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If you liked Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou add

...then you might like Dungeon Seeker add

Arifureta and Dungeon seeker both have the same starting premise (MC gets stuck in an unbeatable dungeon) just that Dungeon seeker goes way darker with it(MC gets thrown into the dungeon by his "friends" & GF who also NTRed him (Chp2)). Dungeon Seeker also is a little more creative with combat utilizing a really creative strategy to take down enemies. The problem is Dungeon Seeker got cancelled resulting in a rushed ending leaving to a very unsatisfying ending. overall I would recommend reading the first ~two volumes of Dungeon seeker(up until MC leaves the dungeon) if you need to get a fix for your Arifureta addiction.

If you liked Rosario to Vampire add

...then you might like Mairimashita! Iruma-kun add

they both share the same premise. A human ends up attending a demon school. if you like one you will likely like the other.

If you liked Takahashi Rumiko Gekijou Ningyo no Mori add

...then you might like Hi no Tori add

Both deal with the existential question of the meaning of life, through the lens of immortality. In the case of Mermaid forest, it's through the lens of immortals seeking a way to cure their immortality. We see how their immortality affects their existence and how they perceive the world. As for Bird of Fire. We watch as the Phoenix acts as a witness and chronicler for the history of mankind's endless struggle in search of power, justice, and freedom. We see what drives humanity to live and grow as individuals and as a society and what drives them to ultimately seek out immortality. Whether for a selfless reason like love or for the sake of never ending greed. we bare witness to these traits and actions of people from the dawn of humanity to its inevitable destruction.

If you liked Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World add

...then you might like Fumetsu no Anata e add

both are about protagonists traveling the world, exploring different cultures and civilizations. they both have a philosophical feel to them and deal a lot in human nature and the nature of existence.

If you liked Gantz add

...then you might like I Am a Hero add

Gantz and I Am a Hero both have a very similar ending utilizing a bastardized part of Buddhist philosophy called saṃsāra as a part of their narratives. The use of saṃsāra has been criticized and praised by fans of both series. Criticized because it undermines the sacrifice of all the dead characters that can now be revived/ are revived and praised for bringing back fan favourite characters. Depending on whether you liked that aspect of the story or not you should consider reading or not reading the other story. Update It’s been a month since I posted this and in that time I got a couple of people asking how saṃsāra fits into the narrative of both stories and where you can see it occur. This was included in my original version of this recommendation but MAL accidentally deleted it, as a result, I'll have to try to summarize it again and not spoil anything. To start off with I'll have to explain what Saṃsāra is as a lot of people are confused about it. Firstly saṃsāra in any religion doesn't specify that reincarnation/rebirth needs to be in the form of a human and does not specify the individual has to be aware of their prior self. Secondly, when you go through saṃsāra you're not supposed to remember your past. (samsara is also observed in other religions but because of the form it takes in both series it is evident it's based on Buddhist saṃsāra and considering that Buddhism is the only religion in japan that practice samara it makes sense the authors base their bastardized version off of it) In the case of the ZQN in I Am a Hero they are still physically Zombies but they regain a part of if not all their consciousness/memories depending on the individual and point in the story. The most apparent time in the series this is shown is when the Nameless Mass of Brains (NMB) is shown communicating with the people inside itself. The zombies/people integrated into the NMB hive mind, have regained their sanity, intelligence, emotions, memories and personalities from when they were human (source chapter 231). Fully conscious ZQN also appears in chapters 188-190 and 217. There was never a definitive answer to what the ultimate fate of humans will be but you can infer from the aforementioned chapters that the *Spoilers* aliens intend to keep the consciences of humans and turn them into tools in potential some kind of hive mind. This lessens the impact of the destruction of humanity as instead of being wiped out they have been enslaved. *Spoilers* Moving on to Gantz, it talks about how the concept of saṃsāra works in their world in the Room of Truth or Alien God chapters 369-372. In chapter 372 someone inquired if flesh and blood were really all there were to humans' existence, questioning the existence of the human soul. The God Aliens then clarified if the "soul" he was referring to is the 21 grams of data released the moment a human died. It then started to explain that such a thing indeed exists. It then explained that when a human dies, this 21 grams of data migrates to a separate dimension. It is then extracted from the separate dimension and then imported into a new body when a new human baby is born. I can't get into how this fits into the overall story without spoilers but I can say that this encounter leads to the undermining of all the sacrifices in the story.

If you liked Back Street Girls: Gokudolls add

...then you might like Zombieland Saga add

both series have girls groups that are actually made up of members that you wouldn't expect to find in a girls group. in the case of back street girls, its men forced to go through gender reassignments surgery and become a girl group as punishment by their boss. in the case of Zombieland saga, its girls that are reanimated from the dead years or even centuries after death, that are turned into zombies and forced to be in a girls group by some crazy asshole. both series rely on their premisses to function as a series as they are integral for the series to function. as without them, they would have no distinguishing traits to set them apart from all the other girl group animes.

If you liked Hi no Tori add

...then you might like Lost Song add

Warning this recommendation only applies to a part of Last Song's. so if you didn't like this part of Last song then I suggest you ignore this recommendation. both deals with the meaning of life in the same way a good example of what I mean is this quote from Hi No Tori "Life is beginning of an eternity, a never-ending cycle." they show this narrative by introducing a character that's immortal. able to see the world play out on the level of eons show that no matter how much things may change they will always be the same. whether literally or more abstractly. the only difference is that unlike Hi no Tori which shows this meaning by having its characters reincarnated into a new era with a different setting they are shown to Ultimetry follow the same fate. Lost Song show this by having Finis become immortal. the message only starts to appear in its later part of the series (not including prior scenes that tie into the message later but don't act as foreshadowing). with all the dominos in place we see the story come full circle and get a new ending orchestrated by Finis