Anime like Chirin no Suzu

Arashi no Yoru ni

Also known as One Stormy Night.

Studio: Group TAC , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

A story about a goat and a wolf who become friends in a stormy night, and how they overcome differences and hardships.



Tags: Animals , Travel , Male Protagonist , Rural , Boys' Love , Amnesia , Primarily Animal Cast , Anthropomorphism , Memory Manipulation , Fairy Tale , Snowscape , Kids

VINLAND SAGA

Also known as Vinland Saga.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Twin Engine , Kodansha , Production I.G , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

Thorfinn is son to one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, but when his father is killed in battle by the mercenary leader Askeladd, he swears to have his revenge. Thorfinn joins Askeladd's band in order to challenge him to a duel, and ends up caught in the middle of a war for the crown of England.



Tags: Vikings , Revenge , Foreign , Historical , War , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Anti-Hero , Military , Politics , Swordplay , Primarily Adult Cast , Travel , Gore , Medieval , Survival , Ships , Conspiracy , Slavery , Time Skip , Orphan , Pirates , Language Barrier , Religion , Snowscape , Spearplay , Archery , CGI , Heterosexual , Cult , Nudity , Achronological Order

Unico

Also known as Fantastic Adventures of Unico.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Sanrio , Tezuka Productions , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

Unico the Unicorn has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. Whether it's because of his personality or the powers of his horn, no one knows. However, the gods become jealous of Unico, thinking that only gods should be able to decide or let people be happy or not. Unico is banished to the Hill of Oblivion, and the West Wind is ordered to take him there. She can't stand giving this fate to an innocent like Unico, so Unico's adventures begin, as the West Wind takes him from one place and time to the next, in a neverending journey to escape the wrath of the gods. In this adventure, Unico meets Beezel a devil child and then Katy (Chao), a cat who wants to be a witch! Can he become friends with them?



Tags: Kids , Tsundere , Henshin , Super Power , Shapeshifting , Animals , Tragedy , Magic , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Cosmic Horror , Demons , Musical Theater , Cannibalism

Omae Umasou da na

Also known as Heart and Yummie.

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

A Tyrannosaurus called Heart was raised by a herbivorous dinosaur. As he grew up, he was scared by other dinosaurs. One day, Heart meets a baby Ankylosaurus and he names the baby "Umasou (looks delicious)". Umasou started to be attached to Heart and a strange family love develops between the two.

Tags: Dinosaurs , Family Life , Animals , Found Family , Primarily Animal Cast , Wilderness , Kids , Food , Cultivation , Tragedy , Anthropomorphism

Chironup no Kitsune

Studio: Group TAC
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Based on the novel "Chironup no Kitsune (Foxes of Chironup)" by Hiroyuki Takahashi.

Tags: Tragedy , Rural , Animals , Historical , Guns , Survival , Ships

My Little Goat

Also known as My Little Goat.

Studio: Geidai Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological

The mother goat rescues her little goats from the wolf's belly. But, she can't find Toruku, her eldest son! Where is Toruku?!

Tomoki Misato's 2018 Graduation Work at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Tags: Stop Motion , Animals , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Gore , Anthropomorphism , Tragedy , Fairy Tale , Female Protagonist

Daisetsusan no Yuusha Kibaou

Also known as King Fang.

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama

The conflicting fates of human beings and wild animals are depicted in a naturalistic setting. The main character of the story is Fang, who was born to a hunting dog and a circus-runaway European wolf. Although Fang was raised by a human family, he is a wild animal after all, and is destined to live amongst nature. The story reaches its climax when Fang returns from the circus and faces his foe, a giant brown bear which killed his family.



Tags: Animals , Rural , Environmental , Survival , Time Skip , Revenge , Circus , Snowscape

Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin

Studio: Toei Animation , TV Asahi
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

Gin is a silver Tora-ge named after his coat color. Shortly after being born, he watches his father, Riki, get killed by Akakabuto, a bear that terrorizes everything in its path. Being the third-generation of bear-dogs to try to stand up against Akakabuto, he ventures out to find wild dogs to join him in his fight.

Tags: Animals , Revenge , Shounen , Primarily Animal Cast , Male Protagonist , Disability , Archery , Ensemble Cast , Snowscape , Guns , Anthropomorphism , Suicide , Torture , War , Primarily Male Cast , Cannibalism , Gore , Amnesia , Coming of Age , Rural , Ninja

Jungle Taitei (1989)

Also known as The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Tezuka Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama

Leo is a young ambitious lion cub who takes his father's place as emperor of the jungle when is father is killed by poachers. Even though his father's fate was met by the hands of humans, Leo is one of the few animals in the Jungle that doesn't fear or feel hatred toward humans. He is not alone either, he is guided by friends of his father to help create the best animal kingdom there can be.



Tags: Animals , Foreign , Kids , Male Protagonist

BEASTARS

Also known as BEASTARS.

Studio: Orange , Toho , Fuji TV , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Akita Shoten , Bandai , BANDAI SPIRITS , Movic , BS Fuji , Q-Tec
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, herbivores and carnivores coexist with each other. For the adolescents of Cherryton Academy, school life is filled with hope, romance, distrust, and uneasiness.

The main character is Legoshi the wolf, a member of the drama club. Despite his menacing appearance, he has a very gentle heart. Throughout most of his life, he has always been an object of fear and hatred by other animals, and he’s been quite accustomed to that lifestyle. But soon, he finds himself becoming more involved with his fellow classmates who have their own share of insecurities and finds his life in school changing slowly.



Tags: Anthropomorphism , Coming of Age , Animals , Cannibalism , Full CGI , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Male Protagonist , Boarding School , CGI , Psychosexual , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Gangs , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Philosophy , Crime , Bullying , Shounen , School Club , Acting , Primarily Animal Cast , Class Struggle , Gore , Politics , Mafia , Urban , Vore , Nudity