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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Gantz/1.
Setting labels used: Tokyo, subway station, sealed room, mysterious apartment, contemporary Japan, urban setting, alien reality, near-future sci-fi
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Dead people are forced into a lethal alien-hunt game, where survival depends on points, weapons, and nerve.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Tokyo · apartment room · urban setting · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1150
![Cover of エルフェンリート 1 [Elfen Lied 1] by Lynn Okamoto](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1437196298i/555412.jpg)
An escaped mutant with split identities is taken in by strangers while the government hunts her down.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Japanese setting · government laboratory · secret facility · urban setting · contemporary setting · science fiction reality · speculative biology
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1500
A neglected 58-year-old father is transformed by an alien accident into a cyborg and must decide what to do with his new power.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · contemporary Japan · urban setting · domestic setting · everyday life · grounded reality · science fiction reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1533
An unnamed man is pulled between an information war in Tokyo and a walled town where shadows are lost and dreams are read.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Tokyo · walled town · underground · subterranean · future Japan · dreamlike world · surreal world · contemporary Tokyo · isolated town · fictional reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1555
A masked high schooler wakes in a human meat facility and fights to escape a nightmare of gore, secrets, and monsters.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary Japan · industrial facility · underground facility · slaughterhouse · human meat plant · dystopian world · urban commute · post-gas abduction · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1629
![Cover of 東京喰種トーキョーグール:re 13 [Tokyo Guru:re 13] by Sui Ishida](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1508016932i/35674820.jpg)
A chaotic, high-stakes Tokyo battle pushes ghouls and investigators toward collapse, revelation, and one desperate fight to survive.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Tokyo · underground district · 24th ward · urban fantasy · hidden society
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1683
In a near-future city where human rights are for sale, a disillusioned man is drawn into the world of rightsless assassins.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · futuristic Tokyo · dystopian future · cyberpunk city · lawless underclass · social division · urban rooftops · Japan
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1684
In ruined Neo-Tokyo, rival powers collide in a psychic, military, and political showdown that decides humanity’s future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Neo-Tokyo · post-apocalyptic future · futuristic urban setting · Japan · war-torn city · ruined metropolis
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1716
Four uncanny tales set in a future Tokyo where birth, sex, marriage, and death obey radically different rules.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Tokyo · future Tokyo · near future · future society · alternate reality · Japan
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1721
A broke student finds a discarded humanoid computer in the trash and becomes entangled in her mystery and their bond.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · Tokyo · urban Japan · tech-saturated society · computer-mediated life · humanlike androids · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1739
In near-future Tokyo, an architect designs a radical prison-tower for criminals while wrestling with language, AI, and her own doubts.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near-future Tokyo · alternate Tokyo · dystopian future · alternative history · Shinjuku · urban skyline · skyscraper setting · prison facility · utopian enclave · post-2020 Tokyo
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1788
![Cover of ダンダダン 12 [Dan Da Dan 12] by Yukinobu Tatsu](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1701118835i/202632899.jpg)
An alien invasion erupts as the team trains, reunites, and fights to survive while one member’s origins come into focus.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern Tokyo · Hokkaido · urban setting · space invasion · supernatural world · earth under threat · alien attack
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1814
