List of survival and escape room anime and manga

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Survival game – The setting of a story is explicitly made to be a survival game/gamble/tournament, where loss equals death.
Survival game Lite – The setting of a story is explicitly made to be a game/gamble/tournament, where loss equals financial ruin or slavery/loss of freedom or memory loss or loss of powers.
Survival – The story revolves either around murderer(s)/assassin(s)/cannibal(s) hunting/targeting an individual or a specific small group of people as they are trying to survive, or an individual or a small group of people trying to survive in unknown/inhospitable environment.
YearTitleCreator(s)TypeOriginal mediumRef(s)
2001 7 Seeds Yumi Tamura SurvivalManga [1]
Aiyou's Secret Room (X&Y)Escape roomManhua [2]
2020 Akudama Drive Norimitsu Kaihō, Tomohisa TaguchiSurvivalAnime
2010 Alice in Borderland Haro Aso Survival gameManga [3]
2015 Angels of Death (Satsuriku no Tenshi)Hoshikuzu KRNKRNSurvival gameVideo game
1979 Arion Yoshikazu Yasuhiko SurvivalManga
2012 Assassination Classroom Yusei Matsui SurvivalManga
2016 Astra Lost in Space Kenta Shinohara SurvivalManga
1973 Barefoot Gen Keiji Nakazawa Survival, HistoricalManga
2015 Battle Game in 5 Seconds Saizō Harawata, Kashiwa MiyakoSurvival gameManga
1999 Battle Royale Koushun Takami, Masayuki TaguchiSurvival gameNovel
1975 Beast Fighter: The Apocalypse (Majuu Sensen: The Apocalypse)Ken IshikawaSurvivalManga
2011 Big Order Sakae Esuno SurvivalManga
1997 Blame! Tsutomu Nihei SurvivalManga
1992 Blaster Knuckle Shizuya WazaraiSurvival, Bounty huntersManga
1999 Blue Gender Ryōsuke Takahashi, Katsumi HasegawaSurvivalAnime
2002 Blue Heaven Tsutomu Takahashi SurvivalManga
2018 Blue Striker Yokusaru Shibata, Makoto SawaSurvival gameManga
2009 Btooom! Junya Inoue Survival gameManga [4]
1999 Bus Gamer Kazuya Minekura Survival gameManga
2011 C ([C] CONTROL)Noboru TakagiSurvival game LiteAnime
2003 Chaosic Rune Kenji YamamotoSurvival gameManga
1996 Corpse Party Kenix SoftSurvival gameVideo game
2010 Danganronpa Spike, Spike Chunsoft Survival gameVideo game
2012 Darwin's Game FLIPFLOPsSurvival gameManga
2009 DCD (Diamond Cut Diamond) Kenji Taguchi SurvivalManga
2014 Dead Tube Mikoto Yamaguchi, Touta KitakawaSurvival gameManga
2007 Deadman Wonderland Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma KondouSurvival gameManga
2016Demon King, Stranded on an Island!!!Marimo EndaSurvival, IsekaiManga
1989 Desupai (Death Pie) Kazuhiko Shimamoto Survival game, gamblingManga
2013 Devil Survivor 2: The Animation Makoto Uezu Survival gameAnime/Video game
2007 Dies Irae LightSurvivalVisual novel
2012 Doreiku Shinichi Okada, Hiroto ŌishiSurvival game LiteManga [5]
2007 Doubt, Judge, Secret Yoshiki Tonogai Survival gameManga
2012 Dramatical Murder Nitro+chiral Survival gameVideo game
2022 Drifting Home Hiroyasu Ishida, Hayashi Mori, Minaka SakamotoSurvivalAnime
2008 Drive-a-Live Kunihiko NakaiSurvival gameManga
2023Easy Survival in Another World: With My Robust Survival Skills, I’ll Live on an Uninhabited Island With Four Beautiful Girls (Isekai Rakuraku Survival: Seizon Skill Kyousha no Ore ga Bishoujo Yonin to Class Mujintou Seikatsu)Ayano, Kouji MogamiSurvival, IsekaiManga
2020Easy Survival Life in the Other World: Everyone in School Transferred to an Uninhabited Island in the Other World but It’s an Easy Victory for Me (Isekai Yurutto Survival Seikatsu: Gakkou no Minna to Isekai no Mujintou ni Teni shita kedo Ore dake Rakushou desu)Ayano, Youichi Nishio, Waon InuiSurvival, IsekaiWeb novel
2009 Eden of the East Kenji Kamiyama Survival gameAnime
2022 Estab Life Gorō Taniguchi, Shoji Gatoh, Shingo NagaiSurvivalAnime
1999 EX: Young Castaways Yoshinobu YamadaSurvivalManga
2011 Five Numbers! (Norageki!) Dai Satō Escape roomAnime
2008 From the New World Yusuke Kishi, Tōru OikawaSurvivalNovel
2006 Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) Sakae Esuno Survival gameManga
2007 Gambling Emperor Legend Zero (Tobaku Haouden Rei)Nobuyuki FukumotoSurvival game, gamblingManga
2018 Gannibal Masaaki NinomiyaSurvivalManga
2000 Gantz Hiroya Oku Survival gameManga
1983 Ginga Hyōryū Vifam (Galactic Drifter Vifam) Takeyuki Kanda, Hiroyuki HoshiyamaSurvivalAnime
2015 Gleipnir Sun TakedaSurvival gameManga
2001 Gyo Junji Ito SurvivalManga
2017 Hand Shakers Hiromitsu KanazawaSurvival game (Street fighting)Anime
2018 Heavenly Delusion Masakazu Ishiguro SurvivalManga
2021 Hell's Boat 136 Jirou MaedaSurvival gameManga
2018 Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku Yuji Kaku SurvivalManga
2013 High-Rise Invasion Tsuina Miura, Takahiro ObaSurvivalManga [6]
2006 Highschool of the Dead Daisuke Satō, Shōji Satō SurvivalManga
2018 Human Ranch Yusura Kankitsu, Ageha SaotomeSurvivalManga
