Anime like Initial D Extra Stage 2

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Also known as Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Studio: Trigger
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

An original anime series set in in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.



Note: The first episode received a pre-screening at Anime Expo on July 2, 2022. The first 3 dubbed episodes were streamed on Twitch as part of a co-stream promotion on September 12, a day before the show’s premiere.

Tags: Cyberpunk , Tragedy , Crime , Dystopian , Cyborg , Class Struggle , Gangs , Male Protagonist , Urban , Orphan , Body Horror , Guns , Gore , Revenge , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Drugs , Heterosexual , Terrorism , Coming of Age , Nudity , Artificial Intelligence , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Time Manipulation , Software Development , Space , Cars , Age Gap , Robots

Fugou Keiji: Balance:UNLIMITED

Also known as The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED.

Studio: CloverWorks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel, Fugou Keiji.

The story centers around millionaire Daisuke Kambe, the heir to one of the wealthiest families in Japan, who is assigned as a detective to the Modern Crime Prevention Task Force (aka MCPTF), at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Taking full advantage of his vast family wealth, he spares no expense in solving complex crimes, and has the tendency to evaluate everything including individual human lives in terms of their monetary value. Haru Katou, a detective with a compassionate heart who believes that money isn’t everything, is chosen as Kambe’s partner but is repulsed by his materialistic attitude. Having diametrically opposing personalities, witness how the two join forces to tackle seemingly unsolvable crimes and mysteries!



Note: Although Tsutsui's novel was published between 1975 and 1977, the anime plays out in the modern era.

Tags: Detective , Police , Crime , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Urban , Tragedy , Artificial Intelligence , Kuudere , Cars , Butler , Ships

Odd Taxi

Also known as ODDTAXI.

Studio: OLM , P.I.C.S.
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

The taxi driver Odokawa lives a very mundane life. He has no family, doesn't really hang out with others, and he's an oddball who is narrow-minded and doesn't talk much. The only people he can call his friends are his doctor, Gouriki and his classmate from high school, Kakihana.

All of his patrons seem to be slightly odd themselves. The college student who wants the world to notice him online, Kabasawa. A nurse with secrets named Shirakawa. A comedy duo that just can't catch a break named the Homosapiens. A local hoodlum named Dobu. An idol group that's just starting out named Mystery Kiss... All these mundane conversations somehow eventually lead to a girl who's gone missing.



Tags: Anthropomorphism , Crime , Urban , Animals , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Work , Revenge , Noir , Satire , Gangs , Yakuza , Mafia , Fugitive , Amnesia , Cars , Police , Idol , Tragedy , Philosophy , Bullying , Adoption , Primarily Animal Cast , Twins , Anti-Hero , Suicide , Video Games , Martial Arts , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Bar , Hip-hop Music , Seinen

SHIROBAKO

Also known as SHIROBAKO.

Studio: P.A. Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Once upon a time, five girls made an animated film and it was so much fun that they pledged to get jobs in animation so that someday they could make another film together. Now, two years later, Aoi, Shizuka, Ema, Misa and Midori have learned the truth about the anime industry: it's not always fun, it's anything but easy, and having talent isn't always enough to open the right doors.

Which is why Aoi's overwhelmed by her job as a production assistant, Shizuka's waiting on tables between auditions, Midori's currently scriptless, Misa's switched to C.G., and Ema's working long hours as a key animator. Is it what they imagined? No. But are they ready to give up? Not just yet! Sometimes, when things happen in animation, they can happen in the most wonderful ways!



Tags: Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Otaku Culture , Educational , Office Lady , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Office , Acting , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Cars , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast

Initial D

Also known as Initial D 1st Stage.

Studio: Studio Comet , Studio Gallop
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father's tofu shop early in the morning. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father's modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno make him the best amateur road racer on Mt. Akina's highway. Because of this, racing groups from all over the Gunma prefecture issue challenges to Takumi to see if he really has what it takes to be a road legend.



Tags: Cars , Male Protagonist , CGI , Primarily Male Cast , Rural , Seinen , Heterosexual , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , School , Age Gap

REDLINE

Also known as Redline.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Romance , Sci-Fi , Sports

Redline is about the biggest and most deadly racing tournament in the universe. Only held once every five years, everyone wants to stake their claim to fame, including JP, a reckless dare-devil driver oblivious to speed limits with his ultra-customized car - all the while, organized crime and militaristic governments want to leverage the race to their own ends. Amongst the other elite rival drivers in the tournament, JP falls for the alluring Sonoshee - but will she prove his undoing, or can a high speed romance survive a mass destruction race?



Tags: Cars , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Cyborg , Space , Cyberpunk , Aliens , Female Protagonist , Crime , Heterosexual , Robots , Military , Gambling , Anthropomorphism , Politics , Nudity , Primarily Male Cast

Initial D SECOND STAGE

Also known as Initial D 2nd Stage.

