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Shows that feel likeXena: Warrior Princess (1995–2001)

Xena is an infamous warrior on a quest to seek redemption for her past sins against the innocent. Accompanied by her comrade-in-arms Gabrielle, the campy couple use their formidable fighting skills to help those who are unable to defend themselves.

If you loved Xena: Warrior Princess, the closest series we have are The Odyssey (1997), Saint Seiya (1986) and Bleach (2004). All three share Xena: Warrior Princess' kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Quantum Leap (1989).

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗6 seasons · Syndicationcreated by John Schuliancontemplativekineticepiccerebraldreamlikewarm
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The Odyssey
1997 · 1 season · NBC
🍅 79%★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaPrime Video

Greek gods and monsters met head-on by a mortal warrior far from home

The difference: A finite miniseries — the journey ends, no weekly companion to settle in with

Warrior Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Following victory, he now must endure a lengthy, decade-long return journey, and with all his wits, overcome deadly monsters, powerful forces of nature, seductive enchantresses, and even journey into the bowels of the Underworld.

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Saint Seiya
1986–1989 · 1 season · tv asahi
★ 8.4animation · drama · action & adventure

Mythic warriors in armor fighting for a goddess, friendship as the real weapon

The difference: Long shounen battle arcs replace campy standalone adventures

Ages ago, the goddess Athena was served by fighters called Saints who channeled the power of the Cosmos within them. Now a youth named Seiya has trained to become a Saint himself by earning the mystical Cloth of Pegasus. He is joined by other Saints with Cloths of their own to fight for Athena.

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Bleach
2004– · 2 seasons · TV Tokyo
★ 8.3action & adventure · animation · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

A gifted fighter takes up the blade to shield the helpless from the supernatural

The difference: Hundreds of episodes of anime power-scaling instead of tight weekly tales

For as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits known as Hollows, he finds his life is changed forever. Now, with a newfound wealth of spiritual energy, Ichigo discovers his true calling: to protect the living and the dead from evil.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
2000–2004 · 1 season · TV Tokyo
★ 8.2animation · action & adventurePrime VideoDisney+

Ancient magic and mythology channeled into stylized weekly showdowns

The difference: The fighting happens through a card game — action arrives via holograms

Bullies often target someone frail and weak—someone exactly like Yûgi Muto. He treasures his Millennium Puzzle, an ancient Egyptian artifact that was brought into his grandfather's game shop. Believing that solving the puzzle will grant him his wish, he completes the puzzle, unleashing a new personality within him, the soul of the "King of Games." The new personality named Yami Yûgi is the exact opposite of Yûgi. Upon any injustice toward him, Yami Yûgi takes over Yûgi's body and forces the opponent into a "Shadow Game".

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023– · 3 seasons · Hulu
★ 7action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflixDisney+

Olympians meddling in mortal lives on a quest full of monsters and loyal friends

The difference: Family-friendly YA sincerity — the danger stays firmly PG

Percy Jackson is on a dangerous quest. Outrunning monsters and outwitting gods, he must journey across America to return Zeus's master bolt and stop an all-out war. With the help of his friends Annabeth and Grover, Percy's journey will lead him closer to the answers he seeks: how to fit into a world where he feels out of place, and who he's destined to be.

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ONE PIECE
2023– · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.3action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

One thread runs through both: friendship

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Xena: Warrior Princess does

With his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure.

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Power Rangers
1993–2023 · 30 seasons · ABC
★ 6.6action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · kidsNetflixPrime Video

Cheerfully cheap monster-of-the-week battles that never pretend to be prestige

The difference: Aimed squarely at kids — none of Xena's subtext or bite

A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.

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Berserk
1997–1998 · 1 season · Nippon TV
★ 8.8action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy · animation

A haunted swordfighter carving through a brutal world of steel and dark magic

The difference: Grim and graphic where Xena winks — no camp to soften the slaughter

Guts, a wandering mercenary, joins the Band of the Hawk after being defeated in a duel by Griffith, the group's leader and founder. Together, they dominate every battle, but something menacing lurks in the shadows.

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

Both are built on the same subject: 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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Quantum Leap
1989–1993 · 5 seasons · NBC
★ 8.2sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventure · drama

Contemplative and kinetic in the same breath

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

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Sword Art Online
2012–2020 · 4 seasons · Gunma TV
★ 7.5animation · sci-fi & fantasy · action & adventureHulu

A sword-bonded pair fighting through a perilous fantasy world side by side

The difference: Digital stakes in a video-game world — the myth here is all man-made

In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...

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Warrior Nun
2020–2022 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 7action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2020s show

After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.

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