   2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, highly rated (8).

   The Devil is released into the human world and soon opens a door into a parallel world. The Devil asks if he lived a better life in the other world, if he could live in the other world. Against the Devil's question, Korean Emperor Lee Gon tries to close the door to the parallel world and South Korean Detective Jung Tae Eul tries to protect the lives of people and the person she loves.

3. W

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

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   After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.

4. Tower Prep

   2010 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   In this s.f. series, teenagers with unique superhuman abilities are taken from their homes without their consent and brought to Tower Prep, a unique academy cut off from the outside world where they are raised in an isolated environment. They are given an education, trained in the use of their powers, and encouraged to fit in... whether they want to or not. Some try to escape, and even fewer succeed.

5. Tunnel

   2017 · Crime, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   In 1986, Park Kwang Ho works an excellent and enthusiastic detective. To save his daughter, he travels in time to the present day. Wherever he goes, he causes trouble and creates problems, but his antics are funny and bizarre because he is an old-fashioned detective from the past trying to adjust to life in modern day.

6. The Dresden Files

   2007 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile.

   The Dresden Files chronicles the cases of no ordinary detective. Harry Dresden is a wizard, the only one listed in the Chicago phone book. He's got a handle on the crimes that can't be solved by anyone else. Paranormal? No problem. Dresden deals in all matters of supernatural threats. If you need a little hocus pocus or some other worldly advice, Dresden's your man.

7. Black Knight

   2017 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   Moon Soo Ho is a businessman with a pure heart braves danger for his love, Jung Hae Ra who is a travel agent but never traveled abroad.

8. My Lovely Liar

   2023 · Fantasy, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile.

   Mok Sol Hee is a young woman who has become quite cynical over the years because of her ability to detect lies. However, she's thrust into a mystery upon learning that a murder suspect is telling the truth regarding his innocence. Until this point, the lead character thinks of her ability as a curse rather than a gift, and the story in general tells of her transformation into a liar hunter.

9. Glitch

   2015 · Drama, Mystery, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

   James Hayes is a small town police man who is called to the local cemetery in the middle of the night after six people have inexplicably risen from the dead in perfect health. With no memory of their identities, they are determined to discover who they are and what has happened to them. James recognises one of them and along with local doctor Elishia Glass, struggles to keep the case hidden from his colleagues, his family and the world. The six people are all linked in some way and the search begins for someone who knows the truth about how and why they have returned.

10. Locke & Key

    2020 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Fantasy / Mystery profile.

    Locke & Key revolves around three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Little do they know, a devious demon also wants the keys, and will stop at nothing to attain them.