2011 Ikkyuu Hashimoto EijiSurvival game (Clash Club - Street fighting)Manga
2016 I'm Standing on a Million Lives Naoki Yamakawa, Akinari NaoSurvival, IsekaiManga
1999 Infinite Ryvius Yōsuke Kuroda SurvivalAnime
2014 The Island of Giant Insects Yasutaka Fujimi, Redice, Shu HiroseSurvivalManga [7]
2021 Island Survival with Alchemy (Renkinjutsu Mujintou Survival)Renji Hoshi, Kon IguchiSurvivalManga
2009 Isle of heavenly prison (Tengoku no Shima)Yuusuke OchiaiSurvivalManga
2015 Juni Taisen: Zodiac War Nisio Isin, Hikaru Nakamura Survival gameLight novel
1982Adrift in the Pacific (Jūgo Shōnen Hyōryūki)SurvivalNovel
2011Jūgo Shōnen HyōryūkiShiwasudaSurvivalNovel
2016Manga de Yomeru! Jūgo Shōnen HyōryūkiHiroshi UnoSurvivalNovel
1987The Story of Fifteen Boys (Hitomi no Naka no Shounen: Jūgo Shōnen Hyōryūki)SurvivalNovel
1993 Jyu-Oh-Sei (Jyu-Oh-Sei: Planet of the Beast King) Natsumi Itsuki SurvivalManga
2016 Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Ichirō Ōkouchi SurvivalAnime
2005 Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek Shuhei Morita Survival gameAnime
2023 KamiErabi God.app Yoko Taro, JinSurvival gameAnime
Kankin Kuiki Level X (Lockdown Zone: Lv. X)SurvivalWeb novel
2006 Kämpfer Toshihiko Tsukiji, SenmuSurvival gameLight novel
2010 Kemurikusa Tatsuki, irodoriSurvivalAnime
2013 Killing Bites Shinya Murata, Kazuasa SumitaSurvival game LiteManga
2015 King of the Ants (Ari no Ou)Ryuu Itou, UhyosukeSurvivalManga
2002 King of Thorn Yūji Iwahara SurvivalManga
2009 King's Game The Animation Nobuaki Kanazawa Survival gameCell phone novel
2005 Liar Game Shinobu Kaitani Survival game LiteManga
2012 Magical Girl Apocalypse (Magical Girl of the End)Kentarō SatōSurvivalManga
2012 Magical Girl Raising Project Asari Endō, MaruinoSurvival gameLight novel [8]
2013 Magical Girl Site Kentarō SatōSurvivalManga
2010/11 Majan - Osoremura Kibun Shinsaku KamimuraSurvival gameManga
2014 Mission in the South! (Minamission!)Hiyori Mikagami, Tooru HisakaSurvivalManga
2024 Murder Mystery of the Dead Cosaic, Group SNE, Giggle Akiguchi, Teren MikamiSurvivalBoard game
2017 No Game No Life: Zero Jukki Hanada Survival gameManga
2014 The Ones Within (Nakanohito Genome [Jikkyouchuu])OsoraSurvival gameManga
2022 The Orbital Children Mitsuo Iso SurvivalAnime
2011 Phi Brain: Puzzle of God Mayori Sekijima, Junichi SatoSurvival gameAnime
1984 The Planet Garaga Satomi MikuriyaSurvivalManga
2015 Platinum End Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata Survival gameManga
2018 The Promised Neverland Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu SurvivalManga
2007 Psyren Toshiaki IwashiroSurvival gameManga
2011 Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Madoka Magica)Magica Quartet, Gen Urobuchi SurvivalAnime
2007 RAPPA Sakurako Yamada, Hideyuki KikuchiSurvival, Bounty huntersManga
2017 Record of Ragnarok Shinya Umemura, Takumi Fukui, AzychikaSurvivalManga
2022 Reincarnation Colosseum Harawata Saizou, ZuntaSurvival game LiteManga
2015 Rengoku Deadroll Homura Kawamoto, Hideaki YoshimuraSurvival gameManga
1997 Revolutionary Girl Utena Yōji Enokido Survival gameAnime
2012 Riddle Story of Devil (Akuma no Riddle) Yun Kōga, Sunao MinakataSurvivalManga
2009 The Severing Crime Edge Tatsuhiko HikagiSurvival gameManga
2021 Sonny Boy Shingo Natsume Survival, IsekaiAnime. [9]
1976 Survival Takao SaitoSurvivalManga [10]
2008 Survival (Kagaku x Bouken Survival!)Hyun Dong Han, Jung Wook KimSurvivalManhwa
2015Survival: S Boy's RecordsTakao Saito, Akira MiyagawaSurvivalManga
1981 The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island Shōzō MatsudaSurvivalAnime
2016 Talentless Nana Looseboy, Iori FuruyaSurvivalManga
2013 Tasūketsu: Fate of the Majority Taiga MiyakawaSurvival gameManga
2015 Tatoe Hai ni Natte mo Kakashi OniyazuSurvival game, gamblingManga
1976 Terra e... Keiko TakemiyaSurvivalManga
2005 Togainu no Chi Nitro+CHiRAL Survival gameVideo game
2014 Tohyo Game (Voting Game)Chihiro, G.O., TatsuhikoSurvival gameManga
1993 Tokyo Game Hiromi AoyamaSurvival gameManga
2009 Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Natsuko Takahashi, Kazuya MurataSurvivalAnime
2013 Tomodachi Game Mikoto Yamaguchi, Yuki SatoEscape roomManga
2024 Train to the End of the World apogeego, Michiko Yokote SurvivalAnime
2018 Uncharted Walker (Mi Yu Xing Zhe )SurvivalDonghua
2003 Uninhabited Planet Survive! Shōji Yonemura SurvivalAnime
2006 Usogui (The Lie Eater)Toshio SakoSurvival game, gamblingManga
2009 Waluta Hanga Yuki FujisawaSurvivalManga
2020 The War of Greedy Witches Homura Kawamoto, Makoto ShiozukaSurvivalManga
2017 Your Turn to Die -Death Game by Majority- NankidaiSurvival gameVideo game
2018 Yurusaba (Yuru Survival)Tarou SekiguchiSurvivalManga
2001 Zatch Bell! Makoto Raiku Survival Game LiteManga
2018 Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Haro Aso, Kotaro TakataSurvivalManga

