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Premise labels used: walled city, monster siege, class divide, tinker apprentice, hidden conspiracy, survival quest, coming of age, fleeing home, post-war society, investigation

Setting labels used: walled city, mountain city, post-apocalyptic world, post-war world, deadlands, highlands, lowlands, fractured society, industrial fantasy, steam-powered society, city-state world, monster-filled wasteland

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Defiance

C.J. Redwine · 2012 · Defiance

A rebellious teen crosses a walled wasteland to find her missing father, guarded by the boy she once loved.

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Premise labels: missing father · protective escort · forbidden love · escape mission · walled city · monster threat · tyrannical ruler · truth-seeking

Setting labels: walled city · wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian society · fantasy world · medieval-like setting · futuristic setting · hybrid technology · closed society · forest · city-state

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Monstrous Lies

K.A. Knight · 2022 · Forgotten City

A scavenging human crosses a wall into monster territory and discovers the real danger may be the lies keeping both sides apart.

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Premise labels: wall divide · monster romance · forbidden territory · survival mission · truth concealment · claimed mate

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · dystopian · walled city · slums · ruined city · monster territory · war-torn world · future

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Distance: 0.1716

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進撃の巨人 9 [Shingeki no Kyojin 9]

Hajime Isayama, 諫山創 · 2012 · 進撃の巨人 [Shingeki no Kyojin]

A breached wall sends soldiers into a tense, mystery-filled hunt for answers as new titan powers and secrets emerge.

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Premise labels: humanity vs giants · wall breach · mystery thriller · siege survival · secret origins · enemy intelligence · hidden truth

Setting labels: walled city · post-apocalyptic world · siege setting · faux-medieval society · military setting · rural villages · castle setting · dark fantasy world

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No. 6: The Manga, Volume 01

Atsuko Asano · 2013 · No. 6: The Manga

An elite boy in a sealed futuristic city shelters a fugitive, triggering a conspiracy and a bond that could change everything.

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Premise labels: walled city · hidden corruption · fugitive sheltering · surveillance state · elite student · forbidden alliance · mystery conspiracy

Setting labels: futuristic city · walled city · dystopian society · authoritarian city · near future · controlled city · post-collapse world

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Reactive

Becky Moynihan · 2018 · The Elite Trials

In a walled dystopian city, a scarred teen fights deadly trials for freedom when a boy from her past returns with secrets.

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Premise labels: freedom quest · deadly trials · walled city · forbidden return · second chance · dangerous secrets · enemies to lovers · survival contest

Setting labels: futuristic dystopia · post-apocalyptic world · walled city · city-state · forest wilds · ruined world · electrified walls · mutated beasts · supernatural undertone · high-tech combat

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Distance: 0.1842

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Attack on Titan, Vol. 13

Hajime Isayama · 2014 · 進撃の巨人 [Shingeki no Kyojin]

After a brutal battle, hidden truths and political schemes push humanity’s defenders toward an unstable coup.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · humanity under siege · giant monsters · hidden truth · government conspiracy · military resistance · power struggle · mystery unraveling

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · walled city · inside the walls · militarized society · capital · human enclave · siege setting · science-fantasy world

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Distance: 0.1849

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Escape from Lucien

Kazu Kibuishi · 2014 · Amulet

In a war-torn fantasy world, siblings split between a city mission and a perilous descent into memory face rising secrets and danger.

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Premise labels: resistance mission · city under siege · quest for beacon · memory descent · enemy within · family quest · prophecy mission

Setting labels: imaginary world · war-torn city · abandoned city · underground society · void realm · memory realm · elf territory · steampunk world · fantasy world

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Fires of Invention

J. Scott Savage · 2015 · Mysteries of Cove

In a sealed mountain city where invention is forbidden, a young tinkerer uncovers clues to a secret machine that could upend everything.

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Premise labels: forbidden invention · underground city · secret project · clue hunt · mechanical dragon · hidden truth · creative rebellion

Setting labels: underground city · mountain city · sealed society · post-apocalyptic · dystopian future · steam-powered city · hidden civilization · air-poisoned world · industrial-age city · claustrophobic setting

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Distance: 0.1867

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Citadel

C.M. Alongi · 2023

A nonverbal autistic outcast in a walled theocracy discovers the “demons” beyond the forest may be people.

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Premise labels: walled city · false enemy · sentient monsters · oppressive theocracy · outcast protagonist · truth quest · peace broker · forbidden knowledge

Setting labels: walled city · flooded forest · alien planet · low-tech future · theocratic society · dystopian future · isolated civilization

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The Battle of Jericho Hill

Robin Furth · 2010 · Stephen King's The Dark Tower

Roland and his ka-tet face the doomed final battle that ends their age and pushes his story toward the Tower.

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Premise labels: fall of a city · last stand · war story · betrayal · post-collapse conflict · quest backstory · endgame

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · war-torn wasteland · fallen city · fantasy world · crossroads of reality · beam mythology · gunslinger world · alternate-world setting · nine years later

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The Dead Lands

Benjamin Percy · 2015

In a ruined America, two allies leave a fortress city after a stranger’s warning and cross a deadly wasteland westward.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic quest · walled city · outside world revelation · survival journey · search for refuge · expedition · rebuilding society

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic America · ruined United States · walled city · former St. Louis · wasteland · dead lands · Oregon route · far future · dystopian future · irradiated landscape · mutated ecosystem

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Taken

Erin Bowman · 2013 · Taken

In a walled dystopian town where boys vanish at 18, one teen hunts the truth and the world beyond the Wall.

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Premise labels: disappearing boys · wall-bound society · mystery hook · secretive government · survival choice · escape quest · conspiracy · experimental society

Setting labels: walled village · isolated community · dystopian society · post-apocalyptic world · primitive settlement · outside-world discovery

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Distance: 0.1938

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