A red wind has swept over Japan and withered everything in its wake. Wherever the wind blows, rust grows and consumes all in its path. With humanity succumbing to this rust, and the world a barren wasteland, mushroom spores bore the blame for it. This has made archer Bisco Akaboshi, who grows mushrooms wherever his arrows land, into a notorious terrorist. However, he is a mushroom protector who spreads his fungi in order to enrich the land as he searches for the legendary Sabikui, an ancient mushroom that devours rust in all forms.
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Anime Like Sabikui Bisco
For Fans of Unique Post-Apocalyptic Worlds
Dorohedoro
Hole is a disorderly district where death and mutilation are common. The residents of Hole are the dregs of society and the test subjects of the magic users that live separate from it. Residents are constantly tested on or just murdered by these mages. In Hole is Kaiman, a man with a head cursed to be that of a lizard, but with an immunity to magic. He spends his time set on hunting down these magic users in one small bit of justice for the people that live in Hole.
Both of these series really focus in on humanity and their miserable existence in a world ravaged by apocalypse. However, while Sabikui Bisco focuses on their quest, Dorohedoro is a little more vicious and tosses in a lot of really good black humor. Dorohedoro also has a mushroom element to one of the characters as well, interestingly enough.
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.
While Fire Force is more of a shounen style battler, both series take place in a world that was ravaged by something apocalyptic. Now humanity eeks out an existence and that apocalypse also gave rise to people with unique powers.
Desert Punk
The Great Kanto Desert is all the remains of Japan after the apocalypse. While barren and seemingly dead, many carve out a meager life here. One such person is the Desert Punk, a handyman with a legendary reputation for always finishing the job no matter what.
Desert Punk is much older and it has more predictability to the plot. However, both shows take place in desert Tokyo and follow a bit of a vagabond. Desert Punk is more comedic, however.
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 mech 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.
While Sabikui Bisco’s world is dry and covered in rust, the world in Gargantia is covered in water. Essentially, you explore each setting through the characters who are also learning about this new world with the help of a character who has vast experience with it.
For fans of Utterly Unique Battle Powers
Kill la Kill
Ryuuko Matoi is on the hunt for her father’s killer, and her only lead is the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade. On her quest, she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a school that is ruled over by the super powerful Satsuki Kiryuuin and her Elite Four. Believing Satsuki knows who killed her father, Ryuuko challenges one of the elite, but gets beaten due to their special uniforms. After receiving a special uniform of her own, Ryuuko sets plans into motion to dominate the school and find out what happened to her father.
Both shows have unique settings, though Kill la Kill has the more unique plot. They both create energetic characters that are so interesting that it is exciting when a new one is introduced. Essentially, both shows are really unlike most everything else that you watched before.
FLCL
After his brother moved to America, Naota was left to his own mundane existence with his grandfather and father in his small town. However, one day while walking home with Mamimi, his brother’s ex-girlfriend, Naota is hit by a Vespa. Its rider, a crazy pink haired woman, gets off, kisses him, smacks him on the head with her guitar, and then speeds away. This marks the end of Naota’s boring life and the beginning of a never-ending string of weird events.
When you first see Bisco fire his arrow and watch mushrooms sprout on up, it is pretty hard not to see the FLCL in that with its various things sprouting from Naota’s head. While FLCL takes its pace and absurdness to the extreme, no one can say that neither show is not unique in what it is doing.
Kyousou Giga
In ancient Tokyo, there was a priest named Myoue who could bring anything he drew to life. He drew a black rabbit who also fell in love with him. Borrowing a body of a goddess to be with him, they started a family with three children. However, it was decided that the family was causing too many problems, so they fled into the Mirror World full of the priest’s drawn creations. While everything was peaceful in this world where no one dies and no one is born, the parents of the family had to leave. Awaiting their return, the three children are shocked when a girl arrives from another land in the Mirror World sharing the name of their mother and looking for both of their parents.
Both shows are unique in how inventive they are and how kind of difficult they are to explain to people sometimes. They also share a reasonably high energy to their action and characters. If you enjoy your unique anime series, Kyousougiga is a must.
Blood Blockade Battlefront
Vampires, fishmen, supersonic monkeys – They are all normal residents living alongside humans in Hellsalem’s Lot, formerly known as New York City. When a gate between Earth and the Beyond popped up there three years ago, old NYC became dominated by monsters, and now Libra, a secret organization, is tasked with keeping it in order. After hobbyist photographer Leonardo Watch obtains the All-Seeing Eyes of the Gods, he finds himself recruited into Libra.
While Sabikui Bisco leaves the big, grimy city behind pretty quickly, Blood Blockade Battlefront essentially takes place in a city a lot like Panda’s hometown. Regardless, Blood Blockade Battlefront and Sabikui Bisco both do really well in creating interesting and diverse characters in a way that you get excited to meet new people in the show. They’ve got that nice-looking, slick action that make them exciting shows to watch.
For Fans of Adventure-Filled Journeys
Sakugan
The Labyrinth is an expansive space underground where humans live in colonies and many places remain unexplored. Due to the harsh conditions outside the colonies and the presence of large monsters, only brave individuals known as Markers explore the outside areas. Memenpu is a genius child who dreams of becoming a Marker in order to reach a place that constantly plagues her dreams. Unfortunately for her, her father Gagumber is pretty vehemently against it, at least until a giant monster attacks inside the colony jump starts their adventure together.
Both series are newer little creative gems about a duo of differing personalities setting out on an adventure in their world. Sakugan is cave diving, but they both do well to show off all the various locales in their harsh and difficult world. Sakugan, however, is technically a mecha show, though.
Trigun
Vash the Stampede is a heinous criminal with a huge bounty on his head after destroying an entire city. Known as the “Human Typhoon,” he brings destruction wherever he goes. However, when two insurance agents finally meet him, they find out that Vash is not quite the villain that the bounty paints him as. Instead, they find a silly buffoon who tries his best to avoid killing while looking for his brother, despite trouble constantly finding him.
While Trigun is more Wild West-themed with its apocalyptic desert planet, what it most shares in common with Sabikui Bisco is a main character that is labeled a wanted man, but it actually really working to save people.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan
While digging around in his underground village, a young boy named Simon uncovers a mysterious object that turns out to be the ignition key to an ancient artifact of war. When their village comes under attack, Simon and his daring adoptive older brother Kamina use this weapon to fend off the invaders, discovering that there is a whole surface world above them in the process. With the sky now in plain view, Kamina and Simon set off on a journey that will take them across the galaxy.
Both series are initially notable because they both take place in an apocalyptic desert planet where the people eek out meager existences. They remain similar for awhile by following a duo as they set out on a new adventure. The real big difference between them is that Tengen Toppa has a bit more frenetic energy to everything and it is also a mecha show.
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