Anime like Devilman: Tanjou-hen

Devilman Lady

Also known as The Devil Lady.

Studio: Toei Animation , TMS Entertainment , ADV Films , Dynamic Planning
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

Fudo Jun is a beautiful supermodel who is idolized by many. She also has a dark secret that not even she knows about at first, for within her veins run the genes that hold the next step in the evolution of mankind. The same blood as the beastlike superhumans that terrorize the city. Unlike the rest of them, though, Jun has managed to hold a tenuous grip onto her humanity, and she is recruited by the mysterious Asuka Ran, member of a secret organization within the government, aimed at controlling, if not eliminating, these berserk destroyers of mankind. Jun, as Devilman Lady, must now exterminate her own kind, but how much longer can she keep her sanity in a situation she never chose in the first place?



Tags: Conspiracy , Female Protagonist , Bisexual , Demons , Body Horror , Urban Fantasy , Monster Girl , Nudity , Gore , Philosophy , Kaiju , Gods , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Noir , Nekomimi , Seinen ,

Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu

Also known as Parasyte -the maxim-.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Kodansha , Nippon Television Network , Forecast Communications , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade–and take control of–a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret–except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?



Tags: Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Survival , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Seinen , Anthropomorphism , Gore , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Heterosexual , Crime , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Environmental , Urban , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Military , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Villainess , Guns , Female Harem , Bullying , Nudity

AMON: Devilman Mokushiroku

Also known as Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman.

Studio: Aniplex , Dynamic Planning , Studio Live
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural

Fear runs rampant throughout Tokyo with the revelation that demons in fact exist amongst us. Paranoia and the darker side of humanity boils onto the streets as people turn on one another, suspecting that anyone could in fact be a demon hiding in human clothing. Amidst the growing tensions, tragedy strikes Akira causing his mind to snap, retreating into his subconscious, allowing his Devilish alter-ego Amon to break free from Akira's cage of flesh and wreak havoc on both human and demons alike.

Tags: Demons , Gore , Urban , Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Tragedy , Cosmic Horror , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Mythology , Nudity

Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver (1989)

Also known as The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor.

Studio: Ashi Productions , Animate Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Sci-Fi

Shou and his friend, Tetsurou, stumble upon a strange orb-like mechanism, the Guyver Unit, in the woods. It physically bonds with Shou and turns him into the alien soldier, Guyver. His mission is to protect the Guyver Unit from the Japanese corporation known as Chronos. They are after it and two other units just like it. To retrieve the object, they send out vicious monsters known as Zoanoids. So no one is safe in Shou's life; not even himself.


Tags: Super Power , Gore , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Kaiju , Tokusatsu , Body Horror , Seinen , Henshin , Nudity

Baoh Raihousha

Also known as Baoh the Visitor.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Toho , AnimEigo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

A secret organization called "Doress" has funded the development of a genetically engineered parasite code-named "BAOH." Organisms infected by BAOH become living survival machines, virtually indestructible, able to mutate their body structure to meet any threat. Properly controlled, the BAOH parasite could allow Doress to control the World.

Unfortunately, their first human guinea-pig, a young man named Hashizawa Ikuroo, has managed to escape, along with a young girl, Sumire, who has a strange precognitive gift. Unless Doress operatives can find and destroy Ikuroo before the BAOH parasite fully manifests, their evil dream will come to naught.

But BAOH, comfortably hiding in Ikuroo's brain, won't make it easy.



Tags: Super Power , Shounen , Body Horror , Gore , Fugitive , Robots , Conspiracy , Henshin , Amnesia , Guns , Male Protagonist , Time Skip

Vampire Hunter D

Also known as VAMPIRE HUNTER D.

Studio: Ajiado , Trans Arts , Movic , Studio Kyuuma , Ashi Productions , Studio Live
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

10,000 years in the future, the world has become a very different place; monsters roam the land freely, and people, although equiped with high tech weapons and cybernetic horses, live a humble life more suited to centuries past. The story focuses on a small hamlet plagued by monster attacks and living under the shadow of rule by Count Magnus Lee, a powerful vampire lord who has ruled the land for thousands of years. When a young girl is bitten by the Count and chosen as his current plaything, she seeks out help of a quiet wandering stranger, D. It so happens that D is one of the worlds best vampire hunters, and he takes it upon himself to cut through Magnus Lees many minions, and put an end to the Count`s rule.



