Anime Like VINLAND SAGA SEASON 2: Drowning in the Shadow

20 anime similar to VINLAND SAGA SEASON 2: Drowning in the Shadow based on genre, format, studio, and popularity

Anime Like VINLAND SAGA SEASON 2: Drowning in the Shadow

Looking for anime similar to VINLAND SAGA SEASON 2: Drowning in the Shadow? Here are 10 anime recommendations that share similar themes, genres, or storytelling styles.

Why These Recommendations?

We selected these anime based on shared genres (Action, Drama, Psychological), similar narrative structures, comparable art styles, and positive fan overlap. If you enjoyed VINLAND SAGA SEASON 2: Drowning in the Shadow, these series should appeal to your taste.

Our Top Picks

Ad Space

JUJUTSU KAISEN

24 eps⭐ 8.42020Score: 46.2

2 shared genres: Action, DramaSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2020)

ActionDramaSupernatural

A boy fights... for "the right death." Hardship, regret, shame: the negative feelings that humans feel become Curses that lurk in our everyday lives. The Curses run rampant throughout the world, capable of leading people to terrible misfortune and even death. What's more, the Curses can only be exorcised by another Curse. Itadori Yuji is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a friend who has been attacked by Curses, he eats the finger of the Double-Faced Specter, taking the Curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with the Double-Faced Specter. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Gojou Satoru, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical High School of Sorcery, an organization that fights the Curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a Curse to exorcise a Curse, a life from which he could never turn back. (Source: Crunchyroll) Note: The first episode received an early web premiere on September 19th, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 3rd, 2020.

2/3 genres match

Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2

12 eps⭐ 8.62022Score: 46.2

3 shared genres: Action, Drama, PsychologicalSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2022)

ActionDramaFantasyMystery

The war for Paradis zeroes in on Shiganshina just as Jaegerists have seized control. After taking a huge blow from a surprise attack led by Eren, Marley swiftly acts to return the favor. With Zeke’s true plan revealed and a military forced under new rule, this battle might be fought on two fronts. Does Eren intend on fulfilling his half-brother’s wishes or does he have a plan of his own? (Source: Funimation)

3/3 genres match

BANANA FISH

24 eps⭐ 8.42018Score: 45.5

3 shared genres: Action, Drama, PsychologicalSame studio: MAPPA

ActionDramaPsychologicalThriller

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... (Source: VIZ Media)

3/3 genres match

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

10 eps⭐ 8.52022Score: 45.0

3 shared genres: Action, Drama, PsychologicalSame format (ONA)Similar era (2022)

ActionDramaPsychologicalSci-Fi

An original anime series set in in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk. (Source: CD PROJEKT RED) Note: The first episode received a pre-screening at Anime Expo on July 2, 2022. The first 3 dubbed episodes were streamed on Twitch as part of a co-stream promotion on September 12, a day before the show’s premiere.

3/3 genres match

JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2

23 eps⭐ 8.62023Score: 44.5

2 shared genres: Action, DramaSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2023)

ActionDramaSupernatural

The second season of Jujutsu Kaisen. The past comes to light when second-year students Satoru Gojou and Suguru Getou are tasked with escorting young Riko Amanai to Master Tengen. But when a non-sorcerer user tries to kill them, their mission to protect the Star Plasma Vessel threatens to turn them into bitter enemies and cement their destinies—one as the world’s strongest sorcerer, and the other its most twisted curse user! (Source: Crunchyroll)

2/3 genres match

Vinland Saga Season 2

24 eps⭐ 8.82023Score: 42.6

2 shared genres: Action, DramaSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2023)

ActionAdventureDrama

The second season of Vinland Saga. After his father's death and the destruction of his village at the hands of English raiders, Einar wishes for a peaceful life with his family on their newly rebuilt farms. However, fate has other plans: his village is invaded once again. Einar watches helplessly as the marauding Danes burn his lands and slaughter his family. The invaders capture Einar and take him back to Denmark as a slave. Einar clings to his mother's final words to survive. He is purchased by Ketil, a kind slave owner and landlord who promises that Einar can regain his freedom in return for working in the fields. Soon, Einar encounters his new partner in farm cultivation—Thorfinn, a dejected and melancholic slave. As Einar and Thorfinn work together toward their freedom, they are haunted by both sins of the past and the ploys of the present. Yet they carry on, grasping for a glimmer of hope, redemption, and peace in a world that is nothing but unjust and unforgiving. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

