Anime Like Blue Miburo

Growing up as an orphan, Nio Chirinu spends his days working at the restaurant of an old woman who took him in with his sister Iroha. However, Nio and his sister don’t realize that they are being watched by two men. When they are targeted by child abductors, Nio learns that they were being used as bait by Toshizou Hijikata and Souji Okita—two members of an infamous ronin group called Miburo, a group that history would better remember as the Shinsengumi.

Impressed by Nio during the ordeal, Hijikata proposes that Nio join the Miburo and help them on their quest to keep the streets of Kyoto safe.

After being traumatized by the murder of his parents, Ichimura Tetsunosuke has a thirst for revenge.

Fueled by it, he seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but lacks the skill. Now he trains to learn just what it means to be part of this historic group.

After the rise of a group called the Masked Demons delivering powerful evil swords that corrupted weak individuals, the Shinsengumi stood up to fight them. However, all but one were slain in the battle.

To keep the peace in Kyoto and continue the fight against this organization, seven powerful criminals slated for execution were chosen as replacements for the slain Shinsengumi members.

For Ichibanboshi, one of the seven chosen, he is hesitant to agree due to his hatred of samurai after they killed his family. However, his parents’ death and the Masked Demons may be more connected than he thought.

During more violent times, there was the tale of a legendary manslayer, the Battousai. However, this assassin suddenly disappeared at the beginning of the Meiji Era, but his legend is still well-known.

Ten years later, unbeknownst to the people, the Battousai has abandoned his blood-stained ways and began living as a wanderer known as Kenshin, a goofball and pacifist that has vowed to never kill again.

After saving a sword dojo ran by a woman from an imposter posing as the Battousai, this wanderer stops his travel to temporarily stay.

Once a samurai until the warrior caste was disbanded, Shizuma Origasa began working as a rickshaw puller after the samurai rebellion in his home province of Aizu was put down. While dedicated to his work, he had another purpose of heading to the capital – to find his fiancee Sumie who went missing during the rebellion.

However, while working, Origasa is pulled into an plot against the government. While framed for an incident at first, he helps the police foil an assassination whereupon they recruit him into the police force.

Simultaneously, the Moriya yakuza clan welcomes in a talented mysterious swordsman named Kyoushirou Shuragami. With the Moriya clan the driving force in a plot to overthrow the government, Shuragami positions himself strategically to further his own plans.

These two stories slowly begin to intertwine as multiple plans are put into motion.

After surviving the brutal Russo-Japanese war, Sugimoto gained the nickname “the immortal”. However, he now seeks the promise of gold to the north in Hokkaido in order to provide for the blind wife and infant son of his comrade who died in the war.

Yet, during his hunt, he hears the tale of a hidden stash of gold belonging to criminals with a map made out of human skin. Dismissing it as a tale at first, he soon finds that the man who told him the story has those very same map-like tattoos.

Now on a race with a native Ainu girl whose father was murdered for the gold, they try to make it to the stash before the criminals.

After her temple is burned and the people within slaughtered, Isanami, a priestess of Izumo, is forced to flee.

She manages to find a masterless Iga ninja who helps her reach Ueda Castle where she asks the lord, Yukimura Sanada, for help. However, when she reaches him, a mysterious power manifests.

This power is strong and coveted by many, so in order to protect it, Yukimura summons ten warriors to defend her.

Due to his unconventional appearance and lacking social skills, Haruka Sakura was an outcast at school. However, his status as an outsider and a target made him into a scrappy fighter that he now takes pride in. As such, he enrolls in Furin High School, a school more known for its tough delinquents than its academic record.

Looking to take the top spot among its tough fighters, Sakura gets caught up in a street brawl on his way to school where he meets a group of his future classmates. He discovers that Furin has united under one man and now the group now calls themselves Bofurin, a group that keeps the town safe from other thugs looking to caught trouble.

While still wanting the top spot, Sakura ends up joining them and finally finding acceptance and camaraderie for the first time in his life.

In the Ancient Chinese Kingdom of Qin, war orphan and slave Xin trains with his fellow slave and best friend Piao to achieve their dream of one day being Great Generals of the Heavens.

However, after catching the eye of an imperial minister, Piao is taken to work at the royal palace until a coup sends him back to Xin. Piao arrives half dead in order to tell Xin to complete his mission for him.

This leads Xin to the young king, Zheng Ying, who Piao was posing as a double for. This encounter thrusts Xin in a brutal age of warfare and towards his destiny.