21+ Anime Like Gintama: THE FINAL

If you loved Gintama: THE FINAL, chances are you'll really enjoy Grand Blue Dreaming, GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka and the others too. They share that same energy—whether it's the intense Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, or just the vibe that keeps you hooked. While you wait for the next episode to drop, it’s the perfect time to explore something new that still feels familiar. These picks aren't just similar—they're fan favorites for a reason, and they might just become your next obsession.

1. Grand Blue Dreaming

Synonyms: ก๊วนป่วนชวนบุ๋งบุ๋ง

A new life begins for Kitahara Iori as he begins his college career near the ocean in Izu city, full of excitement for his new life. He will be moving into his Uncle's diving store "Grand Blue." There he finds the beautiful ocean, beautiful women, and men that love diving and alcohol. Will Iori be able to live his dream college life?

2. GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka

Synonyms: グレート・ティーチャー・オニヅカ, GTO - The Animation

Onizuka is a reformed biker gang leader who has his sights set on an honorable new ambition: to become the world's greatest teacher... for the purpose of meeting sexy high school girls. Okay, so he's mostly reformed. However, strict administrators and a class of ruthless delinquents stand between Onizuka and his goal and they will use any means, however illegal or low, to drive the new teacher away. Perfect, because Onizuka's methods won't be found in any teaching manual; he cares about the difference between legal and illegal activities about as much as he cares for the age difference between himself and a high school girl. So get ready for math that doesn't add up, language you'd be slapped for using, and biology that would make a grown man blush... unless of course, you're the Great Teacher Onizuka. Note: Episode 1 has an airtime of 48 minutes.

3. Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya

Synonyms: Gintama Movie 2, Gintama the Final Movie

When Gintoki apprehends a movie pirate at a premiere, he checks the camera's footage and finds himself transported to a bleak, post-apocalyptic version of Edo, where a mysterious epidemic called the "White Plague" has ravished the world's population. It turns out that the movie pirate wasn't a pirate after all—it was an android time machine, and Gintoki has been hurtled five years into the future! Shinpachi and Kagura, his Yorozuya cohorts, have had a falling out and are now battle-hardened solo vigilantes and he himself has been missing for years, disappearing without a trace after scribbling a strange message in his journal. Setting out in the disguise given to him by the android time machine, Gintoki haphazardly reunites the Yorozuya team to investigate the White Plague, and soon discovers that the key to saving the future lies in the darkness of his own past. Determined to confront a powerful foe, he makes an important discovery—with a ragtag band of friends and allies at his side, he doesn't have to fight alone. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

4. SKET Dance

Synonyms: スケットダンス

At Kaimei High School, the Living Assistance Club (aka the Sket Brigade) was organized to help students with problems big or small. Most of the time, though, they hang out in their club room, bored, with only a few trivial problems floating in every once in a while. In spite of this, they still throw all their energy into solving these worries. (Source: Crunchyroll)

5. KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world!

Synonyms: Konosuba, Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Syukufuku wo!, Konosuba - As Bençãos de Deus Neste Mundo Maravilhoso, 为美好的世界献上祝福！

Kazuma Satou decides that today is the day to get out of the house for a bit. Since he dies, pointlessly, it's clearly a bad choice. The goddess who greets him in the afterlife, however, offers him a chance to be reborn in a world not unlike that of a video game, and as a bonus she'll even throw in a cool item or power! Can't possibly be a bad choice, right? Except he arrives with no money at all, dead average skills, and his "bonus" isn't useful at all--since he picked the goddess, Aqua, herself. How are the two of them supposed to defeat the evil Devil King and live happily ever after? Well, for them, it probably starts with day laboring rather than adventuring. And it's only going to get more disappointing from there! (Source: Crunchyroll)

6. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Season 2

Synonyms: Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan 2

The disastrous life of the gifted psychic Kusuo Saiki continues, despite his utmost effort to live an ordinary life. Although he has certainly grown accustomed to dealing with his troublesome friends—who are his biggest hurdle to achieving a peaceful life—he still has a long way to go. Also joining the usual oddballs are a few new faces whose shenanigans add to Saiki's misery, making his dreams of a hassle-free life a distant fantasy.

7. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened

Synonyms: The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Starting Arc

Being an esper seems cool on TV, but in Saiki Kusuo's life as a normal teenager it's a real drag. The hit comedy manga returns in a new anime series!(Source: Netflix) Note: The first 5 episodes take place between Season 2 and the Final Arc. The last continues the story from the Final Arc.

8. Dragon Ball Super: Broly

Synonyms: None

Earth is at peace after The Tournament of Power but Goku continues to train, knowing there are ever-stronger forces in the universe. With the arrival of a Saiyan warrior named Broly, Goku and Vegeta face their most dangerous challenge yet. The film also chronicles the history of the Saiyans and the background story of these three Saiyans with different destinies connected to the turbulent period of their now extinct race.

9. My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising

Synonyms: Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 2, My Hero Academia: El Despertar de los Héroes, มายฮีโร่ อคาเดเมีย เดอะมูฟวี่: วีรบุรุษกู้โลก, มายฮีโร่ อคาเดเมีย เดอะมูฟวี่: วีรบุรุษกู้โลก

The second installment in the Boku no Hero Academia movie franchise. The aspiring heroes of UA Class 1-A have been given a new training opportunity during their winter break: To establish and maintain their own professional Hero Agency on the idyllic island of Nabu far off the coast of Japan. There, they'll experience the everyday travails of being heroes, for the first time without the support of their instructors or chaperons. It's a challenging assignment, but one the plucky students of UA are more than equipped to face – that is, until the arrival of a team of villains lead by the ruthless Nine and his eerily familiar quirk. Cut off from any backup and facing their greatest threat yet, it's up to Deku, Bakugo, and their classmates to face unspeakable danger to protect not only the people of the island, but the future of all Hero society. (Source: Anime News Network)

10. Gintama - The Movie

Synonyms: Gintama: Benizakura Arc - A New Retelling, Gintama Movie: Crimson Sakura Chapter New Edition, Gintama: Shin-yaku Benizakura-hen

Odd Jobs Gin has taken on a lot of odd work in the past, and when you're a Jack of All Trades agency based in a feudal Japan that's been conquered and colonized by aliens, the term "Odd Jobs" means REALLY ODD jobs. But when some more than slightly suspicious secrets from the shadows of Gintoki Sakata's somewhat shady former samurai past and a new pair of odd jobs collide, the action is bound to get so wild and demented that only a feature film will do it justice! (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

11. One Piece Film: Z

Synonyms: One Piece Film 12: Z, 海贼王剧场版Z, One Piece Gold - Il film

Said to be comparable to the Ancient Weapons of old, the Marines’ trump card, the “Dyna Stones,” have suddenly been stolen by a group of renegade vigilantes. The terrifyingly powerful man responsible, former Marine Admiral “Z”, now stands in the path of Luffy and his Straw Hat Pirates. Can the Straw Hats defeat “Z” and his crew, or will the New World meet its end at the hands of this mad man? (Source: Funimation)

12. Precure All Stars F

Synonyms: Precure 20th Anniversary Commemoration Movie

A movie celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Precure franchise, featuring characters from all 20 series so far!

13. One Piece Film: Red

Synonyms: One Piece Film 15, فيلم ون بيس: ريد, วันพีซ ฟิล์ม เรด

An almighty voice. With fiery red locks. The story takes place on an island where Uta, the world’s favorite diva, performs for the first time in public. Uta’s singing voice, which she sings with while concealing her true identity, has been described as “otherworldly,” and while the venue is filled with the Straw Hats led by Luffy, pirates, navy, and fans from all over the world who have come to enjoy her voice, Uta’s voice is heard in a new light. The curtain rises on the story with the shocking revelation that she is “Shanks’ daughter!“ (Source: ONE PIECE FILM RED Website)

14. Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse

Synonyms: Bleach Movie 4, Bleach: The Hell Chapter, بليتش: قصيدة الجحيم

Bleach: Jigoku-hen is set in Hell and features a fully Hollowfied Ichigo. The movie centers around Ichigo and his friends heading into Hell with the assistance of man named Kokuto to stop the merging of the two realms. However, Kokuto gives Ichigo a warning - he mustn't Hollowfy in Hell, or he will lose control of his body and never be able to return...

15. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

Synonyms: KnY Movie, Els Guardians de la Nit: El Tren Infinit, Guardianes de la Noche: Tren Infinito, Demon Slayer: Mugen Treni

This Demon Slayer movie sees Tanjiro Kamado and friends from the Demon Slayer corps board the Infinity Train on a new mission to investigate a mysterious series of disappearances, perpetrated by a demon who has been tormenting people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it.

16. One Piece: Stampede

Synonyms: ワンピース スタンピード, One Piece: Estampida, 航海王：狂热行动, One Piece Film 14

The 14th One Piece movie, which commemorates the anime's 20th anniversary, takes place during the Pirates Festival, an epic treasure hunt in which pirates from across the globe race to find an item that once belonged to Gol D. Roger himself!

17. Laughing Under the Clouds: Gaiden Part 2

Synonyms: Donten: Laughing Under The Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 2 - The Tragedy of Fuuma Ninja Tribe

The second part in an anime film trilogy adaptation of the Donten ni Warau Gaiden spinoff manga. The Fuuma ninja clan is a secret ninja tribe that seeks to welcome the “Orochi” when it resurrects every 300 years. In the clan we find twin brothers, Isuke and Isame, who live cursed lives after being persecuted by their tribe for being twins. This tragedy is only amplified as Isuke is faced with an impossible choice in the clan's twisted rite of passage. (Source: Eleven Arts)

18. Laughing Under the Clouds: Gaiden Part 1

Synonyms: Donten: Laughing Under The Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 1 - One Year After the Battle

The first part in an anime film trilogy adaptation of the Donten ni Warau Gaiden spinoff manga. One year has passed since the great battle against the "Orochi" which left Tenka Kumou paralyzed from the waist down. While some of the old squad has remained together, Tenka has isolated himself. As his brothers, Sousei, and Kiiko try to reach out to him, hidden details are revealed from Tenka's past. (Source: Eleven Arts)

19. Naniiro no Nani

Synonyms: Nani-iro no Nani

Short anime based on band Kuusou Iinkai's songs and written by the vocalist Ryuuichi Miura. The theme song is also done by Kuusou Iinkai.

20. Koihime†Musou

Synonyms: Koihime Musou: Donzelas Intankáveis

This anime is based on an eroge game by Baseson, which was loosely based on the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Having lost her family to bandits during night raid, Kanu swears she will not let others share the same pain. She quickly becomes a well-known and feared by villains bandit hunter. During her journey she comes across others who wish to join her cause. One of them is a girl RinRin, who had similar experience with bandits in the past.

21. Ryoma! The Prince of Tennis

Synonyms: リョーマ! 新生劇場版テニスの王子様

The movie features an original story that takes place during the three months between the first manga and its currently running sequel. Inspired by his tennis champion father, Ryoma is determined to take his game to the next level and train in the US. But in the middle of an intense tennis battle to save his classmate Sakuno from dangerous villains, they somehow find themselves transported back to the past, just as Ryoma’s father is about to undertake his final championship match at the US Open – when he was mysteriously forced to retire. Sing, Dance, and Play along with the innovative 3D digital animation that brings the magnificent and colorful world of The Prince of Tennis to life on the big screen. (Sources: Natalie, Crunchyroll, edited)

22. Manga: Aesop's Tale

Synonyms: Aesop's Fables Movie

Aesop is a trouble-making young boy who finds himself in another world filled with creatures he never believed to exist, such as fairies and talking donkeys. He sets off to find a way back to the normal world. On his journey he befriends many classical creatures from well-known fables and encounters many trials, each teaching him a valuable lesson. (Source: Anime News Network)

If you're anything like me, once you finish something amazing like Gintama: THE FINAL, you're left wondering—what now? Luckily, there’s a whole world of stories out there that give off the same energy, whether it’s the intense fights, emotional backstories, or just that feeling of being completely hooked. The titles like Grand Blue Dreaming, GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka... I’ve shared aren’t just similar—they feel right. They hit that same nerve that made Gintama: THE FINAL special in the first place. Of course, everyone’s taste is different, but I really think you’ll find something here that pulls you in. And hey—if you’ve got a favorite that didn’t make the list, I’d love to hear about it. I’m always looking for my next obsession.