Summary
The new anime season comes with dozens of new titles for fans all over the world to dive into, with new series being released frequently that tell brand-new stories. Anime is a large medium that touches on many different genres, but one thing that continues to bring in newcomers is theaction genre. This season’s lineup has introduced a delightful new anime calledWind Breaker.Wind Breakerfollows Haruka, a budding high school student with a thirst for battle. Unfortunately, being born in the days of peace makes a good fight hard to find.
Haruka wanders, getting into countless fights, which is how he finds himself in Furin High School, known for its delinquents and constant fights with rival schools. The local crew seeks to make Haruka one of their top enforcers, but Haruka doesn’t care who he fights, as long as they’re strong enough to satisfy his hunger.Wind Breakerhas recently begun streaming and is only a few episodes into its first season. Some fans may need some alternatives to watch while waiting for new episodes to release, and with that in mind, here are some of the best anime to watch for viewers who likeWind Breaker.
Updated on June 29, 2025, by C.M Edwards:Wind Breaker has recently released its second season trailer and the release date is not far behind. Fans are clammering at the continuation of one of the highest-rated breakout anime that erupted onto the anime scene and surprised thousands of viewers with intense action and incredibly cinematic animation. Wind Breaker achieved phenomenal success while breathing life into an action anime without all the fancy bells and whistles like power systems and flashy attacks. Action is the driving force behind most anime, and having nearly unlimited potential, anime has a wide variety of types of action to choose from. From samurai swinging swords to skilled martial artists clashing fists on equal ground, anime has the best options when it comes down to action. In the recent anime season, Wind Breaker has grown extremely popular for its amazing animation and energetic characters. Having completed its twelve-episode debut, anime fans can rest assured that there is plenty of action anime out there to watch after finishing Wind Breaker. Wind Breaker has also recently received thegreen light for its second season, so fans are overly excited about its upcoming release. If looking for new shows to match the energy of Wind Breaker, here are some of the best anime to watch.
18Garouden: The Way Of The Lone Wolf
A Fugitive Fights In An Underground Tournament To Protect His Secret
Garouden is an anime that falls in line with other Netflix martial arts anime like Baki and Kengan Asura, being a brutal and action-focused series. Juuzou is a troubled man running from his past who finds his way into an even more unfortunate situation.
Wanted for murder after killing the man who assaulted his master’s daughter, Juuzou is forced into an illegal fighting ring in order to keep his secret safe. Juuzou must face off against bloodthirsty martial artists like himself and avoid being caught by the police and giving in to his darker urges of violence. Garouden focuses heavily on the martial arts aspect, very similar to Kengan Asura and Windmaster.
17Air Master
High School Gymnast Becomes The Strongest In The City
Aikawa Maki was a master gymnast who was quickly on the rise to becoming a national star. Unfortunately, she chose a different path that led her to street fighting, using her skills in violent altercations. In the prominent street fighting community, where the strongest fighters in the city duke it out to find who is number one, Maki decides to challenge and face off against some of the most dangerous individuals and uses her acrobatic ability to completely overwhelm them. Her flashy and aerial assaults earn her the moniker Air Master and make her a target for every fighter seeking to make a name for themselves. Maki, who is a high school student, fights full-grown men and beats them to a pulp and welcomes all challengers to satisfy her need for violence and victory.
16Street Fighter II: V
Wandering Warriors Seek Out The Strongest Opponents
Street Fighter is one of the most famous fighting video game franchises in history. It has had an illustrious forty-year run from its creators and developers at Capcom and its dedicated community. Street FFight has a number of animated projects, including an anime series that followed two of the series' main protagonists, Ken and Ryu.
Both skilled fighters, Ken and Ryu set out on a journey across the world to experience new challenges, face strong opponents, and grow more powerful in their respective martial arts. Their travels land them in the middle of a sinister plot orchestrated by the Shadoloo and M. Bison.
15Kyou Kara Ore Wa!!
Two Delinquents Versus The World
Kyou Kara Ore Wais a diamond in the rough from the early days of Japanese animation before the Western boom in the two thousands. As a classic, the series lacks the shiny polish of today’s series but has a solid foundation for its story. Two transfer students decide to radically re-invent themselves by becoming average delinquents and trying to take over their school.
