Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys
Score: 6.57/10
2022
Genre: Action, Historical, Samurai
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: In an era when Samurai ruled Japan… The Shinsengumi has been wiped out by an unknown attacker, leaving one survivor. Seven criminals are chosen as doubles for the Shinsengumi. To protect the security of Kyoto, a top-secret replacement operation is executed. (Source: MAL...
ORIENT
Score: 6.50/10
2022
Genre: Action, Demons, Fantasy, Historical, Shounen, Supernatural
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: At age 10, best friends Musashi and Kojiro sat in excited silence as Kojiro's father spun tales of evil demons who preyed on the innocent, and the warriors who defeated them. Practicing swordplay, the two swear an oath to become the strongest in the world. But as they grow up, Kojiro turns cynical, and Musashi comes to realize that he can't turn back 150 years of demon rule on his own. He's being...
Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman
Score: 6.14/10
2013
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: The stage is the close of the Edo period, an age when, not unlike our own time, both natural and man-made disasters left chaos in their wake. Manjiro makes a living helping the people of the troubled capital city, but behind the scenes, he also works in secret to take back precious belongings stolen from the people by unjust political powers and conspiratorial menaces. The people call him...
The Ambition of Oda Nobuna
Score: 7.59/10
2012
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: High school student Yoshiharu Sagara wakes up and finds himself in the middle of a raging Sengoku period battle. He is saved by the legendary Hideyoshi Toyotomi, but at the cost of the hero's life. With his dying breath, the warrior pleads for Yoshiharu to become a feudal lord in his place. Now that the course of history has been changed, Yoshiharu pledges to keep the timeline from diverging any...
Brave Ten
Score: 6.77/10
2012
Genre: Action, Adventure, Historical, Magic, Samurai, Seinen, Super Power, Supernatural
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: Isanami, a young priestess of Izumo, is forced to watch as a group of evil ninja burn her temple to the ground and slaughter the people within, leaving her no choice but to flee into the forest to escape the same fate. By chance, she stumbles upon Saizou Kirigakure, a masterless ninja from the Iga school. The two travel to Ueda Castle to ask Yukimura Sanada for help. Isanami's possession of a...
Yuki: Snow Fairy
Score: 5.92/10
1981
Status: Finished
Episodes: 1
Summary: Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However, if she does not succeed within one year, she will become as insubstantial as the wind. Down in the village, Yuki is befriended by a group of orphans whose parents have been killed by the bandits and who now...
The Heike Story
Score: 7.10/10
2021
Genre: Action, Historical, Supernatural
Status: Airing
Episodes: 12
Summary: The anime shows the war's events through the perspective of Biwa, a young girl who makes a living as a traveling musician. Though blind, Biwa is gifted with the ability to see the future. She meets Taira no Shigemori, one of the patriarchs of the powerful Taira family, and tells him about prophecy that may change the future of his...
Mushibugyo
Score: 7.34/10
2013
Genre: Action, Ecchi, Fantasy, Historical, Martial Arts, Samurai, Shounen, Super Power
Status: Finished
Episodes: 26
Summary: Deadly giant bugs have begun to rampage through Edo Japan, and the Mushibugyou Protection Office must exterminate the threat. With the body count rising, the group requests aid from famed samurai Genjuurou Tsukishima, but due to an injury the man sends his inept-but-determined son Jinbei in his stead. Almost killed in his first encounter with the creatures, Jinbei is saved by his new colleagues...
Kurozuka
Score: 6.92/10
2008
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: In feudal Japan, Kurou and his servant Benkei are fleeing from Kurou's elder brother, who has recently ascended to the throne. In a forest, they come across a house and a strange woman by the name of Kuromitsu, who agrees to harbor them under one condition: that they do not peer into the inner chambers. Soon, they are attacked by the Red Army; they are searching for Kuromitsu, whose blood holds...
Yasuke
Score: 6.30/10
2021
Status: Finished
Episodes: 6
Summary: A village in danger, a mysterious child, warring daimyo, and the greatest ronin never known all clash in a Japan of magic and mechs. Learn the story of the first African samurai. (Source:...
Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc
Score: 7.11/10
2012
Genre: Action, Drama, Historical, Samurai, Shounen
Status: Finished
Episodes: 2
Summary: ...
Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Bride
Score: 6.78/10
2013
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: Half a year has passed since Muneakira and his busty, battle-savvy friends fought valiantly in a fierce battle, and now, Muneakira is returning to Yagyuu Dojo after embarking on a journey to train his skills. But little did the man expect that Yukimura, Jubei and the rest of the gang would have turned the dojo into a maid café! What's more, past foes have been resurrected, and they have their...
Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls
Score: 6.83/10
2010
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: With its gorgeous landscape and prosperous people, Great Japan is the envy of all other nations. But a serious threat hovers over the country. Mysterious guardians known as Master Samurai are Great Japan's only defense. At the behest of the student council, young samurai Muneakira Yagyuu arrives at Buou Academic School. Run by the Tokugawa Shogunate, here children of warriors are given...
Amatsuki
Score: 6.92/10
2008
Genre: Action, Demons, Fantasy, Historical, Shoujo, Supernatural
Status: Finished
Episodes: 13
Summary: Tokidoki Rikugou is a history-hating student who flunks out of his Japanese History course; his high school forces him to make up for his failed grade by attending a special museum lecture. Its star exhibit, a vast recreation of the Edo Period, promises to alleviate the delinquent student's poor grades with an elaborate simulation of the Tokugawa Shogunate: the Edo Bakumatsu Walking Tour and...
Samurai Champloo
Score: 8.50/10
2005
Status: Finished
Episodes: 26
Summary: Fuu Kasumi is a young and clumsy waitress who spends her days peacefully working in a small teahouse. That is, until she accidentally spills a drink all over one of her customers! With a group of samurai now incessantly harassing her, Fuu desperately calls upon another samurai in the shop, Mugen, who quickly defeats them with his wild fighting technique, utilizing movements reminiscent to that of...
Blade of the Immortal (2019)
Score: 7.65/10
2019
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical, Martial Arts, Samurai, Seinen, Supernatural
Status: Finished
Episodes: 24
Summary: Manji is an immortal swordsman, who has been cursed with eternal life. He has grown tired of living with all the death he has created. He has no skills other than those of killing, thus he forms a plan to regain his mortality: he shall kill one hundred evil men for each good one he has killed. The old witch who afflicted Manji with immortality agrees to Manji’s proposition and Manji is set on...
Hakuoki 2 ~Record of the Jade Blood~
Score: 7.71/10
2010
Genre: Action, Drama, Historical, Josei, Samurai, Supernatural
Status: Finished
Episodes: 10
Summary: After being forced to flee to Edo, the Shinsengumi are disillusioned. Aside from the Shogun's behavior, they also face personal problems. Kondou is recovering from his gun wound, Okita is bedridden, Sanna slips into madness, and Hijikata fights to keep them together. No matter how dangerous the battle, there is no stepping down. As the flames of war threaten to engulf them, they must return to...
Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~
Score: 7.51/10
2010
Genre: Action, Drama, Historical, Josei, Samurai, Supernatural
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: Disguised as a man, Chizuru Yukimura has come to Kyoto searching for her missing father, a doctor who developed a magical elixir that increases the drinker's speed, strength and healing abilities. Instead of her father, however, she stumbles across a battle between the Shinsengumi and the Furies, evil vampire-like creatures of their own...
Hakuoki 3 ~Dawn of the Shinsengumi~
Score: 7.59/10
2012
Genre: Action, Drama, Historical, Josei, Samurai, Supernatural
Status: Finished
Episodes: 12
Summary: The year is 1863 and as Japan's long festering wounds of political discord erupt into violent waves of street clashes and murder, the Tokugawa Shogunate sends a new force of masterless samurai called the Roshigumi to the aid of the Aizu forces in Kyoto. However the new "police" are anything but a cohesive force and assassination has already split them into two opposing factions. The stronger is...
Samurai X: Wandering Samurai
Score: 8.39/10
1996
Status: Finished
Episodes: 95
Summary: In the final years of the Bakumatsu era lived a legendary assassin known as Hitokiri Battousai. Feared as a merciless killer, he was unmatched throughout the country, but mysteriously disappeared at the peak of the Japanese Revolution. It has been ten peaceful years since then, but the very mention of Battousai still strikes terror into the hearts of war veterans. Unbeknownst to them, Battousai...
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Score: 6.98/10
2002
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Historical, Shounen, Supernatural
Status: Finished
Episodes: 26
Summary: Samurai Deeper Kyo is a story of two men in one body - the humble, polite Mibu Kyoshiro and the legendary samurai Onime-no-Kyo, who has a price on his head. Consequently, Mibu Kyoshiro is captured for having an uncanny resemblance to the samurai. As the story of SDK progresses, we learn more about the two unique souls that inhabit the same...