2/3 genres match

Chainsaw Man

12 eps⭐ 8.32022Score: 41.9

2 shared genres: Action, DramaSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2022)

ActionDramaHorrorSupernatural

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita. One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man" — a man with a devil's heart. (Source: Crunchyroll)

2/3 genres match

Attack on Titan Final Season

16 eps⭐ 8.72021Score: 41.1

2 shared genres: Action, DramaSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2021)

ActionDramaFantasyMystery

It’s been four years since the Scout Regiment reached the shoreline, and the world looks different now. Things are heating up as the fate of the Scout Regiment—and the people of Paradis—are determined at last. However, Eren is missing. Will he reappear before age-old tensions between Marleyans and Eldians result in the war of all wars? (Source: Crunchyroll)

2/3 genres match

Kakegurui

12 eps⭐ 7.02017Score: 38.4

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSame studio: MAPPA

DramaMysteryPsychological

During daylight hours, an exclusive, elite private school prepares its illustrious students for careers in business, politics, and high society. But when darkness falls, the halls of this esteemed establishment transform into an underground gambling den where bright-eyed youngsters learn the timeless art of bluffing, backdoor dealings and social manipulation. In this school for the rich and elite, money is power, and the tyrant of the betting books rules with an iron fist. So when the beautiful Yumeko Jabami upsets the academy hierarchy with her voracious appetite for the thrill of the gamble, the entire student body mobilizes to send her house of cards tumbling down. (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

2/3 genres match

Kakegurui xx

12 eps⭐ 7.12019Score: 38.3

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2019)

DramaMysteryPsychological

At Hyakkao Private Academy, Yumeko Jabami’s star rises just as the student council’s reputation starts to dim. In the shadows of the council’s dwindling power, discord reigns supreme. In a bold effort to rebalance the social scales, student council president Kirari Momobami intends to place her bet on the election for the council’s next president. Everyone starts with a single chip, and at the end of 30 days, the whoever holds the most becomes the president of the Momobami Clan. But chips aren’t the only things students can wager as they fight tooth and nail to ascend to the council presidency, and Yumeko Jabami intends to clean house no matter the prizes she must risk in the betting pool. (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

2/3 genres match

Dororo

24 eps⭐ 8.12019Score: 36.6

2 shared genres: Action, DramaSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2019)

ActionAdventureDramaSupernatural

Dororo, a young orphan thief, meets Hyakkimaru, a powerful ronin. Hyakkimaru's father, a greedy feudal lord, had made a pact with 12 demons, offering his yet-unborn son's body parts in exchange for great power. Thus, Hyakkimaru - who was born without arms, legs, eyes, ears, a nose or a mouth - was abandoned in a river as a baby. Rescued and raised by Dr. Honma, who equips him with artificial limbs and teaches him sword-fighting techniques, Hyakkimaru discovers that each time he slays a demon, a piece of his body is restored. Now, he roams the war-torn countryside in search of demons.

2/3 genres match

Devilman Crybaby

10 eps⭐ 7.62018Score: 36.4

3 shared genres: Action, Drama, PsychologicalSame format (ONA)

ActionDramaHorrorPsychological

New Devilman project marking Go Nagai's 50th anniversary as a creator.The protagonist Akira Fudou learns from his best friend, Ryou Asuka, that an ancient race of demons has returned to take back the world from humans. Ryou tells Akira that the only way to defeat the demons is to incorporate their supernatural powers, and suggests that he unite with a demon himself. Akira succeeds in transforming into Devilman, who possesses both the powers of a demon and the soul of a human. The battle of Devilman and Akira Fudou begins. (Source: Netflix)