Tags: Vampire , Body Horror , Travel , Monster Girl , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Orphan , Gore , Ghost , Heterosexual , Ojou-sama , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Guns , Assassins , Werewolf , Nudity

Call Me Tonight

Studio: AIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Horror , Romance , Sci-Fi

Rumi's met a lot of guys through her job, and it's probably fair to assume that most of them could be said to have some sort of problem, but a man who literally turns into a beast when he gets turned on may be outside of this perky call girl's field of expertise. Still, a little challenge every now and again stimulates the mind and makes life so much more interesting, so she's willing to give it a shot.



Tags: Heterosexual , Body Horror , Nudity , Delinquents , Aliens , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Kaiju , Age Gap , Memory Manipulation , Masturbation

Kenpuu Denki Berserk

Also known as Berserk.

Studio: OLM , VAP , Media Blasters , NYAV Post , Nippon Television Network , Hakusensha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural

Set during a time that very much resembles Europe during the Middle Ages, Berserk is a story of revenge set in the castle town of Midland. Recently, the town has seen the rise of a wicked king, who uses demonic minions to control and victimise his subjects.

However, when a lone soldier enters the town calling himself the Black Swordsman and armed to the teeth, many sense that the king's days of unchecked oppression are over. Soon, the Black Swordsman is plying his trade by hunting down the king's evil servants, giving no quarter, and preparing to exact his vengeance on the king.



Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Swordplay , War , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Medieval , Gore , Found Family , Military , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Demons , Revenge , Politics , Torture , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Primarily Male Cast , Tsundere , Travel , Tomboy , Coming of Age , Nudity , Tanned Skin , Archery , Fugitive , Survival , Class Struggle , Curses , Skeleton , Female Protagonist , Rural

Shin Cutey Honey

Also known as New Cutey Honey.

Studio: Toei Video , Dynamic Planning , Toei Animation , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Mahou Shoujo , Sci-Fi

The forces of evil were looking for trouble; they found Cutey! In a futuristic world were evil comes in all shapes and sizes, she is the ultimate weapon. She's Cutey Honey, a one woman S.W.A.T. team whose android chassis is capable of changing at will into a dazzling array of hard-hitting, curvaceous bodies, each with its own set of special skills, weapons and other impressive physical attributes. Go Nagai's legendary android super-hero is back and hitting the bad guys where it hurts most.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Fugitive , Demons , Swordplay , Superhero , Crossover , Nudity , Henshin , Monster Girl , Meta , Shounen , Cyberpunk , Magic , Robots , Gangs , Family Life , Cosplay , Age Gap , Episodic , Urban , Guns , Crime , Office Lady , Idol , Cyborg , Ninja , Drugs , Time Skip , Gender Bending , Bondage , Heterosexual

The SoulTaker: Tamashiigari

Also known as The SoulTaker.

Studio: WOWOW , Tatsunoko Production , Pioneer LDC , Toshiba Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

After the human colony on the moon was destroyed by disease, Kyosuke Date and his mother flee to Earth- separated from their family. They take refuge in a cathedral where his mother hides as a nun for reasons unknown to Kyosuke. After dangerous people find their sanctuary, his mother stabs him before she herself is murdered.

Days later, Kyosuke finds himself alive and in the house of a mysterious girl who claims to be his twin Runa- and she is not the only one! Runa suffered a similar fate at the hands of her adoptive mother; however her soul was divided into several pieces making "flicker girls" who are being hunted by the evil Kirihara Group. The reason Kyosuke survived: his body's DNA conformed to the disease and he is able to transform into a fearsome alien mutant known as the SoulTaker.

Kyosuke begins his battle against a hospital of evil mutants and dangerous corporate assassins in order to save himself and the sister he has never known.

Tags: Henshin , Demons , Superhero , Aliens , Conspiracy , Twins , Tragedy , Tokusatsu , Medicine , Dissociative Identities , Politics , Terrorism