Something like Bleach

[anoligarh]

 As the title says, i am searching for something similar to Bleach. It doesn't necessarily have to have a million episodes, though i am not bothered by long-running anime.

 By "similar" i don't mean something with shinigami (it's not that i'm against it,shinigami are ok), i mean something with the kind of power-ups, plot developments, suspense, fights like in Bleach, while not being targeted for a 10-12 age group (Bleach seams a bit more mature than other shounen like DBZ, Fairy Tail).

 Already Watched : DBZ, Fairy Tail, One Piece ( ok, i didn't watch this one, but that's because it looks incredibly awful in regards to the quality of the drawings, just unbearable), Naruto (crap for kids), Naruto Shipuuden ( i kinda liked this one), Yu Yu Hakusho (brilliant shounen tbh, very similar to what i'd like to see), Darker Than Black (also brilliant), Death Note & Code Geass (throwing these two in here so nobody would recommend these very popular choices), InuYasha (mostly decent shounen), Kaze No Stigma, Hunter X Hunter ( 10 year old protagonist, insta-drop), Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan, Claymore (these 2 suck so bad, please nothing remotely similar D Gray Man (can't get into this, way too boring).

[Divne]

Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood


Perhaps Afro Samurai

Rurouni Kenshin

[anoligarh]

Thanks but i've seen FMA.

[dbml]

Basilisk
Shikabane Hime
^both are more similar to Darker than Black than Bleach, but you liked it so.


As for things that are actually Bleach-like, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here (as in, the series might not be particularly great or have a good storyline, but it fits the action/power-up requirements)

Scryed
Freezing
Ikkitousen
Deadman Wonderland

[Tiffanys]

Claymore sucks so bad? You are dead to me sir.

[ConsiderPhlebas]

It's hard to recommend things for someone that loathes things I like, but perhaps you'd like Ga-Rei-Zero?
Although it's just a prequel to the manga, it's still very good.

[SkybladeNox]

So you want something like Bleach, but none of the shows that are like Bleach, and you don't appear to be interested in shows with any actual depth or story either. Not exactly providing an easy target here.

Maybe try Soul Eater? Or Ao no Exorcist if you fast forward to the fight scenes and ignore the plot?

[logos]

Towa no Quon
Brave 10
Guilty Crown
Kiba
Sadamitsu the Destroyer
Generator Gawl
Valkyria Chronicles (although super powers dont kick in till late in the show)
Project Arms
Tales of the Abyss
Book of Bantorra
Chrome Shelled Regios
Busou renkin
Blassreiter
Tokyo Majin
Law of Ueki
GetBackers
Gatekeepers
Soul hunter

[anoligarh]

So you want something like Bleach, but none of the shows that are like Bleach, and you don't appear to be interested in shows with any actual depth or story either. Not exactly providing an easy target here.

Maybe try Soul Eater? Or Ao no Exorcist if you fast forward to the fight scenes and ignore the plot?

How did you come to that conclusion? I actually fast-forward through the fight scenes to get to the actual plot.

[mrdkreka]

So you want something like Bleach, but none of the shows that are like Bleach, and you don't appear to be interested in shows with any actual depth or story either. Not exactly providing an easy target here.

Maybe try Soul Eater? Or Ao no Exorcist if you fast forward to the fight scenes and ignore the plot?

How did you come to that conclusion? I actually fast-forward through the fight scenes to get to the actual plot.

Wait are you telling us, you are watching bleach for the plot? So you are interested in shounen, but not for the fights? And you want something that is not to childish, but you want shounen?

[Tanis]

Claymore sucks so bad? You are dead to me sir.

But...it kind of did...at last compared to the manga.
:/

OT:
Soul Eater?

[kitamesume]

Claymore sucks so bad? You are dead to me sir.

But...it kind of did...at last compared to the manga.
:/

saying it sucks is kinda pushing it hard, it at least were close to the manga until the last few episodes, yeah i liked the manga better.


from what OP had listed and said about Claymore, i conclude that he just doesn't like the ones with bland progress and dry atmosphere.
he wants the ones where the casts works their arse off just to gain their powers with continuous progress, and less idle scenes, berserk would be a no-no in this case.
it may also be possible that he dislikes chatty animes, due to D-Gray Man being a no-no.

an action with a plot that isn't childish, and a protagonist that continuously gets better...

Rave Master (a bit childish but the plot is good)
Law of Ueki (also a bit childish, but my dad liked it, lol)
Hunter X Hunter 2011 (judging the book by it's cover... its one of the more serious plotted anime fyi)
GetBackers (inverted powerups and a bit chatty, but the complex plot makes up for it)
Nurarihyon no Mago (the progress is good, and the actions are decent)

i know theres a few more but cant recall a few of the other animes i've watched.

[anoligarh]

Claymore sucks so bad? You are dead to me sir.

