Nuwa's Diary 女娲成长日记 (Nǚ Wā Chéng Cháng Rì Jì)

 

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Folklore/Mythology, Supernatural,

               Gods/Goddesses/Deities,

 

Description: 

 

This story follows an orphan girl rumored to be a successor of "Nuwa", the goddess of creation in ancient Chinese mythology.

 

Episode: 30

 

Original Run: April 12, 2016 – November 1, 2016

Studio: B.CMAY PICTURES

 

Television Drama: August 22, 2016 (24 Episodes)

Record of Ragnarok 終末のワルキューレ (Shuumatsu no Valkyrie)

Alternative Name: 终末的女武神 (Zhōng Mò De Nǚ Wǔ Shén)

 

Genre: Action, Superpowers, Drama, Supernatural, Tournaments, Death,

               Gods/Goddesses/Deities, Folklore/Mythology, Historical

 

Description: 

 

High above the realm of man, the gods of the world have convened to decide on a single matter: the continued existence of mankind. Under the head of Zeus, the deities of Ancient Greece, Norse mythology, and Hinduism, among others, call assembly every one thousand years to decide the fate of humanity. Because of their unrelenting abuse toward each other and the planet, this time the gods vote unanimously in favor of ending the human race.

But before the mandate passes, Brunhild, one of the 13 demigod Valkyries, puts forth an alternate proposal: rather than anticlimactically annihilating mankind, why not give them a fighting chance and enact Ragnarök, a one-on-one showdown between man and god? Spurred on by the audacity of the challenge, the divine council quickly accepts, fully confident that this contest will display the utter might of the gods. To stand a chance against the mighty heavens, Brunhild will need to assemble history's greatest individuals, otherwise the death knell will surely be sounded for mankind.

 

Episode

Season 1: 12 + 14 ONA + 12 Special + 8 Special

Season 2: 10 + 5 + 18 ONA

 

Original Run

Season 1: June 17, 2021

ONA: July 27, 2021 – October 1, 2021

Special: October 3, 2021 – December 19, 2021

Special: September 24, 2021 – October 1, 2021

Season 2a: January 26, 2023

Season 2b: July 12, 2023

ONA: April 13, 2023 – November 23, 2023

Studio: Graphinica (S1) / AQUA ARIS (ONA) / 

                Yumeta Company & Graphinica (S2) 

Sekai no Yami Zukan 世界の闇図鑑

Alternative Name: 世界暗图鉴 (Shì Jiè Àn Tú Jiàn)

Genre: Horror, Supernatural, Folklore

Description: 

Tucked away in the darkest depths of this world, tales of the bizarre and the supernatural quietly unfold. These inexplicable stories are chronicled throughout the pages of a certain strange encyclopedia, sheltered within a crumbling, decrepit building. Do you dare to open its cover and experience the horrors firsthand?

Each of the macabre tales held within the book's pages details some unusual, surreal experiences that often come to a gruesome end. A man searches for his adulterous wife, only to find himself at the mercy of otherworldly visitors; a boy befriends a snowman who harbors a sinister secret; crop circles suddenly form on a family farm, created by some unexpected visitors; hidden in plain sight, menacing mechanical beings continue on undetected. In all of these horrifying stories, nothing is as simple as it seems, revealing a terrifying darkness that perhaps might have been best left alone.

Episode: 13

Original Run: April 3, 2017 – June 26, 2017

Studio: ILCA

Sound of the Sky ソ・ラ・ノ・ヲ・ト (Sora no Woto)

Alternative Name: 空·之·音 (Kōng·Zhī·Yīn)

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life, Folklore, Military, 

               Post-War, Post-Apocalyptic

Description: 

After a cease-fire during a long war: A second-class Bugler soldier, Kanata Sorami, is reasigned to her new outpost to a stronghold Fortress in the little city of Seize, where other female soldiers reside to serve in a multi purpose task, 1st: maintain the fortress, 2nd: contribute to the traditions of the city since all are young females and the folklore tales that the young maidens keept a demon under control, and 3rd: also to be prepared in case of a non-probable attack due to the isolation of the city.

