Arajin Tomoshibi has returned to the town where he lived as a child with the sole hope of getting himself a cute girlfriend. However, his new school is full of delinquents with few girls in sight.
Just when Arajin has his heart stolen by the one cutie he could find, his old boyhood friend Matakara Asamine gets him pulled into a huge brawl between two gangs.
Despite wanting to train to be a Honki person, a group of mythical strong warriors from the past, as a child with Matakara, Arajin wants nothing to do with brawling and flees. However, he ends up having an encounter with a sealed genie and genuine Honki person named Senya who fuses with him and grants him incredible strength.
Delinquent series these days have all had an increasing amount of “flavor” to the premise and characters, but Bucchigiri definitely turned that up a notch, and not in a bad way. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Bucchigiri, head on down below.
Anime Like Bucchigiri?!
For Fans of Delinquents
Tokyo Revengers
For Takemichi Hanagaki, his second year of middle school was when he peaked. He had a small amount of respect as a thug, a loyal group of friends, and even a girlfriend.
Fast forward twelve years later, and he is a single adult that can’t hold down a job. He has even found out that his middle school girlfriend was murdered by the vicious Tokyo Manji Gang.
After an accident, he finds himself back in middle school and discovers that he can travel back and forth in time in order to help change his past and his future.
Both Bucchigiri and Tokyo Revengers tell stories about creatively designed school-aged delinquents that are locked in gang warfare.
While both series are about delinquents, gang warfare, and feature unique looking thugs, they do differ significantly in tone. While Bucchigiri is energetic, colorful, and more than a bit silly, Tokyo Revengers is darker and tells a more serious story.
However, like Bucchigiri melds in the supernatural element of Senya and the Honki people, Tokyo Revengers has its own unique twist in the form of time travel.
Rokudo’s Bad Girls
Tousuke Rokudo is a first year in Aomori High, a school that is full of delinquents. While he has two good friends, he is frequently bullied by the thugs that run rampant at school.
After Rokudo receives a package from his grandfather with a scroll that is said to be able to protect him from impending danger, a strange star appears on his forehead.
Rokudo and his friends discover that now every time a delinquent girl sees him, she immediately falls in love with him. In an effort to have the nice school life of his dreams, Rokudo uses this to try and shows these girls the charm of living a happy, peaceful school life with friends.
Like Bucchigiri, Rokudo’s Bad Girls follows a main character with no interest in being a delinquent in a school that is packed full of delinquents. Furthermore, both stories kick off with a supernatural occurrence that draws the attention of every single delinquent to the main character.
In Bucchigiri, he gets an infusion of power from a Honki person while in Rokudo’s Bad Girls a spell makes every delinquent girl fall in love with him immediately.
That said, while Bucchigiri is often about Arajin just trying to not get involved and wooing Mahoro’s brother-obsessed heart, Rokudo’s Bad Girls is surprisingly more wholesome by being about the main character teaching delinquent girls how to enjoy their school life. Rokudo’s Bad Girls still has plenty of big energetic fights and uniquely designed delinquent characters, however.
Beelzebub
Ishiyama High is a school full of delinquents, but they have one rule – don’t cross Tatsumi Oga, the strongest fighter in school.
One day, Oga is sitting by a riverbank when he encounters a floating man that splits down the middle to reveal a baby inside. This baby turns out to be Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, the son of the Demon Lord.
It turns out raising the future lord of the underworld is more trouble than you’d think.
While both Bucchigiri and Beelzebub are both more comedic anime about delinquents who get mixed up in the supernatural, they do have differ in how they tell their stories.
While Bucchigiri goes big and bold, Beelzebub is definitely more like your standard shounen action anime, just with a bit more comedy. If you just want more thug attitudes, Beelzebub has that, but it lacks the style and flair of Bucchigiri.
K
In this world, there are those referred to as Kings. They were individuals bestowed with great supernatural power and they use it to recruit others to their clan. To protect those members is a King’s great duty.
However, after a murder of a Red clan member, a student is accused of homicide. During the man hunt, the city devolves into full-on war among the Kings.
While the characters aren’t quite as unique and eccentric as the characters in Bucchigiri, K is also all about a brewing gang war among the color gangs of a city with some supernatural abilities at play.
However, while Bucchigiri is fully dedicated to big, powerful feeling delinquent fighters, K is more about unraveling the mystery and less about punching it out.
For Fans of Colorful Bad Boys
Bucchigire! Bakumatsu Bad Boys
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.
Alongside having a similar title, both Bucchigiri and Bucchigire! Bakumatsu Bad Boys feature uniquely designed thugs and/or criminals who engage in big, slightly supernatural fights.
The big difference is that Bakumatsu Bad Boys takes place in a fictionalized Bakumatsu era and the main characters are young criminals rather than high school delinquents.
Nanbaka
Nanba is the most formidable prison in the world, built to house criminals that were just too slippery for even Maximum Security. In Cell 13 of Nanba are four of the most notorious criminals that have escaped every other prison.
However, while planning their escape, they come to the realization that life in Nanba is actually way better than on the outside, and decide to stay.
If the police arrested all the gang leaders in Bucchigiri and put them in prison, then you would be watching Nanbaka. That’s actually how similar these series are.
