Anime like TOKKOU

Shiki

Also known as Shiki.

Studio: Aniplex , Daume , Dentsu , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. After supposedly visiting this strange family, the fashionable Shimizu Megumi goes missing and the entire village goes out in search for her.

Tags: Vampire , Survival , Tragedy , Rural , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Nudity , Philosophy , Denpa , Gore , Zombie , Urban Fantasy , Pandemic , Medicine , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Religion , Achronological Order , Yandere , Writing , Primarily Teen Cast , Werewolf , Guns

Red Garden

Also known as Red Garden.

Studio: GONZO , GDH , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

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

SKULL MAN

Also known as The Skull Man.

Studio: bones , diomedéa , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery

Otomo City: where freedom and justice have atrophied to the bone; where conspiracy rules the day and death stalks the night... Death in the form of the Skull Man, a literal Grim Reaper whose skeletal grin presages grisly mayhem and murder, even to the monstrous mutants that haunt the city's underworlds!

To investigate a bizarre slaying, journalist Minagami Hayato and photographer Kiriko Mamiya must stalk this ultimate predator, through a festering cadaver of a city where the corruption flows in rivers as deep and foul as the sins of the reigning elite, and unearth a secret so shocking that an entire city has been turned into a tomb to contain! In a nightmarish necropolis where nothing is as it seems, vengeance comes in the form of a living Death's-Head!



Tags: Religion , Anti-Hero , Dystopian , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Detective , Gore , Guns , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Police , Super Power , Seinen , Henshin , Tokusatsu , Motorcycles , Conspiracy , Shapeshifting , Military , Orphan

Elfen Lied

Also known as Elfen Lied.

Studio: VAP , Arms , Genco , ADV Films , A Line
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The Diclonius, a mutated homosapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possess two horns on their heads and have a "sixth sense" which gives them telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murders most of the guards in the laboratory where she is being held, only to be shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives, falling off a cliff into the ocean and manages to drift along to a beach where two teenagers, Kouta and Yuka, discover her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the psychotic side of Lucy is not dead just yet...



Tags: Gore , Fugitive , Super Power , Amnesia , Monster Girl , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Body Horror , Revenge , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Yandere , Conspiracy , Bullying , Incest , Coastal , Love Triangle , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Tsundere , Disability , Cyborg , Kemonomimi , Military , Family Life , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , Female Harem , Cohabitation , Human Experimentation , Animals

Taiho Shichauzo (TV)

Also known as You're Under Arrest! (TV).

Studio: Bandai Visual , Studio DEEN , Ashi Productions , AnimEigo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Tokyo Highway Patrolwomen Natsumi and Miyuki get off to a bad start when Miyuki busts Natsumi for reckless moped driving on her way to work. Things get worse when they find out they're going to be partners!

A continuation of the OVA series, the adventures of Tokyo policewomen Natsumi and Miyuki continue in the You're Under Arrest TV series. It's back to Bokuto Precinct, where demented felons and bashful (but hunky) policemen abound, and where the cutest girl in the office... isn't a girl.



Tags: Police , Cars , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast , Motorcycles , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Baseball , Mopeds , Crossdressing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Transgender

Zombie-Loan

Also known as Zombie Loan.

Studio: Xebec , NAS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Do you know when you are going to die? Michiru Kita does, as she has the ability to see the ring of death around people's necks. The darker the ring, the closer to death someone is. She notices that two boys in her class, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana, have completely black rings. Seeking to warn them of their impending demise, she stumbles onto their secret: they are already dead, but they are kept alive due to a contract with Zombie-Loan. Of course, nothing comes without a price. The boys must hunt down and destroy zombies; seeking to use Michiru's "Shinigami Eyes" to help them in their endeavor.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Zombie , Super Power , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Mafia , Gore , Kuudere

Blade

Also known as Blade.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Marvel Entertainment , Sony Pictures Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

The story revolves around Blade, a "Daywalker" vampire hunter who was born with vampire and human blood after a vampire attacked his mother. While visiting Japan on a mission, Blade tracks down Deacon Frost, the vampire who killed his mother. Blade confronts "Existence," a mysterious organization composed of vampires modified by Frost.



Tags: Vampire , Martial Arts , Swordplay , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power

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 , Clone , Reincarnation , Terrorism , Orphan , Mythology , Shapeshifting , Homeless , Super Power , Cyborg

CLAYMORE

Also known as Claymore.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Funimation , Avex Entertainment , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Horror

A brutal scourge stalks the land. Yoma, monsters driven by a hunger satisfied by only one quarry - Humanity. The dark breed knows but a singular foe: Claymore. Human-Yoma hybrids of extraordinary strength and cunning, the Claymores roam from skirmish to skirmish delivering salvation by the edge of a blade.

Thus begins the twisting tale of Clare, one such sister of the sword driven by pain in both victory and defeat. A child silent and suffering hidden in her past, Clare's march toward vengeance unfolds along a path marked by violence, solitude and scorn. In a land where even the predator is prey, the haunted hearts of hunter and hunted alike wear the scars of the age.



Tags: Swordplay , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Tragedy , Primarily Female Cast , Gore , Demons , Kuudere , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power , Orphan , Tomboy , Fugitive , Medieval , Monster Girl , Travel , Body Horror , Nudity , Shounen , Rural , Torture , Shapeshifting , Snowscape , Cannibalism , Desert , Urban

Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo

Also known as Ryoko's Case File.

Studio: Starchild Records , Doga Kobo , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Supernatural

Based on a series of light novels written by Tanaka Yoshiki and illustrated by Kakinouchi Narumi.

The story revolves around Ryouko Yakushiji, a 27-year-old multilingual investigator that graduated from Tokyo University's elite Department of Law, and the bizarre cases she faces while working for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Yakushiji not only has to deal with supernatural beings in her line of work, but also her rival Yukiko Muromachi, another equally talented and beautiful police investigator.



Tags: Police , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Guns , Episodic