Anime like Sengoku Kitan Youtouden

Kimetsu no Yaiba

Also known as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Studio: ufotable , Aniplex , Shueisha , Aniplex of America , ufotable , ufotable
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.



Tags: Demons , Shounen , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Vampire , Tragedy , Monster Girl , Primarily Teen Cast , Revenge , Travel , Orphan , CGI , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Mythology , Rural , Slapstick , Historical , Rotoscoping , Super Power , Body Horror , Curses , Chibi , Time Skip , Snowscape , Animals , Food

Kenpuu Denki Berserk

Also known as Berserk.

Studio: OLM , VAP , Media Blasters , NYAV Post , Nippon Television Network , Hakusensha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural

Set during a time that very much resembles Europe during the Middle Ages, Berserk is a story of revenge set in the castle town of Midland. Recently, the town has seen the rise of a wicked king, who uses demonic minions to control and victimise his subjects.

However, when a lone soldier enters the town calling himself the Black Swordsman and armed to the teeth, many sense that the king's days of unchecked oppression are over. Soon, the Black Swordsman is plying his trade by hunting down the king's evil servants, giving no quarter, and preparing to exact his vengeance on the king.



Tags: Tragedy , Seinen , Swordplay , War , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror , Gore , Found Family , Medieval , Military , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Demons , Revenge , Politics , Heterosexual , Torture , Love Triangle , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Travel , Tomboy , Nudity , Tanned Skin , Archery , Fugitive , Survival , Tsundere , Class Struggle , Curses , Skeleton

Basilisk: Kouga Ninpouchou

Also known as Basilisk.

Studio: GONZO , GDH , Funimation , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Romance

The heirs to the Kouga and Iga ninja clans, Gennosuke and Oboro, hoped the unsteady truce between their tribes would last—but fate denies the lovers, thrusting their people into war after centuries of peace. The terms are set on two scrolls. One bears a list of Kouga warriors. The other holds a list of those who fight for Iga. The names found on these scrolls can only be crossed out in blood.



Tags: Ninja , Seinen , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Martial Arts , Super Power , Swordplay , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Body Horror , Gore , Nudity

Karakuri no Kimi

Also known as Puppet Princess.

Studio: Media Blasters , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Toho , TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural

Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet warriors to seek revenge. She can manipulate these to battle the strongest of warriors, however manipulating the puppets leaves her own self vulnerable to direct attacks, so she seeks a ninja warrior named Manajiri to aid and protect her in her quest.



Tags: Historical , Revenge , Gore , Ninja , Swordplay , Body Horror , Nudity

Youma

Also known as Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Toho , Animate Film , ADV Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Supernatural

A terrible war has ravaged the land, and now, fueled by the blood of numerous fallen warriors the Yoma, demons from hell, emerge once more. A skilled ninja seeks to end the bloodshed these demons inflict upon humanity, but to do this he must fight against his undead former best friend and fellow ninja who was killed in battle and has been resurrected to serve the Yoma.



Tags: Ninja , Demons , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , War , Youkai , Fugitive , Historical , Rural , Gore , Samurai , Shapeshifting , Suicide

Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan

Also known as Rurouni Kenshin.

Studio: Studio Gallop , Studio DEEN , SME Visual Works , Fuji TV , Media Blasters , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Romance

Himura Kenshin is a vagabond with a dark past and sunny disposition. Not a ronin but a rurouni, he was never a samurai, but an assassin of utmost skill in the Meiji restoration, who in the turning point of the war simply walked away. His travels lead him to Tokyo in the 11th year of the Meiji era, where he befriends a female Kendo master, a former thief, a brawler and a doctor all with their own secrets. Together they fight off the enemies surfacing from the dark past that Kenshin cannot escape.



Tags: Swordplay , Martial Arts , Samurai , Historical , Heterosexual , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Cultivation , Tsundere , Politics , Travel , Conspiracy , Rehabilitation

Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox

Also known as Battle Girls: Time Paradox.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

Hideyoshino is an average girl who always seems to find trouble wherever she goes. One day Hideyoshino visits a local shrine to pray in order to pass her upcoming test. However Hideyoshino sees a blue light coming from inside the Shrine and looks inside to find a mysterious person performing a magic spell. Hideyoshino in a stroke of bad luck trips on a small bell and crashes into the shrine prompting the stranger to catch her. However upon catching Hideyoshino the magic spell spirals out of control and sends Hideyoshino back in time to the Sengoku Era.

Hideyoshino then encounters Akechi Mitsuhide and Oda Nobunaga. But unlike what really happened during the era, Hideyoshino realizes that everyone in the world is female. She then decides to help Oda Nobunaga find the Crimson Armor which is said to allow the person wearing the armor to conquer all of Japan.

Tags: Historical , Isekai , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Swordplay , Super Power , Time Manipulation , Samurai , Female Harem , Asexual

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