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Shows like Afro Samurai 2007
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Afro Samurai
Shows closest to Afro Samurai
Crying Freeman 1988Also grave, unpretentious and classical in form
Cyber City Oedo 808 1990Also grave, relentless and plot-driven
High Seas 2019Also grave, unpretentious and classical in form
Blade Runner: Black Lotus 2021Also grave, unpretentious and classical in form
Betaal 2020Also grave, unpretentious and relentless
Hell's Paradise 2023Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
Seis Manos 2019Also grave, unpretentious and plot-driven
Hellsing: The Dawn 2011Also grave, unpretentious and resolved
Angel Cop 1989Also grave, unpretentious and relentless
MEGALOBOX 2018Also grave and classical in form
Spartacus: House of Ashur 2025Also grave, unpretentious and classical in form
Black Lagoon 2006Also unpretentious, grave and relentless
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Afro Samurai: Resurrection 2009Also grave, unpretentious and relentless
Pinocchio: Unstrung 2026Also unpretentious, bleak and grave
Trench 11 2017Also grave, unpretentious and classical in form
Games
Shadow: War of Succession 1994Also grave, unpretentious and relentless
I Am Your Beast 2024Also relentless, grave and plot-driven
Worse Than Death 2019Also grave, unpretentious and plot-driven
Books
Blood and Salt 2018Also grave, unpretentious and classical in form
Sparrow Hill Road 2014Also grave, classical in form and unpretentious
Enchantra 2025Also grave, unpretentious and classical in form
Albums
- Hellish Crossfire 1985Also grave, relentless and bleak
- Larmes de héros 1986Also grave, classical in form and plot-driven
- Screenslaves 2008Also grave, classical in form and bleak
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