Anime like Blade

Wolverine

Studio: MADHOUSE , Marvel Entertainment , Sony Pictures Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action

Logan learns that his girlfriend, Mariko Yashida, who disappeared a year ago, has been taken to Tokyo by her father Shingen, who is the head of a Japanese crime syndicate and a supplier of AIM. He then decides to head to Japan to find her and take her back, no matter what.

Tags: Super Power , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Travel , Martial Arts , Guns , Swordplay , Unrequited Love , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Assassins

Jouran: THE PRINCESS OF SNOW AND BLOOD

Also known as JORAN THE PRINCESS OF SNOW AND BLOOD.

Studio: BAKKEN RECORD , Sonilude , Bushiroad , Nippon Television Network , Dentsu , Tatsunoko Production , HJ Holdings
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

The year is 1931. Prince Tokugawa Yoshinobu is 94 years old and holds absolute control over Japan. Remnants of the Meiji era’s culture can be seen around the city, but scientific technology and Japanese esoteric cosmology Onmyodo are also developing, exuding a sense of modernity. Yet lurking behind the glitz is Kuchinawa, a dissident group planning the assassination of the prince, and effectively the fall of the regime. Tasked to extinguish these dissidents is Nue, the government’s secret executioner group. Sawa Yukimura, who works for this organization, suffered from an early age at the hands of the Kuchinawa boss. Her entire family was murdered and she dedicated her life to avenging their death.



Note: The show streamed the episodes on Hulu a week earlier than TV. The regular TV broadcast started on April 7, 2021.

Tags: Revenge , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Politics , Historical , Henshin , Anachronism , Swordplay , Espionage , Ensemble Cast , Guns , Nudity , Crossdressing

BAYONETTA Bloody Fate

Also known as Bayonetta: Bloody Fate.

Studio: GONZO , Q-Tec , Avex Entertainment , Sega Games , Toei Animation , Graphinica , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Supernatural

Based on the 2009 game, Bayonetta: Bloody Fate follows the story of the witch Bayonetta, as she defeats the blood-thirsty Angels and tries to remember her past from before the time she awoke, 20 years ago. Along her side are a mysterious little girl who keeps calling her "Mummy", a journalist that holds a personal grudge against Bayonetta and a unknown white-haired woman who seems to know more than she is willing to reveal about Bayonetta's time before her sleep.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Witch , Urban Fantasy , Guns , Demons , Amnesia , Magic , Super Power , Nudity , Primarily Adult Cast , Video Games , Bar , Motorcycles , Foreign

Ningyo no Mori

Also known as Mermaid Forest.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , OB Planning
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

This anime is based on the Mermaid Forest story line found in the graphic novel by the same name. Mana and Yuta are drawn into the world of the Kannagi Family, owners of Mermaid Forest. Only two of the Kannagi clan remain - an old women and a young girl with hair as white as snow. What is the secret of these two women? And what is the secret of Mermaid Forest? Is there really a mermaid buried somewhere in the hills......a mermaid that could help Yuta return to normal?



Tags: Mermaid , Mythology , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Gore , Body Horror , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Twins , Swimming , Suicide , Shounen

Iron Man

Studio: MADHOUSE , Marvel Entertainment , Sony Pictures Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mecha

Tony Stark, CEO of a large weapons manufacturer, physicist, engineer, and brilliant inventor, is wounded by shrapnel from one of his own weapons. While held captive by terrorists, he develops the Iron Man Suit and escapes. From that day on, he vows not to waste his second chance at life and to change the world for the better. For that purpose, he comes to Japan.

In Lab 23 in Japan, great strides have been taken to develop, and build, a unique power station which does not run on fossil fuels, the Arc Station. Stark intends to join this project, and, for that, he is ready to announce his retirement as Iron Man. At the same time, he will also announce the Mass-produced Iron Men, to which he will pass on his duties. However, during the ceremonies, Stark is suddenly attacked by combat mecha belonging to an organization known as Zodiac.

