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Reacher(2022-)

4.1/5 (with 675 votes)

Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served.

The Dragon Prince(2018-)

4.1/5 (with 273 votes)

An extraordinary discovery inspires two human princes and an elven assassin to team up on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands.

Directed by Giancarlo Volpe

Rurouni Kenshin(2023-)

TV-14
| 23min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, an era of war that saw the uprising of citizens against the Tokugawa shogunate. The revolutionaries wanted to create a time of peace, and a thriving country free from oppression. The new age of Meiji has come, but peace has not yet been achieved. Swords are banned but people are still murdered in the streets. Orphans of war veterans are left with nowhere to go, while the government seems content to just line their pockets with money.

Alchemy of Souls(2022-2023)

TV-14
| 1h 15min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery
4.3/5 (with 228 votes)

A powerful sorceress in a blind woman's body encounters a man from a prestigious family, who wants her help to change his destiny.

Deadly Class(2019)

TV-MA
| 43min per episode | Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 125 votes)

Follow a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.

Fate/Zero(2011-2012)

4.0/5 (with 143 votes)

In the Holy Grail War, seven magi chosen by the Holy Grail itself must summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete for the omnipotent Grail, a magical device that grants the victor any wish they desire. After three inconclusive wars, the fuse has now been lit once again for the fourth time.

Hunter × Hunter(1999-2001)

4.2/5 (with 71 votes)

Gon Freecss discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was actually alive the whole time. Ging is a famous Hunter: an individual who has proven themself an elite member of humanity. Gon becomes determined to follow in his father's footsteps, pass the rigorous Hunter Examination.

Directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Darker than Black(2007-2009)

3.8/5 (with 105 votes)

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 real stars disappeared, replaced by false stars. During this time, people possessing various special abilities — called "Contractors" — emerged, each capable of different supernatural feats. Following the disastrous Heaven's War, the United States lost its dominant position as a superpower to a mysterious organization named the Syndicate. The story revolves around a Chinese contractor codenamed "Hei" as he undertakes various espionage and assassination missions in Tokyo.

Gunslinger Girl(2003-2008)

TV-14
| 25min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama
3.7/5 (with 20 votes)

The Social Welfare Agency saves the lives of terminal patients using cybernetic implants. Then it teaches them to kill. After surviving the slaughter of her family, young Henrietta awakens to her new life at the Agency with a rebuilt body and no memory. Teamed with Jose, who is responsible for turning her into the perfect assassin, Henrietta’s been given a second chance—but at what cost?

Akame ga Kill!(2014)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 469 votes)

Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor. Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating corruption by mercilessly killing officials and privileged nobles.

Directed by Tomoki Kobayashi

Barry(2018-2023)

TV-MA
| Comedy, Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 385 votes)

A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Scissor Seven(2018-)

TV-PG
| 15min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure
4.3/5 (with 262 votes)

Seeking to recover his memory, a scissor-wielding, hairdressing, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among feuding factions.

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Scissor Seven(2018-)

4.3/5 (with 289 votes)

Seeking to recover his memory, a scissor-wielding, hairdressing, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among feuding factions.

Noir(2001)

24min per episode | Drama, Animation, Action & Adventure
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

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 becomes even more dangerous than it already is. Now, with a haunting melody invoking the memory of an event long past, Mireille and Kirika decide to work together to find the truth about a thousand-year-old organization that has controlled both of their lives since before they were born. And the only clue in their search, the only thing Kirika remembers about herself, becomes their working codename: a name designating an ancient fate, of two maidens who reign over death—Noir.

Directed by Kōichi Mashimo

Shuriken Sentai Ninninger(2015-2016)

3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

The evil warlord Gengetsu Kibaoni was defeated 444 years ago by the Last Ninja, the head of the Igasaki Family. In 2015, the Kibaoni Army starts rebuilding their empire and use fear harvested from humans to revive him. Five members of the Igasaki family must use their Nintality to transform into the Ninningers and fight to prevent the revival of Gengetsu Kibaoni.

Lone Wolf and Cub(1973-1976)

45min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Ogami Itto is a master swordsman who holds a position of high power in the Tokugawa Shogunate. Highly trusted by the Shogun, he serves as the official decapitator, assisting lords and samurai who have been ordered by the Shogun to commit seppuku. One day, Itto’s wife and members of his household are brutally murdered by a clan seeking to avenge their lord’s execution, which had been carried out by Itto. In the wake of the attack, two items are left in Itto’s home: his unhurt infant son, Daigoro, and a symbol meant to signify Itto’s betrayal of the Shogun. Disgraced by the false symbol, Itto is labeled a traitor and forced to forfeit his position. He becomes a ronin, wandering the country with his son, searching for the men who killed his wife, seeking to clear his name and avenge her death.

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai(1977)

4.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Cyborg warriors were created by the Special Science Investigation Squad to bear nuclear, gravitational, magnetic, and electrical forces. They fight the crime empire known as "Crime".

With Yoshitaka Tamba, Mitchi Love, Hiroshi Miyauchi

Playground(2017)

10min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A lonely teenage girl joins a school for promising killers and trains hard to become an professional assassin as she uncovers the mysteries of her parents' death.

Love of Kill(2022)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 24 votes)

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 reason Ryang-Ha takes a liking to Chateau and begins following her around. Little by little, Chateau develops a cooperative partnership with Ryang-Ha, which gets her caught up in the struggle against the organizations hunting him down. Furthermore, that battle is related to her past as well. Why did Ryang-Ha approach Chateau? What is Chateau's secret past?

Directed by Hideaki Ōba

Bloodlands(2021-2022)

56min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.

Flying Wild Alaska(2011-2012)

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Flying Wild Alaska is a documentary television series that aired on Discovery Channel in 2011 and 2012. The show features the Tweto family from Unalakleet, Alaska who run the Alaska airline Era Alaska. They operate the hub operations from Unalakleet. The show also features other segments from their bases in Barrow, Deadhorse, and other places.

Love 2000(2000)

47min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Yuri Maroev is a secret agent and assassin from the Ural Republic sent along with his brother on a mission to Japan. Once in Japan, he meets systems analyst Mashiro Rieru and uses her high-level security access to get top-secret information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His pretense of romance turns into genuine feelings of love, as Rieru falls deeper into the intricacies of Yuri's fateful covert operations.

Riddle Story of Devil(2014)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
4.0/5 (with 37 votes)

The "Class Black," 10th Grade of Myōjō Academy is composed of 12 assassins disguised as students and one target: Haru Ichinose. Fully aware of being the prey, Ichinose vows to survive assassination attempts and graduate from the school alive. One of the assassins, Tokaku Azuma, has started building up feelings for Ichinose and switched side to become her protector. Together they have to face the onslaught from their classmates of 11 assassins.

Smoking(2018)

24min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Seeking a greater justice, a band of homeless assassins flays their human targets and delivers the tattooed skins as proof of a contract fulfilled.

Frankie(2016-)

Frankie, a lethal assassin working for organized crime, tries to find a balance between a passion for bloodshed and a purpose in her crime driven life.