Anime like Youjuu Toshi

also known as Wicked City

What is Wicked City about?

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished

Beyond the boundaries of our ordinary existence lies a dreadful parallel world where demons dwell and humans dare not tread. For centuries, peace has existed between our world and theirs. To preserve that fragile balance and to ensure the survival of humankind, a new deal must be brokered, but dark and powerful forces lust to destroy the accord. When a militant group rises from the shadows, two elite agents are mobilized to counter the destructive forces and preserve the balance of our universe.



Tags: Demons , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Noir , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Urban , Body Horror , Guns , Heterosexual , Shapeshifting , Male Protagonist , Gore , Female Protagonist , Tentacles

Here is a list of Anime similar to Youjuu Toshi

Demon City Shinjuku

Makai Toshi Shinjuku

Also known as Demon City Shinjuku.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Japan Home Video , Discotek , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Ten Years ago, Genichirou Izayoi died trying to stop the sorcerer Rebi Ra, and as a result Shinjuku became a playground for demons. And now, the day approaches when Rebi Ra will complete his decade-long ritual to plunge the rest of the world into chaos! As Genichirou's son, it falls to Kyouya to venture into the heart of Shinjuku and put an end to the sorcerer his father couldn't beat. Can Kyouya exceed his father's legacy, or will the demons of Shinjuku create Hell on Earth?



Tags: Demons , Heterosexual , Urban , Urban Fantasy , Swordplay , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Gore , Female Protagonist , Martial Arts , Dystopian , Nudity
Cyber City Oedo 808

Cyber City OEDO 808

Also known as Cyber City Oedo 808.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Central Park Media , Japan Home Video
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

It is the year 2808. Three convicts are recruited as members of the Cyber Police to keep major criminal activity in Oedo (formerly Tokyo) in check. In return, their life sentences will be reduced by a few years for every mission accomplished. However, to ensure that these convicts are doing their job, the police have secured special collars around their necks. If they attempt to remove their collars or fail to meet the time limit of their mission, the collars will self-destruct.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Crime , Police , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Vampire , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Cyborg , Death Game , Espionage , Guns , Space , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Super Power , Cars
Ninja Scroll

Juubee Ninpuuchou

Also known as Ninja Scroll.

Studio: Movic , Sentai Filmworks , Animate Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Horror , Romance

Jubei Kibagami has always been the master dealer of death, but in rescuing a ninja woman from a monster he sets loose a chain of events that puts death in his own veins and sends them on a nightmarish odyssey through a surreal and devil infested ancient Japan. How do demonic possessions, an annihilated village and a man Jubei thought safely buried in his past all connect? If Jubei can't piece the blood-soaked clues together, his only consolation will be that he won't live to regret it for very long! Prepare your mind and steel your gut for the insanely gore-packed orgy of violence that still stands alone and unchallenged as the ultimate anime action feature.



Tags: Ninja , Historical , Gore , Swordplay , Heterosexual , Travel , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Rural , Politics , Nudity , Tragedy , Ships , Unrequited Love , LGBTQ+ Themes
Midnight Eye Goku

MIDNIGHT EYE: Gokuu

Also known as Midnight Eye Goku.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Discotek , Toei Video , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

Furinji Goku is a detective who has an “eye of god”.

While he was investigating the murder case of his colleague when he had been an officer, he was pressured to stop it by the police executives. However, he continue investigating, and he lost his left eye. When he was about to be killed, a mysterious group helped him and transplant an artificial eye. The eye was a super technological device that connected to the whole computer network in the world, and enabled him to control any computers.



Tags: Cyberpunk , Cyborg , Seinen , Monster Girl , Detective , Super Power , Primarily Adult Cast , Robots , Male Protagonist , Urban , Guns , Assassins , Suicide , Nudity
Angel Cop

Angel Cop

Also known as Angel Cop.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , D.A.S.T. Corporation , Studio 88 , Soei Shinsha , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Sometime in the future, terrorism in Japan has become commonplace, and the police have become almost as brutal as criminals. One cop, known as Angel, is the best of the best, stopping at nothing in her fight for justice. Things get interesting for Angel Cop and her new partner when they begin investigating a series of murders in which the victims are other criminals, killed in very unpleasant ways. These criminals, a group of psychics that banded together to hunt down the lowest scum in the city, and bring them to justice. After a couple of encounters between the cops and the psychics, two of the psychics begin to think that maybe they're not the good guys after all, but the third prefers killing to morality. Augmented by cybernetics from a mysterious source, he heads out on a killing spree, with Angel as his first target. Even with help from the other two psychics and her newly cyborged partner (after an unfortunate accident), Angel is going to have her work cut out trying to find the rogue psychic and the organization behind him.

