Sengoku - Recommendations

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2004

• TV (25 eps)
• 2000

In the mid 1800s, prior to the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, two men lead very different lives in the city of Edo. Ibuya Manjiro is a would-be samurai who refuses to back down from a fight, and Ryoan Tezuka is the son of a well-known doctor and student of Western medicine. Both are looked down upon by members of the community – Ibuya for his heroic behavior that makes his dojo look bad, and Ryoan for following a form of medicine that Japan, as a whole, shuns. Though the two are on very different paths, their lives inevitably cross in romance, times of need, and the changing of history...

• TV (39 eps)
• 2011 - 2012

In the age of civil war, when the shadow of Nobunaga Oda was still cast over the land, the warlord Furuta Sasuke lost his soul to the tea ceremony. While war shook the world around him, he faced his own conflict between his desire for promotion and his love for his art.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1989

• TV (52 eps)
• 1972 - 1973

• TV (25 eps)
• 2013

Hiding within his heart the secret of his lord's illegitimate child while risking his life to protect him, Uesugi Kenshin's chief retainer, Naoe Kanetsugu, teamed up with the legendary warrior known as history's most infamous wild man, Maeda Keiji. Never once yielding to any number of powerful men, Kanetsugu and Keiji continue to blaze through the turbulent latter days of the Warring States era, faithfully fighting for justice and their own way of life...

• OVA (4 eps)
• 1988 - 1989

In medieval Japan's Genroku era, the young warrior Yoshiyasu Yanasawa approaches Takakaru, the leader of the Hazuki clan in search of the power of the Golden Dragon, unaware that the power of the dragon flows within the very bloodstream of the maiden Orie.

• Other (1 ep)
• 2008

• DVD Special (7 eps)
• 2009 - 2010

• OVA (6 eps)
• 2011 - 2012

Taking place between episodes 8 and 9 of the first season of Hakuoki, Chizuru goes on an undercover mission in Shimabara for the Shinsegumi. Dressing as a geisha, each episode tells the story of the undercover mission through the point of view of each captain. But it isn't just the rival clans the Shinsengumi need to worry about. It's the demons that keep popping up with the intent to kill anyone in their path that makes this Hakuoki installment worth watching!