When the Wischtech threatened Szaalanden, the Emperor dispatched fourteen warriors to fight against the scourge. While three fell in battle, Seven Heroes halted the invasion, even taking out the four traitors from among the ranks of the original fourteen, labeling them forever as the Traitorous Lances.
Decades later, a boy wielding a black sword with a scar over his eye named Koinzell with a mysterious connection to the Traitorous Lances has started targeting the aging Seven Heroes who rule realms throughout Szaalanden.
I’m sorry, Ubel Blatt manga fans. They were apparently just honoring the legacy of Berserk by also giving you a lackluster anime adaptation. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Ubel Blatt, head on down below.
Anime Like Ubel Blatt
For Fans of Blind Vengeance
Berserk
Gutts has been a mercenary for as long as he can remember, caring for nothing but moving to the next battle.
One fateful battle puts him at odds with the rapidly rising mercenary group, the Band of the Hawk. Their charismatic, idealistic leader Griffith soon makes him join by force, but the bond he forms with the Band of the Hawk may very well mean the end of the world.
Similarities Between Ubel Blatt and Berserk
- A man was once happy traveling with his comrades, until they got betrayed.
- Now that man is a bitter murder machine and ball of rage that is out for revenge
- The main character travels with a party of combat-ready companions who also occasional serve as levity
- Vicious dark fantasy rife with blood and sex (in the manga, at least. Ubel Blatt was heavily censored.)
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and Berserk
- Berserk only has the main character really out for revenge against primarily one man, though he also has to kill his minions to get to him, so not so different from Ubel Blatt and Koinzell’s hit list
- Koinzell is fast and more supernaturally powered, the main character in Berserk is an angry slab of solid muscle with magical armor.
- Berserk features a more non-fantasy medieval world that slowly falls to fantasy and demons as the story goes on.
- Berserk’s female characters wear functional armor, not sexy armor like the women in Ubel Blatt.
Ragna Crimson
Humans live in constant fear of dragon attack, the species that really rules the world with overwhelming power. To keep human populations safe, a number of hunters track and kill dragons as their job. Ragna was one such dragon hunter, though as weak as he is, he is often carried by the prodigal talent of his companion, Leonica.
One day, Ragna gains an influx of power that came from his fallen future self. He learns that after Leonica’s brutal death in the future, Ragna’s future self labored for years hunting dragons in revenge, losing comrade after comrade and building his strength ever higher.
While his new body struggles to hold all the power he gained, his future self tells him that the key to finally killing all dragons, including the Dragon God, lies in him finding Crimson, a Dragon Lord who also seeks to end their entire species.
Similarities Between Ubel Blatt and Ragna Crimson
- The main character dies, and then—due to various supernatural reasons—is no longer dead, but is now young and with power his body can barely handle.
- Both series are revenge stories against the awful people that now rule the world
- The main character is motivated by rage, but has some soft spots for a few others
- Hit list-style revenge story where there is a whole hierarchy to tear down.
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and Ragna Crimson
- Ragna Crimson is about killing dragons, who are the enemies of humanity. The dragons also have humanoid forms, though.
- Ragna Crimson is a regressor story, in which he dies as an older man and returns to a time when he was just a teen with all his old power still intact.
- Ragna Crimson’s main character is a bit colder and ruthless due to a lifetime of suffering and loss before his current lifetime.
Goblin Slayer
A young priestess fresh out of the temple is excited to start her life as an adventurer. On her first day, she joins an adventuring party to go slay some goblins.
However, like so many young adventure parties before them, they underestimate the goblins. It ends with two dead, one viciously raped, and the priestess saved from fate by a man whose only mission in life is to slay all the goblins.
Similarities Between Ubel Blatt and Goblin Slayer
- A traumatic event made the main character a little ball of rage-driven revenge
- While the main character is determined to kill a specific thing/specific people, they still have other acquaintances that help them fight.
- Occasionally sexualized female characters
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and Goblin Slayer
- Goblin Slayer’s protagonist is more the strong silent type, whereas Koinzell is a little more personable.
- Goblin Slayer is specifically about a man who wants to kill all goblins, so it isn’t the same type of hit list style revenge that you get in Ubel Blatt
The Kingdoms of Ruin
With the help of witches blessed upon humanity by the goddess, human civilization flourished for generations. However, as humanity adapted more independence from the magic of witches through innovations in science and technology, they began to violently persecute witches.
Leading the persecution and execution of witches is the ruthless Redia Empire. Adonis, a human boy, is forced to watch the brutal public execution of the kind witch who raised him and granted him access to use magic.
After years of isolation and imprisonment, Adonis is freed and begins his bloody vengeance on the empire.
Similarities Between Ubel Blatt and The Kingdoms of Ruin
- Once bright-eyed main character watches his friends be betrayed, and emerges cold and revenge-driven.
- Main character hunts down specific people and will take out anyone that gets in his way
- Women companions used for levity and humanization.
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and The Kingdoms of Ruin
- The main character in Kingdoms of Ruin is far more ruthless compared to Koinzell, really only caring about the life of one other person, and even then, only later in the story.
