Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~ Dawn of the Shinsengumi is a tV series anime that premiered in summer 2012, produced by Studio DEEN.

About the production: the story comes from a visual novel, there are 12 episodes of about 23 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, drama and supernatural, with themes such as Swordplay, Historical, Samurai and Primarily Male Cast.

On AniList, Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~ Dawn of the Shinsengumi has an average score of 70%, a good score, and appears on 10,728 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Hakuouki.

The year is 1863 and as Japan's long festering wounds of political discord erupt into violent waves of street clashes and murder, the Tokugawa Shogunate sends a new force of masterless samurai called the Roshigumi to the aid of the Aizu forces in Kyoto. However the new "police" are anything but a cohesive force and assassination has already split them into two opposing factions. The stronger is led by the brutal Serizawa Kamo and the lesser by the more honorable but less assertive Isami Kondo. It is into this pack of wolves that Ryunosuke Ibuki is dragged by the rabid Serizawa. Forced to be a virtual slave by blood debt, he hates the samurai and everything they stand for. But as he sees how the other half of the samurai live, he begins to believe that there may still be a chance, for both himself and Japan, if only Kondo will step up and take down the mad dog Serizawa! (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Official synopsis from AniList.