Anime like Black★★Rock Shooter: DAWN FALL

Black★Rock Shooter (TV)

Also known as Black Rock Shooter.

Studio: Aniplex , Dentsu , Funimation , Ordet , SANZIGEN , Ultra Super Pictures , Sony Music Entertainment , Fujipacific Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Slice of Life

It isn't the world you know. There wanders a girl with jet-black hair, ebony clothes, and a strikingly blue, glowing eye. Her name is Black★Rock Shooter. With a huge cannon in hand, she throws herself into a fierce battle...

Meanwhile, in another world, middle-school student Mato Kuroi is drawn to Yomi Takanashi, her classmate with an unusual family name. Mato does her best to talk to Yomi, who just won't open up. Yu Koutari mocks her best friend Mato's efforts but at the same time, supports her. Mato also finds herself surrounded by other colorful characters at school, like the eccentric school counselor, Saya Irino, and the hot-blooded captain of her club club, Arata Kohata.

Then, one day, the window of opportunity opens. After Mato sees that Yomi has her favorite picture book, "Li'l Birds At Play", they strike up a conversation and Mato is invited to come over to Yomi's house. There, they gradually break the ice, until a girl in a wheelchair appears. This is Yomi's best friend, Kagari Izuriha...

Two worlds. Mato and Black★Rock Shooter. This is the story of their "pain".



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Alternate Universe , Female Protagonist , Body Swapping , Coming of Age , School , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Disability , Yandere , Swordplay , Bullying , Vocal synth , Dissociative Identities , CGI , Rehabilitation , Reincarnation , Crossover , Guns , Primarily Teen Cast , Spearplay , Tanned Skin , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Drawing , Skeleton , Isekai , Gore , Basketball

Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova

Also known as Arpeggio of Blue Steel.

Studio: SANZIGEN , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

In the story, a Fleet of Fog loaded with super weapons suddenly appear all over the world. Without the ability to withstand this fleet, humanity was defeated and could no longer travel the seas. 17 years after the devastating naval war, Chihaya Gunzou and his friends somehow commandeer a Fleet of Fog submarine and rename it I-401. Together with Iona, they take on the Fleet of Fog.



Tags: Full CGI , Ships , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Artificial Intelligence , Primarily Teen Cast , War , Travel , Male Protagonist , Military , Fugitive , Tsundere , Seinen , Kuudere

Kill la Kill

Also known as Kill la Kill.

Studio: Aniplex , Trigger , Dentsu , Kadokawa Shoten , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Ultra Super Pictures , Movic , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

After the murder of her father, Ryuuko Matoi has been wandering the land in search of his killer. Following her only lead—the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade—she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a high school unlike any other. The academy is ruled by the imposing and cold-hearted student council president Satsuki Kiryuuin alongside her powerful underlings, the Elite Four. In the school's brutally competitive hierarchy, Satsuki bestows upon those at the top special clothes called "Goku Uniforms," which grant the wearer unique superhuman abilities.

Tags: Henshin , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Nudity , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Class Struggle , Dystopian , Tomboy , Super Power , Aliens , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Incest , Military , Anti-Hero , Cult , Psychosexual , Villainess , Bullying , Ensemble Cast , School Club , Tokusatsu , Delinquents , CGI , Gore , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Orphan , Exhibitionism , Tsundere , Meta , Cosplay , Yandere , Cheerleading

Senki Zesshou Symphogear

Also known as Symphogear.

Studio: Satelight , Encourage Films , Memory-Tech , Dwango , Bushiroad , Studio Pastoral
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mahou Shoujo , Music , Sci-Fi

With the coming of spring, Hibiki Tachibana and Miku Kohinata start their first year in high school school at the prestigious Lydian Music Academy. That their idol, the singer Tsubasa Kazanari, also attends Lydian is just an added bonus. Neither of them know that their lives are about to change forever. Neither of them know that the first, awakening beat is almost upon them.



Tags: Henshin , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Super Power , Primarily Teen Cast , Conspiracy , Guns , Urban , Tragedy , Mythology , Idol , Dancing , Tsundere , School , Swordplay , Spearplay , Superhero , Gore , Motorcycles , Drugs , Military , Orphan , Nudity

Black★Rock Shooter (OVA)

Studio: Rakuonsha , Ordet
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Slice of Life

These young girls' hearts are pure, and then violent!

