Gangsta.

Series Similar to Gangsta.

If you enjoyed Gangsta., these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Shirobako

   2014 · Drama, Anime, Crime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Crime profile, hidden gem.

   Back in high school, five friends were in the animation club together. Now they each work (or are in the process of breaking into) the anime industry. One is a production assistant, one a key animator, one a 3D animator, one a voice actor, and one an aspiring script writer. But their lives are far more hectic than the days they spent making anime together as students.

2. Code:Breaker

   2012 · Drama, Adventure, Anime, Crime · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Crime profile, hidden gem.

   One night as Sakura Sakurakōji is riding the bus home she sees a boy standing in the middle of a huge blue flame burning people around him. The next day in school she is shocked as the boy is transferring to her class.

3. ReLIFE

   2016 · Drama, Anime · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   The story follows Kaizaki Arata, a 27-year-old jobless man, who fails at every job interview he had after quitting his last company. His life changes after he met Yoake Ryou of the ReLife Research Institute, who offered him a drug that can change his appearance to 17-years-old and to become a subject in an experiment for one year. Thus, he begins his life as a high school student once more.

4. Ping Pong The Animation

   2014 · Drama, Anime, Sports · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, highly rated (8.2), hidden gem.

   Makoto Tsukimoto (nicknamed Smile) is a quiet high-schooler who's been friends with the loud and energetic Yukata Hoshino (nicknamed Peco) since childhood. They're both in the local table tennis club and both have a natural talent for it, although Smile's personality always enables him from winning against Peco. The club teacher, however, notices Smile's talent and tries to make him gain some sportive tenacity.

5. 91 Days

   2016 · Drama, Anime · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   During Prohibition, the law held no power and the mafia ruled the town.The story takes place in Lawless, a town thriving on black market sales of illicitly brewed liquor. Avilio returns to Lawless after some time away, following the murder of his family in a mafia dispute there.One day, Avilio receives a letter from a mysterious sender, prompting him to return to Lawless for revenge. He then infiltrates the Vanetti family, the ones responsible for his family's murder, and sets about befriending the don's son, Nero, to set his vengeance in motion.Killing brings more killing, and revenge spawns more revenge. How will the 91-day story of these men guided by a tragic fate end?

6. Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

   2010 · Drama, Anime, History · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   Seven teenagers must find a way to live in a reformatory in Shio, while dealing with their past crimes and learning to start their lives anew.

7. Zankyou no Terror

   2014 · Drama, Anime, Thriller · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   In an alternate version of the present, Tokyo has been decimated by a shocking terrorist attack, and the only hint to the identity of the culprit is a bizarre video uploaded to the internet. The police, baffled by this cryptic clue, are powerless to stop the paranoia spreading across the population. While the world searches for a criminal mastermind to blame for this tragedy, two mysterious children—children who shouldn't even exist—masterfully carry out their heinous plan. Cursed to walk through this world with the names Nine and Twelve, the two combine to form "Sphinx," a clandestine entity determine to wake the people from their slumber—and pull the trigger on this world.

8. Rilakkuma and Kaoru

   2019 · Drama, Anime, Family · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   When a woman in her thirties begins sharing her apartment with a soft toy bear that has decided to take up residence there, she finds that the secret to life is sometimes as simple as relaxing.

9. Nana

   2006 · Drama, Anime, Romance · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   Nana Osaki is a guarded and ambitious young woman with a strong will and a rough past. She is the vocalist for a punk band called Black Stones and she desires fame and recognition more than anything else. Nana Komatsu is an outgoing and flighty young woman with a weak will and a stable past. Her life revolves around her desire to find love and marriage. The two meet for the first time while traveling to Tokyo - in pursuit of their respective dreams - and they later decide to be roommates. Although drastically different people, the two become very close and together they find out if their biggest dreams have room for their best friend.

10. Hyouka

    2012 · Drama, Anime, Mystery · ended87% match

    Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

    The story follows a boy named Houtarou who is not assertive about getting involved, but was ordered by his older sister to join the classic literature club. In the club, he gets close to the truth about an incident, involving a female member's uncle, which happened 45 years ago. The energy-saving boy is joined by an inquisitive girl in this adolescent mystery.