Ibara no Ou


King of Thorn

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Ibara no Oh
Japanese: いばらの王
English: King of Thorn
German: King of Thorn
Spanish: El Rey Espino: King of Thron
French: Le Roi des Ronces
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Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 9, 2009
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, HorrorHorror, MysteryMystery, Sci-FiSci-Fi, SuspenseSuspense
Themes: GoreGore, PsychologicalPsychological, SurvivalSurvival
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 1 hr. 49 min.
Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 6.861 (scored by 3669936,699 users)
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Ranked: #50012
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Popularity: #2549
Members: 78,480
Favorites: 172

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Hypothetically, if I were ever to be cryogenically frozen in the hope of people from the future coming up with a cure for a fictional, incurable disease, I would feel a tad concerned. Why? Because anime has taught me that whenever a character does so, they wake up at some undetermined date with the apocalypse seemingly having occurred whilst sleeping - with the character forgotten - and there being very angry, man-eating creatures prowling around. As well as healthy plant overgrowth. I would opt to go back to sleep until the world unbuggers itself, personally. The above is the premise of both series, by the way:  read more 
report Recommended by AironicallyHuman
There are similar themes of nature taking over, although for different causes and reasons. The main characters in both films also strike a few similarities: one being that they suddenly find themselves involved in a situation seemingly beyond their control and that they both have someone very close to them, someone they would go to the ends of the earth for. 
report Recommended by Touka
- some creature harm humanity - twin female main character - one of the twin directly or indirectly related to the creature caused a catastrophe - the other one of the twin trying to save her along with humanity  
report Recommended by -ventisca-
The premise of both Parasyte and King of Thorn are similar, there are parasitical organism that enters earth and begins feeding on humans. Albeit King of Thorn focuses it on a smaller scale with less people. There are much more differences other than this single similarity.  
report Recommended by ST63LTH
The main character is introduced to a situation and setting in which everyone is in danger of dying by otherworldly means, and has to try to escape from the situation. In order to achieve this, they must figure out a) what the fuck is going on and b) who is behind it all. Both animes start with a large group of characters but by the end most have been thinned out and few survive. Another's ending and answer to the mystery is pretty conclusive... but King of Thorn just leaves you with more unanswered questions. 
report Recommended by lycheejane
The movie and the show does involve staples of a sci fi concepts, like cryo sleep, immoral human experiments, as well as small humber of people, trying to survive the harsh environment. 
report Recommended by Tyrraell
Ibara no Ou and Bloodivores are about a ragtag group of characters that are locked away and wake up some time later to find out their world has heavily changed. Both anime has monsters that hunt everyone down by the masses and the audience must figure out what happened. 
report Recommended by Third-Impact
They both have legend base story. They both have main character as a girl. Both stories are acceptingly heart whelming and beautiful with a unique romance and are somewhat adventurous in my opinion .The characters had lost something important in their lives and try to regain it but they only made it worse what they had. Characters suddenly find themselves involved in a situation seemingly beyond their control and that they both have someone very close to them, someone they would go to the ends of the earth for.  
report Recommended by future_dose
Both shows deal with making their imaginations become a reality (which is key in both). The main characters in both have an extremely similar "background". Both deal with a major company serving as the antagonist of the series, who on the outside seems good but actually has evil ulterior motives. 
report Recommended by Winter9
"What is real, what is dream?"-type of movies. If you liked Inception you should check these out. 
report Recommended by AfterGlow
A group of imprisoned people have to fight for survival while trying to seperate ally from enemy, uncover the truth, and scramble for an escape plan. 
report Recommended by lithiumflower
Equally confusing and overdone ending. Just before the ending you really start to admire the movie/series but once the ending comes, it turned out you didn't knew anything and still don't know anything. And also the vision of the end of world. 
report Recommended by lolwutwhatever
Both are movies that are fictionally adapted from stories that we all read/heard as kids. 
report Recommended by Shwele
In both anime there's a sci-fi themed prison-like area; deadly virus; group of people struggling to survive; at the end it turns out to be an unexpected twist. 
report Recommended by SomeoneLost
Both are Survival oriented Both have a variety of different characters Both are very intense and have gore 
report Recommended by P3B1G5