But...it kind of did...at last compared to the manga.
:/

saying it sucks is kinda pushing it hard, it at least were close to the manga until the last few episodes, yeah i liked the manga better.


from what OP had listed and said about Claymore, i conclude that he just doesn't like the ones with bland progress and dry atmosphere.
he wants the ones where the casts works their arse off just to gain their powers with continuous progress, and less idle scenes, berserk would be a no-no in this case.
it may also be possible that he dislikes chatty animes, due to D-Gray Man being a no-no.

an action with a plot that isn't childish, and a protagonist that continuously gets better...

Rave Master (a bit childish but the plot is good)
Law of Ueki (also a bit childish, but my dad liked it, lol)
Hunter X Hunter 2011 (judging the book by it's cover... its one of the more serious plotted anime fyi)
GetBackers (inverted powerups and a bit chatty, but the complex plot makes up for it)
Nurarihyon no Mago (the progress is good, and the actions are decent)

i know theres a few more but cant recall a few of the other animes i've watched.

Thanks for the recommendations, and no, i don't dislike chatty animes, D gray man was a no-no because of the drawings and the fact that it's too episodic.

[Tiffanys]

I dunno, I'm just not sure how someone could say Claymore was terrible even if the anime wasn't as good as it could have been once it got to the north.

[cominus]

I've never gotten into bleach but if I could recommend something close:

Naruto
Getbackers
Inuyasha
Ruroni kenshin

[kitamesume]

I dunno, I'm just not sure how someone could say Claymore was terrible even if the anime wasn't as good as it could have been once it got to the north.

the anime was superb, its just that they botch the north arc enough to make people think its far worse than the manga.

[zherok]

+1 to Busou Renkin. I'm not a huge fan of shounen action shows, but the manga adaptation was decent, and it's not long enough to have room for pointless filler.

That said, shounen action shows for the plot and not the action? Not really the highlight of that demographic.

I dunno, I'm just not sure how someone could say Claymore was terrible even if the anime wasn't as good as it could have been once it got to the north.

An aside, but have you read Claymore author's earlier work, Angel Densetsu? They're not remotely related, but I'm curious if you'd like it.

[Tanis]

Wait...Angel Densetsu was done by the same person that did Claymore?

Holy balls that's pretty amazing.

[kitamesume]

i didn't like busou renkin much, it felt lacking and annoying. in comparison to Naruto S1 or Digimon i'd rather watch these two.

speaking of old series, i remembered a few.
Flame of Recca (pretty similar to Yu Yu Hakusho)
Saiyuki [series] (similar to getbackers)


how common is seinen action? i rarely see good ones, both anime and manga are swamped by annoying shounen action

[zherok]

Yeah. It's a lot more obvious when you compare the artwork in AD at the end of it's run with the early part of Claymore. They're about a year apart from where the former ended and the later began. He got tremendously better over the course of Angel Densetsu.

Also puts those occasional weird doodles at the back of the books in a better context. He went on to do something a hell of alot darker right after.

i didn't like busou renkin much, it felt lacking and annoying. in comparison to Naruto S1 or Digimon i'd rather watch these two.

I think my tolerance for long running shounen is completely dried up. Early seasons of shounen stuff often has a lot of promise (I dunno about a proxy battle show like Digimon, but whatever), Naruto and Bleach certainly did. The problem becomes when it catches on, and the publisher (and likely just the author him/herself riding the popularity wave) end up extending it beyond it's original conceit. After a point I couldn't give a shit about either of the two. Bleach just became more tiers, more villains who didn't matter, more powers for Ichigo to retroactively already possess, and still all had to cap off with the most bullshit powers on a main villain I can really think of (Aizen is incredibly uninteresting as a main villain. I never bothered to see it to it's end, but I honestly don't care. His power is so all encompassing I can't imagine a reasonable way for Tite Kubo to have written himself out that shit.)

Anyway, what I liked about Busou Renkin was that it was a standard length series with a solid narrative arc and a fairly complete ending. It's just nice sometime to have a fairly simple series get to where it needed to go and just stop it when it's done.

how common is seinen action? i rarely see good ones, both anime and manga are swamped by annoying shounen action

Some off the list of things I've seen:

- AirMaster. The action is pretty great. Art style isn't the best but the animation is well done. Plot isn't amazing, and the ending is a non-sequitor non-ending, but worth a look.
- Katanagatari. I love the art style. Same guy wrote the Monogatari series. Not related. Shares his very verbose way with dialogue. Not constantly action packed, but it's beautiful when it's going. 12 episodes, they're all double length (around 45 minutes each.)
- Kemonozume. I recommend this every time anything remotely applicable to it is brought up. It's a very stylized show, but it's worth the watch. While it's definitely got a lot of action, one thing I really like how it handles is the romance. It's an honestly mature depiction of a relationship in a medium where kissing is often "end game" for a series.
- Black Lagoon. Definitely seinen, and definitely lots of action. Definitely worth watching.