Anime Like Fate/Stay Night

The Holy Grail War is a battle royale in one city in Japan among seven magi selected to be Masters.

These Masters summon a Servant, a Heroic Spirit of historic or mythical heroes past, and gain command seals to order their Servant to do their bidding.

Together, Masters use their Servants to fight a proxy war for the Holy Grail—a magical artifact capable of granting its wielder any wish.

In the Fifth Holy Grail War, Rin Toosaka is among the magi entering the competition. With her Servant, Archer, she hopes to obtain the Holy Grail and have her wish granted.

However, when Rin’s classmate Emiya Shirou accidentally enters too, things get much more interesting.

In a world where warfare is constant – and great for business – there are twelve individuals that thrive on the battlefield. These individuals each bear traits that coincide to one animal from the Chinese Zodiac.

Those who are born into the right zodiac families or chosen to be the successor to that line are all invited to a competition that takes place every twelve years.

In this competition, they will fight to the death. The last one standing will have their any wish granted.

After his parents died, Mirai Kakehashi was left in the care of abusive relatives. On the day he graduated from middle school, he decided to end his life.

As he jumps off a building, he is saved by Nasse, an angel that wishes to give him happiness and has chosen him as her candidate to become the next God.

However, there are twelve other candidates and some among them wish to take the power of a God by force.

Yukiteru Amano likes to imagine himself as an observer.

He spends his days keeping a diary on his cell phone, but not about himself, about everything that goes on around him. At home, he spends his time conversing with his two imaginary friends, Deus Ex Machina, the God of space and time, and Murmur, his assistant.

However, one day he discovers his friends are not so imaginary when they imbue him with the power of a diary that tells the future and forces him into a bloody survival game with godhood on the line.

Unemployed and living with his mother, Ryouta Sakamoto’s only real achievement is being the top player in Japan of a video game called Btooom!

However, one day he wakes up on an island with nothing but a small green crystal embedded in his hand.

He soon finds out that someone wants him and others players to play Btooom! for real if they want to live.

While forming the rear guard for his uncle’s escape, Toyohisa Shimazu manages to mortally wound Ii Naomasa, but is critically wounded himself in the process.

While trying to limp back home, he finds himself transported from the field to a hallway lined with doors. There, a mysterious man sends him spiraling into another world.

Dragged into the forest by two young elves, Toyohisa is patched up by two others from the Land of the Rising Sun that turn out to be Yoichi Suketaka Nasu and Oda Nobunaga.

From there, Toyohisa and his fellow historical figures, named “drifters” must save (or conquer) their new world.

Sota Mizushino is a high schooler and avid anime fan that dreams of writing his own light novel. While watching a new anime for inspiration, he is dragged into the world of that series.

After witnessing a battle between two characters, he returns home and is shocked when one of the characters comes back with him.

He soon discovers that other characters from other media have been brought over and aligned with a mysterious military uniform-clad princess.

Sota aims to gather these characters and send them back home.

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.

Yuu Narukami is the new kid to Inaba. At school he hears a rumor that if you look at a blank TV screen at midnight, you will see the face of your true love.

However, when Yuu watches it, he sees a woman getting killed. In an attempt to watch it again, Yuu finds himself able to enter the TV world, a place filled with shadows that can only be fought by personas, awakened manifestations of the user’s true self.

There is a battle about to begin in Tokyo – the Shaman Fight.

This tournament is held every 500 years where shamans, those who command spirits, test their skills in combat. The winner becomes the Shaman King and gains command of the Great Spirit.

Shaman King follows the story of the carefree Yoh Asakura and his spirit Amidamaru.

In a country that is economically struggling and being surrounded by wealthy peers, Economics student Kimimaro Yoga is learning that money is power.

One day, he is told of a place called the Eastern Financial District where money flows like water, but only if visitors offer their future as collateral.

Greed triumphs this day as Yoga enters this alternative realm.

Sorey is a human that was raised among the seraphim, spiritual beings that are not visible to normal humans.

However, one day when a human princess-knight wanders into their territory, he finds himself drawn to the human capital.

This eventually leads him to become the new Shepherd, the one destined to defeat the Lord of Calamity and prevent the ruin of the world.

Academy City in Japan is at least 30 years more advanced than the rest of the world, technologically. However, they also have a number of students that are honing their psychic abilities.

Unfortunately for Touma Kamijou, he has a psychic rank of zero, but he has an ability that the city’s scientists can’t quite understand – the ability to negate other psychic abilities.

Despite this, he lives a normal life until he meets Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a young girl who has memorized all the forbidden grimoires, and she drags him into the realm of the supernatural.

In order to gain more power, demons search for fragments of the legendary demon Sukuna to consume them.

One day, Yuuji Itadori, who just lost his grandfather, learns of this as he saves his school friends from being consumed by demons after they break the seal on one of the body parts of Sukuna that was at their school.

In order to stand a chance, he eats it, revealing himself as a rare vessel that can utilize and control the curse of Sukuna, meaning when he dies, Sukuna’s curse dies with him.

After magic, once thought to be folklore, was turned into a technical skill, schools to teach it opened all over. At one such school are siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba.

While Miyuki excels, her brother is placed in a lower class due to his seemingly magical ineptitude.

However, he has rather unique abilities that make him quite irregular.

After a fatal accident, young Shiki Ryougi from an ancient clan manifests supernatural abilities that manifest as male and female personalities that dwell within her.

While these abilities cause her to avoid others, her classmate Makiya Kokutou continues to reach out to her.

After a series of murders that look like suicides begin to manifest in their city, both Shiki and Makiya end up working as paranormal investigators.