Anime like R.O.D -THE TV-

Baccano!

Also known as Baccano!.

Studio: Aniplex , Brain's Base , Aniplex of America , Sakura Create , Happinet Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Supernatural

During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis, are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir. In addition, a war between the mafia groups is getting worse. On board the Advena Avis, in 1711, alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality.

Based on the award winning light novels of the same name, this anime adaptation follows several events that initially seem unrelated, both in time and place, but are part of a much bigger story—one of alchemy, survival and immortality. Merging these events together are the kindhearted would-be thieves, Isaac and Miria, connecting various people, all of them with their own hidden ambitions and agendas, and creating lifelong bonds and consequences for everyone involved.



Tags: Mafia , Ensemble Cast , Crime , Achronological Order , Alchemy , Historical , Trains , Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Noir , Primarily Adult Cast , Guns , Urban , Gore , Travel , Heterosexual , Torture , Anti-Hero , Vore , Demons , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Disability

Princess Principal

Also known as Princess Principal.

Studio: Studio 3Hz , Q-Tec , Actas , TOKYO MX , Bandai Visual , Medicos Entertainment , Lantis , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Movic , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

The "spy action" series follows five girls in 19th century London, a city within the Albion Kingdom divided into east and west by a large wall. The girls serve as undercover spies enrolled as students at the prestigious Queen's Mayfair school. The girls make use of their individual abilities to remain active in the underground world of disguise, espionage, infiltration, and car chases.



Tags: Espionage , Steampunk , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Primarily Female Cast , Achronological Order , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Historical , Yuri , Boarding School , Primarily Teen Cast , Guns , Assassins , Trains , Anti-Hero , Kuudere , School

Noir

Studio: Bee Train , Funimation , Victor Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery

Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin, and a very good one at that. But when she follows up an e-mail from a young Japanese girl named Yumura Kirika, inviting her to take "a pilgrimage to the past", her life becomes even more dangerous than it already is. Now, with a haunting melody invoking the memory of an event long past, Mireille and Kirika decide to work together to find the truth about a thousand year old organization that has controlled both of their lives since before they were born. And the only clue in their search, the only thing Kirika remembers about herself, becomes their working codename: a name designating an ancient fate, of two maidens who reign over death--Noir.



Tags: Assassins , Guns , Noir , Foreign , Crime , Amnesia , Female Protagonist , Fugitive , Primarily Female Cast , Conspiracy , Revenge , Tragedy , Gangs , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Triads , Yuri , Wrestling

Bakuretsu Tenshi

Also known as Burst Angel.

Studio: GONZO , GDH , TV Asahi , Funimation , Imagica
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

In a crime-ridden future Japan, Kyohei Tachibana is a peaceful student at a culinary school, dreaming of going to France for advanced study as a patissier (pastry chef). To afford the trip, he accepts a part-time job as private cook to a strange group of women - Sei, Meg, Jo and Amy. To Kyohei's astonishment, they turn out to be a band of violent mercenaries, and he finds himself in the line of fire.

Tags: Dystopian , Robots , Real Robot , Female Protagonist , Guns , Primarily Female Cast , CGI , Kuudere , Food , Tokusatsu , Triads , Body Horror , Conspiracy , Yuri

Seihou Bukyou Outlaw Star

Also known as Outlaw Star.

Studio: Sunrise , Sotsu , Victor Entertainment , Bandai Entertainment , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Gene Starwind is a jack-of-all-trades responsible for odd jobs and bounty hunting with his partner, Jim Hawking. Stuck on a rundown planet, he’s going nowhere fast. But when a bodyguard job goes sideways, he finds himself the proud owner of the Outlaw Star and on an adventure to find the mysterious Galactic Leyline. Facing pirates and dangers galore, can he survive the journey through space?



Tags: Space , Artificial Intelligence , Assassins , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Pirates , Guns , Lost Civilization , Nekomimi , Space Opera , Tomboy , Magic , Nudity

Solty Rei

Also known as Solty Rei.

