Action Romance Anime. Romance and action genres are very common in anime, but when you put them together, you can still find a romantic theme usually and that is not really unusual. But these anime series have romance as one of the important subplots and characters effectively. Also, these anime have some of the best action.
We view love and action as the best elements in the best stories. We’ve compiled and ranked anime that includes all these elements to create this list of best action romance anime. You`re about to fall in love with action romance anime after seeing this list. Let’s have a look on the list.
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1. Sword Art Online
With the Nerve Gear, a helmet that stimulates the user`s five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds. Kayaba appears and tells the players that they must beat all 100 floors of Aincrad, a steel castle which is the setting of SAO if they wish to be free.
One of the players named Kazuto “Kirito” Kirigaya, is one of 1,000 testers in the game`s previous closed beta. As the players progress through the game Kirito eventually befriends a young girl named Asuna Yuuki, forming a relationship with and later marrying her in-game. After the duo discover the identity of Kayaba`s secret ID, who was playing as “Heathcliff”, the leader of the guild Asuna joined in, they confront and destroy him, freeing themselves and the other players from the game.
2. Yona Of The Dawn
3. Elfen Lied
Elfen Lied is set in Kamakura and Kanagawa and focuses on “Diclonius”, a newly mutated species. Their appearance is similar to that of humans, but there are several differences, namely the horn-like protrusion on the forehead and the presence of invisible telekinetic arms known as “Vectors”.
One of these Diclonius, Lucy, is the protagonist of the series: Originally held at a facility built for testing, located off the coast of Kamakura, she attempts to escape and wreak havoc, but is injured in the process. passage, an event caused her to develop a second childish personality known as Nyu.
Lucy is found by two locals, Kouta, who is studying at the local university, and her cousin Yuka. They take her in and participate in many, often brutal, attempts to recapture her by a special assault team and several other Diclonius, who regularly go from unconscious to murder.
4. The Sacred Blacksmith
Forty-four years ago, a great war known as the Valbanill War ravaged the land. One of the war’s deadliest weapons is the Demon Contract, where humans sacrifice their bodies to become powerful demons. Realizing the damage the contracts had caused to the land, the surviving nations made peace and banned the use of demon contracts.
Cecily Campbell is the third generation Knight of Housman, one of the cities of the Independent Commercial Cities, a democratic federation of cities. Since her grandfather was one of the founders of independent trading towns, she is proud of her heritage and wishes to protect her town as a knight, just like her father and grandfather.
hers before hers. One day, she battles a crazed veteran who is causing trouble in the marketplace and, inexperienced and superior, is faced with defeat. But she is saved by a mysterious blacksmith named Luke Ainsworth. Cecily is impressed with Luke’s katana, a weapon she has never seen before, and asks him to make one for her. Her involvement with Luke will take her on an adventure she never expected.
5. Date a Live
In the present, Shido Itsuka, a seemingly ordinary high school student, comes across a mysterious girl at the ground zero of a spatial quake. He learns from his adoptive sister Kotori that the girl is one of the “Spirits” from different dimensions who are the real cause of the spatial quakes that occur when they manifest themselves in the real world.
Shido is recruited by Ratatoskr to make use of his mysterious ability to seal the Spirits` powers thus stopping them from being a threat to mankind.
6. Beyond the Boundary
Mirai stabs Akihito with a sword formed out of her own blood and is shocked to discover that Akihito is an immortal “half-youmu” the offspring of a supernatural creature, called a youmu, and a human.
After learning that Mirai is a Spirit World Warrior (異界士, Ikaishi)—specialists who protect humans from being affected by youmu—and the last surviving member of her spirit hunting clan, their lives become intertwined as Akihito seeks to help Mirai gain the confidence to kill youmu so that she may stop attempting to kill him as practice.
There are also rare cases when a youmu and a human mate may produce an offspring, which is called Half-Youmu (半妖, Han-Yō, “Half-Shade”). However, there are times when a youmu`s behavior upsets the balance, so the Spirit World Warriors are sent in to kill them. Upon death, a youmu produces a Youmu Stone (妖夢石, Yōmu Ishi, alt. Dreamshade Stone) which can be appraised and traded, hence providing a source of income for a Spirit World Warrior.
7. Guilty Crown
In the Roppongi district of Tokyo, high school student Shu Ouma encounters a wounded girl named Inori Yuzuriha, the vocalist of a popular internet group Egoist, taking refuge at his film club`s workshop. As the Anti-Bodies begin attacking the Roppongi area looking for the vial, it shatters as Shu goes to rescue Inori when she becomes threatened by GHQ Endlave mechs.
The vial contains the Void Genome, a powerful genetic weapon derived from the Apocalypse Virus that grants Shu the “Power of the King”, an ability that allows his right hand to extract Voids, weapons of people`s psyche given physical form. In Shu`s absence, Funeral Parlor attempt to steal from GHQ the meteorite that originally caused the Apocalypse Virus outbreak. In the process, Gai and his forces fall into a trap as the Anti-Bodies decimate their ranks with a “genetic resonance” broadcast that unleashes the Virus throughout Tokyo.
8. High School DxD
Unknown to normal humans, angels (天使, Tenshi), fallen angels (堕天使, Datenshi) and devils (悪魔, Akuma) comprise part of the student population. After an ordinary school day, Issei is suddenly asked out on a date by a girl named Yuma Amano.
Using her summoning card, Rias Gremory, a buxom third-year student at Kuoh Academy, revives him. Immediately after being attacked by another fallen angel and waking up, he notices Rias naked in his room. Rias reveals to Issei her true identity as a devil and says that as a result of his death at the hands of Yuuma, she has reincarnated him as a devil, making him her faithful servant in the process.
