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Shows that feel likeBLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023–)

Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

If you loved BLUE EYE SAMURAI, the closest series we have are Vinland Saga (2019), Banana Fish (2018) and Samurai Jack (2001). All three share BLUE EYE SAMURAI'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 Hanna (2019).

★ 8.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗2 seasons · Netflixcreated by Amber Noizumikineticepicrelentless
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If BLUE EYE SAMURAI hit the spot, these will too

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Vinland Saga
2019– · 2 seasons · NHK G
★ 8.9animation · war & politics · action & adventureNetflixPrime Video

Common ground: revenge

The difference: Sits closer to war & politics than BLUE EYE SAMURAI does

For a thousand years, the Vikings have made quite a name and reputation for themselves as the strongest families with a thirst for violence. Thorfinn, the son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, spends his boyhood in a battlefield enhancing his skills in his adventure to redeem his most-desired revenge after his father was murdered.

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Banana Fish
2018 · 1 season · Fuji TV
★ 8.1animation · drama · action & adventureNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

The difference: Leans harder into drama than BLUE EYE SAMURAI does

A teenaged gang leader in New York City faces his abuser and rival gangs alongside a photojournalist from Japan as they investigate a deadly new drug.

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Samurai Jack
2001–2017 · 5 seasons · Cartoon Network
★ 8.5sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · animation

The same preoccupation in both: samurai

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

A great warrior is displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot warlords. Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of a time portal that can return him to his home time so he can "undo the future that is Aku!".

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

Both land momentum and scale at once

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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Hanna
2019–2021 · 3 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.6action & adventure · dramaPrime Video

Relentless action & adventure in both cases

Follow the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is.

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2009–2010 · 1 season · MBS
★ 9.1animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflixHulu

Kinetic animation, and it commits to that

Disregard for alchemy’s laws ripped half of Edward Elric’s limbs from his body and left his brother Alphonse’s soul clinging to a suit of armor. To restore what was lost, the brothers seek the Philosopher’s Stone. Enemies and allies – the corrupt military, the Homunculi, and foreign alchemists – will alter the Elric brothers course, but their purpose will remain unchanged and their bond unbreakable.

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My Hero Academia
2016–2025 · 8 seasons · Nippon TV
★ 8.2action & adventure · animation · sci-fi & fantasyNetflixHulu

Both lean on scale more than on action & adventure

Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered "quirk," Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.

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Hunter x Hunter
2011–2014 · 3 seasons · Nippon TV
★ 9animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflixPrime Video

Animation built on relentlessness, twice over

Gon, a young boy who lives on Whale Island, dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father, who left when Gon was still young.

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24
2001–2014 · 9 seasons · FOX
★ 8.4action & adventure · drama · crimeHulu

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

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

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The Terminal List
2022– · 2 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.9action & adventure · dramaPrime Video

Animation built on scale, twice over

Navy SEAL Commander James Reece turns to vengeance as he investigates the mysterious forces behind the murder of his entire platoon. Free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons he's learned from nearly two decades of warfare to hunt down the people responsible.

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The Glory
2022–2023 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.2drama · crimeNetflix

A streak of relentlessness through both

The difference: Easier on the momentum than BLUE EYE SAMURAI

Years after surviving horrific abuse in high school, a woman puts an elaborate revenge scheme in motion to make the perpetrators pay for their crimes.

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Dororo
2019 · 1 season · TV Tokyo
★ 8.2animation · action & adventurePrime VideoHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: japan

During the Warring States period, the young thief Dororo encounters Hyakkimaru, a strange, sightless boy who wields fearsome prosthetics in place of his missing limbs. Parts of Hyakkimaru’s body were traded to a group of 12 demons by his father in exchange for power, but thanks to a kindly medicine man, Hyakkimaru survived his horrifying ordeal. Now he roams the land in search of his missing body, and together he and Dororo will fight to survive in an unforgiving, demon-plagued world.

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