In the year 2030, Earth has been overrun by a disease that turns humans into freakish monsters. Joining a small group searching for a cure are a samurai and ninja transported from the Edo period. Their skills in battle turn the tide for this struggling small group.
Gibiate is a collaborative project done by a lot of well known people in the anime and gaming industries. It combines the best of what they do in what is perhaps not a very cohesive way. Which means it has good bits, but ultimately doesn’t amount to a particularly good show. However, if you are looking for more anime recommendations that are similar, but perhaps better than Gibiate, then head on down below.
Anime Like Gibiate
For Fans of Humanity in Peril
High School of the Dead
It happened suddenly. The dead rose and threw Japan into chaos. In the high school of Takashi Kimuro, the situation forced him to kill his bitten best friend and protect the man’s girlfriend, Rei. As they narrowly escape the school with a few others, they find the real survival just beginning.
While monsters and zombies are different threats, both series follow a very small group of survivors that are doing their best. Some use guns, some use swords, and some are pretty useless! However, High School of the Dead puts a huge focus on ecchi and the survivors are mostly high schoolers.
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
During the industrial revolution of their world, a monster appeared that cannot be killed unless pierced through its iron-protected heart. Those who are bitten by the creature become zombies know as Kabane. On the island of Hinomoto, humanity has built stations to seek refuge from these creatures. Ikoma lives at a station that brings supplies to the island and has created a weapon he believes can fight these creatures. While waiting for a chance to test it, he meets a mysterious girl named Mumei. After following her, he might just get the chance he desires.
In both series, you start off following survivors that have hold up in an area. They are not especially adept at fighting the monsters, but do their best. However, over the course of the series, their luck changes and suddenly they have a chance to strike back.
God Eater
In the year 2071, humanity has been pushed to the brink of extinction by man-eating monsters called Aragami. Immune to traditional weapons, they roam the land, but an organization called Fenrir with it’s human-hybrid God Eaters are the only ones capable of killing these Aragami. Lenka is a new God Eater who must master his powers in order to have any hope of fulfilling his wish to wipe out the Aragami once and for all.
God Eater is another series where humanity is threatened by man eaters that are vastly above their current technology. They are fighting a losing war at first like on Gibiate, but then they find a way where they can do a little better.
For Fans of Savior From Another Age
Kuromukuro
While constructing a local dam, a mysterious artifact was discovered. Intellectuals around the world gathered at the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute to study it. However, one day a mysterious samurai from the past awakens and recognizes the head researcher’s daughter, Yukina Shirahane.
Very obviously, Gibiate and Kuromukuro surround a mysterious man that comes from the past. However, his purpose in the future is a little more mysterious in Kuromukuro, and as the world is not in peril, it is a little more peaceful overall.
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
In the distant future, humanity has abandoned a ruined Earth and now lives in the furthest reaches of space fighting their eternal enemy, the Hideauze. During one of their massive space battles, a young soldier named Ledo and his mecha Chamber are flung through a warp hole into space. He crash lands on a strange planet that is covered completely in water. To his surprise, he finds that other humans also live there aboard massive fleets of boats. Found by the Gargantia fleet, Ledo must navigate this strange new world.
In Gargantia, the series focuses on a man that came from space, but both series take place in an apocalypse of sorts. It is just that in Gargantia, the apocalypse is so far done that humanity has adapted to their new way of life.
Gate: Thus The JSDF Fought There
Japanese Self-Defense Force solider and otaku Youji Itami is in the Ginza district of Tokyo feeding his hobby one afternoon when a gate to another world opens and medieval soldiers flood modern day Japan. While Itami, in conjunction with the local police, manage to save many civilian lives, his hero status forces him to go beyond the gate with his fellow soldiers to explore a mysterious new world filled with swords, magic, elves, and dragons.
Both series feature a man that is skilled in battle heading to what is essentially a new age. The big difference is that Itami in Gate is in our modern military while Sensui in Gibiate is from Feudal Japan. However, it turns out each character and their specific training was very much needed in their new area.
For Fans of Old Meets New
Samurai Champloo
Fuu is a young girl working as a waitress at a small teahouse. Things are peaceful until one day she spills tea on a customer and finds the samurai harassing her. Calling for help, a thuggish young rogue by the name of Mugen steps in only to pick a fight with another tightly wound samurai named Jin. In their fight, they end up destroying the shop and getting arrested. After saving the two fighters from their execution, Fuu hires them as bodyguards to help her find a samurai that smells of sunflowers.
While there are others in the group in Gibiate, overall you have the same dynamic. The series follows two skilled warriors defending a young girl, and both the warriors have vastly different fighting styles. Ultimately, they guard people on a mission and get into dangerous shenanigans, though Samurai Champloo is a more comical at times.
Rage of Bahamut
Thousands of years ago, ancient dragon Bahamut terrorized the world. However, when gods and demons allied themselves to prevent the world’s destruction, they sealed him away, splitting the key among them so he would be eternally imprisoned. After the dragon was sealed, humanity returned to normal. However, things are about to get very abnormal for bounty hunter Favaro when he meets a mysterious women that holds half the key to Bahamut’s seal.
In Gibiate, Sensui and Kenroku are diametrically opposed in many respects much like Favaro and Kaisar in Rage of Bahamut. Yet, despite their differences, they end up guarding a young girl who has set herself a mission.
Cop Craft
15 years ago, a gate opened over the Pacific to a fantasy world. In the present day, San Teresa City hosts two million immigrants from the other world and those from our world live side by side. As with any city, crime has started to run rampant, but justice is handed out by a police force combined of cops from our world and knights from the other. This is the tale of one such team.
While Cop Craft is more of a thriller cop series, it is about modern people teaming up with not-so-modern people to tackle problems like in Gibiate. It is a clash of cultures and has some interesting action scenes. To be honest, Cop Craft has a more fleshed out plot, though.
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