Anime like Nijusseiki Denki Mokuroku: Eureka Evrika

Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite

Also known as Orb: On the Movements of the Earth.

Studio: MADHOUSE , SKY Perfect Pictures , Shogakukan , NHK Enterprises , MADHOUSE , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

The setting is 15th-century Europe. It was a time when heretical ideas lead those to who possessed such a mindset to being burned at the stake for their beliefs.

The protagonist, Rafał, a child prodigy, is expected to major in theology, the most important subject at the time, at the university where he plans to skip a grade. One day, however, he comes across a mysterious man, and is now studying a possible "truth" in the midst of heretical thought!



Tags: Astronomy , Philosophy , Religion , Ensemble Cast , Historical , Seinen , Foreign , Tragedy , Medieval , Time Skip , Fugitive , Conspiracy , Torture , Primarily Male Cast , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Meta , Suicide , Politics , Gore , Swordplay , Assassins , Alternate Universe , Rural

Dr. STONE

Also known as Dr. STONE.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

After five years of harboring unspoken feelings, high-schooler Taiju Ooki is finally ready to confess his love to Yuzuriha Ogawa. Just when Taiju begins his confession however, a blinding green light strikes the Earth and petrifies mankind around the world— turning every single human into stone.

Several millennia later, Taiju awakens to find the modern world completely nonexistent, as nature has flourished in the years humanity stood still. Among a stone world of statues, Taiju encounters one other living human: his science-loving friend Senkuu, who has been active for a few months. Taiju learns that Senkuu has developed a grand scheme—to launch the complete revival of civilization with science. Taiju's brawn and Senkuu's brains combine to forge a formidable partnership, and they soon uncover a method to revive those petrified.

However, Senkuu's master plan is threatened when his ideologies are challenged by those who awaken. All the while, the reason for mankind's petrification remains unknown.



Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Survival , Lost Civilization , Educational , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Environmental , Kingdom Management , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Spearplay , Primarily Male Cast , Found Family , Espionage , Tomboy , Medicine

Violet Evergarden

Also known as Violet Evergarden.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Pony Canyon , Rakuonsha , Madman Entertainment , ABC Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Slice of Life

A certain point in time, in the continent of Telesis. The great war which divided the continent into North and South has ended after four years, and the people are welcoming a new generation. Violet Evergarden, a young girl formerly known as “the weapon”, has left the battlefield to start a new life at CH Postal Service. There, she is deeply moved by the work of “Auto Memories Dolls”, who carry people's thoughts and convert them into words. Violet begins her journey as an Auto Memories Doll, and comes face to face with various people's emotions and differing shapes of love. There are words Violet heard on the battlefield, which she cannot forget. These words were given to her by someone she holds dear, more than anyone else. She does not yet know their meaning but she searches to find it.



Tags: Rehabilitation , Writing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Kuudere , War , Work , Orphan , Disability , Episodic , Military , Philosophy , Travel , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Steampunk , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Foreign , Assassins , Trains , Guns

Vanitas no Carte

Also known as The Case Study of Vanitas.

Studio: bones , Aniplex , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Square Enix , Contents Seed
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

It’s 19th-century Paris, and young vampire Noé hunts for the Book of Vanitas. Attacked by a vampire driven insane, a human intercedes, rescues Noé, and heals the sick creature. Commanding the book and calling himself Vanitas, this doctor tempts Noé with a mad crusade to “cure” the entire vampire race. Allying with one who wields arcane power so easily may be dangerous, but does he have a choice?



Tags: Vampire , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Foreign , Steampunk , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Tsundere , Anachronism , Historical , Gore , Tanned Skin , Chibi , Religion , Shounen , Assassins , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Male Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Henshin , Coming of Age , Drugs , Adoption , Super Power , Human Experimentation

Kyoto Animation: Meiji-hen

Studio: Kyoto Animation
Status: Finished
Genres:

Commercial for the Kyoto Animation studio using characters from Nijuuseiki Denki Mokuroku

Tags: Female Protagonist , Advertisement , Historical , Trains

Hyouka

Also known as Hyouka.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Kadokawa Shoten , KLOCKWORX , chara-ani.com , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Romance , Slice of Life

Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he bargained for when he signs up for the Classic Literature Club at his sister's behest—especially when he realizes how deep-rooted the club's history really is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is dragged into an investigation concerning the 45-year-old mystery that surrounds the club room.

Accompanied by his fellow club members, the knowledgeable Satoshi Fukube, the stern but benign Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must combat deadlines and lack of information with resourcefulness and hidden talent, in order to not only find the truth buried beneath the dust of works created years before them, but of other side cases as well.

Based on the award-winning Koten-bu light novel series, and directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto of Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu, Hyouka shows that normal life can be full of small mysteries, be it family history, a student film, or even the withered flowers that make up a ghost story.



Tags: School Club , Detective , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Episodic , Classic Literature , Heterosexual , Rural , Bowling , Iyashikei , Filmmaking , Otaku Culture , Politics , Shrine Maiden , Cosplay , Tsundere

Steamboy

Also known as Steamboy.

Studio: Horipro , Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

Ray is a young inventor living in the U.K. in the middle of the 19th century. Shortly before the first ever Great Exhibition, a marvelous invention called the "Steam Ball," behind which a menacing power is hidden, arrives at his door from his grandfather Lloid in the U.S. Meanwhile the nefarious O'Hara Foundation has sent men to aquire the Steam Ball so that they can use its power towards their own illicit ends.



Tags: Military , Steampunk , Historical , Ojou-sama , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Fugitive , Coming of Age

Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023)

Also known as Rurouni Kenshin (2023).

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Aniplex , Shueisha , Fuji TV , Dentsu , Animax Broadcast Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance

Re-adaptation of the main manga series.

One hundred and forty years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, manslayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend.



Tags: Swordplay , Historical , Samurai , Male Protagonist , Martial Arts , Shounen , Found Family , Assassins , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Rural , Travel , Drugs

Kaze Tachinu

Also known as The Wind Rises.

Studio: Studio Ghibli , Walt Disney Studios
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of over two decades of social unrest and malaise leading up to Japan's eventual surrender in World War II.

Tags: Aviation , Historical , Work , Biographical , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Time Skip , War , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Marriage , Natural Disaster , Foreign , Drawing , Trains

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Also known as Gurren Lagann.

Studio: Gainax , Aniplex , Konami , Half H.P Studio , Bandai , Bandai Entertainment , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars.

In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The enterprising Kamina, a young man with a pair of rakish sunglasses and the passion of a firey sun, befriends Simon and forms a small band of brothers, the Gurren Brigade, to escape the village and break through the ceiling of the cave to reach the surface, which few believe exist.

The village elder won't hear of such foolishness and punishes the Brigade. However, when disaster strikes from the world above and the entire village is in jeopardy, it's up to Simon, Kamina, a girl with a big gun named Yoko, and the small yet sturdy robot, Lagann, to save the day.

The new friends journey to the world above and find that the surface is a harsh battlefield, and it's up to them to fight back against the rampaging Beastmen to turn the tide in the humans' favor! Pierce the heavens, Gurren Lagann!

Tags: Super Robot , Coming of Age , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Dystopian , Space Opera , Philosophy , Tragedy , Travel , War , Space , Aliens , Time Skip , Politics , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Outdoor Activities , Anthropomorphism , Class Struggle , Mixed Media , Henshin , Cosmic Horror , Desert , Military , Guns , Animals , Alternate Universe , Urban , Love Triangle , Suicide , Swordplay , Aviation , CGI