Anime like Red Garden

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Studio: GONZO
Status: Finished

Strange suicides have been taking place in New York. One day, four girls from the same high school wake up in the morning feeling tired and dizzy and not being able to remember anything about the previous night. In school, they find out that one of their classmates has committed suicide. School is canceled for the rest of the day, but instead of going home, the girls are drawn to a park by butterflies only they can see. Suddenly a man and a woman approach the girls, telling them that they all died the previous night.



Tags: Philosophy , Super Power , Cosmic Horror , Drugs , Urban , Amnesia , Mythology , Memory Manipulation , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Reincarnation , Gore , Detective , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Suicide , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual
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WONDER EGG PRIORITY

Wonder Egg Priority

Also known as WONDER EGG PRIORITY.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , D.N. Dream Partners , NTV Music , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

This is the story of Ai, an introverted girl whose fate is forever changed when she acquires a mysterious “Wonder Egg” from a deserted arcade. That night, her dreams blend into reality, and as other girls obtain their own Wonder Eggs, Ai discovers new friends—and the magic within herself.



Tags: Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , Suicide , Bullying , Coming of Age , Alternate Universe , Primarily Teen Cast , CGI , Denpa , Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , Hikikomori , Afterlife , Body Horror , Artificial Intelligence , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Transgender , Episodic , Tomboy , Age Gap , Kuudere , Gore , Isekai , Idol , Guns
High School of the Dead

Gakuen Mokushiroku: HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD

Also known as High School of the Dead.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , AT-X , Sentai Filmworks , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

The lockers are splattered with blood, the student bodies are piling up and that's not mystery meat they're eating in the cafeteria… it's the faculty! And that's just the start of the worst day of school ever when a nightmarish virus is unleashed, turning humans into flesh eating zombies and converting Fujimi High School into a literal hell on Earth. Now it's a crash course in survival, and the only test or skill that matters is the ability to keep moving, breathing and fighting. Because if nerds, jocks and the surviving staff can't find a way to work together to escape this carnal house of education, they're all going to end up on the menu. And that's assuming there's anyplace safe left to escape to.



Tags: Zombie , Survival , Pandemic , Gore , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Ensemble Cast , Body Horror , Nudity , Guns , Female Harem , Primarily Teen Cast , Large Breasts , Love Triangle , Swordplay , Ojou-sama , Politics , Tsundere , Heterosexual , School , Military , Shounen , Assassins , Unrequited Love , Police , Suicide , Animals , Female Protagonist
Tokko

TOKKOU

Also known as Tokko.

Studio: Group TAC , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

"Shindou Ranmaru has just graduated from police academy and assigned to Tokko: Special Mobile Investigation Force. On the day of his graduation, he meets the half-naked girl he has been seeing in his dreams. Her name is Rokujo Sakura and she works for a secret group within Tokki, known as Tokko: Special Public Safety Task Force. Shindou ends up joining Tokko to avenge his parents' death, and solve the mysterious mass murder of residents in his hometown of Machida. Meanwhile, bottomless pits begin appearing around Japan, and mysterious creatures emerge from them. Could these events be linked to Machida Massacre?"



Tags: Police , Demons , Urban , Urban Fantasy , Gore , Nudity , Seinen
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Le Chevalier D'Eon

Le Chevalier D'Eon

Studio: Production I.G , ADV Films , Funimation , Sakura Create
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

18th Century, France. Lia de Beaumont, loyal servant of Versailles and its King, Louis XV, is found dead in the river Seine. Floating inside a coffin, on which the word "Psalms" was written, her body had been poisoned by mercury, thus preserving decay. According to the Church, the soul that belonged to a corpse incapable of being consumed by the soil will forever wander in the human realm, unable to go to Heaven. This greatly affects D'Eon de Beaumont, Lia's brother and one of the king's spies. He vows to discover by whom - and why - she was murdered. But he never expected that the one who conducting the revenge would be Lia, now possessing D'Eon's body! And what will the knight do when this quest might risk France itself? History is retold in this supernatural tale of vengeance, loyalty and betrayal.