Episode: 12 + 2 Special

Original Run

Series: January 4, 2010 – March 22, 2010

Special: June 23, 2010 – September 22, 2010

Studio: A-1 Pictures

Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories 闇芝居

Alternative Name: 暗芝居 (Àn Zhī Jū)

Genre: Horror, Supernatural, Folklore, Ghosts/Spirits, Youkai/Monsters, 

               Demons, Alternative Version

Description: 

A series of short horror stories based around Japanese myths and urban legends. The series is framed around an old man telling these tales to schoolchildren on a playground using kamishibai, a traditional Japanese storytelling method using paper scrolls.

Episode

Season 1: 13 episodes

Season 2: 13 episodes

Season 3: 13 episodes

Season 4: 13 episodes

Season 5: 13 episodes

Season 6: 13 episodes
Season 7: 13 episodes

Season 8: 13 episodes

Season 9: 13 episodes + 1 Special

Season 10: 13 episodes

Season 11: 13 episodes

Season 12: 13 episodes

Season 13: 13 episodes

Original Run

Season 1: July 15, 2013 – September 30, 2013

Season 2: July 7, 2014 – September 29, 2014

Season 3: January 11, 2016 – April 4, 2016

Season 4: January 16, 2017 – March 27, 2017

Season 5: July 3, 2017 – October 2, 2017

Season 6: July 7, 2018 – September 29, 2018
Season 7: July 8, 2019 – September 30, 2019

Season 8: January 11, 2021 – April 5, 2021

Season 9: July 12, 2021 - September 30, 2021

Special: August 13, 2021

Season 10: January 11, 2022 - April 4, 2022

Season 11: July 10, 2023 - October 2, 2023

Season 12: January 15, 2024 - April 8, 2024

Season 13: July 15, 2024 - October 7, 2024

Studio: ILCA

Ozmafia!! オズマフィア!!

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Bishounen, School, Folklore

Description: 

Having transferred into Oz Academy, Scarlet finds himself already in trouble. The three boys who save him in his time of need are named Caramia, Kyrie, and Axel.

Episode: 12 + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: July 7, 2016 – September 22, 2016

Special: October 28, 2016

Studio: Creators in Pack

Kowabon こわぼん

Genre: Horror, Folklore, Ghosts/Spirits

Description: 

There are cameras everywhere in the modern world, monitoring our lives 24/7. Those "eyes" have seen the world you do not know.

Episode: 13

Original Run: October 4, 2015 – December 27, 2015

Studio: ILCA

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya かぐや姬の物语 (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari)

Alternative Name: 辉夜姬物语 (Huī Yè Jī Wù Yǔ)

Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Drama, Supernatural, Folklore/Mythology,

               Tragedy,

Description: 

In an idyllic rural setting an old bamboo cutter and his wife raise a tiny girl found nestled within a glowing bamboo stalk along with a fortune in gold. As she approaches adulthood the bamboo cutter uses the fortune to purchase a villa in the capital, buy himself a title and employ tutors to transform the country girl—now given the name Kaguya—into a refined woman. News of her beauty brings powerful and wealthy suitors who compete for her hand in marriage, culminating in a proposal from the emperor. All the while Kaguya wishes that she and her family could return to their former life and to be reunited with her sweetheart, Sutemaru. Sooner or later, though, her true origins will make their own claim upon her.

