Btooom! - Recommendations

• OVA (3 eps x 23 min)
• 2014 - 2015

The story follows a group of three friends who suddenly awaken in a completely different alternate world. At first they think it's all a dream or a joke, but they soon realize that the only way to survive in this world is to participate and win deadly survival games.

• DVD Special (2 eps)
• 2012

• TV (12 eps)
• 2023

Goro's life isn't going all that well, and he's frustrated at not being able to act when he thinks he ought to. After watching a cat get hit by a truck and noticing that no one else tried to help either, he goes home to find a strange new invite on his phone. When he accepts it, a tiny oni-like creature named Lall appears and tells him that he's become one of many people vying to become a god. Granted one wish by the app, Goro now has a special power to use to fight against the other competitors.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2000

The Nohara family is on a cruise heading towards a tropical island when suddenly the ship is invaded by a large group of monkeys. The simians capture all adults and take them to a nearby isle while leaving all children behind. It is up to Shin-chan and his friends to find and save the grown-ups.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1996

When young Megumi Kawamura sends a letter asking Kitarou to investigate the whereabouts of her father, the young youkai immediately sets off to find him. As he arrives on Baruru Island, Kitarou discovers that for many years, any Japanese man who has set foot on the nearby mountain has been spirited away by the resident youkai, Akamata. As Kitarou heads into the jungle to rescue Megumi’s father, he meets with the malevolent entity that proceeds to drain his very essence. Now, with the various youkai of Baruru Island preparing to wage war with Japan and invoking the power of their God, Zeokuronodon, Kitarou must try to stop them and return Mr. Kawamura to his daughter. Though, when the Baruru Island youkai force a strange drink upon him, will it even be possible?

• Other (1 ep)
• 2010

Amano, Vanilla and the rest of the gang have been shipwrecked on a remote tropical island. While the Princes of Sweets are battling with giant fish, running from hidden traps and foraging for noxious fruits in the forest, Amano is having the time of her life. But after several days stranded, will the gang be able to rustle themselves up a decent meal?

• TV (13 eps)
• 2013

Hope’s Peak Private Academy is a super-exclusive institute that gathers the best and the brightest, provides them with a world-class education, and propels them into any career they wish. At least, that’s what the average student Naegi used to think. Having been accepted into a class of 15 students through a lottery system, the boy quickly comes to learn that Hope’s Peak is no ordinary school. In reality, he and the group find themselves trapped inside and learn that the only way to "graduate" is to murder a fellow student and fool everyone in a trial that determines life or death! Led by the whimsically-cruel, teddy-bear-like Monobear, Naegi and the others must do whatever it takes to escape this bizarre, deadly game.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2020

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2020

A recap episode, covering episodes 1-4 of Darwin's Game.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2010

Yuki, a disaffected middle school boy has no dreams, or goals in his life, in fact, the only thing he does have is his diary. Writing down everything he observes and documenting every thought, the young boy uses it as an outlet for his imagination. One morning however, he wakes up to find his cell phone filled with diary entries for the next ninety days. Thinking nothing of it, he continues his morning until he begins to realise that everything on his phone is rapidly coming to pass, and it isn’t just mere coincidence. Now Yuki suddenly finds himself thrust into a survival game against other future diary owners to become the new Lord of Time.