Shows Like Riddle Story of Devil

If you liked Riddle Story of Devil (2014), a animation and action & adventure series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Rurouni Kenshin (1996)
★ 8.5/10Also action & adventure and animation
The Meiji Era was one of great renewal for Japan, where swords and killing were outlawed. However, many survivors from the time of Revolution still live, lurking in the shadows and waiting for a chance to use their…
2
Revenger (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
As master assassin Usui Yuen looks into a series of assassinations made on the grand samurai clan, the Satsuma, he encounters Kurima Raizo, member and survivor of one of the attacks. Together, they discover the true…
3
Noir (2001)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin, and a very good one at that. But when she follows up an e-mail from a young Japanese girl named Kirika Yumura, inviting her to take "a pilgrimage to the past," her life…
4
The Fable (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
A legendary hitman trained to become the world's best assassin is asked to lay low for a year by the head of his crime family.
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Love of Kill (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and action & adventure
Two assassins face off at a certain "workplace." The cool bounty hunter Chateau and the mysterious and powerful Ryang-Ha. Chateau and Ryang-Ha become enemies after this fight—at least, they should have, but for some…
6
Strawberry Panic (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also animation
Nagisa Aoi is a new transfer student into one of the three prestigious all-girls Catholic high schools on Astraea Hill: a school called St. Miator (the other two are St. Spica and St. Lelim (known in the anime as Le…
7
Canaan (2009)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Two years ago, Shibuya was ravaged by a biological terrorist attack using the deadly Ua virus. Maria Osawa was saved when her father inoculated her against the virus, but is left with partial amnesia from the shock…
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Marvel's Hit-Monkey (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and action & adventure
After a high-profile political assassination goes sideways, an injured hitman hides out amongst a tribe of snow monkeys in the mountains of Japan.
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SAKAMOTO DAYS (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
Once the greatest hitman of all, Taro Sakamoto retired in the name of love. But when his past catches up, he must fight to protect his beloved family.
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BAKI-DOU: The Invincible Samurai (2026)
★ 9.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
Baki and the strongest Underground Arena fighters face a threat of historical proportions: the resurrected Musashi Miyamoto, Japan's greatest samurai.
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Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
On the run from a past crime, Juzo Fujimaki is blackmailed into joining an illicit tournament and has to face top martial artists in deadly match-ups.
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TRIGUN (1998)
★ 8.1/10Also action & adventure and animation
Trigun takes place in the distant future on a desert planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless he has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival…
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My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's (2025)
★ 7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Akira Oda and his high school classmates are summoned to another world! While the other students are granted cheat abilities through the summoning, Akira merely gains the abilities of a mediocre "assassin." However…
14
Hell's Paradise (2023)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and action & adventure
For a chance at a pardon, a ninja assassin joins other condemned criminals on a journey to a mysterious island to retrieve an elixir of immortality.
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Ninja Kamui (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
A team of assassins exacts a bloody retribution on Joe Logan – a former ninja who escaped his clan – and his family for betraying their ancient code. Rising from his seeming "death," Joe will re-emerge as his former…
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse (2023)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and action & adventure
As a prophecy of doom unfolds on the peaceful land of Britannia, a purehearted boy sets out on a journey of discovery — and revenge.
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Brynhildr in the Darkness (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also action & adventure and animation
When he was a child, Murakami was friends with a girl he called Kuroneko. One day, while trying to prove the existence of aliens to Murakami, she is killed in an accident that he barely survives. Guilty of his role in…
18
Darker than Black (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and action & adventure
Ten years ago, a mysterious spatial anomaly now known as "Heaven's Gate" appeared in South America, shortly followed by the opening of "Hell's Gate" in Tokyo altering the sky and wreaking havoc on the landscape. The…
19
BACK ARROW (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and action & adventure
Lingalind is a land enclosed by the Wall. The Wall covers, protects, cultivates, and nurtures the land. One day in Edger, a village on the outskirts of Lingalind, a mysterious man named Back Arrow appears. Arrow has…
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The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also animation
Mihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has…