Hellsing

Series Similar to Hellsing

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

1. Tokyo Ghoul

   2014 · Drama, Anime, Horror, Supernatural · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile.

   The story follows Ken Kaneki, a college student who meets a woman named Rize Kamishiro at Anteiku, a coffee shop. They share an interest in literature and plan a date. While walking Rize home, Ken is attacked by her. Rize reveals that she is a ghoul, a human-like creature that hunts and devours human flesh. As she is about to finish him off, she is crushed by a falling platform. Kaneki is taken to the hospital in critical condition. The doctor decides to transplant Rize's organs into Ken. He then must deal with life as a half-human/half-ghoul, including interacting with ghoul society and its conflicting factions, while striving to keep his identity secret from other humans.

2. Devil May Cry

   2007 · Action, Anime, Horror, Supernatural · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile, hidden gem.

   Devil May Cry follows the story of the demon hunter known as Dante. As a half demon, half human, he uses his trusty sword Rebellion and his two guns Ebony and Ivory to take on missions. Dante owns and runs "Devil May Cry," a business that specializes in hunting and killing demon-related problems.(Source: MyAnimeList)

3. Highschool of the Dead

   2010 · Action, Anime, Horror · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile.

   When the world is struck by a deadly pandemic that turns humans into zombies, Takashi Komuro and several of his classmates at Fujimi High School try to survive the apocalypse.

4. Chainsaw Man

   2022 · Anime, Horror, Supernatural · returning88% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile.

   Denji has a simple dream—to live a happy and peaceful life, spending time with a girl he likes. This is a far cry from reality, however, as Denji is forced by the yakuza into killing devils in order to pay off his crushing debts. Using his pet devil Pochita as a weapon, he is ready to do anything for a bit of cash. Unfortunately, he has outlived his usefulness and is murdered by a devil in contract with the yakuza. However, in an unexpected turn of events, Pochita merges with Denji's dead body and grants him the powers of a chainsaw devil. Now able to transform parts of his body into chainsaws, a revived Denji uses his new abilities to quickly and brutally dispatch his enemies. Catching the eye of the official devil hunters who arrive at the scene, he is offered work at the Public Safety Bureau as one of them. Now with the means to face even the toughest of enemies, Denji will stop at nothing to achieve his simple teenage dreams.

5. Berserk

   1997 · Anime, Fantasy, Horror · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile, highly rated (8).

   Berserk is a 25-part anime set in a dark fantasy/horror environment whereby the series focuses on the main character guts; a lone swordman who later meets up with a group of mercenaries called the band of the hawk. The leader of this band holds a strange necklace called a behelit that will only lead to evil.

6. Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu

   2014 · Action, Anime, Horror · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile, highly rated (8).

   One day, high school boy Shinichi wakes up to find that his hand has been possesses by a talking alien parasite Although he and his parasite are able to form a reluctant symbiotic relationship of sorts, the other parasites on Earth have taken over their hosts' bodies completely. Moreover, there are brutal murders happening all across the country. And while the police are baffled as they look for a killer, Shinichi is the only one who knows the truth: It's not a serial killer. It's the parasites feeding on human flesh.

7. Attack on Titan

   2013 · Anime, Fantasy, Horror · ended86% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile, highly rated (8.9).

   Known in Japan as Shingeki no Kyojin, many years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. Only the heroic members of the Scouting Legion dared to stray beyond the safety of the walls – but even those brave warriors seldom returned alive. Those within the city clung to the illusion of a peaceful existence until the day that dream was shattered, and their slim chance at survival was reduced to one horrifying choice: kill – or be devoured!

8. Angel Beats!

   2010 · Action, Anime, Horror · ended85% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile, hidden gem.

   A boy awakens in the afterlife to find himself among teen rebels battling against reincarnation and against a singular girl with supernatural powers named Angel.

9. Supernatural: The Animation

   2011 · Drama, Anime, Supernatural · ended85% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Supernatural profile, hidden gem.

   In this anime adaptation of the first two seasons of the U.S. series Supernatural, Sam and Dean Winchester lose their mother Mary to the Yellow-Eyed Demon when they are young. Their father John comes from a line of supernatural Hunters, and trains his sons in the family business. When he disappears, they go hunting on their own, fighting monsters and looking for the Yellow-Eyed Demon.

10. Boogiepop Phantom

    2000 · Drama, Anime, Horror · ended85% match

    Recommended for similar Anime / Horror profile, hidden gem.

    Five years ago, a string of grisly murders shook the city to its core. Now terror has returned, and this time it has a name: Boogiepop. Everyone knows about Boogiepop: death incarnate, she stalks the night in search of fresh victims. Meet her, and you simply...vanish. In the darkness, glass shatters and time stands still... There's something out there, and it's coming closer. Are you safe?