Anime like Afro Samurai

Samurai Champloo

Also known as Samurai Champloo.

Studio: Manglobe , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

Let's break it down. Mugen's a reckless sword-slinger with a style that's more b-boy than Shaolin. He's got a nasty streak that makes people want to stick a knife in his throat. Then there's Jin, a deadbeat ronin who speaks softly but carries a big blade. He runs game old-school style, but he can make your blood spray with the quickness. When these roughnecks bring the ruckus, it ain't good for anybody, especially them. Enter Fuu, the ditzy waitress who springs her new friends from a deadly jam. All she wants in return is help solving a riddle from her past. She and the boys are tracking the scent, but there's 99 ways to die between them and the sunflower samurai.



Tags: Travel , Swordplay , Samurai , Rural , Historical , Orphan , Martial Arts , Anachronism , Episodic , Assassins , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Prostitution , Kuudere , Tanned Skin , Politics , Drugs , Yakuza , Ninja , Religion , Heterosexual , Crossdressing , Nudity , Language Barrier , Zombie , Noir , Baseball , LGBTQ+ Themes

Yasuke

Also known as Yasuke.

Studio: MAPPA , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a peaceful existence after a past life of violence. But when a local village becomes the center of social upheaval between warring daimyo, Yasuke must take up his sword and transport a mysterious child who is the target of dark forces and bloodthirsty warlords. The story of Yasuke, the first African samurai who actually served the legendary Oda Nobunaga, will be released to the world.



Tags: Samurai , Swordplay , Anachronism , Historical , Magic , CGI , Male Protagonist , Robots , Military , War , Gore , Body Horror , Super Power , Monster Girl , Shapeshifting , Orphan , Urban Fantasy , Martial Arts

Cowboy Bebop

Also known as Cowboy Bebop.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Visual , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

Enter a world in the distant future, where Bounty Hunters roam the solar system. Spike and Jet, bounty hunting partners, set out on journeys in an ever struggling effort to win bounty rewards to survive.

While traveling, they meet up with other very interesting people. Could Faye, the beautiful and ridiculously poor gambler, Edward, the computer genius, and Ein, the engineered dog be a good addition to the group?

Tags: Space , Crime , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Noir , Travel , Guns , Cyberpunk , Male Protagonist , Found Family , Philosophy , Terrorism , Tomboy , Cowboys , Heterosexual , Martial Arts , Cyborg , Amnesia , Anti-Hero , Gambling , Yakuza , Drugs , Female Protagonist , Police , Cult , Tanned Skin , Nudity , Circus

Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023)

Also known as Rurouni Kenshin (2023).

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Aniplex , Shueisha , Fuji TV , Dentsu , Animax Broadcast Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

Re-adaptation of the main manga series.

One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, manslayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend.



Tags: Swordplay , Historical , Samurai , Male Protagonist , Martial Arts , Found Family , Shounen , Assassins , Age Gap , Rural , Heterosexual , Drugs , Travel

Ninja Kamui

Also known as Ninja Kamui.

Studio: E&H Production , Adult Swim , Sola Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

Higan is a Nukenin - a former ninja who escaped his clan and is hiding from his violent past in rural America with his family. One night, he is ambushed by a team of assassins from his former organization who exact a bloody retribution on Joe and his family for betraying their ancient code. Rising from his seeming “death,” Joe will re-emerge as his former self - Ninja Kamui - to avenge his family and friends. Kamui is a 21st century ninja, a shadowy anachronism who pits his ancient skills against high-tech weaponry with brutal finesse. He must face off against trained assassins, combat cyborgs, and rival ninjas to bring down the very clan that made him.