Mato Kuroi just got into junior high school, and on the first day, someone catches her eye; her classmate Yomi Takanashi. The two meet. The innocent and naive Mato. The mature Yomi. Seemingly opposites, but the time they spend together only strengthens a growing friendship. But as they go into their second year at the school, they get placed in separate classes, and they begin to grow apart.

But somewhere simultaneously... In another world, a young girl, blue fire residing in her eyes, Black Rock Shooter faces another young girl; this one holding a jet-black scythe, Dead Master, and a battle to the death begins to unfold.



Tags: School , Urban Fantasy , Guns , Urban , School Club , Body Swapping , Isekai , Female Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Swordplay , LGBTQ+ Themes , Spearplay , Volleyball , Basketball

Princess Principal

Also known as Princess Principal.

Studio: Studio 3Hz , Q-Tec , Actas , TOKYO MX , Bandai Visual , Medicos Entertainment , Lantis , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Movic , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

The "spy action" series follows five girls in 19th century London, a city within the Albion Kingdom divided into east and west by a large wall. The girls serve as undercover spies enrolled as students at the prestigious Queen's Mayfair school. The girls make use of their individual abilities to remain active in the underground world of disguise, espionage, infiltration, and car chases.



Tags: Espionage , Female Protagonist , Steampunk , Foreign , Primarily Female Cast , Achronological Order , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Yuri , Historical , Guns , Assassins , Primarily Teen Cast , Anti-Hero , Trains , Kuudere , School

Kemurikusa

Also known as kemurikusa..

Studio: Yaoyorozu
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

The science-fiction action story follows girls who fight with weird entities nicknamed "mushi" (bugs) and survive in a world of red fog.

Based on Tatsuki's winning entry from the '24th 3D Anime Contest' in 2012 of the same name.

Tags: Survival , Lost Civilization , Amnesia , Post-Apocalyptic , Full CGI , Tsundere , Robots , Aliens , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , CGI , Nekomimi , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation

Dolls' Frontline

Also known as Girls’ Frontline.

Studio: Asahi Production , Warner Bros. Japan , SUNBORN Network Technology , GRIFFIN & KRYUGER , Ai Addiction
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

In the fallout of nuclear war, the last of humanity survives with the help of life-like androids known as Dolls. Built to serve, some fight in wars as Tactical Dolls or T-Dolls. Some of them and their newly assigned human commander are sent on missions to face a new rogue threat, Sangvis Ferri.



Tags: Guns , War , Artificial Intelligence , Primarily Female Cast , Military , Robots , Female Protagonist , Conspiracy , Post-Apocalyptic , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Foreign , Dissociative Identities , Pandemic

GRAVITY DAZE The Animation: Ouverture

Also known as Gravity Rush: The Animation - Overture.

Studio: Studio Khara
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

The 20-minute animation that bridges the gap between the original Gravity Rush and Gravity Rush 2.

Featuring Kat "Gravity Queen" and her friends Raven and Syd. Can they find more clues about the fearsome enemy threatening to unravel the fabric of the universe?

Tags: Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Tanned Skin , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast , Orphan , Demons , CGI , Crime , Animals , Guns , Twins , Suicide

SYNDUALITY Noir

Also known as Synduality Noir.

Studio: Bandai Namco Filmworks , 8-bit , Bandai Namco Entertainment , BANDAI SPIRITS , Bandai Namco Music Live
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The year is 2222. It has been years since Tears of the New Moon, a mysterious rain, poured and wiped out almost the entire human race. The poisonous rain gave birth to deformed creatures devouring humans, and humanity fled from the danger. As means for survival, the humans then build an underground haven; Amasia. In this newly built dystopian city, in a pursuit of maintaining their existence, they run into an Artificial Intelligence named Magus. Not knowing how things will work between them, the story of how Humans and AI coinciding and trying to find their truths begin.



Tags: Amnesia , Super Robot , Real Robot , Robots , Post-Apocalyptic , Lost Civilization , Artificial Intelligence , Idol , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Cultivation , CGI , Female Harem , Gambling , Survival