This earns them all sorts of attention from rival gangs, teachers, and their fellow students, who all want a piece in various ways. Shinji and Takashi serve as the main characters of the series, and their chemistry matches how the characters inWind Breakertreat each other, makingKyou Kara Ore Waa great pick-up show.
14Ikebukuro West Gate Park
Gang Life In The Big City
Ikebukuro is an area plagued by numerous types of shady organizations that are responsible for any number of nefarious deeds such as kidnapping, theft, and even murder. The city contains countless factions and gangs that are constantly at odds with one another, and the violence spills onto the streets in waves.
To keep a lid onfighting and crime, Makoto Majima runs a liaison service to negotiate between rival gangs and ensure things happen on as fair a basis as possible. Makoto’s business becomes violent more often than not, and thanks to his partners, the G-Boy gang, he maintains the peace, with force if necessary.West Gate Parkis filled with violent encounters that match the pace ofWind Breakerquite well, and fans will enjoy picking up this short series.
13Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings
Chaotic Samurai Vs. Samurai Action
Set during the Sengoku period in feudal Japan,Sengoku Basarais an action-packed series with wall-to-wall action. The all-mighty emperor Oda is slowly but surely tightening his grip around the entire country and slaughtering any who dare to oppose him. It comes down to the strongest warriors in the country to nearly single-handedly take on the Emperor and his forces to ensure that Japan stays free and true.
Date and Sanada are the proudest warriors of their clans and are the only hope to defeat the demon king, Oda. Unfortunately, the two can’t last two seconds in the same room with one another before fighting among themselves.Sengoku Basaraonly differs fromWind Breakerin setting and time period, keeping breathtaking animation and similar character personalities.
12Air Gear
Breathtaking Mid-Air Combat
When a young delinquent gets introduced into the world of hyper-advanced skating, his life changes forever as he takes to the skies to become king. Ikki and his friends decide to take the Air-trek world by storm and become the dominant skating faction in Tokyo. This opens up a can of worms as the true masters of manipulating the technology called air treks begin to descend on Ikki in fear of losing their title as Kings of the skies and seek to crush Ikki and his group.
Air Gearis a high-octane action anime with a unique take on X-Games that gets better with every episode. Ikki and Haruka share similar personalities and circumstances as they are thrust into a world they believe they understand, only to scratch past the surface and realize they have a long way to go to reach their goals.
Yoo Hobin is an underwhelming young man struggling to live his life thanks to constant bullying and unfortunate circumstances at home. Every day, he walks home half-beaten without a single complaint. Hobin’s frustration begins to pile up as his responsibilities at home become more stressful and he is finally pushed over the edge, choosing to fight back against his bullies.
Shockingly, the fight was not only videotaped but placed online when it went viral and earned Hobin a sizable payout. Seeing a silver lining, Hobinchooses to go through more traumato make things easier for himself and his family.Viral Hithas almost grotesque levels of violence and a deeper narrative than most anime like it, making it similar to the grotesque but immaculately animated brawls inWind Breaker.While Yoo and Haruka have drastically different goals, their drive and dedication match, and every fight progresses them forward.
Kenichi is a below-average high school student dedicated to his position in his school’s Karate club. Unfortunately, Kenichi is not physically gifted, and he is dangerously close to being kicked out of the club. Coincidentally, he befriends a young girl named Miu, who has freakish strength andmartial artsability.
Overwhelmingly desperate, Kenichi berates Miu to train him to be a better fighter, which leads Kenichi into the arms of a secret martial arts gang run by Miu’s grandfather. Things begin to heat up as Kenichi puts his life on the line in search of strength. The roughneck environment ofKenichi, The Mightiest Disciple, matches up withWind Breakervery well, even with its differently-focused main protagonists.
Tomoshibi grew up wanting to become a powerhouse, just like the Honki people in the legends he heard as a child. Unfortunately, Tomoshibi discovered he was a coward after leaving his best friend, Asamine, to be battered by a group of thugs. Years later, Tomoshibi has abandoned his dream and only has a need to make it with a cute girl.
Through happenstance, on Tomoshibi’s first day at school, he finds himself reuniting with his best friend, the target of multiple school gangs with violence on the brain, and now inhabited by the spirit of a real-life Honki person. Things only continue to get out of hand as tempers and sexual tension begin to flare. The gangs inBucchigirimirror the gangs inWind Breaker, as each faction has its own wild cards and leaders. In addition, in both shows, things begin to heat up when a new student arrives.