Tags: Ninja , Revenge , Assassins , Male Protagonist , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Urban , Foreign , Anti-Hero , CGI , Cyborg , Crime , Tokusatsu , Swordplay , Henshin , Detective , Cyberpunk , Super Robot , Police , POV

HELLSING OVA

Also known as Hellsing Ultimate.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Satelight , Funimation , StudioRF Inc. , Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, has long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing controls her own personal army to eliminate the undead beings, but even her highly trained soldiers pale in comparison to her most trusted vampire exterminator, a man by the name of Alucard, who is actually a powerful vampire himself. Along with Integra's mysterious butler and Alucard's new vampire minion, Seras Victoria, The Hellsing Organization must face not only regular ghouls and vampires, but a rivaling secret organization from the Vatican, and Millennium, an enigmatic group of madmen spawned by a certain war over 50 years ago...
A bloody battle between monsters is about to begin, the dead are dancing, and all hell is singing...

Tags: Vampire , Gore , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , War , Foreign , Anti-Hero , Religion , Primarily Adult Cast , Cannibalism , Military , Urban , Guns , Body Horror , Butler , Monster Girl , Male Protagonist , Noir , Primarily Male Cast , Monster Boy , Female Protagonist , Demons , Tomboy , Kemonomimi , Age Regression , Slapstick , Nekomimi , CGI , Werewolf , Chibi , Time Skip , Nudity , Super Power , Bisexual

Juubee Ninpuuchou

Also known as Ninja Scroll.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Movic , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Horror , Romance

Jubei Kibagami has always been the master dealer of death, but in rescuing a ninja woman from a monster he sets loose a chain of events that puts death in his own veins and sends them on a nightmarish odyssey through a surreal and devil infested ancient Japan. How do demonic possessions, an annihilated village and a man Jubei thought safely buried in his past all connect? If Jubei can't piece the blood-soaked clues together, his only consolation will be that he won't live to regret it for very long! Prepare your mind and steel your gut for the insanely gore-packed orgy of violence that still stands alone and unchallenged as the ultimate anime action feature.



Tags: Ninja , Historical , Gore , Swordplay , Heterosexual , Travel , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Rural , Politics , Nudity , Tragedy , Ships , Unrequited Love , LGBTQ+ Themes

MONSTERS: Ippaku Sanjou Hiryuu Jigoku

Also known as MONSTERS: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation.

Studio: E&H Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

MONSTERS: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation by Eiichiro Oda tells the tale of Ryuuma, the legendary swordsman that hails from the Land of Wano in One Piece.

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whose hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't want any trouble - but it finds them anyway.



Tags: Samurai , Swordplay , Tragedy , Dragons , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Historical , Time Skip

NOMAD: Megalo Box 2

Also known as MEGALOBOX 2: NOMAD.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi , Sports

The second season of Megalo Box.

In the end, “Gearless” Joe was the one that reigned as the champion of Megalonia, a first ever megalobox tournament. Fans everywhere were mesmerized by the meteoric rise of Joe who sprung out from the deepest underground ring to the top in mere three months and without the use of gear. Seven years later, “Gearless” Joe was once again fighting in underground matches. Adorned with scars and once again donning his gear, but now known only as Nomad.



Tags: Boxing , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Foreign , Time Skip , Dystopian , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Disability , Cyberpunk , Drugs , Found Family , Motorcycles

Dororo

Also known as Dororo.

Studio: MAPPA , Twin Engine , Tezuka Productions , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Supernatural

Dororo, a young orphan thief, meets Hyakkimaru, a powerful ronin. Hyakkimaru's father, a greedy feudal lord, had made a pact with 12 demons, offering his yet-unborn son's body parts in exchange for great power. Thus, Hyakkimaru - who was born without arms, legs, eyes, ears, a nose or a mouth - was abandoned in a river as a baby. Rescued and raised by Dr. Honma, who equips him with artificial limbs and teaches him sword-fighting techniques, Hyakkimaru discovers that each time he slays a demon, a piece of his body is restored. Now, he roams the war-torn countryside in search of demons.

Tags: Demons , Revenge , Disability , Swordplay , Tragedy , Samurai , Estranged Family , Youkai , Anti-Hero , Orphan , War , Male Protagonist , Curses , Historical , Rural , Travel , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Episodic , Philosophy , Crossdressing , Female Protagonist , Body Horror , Tomboy , Kuudere , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Ghost , Cannibalism , Heterosexual , Prostitution