Anime like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: STONE OCEAN

What is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: STONE OCEAN about?

Studio: david production
Status: Finished

In Florida, 2011, Jolyne Kuujou sits in a jail cell like her father Joutarou once did; yet this situation is not of her own choice. Framed for a crime she didn’t commit, and manipulated into serving a longer sentence, Jolyne is ready to resign to a dire fate as a prisoner of Green Dolphin Street Jail. Though all hope seems lost, a gift from Joutarou ends up awakening her latent abilities, manifesting into her Stand, Stone Free. Now armed with the power to change her fate, Jolyne sets out to find an escape from the stone ocean that holds her.

However, she soon discovers that her incarceration is merely a small part of a grand plot: one that not only takes aim at her family, but has additional far-reaching consequences. What's more, the mastermind is lurking within the very same prison, and is under the protection of a lineup of menacing Stand users. Finding unlikely allies to help her cause, Jolyne sets course to stop their plot, clear her name, and take back her life.

Tags: Super Power , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Foreign , Police , Urban Fantasy , Fugitive , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Prison , Revenge , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Body Horror , Gore , Memory Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Shapeshifting , Surreal Comedy , Ghost , Agender , Masturbation , CGI , Disability , Nudity

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Netflix

RAINBOW: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

Also known as Rainbow.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Funimation , VAP
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Seven teenagers in 1955 have to learn to live together in the same hold in the reformatory of Shounan. Confined in a hall where suffering and humiliation are daily, they are waiting for a ray of hope in a dark, incarcerating world. The story follows their life together and how they move on afterwards.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Seinen , Tragedy , Coming of Age , Delinquents , Survival , Primarily Male Cast , Rehabilitation , Historical , Crime , Prison , Gore , Revenge , Boxing , Torture , Time Skip , Orphan , Found Family , Philosophy , Drugs , Bar , Gangs , Suicide , School , Yakuza , Military , Language Barrier

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Crunchyroll

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JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Steel Ball Run - 1st STAGE

Also known as STEEL BALL RUN JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 1st STAGE.

Studio: Warner Bros. Japan , david production
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Sports , Supernatural

The beginning of the seventh story arc in the long-running JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.

It’s 1890, in America, the Steel Ball Run — the first horse racing championship across the North American continent — was about to begin. Johnny Joestar, once being hailed as a genius jockey, is now paralysed and lost in despair. He finds hope in the mysterious phenomena caused by Gyro Zeppeli, an outlaw aiming to win the race, and determines to participate in the 4,000 miles of grueling adventure.

Tags: Travel , Super Power , Seinen , Coming of Age , Cowboys , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Disability , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Philosophy , Religion , Desert , Politics , Alternate Universe , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Indigenous Cultures , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy , Coastal , Torture , Trains , Wilderness

Where to watch?

Netflix

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Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen

Also known as Kaiji - Against All Rules.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Thriller

Several months after the events of the first season, Kaiji, with his appendages reattached and his debt now run up to 9.5 million yen, is still desperately seeking the elusive big score that will cancel all of his markers. Unbeknownst to him, Hyodo’s company, the Teiai Corporation, is actively searching for Kaiji, and have sent Kaiji’s old “friend” Endoh, who entered him in the high stakes games in the past, to find him.

The two meet when Kaiji chances to walk in front of Endoh’s car at a stop light, and thinking that he has found the answer to his prayers, Kaiji gets in the car with him. While Kaiji and Endoh are “happy” to see one another, and both want to see Kaiji’s debt repaid, their means to that goal couldn’t be more different.

Instead of leading Kaiji to the big score, Endoh delivers him drugged and docile to the Teiai Corporation’s secret underground labor camp where Kaiji will have an opportunity to repay his debt… with 15 years of hard labor.

Tags: Gambling , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Class Struggle , Philosophy , Survival , Slavery , Card Battle , Crime , Torture , Bullying , Food , Tragedy

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

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Netflix

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Nanbaka 2

Also known as NANBAKA - Part Two.

Studio: Satelight , NAS , Sony Music Communications , Tokuma Japan Communications , GP MEDIA JAPAN , Crunchyroll , Nelke Planning , DAX Production , NHN Comico
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

The gang is back to their usual antics and things have returned to normal in Nanba prison. However, the status quo is upset when a former guard turned inmate enacts a plan of his own.

Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Prison , Crime , Slapstick , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Memory Manipulation , Femboy , Ensemble Cast , Tanned Skin , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bisexual , Super Power , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Ninja , Crossdressing , Disability , Unrequited Love , Drugs , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

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Sukeban Deka

Also known as Sukeban Deka.

Studio: ADV Films , Hakusensha , Big Bang
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Mystery

The last time Saki left school it was to change her school uniform for prison greys, but when the Feds needed someone to infiltrate a ruthless criminal organization operating within an exclusive high school, they knew they needed the baddest bad girl of them all!

Now Saki's back on the streets for the ultimate final exam, armed with a top-secret weapon that only LOOKS like a yo-yo, and a license to use whatever force necessary to achieve her goal. Saki's lovely, lethal and ready to lay it all on the line-because if she fails this test, the next outfit she'll be wearing is a body bag!

Tags: Detective , Delinquents , Female Protagonist , Police , School , Shoujo , Tomboy , Primarily Teen Cast , Ojou-sama , Motorcycles , Gore , Crime , Yuri , Assassins , Nudity

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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 , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Shounen , Heterosexual , Gore , Gangs , Cultivation , Revenge , Henshin , Motorcycles , Desert , Torture , Astronomy , Archery , Bar , Cannibalism , Nudity

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

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RWBY: Hyousetsu Teikoku

Also known as RWBY: Ice Queendom.

Studio: Shaft , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Bandai Namco Music Live , Good Smile Company , Warner Bros. Japan , KLab
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

In the world of Remnant, a place where science and fairy tales coexist, human civilization is plagued by deadly monsters known as the Grimm. For a time, victory by the Grimm seemed all but certain, if not for the heroism of those sworn to protect humanity -- Huntsmen and Huntresses. These warriors are trained and assembled into teams at schools like Beacon Academy, where Ruby meets Weiss and Blake -- forming Team RWBY along with Ruby’s sister, Yang. While team RWBY studies to become the greatest Huntresses the world of Remnant has ever known, they are faced with a horrifying threat..

Note: The first three episodes received an advance release on Crunchyroll on June 24, 2022. The regular TV broadcast started on July 3, 2022.

Tags: Ensemble Cast , Fairy Tale , Super Power , Primarily Female Cast , School , Female Protagonist , Guns , Ojou-sama , Motorcycles , Magic , Kemonomimi , Swordplay , CGI , Cyberpunk , Terrorism , Robots

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Crunchyroll

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Karakuri Circus

Also known as Karakuri Circus.

Studio: Studio VOLN , Twin Engine
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery

The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helped Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting some weird guys. He found out that they're not humans but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi was forced to admit that he's no opponent for them; and just when he started to think that Masaru would be captured, Shirogane, Masaru's watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Arlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus.

Tags: Shounen , Circus , Conspiracy , Robots , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Martial Arts , Tragedy , Foreign , Trains , CGI , Love Triangle

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Amazon Prime Video

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Yomi no Tsugai

Also known as Daemons of the Shadow Realm.

Studio: bones film , bones , Aniplex , Square Enix
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Supernatural

In a remote mountain village under the watchful eyes of two stone guardians, the young Yuru contentedly lives off the land while staying close to the only family he has left—Asa, his precious twin sister. Asa, meanwhile, carries out a mysterious “duty” on behalf of the village while locked in a cage. Why is Asa a prisoner? And what other secrets does Yuru’s otherwise idyllic home hide?

Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Youkai , Archery , Proxy Battle , Creature Taming , Rural , Anachronism , Urban Fantasy , Twins , Demons , Gore , Conspiracy

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Crunchyroll

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Bilibili TV

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Dragon Ball Super

Also known as Dragon Ball Super.

Studio: Toei Animation , Funimation , Fujipacific Music , Yomiko Advertising , Fuji TV , Victor Entertainment , Nippon Columbia
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

After 18 years, we have the newest Dragon Ball story from creator Akira Toriyama. With Majin Buu defeated, Goku has taken a completely new role as...a radish farmer?! With Earth at peace, our heroes have settled into normal lives. But they can’t get too comfortable. Far away, the powerful God of Destruction, Beerus, awakens to a prophecy revealing his demise at the hands of an even more formidable being. When his search for the Saiyan God brings him to Earth, can Goku and his friends take on their strongest foe yet?

Tags: Super Power , Shounen , Henshin , Aliens , Space , Gods , Male Protagonist , Martial Arts , Alternate Universe , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Male Cast , Battle Royale , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Manipulation , Anti-Hero , Tomboy , Cyborg

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll