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Following is the list of the top 16 Yakuza anime of all time!
The intensity of the Yakuza games is hard to duplicate in anime, but some series comes close. Yakuza fans admired the “insider’s view” of life as seen through the eyes of Japan’s iconic gangsters. The series is a little exaggerated yakuza narrative, greatly influenced by yakuza flicks and crime dramas.
1. GUNGRAVE
This Yakuza anime is about a small-time gangster who joined a group with his best friend, Harry McDowell, and three other close mates. Brandon and Harry joined the Millennium crime organization after the murders of their pals. The head of the organization is Big Daddy.
2. BLACK LAGOON
In the early 1990s, a group of pirates/mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company smuggled items in and around the seas of Southeast Asia. They deliver products in the 80-foot boat Black Lagoon from their center of operations in the fictional Thai city of Roanapur. This is one of the top Yakuza anime.
3. GOLDEN KAMUY
Golden Kamuy follows the people as they search for a buried gold horde belonging to the Ainu, northern Japanese native tribes, through jail cells, Ainu kotan (settlements), corporate towns, and the bleak wilderness of early twentieth-century Hokkaido.
4. 91 DAYS
After years one of the family members returns to his hometown seeking vengeance from the mob who slaughtered his family during prohibition.
5. BACCANO!
A multi-decade fantasy adventure featuring alchemists, immortals, gangsters, outlaws, and an elixir of immortality. A group of alchemists is given an elixir of immortality in the year 1711, with the condition that they must kill each other until only one remains.
6. K PROJECT
A group of seven psychic clan kings, Seven Clans Of Color, covertly dominates Japan. Following the death of pacifist Tatara Totsuka from HOMRA, Yashiro Isana, an average student at Ashinaka High School is the target of the HOMRA of the Red Clan and Scepter 4 of the Blue Clan.
7. AKIRA
Shtar Kaneda, the leader of a biker gang, has an old pal, Tetsuo Shima, who develops amazing telekinetic talents following a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amid instability and revolt in the huge future metropolis of Neo.
8. DURARARA!!
Durarara!! follows a dullahan who works as an underworld courier in Ikebukuro, an internet-based anonymous group known as the Dollars, and the pandemonium that ensues around Ikebukuro’s most dangerous people.
9. BEASTARS
This series is about a world of modern, civilized, anthropomorphic animals with a cultural division between carnivores and herbivores. In the middle of the night, someone ruthlessly strangles and consumes Tem the alpaca. This causes widespread unease and suspicion among vegetarian and carnivorous students.
10. BACK STREET GIRLS
Yakuza underlings Kentaro, Ryo, and Kazuhiko boss drive them to Inugane. They are sent to either commit seppuku and sell their organs or travel to Thailand for sex reassignment surgery and idol training. They chose the latter and make their debut as the Gokudols, Airi, Mari, and Chika.
11. NISEKOI: FALSE LOVE
Raku Ichijo is the main character of this humorous story. He was born to a gang leader. He is in his first year of high school and has a crush on a girl named Onodera.
12. THE GOKUSEN
Gokusen as a yakuza anime follows the narrative of Kumiko Yamaguchi, called Yankumi, a recent graduate and her first year as a high school teacher. Kumiko is assigned to the most difficult students, Unlike the other new instructors at her school. And she has to cope with all of their rebellion.
13. DARKER THAN BLACK: KURO NO KEIYAKUSHA
Darker Than Black follows a Chinese contractor named “Hei” as he works for the Syndicate on espionage and killing operations in Tokyo. The Saturn Ring triggers and murders all contractors, except for Hei. Hei has a vision in which he encounters Dai and resolves to turn on the Syndicate.
14. THE WAY OF HOUSEHUSBAND
The Way of the House Husband is a manga, live-action film, and anime franchise about a retired yakuza member named Tatsu who works full-time as a househusband for his hardworking, successful wife.
15. HINAMATSURI
Yoshifumi Nitta, a yakuza member, is forced to look after Hina, a mystery girl with telekinetic abilities who appears unexpectedly at his residence.
16. TOKYO REVENGERS
Hanagaki Takemichi, living in a downstairs apartment is treated like an idiot by his younger boss. As he watches the news, Takemichi learns that a villainous group called the Manji Gang in Tokyo has murdered his girlfriend from his high school journey, Hinata Tachibana.
Here the list comes to an end! All of the Yakuza anime is a rollercoaster ride! Hit me up if you think I missed any masterpiece that deserves to be added to this list!
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