Raised to be a spy, Chloe carried out many successful missions being unparalleled in disguise and covert combat. However, after being betrayed by her boss, Chloe fakes her own death and disappears.
Taking on the name Victoria, she starts her life anew in a neighboring kingdom as an ordinary citizen. While intent to move on periodically, Victoria endears herself to others in her new home more than expected, but she is always wary that her past may be catching up to her.
Just a simple, elegant lady thinking of all the ways she could kill you if she had to. If you are looking for more anime like Victoria of Many Faces, head on down below.
Anime Like Victoria of Many Faces
For Fans of Once Badass, Now Retired

You are Ms. Servant
From a young age, Yuki was told that her only worth was as a killer. She was trained as an assassin who became renowned for her ruthlessness, efficiency, and always following orders.
However, after leaving that all behind, she arrives at the home of Hitoyoshi Yokoya, a teen boy who lives alone, and asks to be employed as his maid.
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and You are Ms. Servant
- A woman raised to be a killer leaves her organization and starts a new life
- She is hiding out, starts living with a child/teen
- Assassin endears herself to everyone about town easily.
- Paranoia over her past organization.
- Romance / happy slice of life plot with a dash of drama.
- Found family vibes
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and You are Ms. Servant
- The ex-assassin in You are Ms. Servant is a deadpan stoic, and far less adept at being a normal, functioning person.
- The romance in You are Ms. Servant is between the ex-assassin and a teen boy she works as a maid for.
- The ex-assassin isn’t in much danger. So no fleeing like Victoria does.

Violet Evergarden
After the Great War and her time in it came to an end, Violet Evergarden is adrift. Her purpose was once only battle, and now she must find a new one.
After recovering from the loss of her arms, Violet takes up a job at the CH Postal Services. Here she transcribes people’s thoughts into what should be emotional letters. While the “emotional” part seems to greatly escape her, she aims to learn how to move people with words.
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and Violet Evergarden
- Heroine was raised to be a killer, but she is starting a fresh, new normal life
- New life full of new acquaintances, happy moments, and melancholy over what can never be recovered.
- Painfully leaving someone you love behind elements.
- Quaint Victoria England-inspired fantasy world.
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and Violet Evergarden
- Violet Evergarden is the far more melancholy story. It’s going to actively try to make you cry.
- Violet Evergarden is more about the heroine, who was raised to be an emotionless weapon to be disposed of, learning about emotions by typing up emotional letters for people. She isn’t hunted or paranoid, but she is chronically sad.
- As the heroine in Violet Evergarden was not raised to be a functional person, she must learn to be a functional person.

Sakamoto Days
Tarou Sakamoto was a legendary assassin with unmatched prowess. However, five years ago, Tarou Sakamoto disappeared from the criminal underworld.
It turns out that he decided to retire after he fell in love and got married. Now with a wife and young daughter, Sakamoto put on a little weight, works with his wife at a convenience store, and has given up killing under their family rule—absolutely no killing.
However, his peaceful life is threatened when Sakamoto’s old partner, Shin Asakura, comes after him. While he is able to peacefully work things out with Shin, the large bounty that was placed on Sakamoto’s head means that Shin won’t be the only one coming to upend Sakamoto’s peaceful life.
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and Sakamoto Days
- An assassin has retired to live the slow life
- The people from their past are not content to let them live a new slow life
- Found family vibes
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and Sakamoto Days
- Sakamoto Days features a retired assassin being constantly targeted by other assassins. He did not successfully fake his death like Victoria.
- Sakamoto Days is a shounen action anime. Expect more comedy and a large emphasis on fighting assassins with a diverse array of abilities.
- Some assassin abilities are pretty supernatural/super-powered. This is not a grounded world like Victoria of Many Faces.
- Sakamoto Days doesn’t have much in the way of romance going on.

Mechanical Marie
Arthur Zetes is wealthy and handsome, but no strange to the greed of people. Tired of constant betrayal and attempts on his life, Arthur shuns people. Now, his closest companion is his beloved robot maid, Marie. She not only serves him dutifully, but protects him from harm.
However, Marie isn’t actually a robot. She is an actual woman—a once-prodigy in martial arts now drowning in debt—who readily accepted the position of “fake robot” maid. However, she didn’t expect that Arthur’s affection would begin to move her own heart.
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and Mechanical Marie
- A killer takes a new slice of life approach to living
- The heroine meets a handsome, well-respected man in which to befriend and romance
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and Mechanical Marie
- Mechanical Marie features a talented fighter who serves as the secret bodyguard to a misanthrope millionaire who believes she is an android. She is not an android, but pretends.
- Mechanical Marie is by far the more silly show. It enjoys absurd comedy frequently.
- While Mechanical Marie has drama in its heavily romance story, it is undercut by how comical the situation is.

