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11 Legendary Shows to Watch After ARCANE
Find new champions to cheer for.
By Samantha Nelson
Nov. 23, 2024
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The last episodes of ARCANE’s second and final season have officially arrived, and once you’ve finished them you might feel like you’ve been socked in the gut with a Hextech gauntlet. While the story of League of Legends champions Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell) may have reached its explosive conclusion, the show’s co-creator Christian Linke promises that there’ll be other projects set in the world of Runeterra.
Luckily, you don’t have to wait until then to enjoy more shows like ARCANE. We’ve put together a list of 11 series that includes a mix of video game adaptations, rich fantasy worlds, animated action, and killer soundtracks. Embrace the magic of these series to find your new favorite heroes facing off against twisted villains.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
One of the most beloved animated series of all time, Avatar: The Last Airbender is set in a world where some people have the power to use martial arts to harness the powers of the elements. A young boy with a great destiny must travel the world with his friends — and a giant flying bison — to master his abilities and stop a genocidal war. Avatar has a score so good it’s featured in a touring concert series, and the way its characters and world mature over time will appeal to ARCANE fans. The series is kid-friendly even though it gets into some dark themes, but if you’re looking for a more grown-up version, check out the live-action adaptation.
BLUE EYE SAMURAI
Heavily inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films (“Kill Bill meets Yentl,” as co-creator Amber Noizumi puts it), the Emmy-winning Blue Eye Samurai is a gorgeously animated revenge story set in Edo-period Japan. Mizu (Maya Erskine), a mixed-race swordmaster living in disguise, sets out to find and kill all the white men who might be her father. That blood-soaked quest gets her embroiled into political intrigue involving a runaway princess, her pompous samurai suitor, and a vicious arms dealer looking to seize control of the country. Like ARCANE, it’s packed with unlikely alliances, excellent music, and dramatic fights that often go very badly for the heroes.
Castlevania
The success of Castlevania helped establish Netflix as a home for animated video game adaptations. Running for four seasons, the show based on the iconic Konami series follows Trevor Belmont (Richard Armitage), the last survivor of a family of monster hunters, as he tries to protect the people of Wallachia from Dracula (Graham McTavish). The legendary vampire had chilled out and gotten married, but after his wife was burned as a witch he summoned an army of demons to wipe out the whole country. It’s a particularly bloody show with an excellent voice cast and rich characters. If you’re still out for more blood after watching, check out the spin-off, Castlevania: Nocturne, which returns for Season 2 in January.
Delicious in Dungeon
The anime based on Ryoko Kui’s manga starts off resembling a particularly weird game of Dungeons & Dragons, but the characters and plots quickly get more complex. After his sister Falin (Saori Hayami/Lisa Reimold) is eaten by a red dragon, Laios (Kentarô Kumagai/Damien C. Haas) decides the best way to bring her back to life is to plunge into the depths of a dangerous dungeon. There, he must figure out how to eat all the monsters he and his friends defeat so they don’t have to go back to the surface for food. That earns the help of Senshi (Hiroshi Naka/SungWon Cho), a dwarf more interested in cooking than fighting, who manages to make even the most disgusting creatures look pretty tasty.
DOTA: Dragon's Blood
Online battle arena fans looking to learn more about their favorite characters can check out the Dota 2 adaptation DOTA: Dragon’s Blood. Like ARCANE, you don’t need any game experience to appreciate the series. The show follows Davion (Yuri Lowenthal), a vengeful and arrogant dragonslayer whose world is changed when he’s imbued with the power of a dragon and tasked with protecting the creatures he had promised to exterminate. It offers three seasons of showy magic, bloody fights, romance, and humor.
Dragon Age: Absolution
If you liked watching a ragtag group getting in over their heads while pulling off a heist in the first three episodes of ARCANE, you might want to check out Dragon Age: Absolution. With just six episodes, the bite-sized adaptation of the BioWare series follows a misfit band of thieves whose mission to steal a mysterious artifact quickly goes south. It’s got plenty of messy character-driven drama with hidden motives, twisted family dynamics, and the romance Dragon Age fans expect. It’s anchored by excellent voice acting and beautifully choreographed fight scenes.
The Dragon Prince
Avatar: The Last Airbender head writer Aaron Ehasz co-created this epic fantasy series, which kicks off its seventh and final season in December. In a world where humans have been at war with elves and dragons for a millennium, two princes and an elf assassin set out on a journey to end the conflict. Like Avatar, it features plenty of cute critters and goofy humor that will appeal to kids, but it becomes darker as the story gets more ambitious in later seasons. If ARCANE’s toxic family dynamics, manipulative villains, and beautiful world appeal to you, The Dragon Prince has plenty to offer.
Love, Death & Robots
Fans of ARCANE’s genre-blending and boundary-pushing animation should check out the Emmy-winning anthology series Love, Death + Robots. Episodes average around 15 minutes, offering a quick burst of creative storytelling that spans a wide variety of art styles from studios around the world. Many are adaptations of short stories, and they include a goofy tale of robot uprisings from John Scalzi, a blend of Chinese myth and steampunk from Ken Liu, and cosmic horror from Alan Baxter. It’s a show sure to linger in your mind, and a fourth season is in the works.
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is tonally very different from ARCANE, but it shares the same focus on music, powerful women, and creative video game–inspired fights. The entire cast of 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World reunites for an animated remix of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels. Instead of Scott (Michael Cera) battling the seven evil exes of Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), it’s Ramona who must confront her past in order to find out what happened to the guy she’s fallen for. It’s an incredibly unique show featuring paparazzi ninjas, musical theater, and business battles.
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
The new animated series, set after the events of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, follows the eponymous explorer as she gets embroiled in a quest to stop an ancient secret society while coming to terms with the darkness in her past. The show brings further depth to Croft (Hayley Atwell) as she travels from China to Paris. In the mystical Kunlun Mountains, she deals with spirits, mercenaries, mind control, and even a dinosaur. A second season is in the works.
The Witcher
The adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s hit fantasy series is set in a dangerous world filled with monsters, magic, and scheming nobles. Like ARCANE, it deals with the complicated dynamics of both blood and found family as the gruff monster hunter Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill, who’ll be succeeded by Liam Hemsworth in the upcoming Season 4) becomes the guardian of Cirilla of Cintra (Freya Allan), a princess with world-shaking power. Adding to the complicated dynamic is Geralt’s romance with the power-hungry sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra). The epic battles are top-notch, and the music is extremely catchy.
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