Anime like Makai Toshi Shinjuku

Youjuu Toshi

Also known as Wicked City.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Japan Home Video , Discotek , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Supernatural

Beyond the boundaries of our ordinary existence lies a dreadful parallel world where demons dwell and humans dare not tread. For centuries, peace has existed between our world and theirs. To preserve that fragile balance and to ensure the survival of humankind, a new deal must be brokered, but dark and powerful forces lust to destroy the accord. When a militant group rises from the shadows, two elite agents are mobilized to counter the destructive forces and preserve the balance of our universe.



Tags: Demons , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Noir , Urban , Nudity , Primarily Adult Cast , Body Horror , Guns , Heterosexual , Shapeshifting , Gore , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Tentacles

AKIRA

Also known as Akira.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , Funimation , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Kodansha , Bandai Entertainment , Toho , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

It's the year 2019, thirty-one years have passed since the start of World War III. A top-secret child with amazing powers of the mind breaks free from custody and accidentally gets a motorcycle gang involved in the project. This incident triggers psychic powers within one of the gang members, Tetsuo, and he is taken by the army to be experimented on. His mind has been altered and is now on the path of war, seeking revenge on the society that once called him weak.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Super Power , Urban , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Delinquents , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Body Horror , Motorcycles , Anti-Hero , Conspiracy , Gangs , Gore , Military , Philosophy , Crime , Orphan , Guns , Politics , Mythology , Aliens , Nudity

Angel Cop

Also known as Angel Cop.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , D.A.S.T. Corporation , Studio 88 , Soei Shinsha , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Sometime in the future, terrorism in Japan has become commonplace, and the police have become almost as brutal as criminals. One cop, known as Angel, is the best of the best, stopping at nothing in her fight for justice. Things get interesting for Angel Cop and her new partner when they begin investigating a series of murders in which the victims are other criminals, killed in very unpleasant ways. These criminals, a group of psychics that banded together to hunt down the lowest scum in the city, and bring them to justice. After a couple of encounters between the cops and the psychics, two of the psychics begin to think that maybe they're not the good guys after all, but the third prefers killing to morality. Augmented by cybernetics from a mysterious source, he heads out on a killing spree, with Angel as his first target. Even with help from the other two psychics and her newly cyborged partner (after an unfortunate accident), Angel is going to have her work cut out trying to find the rogue psychic and the organization behind him.

Tags: Terrorism , Cyberpunk , Conspiracy , Super Power , Guns , Urban , Police , Gore , Crime , Robots , Politics , Cyborg , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Torture , Male Protagonist , Nudity

Shihaisha no Tasogare: TWILIGHT OF THE DARK MASTER

Also known as Twilight of the Dark Master.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Toei Video , Ashi Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

From the beginning of time, Earth has been enslaved by the powerful and grotesque Ogres. The dominance these arrogant immortals hold over the helpless victims is challenged only by the noble Guardians.

Eons later, in the year 2089, few Ogres of Guardians remain in Neo-Shinjuku. Humans rule the Earth; yet, deep within the dark underworld of the city, the supreme Ogre is still alive and is preparing, once again, to enslave the Human race.



Tags: Shoujo , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Noir , Nudity , Drugs , Body Horror , Twins

MIDNIGHT EYE: Gokuu

Also known as Midnight Eye Goku.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Discotek , Toei Video , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

Furinji Goku is a detective who has an “eye of god”.

While he was investigating the murder case of his colleague when he had been an officer, he was pressured to stop it by the police executives. However, he continue investigating, and he lost his left eye. When he was about to be killed, a mysterious group helped him and transplant an artificial eye. The eye was a super technological device that connected to the whole computer network in the world, and enabled him to control any computers.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Cyborg , Seinen , Monster Girl , Detective , Super Power , Primarily Adult Cast , Robots , Male Protagonist , Urban , Guns , Assassins , Suicide , Nudity

BLUE SEED

Also known as Blue Seed.

Studio: Production I.G , NAS , Movic , Ashi Productions , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Mystery

Momiji is an average girl until the day she finds she is the descendant of the great Kushinada family. Only she, with her Kushinada blood, can stop the Aragami, demonic plant-like monsters threatening to destroy Japan. Along to help her is the TAC, and a possible love interest in a young man named Kusanagi.




Tags: Body Horror , Demons , Shounen , Urban , Kaiju , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Guns , Environmental , Anti-Hero , Coming of Age , Gods , Adoption

Afro Samurai

Also known as Afro Samurai.

Studio: GONZO , Dentsu , Funimation , Victor Entertainment , Pony Canyon , Fuji TV , Trilogy Future Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

After watching his father die in a duel against an unbeatable villian known only as 'Justice,' young Afro fixes his life on the study of swords and revenge. The tale of Afro Samurai is one of bloody hardship and pain. Along his solitary path of revenge for his murdered father, he sheds no tears & knows no love. Forever chased by powerful enemies in a lawless technology-speckled dystopia, he evades bullets and blade to reach his final prey: a man who will not die. But Afro will reach his quarry - even if it means painting a road of blood and brains from here to the bitter inevitable end.

Tags: Revenge , Swordplay , Gore , Samurai , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Travel , Assassins , Anachronism , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Battle Royale , Achronological Order , Primarily Male Cast , Orphan , Ghost , Cult , Artificial Intelligence , Nudity , Guns , Alternate Universe , Martial Arts

Genma Taisen

Also known as Harmagedon.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

From the depths of space he is coming...

Ancient beyond understanding, his power is immeasurable. He has destroyed half the universe and is on his way here. He is... Genma.

Only two people are aware of the imminent catastrophe: Princess Luna, a modern day prophetess and Vega, a cybernetic crusader from a world long since ravaged by Genma. Determined to spare the Earth from a similar fate, Luna and Vega must try to mobilize the most potent psychics in the world. Together, this army of fledging psychic warriors must succeed where billions have tried... and failed.

But will they be able to gather their champions in time? Genma's agents are already on Earth to ensure that their master meets with no opposition!



Tags: Super Power , Cosmic Horror , Male Protagonist , Aliens , Environmental , Shapeshifting , Space , Tragedy , Philosophy , Body Horror

Darkside Blues

Studio: J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Shoujo , Dystopian , Cyberpunk , Terrorism , Gore , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Guns , Nudity , Body Horror , Politics , Religion

Shin Majin Den Battle Royal High School

Also known as Battle Royal High School.

Studio: AnimEigo , Tokuma Shoten , D.A.S.T. Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Horror , Supernatural

Hyoudo Riki is just an ordinary guy who likes to wear a tiger mask while Kung Fu fighting, which means he fits in real well at BATTLE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL!

Unfortunately for Riki, he's the doppelganger in our world of Byoudo, Master of the Dark Realm, and when a dimension gate opens between the two worlds, the evil Fairy Master tricks Byoudo into making an attempt to conquer out beautiful, and better lit, world.

Now poor Riki is semi-possessed by his opposite number, and the minions of the Fairy Master are mutating his classmates into hideous lustful monsters. To make matters worse, all the inter-dimensional commotion has attracted the attention of a sword-happy exorcist and the heroic Zankan of the Space-Time Police!

Which all means that Riki is about to take one bitch of a mid-term. The course is survival, and forget "Pass/Fail." This test is graded "Live/Die!"



Tags: Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Gore , Body Horror , Battle Royale , School , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Martial Arts