Studio: Pastel
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Following his victory over RedSuns leader Ryosuke Takahashi, AE86 driver Takumi Fujiwara is challenged by the Lancer EVO-based "Emperor," a group known for taking decals of racing teams they defeat, cutting them up and placing them on their cars like a fighter plane kill board. Takumi's undefeated streak is on the line as his AE86 is virtually no match against the more powerful and more agile four-wheel-drive EVOs of the Emperor team.



Tags: Cars , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Rural , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , CGI , Primarily Adult Cast , Work

Dark Gathering

Also known as Dark Gathering.

Studio: OLM
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Horror , Supernatural

After a devastating encounter with a restless spirit, ghost-fearing psychic Keitarou Gentouga became a shut-in to avoid additional spectral catastrophes. But no man is a haunted island, and Keitarou eventually reintegrates with society by getting a part-time job as a tutor to the child prodigy Yayoi Houzuki. Yayoi isn’t just an academic genius, though. She’s a talented psychic medium hell-bent on finding the malevolent spirit behind her mother’s disappearance, and she’s gravely determined to drag Keitarou into her terrifying world of grotesque supernatural phenomenon.



Tags: Ghost , Revenge , Tragedy , Necromancy , Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Gods , Suicide , Rehabilitation , Gore , Denpa , Yandere , Shounen , Body Swapping , Heterosexual , Episodic , Hikikomori , Afterlife , Cannibalism , Oiran , College , Incest , Cars

Initial D THIRD STAGE

Also known as Initial D 3rd Stage.

Studio: Studio DEEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance , Sports

Takumi is approached by RedSuns leader Ryosuke Takahashi and offered to join him in forming a professional racing team. Before coming up with an answer to the proposal, Takumi seeks retribution by issuing a rematch to Emperor leader Kyouichi Sudou, who previously defeated him due to an engine failure. He is also challenged by Kai Kogashiwa, a second-generation street racer whose father was once a fierce rival of Takumi's father Bunta.


Tags: Cars , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Rural , Heterosexual , CGI , Snowscape

HIGH CARD

Also known as HIGH CARD.

Studio: Studio Hibari
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

After discovering that his orphanage was on the brink of closing due to financial stress, Finn, who was living freely on the streets, set out for a casino with the aim of making a fortune. However, nothing could have prepared Finn for the nightmare that was awaiting him. Once there, Finn encountered a car chase and bloody shootout caused by a man's “lucky” card.
Finn will eventually learn what the shootout was about. The world order can be controlled by a set of 52 X-Playing cards with the power to bestow different superhuman powers and abilities to the ones that possess them. With these cards, people can access the hidden power of the “buddy” that can be found within themselves.

There is a secret group of players called High Card, who have been directly ordered by the king of Fourland to collect the cards that have been scattered throughout the kingdom, while moonlighting as employees of the luxury car maker Pinochle. Scouted to become the group's fifth member, Finn soon joins the players on a dangerous mission to find these cards.

However, Who's Who, the rival car maker obsessed with defeating Pinochle, and the Klondikes, the infamous Mafia family, stand in the way of the gang.

A frenzied battle amongst these card obsessed players, fueled by justice, desire, and revenge, is about to begin!

Tags: Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Card Battle , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Foreign , Cars , Found Family , Orphan , Guns , Primarily Male Cast , Police , Mafia , Heterosexual , Urban , Episodic , Poker , Amnesia , Gambling , Dissociative Identities , Detective , LGBTQ+ Themes , Conspiracy , Fake Relationship

Initial D FOURTH STAGE

Also known as Initial D 4th Stage.

Studio: A.C.G.T.
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Takumi Fujiwara and brothers Keisuke and Ryousuke Takahashi have formed "Project D," a racing team aimed at bringing their driving skills to their full potential outside their prefecture. Using the internet, Project D issues challenges to other racing teams and posts results of their races. Managed by Ryousuke, the team has Takumi engaging in downhill battles with his AE86, while Keisuke challenges opponents uphill. Among their rivals are the Seven-Star Leaf (SSR) and Todo-juku.

Tags: Cars , Rural , Seinen , CGI , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Male Cast ,

Appare-Ranman!

Also known as APPARE-RANMAN!.

Studio: P.A. Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

After a certain mishap, the brilliant but socially inept engineer Apare Sorano and the shrewd but cowardly samurai Kosame Isshiki find themselves drifting on a boat from Japan to America. Broke, the two decide to compete in the Trans-America Wild Race to win the prize and return to Japan. The two battle crazy rivals, outlaws, and the great outdoors itself as they race through the wild West from the starting line in Los Angeles to the finish line in New York - in the steam-powered car they built.



The first two episodes pre-aired on select platforms starting from March 21st. Regular broadcast started on April 10.

