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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Ajin: Demi-Human, Vol. 3.
Setting labels used: Japan, high school, research center, laboratory, prison, government facilities, urban setting, contemporary setting, secret experiment program
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
![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: 0.1300
A hunted immortal teen is captured for experiments and pulled deeper into the hidden world of demi-humans.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern Japan · high school · government lab · detention center · urban pursuit · secret research · hidden society · science fiction reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1370
A wrongly convicted man chooses a secret one-year program over prison, only to enter a torture-driven transformation.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · experimental facility · prison system · secret government program · medical/treatment facility · correctional program · claustrophobic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1797
Haunted and hunted, a sarcastic teen metahuman faces a city-threatening enemy while searching for answers about her mother.
Why this is here
Setting labels: urban setting · contemporary setting · school/campus setting · compound setting · secret facility · modern world · superpowered world · government organization
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1995
A failed escape lands a teen prisoner in a grotesque transformation into the monster he fears most.
Why this is here
Setting labels: underground prison · futuristic prison · secret laboratory · present day · modern time · dystopian facility · underworld setting · prison hospital · military experiment site · unknown location
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2037
An abused, stuttering woman is abducted into a secret breeding program and drawn to the super soldier meant to be her mate.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secret facility · private military base · laboratory · compound · government program
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2040
An undercover lab worker is branded a traitor, forcing a rescued Species male to choose between old hurt and new truth.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secret research facility · testing lab · medical lab · Homeland · Reservation · Fuller Prison · New Species world · near-future speculative reality · captivity setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2057
A bullied teen’s buried grief cracks open a hidden power and pulls her toward a secret world she barely understands.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · school setting · teen setting · contemporary setting · secret facility · hidden world · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2061
A disfigured scientist builds a lifelike mask and discovers it may free, split, or destroy his sense of self.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Japan · 1960s Japan · Laboratory · Urban setting · Postwar setting · Modern society · Experimental science · Social world · Domestic setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2092
A fugitive flock of winged teens heads west, facing betrayal, destiny, and a looming secret plan.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Florida · head west · secret laboratory · school · science lab · cave · contemporary · dystopian · experimental facility
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2093
A modern Ultimate Universe reboot follows four gifted teens as a science experiment changes their lives and forms a new team.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate universe · secret school · government-run facility · science campus · modernized setting · young adulthood · high school
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2099
A schoolgirl discovers time-leaping abilities and, alongside a second story about fears, confronts memory, consequence, and change.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · school science lab · 1960s · Japan · future society · everyday life · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2101
A covert experimenter’s work turns personal when a hidden government weapon starts haunting his grieving daughter.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secret underground facility · laboratory · padded cells · sensory deprivation chamber · covert government site · contemporary setting · paranoia-driven workplace · home setting · surveillance culture · high-security institution
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2115
A framed boy joins prison rebels in a violent, twisty escape attempt through a dystopian amusement-prison.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-disaster Tokyo · dystopian prison · amusement park prison · hidden laboratory · human testing facility · containment setting · futuristic dystopia
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2231
A brilliant but socially isolated teen wins a science prize, then a lab discovery pulls her into dangerous international intrigue.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · laboratory · science competition · Stockholm · Sweden · Europe · California · Russia · international setting · contemporary world · real-world science setting · academic research setting · underground lab · secret lab · ballrooms
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2234
A young hybrid and her alien boyfriend face betrayal, rescue missions, and a devastating cliffhanger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · contemporary earth · secret facility · underground labs · hybrid world · alien hidden world · government agency · urban fantasy setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2244
A med-school dropout turned facility doctor falls for her undead patient, then gets pulled into his revenge and escape plan.
Why this is here
Setting labels: research facility · secret facility · isolated facility · medical setting · undead world · monster containment · laboratory · post-dropout life · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2263
![Cover of プラチナデータ [Platina Data] by Keigo Higashino](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1419073057i/15780344.jpg)
A DNA-powered police system frames its creator, forcing him and a skeptical detective to uncover a deeper conspiracy.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Japan · contemporary Japan · near-future · high-tech surveillance state · police procedural setting · research institute · hospital/neurology setting · urban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2299
A cloned teenage assassin escapes her creators and fights to claim an identity beyond violence and control.
Why this is here
Setting labels: secret facility · Marvel Universe · San Francisco · superhero continuity · teen years · laboratory setting · urban setting · science experiment
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2337
A night-shift worker at a haunted-object institute uncovers linked ghost stories that expose human cruelty as much as the supernatural.
Why this is here
Setting labels: mysterious research center · haunted institute · night shift setting · present day · South Korea · laboratory-like facility · isolated workplace · contained setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2340
A human widow and a nonhuman rescuer are thrown into captivity together, forcing attraction into survival and turmoil.
Why this is here
Setting labels: lab captivity · human task force · reservation · compound · guesthouse · urban fantasy setting · secret facility
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2381
A mutant is abducted into a secret experiment that turns him into a weapon through brutal body-horror science.
Why this is here
Setting labels: laboratory · research complex · military facility · underground facility · claustrophobic setting · dark setting · science fiction setting · modern setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2396
A trainee anchor’s thesis on time-bending collides with a failed exam, a grudged professor, and a stranger named Peri.
Why this is here
Setting labels: college setting · university setting · training program · research lab · government training · near-future · futuristic · alternate reality · time-bending world · classroom setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2401
A physicist’s gravity breakthrough draws a covert agency that hoards dangerous advances and traps rebels in a hidden prison.
Why this is here
Setting labels: near future · contemporary future · high-tech prison · secret facility · shadow government · United States · underground cells · covert research complex
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2402
