If you liked
Kenpuu Denki Berserk
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...then you might like
Shigurui
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Both series open on a conflict within the very first episode and then spend the rest of their running time in a flashback that doesn't quite reach the point at which the opening began, much less resolve it. Both series have a highly ambitious, highly androgynous, highly talented and highly ruthless young man as a prominent character. Both of these characters undergo similar fates and make similar transformations to achieve their ends. Both series take place in something resembling a grounded, brutal reality, but heighten it where appropriate to make the drama hit the viewer even more viscerally. In Berserk's case, this manifests as dark fantasy, whereas in Shigurui this manifests as sword techniques that strain plausibility enough to not be realistic, but stop short of being magic.