 If you liked
Versailles no Bara
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Ribbon no Kishi (1963)
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A royal/noble father needs his next child to be a boy, but a girl is born instead. The protagonist is then raised to be a male successor, trained in sword-fighting, and is forced to wear male clothes. They have themes regarding gender-identity and the fight for political freedom. They also have historical Western settings, with Versailles no Bara being set in 18th Century France and Ribbon no Kishi being set in a fairy-tale-esque medieval European kingdom.