Long ago, Oni butchered humans, but a lone man named Momotaro rose up to fight them.
That war was not quickly won. Even now, thousands of years later. The battle between the Oni and the Momotaros still rages, as the young Shiki Ichinose one day finds out when his adoptive father, an ex-Momotaro, is killed by his old comrades for raising him, an Oni child.
While Shiki escapes his attackers through awakening his Oni blood, he is dragged into the Oni ranks that are trained at Rasetsu Academy to fight back against the Momotaros that wish to slaughter them.
This kid’s tale has teeth and blood! If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Tougen Anki, head on down below.
Anime Like Tougen Anki
For Fans of Joining a Secret Organization Battle Shounen

Blue Exorcist
Humans and demons have always been separated by two different worlds, humans in Assiah and demons in Gehenna. The only way to travel between the worlds is by possession, which is how Satan, the ruler of Gehenna, wages his war.
One day, Rin discovers that he is actually the son of Satan, born for the specific purpose of being possessed by Satan. However, while his father wants him to help conquer the human world, Rin decides to become an exorcist to fight him instead.
Similarities Between Tougen Anki and Blue Exorcist
- Battle shounen.
- A boy raised by a man who was not his father discover he is a demon
- His foster father’s death awakens his power and he ends up being taken into a special organization.
- School-based story, where they still go out and fight in the world
Differences Between Tougen Anki and Blue Exorcist
- Blue Exorcist has the main character discover he’s the son of Satan and joins the exorcist’s fighting him. So the opposite situation of Tougen Anki.
- Blue Exorcist has a little less variety with the character powers
- Blue Exorcist isn’t quite as brutal as Tougen Anki often is.

Jujutsu Kaisen
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.
Similarities Between Tougen Anki and Jujutsu Kaisen
- Battle shounen.
- A boy’s normal life is suddenly upended when he gains/awakens a unique power in a time of need.
- The main character is taken to join a secret organization to fight.
- Unique, creative power system where each character has their own unique abilities
Differences Between Tougen Anki and Jujutsu Kaisen
- Jujutsu Kaisen is about a normal boy eating a demon finger and gaining a fraction of his power. So he was not born with the powers.
- There is no school element in Jujutsu Kaisen.

Gachiakuta
In a wealthy town, the residents think nothing of throwing away trash, but their waste is precious to Rudo who spends his days pouring through trash for objects to reuse.
One day, Rudo returns home to find his father murdered by a mystery assailant. Falsely accused, Rudo is sent to the pit, and area where criminals are dropped into the abyss with the trash. However, after he is dropped, Rudo finds himself on a planet covered in piles of trash with rampaging monsters that spawn from it. Awakening a special power to fight with objects, Rudo is dragged into joining the Cleaners, other individuals who fight these dangerous Trash Beasts. However, all he wants to do is go home and find his father’s real killer.
Similarities Between Tougen Anki and Gachiakuta
- Battle shounen.
- A main character raised by a man not his father watches his foster father be killed
- He awakens special powers and is taken in by an organization that fights a specific thing.
- Unique power system where everyone has their own unique abilities.
- Works with Japanese legends, reinventing them for battle shounen needs. (Momotaro, Tsukumogami)
Differences Between Tougen Anki and Gachiakuta
- Gachiakuta takes place in a dystopian trash world setting where the privileged live in the sky and dump crap on the world below.
- Much of Gachiakuta isn’t fighting an actual human enemy like in Tougen Anki, it’s about fighting rampant monsters made of trash
- The character designs in Gachiakuta are more eccentric and stylized.

Fire Force
A phenomenon has started overtaking mankind – one where people spontaneously combust and turn into destructive fire demons called Infernals.
To fight these demons, special fire forces were established full of those with dedication and powers to control fire.
This is the story of Fire Force 8 and their newest recruit – Shinra, who aims to become a hero and discover the truth behind the Infernals.
Similarities Between Tougen Anki and Fire Force
- Battle shounen
- After a family trauma, the main character joins an organization to fight a specific enemy
- Creative battle system where each character has unique powers
Differences Between Tougen Anki and Fire Force
- Fire Force has no school element, yet many of the main cast seem young.
- Fire Force has a bit more silly comedy to it that can also get a bit occasionally ecchi.
- As everything is fire-based, it is not as brutal and bloody as Tougen Anki.

