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If you liked Jiraishin add

...then you might like Kilico add

90's crime thrillers spearheaded by manly cops with dark streaks. Manga populated by yakuza, assassins, gunplay, jetsetting, sex, noir.

If you liked Akumetsu add

...then you might like Sanctuary add

Both manga are about changing Japan. Read Sanctuary for a hardboiled crime thriller look at Japanese politics populated by the manliest men in manga, with emphasis on yakuza involvement. Read Akumetsu to see Japanese politics blown up and eviscerated by a happy-go-lucky lunatic, with emphasis on unrestrained trashy violence, involving at one point a wheelchair kitted out with knives goring a politician to death.

If you liked Kozure Ookami add

...then you might like Hanzou no Mon add

Same author and artist, same genre. Lone Wolf and Cub came first.

If you liked Akira add

...then you might like Eden: It's an Endless World! add

Both manga are set in post-apocalyptic settings and show the aftermath of rebuilt society and all the corruption and violence that entails. Full of visual detail and cyberpunk depth, Eden and Akira are great companion pieces.

If you liked Blame! add

...then you might like add

Same claustrophobic nightmare scenario. Both show creative ambition, though one is compressed suspense and the other is epic darkness. Darkness and suspense go well together.

If you liked R.O.D: Read or Die add

...then you might like Mnemosyne: Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi add

Both feature bespectacled women who deliver a lot of beatdowns amid sci-fi tinged settings and ridiculously over the top action scenes, while shoe-horning in emotional tragic resolutions. Mnemosyne is the more perverted, but don’t take either of these anime seriously, just sit back and enjoy the B-movie level hijinks.

If you liked Death Note add

...then you might like Sanctuary add

Both manga feature two protagonists machinating and maneuvering their way within a criminal context.

If you liked Berserk add

...then you might like Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man add

Both set in fantasy worlds, both full of unrestrained violence! Berserk is more epic in scope due to its length, but as a result lags a bit at times, whereas Banya is short at 5 volumes but full of pace and energy all the way to the end.