The best anime that mixes fiction and history

Summary

• Anime often mixes history with fiction, especially those set in Japan or alternative reality related to it.

• The Rurouns Kenshin tells the story of Post-Bakumins and Vinland Saga immerses into the Viking tradition.

• Medical diaries and baccano offer a combination of historical events with fiction in a living narrative.

Anime it mixes fiction and historical events It is not difficult to trace, because most of them combine one or two historically accurate events to add some context to their world building, more if the setting occurs in Japan (in any of its periods) or in an alternative reality related to the Earth of the Rising Sun.

This list focuses on the best anime that mixes historical events with fictitious narration. Some of them have a perfect narrative and the way they integrate fiction with reality smoothly, make them between the peak in the genre. The series listed here is ideal for those who love imagination, action and some degree of historical accuracy.

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Kenshin

Set up in the Meiji recovery period

Kenshin He lives without renting in the hearts of every fan of samurai anime and is considered one of the anime that declares historical events with fiction. In the first years after Bakuma, known as Meiji's reconstruction, tells the story of Kenshin, Vagabond Ronin, who maintains his identity in secret: the story of a former revolutionary murderer.

Kenshin swore that he would never draw blood again, but when he crossed the roads with a young Kaora, the only heir to the local Dojo and a full -time Kendo teacher, he decides to help with the local gang, whose members gather around someone called Hitokiri Battosai. Kenshin, who knows too well that this person is false, reveals himself as the legendary Hitokiri, who once filled the streets of Tokyo with blood. From then on, Kenshin decides to take Kenshin, forcing him to settle down and leave his life as Ronin. They know a little that this is just the beginning of adventure.

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Vinland's saga

Stir the historical events of the Vikings era on an epic journey

Set in the era of Viking, in years before the rule of Cante the Great, Vinland's saga It follows different characters when they record a cruel and unforgivable war at such absurd costs to break the heart of even the most durable fans. A child left after a political assassination decides to revenge by watching a mercenary who executed his father.

Asceladd, who takes Thorfin under his wing, sees the former as an instrument and the young boy sees the captain of the mercenary only as the object of his deepest desire: revenge for his father's murderer. But to do so, it must grow strongly on the battlefield, performing infiltration and assassin missions in exchange for the right to invite Asceladda to fight. The story is the chronicle of the horror of the war and it was written to give how the Vikings lived and died their religion.

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Pharmacies

Set up in the 15th century China

Pharmacies He conquered the hearts of fans around the world. With a slight level of historical accuracy, the story transports viewers to China of the 15th century during the Tang Dynasty. The protagonist of this amazing story is Maomao, an illegitimate daughter of one of the worst clans in the empire and a truly talented young girl who has talent for traditional medicine.

This anime itself does not follow any specific historical events, but mixes in many cultural accuracy of life in court during the reign of the Tang Dynasty, which is quite intense political periods, full of betrayal, debauchers, assassination and coup attempts. So yes, quite an interesting show to watch, more, if fans are in historical dramas.

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Baccano

Alchemists and gangsters share certain ambitions

Baccano There is a strange series that can be a little confusing for fans. It begins at the beginning of the 18th century with a group of alchemists trying to perform a dark ritual that involves convening a demon and killing to gain the legendary elixir of immortality. He then jumps to New York during the dry law in 1930, where one of the surviving alchemists of the Advenna Avis massacre restores the formula of the elixir of immortality.

His success is thwarted by the intervention of the local gangster who steals the elixir, and as the alchemist desperately tries to restore, a chain of dramatic events is put in motion. The series is incredibly entertaining, exciting, and never missing the allusion to the surprise of viewers' stories of dozens of characters that are connected and merged with historical events.

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ORB: On the movement of Earth

Anime about the Coperson Revolution

ORB: On the movement of Earth It is located in the middle of the Coperics Revolution and tells the story from the perspective of several people who are enthusiastic about studying the movements of the heavenly bodies, at a time when this knowledge could lead to certain deaths in the hands of the brutal Inquisition of the Christian Church.

The real protagonist of the Orb is the knowledge of the truth that passes from one hand to another, despite the vicious efforts of the Inquisition to stop it in its footsteps. It's a powerful story about finding the truth at all costs,

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Drifters

Heroes from different historical periods called to another world

Drifters Is Anime Isekai from the creator Hellsing, And this sentence could define the story quite well. It is bloody, controversial, hardcore and builds historical characters like Oda Nobunaga and Nasa Suketak Yoichi to save the world on the verge of destruction due to a full -scale war against inhumane creatures.

The historical accuracy of how the characters are constructed is of course questionable and of course the enemies are of course Drifters They have to defeat (those called goals) are also historical characters like Akechi Mitsuhide, and very crushed and dangerous Joan from the arch.

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