Anime like Tiger Mask

What is Tiger Mask about?

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished

Tiger Mask (whose real name was Naoto Date) was a feared heel wrestler in America who was extremely vicious in the ring. However, he became a face after returning to Japan when a young boy said that he wanted to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grew up. The boy resided in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he did not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger was inspired to be a heroic wrestler.

The main antagonist in the manga and anime was Tiger's Cave, a mysterious organization that trained young people to be villainous heel wrestlers on the condition that they gave half of their earnings to the organization. Tiger Mask was once a member of Tiger's Cave under the name "Yellow Devil", but no longer wanted anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriated the leader of the organization and he sent numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, to punish him.

Tags: Shounen , Wrestling , Primarily Male Cast , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Orphan , Revenge , Foreign

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Kinnikuman Nisei

Also known as Ultimate Muscle.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Toei Animation , Yomiuri Advertising , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi , Sports

Kid Muscle (or Mantaro for short) is a bumbling, gross, and wimpy sort-of person. Unfortunately, he has been summoned to protect the earth from the evil dMp, a band of cheating wrestlers from outer space. Luckily he's not undertaking this task alone. Kid Muscle must join the Muscle League, a group of wrestlers from outer space who are training themselves so they can defend the earth, and stop the dMp by achieving "Ultimate Muscle", a hidden power that makes Mantaro an almost unbeatable opponent.

Tags: Wrestling , Martial Arts , Shounen , Superhero , Revenge , Super Power , Aliens

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Ashita no Joe

Also known as Tomorrow's Joe.

Studio: Mushi Production , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Joe, a teenage orphan in the slums of the Doya streets, meets Danpei, a homeless, alcoholic ex-boxing coach. Danpei, seeing Joe's boxing talent, decides to train him. When Joe is sent to a terrible juvenile home for petty crimes, he meets Rikiishi who becomes his boxing rival. Danpei arrives at the home to help Joe to train in order to defeat Rikiishi. When Joe decides to seriously pursue boxing, Danpei cannot get a coaching license because of his reputation as a drunk.

Tags: Boxing , Anti-Hero , Coming of Age , Delinquents , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Class Struggle , Primarily Male Cast , Rehabilitation , Ojou-sama , Orphan , Prison , Yakuza , Homeless , Crime , Police , Time Skip , Educational , Gangs , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Achromatic

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Honoo no Tenkousei

Studio: Gainax , Studio Fantasia , Youmex
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sports

Transfer student Takisawa Noboru quickly learns that all disputes at his new school are settled in the boxing ring. Now he finds himself in a series of showdowns with the local top dog, Ibuki Saburo, for the love and respect of the beautiful Yukari.

Tags: Parody , Boxing , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Male Protagonist , School , Bullying , Love Triangle , Martial Arts

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Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae

Also known as Sabu & Ichi's Arrest Warrant.

Studio: Toei Animation , Mushi Production , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Studio Zero
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

The series follows the adventures of Sabu, a young Edo bakufu investigator traveling with the blind master swordsman Ichi. In their travels, they assist the common people in solving mysteries and righting wrongs (usually committed by bandits or corrupt officials). Sabu is engaged to Midori, the daughter of his boss, who works as a police officer for the Tokugawa shogunate.

Tags: Seinen , Achromatic , Historical , Swordplay , Male Protagonist

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Kinnikuman: Kinnikusei Oui Soudatsu-hen

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sports

Kinnikuman has proven himself worthy to be crowned the next king of Planet Kinniku. But at the ceremony, five other Kinnikuman's arrive, all claiming to be the true prince of Planet Kinniku. Now, a Royal Survivor Tournament is being held to decide the true successor to the throne, and with the help and support of his friends and with his recently acquired knowledge of the Ultimate Technique (The Muscle Spark), Kinnikuman fights for what is rightfully his.

Tags: Wrestling , Shounen

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Animal 1

Studio: Mushi Production , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ichirou Azuma, a young amateur wrestler, wants to participate in the Olympics Games in Mexico.

Tags: Foreign , Shounen , Achromatic , Wrestling

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Shin Majin Den Battle Royal High School

Also known as Battle Royal High School.

Studio: AnimEigo , Tokuma Shoten , D.A.S.T. Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Horror , Supernatural

Hyoudo Riki is just an ordinary guy who likes to wear a tiger mask while Kung Fu fighting, which means he fits in real well at BATTLE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL!

Unfortunately for Riki, he's the doppelganger in our world of Byoudo, Master of the Dark Realm, and when a dimension gate opens between the two worlds, the evil Fairy Master tricks Byoudo into making an attempt to conquer out beautiful, and better lit, world.

Now poor Riki is semi-possessed by his opposite number, and the minions of the Fairy Master are mutating his classmates into hideous lustful monsters. To make matters worse, all the inter-dimensional commotion has attracted the attention of a sword-happy exorcist and the heroic Zankan of the Space-Time Police!

Which all means that Riki is about to take one bitch of a mid-term. The course is survival, and forget "Pass/Fail." This test is graded "Live/Die!"

Tags: Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Gore , Body Horror , Battle Royale , Swordplay , School , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Martial Arts

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