Tags: Terrorism , Cyberpunk , Conspiracy , Super Power , Guns , Urban , Police , Gore , Crime , Robots , Politics , Cyborg , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Torture , Male Protagonist , Nudity
VAMPIRE HUNTER D

Vampire Hunter D

Also known as VAMPIRE HUNTER D.

Studio: Ajiado , Trans Arts , Movic , Studio Kyuuma , Ashi Productions , Studio Live
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Horror , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

10,000 years in the future, the world has become a very different place; monsters roam the land freely, and people, although equiped with high tech weapons and cybernetic horses, live a humble life more suited to centuries past. The story focuses on a small hamlet plagued by monster attacks and living under the shadow of rule by Count Magnus Lee, a powerful vampire lord who has ruled the land for thousands of years. When a young girl is bitten by the Count and chosen as his current plaything, she seeks out help of a quiet wandering stranger, D. It so happens that D is one of the worlds best vampire hunters, and he takes it upon himself to cut through Magnus Lees many minions, and put an end to the Count`s rule.



Tags: Vampire , Body Horror , Travel , Monster Girl , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Orphan , Gore , Ghost , Heterosexual , Ojou-sama , Dystopian , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Guns , Assassins , Werewolf , Nudity
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Darkside Blues

Darkside Blues

Studio: J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Shoujo , Dystopian , Cyberpunk , Terrorism , Gore , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Guns , Nudity , Body Horror , Politics , Religion
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Midnight Eye Goku II

MIDNIGHT EYE: Gokuu II

Also known as Midnight Eye Goku II.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Discotek , Toei Video , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Goku, the lone wolf private detective is back, contracted by Ryoko, a mysterious, beautiful and very afraid woman, to find and save her brother, Ryu. Will Goku be able to protect Ryoko from her step father`s soldiers long enough to find her brother? Meanwhile Ryu, the unfortunate subject of a military experiment gone bad, leaves a trail of bodies behind him and has no intention of being found or saved by anyone. Will Goku have to kill the man he is supposed to save? Will even his omniscient cybernetic eye and sceptre be enough to help him defeat this indestructible killing machine?



Tags: Cyberpunk , Detective , Super Power , Cyborg , Robots , Augmented Reality , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Memory Manipulation , Gore , Nudity
Psycho Diver: Soul Siren

Psycho Diver Masei Rakuryu

Also known as Psycho Diver: Soul Siren.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Studio Junio , Toei Video , Good Hill Vision , Filmlink International
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Yuki Kano has it all: fame, wealth, the world at her feet. There's also something very wrong with her... from time to time, she's totally unable to sing (which, for a pop star, is not good). Enter Bosujima, a "psycho diver" with the capability to enter people's heads and straighten out what's wrong with them. Well, most of the time, anyway.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Cult , Noir , Urban Fantasy , Conspiracy , Super Power , Gore , Body Horror , Nudity , Drugs , Guns , Heterosexual
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The Devil Lady

Devilman Lady

Also known as The Devil Lady.

Studio: Toei Animation , TMS Entertainment , ADV Films , Dynamic Planning
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

Fudo Jun is a beautiful supermodel who is idolized by many. She also has a dark secret that not even she knows about at first, for within her veins run the genes that hold the next step in the evolution of mankind. The same blood as the beastlike superhumans that terrorize the city. Unlike the rest of them, though, Jun has managed to hold a tenuous grip onto her humanity, and she is recruited by the mysterious Asuka Ran, member of a secret organization within the government, aimed at controlling, if not eliminating, these berserk destroyers of mankind. Jun, as Devilman Lady, must now exterminate her own kind, but how much longer can she keep her sanity in a situation she never chose in the first place?



Tags: Conspiracy , Female Protagonist , Bisexual , Demons , Body Horror , Urban Fantasy , Monster Girl , Nudity , Gore , Philosophy , Kaiju , Gods , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Noir , Nekomimi , Seinen ,

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