See also

References

  1. ↑ 「7SEEDS」完結巻に田村由美書き下ろしシナリオのドラマCD、flowersに外伝も [Drama CD of the scenario written by Yumi Tamura in the completion volume of "7SEEDS", flowers and Gaiden]. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 10 August 2017. Archived from the original on August 11, 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "Survival Game Fans Should Watch Aiyou's Secret Room". cbr.com. 14 June 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  3. ↑ Loo, Egan (July 9, 2013). "I.G. Makes Anime Ad of Suspense Manga Alice in Borderland". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on July 11, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2020. Shogakukan began streaming an anime commercial for Haro Aso's survival suspense manga Alice in Borderland
  4. ↑ "Sentai Filmworks Adds BToom! Survival Action Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Doreiku Survival Game Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network . October 6, 2017. Archived from the original on October 7, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  6. ↑ Pineda, Rafael (January 13, 2021). "High-Rise Invasion Anime Unveils Trailer, More Cast, Staff, Song Artists, February 25 Debut". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on March 11, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
  7. ↑ Loo, Egan (December 26, 2018). "The Island of Giant Insects Survival Horror Manga Gets Anime DVD (Updated)". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  8. ↑ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (September 8, 2015). "Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku Magical Girl Survival Novels Get Anime". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on July 8, 2019. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  9. ↑ Loo, Egan (April 28, 2021). "One-Punch Man Helmer Shingo Natsume, Madhouse Reunite for Sci-Fi Survival Anime Sonny Boy". Anime News Network . Archived from the original on July 1, 2021. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  10. ↑ サバイバル. Mangapedia  [ ja ] (in Japanese). Voyage Group. Retrieved July 24, 2024.


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