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Anime Like Kill Blue

Juuzou Ogami is a legendary hitman who has never failed an assignment. While on a job, he is stung by a wasp and wakes up as a middle schooler!

Before he can even adjust to the body, his boss gives him new orders—check out this middle school the boss wants to send his daughter to by infiltrating it! Juuzou does as he is told while he waits for his ex-wife to research a cure, but there is only one problem—Juuzou is really awkward around kids.

Anime sure does like humanizing assassins these days, doesn’t it? If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Kill Blue, head on down below.

Anime Like Kill Blue

For Fans of Assassins

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The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat

The greatest assassin on Earth lived only to be a tool by those that wished to wield his mastery. That is, until they decided that he was no longer needed and ended his life.

By the grace of a goddess, this masterful man was reincarnated into a new world where he is asked to kill a hero that will later bring about the end of that world.

Deciding to finally live for himself, this man, now named Lugh Tuatha De, puts his skills as a killer to the test with foes who wield real magic.

Similarities Between Kill Blue and The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat

  • A master middle-aged assassin is young again for various reasons
  • They still have their skills and use them in their young body
  • They are tasked with doing a long-term thing
  • They befriend others by being your standard issue good guy (who kills people.)

Differences Between Kill Blue and The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat

  • World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World is indeed a fantasy isekai series set in a fantasy world. So he is reincarnated with his old man assassin mind into a family of nobility that are also secret assassins for the crown.
  • World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World is very much a harem affair.
  • World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World is more about doing assassinations with the harem and unfolding intrigue.
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Sakamoto Days

Tarou Sakamoto was a legendary assassin with unmatched prowess. However, five years ago, Tarou Sakamoto disappeared from the criminal underworld.

It turns out that he decided to retire after he fell in love and got married. Now with a wife and young daughter, Sakamoto put on a little weight, works with his wife at a convenience store, and has given up killing under their family rule—absolutely no killing.

However, his peaceful life is threatened when Sakamoto’s old partner, Shin Asakura, comes after him. While he is able to peacefully work things out with Shin, the large bounty that was placed on Sakamoto’s head means that Shin won’t be the only one coming to upend Sakamoto’s peaceful life.

Similarities Between Kill Blue and Sakamoto Days

  • A middle-aged master assassin retires (or is forced to retire for the moment to go to school)
  • Awkward middle-aged assassin is awkward around specific people (his wife, kids)
  • People constantly attack the main characters
  • Assassin-based shounen battler about quirky assassins. Expect frequent fights and periodic bouts of silliness.
  • Larger intrigue as the story goes on

Differences Between Kill Blue and Sakamoto Days

  • Sakamoto Days is about an assassin retiring and his organization taking that personally. He is attacked and is protecting his family/shop
  • The assassins are more super-powered in Sakamoto Days.
  • If Kill Blue is school life, Sakamoto Days is found family.
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Marriagetoxin

Among the underground, various families have worked in a specialized area of assassination for centuries, leading to their skills becoming so powerful that they are now Masters. Gero is the son of the Poison Masters Clan and skilled in the techniques. However, with his grandmother aging, it is time to think of the future of the clan. Either Gero or his sister must get married and produce an heir.

To save his sister from dissolving her lesbian relationship, Gero endeavors to find someone to spend his life with. Due to his awkwardness with women, he enlists the help of Mei Kinosaki, a marriage swindler, to help him find a wife.

Similarities Between Kill Blue and Marriagetoxin

  • Assassin needs to work on his soft skills so he isn’t as awkward around women/children
  • Assassin guards girl/s that are under attack
  • Shounen action with silly aspects (romance, school life as an old man in a child’s body)

Differences Between Kill Blue and Marriagetoxin

  • Marriagetoxin is about a socially awkward assassin trying to find a wife in the battleground that is dating as a working adult.
  • Marriagetoxin features more super-powered assassins
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Mission – Yozakura Family

After his family died in a car crash when he was young, Taiyo Asano became increasingly socially inept. Now in high school, the only person he is able to really connect with is his childhood friend, Mutsumi Yozakura. However, one day he discovers that Mutsumi is actually the future head of a family of the world’s strongest spies, despite having no special spy abilities herself.

With her eldest brother ultra-protective of his little sister ever since she got injured as a child, he has marked Taiyo for execution. The only way to survive his lethal spy skills is for Mutsumi to marry Taiyo, thus making him part of the family.

While Taiyo resists at first, he eventually agrees to marry Mutsumi as well as to train to become a world-class spy himself to ensure her protection.

Similarities Between Kill Blue and Mission Yozakura Family

  • Teen boy is an assassin
  • Teen boy is encouraged to marry a classmate for reasons
  • Protect the girl from other assassins is the plot
  • Shounen battler with lots of action and occasional silliness.

Differences Between Kill Blue and Mission Yozakura Family

  • Yozakura family has a normal(ish) teen boy become an assassin to marry his childhood crush. So he is not an adult in a boy’s body.
  • Yozakura Family is more about the main character becoming an assassin to protect the girl while also endearing himself to her large, prodigal assassin family.
  • Assassins in Yozakura Family are super-powered.
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The Fable

An assassin simply known as Fable has earned a legendary reputation in the underworld for ruthlessly, efficiently, and successfully carrying out hits for organized crime. However, after six years of efficient murder, his boss fears too much heat from authorities and tells Fable to take a year off.