- Kingdoms of Ruin follows a main character that was imprisoned for awhile rather than almost killed.
- Due to the heavy censorship of Ubel Blatt, Kingdoms of Ruin is the more bloody, vicious dark fantasy series.
For Fans of Dark Fantasy
Claymore
The world is overcome with demons called Yoma that constantly plague humanity.
After Raki’s parents were killed by Yoma, he teams up with Claire, a Claymore, an order of powerful half-human, half-Yoma women that are shunned by society but fight to rid the world of Yoma.
Together, each learns more about the each other and work towards their own goals.
Similarities Between Ubel Blatt and Claymore
- A group of warriors were chosen to fight back against humanity’s inhuman enemy.
- Wandering inhuman main character always on their way to the next thing to kill with their normal human companions that add levity.
- Dark fantasy and human suffering
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and Claymore
- Claymore follows a female main character is who part of an all-female order of warriors.
- Claymore isn’t a revenge story. It is a “woman doomed to an early, brutal death doing a thankless job and being hated by the people she protects” story.
Bastard
The kingdom of Metallicana is just the latest kingdom to be imperiled by the Four Lords of Havoc. They seemingly desire only destruction and no power can stand against them.
Desperate to save the kingdom, High Priest Geo reveals that he sealed their once-leader of destruction, the lord Dark Schneider into a boy, who can only be awakened by a ritual performed by his daughter.
Unleashing Dark Schneider is a risk, but his power can stand against this mighty threat.
Similarities Between Ubel Blatt and Bastard
- An ageless main character with a different body from his original form is hunting down his former comrades.
- Vicious dark fantasy rife with blood and sex (in the manga, at least. Ubel Blatt was heavily censored.)
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and Bastard
- Bastard follows an ancient mage that was sealed inside a boy and who can only sometimes take his adult form. He’s also a cocky, difficult to control bastard when he is in his adult form.
- Bastard is, overall, filled with more naked women. They be around every corner.
- Bastard is more about magic, Ubel Blatt is more about the blade.
- Bastard is not a revenge story. The main character’s motivations are often more selfish or romantically driven.
Ishura
The Demon King has been slain, but no one knows who was capable of taking out a man who made the world tremble under his might. Leaving a large power void behind, a series of warriors called Shura who all possess the might that could have rivaled the Demon King can effectively do what they want with the world now.
Some wander looking for powerful foes to fight, some delve into dungeons looking for powerful artifacts, and some have their eyes on conquest.
With the Demon King gone and no champion to crown for his defeat, the Shura begin to spark conflict among themselves to determine who is the True Hero, the strongest power who can stand against all others.
Similarities Between Ubel Blatt and Ishura
- In the world, there a handful of wildly overpowered individuals vying for power and fighting each other.
- Mostly brutal battles, but also political intrigue
- Dark fantasy with brutal action
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and Ishura
- Ishura isn’t strictly a revenge story. There are actually a few different stories going on, depending on what character the episode/arc is following.
- Ishura doesn’t strictly have a concrete main character.
- Ishura definitely puts the more effort into its different characters and how they fight
- Ishura is fairly split between characters that use physical weapons like swords, and those who use some sort of magic-aligned ability.
For Fans of Purging The Corrupt Government
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 Ubel Blatt and Akame ga Kill
- A small handful of individual characters are super powerful compared to everyone else
- The main characters are fighting against the established governmental power
- Occasionally vicious dark fantasy
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and Akame ga Kill
- Akame ga Kill isn’t about personal revenge like Ubel Blatt. It is more about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the government.
- The brutality in Akame ga Kill usually comes from people you like dying. In Ubel Blatt, it comes from Koinzell getting his revenge.
- The characters in Akame ga Kill get special powers from artifacts. They are not “chosen ones” like in Ubel Blatt. Furthermore, the powers in Akame ga Kill are a little more diverse.
- Ubel Blatt features a more grim world.
Seven Deadly Sins
In this feudal world, the realm is protected from those who seek to spread their evil by the Holy Knights. However, in the kingdom of Liones, a small group of Holy Knights known as the Seven Deadly Sins sought to overthrown the king only to be driven off.
Now, ten years later, the world hunts for the Seven Deadly Sins, but the Holy Knights have now turned their blades on the king and taken control of the kingdom.
Now it is up to his third daughter, Elizabeth, to find the Sins and help them take back control.
Similarities Between Ubel Blatt and Seven Deadly Sins
- A hero of a nation was betrayed by their peers, who are now in charge of the kingdom.
- The main character is on a journey to take them down with a group of loyal comrades.
- The main character looks young, but isn’t.
Differences Between Ubel Blatt and Seven Deadly Sins
- Seven Deadly Sins is a shounen action anime, not a dark fantasy anime. Expect more energetic fights, more comedy, and less frequent brutality.
- Seven Deadly Sins features a more magic-fueled power system when it comes to combat.
- Seven Deadly Sins isn’t really the same type of revenge story. It’s more “save the kingdom” aligned.
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