Historical

Genre: Historical
Episodes: 258
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Everyone  

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English: Folktales from Japan

Furusato Saisei: Nihon no Mukashi Banashi Episodes Online

Folklore, myth, legend, and festival origin stories from across Japan.

Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Supernatural
Episodes: 3
Type: ONA Series
Age Rating:   Everyone  

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Sekiei Ayakashi Mangatan Episodes Online

The story is set during the middle of Japan's historic Edo period. It centers around Toriyama Sekiei, an eccentric but brilliant artist who only draws supernatural creatures—because he draws the creatures he actually encounters in his life.

Genre: Comedy, Historical, Seinen
Episodes: Ongoing
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Everyone  

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Thermae Romae Episodes Online

The story is a comedy about Lucius, an architect of public bath houses in ancient Rome, who time-travels to various modern-day baths in Japan. The author explores the two cultures in the world "that have loved baths the most: the Japanese and the Romans."

(Source: Wikipedia)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Historical, Seinen
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +13  

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Synonyms: Brave10, Brave Ten

Brave 10 Episodes Online

The story reimagines the legendary adventures of the 10 brave warriors assembled by the warlord Sanada Yukimura in the year 1600, in the middle of Japan's tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) era.

(Source: ANN)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Historical, Samurai, Romance, Shoujo
Episodes: Ongoing
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +13  

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Sengoku Paradise Kiwami Episodes Online

Based on the online mobile phone otome game "Sengoku☆Paradise".

The first 3 minutes of the 10 minute spot for Sengoku☆Paradise Kiwami is the anime. The rest of the 7 minutes is of Sengoku☆Paradise Kiwami cast members Daisuke Namikawa and Tetsuya Kakihara going on a mission wearing cosplay outfits of their roles, plus an informative short.

Genre: Historical, Samurai, Seinen
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +17  

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Synonyms: Hyougemono

Hyouge Mono Episodes Online

The story is set during Japan's Sengoku Jidai (Era of the Warring States) and centers on Furuta Sasuke, a vassal of the great warlord Oda Nobunaga and a man obsessed with tea ceremony and material desires in his pursuit of a fortuitous life. Having learned from Oda and the legendary tea master Sen no Soueki, Furuta walks the way of the Hyouge Mono.

Genre: Action, Historical, Martial Arts
Episodes: 22
Manga: Read Souten no Ken Manga Online
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +17  

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English: Fist of the Blue Sky
Synonyms: Fist of the Blue Sky

Souten no Ken Episodes Online

A mysterious man known as "the King of Death" roams the streets of pre-war Shanghai in this action-packed prequel to Fist of the North Star.

Shanghai in the 1930s is a dangerous place. Foreign governments and Chinese factions have carved the city into different quarters, each with its own laws and government, and all rife with corruption. As the major powers vie for political control, the streets are left to local gangs. Life is cheap, and death is always near.

In days past, one man walked these mean streets battling the forces of evil. He was known only as Yan Wang, "the King of Death." Few knew who he really was, but many knew that he was a master of Hokuto Shinken - Fist of the North Star - a lethal martial art. He disappeared years ago after dispatching the city

Genre: Action, Historical, Martial Arts, Samurai, Shounen
Episodes: 26
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +17  

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English: Time of Shura
Synonyms: Mutsu Enmei Ryuu Gaiden: Shura no Toki

Shura no Toki Episodes Online

Legends tell of an invincible martial art known as Mutsu Enmei-Ryu, an unarmed style that allows the user to defeat any number of armed opponents using incredible speed and strength. This is the story of three generations of those who bear the name Mutsu, and their encounters and battles with the strongest fighters of their era.

(Source: ANN)

Genre: Action, Drama, Historical, Samurai
Episodes: 26
Type: TV Series
Age Rating:   Teen +13  

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Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto Episodes Online

Near the end of the Edo era, the stoic samurai Akizuki Youjirou silently pursues the supernatural object known as the Hasha no Kubi. He comes across a troupe of actors who are searching for a certain man out of revenge. Their fates coincide as Akizuki assists the troupe in their revenge and for protection, all the while searching for the object he is fated to destroy.

Genre: Action, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Shoujo
Episodes: Ongoing
Type: OVA Series
Age Rating:   Everyone  

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Synonyms: Hakuouki Hekketsuroku OVA

Hakuouki Sekkaroku Episodes Online

Five-part OVA series of Hakuouki Hekketsuroku.