Top 5 Manga Like Zatouichi [2026 List]

5. Sidooh: Sunrise

Sidooh: Sunrise has finished publishing and it has 7 Chapters. It is also Known as: 士道Sunrise, Sidooh - Sunrise

4. Zatouichi

This one-shot is the adaptation of two movies: Zatoichi's Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka) and Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro).
The Ballad of Zatoichi: Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi." Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels, he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to stay and defend the town or to leave and be on his way.
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage: After he's ambushed in a small village terrorized by a gang of thieves, the legendary blind swordsman Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man in self-defense. As fate would have it, his travels soon lead him to Okichi, a woman whom Zatoichi discovers is the sister of the young man whose life he stole. In anger, Okichi attacks the blind swordsman, but her conscience gets the better of her, and as she tends his wounds, the two fall in love.

Zatouichi has finished publishing and it has 2 Chapters. It is also Known as: 座頭市, Zatoichi

3. Chidaruma Kenpou - Onorera ni Tsugu

This manga follows the unfortunate life on an extraordinary swordsman - Inoko Gennosuke.
Gennosuke was born in a social group called 'buraku' that was considered to be the filth of society, and because of that he was forced to live a life of misery.
(from Manga-Updates)

Chidaruma Kenpou - Onorera ni Tsugu has finished publishing and it has 2 Chapters. It is also Known as: 血だるま剣法・おのれらに告ぐ, Chidaruma Kenpou - Onorera ni Tsugu

2. Azumi

Azumi focuses upon the life of the female assassin Azumi. The manga begins an indeterminate number of years after the Battle of Sekigahara, but as the Azumi begins her assassination missions, the manga introduces the characters into mainstream history. Many of the early assassination missions that Azumi undertakes are the assassinations of the prominent supporters and generals of the Toyotomi Clan, against whom the Toyotomi Clan expected to again go to war.

Azumi has finished publishing and it has 350 Chapters. It is also Known as: あずみ, Azumi

1. Sidooh

During the political upheavals and social strife at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan (1855), two parent-less brothers Yukimura Shoutarou and Yukimura Gentarou struggles to survive in these turbulent times. With their only possession being their deceased father's sword and clinging onto the wisdom of their mother's final words, the brothers seek to embark on the Path of the Warrior: Sidooh.

Sidooh has finished publishing and it has 266 Chapters. It is also Known as: SIDOOH―士道―, Sidooh