Anime like BLACK LAGOON: The Second Barrage

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 , Primarily Male Cast , Desert , Tanned Skin , Tomboy , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Middle East

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 , Desert , Politics , Mafia , Unrequited Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tanned Skin , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Age Gap , Middle East

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

GANGSTA.

Also known as GANGSTA..

Studio: Manglobe
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

In the city of Ergastulum, a shady ville filled with made men and petty thieves, whores on the make and cops on the take, there are some deeds too dirty for even its jaded inhabitants to touch. Enter the "Handymen," Nic and Worick, who take care of the jobs no one else will handle. Until the day when a cop they know on the force requests their help in taking down a new gang muscling in on the territory of a top Mafia family. It seems like business (and mayhem) as usual, but the Handymen are about to find that this job is a lot more than they bargained for.



Tags: Seinen , Crime , Gangs , Drugs , Disability , Foreign , Urban , Swordplay , Gore , Tragedy , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Espionage , Slavery , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Tanned Skin , Police , Prostitution

GREAT PRETENDER

Also known as Great Pretender.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Fuji TV , Production I.G , Toho , BS Fuji , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Thriller

Self-styled “Japan's greatest swindler” Makoto Edamura is mainly targeting elder people and occasional foreign travelers. But when he tries to scam an apparently clueless French tourist in Tokyo, he can't possibly imagine that what looked like just another ordinary job is going to take him all the way to Los Angeles, tied upside-down on the famous Hollywood sign… And he is yet to find out what fate awaits him!



Tags: Crime , Foreign , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , Work , Acting , Language Barrier , Mafia , Triads , Filmmaking , Drawing , Drugs , Gangs , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Aviation , Guns , Tanned Skin , Bisexual , Tomboy , Slavery , Detective , Episodic , Boys' Love , Nudity , War , Mahjong , Baseball , Football , Middle East , Terrorism , Achronological Order

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Also known as Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom.

Studio: Bee Train , Genco , Funimation , Bushiroad , Nitroplus , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , OVERLAP , Lantis , TV Tokyo , Rakuonsha , TV Tokyo Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

A young man wakes up in a strange room with no memory of who he is or how he got there. His past is lost—and his future belongs to Inferno, a violent crime syndicate. They give him a new name—Zwei—and team him with their top assassin, the enigmatic Ein. She’ll teach Zwei all he needs to know about his new life as an Inferno operative, starting with lesson number one: kill or be killed.



Tags: Amnesia , Anti-Hero , Assassins , Noir , Mafia , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Brainwashing , Crime , Guns , Memory Manipulation , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Yakuza , Nudity

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Also known as Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

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

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 , Revenge , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Heterosexual , Drugs , Terrorism , Nudity , Coming of Age , Robots , Ensemble Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Time Skip , Time Manipulation , Software Development , Space , Age Gap , Cars , Tomboy , Bar , Advertisement

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 , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Tragedy , Travel , Found Family , Noir , Guns , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Terrorism , Martial Arts , Cyborg , Tomboy , Cowboys , Amnesia , Work , Gambling , Police , Yakuza , Drugs , Nudity , Cult , Tanned Skin , Circus , LGBTQ+ Themes , CGI

HELLSING

Also known as Hellsing.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Hellsing follows the antiheroic vampire, Alucard, and a police girl-turned-vampire, Seras Victoria, two vampires employed by the vampire-extermination group of England, the Hellsing Organization. Slowly but surely, through their active duty, they find a new breed of vampires beginning to arise.



Tags: Vampire , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Noir , Gore , Military , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Guns , Anti-Hero , Urban , Monster Girl , Monster Boy , Body Horror , Suicide , Cannibalism , Episodic , Butler

GUNSLINGER GIRL -IL TEATRINO-

Also known as Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino-.

Studio: Artland , Marvelous Entertainment , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

The girls of the Social Welfare Agency are no ordinary children. They are the grisly remains of human wreckage pieced back together with cybernetic implants and trained to kill by the government.

The oldest, Triela, pursues her targets with a ferocious enthusiasm, unwilling to settle for less than total annihilation. Her mirror in this bloody stalemate is Pinocchio, a shell of a boy raised as an assassin by the FRF: a terrorist faction at war with the SWA. Cold and cruelly efficient, he wields sharpened steel as though it were an extension of his own hand.

Once human, these shattered souls have become murderous machines with only vague recollections of what it meant to be real — and a brutal compulsion to be the last killer standing.



Tags: Guns , Assassins , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Mafia , Tanned Skin , Urban , Memory Manipulation , Cyborg , Ensemble Cast , Terrorism , Crime , Politics , Seinen , Tragedy