Historical Anime
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Hua Jiang Hu Zhi Bu Liang Ren 2nd Season
2016 20m 40 episodes RomanceDramaAdventure
The continuation of Hua Jiang Hu Zhi Bu Liang Ren.
Karate Master
1973 24m 47 episodes AdventureMartial ArtsHistorical
Failed kamikaze pilot Ken Asuka becomes a rough, tough hooligan who settles all of his problems with karate, until he learns about the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto in the novels of Eiji Yoshikawa. Resolving to li...
The Westward 2nd Season
2019 15m 22 episodes ActionFantasyAdventure
The journey to the West was a conspiracy of heaven! After Sutra went missing for more than a decade, Heaven sent its army to search, in order not to let the Sutra once again fall into the hands of heaven, the journey to...
Squirrel and Hedgehog
1977 20m 32 episodes MilitaryHistorical
Squirrel and Hedgehog documents various animal communities warring and in conflict against one another, each animal being a symbolic representation of real life countries and sometimes political events. A North Korean pr...
Aoi Hitomi no Onnanoko no Ohanashi
2009 44m DramaHistorical
The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the d...
Ai Shoujo Pollyanna Story Specials
2001 45m 2 episodes DramaSlice of LifeHistorical
A summary of Ai Shoujo Pollyanna Monogatari full series aired as TV Specials in 2001.
Wings of the World
2019 23m 16 episodes ActionRomanceAdventure
1663 Common Era, the youngest leader of the Ming dynasty's navy Lu Changfeng is to escort an official to capture criminals but was attacked by a ghost fleet and sea beasts, causing the entire envoy to be sunk. Lu Changfe...
Tobiuo no Boy wa Byouki Desu
1982 19m FantasyHistoricalKids
An anime about Operation Castle and the demise of the crew on the Daigo Fukuryuu Maru (S.S. Lucky Dragon 5). On March 1st 1954, a hydrogen bomb went off (that ended up being similar sized to the atomic bomb dropped on Hi...
Ninja Bugei-chou Pilot Film
2000 1m ActionSeinenHistorical
An animated pilot film for Ninja Bugei-chou released to the public over three decades later on Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden DVD volume 7. The pilot film was created in 1969 as director Nagisa Ooshima was wanting to make a TV anim...
Nijuushi no Hitomi
1980 70m DramaHistorical
Based on the book by Tsuboi Sakae, which drew on her involvement in Japan's anarchist counterculture and opposition to Korean War rearmament. Combined live action (handled by Akio Jissoji) and animation (handled by Shige...
Rainbow Samurai [RAW]
1992 25m 39 episodes DramaAdventureHistorical
In the middle of the 19th century, Japan was still closed off from the outside world. There were just the beginning signs of reformation in the long regime of Shogun Tokugawa. In the remote countryside, on the island of...
Chiruran 1/2
2017 2m 12 episodes ★ 5.7 ActionComedyHistorical
Strong, intense, and cute! The most laid-back Shinsengumi in history arrives!! An official spinoff series by Hashimoto Eiji (manga) and Umemura Shinya (story) of Chiruran Shinsengumi Requiem. Here's the laid-back everyda...
Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis
2018 22m 12 episodes ★ 5.7 ActionMartial ArtsHistorical
Long before Kenshiro said, "You're already dead," a different Kenshiro walked the violent streets of Shanghai. The city is in constant crisis as two mafia families battle one another for supremacy. In the crossfire, a li...
Wan Jie Xian Zong 4th Season
2020 8m 48 episodes ActionRomanceDemons
Fourth season of Wan Jie Xian Zong.
Bakumatsu
2018 24m 12 episodes ★ 5.8 ActionHistoricalSamurai
The Bakumatsu was an era in which the souls of young men burned with anxiety for their country's future. Takasugi Shinsaku, a soldier of fortune from Choshu, sneaks aboard a government ship with his comrade Katsura Kogor...
Isabelle of Paris
1979 25m 13 episodes ★ 5.8 DramaHistorical
The principal character is 15-year-old Isabelle Laustin, other characters being her parents Leon and Marie, Isabelle's friends Jean and his sister Marie, and Isabelle's suitor, Captain Victor. When Paris is besieged and...
Lime-iro Ryuukitan X
2005 25m 13 episodes ★ 5.6 EcchiHaremMecha
It was Meiji 38 (1905), the Russo-Japanese War that had begun since the previous year was getting hard. In this severe circumstance, they reorganized the Raimu Squad. The members of the Raimu Squad were the girls. They w...
Bakumatsu: Crisis
2019 24m 12 episodes ★ 5.7 ActionHistoricalSamurai
The Bakumatsu was an era in which the souls of young men burned with anxiety for their country's future. Takasugi Shinsaku, a soldier of fortune from Choshu, sneaks aboard a government ship with his comrade Katsura Kogor...
Dai-Shogun: Great Revolution
2014 24m 12 episodes ★ 5.7 ActionMechaHistorical
In the late Edo period, Japan had experienced an unprecedented crisis by Kurofune (Black Ships), the ships from foreign countries. But a giant robot called Onigami, which has existed since ancient time, dispelled the Kur...
Karasu Tengu Kabuto: Ougon no Me no Kemono
1992 45m ★ 5.8 ActionDramaAdventure
Kabuto is a tengu who has to save a princess from fortress which is full of monster-mecha hybrids in an alternate reality of feudal Japan.
Oedo wa Nemurenai!
1993 30m ★ 5.6 DramaFantasyShoujo
We are now in the early 18th century, the Kyouhou era, when the merchant culture was flourishing. In Yoshiwara, the red light district of Edo, there is a popular courtesan with good looks and character, called Usugumo. S...
Black Lion
1992 42m ★ 5.6 ActionSci-FiAdventure
The year is 1580. Using an army of soldiers equipped with sophisticated weaponry, Nobunaga Oda is on the verge of ruling Japan with an iron fist. One of his enforcers is Ginnai Doma - a fallen samurai reborn into an inde...