The Fable
An assassin simply known as Fable has earned a legendary reputation in the underworld for ruthlessly, efficiently, and successfully carrying out hits for organized crime. However, after six years of efficient murder, his boss fears too much heat from authorities and tells Fable to take a year off.
Forced to move to Osaka and live like a normal citizen for a year with his handler staying with him under the guise of being his sister, Fable decides to try his best to follow these new orders.
However, the Osaka mafia is not happy to learn that the legendary Fable has come to stay in their territory. Between threats and plots going on in town, Fable still tries his best to be a perfectly normal person.
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and The Fable
- A killer is now faced with living a normal life
- Normal slice of life as viewed through the trained gaze of a professional killer.
- Killer endears themselves to various people around town, sometimes due to their special set of skills.
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and The Fable
- The Fable is about a professional assassin who is told to take a break. He is ill-equipped to live like a normal person.
- The Fable is often a silly deadpan comedy, but it does have serious moments.
- While Victoria is further softened by a child, the main character in The Fable is a bit child-like in the way he goes about life, though he is an adult man.
- The Fable has a hint at romance, but it doesn’t take it very seriously or far.
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Buddy Daddies
Kazuki and Rei are roommates that also work as professional mercenaries while they each flee from their grim memories through the dangerous work.
However, while carrying out an assassination on Christmas Eve, their paths cross with four-year-old Miri who traveled to Tokyo by herself, told by her mother who abandoned her to go find her father. Unfortunately for everyone involved, her father was their mark whom they successfully took out.
Now saddled with a small child, this pair of grown men struggle to adjust to being new parents while also balancing it with their dangerous job.
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and Buddy Daddies
- Professional killers end up raising a child who has nowhere else to go
- Killers learning to be parents, and also keeping threats from using the child to get to them
- Found family elements.
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and Buddy Daddies
- Buddy Daddies doesn’t have any romance
- They tried to give the kid back in Buddy Daddies, but couldn’t and just had to deal with it.
- Buddy Daddies is about fixers in our modern world, not a Victorian England-inspired world.

Alice and Zoroku
Sana is a special girl who holds the power of Alice’s Dream, the ability to materialize anything she can imagine.
After she escapes from a lab where she was a test subject, she ends up in Shinjuku where she meets an old man named Zouroku, but will he help her escape her pursuers?
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and Alice and Zoroku
- A girl/woman skilled in various abilities is fleeing her previous organization
- She befriends a man and endears herself to other people around town.
- Her past organization comes back to track her and the man helps her intervene to keep her new freedom.
- Found family elements
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and Alice and Zoroku
- Alice and Zoroku is about a child experiment with a unique ability to create real things from her imagination. Alice is a child and Zoroku is an old man.
- There is no romance in Alice and Zoroku.
- Alice and Zoroku takes place in our modern world with some sci-fi elements, not a Victorian England-inspired one.

Kurenai
After losing his parents to a terrorist attack, Shinkurou Kurenai swore to stay strong. Now a high school student, he lives with the Houzuki family, mastering their style of martial arts.
One day, a member of the family brings home a young child from a wealthy family and asks Kurenai to guard her.
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and Kurenai
- Girl fleeing from her previous organization starts a new life
- The man is a skilled combatant.
- Girl endears herself to people around town
- Her ties to the organization catch up with her.
- Found family elements
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and Kurenai
- Kurenai is about a teen boy acting as a bodyguard to a little rich girl who fled her family for various reasons. It is a bit of a different dynamic.
- The boy is the main character in Kurenai.
- Kurenai does not have any romance, though it does bait a bit of harem-esque interest in the male main character.
- Kurenai takes place in our modern world, not a Victorian England-inspired one.

Spy X Family
There is no order too big for master spy Twilight.
He uses his numerous skills as a spy to keep the peace between his country and aggressive neighbors, but his recent mission demands he investigate a reclusive politician that only attends school events for his child.
Dictating that he must now have a child and wife of his own to pull off the mission, Twilight manages to recruit a small orphan girl and an office lady to play the roles.
However, what he doesn’t know is that his new daughter is an esper capable of reading minds and his new wife is actually an assassin using him as a cover to maintain a guise of normalcy.
Similarities Between Victoria of Many Faces and Spy X Family
- A master spy takes on an orphaned child as a convenient cover, but develops feelings for them over time
- Master spy protects child and their own self from various threats
- Spy learns what it is like to live like a normal person for the first time, enjoys it, and endears themselves to people around town
- Spy develops a romantic interest
- Found family elements
Differences Between Victoria of Many Faces and Spy X Family
- Spy X Family is about an active master spy recruiting a family to cover their current mission. He doesn’t know the child is a psychic or that his wife is a secret assassin also using him as a cover.
- Spy X Family is the more energetic show. It favors wacky comedy and action, having more of both compared to Victoria of Many Faces. Consider it more like a shounen action anime than the drama that is Victoria.
- Because of its passion for cute comedy, there isn’t a lot of dire threats in Spy X Family.
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