Anime like Devilman: Tanjou-hen

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 , Gore , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Seinen , Heterosexual , Crime , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Environmental , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Military , Guns , Love Triangle , Villainess , Female Harem , Bullying , Unrequited Love , Nudity

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 ,

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

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 , Male Protagonist , Gore , 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

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 , Male Protagonist , Gore , Post-Apocalyptic , Orphan , Dystopian , Ghost , Ojou-sama , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Assassins , Werewolf , Heterosexual , Nudity

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 , Idol , Cyborg , Ninja , Drugs , Time Skip , Gender Bending , Office Lady , Bondage , Heterosexual

Hokuto no Ken

Also known as Fist of the North Star.

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

Nuclear war has devastated the planet, turning one fertile ground into a barren, inhospitable landscape on which mankind struggles desperately to stay alive. Society has collapsed and a fight for control wages between vicious dictators, super-powerful mutants, and biker gangs that terrorize the streets.

In a world so cruel and bleak, only the chosen one can restore civilization to its former self. Kenshiro - master of the Hokuto Shinken fighting technique; a martial art so awesomely brutal that only a single being can be entrusted with its full power!



Tags: Martial Arts , Post-Apocalyptic , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Cultivation , Gangs , Gore , Heterosexual , Henshin , Revenge , Motorcycles , Astronomy , Torture , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bar , Cannibalism , Archery , Nudity , Desert

Uzumaki

Studio: Production I.G , Adult Swim , Akatsuki , Fugaku
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Four episode anime adaptation of the Junji Ito manga.

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...



Tags: Achromatic , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Body Horror , Tragedy , Rotoscoping , CGI , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Augmented Reality , Survival , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Lost Civilization , Cannibalism , Coastal , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Philosophy , Unrequited Love , Detective