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Shows that feel likeKENGAN ASHURA (2019–2024)

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.

If you loved KENGAN ASHURA, the closest series we have are Kaiju No. 8 (2024), Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold (2015) and BAKI (2018). All three share KENGAN ASHURA'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 Fullmetal Alchemist (2003).

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If KENGAN ASHURA hit the spot, these will too

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Kaiju No. 8
2024– · 1 season · TV Tokyo
★ 8.2animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Common ground in both: based on manga and anime

In a world plagued by creatures known as Kaiju, Kafka Hibino aspired to enlist in The Defense Force. He makes a promise to enlist with his childhood friend, Mina Ashiro. Soon, life takes them in separate ways. While employed cleaning up after Kaiju battles, Kafka meets Reno Ichikawa. Reno's determination to join The Defense Force reawakens Kafka's promise to join Mina and protect humanity.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: anime

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than KENGAN ASHURA does

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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BAKI
2018–2020 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.8animation · action & adventure · crimeNetflix

Common ground: martial arts

The difference: Trades the ideas of KENGAN ASHURA for an angle of its own

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.

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Overlord
2015–2022 · 4 seasons · AT-X
★ 7.6animation · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureNetflix

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.

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Fullmetal Alchemist
2003–2004 · 1 season · TBS
★ 8.5animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Both are built on the same subject: based on manga

Two young brothers are raised as alchemists, but when they are severely injured trying to perform a forbidden act, they begin searching for the one thing that can save them; the fabled philosopher's stone.

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

The same preoccupation in both: 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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Super Dragon Ball Heroes
2018–2024 · 6 seasons · Fuji TV
★ 6.6animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Cerebral where it counts, dreamlike underneath

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

Animation with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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Record of Ragnarok
2021– · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.6action & adventure · animation · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Both lean on scale more than on action & adventure

Before eradicating humankind from the world, the gods give them one last chance to prove themselves worthy of survival. Let the Ragnarok battles begin.

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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
2012 · 1 season · YouTube
★ 6.7sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure

One thread runs through both: martial arts

UNSC Cadet Thomas Lasky must conquer his inner fears and join forces with super-soldier John-117 to take down a massive faction of the Covenant.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Disney+
★ 7.8animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyDisney+

Cerebral sci-fi & fantasy in both cases

The 'Bad Batch' of elite and experimental clones make their way through an ever-changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone Wars.

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Dragon Ball Super
2015–2018 · 1 season · Fuji TV
★ 8.3animation · action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Animation built on dream logic, twice over

With Majin Buu defeated, Goku has taken a completely new role as...a radish farmer?! With Earth at peace, our heroes have settled into normal lives. But they can’t get too comfortable. Far away, the powerful God of Destruction, Beerus, awakens to a prophecy revealing his demise at the hands of an even more formidable being. When his search for the Saiyan God brings him to Earth, can Goku and his friends take on their strongest foe yet?

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