Anime like BLACK LAGOON: Roberta's Blood Trail

Jormungand

Also known as Jormungand.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Funimation , WHITE FOX , Jormungand Production Partners
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

A ruthless arms dealer on a quixotic quest for world peace. A child soldier born into chaotic conflict. Their lives will intertwine as they journey together through the seedy underbelly of the world's arms market.



Tags: Guns , Military , Female Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Seinen , Foreign , Assassins , Criminal Organization , Travel , Orphan , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Desert , Tanned Skin , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Primarily Male Cast

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

Jormungand: PERFECT ORDER

Also known as Jormungand: Perfect Order.

Studio: Funimation , WHITE FOX , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Jormungand Production Partners
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

A ruthless arms dealer on a quixotic quest for world peace. A child soldier born into chaotic conflict. Their lives will intertwine as they journey together through the seedy underbelly of the world's arms market.



Tags: Guns , Anti-Hero , Military , Seinen , Assassins , War , Terrorism , Foreign , Tomboy , Orphan , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Urban , Travel , Ensemble Cast , Politics , Mafia , Age Gap , Unrequited Love , Tanned Skin , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Desert

Black Lagoon Omake

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Special omake episodes from the Blu-Ray releases, showing the heroines and foes in funny, uncommon situations.

Tags: Parody , Female Protagonist , Twins , Surreal Comedy , Gender Bending , School , Guns , Henshin , Time Manipulation , Age Regression

Kimi wa Meido-sama.

Also known as You are Ms. Servant.

Studio: Felix Film , TV Asahi , Avex Pictures , Shogakukan , AbemaTV , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , TV Asahi Music , Felix Film , BS Asahi
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

This is the story of a maid who is all alone in the world, but who finally finds a family.

Told from young that her only worth is as a killer, Yuki had known nothing else except cold efficiency and following orders. Now that she has a chance to leave her past behind, she arrives at the doorstep of Hitoyoshi Yokoya, asking to be employed… as a maid?! Thus begins the journey of a former assassin learning what it means to be ‘normal’!



Tags: Maids , Estranged Family , Assassins , Found Family , Heterosexual , Rehabilitation , Urban , Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Kuudere , Shounen , Cohabitation , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Work , School , Iyashikei , Slapstick , Ninja , Food , Fashion , Chibi , Denpa , Foreign , Guns

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Also known as Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Studio: TRIGGER , CD PROJEKT RED , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

An original anime series set in in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.



Note: The first episode received a pre-screening at Anime Expo on July 2, 2022. The first 3 dubbed episodes were streamed on Twitch as part of a co-stream promotion on September 12, a day before the show’s premiere.

Tags: Cyberpunk , Tragedy , Crime , Dystopian , Cyborg , Male Protagonist , Class Struggle , Gangs , Urban , Body Horror , Orphan , Guns , Gore , Heterosexual , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Drugs , Terrorism , Coming of Age , Nudity , Ensemble Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Time Skip , Time Manipulation , Robots , Software Development , Space , Age Gap , Cars , Tomboy , Bar

Canaan

Studio: Lantis , P.A.WORKS , Pony Canyon , Magic Capsule , Sentai Filmworks , Bushiroad , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Oosawa Maria is a Japanese photographer currently working in Shanghai, China. Along with her partner Mino, she searches for potential newsworthy stories throughout the city. When strange events occur at a local festival, Maria and Mino immediately investigate. Quickly, the two are immersed in a battle between unknown masked men and a strange, white-haired woman. Just when Maria is about to be caught in the crossfire, an old friend by the name of Canaan appears and helps Maria escape. But a sinister plot over a deadly virus soon develops, and Canaan learns she must confront her past if she wants any chance at stopping the perpetrator and saving her friends.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Terrorism , Urban , Assassins , Foreign , Revenge , Politics , Super Power , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , War , Ensemble Cast , Photography , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Airsoft

Burn Up Scramble

Also known as Burn-Up Scramble.

Studio: AIC Spirits , Rondo Robe , Toshiba Entertainment , AIC , Geneon Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

AD. 2023, Tokyo. Because of the change of the society such as internationalization and enlargement of the trading, the dark side of the society also continues changing. The criminals are getting deep, and their organizations are increasing its size, then the peace and security is getting worse.

The government takes it seriously, and decides to introduce an innovative system. In order to cope with the special criminals, an extralegal police is founded.

It is a special criminal team, Warriors, which consists of a few elite members.



Tags: Police , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Cyberpunk , Guns , Motorcycles , Terrorism , Urban , Work , Alternate Universe , Cycling , Gyaru , Nudity , Episodic

Shikabane Hime: Kuro

Also known as Corpse Princess: Kuro.

Studio: Gainax , feel. , Funimation , Square Enix , Starchild Records
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

A direct continuation of Shikabane Hime Aka, taking place six months after Tagami Keisei's death at the hands of the Shichisei (Seven Stars), a group of elite Shikabane who act on more than just regrets. As per Keisei's dying wish, Kagami Ouri formed a temporary contract with Makina to save her from degenerating into a Shikabane. Since then, Ouri's been training to become a proper monk so that he can remain contracted to Makina and help her fight against the Shichisei -- the ones who originally killed Makina, the entire Hoshimura family, and now Keisei. However, the traitorous monk Shishidou Akasha has sided with the Shichisei in an attempt to destroy all Shikabane Hime and the entire monk organization that uses them -- Kougon Sect.

Tags: Demons , Urban Fantasy , Afterlife , Philosophy , Shapeshifting , Survival , Tragedy , Time Skip , Criminal Organization , Anthropomorphism , Revenge , Guns , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Super Power , Death Game , Rural , Ensemble Cast , Body Swapping , Unrequited Love , Nudity , Tomboy , Otaku Culture

FLAG

Studio: Aniplex , The Answer Studio , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mecha

In the mountainous Asian country of Uddiyana a civil war rages. No end lay in sight for the war-torn nation until a lone photographer snapped an iconic image that would come to be known simply as "Flag." Hope arises as the many factions involved begin an approach to peace, rousing the call for a ceasefire behind the featured flag.

When an unknown guerilla sect steals this symbol of unity, a U.N. Special Development Command unit is dispatched using the latest in military technology, a transforming bipedal exoskeleton known as the HAVWC system. Recruited to document this mission is a war-time journalist, the author of the "Flag" photograph, Saeko Shirasu.

Witness the trials and triumphs of a peacekeeping taskforce behind the camera's view-finder as they take their first steps towards the recovery of the road to peace and discover the truth behind a struggle.



Tags: Military , Photography , Politics , Foreign , War , POV , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Real Robot , Meta