9. Zero No Tsukaima
Forty-four years ago, a great war known as the Valbanill War ravaged the land. One of the war’s deadliest weapons is the Demon Contract, where humans sacrifice their bodies to become powerful demons. Realizing the damage the contracts had caused to the land, the surviving nations made peace and banned the use of demon contracts.
Cecily Campbell is the third generation Knight of Housman, one of the cities of the Independent Commercial Cities, a democratic federation of cities. Since her grandfather was one of the founders of independent trading towns, she is proud of her heritage and wishes to protect her town as a knight, just like her father and grandfather.
hers before hers. One day, she battles a crazed veteran who is causing trouble in the marketplace and, inexperienced and superior, is faced with defeat. But she is saved by a mysterious blacksmith named Luke Ainsworth. Cecily is impressed with Luke’s katana, a weapon she has never seen before, and asks him to make one for her. Her involvement with Luke will take her on an adventure she never expected.
10. Trinity Seven
Arata Kasuga lived a normal life together with his cousin and childhood friend Hijiri Kasuga in a small town. Shattered by losing Hijiri and all of his other friends and family, Arata asks for his world to be good again, which leads to the grimoire artificially reconstructing his normal life and making him forget both the destruction of the city and Hijiri`s disappearance.
There he is introduced to the Trinity Seven, seven powerful mages who are at the top of their respective fields (Lilith being one of them) and who will help him in his goal of becoming a powerful magician and learning the truth about Hijiri and the Black Sun. He soon finds out that one of the Trinity Seven, Arin, looks almost exactly like his missing cousin, although she shows a completely different personality.
11. Akatsuki No Yona
The Kouka Kingdom is blessed with a beautiful princess with a childlike innocence that captivates everyone who crosses her path. Named Yona, she grew up sheltered in the royal palace, safe from any danger that might come her way. However, all good things come to an end.
Yona’s perfect world crumbles when an act of heinous betrayal threatens to obliterate everything she holds dear, including her birthright as Kouka’s princess. With no one she can trust except her childhood friend and loyal bodyguard Son Hak, she is forced to flee the palace. Faced with the danger of surviving in the wild with her target on her back, Yona realizes that her kingdom is no longer the refuge it once was.
Freed from the shackles of innocence, Yona vows to do everything in her power to become strong enough to crush her enemies. With Hak by her side, she must piece together what remains of an ancient legend that may hold the key to reclaiming her kingdom from conspirators to steal it from her.
12. InuYasha
The demon was originally defeated fifty years prior by Kikyo, a warrior priestess who was the previous keeper of the Shikon Jewel (四魂の玉, Shikon no Tama, lit. The Shikon Jewel was burned along with Kikyo`s body to cast it out of this world entirely, in order to keep it safe from the hands of those who would use its power for evil.
Kagome comes across a sleeping boy pinned by a sacred arrow to a tree, learning he is Inuyasha, a half-human, half-demon (yōkai) whom Kikyo pinned to the tree as her final act when he attempted to steal the jewel. Kagome then gets attacked by a centipede demon and desperately frees Inuyasha to kill the centipede demon, but when he turns on her and tries to steal the jewel again, he is subdued with a magical beaded necklace to keep him in line with Kagome saying “sit” or “sit boy”, which causes him to violently fall to the ground.
The Shikon Jewel is extracted from Kagome`s body and taken by a crow demon, which Kagome destroys with an arrow, but in doing so, inadvertently shatters the jewel into many shards that scatter across Japan and into the possession of various demons and humans.
13. Gakusen Toshi Asterisk
In the last century, an unprecedented disaster known as Invertia has drastically reformed the world. The power of the current states has been greatly reduced, paving the way for a consortium known as the Integrated Empire Organization to take control. But more importantly, Invertia led to the emergence of a new human species born with extraordinary physical abilities: Genestella. Its elites are handpicked from around the world to attend six top schools, and they duel in entertaining battles known as Festas.
Ayato Amagiri is a scholarship transfer student at the prestigious Seidoukan Academy who has recently suffered a decline in performance. Through a series of events, he accidentally sees the famous Witch of the Flame Resplendent, JulisAlexia von Riessfeld, half-dressed!
Enraged, Julis challenges him to a duel for trespassing on his privacy. After the duel was said to be canceled by the student council president, Ayato revealed that he had no interest in Festas. Instead, he enrolled in the academy to investigate the fate of his missing sister. But when a more insidious plot unfolds, Ayato sets out to achieve victory, while surrounded by some of the most talented Genestella on the planet.
14. Accel World
Haruyuki soon learns that Brain Burst is more than just a program, but an augmented-reality massively-multiplayer online (ARMMO) fighting game where people fight each other in fierce duels in order to obtain burst points, which can be spent for acceleration abilities in the real world.
Kuroyukihime then enlists Haruyuki`s help in reaching level 10 within Brain Burst by defeating the “Six Kings of Pure Colour” and ultimately meet the creator of Brain Burst to learn its true purpose.
15. Shinmai Maou No Testament
Basara Tojo was a high school student attending Hijirigasaka Academy when Jin’s father suddenly “remarried” and asked Basara if he wanted a sister. Basara meets his two cute stepmothers, Mio Naruse and Maria Naruse. After his father went abroad, Basara quickly discovered that the sisters were actually part of a demon clan and that he was supposed to be part of the hero clan.
Mio, a demon princess, tries to force a master and servant contract with Basara, but Maria does the opposite, with Basara as her master. Basara then went on to enter ecchi scenarios, largely to prevent Mio from being pursued by other demons who were searching for her legacy, which was passed down by Demon Lord Wilbert.
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