Do you like Bucchigiri because of the colorful, wildly eccentric gang leaders and members? Well, Nanbaka follows a colorful and eccentric group of prisoners in a maximum security facility that is definitely more fun than any actual prison.
While Nanbaka has less fights, it makes up for it with shenanigans and comedy.
Sk8 the Infinity
High school student Reki Kyan is passionate about skateboarding and board-making. While he works part-time in a board shop after school, his real interest is the underground race that happens at night.
S is a competitive skateboard race where participants are encouraged to win at all costs. Unfortunately for Reki, his most recent race came in at a loss.
The next day at school he meets new transfer student Langa Hasegawa who was a snowboarder when he lived in Canada. After a series of events that led both of them to an S race, Reki discovers that, despite having no experience on a skateboard, Langa’s experience snowboarding is unexpectedly useful in an S race.
Despite being notably different as a sports anime, Sk8 the Infinity shares Bucchigiri’s passion for creating unique-looking characters that are all delinquents or involved in some sort of underworld outside of proper society.
The difference is that Bucchigiri is about delinquents fighting a gang war in a city while Sk8 the Infinity is about a fictional race on skateboards between characters that look like delinquents.
If you enjoy colorful bad boys and don’t mind a sports anime story, Sk8 the Infinity has some great characters and some great non-fighting action.
For Fans of Manly Fights
Kengan Ashura
While many business deals are settled through contracts and meetings in the boardroom, since ancient times, many merchants in Japan have had another way to settle business disputes – Kengan matches.
In the underground merchant world of Kengan Ashura, businesses ranging from smaller shops to mega-corporations settle disputes and make business deals through gladiatorial bare-handed fights in the arena. However, the competitors aren’t the the businessmen, but rather a series of proxy warriors. Every business scouts powerful fighters to field in Kengan matches in hopes of claiming profitable victories.
Tokita Ouma is one such prospective Kengan fighter. Recruited by the CEO of the Nogi Group, he hopes the attraction of strong fighters to Kengan matches will eventually lead him to the fighter he seeks to conquer in order to fully call himself the strongest.
Bucchigiri loves it colorful, muscular teens beating the crap out of each other. While Kengan Ashura is notably less colorful, it does love muscular dudes beating the crap out of each other too. In fact, that is the entire plot of the series.
Kengan Ashura lacks any sort of supernatural element, but if you like delinquents and criminals with creative designs, fighting styles, and personalities – Kengan Ashura and Bucchigiri both have that. Furthermore, both series do a great job at making those slug-fests feel pretty weighty.
Kenichi – The Mightiest Disciple
After years of reading self-improvement books, “weak legs” Kenichi finally works up the courage to join the karate club. Unfortunately, his school bully challenges him, intent on literally kicking him out.
While all hope seemed lost, new classmate Miu invites him to her dojo for training. While he was able to defeat the bully, his new strength attracted the attention of a powerful group of students, and in order to overcome them, he must train in many martial arts styles.
While the thuggery of it all tends to dominate the show, Bucchigiri is also about a series of guys who all want to be the strongest fighter. As such, while Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple isn’t about delinquents, it is also about people who all want to be the strongest fighter too.
However, Kenichi is distinctly more of a traditional shounen action anime sort of series. It also has more of an emphasis on the main character learning different martial arts to defend against different fighting styles and use them in his own fighting style. So it is less “punch guys really, really hard” like Bucchigiri and more thoughtful with its fight composition.
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
In 1868, Dario Brando saves the life of English nobleman, George Joestar. When Dario dies, George hopes to repay the favor by taking in his son, Dio.
Unfortunately, Dio wants the Joestar household for his own and tries to take it with the help of an Aztec stone mask with supernatural powers.
This triggers a chain of events that will affect the Joestar house for generations to come.
While Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure starts by following an upstanding gentleman, it is a generational tale and the Joestar line has an above average amount of delinquents in it.
Alongside having heaps of delinquent characters, both Bucchigiri and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure feature unique character designs and huge muscly dudes doing eccentric things. In fact, you can see a lot of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in Bucchigiri, from Senya being similar to a Stand power to Akutarou Shindo straight up Jojo posing every time you see him.
Record of Ragnarok
Every 1,000 years, all gods from every religion are convened to decide the fate of humanity.
Due to their abuses against each other and the planet, the gods are about to unanimously vote for ending humanity.
However, just as it is about to pass, Brunhild, a Valkyrie, puts forth a proposal. Humans are given a chance to have 13 warriors from throughout history fight against gods in a one-on-one tournament style battle that will ultimately decide their fate.
Both Bucchigiri and Record of Ragnarok have plots, but I don’t think too many people are there for the plot. Instead, in both series, you are there to watch eccentrically designed characters beat the absolute piss out of each other – which is what you get.
While Bucchigiri has its more comical and slice of life moments, Record of Ragnarok is pretty much just all fights between characters that look like they could lead a gang in Bucchigiri. Similar to Honki people, Record of Ragnarok collects all of mankind’s best fighters to fight in a tournament against gods, and they are happy to do it.
If you like weighty and creative fights between creative characters, Record of Ragnarok is a fun way to follow up Bucchigiri.
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