Tags: Superhero , Conspiracy , Real Robot , Space

Supernatural The Animation

Studio: MADHOUSE , Warner Bros. Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

The anime re-imagining of the original live-action series follows the Winchester brothers Sam and Dean as they hunt creatures and other supernatural phenomena across the American landscape.

The anime covers the storyline of the live-action version's first two seasons as well as original episodes.

Tags: Demons , Urban Fantasy , Guns , Male Protagonist , Mythology , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Ghost , Detective , Gore , Foreign , Tragedy , Police , Cars , Slapstick , Episodic , Vampire , Werewolf

BLOOD+

Also known as Blood+.

Studio: Production I.G , Aniplex , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Saya Otonashi, a seemingly normal high school student, suffers from amnesia and she can't remember the past year of her life. One day, after a man appears and gives her a katana sword, her destiny begins to be revealed.

Soon she finds herself fighting the latest threat to humanity - Chiropteran monsters, ravenous immortal creatures that can change their form, disguising themselves as human beings. They feed off blood and hide themselves within the human world. An organization known as the Red Shield has been waging a private war to wipe them out and now the struggle has grown. Saya's journey for the truth has begun.



Tags: Vampire , Female Protagonist , Swordplay , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Gore , War , Found Family , Super Power , Tragedy , Amnesia , Time Skip , Heterosexual

Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen

Also known as Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 2/6. Contains the arc Koyomi Vamp from the Kizumonogatari light novel.

March 25th—just another day during spring break. Koyomi Araragi, a second year high school student at Naoetsu High School, befriends Tsubasa Hanekawa, the top honors student at his school. Hanekawa mentions a rumor about a "blonde vampire" that has been sighted around their town recently. Araragi, who is usually anti-social, takes a liking to her down-to-earth personality.

That night, Araragi encounters the rumored vampire: she is Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, also known as the "iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded King of Apparitions." The stunningly beautiful vampire cries out for Koyomi to save her as she lies in a pool of her own blood, all four of her limbs cut off. Kiss-shot asks Araragi to give her his blood, and when he does, the next moment he awakes, Araragi finds himself reborn as her vampire kin. As Araragi struggles to accept his existence, Kiss-Shot whispers, "Welcome to the world of darkness..."



Tags: Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Rotoscoping , Suicide , Urban , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Gore , Coming of Age , Age Regression , CGI , Yandere , Nudity

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Studio: APPP
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Kujo Jotaro is a normal, popular Japanese high-schooler, until he thinks that he is possessed by a spirit, and locks himself in prison. After seeing his grandfather, Joseph Joestar, and fighting Joseph's friend Muhammad Abdul, Jotaro learns that the "Spirit" is actually Star Platinum, his Stand, or fighting energy given a semi-solid form. Later, his mother gains a Stand, and becomes sick. Jotaro learns that it is because the vampire Dio Brando has been revived 100 years after his defeat to Jonathan Joestar, Jotaro's great-great-grandfather. Jotaro decides to join Joseph and Abdul in a trip to Egypt to defeat Dio once and for all.


Tags: Shounen , Vampire , Super Power , Body Horror , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Desert , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Foreign , Travel , Gambling , Tragedy , Poker , Nudity , Time Manipulation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cars , Tanned Skin , Motorcycles

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken (2000)

Also known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2000).

Studio: APPP
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Kujo Jotaro is a normal, popular Japanese high-schooler, until he thinks that he is possessed by a spirit, and locks himself in prison. After seeing his grandfather, Joseph Joestar, and fighting Joseph's friend Muhammad Abdul, Jotaro learns that the "Spirit" is actually Star Platinum, his Stand, or fighting energy given a semi-solid form. Later, his mother gains a Stand, and becomes sick. Jotaro learns that it is because the vampire Dio Brando has been revived 100 years after his defeat to Jonathan Joestar, Jotaro's great-great-grandfather. Jotaro decides to join Joseph and Abdul in a trip to Egypt to defeat Dio once and for all.

Tags: Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Revenge , Ensemble Cast , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Gore , Male Protagonist , Travel , Desert , Vampire , Cars , Zombie , Tragedy