Chainsaw Man
After his father’s death left him with a pile of debt, Denji and his pet devil Pochita struggle to pay it off. However, after the yakuza kills him, Pochita fuses himself with Denji’s corpse and he awakens as a Chainsaw Devil.
Found by government devil hunters, Denji is brought in to hunt other devils on an experimental squad where he is finally able to pursue his simple teenage dreams of eating good food and spending time with a cute girl.
Similarities Between Tougen Anki and Chainsaw Man
- Battle shounen.
- A main character awakens a special power after a traumatic event and joins an organization that fights a specific thing.
- Creative power system where everyone has their own unique power
- Fairly brutal, bloody battles
Differences Between Tougen Anki and Chainsaw Man
- In Chainsaw Man, everyone, even its heroes, are often some kind of terrible person. So it’s bad people fighting worse things.
- Chainsaw Man features a main character fighting for a government organization who kills demons that threaten the public. So no school element.

Kaiju No. 8
For years, grotesque giant monsters have appeared suddenly to attack Japan. To combat the destructive threat, the Defense Corps was established to fight them and the Professional Kaiju Cleaner Corporation was created to clean up the massive remains.
Kafka Hibino is a middle-aged man who works as a sweeper cleaning up remains despite his big childhood dreams of becoming a Defense Corps member with his childhood friend. While his friend thrives as a powerful asset in the Defense Corps, Kafka has failed the recruitment exam numerous times.
After meeting an ambitious new recruit to his sweeper unit named Reno, a kaiju attack leaves them both in the hospital where a small, parasitic kaiju embeds himself in Kafka and turns him into a monster.
With Reno’s help, Kafka is able to flee and eventually transform back into a human, but he is left with the ability to become a kaiju at will and has access to superhuman abilities that he can use to fight kaiju.
Similarities Between Tougen Anki and Kaiju No. 8
- Battle shounen
- The main character discovers a special power and immediately joins an organization that fights a specific thing
- Fairly brutal, bloody battles
Differences Between Tougen Anki and Kaiju No. 8
- Kaiju No. 8 is about a middle-aged man melding with a monster that they are supposed to fight so he can then fight those monsters like he always wanted.
- There is no school element in Kaiju No. 8. He is working for a government agency
- Only the main character really has a special unique ability, so the power system for each character isn’t especially diverse.
- The characters have less brutal trauma in Kaiju No. 8. Or rather, their various motivating losses have less focus.

Akame ga Kill
Tatsumi is a naive boy from a rural village that makes the trip to the city in order to join the military and help his hometown.
However, after he is rejected, he ends up joining Night Raid, a group of assassins part of a revolutionary movement to overthrow the government.
From there, he must fight a brutal and increasingly bloody shadow war.
Similarities Between Tougen Anki and Akame ga Kill
- The main character gains a special power that he uses to fight “the good guys,” who are not actually all that good and are relative psychopaths.
- Interesting power system where each character has unique powers
- Brutal to all of its characters
Differences Between Tougen Anki and Akame ga Kill
- The power system in Akame ga Kill is artifact-based, so the main character is given his power as a wearable object.
- Akame ga Kill isn’t a battle shounen. It is an action story about freedom fighters fighting a corrupt government. So no school, minimal power scaling, and the story reaches a conclusion in a single season.
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Peach Boy Riverside
In a world where humans and demihuman creatures live at odds with each other, princess Saltorine “Sally” Aldike is on a journey to find a man named Mikoto Kibitsu who is bent on exterminating all ogres. On her travels, she takes up with a number of companions despite questionable lineage as ogres or demihumans.
Whereas Mikoto is traveling and using his immense power that manifests in physical prowess and a peach shape in his eyes to slay ogres, Sally, who possesses similar powers, hopes to unite the inhabitants of the world in a more peaceful existence.
Similarities Between Tougen Anki and Peach Boy Riverside
- Momotaro factions that have little to do with the original children’s story.
- Vicious, bloody story about Momotaro descendants and Oni fighting each other
- The Momotaros have a large dollop of psychopathy.
Differences Between Tougen Anki and Peach Boy Riverside
- Peach Boy Riverside follows the Momotaros as, technically the good side.
- Peach Boy Riverside is more action fantasy than battle shounen set in a school. They are wandering a fantasy land, fighting oni and looking for specific people.
- Peach Boy Riverside has a non-linear story that makes the plot less clear.
- Tougen Anki is about how the Oni aren’t that bad and the Momotaros are. Peach Boy Riverside features the Momotaros being psychopaths to Oni, but the Oni not being all that good either.
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