Anime like Kurozuka

Basilisk: Kouga Ninpouchou

Also known as Basilisk.

Studio: GONZO , GDH , Funimation , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Romance

The heirs to the Kouga and Iga ninja clans, Gennosuke and Oboro, hoped the unsteady truce between their tribes would last—but fate denies the lovers, thrusting their people into war after centuries of peace. The terms are set on two scrolls. One bears a list of Kouga warriors. The other holds a list of those who fight for Iga. The names found on these scrolls can only be crossed out in blood.



Tags: Ninja , Seinen , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Martial Arts , Super Power , Swordplay , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Body Horror , Gore , Nudity

Koutetsujou no Kabaneri

Also known as Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Aniplex , Funimation , Crunchyroll , Dentsu , Fuji TV , Kansai TV , KYORAKU , Fujipacific Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural

As the world is in the middle of an industrial revolution, a monster appears that cannot be defeated unless its heart, which is protected by a layer of iron, is pierced. By infecting humans with its bite, the monster can create aggressive and undead creatures known as Kabane. On the island Hinomoto, located in the far east, people have built stations to shelter themselves from these creatures. People access the station, as well as transport wares between them, with the help of a locomotive running on steam, called Hayajiro. Ikoma, a boy who lives in the Aragane station and helps to build Hayajiro, creates his own weapon called Tsuranukizutsu in order to defeat the creatures. One day, as he waits for an opportunity to use his weapon, he meets a girl named Mumei, who is excused from the mandatory Kabane inspection. During the night, Ikoma meets Mumei again as he sees Hayajiro going out of control. The staff on the locomotive has turned into the creatures. The station, now under attack by Kabane, is the opportunity Ikoma has been looking for.

Tags: Zombie , Steampunk , Post-Apocalyptic , Trains , Tragedy , Travel , Guns , Pandemic , Female Protagonist , Gore , Revenge , Male Protagonist , Historical , Rotoscoping , Heterosexual , Age Gap , CGI , Kaiju

Jigokuraku

Also known as Hell’s Paradise.

Studio: MAPPA , Twin Engine
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Supernatural

The Edo period is nearing its end. Gabimaru, a shinobi formerly known as the strongest in Iwagakure who is now a death row convict, is told that he will be acquitted and set free if he can bring back the Elixir of Life from an island that is rumored to be the Buddhist pure land Sukhavati. In hopes of reuniting with his beloved wife, Gabimaru heads to the island along with the executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri. Upon arriving there, they encounter other death row convicts in search of the Elixir of Life... as well as a host of unknown creatures, eerie manmade statues, and the hermits who rule the island. Can Gabimaru find the Elixir of Life on this mysterious island and make it back home alive?



Tags: Survival , Swordplay , Gore , Body Horror , Shounen , Ninja , Samurai , Battle Royale , Historical , Religion , Anti-Hero , Travel , Tragedy , Gods , Super Power , Philosophy , Fugitive , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Gender Bending , Death Game , Martial Arts , Cultivation , Crime , Nudity , Cult , Orphan , Primarily Male Cast , Bisexual , Cannibalism , Cosmic Horror , Amnesia

HELLSING OVA

Also known as Hellsing Ultimate.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Satelight , Funimation , StudioRF Inc. , Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, has long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing controls her own personal army to eliminate the undead beings, but even her highly trained soldiers pale in comparison to her most trusted vampire exterminator, a man by the name of Alucard, who is actually a powerful vampire himself. Along with Integra's mysterious butler and Alucard's new vampire minion, Seras Victoria, The Hellsing Organization must face not only regular ghouls and vampires, but a rivaling secret organization from the Vatican, and Millennium, an enigmatic group of madmen spawned by a certain war over 50 years ago...
A bloody battle between monsters is about to begin, the dead are dancing, and all hell is singing...

Tags: Vampire , Gore , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , War , Foreign , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Religion , Military , Urban , Guns , Cannibalism , Butler , Body Horror , Monster Girl , Monster Boy , Male Protagonist , Noir , Primarily Male Cast , Female Protagonist , Demons , Age Regression , Slapstick , Tomboy , Gender Bending , Kemonomimi , CGI , Werewolf , Nekomimi , Chibi , Time Skip , Nudity , Super Power , Philosophy , Bisexual

Kijin Gentoushou

Also known as Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho.