Studio: GONZO , AIC , TV Asahi , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

In a future-based disaster-ridden city with an enormous gap between the rich and the poor, it is hard to tell which humans are walking around with cybernetic body parts. This makes Roy Revant's job as a renegade bounty hunter/bodyguard-for-hire even more difficult. When a young girl with unbeliveable strength rescues him from a particularly dangerous criminal, Roy realizes that perhaps help can be found in the strangest of places. Joining together with a few others, they engage in a battle to find out the truth behind the giant conglomerates that are supposedly serving mankind and making life better.

Solty, an android who has lost her memory, has escaped and is being hunted by the RUC Security Bureau. She encounters the bounty hunter Roy and he adopts her as his daughter after being hired as a bodygaurd for Miranda.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Robots , Amnesia , Super Power , Adoption , Tragedy , CGI , Guns , Cyborg , Cyberpunk , Fugitive , Desert , Urban , Dystopian , Class Struggle , Found Family

Bungou Stray Dogs

Also known as Bungo Stray Dogs.

Studio: bones , Glovision , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mystery , Supernatural

Stalked by a beastly white tiger, Atsushi Nakajima has no idea that the menace lives inside him—a power that catches the attention of the Armed Detective Agency. Using inhuman abilities to combat crime, this team takes Atsushi under the wing of their most eccentric member, Dazai. Together, they tear through mafia-muddled mysteries while enemies keep an eye on the tiger’s lofty bounty.



Tags: Super Power , Crime , Detective , Mafia , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Classic Literature , Yakuza , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Orphan , Work , Seinen , Gangs , Suicide , Slapstick , Found Family , Guns , Terrorism , Gore , Shapeshifting , Kuudere , Anti-Hero , Assassins , Episodic , Homeless , Tragedy , Bar

Coyote Ragtime Show

Also known as Coyote Ragtime Show.

Studio: ufotable , ADV Films , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Mister is a "coyote" or space faring outlaw who has been sitting in prison for a year for a traffic offence. Ten days from release, he breaks out with the help of his old partners Bishop and Katana. He then seeks out Franka who has been left in his care by her dead father and takes her on a journey to find her father's treasure. On their heels are the federal investigators Angelica and Chelsea as well as the android assassins of the Criminal Guild, Madame Marciano's Twelve Sisters.



Tags: Space , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , War , Male Protagonist , Politics , Military , Guns , Ensemble Cast , Fugitive , Robots , Kuudere , Found Family

Dantalian no Shoka

Also known as The Mystic Archives of Dantalian.

Studio: Gainax , TV Tokyo , Kadokawa Shoten , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , KLOCKWORX , NTT Docomo , Dwango , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery , Supernatural

Hugh Anthony Disward inherits an old mansion and a personal library from his grandfather. In the basement of the mansion, he meets a mysterious girl, Dalian. She is a Dantalian and a gateway to "Dantalian's bookshelf", which stores the prohibited books of the demons.

"Gensho (Illusory Books)", the prohibited books, endanger the balance of the world, but people are fascinated by the taboo. Hugh and Dalian solve the cases involving Gensho with their ability to access the Dantalian bookshelf.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Foreign , Magic , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Mythology , Primarily Adult Cast , Historical , Guns , Yandere , Rural , Classic Literature , Ojou-sama , Alchemy , Motorcycles , Military , Demons , Tsundere , Amnesia , Religion , Drugs , Suicide , Writing , Robots , Aviation , Crossdressing , Dragons

Coppelion

Also known as Coppelion.

Studio: GoHands , Starchild Records , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

In 2016 a meltdown of a nuclear power plant creates a big catastrophe in Tokyo. 20 years later, the city has become a ghost town due to the high levels of radiation. From that area a distress signal is received. The Self Defence forces dispatch 3 girls from the special unit Coppelion to search for survivors. But why aren't they wearing any protection against radiation?



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Super Power , Pandemic , Female Protagonist , Urban , Pregnancy , Guns , Rescue , War , Seinen , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Robots , Super Robot , Bullying , Artificial Intelligence