Anime like Battle Girls: Time Paradox

What is Battle Girls: Time Paradox about?

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished

Hideyoshino is an average girl who always seems to find trouble wherever she goes. One day Hideyoshino visits a local shrine to pray in order to pass her upcoming test. However Hideyoshino sees a blue light coming from inside the Shrine and looks inside to find a mysterious person performing a magic spell. Hideyoshino in a stroke of bad luck trips on a small bell and crashes into the shrine prompting the stranger to catch her. However upon catching Hideyoshino the magic spell spirals out of control and sends Hideyoshino back in time to the Sengoku Era.

Hideyoshino then encounters Akechi Mitsuhide and Oda Nobunaga. But unlike what really happened during the era, Hideyoshino realizes that everyone in the world is female. She then decides to help Oda Nobunaga find the Crimson Armor which is said to allow the person wearing the armor to conquer all of Japan.

Tags: Historical , Isekai , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Swordplay , Super Power , Time Manipulation , Samurai , Female Harem , Asexual

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Oda Nobuna no Yabou

Also known as The Ambition of Oda Nobuna.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Pony Canyon , AT-X , Studio Gokumi , KLOCKWORX , SoftBank Creative Corp.
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance

The historical romantic comedy follows 17-year-old high schooler Sagara Yoshiharu who one day time-travels to the Sengoku period, where all the major Samurai lords are cute girls. Yoshiharu meets Oda Nobuna, the female counterpart of Oda Nobunaga, and begins to serve her as a substitute of Kinoshita Tokichiro, who was killed.

Tags: Historical , Isekai , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Female Harem , Samurai , Male Protagonist , Anachronism , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , War , Time Manipulation , Ninja , Alternate Universe , Kuudere , Yandere

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Sengoku Collection

Also known as Sengoku Collection.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Brain's Base , NAS , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

Sengoku Collection revolves around many samurai who are accidentally removed from a parallel universe inhabited by well-known historic characters. Unlike the historical war period known to us, all inhabitants in this unique world look like high school girls. Coming from the medieval era and finding themselves totally amazed by everything they encounter in modern day Tokyo, the girls become best friends through their adventures.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Episodic , Anthology , Parody , Swordplay , Isekai , Idol

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Kimetsu no Yaiba

Also known as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Studio: ufotable , Aniplex , Shueisha , Aniplex of America , ufotable , ufotable
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.

Tags: Demons , Shounen , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Tragedy , Monster Girl , Primarily Teen Cast , Revenge , Travel , Orphan , CGI , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Mythology , Rural , Slapstick , Historical , Rotoscoping , Super Power , Body Horror , Curses , Chibi , Time Skip , Snowscape , Animals , Food

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Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls

Also known as Samurai Girls.

Studio: Arms , Genco , Lantis , Media Factory , Movic , Sentai Filmworks , Hobby Japan , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

The story takes place in Japan in the early 21st century, in an alternate reality where the Tokugawa Shogunate has remained in power. In this reality, student councils are tasked with oppressing schools. Yagyuu Muneakira is a high school student who rebels against his student council with the help of girls who've had the names of famous samurai heroes passed on to them.

Tags: Nudity , Samurai , Henshin , Primarily Female Cast , Female Harem , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , School , Parody

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Katanagatari

Also known as Katanagatari.

Studio: Aniplex , Lantis , Kodansha , Movic , Fuji TV , WHITE FOX , NIS America Inc.
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Romance

Yasuri Shichika, seventh successor of the Kyotouryuu (bladeless) sword art, lives on an isolated island with his older sister, Nanami.

One day Shichika is visited by a woman named Togame, who requests his aid in her quest to find and collect the final twelve swords forged by the legendary master swordsmith, Shikizaki Kiki. Shichika and Togame begin their odyssey by leaving the island he called home for over 20 years. They will face twelve individuals who possess and protect Shikizaki's legendary swords.

Join Shichika and Togame on an exciting, epic adventure that defies reality as they discover the true potential of the Kyoutoryuu sword style!

Tags: Swordplay , Martial Arts , Tragedy , Historical , Samurai , Revenge , Travel , Philosophy , Gore , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Ninja , Female Protagonist , Politics , Anachronism , Meta , Episodic , Coming of Age , Primarily Adult Cast , Rural , Tsundere , Time Manipulation , Body Horror , Slapstick , Guns , Body Swapping , Shapeshifting , Nudity , Shrine Maiden , Desert , Ghost , Urban , Robots

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Karakuri no Kimi

Also known as Puppet Princess.

Studio: Media Blasters , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Toho , TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural

Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet warriors to seek revenge. She can manipulate these to battle the strongest of warriors, however manipulating the puppets leaves her own self vulnerable to direct attacks, so she seeks a ninja warrior named Manajiri to aid and protect her in her quest.

Tags: Historical , Revenge , Gore , Ninja , Swordplay , Body Horror , Nudity

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RetroCrush

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Power Stone

Also known as Power Stone.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Avex Entertainment , ADV Films , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

An ancient legend tells of a magical Powerstone that granted its owner any wish desired. Adventurers from all over the globe clash as they seek this mystical gem.

Based upon the Dreamcast game, POWERSTONE tries to entertain us with the story behind the game's premise. The plot begins with our hero, Fokker, training to be a fighter like his idol, Vargas.

Tags: Historical , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Anachronism , Ninja , Samurai , Estranged Family , Travel , Butler , Foreign , Martial Arts , Henshin , Pirates , Aviation , Love Triangle , Crossdressing , Ships , Desert

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Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran

Also known as Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Bandai Visual , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

In the Edo or Tokugawa period (1600-1868), Ran, a female wandering samurai whose skill with the katana is only matched by her taste for sake (rice wine), is joined by a chinese martial artist who calls herself Lady Meow of the Iron Cat Fist. Tsukikage Ran has individual episodes that are just short stories of their adventures.

Tags: Historical , Rural , Episodic , Samurai , Female Protagonist , Martial Arts , Swordplay

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Tubi TV

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Kunoichi Tsubaki no Mune no Uchi

Also known as In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Chuugai Kougyou , Good Smile Company , Shogakukan , BS11 , ADK Marketing Solutions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Deep in the mountains in the middle of nowhere lives a group of kunoichi called Akane Class. These kunoichi work hard together to improve their own skills, and they all live by an unbreakable rule: “Contact with men is strictly forbidden.” But everything takes an unexpected turn when Tsubaki, leader of one of the groups, starts experiencing strange feelings whenever the subject of men comes up.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Ninja , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , Feet , Tsundere , Tanned Skin , Heterosexual , Episodic , Rural , Twins , Shounen , Gyaru , Slapstick , Magic

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Nobunaga-sensei no Osanazuma

Also known as Nobunaga teacher's young bride.

Studio: Seven
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Supernatural

"One day, there'll be a girl who'll fall head over heels for me."

Nobunaga was a teacher who was waiting for that kind of dating sim event to happen in real life. One day, a 14 year old girl named Kicho appears in front of him, saying that she's his wife?! Apparently she came from the Warring States era and seems to have mistaken Nobunaga for the Oda Nobunaga and tells him that she wants to have his children. An age-gap love comedy featuring a teacher with a dating sims brain and a princess with a warring states era brain!!

Tags: Nudity , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Urban Fantasy , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Crossdressing , Teacher , Samurai , Love Triangle , School , Historical , Large Breasts

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