Forced to move to Osaka and live like a normal citizen for a year with his handler staying with him under the guise of being his sister, Fable decides to try his best to follow these new orders.

However, the Osaka mafia is not happy to learn that the legendary Fable has come to stay in their territory. Between threats and plots going on in town, Fable still tries his best to be a perfectly normal person.

Similarities Between Kill Blue and The Fable

  • Older assassin is told to take a break from work and do something else
  • Awkward older main character is awkward, yet beloved.
  • Assassin using his skills to save normal people in trouble, and doing so while maintaining their cover

Differences Between Kill Blue and The Fable

  • The Fable is not a shounen battler story. It is more a dark comedy slice of life for adults with occasional moments of dealing with hardcore yakuza-type syndicate criminals.
  • The Fable is extremely grounded with its assassins and their abilities. Expect more realism.
  • The main character in The Fable is more socially inept around all people, but doesn’t quite realize it himself. So there is no anxiety about it, just comedy.
  • The main character in The Fable is told to live normally for a year. So he has no specific mission other than to hang out and not kill people.
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Buddy Daddies

Kazuki and Rei are roommates that also work as professional mercenaries while they each flee from their grim memories through the dangerous work.

However, while carrying out an assassination on Christmas Eve, their paths cross with four-year-old Miri who traveled to Tokyo by herself, told by her mother who abandoned her to go find her father. Unfortunately for everyone involved, her father was their mark whom they successfully took out.

Now saddled with a small child, this pair of grown men struggle to adjust to being new parents while also balancing it with their dangerous job.

Similarities Between Kill Blue and Biddy Daddies

  • Men that work in the criminal underground are forced to work on their soft skills
  • Fun action comedy

Differences Between Kill Blue and Buddy Daddies

  • Buddy Daddy is about two fixers finding a child, trying to give her back, failing, and being forced to raise her.
  • Buddy Daddies is about found family, and not really much else
  • Buddy Daddies has a concise, linear, emotional/dramatic story and is not a lengthy shounen action story like Kill Blue
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Spy X Family

There is no order too big for master spy Twilight.

He uses his numerous skills as a spy to keep the peace between his country and aggressive neighbors, but his recent mission demands he investigate a reclusive politician that only attends school events for his child.

Dictating that he must now have a child and wife of his own to pull off the mission, Twilight manages to recruit a small orphan girl and an office lady to play the roles.

However, what he doesn’t know is that his new daughter is an esper capable of reading minds and his new wife is actually an assassin using him as a cover to maintain a guise of normalcy.

Similarities Between Kill Blue and Spy X Family

  • Master assassin (or spy) must work on their soft skills and infiltrate a family/school
  • They maintain their cover while also doing their job at times
  • Adult main characters discover peaceful passions they never knew because of their harsh upbringing (family life, studying)

Differences Between Kill Blue and Spy X Family

  • Spy X Family is about a master spy building a family with a orphan he doesn’t know is a psychic and an fake wife he doesn’t know is an enemy assassin.
  • The male main character in Spy X Family isn’t awkward. He is a master spy.
  • Spy X Family focuses more on wacky comedy and wholesome family moments. When there is action, it is usually brief and wacky.

For Fans of Oops! Young and Awkward Again

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ReLife

Arata Kaizaki is an unemployed 27-year-old that has thus far been living with the financial support of his parents and part-time jobs. After leaving his first job after only three months, he has not been able to find proper work.

However, after a night of drinking with his friends, he meets a mysterious man that offers a drunk Arata a pill that will turn him 17 again so that he can redo a year of his youth, all expenses paid.

Will Arata find what he needs to live a happy life after one year in high school again?

Similarities Between Kill Blue and ReLife

  • A man is made young again through a not time travel scenario
  • He has to go to school, and is urged to use it to rehabilitate his scuffed social skills
  • Man makes new friends at school awkwardly
  • Ships an adult falling for a teen.

Differences Between Kill Blue and ReLife

  • ReLife is a normal school life social skill rehabilitation plot. No assassins, no action, only tears and frustration.
  • The main character in ReLife is 28, but had some traumatic work experiences that broke him.
  • ReLife has romance hintings, but they may not be as problematic as the romance leanings in Kill Blue are (I.e. In ReLife, the girl may not be a teen, and it has the general stance of adults shouldn’t have romances with teens because that’s kind of fucked up, actually.)
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Detective Conan

Despite his teenage age, Shinichi Kudou is one of the great detectives of the world. However, one day when he witnesses some illegal going-ons, criminals catch him and dose him with a mysterious drug.

Next thing he knows, he is waking up as a little boy again. Now Shinichi must try to solve his own mystery while stuck as seven-year-old.

Similarities Between Kill Blue and Detective Conan

  • An older person is transformed into a kid by a mystery drug held by a mystery organization
  • Main character uses their special set of skills to try to turn into their older selves again
  • Relationship baggage for the main character (girlfriend who doesn’t know he’s a kid, ex-wife with a daughter)

Differences Between Kill Blue and Detective Conan

  • Detective Conan is about a teen detective turned into a kid detective. Don’t worry, though. He was still a master detective.
  • Detective Conan is episodic and the overall plot moves minimally across its +1,000 episodes
  • While Detective Conan looks like it is for younger kids, the case mysteries can be quite dark.

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