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Anime similar to DBZ and OPM

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Hi, hopefully this is right place to ask this, since this is the most crowded site I know,I figured to ask this here, hopefully someone responds;

Are there any anime who are close to Dragon Ball Z and One Punch Man anime?

I am looking at these terms:

1.Characters: not kids and teenagers... I want people like 20+(yo) like in OPM and DBZ.I don't want them to be annoying, I don't want girls to be there just for fanservice,like they're not in OPM and DBZ. I want them to have decent story and background.

2.Setting: No school setting please. Like 90% of schools revolve around school settings and teenagers.Anything but school settings.

3.Story:I don't mind any story whatsoever.

4.Genre: Action(80%) and little bit of comedy(20%), like MCU, OPM and DBZ.

5.Plot and anything else; no fanservice, to have blood and gore(like OPM and DBZ), to have little bit darkness in it( like Frieza beating Vegeta back then that was brutal and dark).I also don't want overreacting and extended dramas( like DBZ and OPM don't have).Also, to not have like those stupid tropes-cliches that anime usually have( OPM and DBZ probably have some of those tropes, but not much, liek Genos over-explaining and Boros explaining durign battle, but Saitama shut them down xd)

I watched JoJo trailer, question is: Is Jojo going by all terms and are there any anime which are going by those terms? Thanks in advance.Also, sorry for any mistakes and spelling errors if I've had made.
 
Rurouni Kenshi is the best for I can think of off of the top of my head. Main characters (except for one) are all in their mid twenties, if not, later. There's blood. No fan service, has some dark moments. Unless you count a swordsmanship dojo a school, then there's no school (and even then, everyone but one person is a teacher or just lives/frequents there). The girls in the show is competent.

Though, I do find it funny that you were using DBZ and OPM as similar examples, because DBZ is a progenitor of anime tropes, while OPM is a deconstruction of those tropes. And given how Goku is just as competent as Luffy or Yusuke or Ichigo (or even less so), I'm not sure why being a teenager is necessarily a problem.
 
Gintama Granted it's 80% comedy 20% action but it's serious Arcs Are really Good It also focuses on well 2 teenagers and an adult but a majority of the supporting cast is adults It doesn't really have to much fan serves that I remeber And it's characters are Good Gintoki is Weirdly develouped character yet rarely changes from the start of the story to the part I've read up to

And it being a self aware comedy lets it get away with premises to start an arc Like the Kintama arcs where gintoki is replaced as the protagonist by a perfect robot ... they also say said robot is Boring so it might be commentary or I'm reading to much into a throwaway line Plus Insanly cool moments like ... Everything in the Benizakura arc, or Hijikata cutting a bullet in half mid flight And stabbing the dude that shot at him, Or well ... A lot of things
 
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