3/3 genres match

JUJUTSU KAISEN 0

1 eps⭐ 8.32021Score: 34.6

1 shared genre: ActionSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2021)

ActionSupernatural

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him? (Source: VIZ Media)

1/3 genres match

Hell’s Paradise

13 eps⭐ 8.02023Score: 33.4

1 shared genre: ActionSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2023)

ActionAdventureMysterySupernatural

The Edo period is nearing its end. Gabimaru, a shinobi formerly known as the strongest in Iwagakure who is now a death row convict, is told that he will be acquitted and set free if he can bring back the Elixir of Life from an island that is rumored to be the Buddhist pure land Sukhavati. In hopes of reuniting with his beloved wife, Gabimaru heads to the island along with the executioner Yamada Asaemon Sagiri. Upon arriving there, they encounter other death row convicts in search of the Elixir of Life... as well as a host of unknown creatures, eerie manmade statues, and the hermits who rule the island. Can Gabimaru find the Elixir of Life on this mysterious island and make it back home alive? (Source: Crunchyroll)

1/3 genres match

The God of High School

13 eps⭐ 7.02020Score: 32.4

1 shared genre: ActionSame studio: MAPPASimilar era (2020)

ActionFantasy

It all began as a fighting tournament to seek out for the best fighter among all high school students in Korea. Mori Jin, a Taekwondo specialist and a high school student, soon learns that there is something much greater beneath the stage of the tournament.(Source: WEBTOON)

1/3 genres match

Terror in Resonance

11 eps⭐ 7.82014Score: 30.8

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSame studio: MAPPA

DramaMysteryPsychologicalThriller

Painted in red, the word "VON" is all that is left behind after a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility in Japan. The government is shattered by their inability to act, and the police are left frantically searching for ways to crack down the perpetrators. The public are clueless—until, six months later, a strange video makes its way onto the internet. In it, two teenage boys who identify themselves only as "Sphinx" directly challenge the police, threatening to cause destruction and mayhem across Tokyo. Unable to stop the mass panic quickly spreading through the city and desperate for any leads in their investigation, the police struggle to act effectively against these terrorists, with Detective Kenjirou Shibazaki caught in the middle of it all. Zankyou no Terror tells the story of Nine and Twelve, the two boys behind the masked figures of Sphinx. They should not exist, yet they stand strong in a world of deception and secrets while they make the city fall around them, all in the hopes of burying their own tragic truth. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

2/3 genres match

Classroom of the Elite

12 eps⭐ 7.62017Score: 28.2

2 shared genres: Drama, Psychological

DramaPsychological

Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading school with state-of-the-art facilities. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is like a utopia, but the truth is that only the most superior students receive favorable treatment. Kiyotaka Ayanokouji is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its "inferior" students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Suzune Horikita and Kikyou Kushida, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka's situation begins to change. (Source: Anime News Network, edited)

2/3 genres match

BLUE LOCK

24 eps⭐ 8.02022Score: 27.0

2 shared genres: Action, DramaSimilar era (2022)

ActionDramaSports

Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer? (Source: Crunchyroll)

2/3 genres match

Mob Psycho 100 III

12 eps⭐ 8.72022Score: 26.5

3 shared genres: Action, Drama, PsychologicalSimilar era (2022)

ActionComedyDramaPsychological

The third season of Mob Psycho 100. The appearance of a divine tree and new religion turns Mob and Reigen's city upside down! (Source: Crunchyroll)

3/3 genres match

Classroom of the Elite Season 2

13 eps⭐ 7.92022Score: 26.4

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSimilar era (2022)

DramaMysteryPsychological

The second season of Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e. Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School seems like a paradise, but in reality, it is an extreme meritocracy. In the class of underachievers, Kiyotaka has begun working with Suzune, who seeks to ascend higher. After a survival test on an uninhabited island, they get to enjoy a luxury liner, but a new class-scrambling test will begin. (Source: Anime News Network)

2/3 genres match

Ad Space

← Back to VINLAND SAGA SEASON 2: Drowning in the Shadow 🎯 Filler Guide 📋 Episode Guide