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Shows that feel likeBAKI (2018–2020)

While martial arts champion Baki Hanma trains hard to surpass his legendary father, five violent death row inmates descend upon Tokyo to take him on.

If you loved BAKI, the closest series we have are KENGAN ASHURA (2019), Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold (2015) and Tokyo Revengers (2021). All three share BAKI's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bloodhounds (2023).

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If BAKI hit the spot, these will too

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KENGAN ASHURA
2019–2024 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.9animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Two things both keep coming back to: martial arts and based on manga

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than BAKI does

Ohma Tokita enters a hidden world where corporate disputes are settled in brutal gladiator bouts. Forget the money, he just wants to fight — and win.

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Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold
2015 · 1 season · Bandai Channel
★ 7.6animation · action & adventure

Common ground in both: shounen and anime

The difference: Easier on the grit than BAKI

Transcending eternity, the 12 Gold Saints return to protect love and peace on Earth! They gave their lives to destroy the Wailing Wall to break the way for Seiya and the Saints in their battle against Hades in the Underworld! Though presumed to have perished, Aiolia and the other Gold Saints return to the beautiful earthly world of radiating luminescence! Why have these lost souls been brought back to life? Shrouded in this deep mystery, Aiolia becomes embroiled in a duel. When he burns his Cosmo to its limit…the Cloth of Leo transforms! In 2015, the Golden Cosmo is finally revived!

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Tokyo Revengers
2021– · 1 season · MBS
★ 7.7animation · action & adventure · crimeHulu

One thread runs through both: based on manga

Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that’s reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had, in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang. The day after hearing about her death, he’s standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people. He closes his eyes thinking he’s about to die, but when he opens his eyes back up, he somehow had gone back in time 12 years. Now that he’s back living the best days of his life, Takemichi decides to get revenge on his life.

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FBI
2018– · 9 seasons · CBS
★ 7.1crime · action & adventure · dramaParamount+

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.

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9-1-1: Lone Star
2020–2025 · 5 seasons · FOX
★ 7.4drama · action & adventure · crimeHulu

Both land grit and stillness at once

Nearly 20 years ago, Owen Strand was the lone survivor of his Manhattan firehouse on 9/11. In the wake of the attack, Owen had the unenviable task of rebuilding his station. After a similar tragedy happens to a firehouse in Austin, Owen, along with his troubled firefighter son, T.K., takes his progressive philosophies of life and firefighting down to Texas, where he helps them start anew. On the surface, Owen is all about big-city style and swagger, but underneath he struggles with a secret he hides from the world - one that could very well end his life.

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S.W.A.T.
2017–2025 · 8 seasons · CBS
★ 7.2crime · action & adventure · dramaNetflixPrime Video

Action & adventure with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

A Los Angeles S.W.A.T. sergeant is assigned to lead a highly skilled unit in the community where he grew up. Torn between loyalty to the streets, where the cops are sometimes the enemy, and allegiance to his brothers in blue, he strategically straddles the two worlds.

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Super Dragon Ball Heroes
2018–2024 · 6 seasons · Fuji TV
★ 6.6animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: fight

The difference: Leans harder into sci-fi & fantasy than BAKI does

Trunks returns from the future to train with Goku and Vegeta. However, it disappears without warning. Then the mysterious Fu bursts in, telling them that Trunks has been imprisoned in the Prison Planet, a mysterious complex in an unknown place in the universes. The group seeks the dragon balls to free Trunks, but an endless battle awaits them! Will Goku and the others rescue Trunks and escape the Prison Planet?

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Plunderer
2020 · 1 season · TOKYO MX
★ 6.5action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · animation

Common ground: shounen

In a post-apocalyptic world dominated by the so-called "Numbers," each human will have their identity branded with their own "Count," which could define any number related to their life. May it be one's walked distance or amount of compliments given to them by others, this Count could lead them to the abyss when it has dropped to zero. In the year 305 of the Alcian calendar, Hina has inherited a mission from her Mother, whose Count has depreciated to zero, to search for the Legendary Red Baron. In her adventure, she meets a half-masked swordsman named Licht who tries to hide his identity, as he is known as a degenerate for having an incredibly low Count.

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Marvel's Luke Cage
2016–2018 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.2drama · action & adventure · crimeDisney+

Both lean on scale more than on crime

Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.

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Marshals
2026– · 2 seasons · CBS
★ 6.1drama · crime · action & adventureParamount+

Gritty drama in both cases

With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Kayce Dutton joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region's war on violence.

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
2022– · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.3animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: anime

In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.

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Bloodhounds
2023–2026 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.2drama · action & adventure · crimeNetflix

Animation built on stillness, twice over

Faced with ruthless foes with a violent thirst, two young boxers band together — risking life and limb to bring justice and protect their loved ones.

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