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Premise labels used: human captivity, survival escape, slaughterhouse setting, human as livestock, mysterious facility, nightmarish confinement, abduction, hidden conspiracy, factory farming allegory

Setting labels used: contemporary Japan, industrial facility, underground facility, slaughterhouse, human meat plant, dystopian world, urban commute, post-gas abduction, speculative reality

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The Arc

Ben Oliver · 2022 · The Loop Trilogy

In a dystopian future, a rebel group races to stop an AI apocalypse as new allies, betrayals, and sacrifice reshape everything.

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Premise labels: escape mission · prison break · rebellion · anti-AI resistance · apocalypse prevention · humanity at stake · captivity · survival

Setting labels: dystopian future · futuristic prison · laboratory · AI-controlled world · post-apocalyptic future · digital world · near-future · oppressive society

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Distance: 0.2008

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Calico Descending

Keri Lake · 2019 · Juniper Unraveling

Captured by a brutal facility, a young woman is trained for a weaponized Alpha and survival turns into dangerous intimacy.

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Premise labels: survival under captivity · forced pairing · human experimentation · controlled breeding · weaponized alpha · cure search · prison facility · oppressed heroine · mutated threat

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian world · research facility · medical facility · prison setting · underground facility · isolated compound · ruined world · deadlands · zombie apocalypse

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Distance: 0.2026

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Ajin: Demi-Human, Vol. 2

Gamon Sakurai · 2014 · 亜人 [Ajin]

A hunted immortal teen is captured for experiments and pulled deeper into the hidden world of demi-humans.

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Premise labels: immortal human · hidden species · government experiment · fugitive protagonist · human versus monster · survival quest · search for others · experimental captivity

Setting labels: modern Japan · high school · government lab · detention center · urban pursuit · secret research · hidden society · science fiction reality

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Distance: 0.2048

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Now We Are Animals

R.P. Nathan · 2021 · The Colonists

A teen girl’s journals reveal life as a human pet under alien colonizers and her growing resistance.

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Premise labels: alien rule · human livestock · human captivity · oppressed teens · pet captivity · resistance awakening · colonization allegory

Setting labels: near-future Earth · dystopian future · colonized planet · London · North London · Highbury · school setting · captivity setting · totalitarian regime · alternative Earth

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Distance: 0.2085

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Death Sentence

Alexander Gordon Smith · 2011 · Escape from Furnace

A failed escape lands a teen prisoner in a grotesque transformation into the monster he fears most.

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Premise labels: prison escape · body transformation · forced mutation · brainwashing · monster becoming · memory loss · survival struggle · captivity and escape · experimental prison · fight for humanity

Setting labels: underground prison · futuristic prison · secret laboratory · present day · modern time · dystopian facility · underworld setting · prison hospital · military experiment site · unknown location

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Distance: 0.2091

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Deadman Wonderland Volume 4

Jinsei Kataoka · 2011 · Deadman Wonderland

A framed boy joins prison rebels in a violent, twisty escape attempt through a dystopian amusement-prison.

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Premise labels: framed protagonist · wrongful conviction · prison survival · rebel uprising · blood powers · escape mission · cover-up conspiracy · government inspection

Setting labels: post-disaster Tokyo · dystopian prison · amusement park prison · hidden laboratory · human testing facility · containment setting · futuristic dystopia

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Distance: 0.2097

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The Cage

Megan Shepherd · 2015 · The Cage

A teen wakes in an alien-built human zoo with other captives, where escape, trust, and attraction collide.

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Premise labels: human zoo · alien captivity · teens in captivity · alien experiment · survival game · forced reproduction · escape attempt · otherworldly prison · selected test subjects

Setting labels: alien world · artificial environment · controlled habitat · space-based setting · mixed biomes · simulated Earth · captivity setting · dystopian enclosure

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Distance: 0.2106

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The Extinction Trials

A.G. Riddle · 2021

Six strangers wake in a bunker after a world-ending event and must solve a survival experiment with hidden motives.

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Premise labels: apocalypse survival · humanity restart · survival trial · mystery bunker · hidden experiment · trust no one · clue quest · escape journey · world-ending secret

Setting labels: underground facility · bunker · research facility · post-apocalyptic world · toxic atmosphere · island · future earth · near-extinction future · dystopian world

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Distance: 0.2107

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After God, Vol. 1

Sumi Eno · 2024 · アフターゴッド [After God]

A researcher and a high schooler cross paths in a god-ravaged Japan, where hidden secrets may hold the key to survival.

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Premise labels: god invasion · research institute · human resistance · quarantined zones · search for missing friend · secret power

Setting labels: Japan · Tokyo · Hokkaido · danger zone · uninhabitable zone · quarantined zone · post-apocalyptic world · near future · dystopian setting · alternate reality

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Escape to Eden

Rachel McClellan · 2016 · The Original

An amnesiac teen with a clue written on her hand must flee a controlled future and uncover who she is.

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Premise labels: amnesia · escape · secret identity · altered humans · genetic manipulation · original humans · pursuit · safe haven · survival · resistance

Setting labels: dystopian future · lab · hospital · secret colony · hidden refuge · controlled society · scientific future · post-human world

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Sirene

Laura Pugno · 2007

In a sun-scorched dystopian future, a guarded man in underwater society becomes entangled with captive sirens.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · human-animal boundary · animal exploitation · captivity · forbidden desire · inter-species reproduction · resource scarcity · sexual exploitation · ecological collapse

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · subaquatic refuge · underwater settlement · sun-damaged surface · criminal-controlled society · Japanese-coded setting · ecological dystopia · near-future dystopia

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Distance: 0.2141

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Homebound

Lydia Hope · 2020 · Rix Universe

A prison cleaner on a dying Earth nurses a near-catatonic alien inmate back to life, drawing them both into danger.

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Premise labels: alien prisoner · prison setting · dystopian Earth · nurse the captive · survival romance · opposites attract · forbidden attachment

Setting labels: dystopian Earth · post-apocalyptic future · prison · alien ward · city prison · scarce-resource world · mixed-species setting

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Distance: 0.2197

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