Tags: Magic , Historical , Foreign , Tragedy , Revenge , Swordplay , Religion , Gender Bending , Crossdressing , Philosophy , Royal Affairs
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Studio: Group TAC , ADV Films , Vistec Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

After an explosion at an archaeological excavation research facility in the Middle East, the world is changed in unthinkable ways. The sky is suddenly a mirror, electronic devices mysteriously no longer work properly, and children who are born after this point seem to have strange, metaphysical powers. Society is but a shell of its former self, and in the midst of the clandestine forces that brought about this eerie apocalypse is an elite group of young, powerful mutants who are working to restore the world under the direction of a woman known only as The Countess.

The story centers on a brother and sister, Tatsuya and Kiyoko, the children of a scientist at the Twin X facility.

(Sources: Blockbuster & ANN)

Tags: Lost Civilization , Reincarnation , Terrorism , Clone , Orphan , Mythology , Shapeshifting , Homeless , Super Power , Cyborg
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The Devil Lady

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 ,
Witch Hunter ROBIN

Witch Hunter ROBIN

Also known as Witch Hunter ROBIN.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Visual , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Robin Sena is a powerful craft user drafted into the STNJ - a group of specialized hunters that fight deadly beings known as Witches. Though her fire power is great, she’s got a lot to learn about her powers and working with her cool and aloof partner, Amon. But the truth about the Witches and herself will leave Robin on an entirely new path that she never expected!



Tags: Conspiracy , Police , Female Protagonist , Magic , Urban Fantasy , Noir , Fugitive , Witch , Primarily Adult Cast , Bar , Kuudere
Blood+

BLOOD+

Also known as Blood+.

Studio: Production I.G , Aniplex , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Saya Otonashi, a seemingly normal high school student, suffers from amnesia and she can't remember the past year of her life. One day, after a man appears and gives her a katana sword, her destiny begins to be revealed.

Soon she finds herself fighting the latest threat to humanity - Chiropteran monsters, ravenous immortal creatures that can change their form, disguising themselves as human beings. They feed off blood and hide themselves within the human world. An organization known as the Red Shield has been waging a private war to wipe them out and now the struggle has grown. Saya's journey for the truth has begun.



Tags: Vampire , Female Protagonist , Swordplay , Demons , Found Family , Urban Fantasy , Gore , War , Super Power , Tragedy , Amnesia , Time Skip , Heterosexual
takt op.Destiny

takt op.Destiny

Also known as takt op.Destiny.

Studio: Bandai Namco Arts , DeNA , MADHOUSE , MAPPA
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Music

Music is the light that illuminates people's hearts-- and that "light" was suddenly taken from the world. The world changed the night the black "Kuroya Meteorite" fell. Grotesque monsters known as D2 emerged from the meteorite and began to overrun the land and people. As the D2 were drawn to melodies people played, eventually "music" itself became taboo.

However, those who opposed the monsters appeared. They the "Musicart," girls who draw power from music. They possess the great operas and musical scores of humanity history and use them to defeat the D2.



Tags: Henshin , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Classical Music , Foreign , Post-Apocalyptic , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Kuudere , Ensemble Cast , Dystopian , Disability , Adoption , Dinosaurs
High-Rise Invasion

Tenkuu Shinpan

Also known as High-Rise Invasion.

Studio: Zero-G , Avex Pictures , Netflix , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery

High school student Yuri Honjou finds herself lost in an “abnormal space” where countless skyscrapers are connected by suspension bridges and “masked figures” mercilessly slaughter their confused and fleeing victims. To survive in this hellish world, she has two choices: kill the masked figures or be killed. Yuri is determined to survive in order to destroy this irrational world, but what will be her ultimate fate?



Tags: Survival , Death Game , Battle Royale , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Memory Manipulation , Gods , Urban , Guns , Gore , Amnesia , LGBTQ+ Themes , Isekai , Ensemble Cast , Nudity , Shounen , Swordplay , Dissociative Identities , Maids

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