Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded is a fatsplat for Exalted featuring the Dragon-Blooded, or Terrestrial Exalted. It was first released in 2006, and was the first entry in the Manual of Exalted Power series for Exalted Second Edition. Rules for playing Dragon Kings are presented in the Exalted Player's Guide in 1st edition and the Scroll of the Fallen Races in 2nd edition. Fair Folk [19] Like the Dragon Kings, they are an alternative player character type to the Exalted.
There's not much Anime in Exalted (no matter what the corebook says). As for gritty, well watch the anime Blade of the Berserk (also known as just Berserk) you can have super powerful protagonists and still be damn gritty (the reason I recommend a anime is that I am a anime buff not a film buff or book buff so I just recommend the thing I'm most familiar with) remember that the mortals around the player characters can still die brutal pointless deaths. In fact take a que from Sword of the Berserk and make a campaign about a mercenary company led by the PCs, lots of people die randomly and pointlessly in large scale battles and at the same time people in a mercenary company gets close to each other and gets to know each other.