Anime like Lodoss-tou Senki

Sousou no Frieren

Also known as Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.

Studio: Toho , MADHOUSE , Shogakukan , Nippon Television Network , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Aniplex , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about. Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to understand what life means to the people around her? Decades after their victory, the funeral of one her friends confronts Frieren with her own near immortality. Frieren sets out to fulfill the last wishes of her comrades and finds herself beginning a new adventure…



Tags: Travel , Magic , Elf , Philosophy , Time Skip , Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Foreign , Found Family , Kuudere , Demons , Adoption , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Aromantic , Episodic , Rural , Asexual , Dungeon , Rotoscoping , Shounen , Snowscape , Religion , Dragons , Clone

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

Dungeon Meshi

Also known as Delicious in Dungeon.

Studio: Trigger , KADOKAWA , Ultra Super Pictures , Good Smile Company , Tencent
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!



Note: A world premiere screening of Episode 1 was shown in the Studio TRIGGER panel at Anime Expo on July 1, 2023.

Tags: Dungeon , Food , Magic , Primarily Adult Cast , Environmental , Ensemble Cast , Elf , Monster Girl , Dragons , Lost Civilization , Necromancy , Body Horror , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Anthropomorphism , Tragedy , Nekomimi , Kemonomimi , Episodic , Chimera , Politics , Found Family , Ninja , Shapeshifting , Nudity , Ghost , Cannibalism , Super Power , LGBTQ+ Themes , Zombie

Kaze no Tairiku

Also known as The Weathering Continent.

Studio: Production I.G , Bandai Visual , Kadokawa Shoten , Victor Entertainment , Animate , Imagica , Media Blasters , NYAV Post
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Supernatural

Long before the roots of history, there was a magnificent Continent in the Atlantic, torn by generations of wars, with people stricken by natural disasters and starvation. Wandering in this bleak world, Bois brings his sword, Tieh his magic, and Lakushi her heart to fight for one goal: to live another day.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Swordplay , Magic , Desert , Dungeon , Ghost , Cosmic Horror , Lost Civilization , Tomboy , Post-Apocalyptic

BASTARD!!: Ankoku no Hakaishin

Also known as Bastard!!.

Studio: AIC , Geneon Entertainment , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy

The characters in BASTARD!! have forsaken technology and have traded it in for magic and the occult arts. The story revolves around a group of five magicians who set out to rebuild their world after a rampaging God destroys it and tips it into chaos. Driven by their leader Dark Schneider, Gara, Arshes Nei, Abigail and Kall Su set out to conquer kingdoms in the hope of rebuilding them into utopias, with each of the magicians having their own personal agenda in doing so. However, Dark Schneiders often reckless manner and short temper leads him to wreak havoc where ever he goes. He is trapped by a group of clerics in a baby boy, leaving the four without a leader.<br><br> Fifteen years later, the four still continue their quest but their motives have changed to despotic world domination, and it is up to Dark Schneider to show them the "error of their ways", when he is freed by the clerics who once imprisoned him, so that he may defend them against his former comrades. It has now become Dark Schneiders responsibility to track down each one of his companions and set them on the right path again, but what seems to be the once reckless and amoral Dark Schneider has changed over his fifteen year imprisonment within the boy, Lucien Renlen.



Tags: Anti-Hero , Magic , Gore , Dragons , Vampire , Nudity , Elf , Heterosexual , Reincarnation , Tanned Skin , Meta , Gods , Shounen , Goblin , Ninja , Werewolf , Swordplay , Incest , Age Gap

BASTARD!!: Ankoku no Hakaishin (ONA)

Also known as BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-.

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Warner Bros. Japan , Shueisha , KLOCKWORX , Medicos Entertainment , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy

In a postapocalyptic world of heavy metal fantasy, the only thing able to save humans from orcs, lizard men, and other monsters is something even MORE evil. Sealed within a 14-year-old boy, the chaotic wizard Dark Schneider is unleashed to fight four mighty generals and their plot to resurrect the evil god Anslasax.



Note: The first 13 episodes were released worldwide on Netflix on June 30, 2022, while the remaining 11 episodes released on September 15, 2022.

Tags: Magic , Heterosexual , Female Harem , Demons , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Anti-Hero , Post-Apocalyptic , Meta , Gore , Nudity , Revenge , Gods , Elf , Ninja , Martial Arts , Swordplay , Dragons , Age Regression , Bisexual , Vampire , CGI , Goblin , Anachronism

Grancrest Senki

Also known as Record of Grancrest War.

Studio: A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Romance

The series takes place on a continent ruled by chaos. The chaos breeds disaster, but the Lords of the continent have the power of "Crest" (Holy Seal) that can calm the chaos and protect the people. However, before anyone realizes it, the rulers cast aside their creed of purifying the chaos, and instead start to fight each other for each others' Crests and to gain dominion over one another. Siluca, an isolated mage who scorns the Lords for abandoning their creed, and a wandering knight named Theo, who is on a journey to train to one day liberate his hometown, which is under tyrannical rule, make an everlasting oath to each other as master and servant and work together to reform this continent dominated by wars and chaos.



Tags: War , Politics , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Swordplay , Magic , Male Protagonist , Netorare , Tsundere , Gore , Demons , Marriage , Nudity , Acting

Wizardry

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Based on the first Wizardry game "The Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord", a group of characters enter a dungeon to confront the ultimate wizard to prevent him from reaching an unstoppable power. On their way they meet up with a few new friends who have their own battles to settle, but their paths lay together.



Tags: Dungeon , Swordplay , Magic , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Ninja , Elf , Zombie

Legend of Crystania

Also known as Legend of Crystania.

Studio: Kadokawa Shoten , Marubeni , Triangle Staff
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Supernatural

Dreams begin to haunt Lady Sheru -- dreams of her past life as Pirotesse. Her love, Ashram, is being tormented at the hands of the soul of Barbas posing as their former king, Beld of Marmo. Interpreting this as a plea for help, Sheru searches for a way to save him by entering the chaos realm using the Chaos Ring. Meanwhile, Redon and his friends are called to arms again as ancient creatures begin to appear after being sealed away for centuries. Both their paths will cross once again, and on their shoulders will the fate of Crystania lie.



Tags: Magic , Elf , Shapeshifting , Swordplay , Gods

Dragon Quest: Abel Yuusha Densetsu

Also known as Dragon Warrior.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Studio Comet , NAS , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Dragon Quest is loosely based on Dragon Quest III. The names and some of the characters are familar, but the world map is smaller and a very different shape. The two main characters are Abel and Tialah. Tialah receives the legendary Red Stone from the Aliahan Village sage Master Yogi. Soon after, Tialah is kidnapped by the evil Baramos who wants to use the Red Stone to resurrect The Great Dragon and be granted eternal life. Abel swore to rescue Tialah and he is given the Blue Stone, which can only seal the Dragon once it has been released.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Demons , Martial Arts , Magic