Anime like Yuuyake Banchou

Ashita no 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: Anti-Hero , Boxing , Coming of Age , Delinquents , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Class Struggle , Primarily Male Cast , Rehabilitation , Orphan , Ojou-sama , Prison , Yakuza , Homeless , Time Skip , Crime , Police , Educational , Gangs , Achromatic , Primarily Teen Cast , Bullying

Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou

Studio: TV Tokyo , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

TV anime adaptation of Motomiya Hiroshi's manga "Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou" about young gang leader and all the trouble and fights his gang gets into, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.



Tags: Shounen , Gangs , Primarily Male Cast , Delinquents , Coming of Age

Harisu no Kaze

Studio: P Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

A boy known as a troublemaker transfers into a new school.



Tags: School , Baseball , Achromatic , Shounen

Otoko Doahou! Koushien

Studio: Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

The story of a dim country boy who dreams of making it to the high school baseball championships in Koshien.



Tags: Shounen , Baseball , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , School

Big X

Also known as Big X.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Invited to Nazi Germany during World War II, Dr. Asagumo is asked by Hitler to collaborate with him on the research of the new weapon "Big X". Concerned about the possible effects of the completion of Big X, Dr. Asagumo intentionally delays the progress of the research, conspiring with his co-researcher, the devious Dr. Engel. Immediately before Germany is defeated by the Allies, Dr. Asagumo implants a card inscribed with the secret of Big X in his son, Shigeru, and is then shot to death by the German army. Twenty years later, the card is discovered in the body of Shigeru, who is then living in Tokyo. Soon, an organization claiming alliance with the Nazis appears, steals the card, and completes the Big X project. Dr. Engel's grandson has joined the Nazi Alliance. The completed Big X is then revealed to be a drug that can expand the human body without limitation. Recovering Big X from the enemy, Shigeru's son Akira fearlessly challenges the Nazi Alliance and Hans Engel, who are plotting to conquer the world.

Note: Most of the series is lost media. Only episodes 1, 11, 12 & 40-59 are known to still exist.

Tags: Super Power , Achromatic , Historical , Shounen

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Phantom Blood

Studio: Bandai , APPP
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror

This entry is for the 2007 movie, not to be confused by the first arc of the 2012 TV anime adaptation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, also named Phantom Blood. Nor the movie format 're-edit' of said first season compiled from the 2012 TV episodes.

Jonathan Joestar is an aristocratic boy whose life is suddenly turned upside down by a mysterious new boy who arrives, Dio Brando. Dio has a connection to his father, and over time, a rivalry forms as Dio becomes obsessed with a mysterious, ancient, and mystical stone mask that Jonathan's father keeps.

Note: This film hasn't been released publicly outside of its original limited theatrical run and is considered mostly lost, apart from several trailers and a found 16-minute undubbed clip compilation used for a student sound design assignment.

Tags: Vampire , Shounen