Sometimes it feels like anime doesn’t get enough gunfights. After all, guns are too effective, and it’s hard to show a good fight without it being over too soon. Still, there are anime that pull it off — here are some of them.
One of the most famous gunfights anime is Black Lagoon. It very much deserves its popularity: it’s very cool, but not over-the-top, and it depicts the criminal life in the fictional city of Roanapur, Thailand.
Lagoon Company, the group which the protagonist has to unwillingly join, are not good guys — they are antiheroes at best. Still, the anime is very entertaining — and it’s one of the few where the dub gets recommended over the sub.
Where to watch: Crunchyroll (both the original and the remake)
Trigun is often considered similar to Cowboy Bebop, and not without reason. It’s another anime with a traveling protagonist who has both easygoing and serious sides, and it gives off the same vibe.
Trigun is way more gunfight-focused, though, especially the old series. That said, the remake is still really good and worth watching on its own.
If you want something more game-like, don’t worry: of all things, Sword Art Online actually had a gun-focused VRMMO in its second season. It was so popular that it got a spin-off — called Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online.
The anime is completely different from the original SAO (it’s way more lighthearted, for starters), but that’s what makes it so fun. It captures the tactics of shooter games pretty well, and can actually be watched without the main series.
MyAnimeList score: 7.01
Jormungand
Where to watch: Crunchyroll
If you didn’t get enough of Black Lagoon, there’s Jormungand. It’s quite similar in its setup: a strong woman, a male protagonist who grows over the course of the anime, and a group that commits international crimes.
Here, however, the protagonists are international arms dealers, and the anime deals with the aspect of horrors of war fairly well.
MyAnimeList score: 7.80
The “Girls with Guns” Trilogy
Where to watch: Crunchyroll (Noir, El Cazador), Madlax is not available legally
Okay, to be fair, these are three different anime — so the list contains 7 series, not 5. That said, it would also be wrong to talk about them separately: these three are considered to be parts of the same project.
The anime are Noir, Madlax, and El Cazador de la Bruja — and they’re very similar to each other, despite being unrelated.
All three are 26-episode original anime from the 00s by the studio Bee Train. All three have OSTs composed by Yuki Kajiura, and all three feature strong female protagonists traveling together. And, of course, there are a lot of well-animated gunfights.
MyAnimeList score: 7.29, 7.05, 7.24
We don’t get enough of these nowadays.
Sometimes it feels like anime doesn’t get enough gunfights. After all, guns are too effective, and it’s hard to show a good fight without it being over too soon. Still, there are anime that pull it off — here are some of them.
One of the most famous gunfights anime is Black Lagoon. It very much deserves its popularity: it’s very cool, but not over-the-top, and it depicts the criminal life in the fictional city of Roanapur, Thailand.
Lagoon Company, the group which the protagonist has to unwillingly join, are not good guys — they are antiheroes at best. Still, the anime is very entertaining — and it’s one of the few where the dub gets recommended over the sub.
Where to watch: Crunchyroll (both the original and the remake)
Trigun is often considered similar to Cowboy Bebop, and not without reason. It’s another anime with a traveling protagonist who has both easygoing and serious sides, and it gives off the same vibe.
Trigun is way more gunfight-focused, though, especially the old series. That said, the remake is still really good and worth watching on its own.
If you want something more game-like, don’t worry: of all things, Sword Art Online actually had a gun-focused VRMMO in its second season. It was so popular that it got a spin-off — called Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online.
The anime is completely different from the original SAO (it’s way more lighthearted, for starters), but that’s what makes it so fun. It captures the tactics of shooter games pretty well, and can actually be watched without the main series.
MyAnimeList score: 7.01
Jormungand
Where to watch: Crunchyroll
If you didn’t get enough of Black Lagoon, there’s Jormungand. It’s quite similar in its setup: a strong woman, a male protagonist who grows over the course of the anime, and a group that commits international crimes.
Here, however, the protagonists are international arms dealers, and the anime deals with the aspect of horrors of war fairly well.
MyAnimeList score: 7.80
The “Girls with Guns” Trilogy
Where to watch: Crunchyroll (Noir, El Cazador), Madlax is not available legally
Okay, to be fair, these are three different anime — so the list contains 7 series, not 5. That said, it would also be wrong to talk about them separately: these three are considered to be parts of the same project.
The anime are Noir, Madlax, and El Cazador de la Bruja — and they’re very similar to each other, despite being unrelated.
All three are 26-episode original anime from the 00s by the studio Bee Train. All three have OSTs composed by Yuki Kajiura, and all three feature strong female protagonists traveling together. And, of course, there are a lot of well-animated gunfights.