Studio: Yokohama Animation Lab , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Asmik Ace , Futabasha , Movic , Tamakoshi , Bandai Namco Filmworks , TOKYO MX
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden called "Itsukihime" in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a young man who acts as the shrine maiden's guardian despite being a stranger, encounters a mysterious demon who speaks of the far future in the forest where he went to defeat it. From Edo to the Heisei era, this huge Japanese fantasy series follows a demon man who travels through time while continuously questioning the meaning of wielding a sword.



Notes:
• The first episode has a runtime of ~1 hour.

Tags: Demons , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Historical , Tragedy , Time Skip , Shrine Maiden , Time Manipulation , Super Power , Arranged Marriage , Incest , Nudity , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Episodic

Oda Nobuna no Yabou

Also known as The Ambition of Oda Nobuna.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Pony Canyon , AT-X , Studio Gokumi , KLOCKWORX , SoftBank Creative Corp.
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance

The historical romantic comedy follows 17-year-old high schooler Sagara Yoshiharu who one day time-travels to the Sengoku period, where all the major Samurai lords are cute girls. Yoshiharu meets Oda Nobuna, the female counterpart of Oda Nobunaga, and begins to serve her as a substitute of Kinoshita Tokichiro, who was killed.

Tags: Historical , Isekai , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Female Harem , Samurai , Male Protagonist , Anachronism , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , War , Time Manipulation , Ninja , Alternate Universe , Kuudere , Yandere

Shigurui

Also known as Shigurui: Death Frenzy.

Studio: MADHOUSE , WOWOW , Geneon Entertainment , Akita Shoten , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Psychological

Two damaged warriors wear the scars of a twisted and violent past. Bitter rivals for the secrets of their master's sword and the right to his daughter, these samurai inflict wounds on each other that would destroy lesser men. The final chapter of their saga unfolds within a brutal samurai tournament, a gruesome contest arranged to satisfy the bloodlust of a cruel tyrant overlord.

The disfigured legends of the blade must summon the strength for one last battle - a final lesson in the artistry of violence where nothing is more beautiful than the kill.



Tags: Samurai , Gore , Swordplay , Tragedy , Body Horror , Historical , Nudity , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Martial Arts , Cannibalism

Devils' Line

Also known as Devils' Line.

Studio: Platinum Vision , Sentai Filmworks , Kodansha , King Records
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Everything you thought you knew about vampires is wrong. They can walk in the daylight and holy water doesn't burn them. In fact, vampires can pass as normal humans so perfectly that even other vampires have trouble spotting them. Until they drink human blood, that is; then they transform into monstrous beasts who mindlessly rape and murder. But not all vampires are evil. The secret task force that patrols Tokyo's vampire population has several fanged operatives, including half-human Yuuki Anzai, who believes that his human heritage lets him resist his species' basest cravings. But after Yuuki rescues college student Tsukasa Taira from a vampire stalker, he realizes that he's succumbing to urges he's never felt before.



Tags: Vampire , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Espionage , Nudity , Masturbation

HELLSING

Also known as Hellsing.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Hellsing follows the antiheroic vampire, Alucard, and a police girl-turned-vampire, Seras Victoria, two vampires employed by the vampire-extermination group of England, the Hellsing Organization. Slowly but surely, through their active duty, they find a new breed of vampires beginning to arise.



Tags: Vampire , Primarily Adult Cast , Noir , Super Power , Gore , Military , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Guns , Anti-Hero , Urban , Monster Girl , Suicide , Monster Boy , Body Horror , Cannibalism , Episodic , Butler

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 , Tanned Skin , Anachronism , Tragedy , Assassins , Primarily Adult Cast , Battle Royale , Philosophy , Achronological Order , Primarily Male Cast , Orphan , Ghost , Cult , Artificial Intelligence , Nudity , Guns , Alternate Universe , Martial Arts