Tags: Cars , Historical , Foreign , Steampunk , Primarily Male Cast , Travel , Male Protagonist , Guns , Anachronism , Swordplay , Samurai , Martial Arts , Tanned Skin

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

Ghost Hunt

Also known as Ghost Hunt.

Studio: J.C. Staff
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

While at school, Taniyama Mai and her friends like to exchange ghost stories. Apparently, there is an abandoned school building on their campus that is the center of many ghost stories. During the story, they are interrupted by a mysterious male figure. The person turns out to be Shibuya Kazuya, a 17 year old who is president of the Shibuya Psychic Research Company. He was called by the principal to investigate the stories surrounding the abandoned school building.

The next day, on the way to school, Mai passes the school building in question. While examining a strange camera she spotted inside, she gets surprised by Kazuya's assistant. Unknowingly interfering with the investigation, Mai breaks the camera and Kazuya's assistant gets injured.

Kazuya forcefully hires Mai in order to pay for the camera and replace his injured assistant. From that point on, Mai begins to learn about the paranormal world and the profession of ghost hunting.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Ghost , Detective , Denpa , Youkai , Tragedy , Shrine Maiden , Female Protagonist , Super Power , Shoujo , Disability , Gods , Demons , Body Horror , Gore , Cars , Crime

Cop Craft

Also known as Cop Craft.

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

The story is set in San Teresa City on the fictional Pacific island of Kariaena. The "buddy police action" series follows the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana.

15 years ago, an unknown hyperspace gate opened over the Pacific. Beyond this gate lies Reto Semaani, a strange alternate world where fairies and demons live.

San Teresa City — a city where over two million immigrants live from both worlds. As a result, there are the haves and the have-nots. Here is the world's newest "city of dreams." But in the shadow of the chaos, crime is rampant: drugs, prostitution, and weapon trafficking. The detectives who stand up to these heinous crimes are in the San Teresa City Police. When the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana — two individuals who differ in gender, personality, and even world of origin — meet, an incident erupts. Two worlds. Two justices. From this, the curtain rises on a buddy police action story!



Tags: Police , Crime , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Detective , Noir , Gangs , Guns , Foreign , Politics , Swordplay , Isekai , Demons , Language Barrier , Drugs , Mafia , Aliens , Cars , Vampire , Body Swapping , Henshin , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Survival

Initial D Fifth Stage

Studio: SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Taking place in the sacred land of street running Kanagawa, once more Takumi Fujiwara will show his driving skills on his now legendary Hachi-roku.

Tags: Cars , Rural , CGI , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle

Initial D Final Stage

Studio: SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

After defeating every racing team in the prefecture, everything comes down to one last race. Takumi Fujiwara has never lost a race, but when his opponent is also using an AE86, it turns into a battle of the AE86. Will Project D succeed in the final and most difficult race of Initial D?

Tags: Cars , Male Protagonist , Rural , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , CGI

Inferno Cop

Studio: CoMix Wave , Trigger
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

The story deals with those in this world who dwell in the dark, invisible to the naked eye. From time to time, these figures bare their fangs and attack people. Inferno Cop is a messenger of justice who came from the depths of hell to protect people from them.



Tags: Parody , Police , Surreal Comedy , Skeleton , Primarily Male Cast , Time Manipulation , Cars , Foreign , Tokusatsu , Vampire , Zombie , Urban Fantasy

Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers

Also known as Magical Destroyers.

Studio: Bibury Animation Studios
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Mahou Shoujo

Freedom of expression is threatened when a mysterious group, the SSC, destroy Japan’s otaku culture. However, a young revolutionary, Otaku Hero—who loves the culture more than anything—rises up. With the help of three rambunctious magical girls—Anarchy, Blue, and Pink—they’ll team up to create a world free of this oppressive rule. Be part of the rebellion to bring back fandom!



Tags: Otaku Culture , Henshin , Dystopian , Urban , Meta , Magic , Surreal Comedy , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Philosophy , Religion , Swimming , Urban Fantasy , Outdoor , Video Games , Tragedy , Drugs , Denpa , Idol , Survival , Female Harem , Crossdressing , Cars , Guns

Tekkon Kinkreet

Also known as Tekkonkinkreet.

Studio: Studio 4°C
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Supernatural

Black and White are two orphans who roam the streets of Treasure Town, beating down any thug or yakuza who gets in their way. When mysterious foreign entrepreneurs appear with the intention of tearing down Treasure Town and replacing it with an amusement park, Black and White face their greatest adversaries yet. It is up to the destructive Black to save the fate of the city and up to the gentle White to save Black from his own dark nature.

Tags: Found Family , Coming of Age , Gangs , Philosophy , Urban , Primarily Child Cast , Crime , Orphan , Urban Fantasy , Homeless , Yakuza , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Primarily Male Cast , Parkour , Seinen , Conspiracy , Guns , Cars , Fugitive , Nudity , Time Skip