Original Run: November 23, 2013

Studio: Studio Ghibli

The Borrower Arrietty 借りぐらしのアリエッティ (Karigurashi no Arrietty)

Alternative Name: 借东西的小人阿莉埃蒂 (Jiè Dōng Xī De Xiǎo Rén Ā Lì Āi Dì)

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Folklore/Mythology, Spirits

Description: 

Sho moves into his great aunt's house and soon discovers the presence of tiny people, the Borrowers, living there. A 14-year-old Borrower named Arrietty strives to prove herself by helping her father gather materials that her family needs from Sho's new home. However, Arrietty and Sho meet, breaking the rule that humans must not know about the Borrowers' existence. As Sho and Arrietty's relationship develops, human interference endangers the Borrowers' lives. Arrietty and Sho work together to try and protect the Borrowers' way of life.

Original Run: July 17, 2010

Studio: Studio Ghibli

Requiem from the Darkness 京极夏彦 巷说百物语 (Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari)

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural, Historical, 

               Folklore/Mythology,Fantasy

Description: 

Tired of writing riddles for children, Yamaoka Momosuke plans on gathering spooky and gruesome stories and publishing them in an anthology called Hyakumonogatari ("One Hundred Tales"). While researching these old myths and legends he comes across a mysterious trio who call themselves the Ongyou. They are detectives who are investigating the legends to reveal their truths...and bring those in the wrong to justice. Each time Momosuke meets the Ongyou he must face horrible truths and battle with his morals, but he's seeing things he shouldn't be seeing...

Episode: 13

Original Run: October 3, 2003 – December 26, 2003

Studio: TMS Entertainment

Amagi Brilliant Park 甘城ブリリアントパーク (Amagi Buririanto Pāku)

Alternative Name:  甘城辉煌乐园救世主 

                                       (Gān Chéng Huī Huáng Lè Yuán Jiù Shì Zhǔ)

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Amusement Park, Magic, Workplace,

               Folklore/Mythology, Spirits

Description: 

Seiya was forced to accept an invitation to an amusement park by the mysterious and beautiful girl Isuzu. What he didn't know was that she would bring him to the decrepit Amagi Brilliant Park, Japan's most disappointing amusement park. Seiya is introduced to the leader of the Park, the "real princess" Latifah, who suddenly entrusts him with saving the park, which is in danger of shutting down. Amagi Brilliant Park, it turns out, is not just any amusement park, but rather one populated by fairies.

Episode: 13 + 8 Special 

Original Run
Series: October 6, 2014 – December 25, 2014
Special: December 26, 2014 – June 26, 2015

Studio: Kyoto Animation

Kamigami no Asobi: Ludere deorum 神々の悪戯 ~Ludere deorum~ (Mischief of the Gods)

Alternative Name: 諸神的惡作劇 (Zhū Shén De È Zuò Jù)

Genre: Romance, Supernatural, Drama, Bishounen, Reverse Harem, 

               Isekai, Gods/Goddesses/Deities, Mythology

Description: 

Yui Kusanagi is ordered by Zeus, a god and the headmaster of a school he created, to teach the meaning of love to young and handsome gods. The reason he has for doing this is to cancel the negative effects of the weakening bond between the world of the divine and the world of the humans.

Episode: 12

Original Run: April 5, 2014 – June 22, 2014

Studio: Brain's Base

Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East 八犬伝 ~東方八犬異聞~ (Hakkenden: Tōhō Hakken Ibun)

Alternative Name: 八犬传-东方八犬异闻-第一季

                                      (Bā Quǎn Chuán-Dōng Fāng Bā Quǎn Yì Wén- Dì Yī Jì)

 

Genre: Supernatural, Folklore, Shapeshifting, Youkai, Comedy, Fantasy,

               Transformation

Description: 

Five years ago, almost every villager of Ootsuka died due to a tragic plague. But mysteriously enough, three survivors: a girl and two boys, emerged. Now living in a church, the three live in isolation, hidden from those who may seek to find them. Shino, one of the survivors, has control over the power of Murasame, the blade of life. But when the imperial church seeks to take the Murasame for themselves, their peaceful life becomes a thing of the past...

Episode: 13 + 13 

Original Run

Season 1: January 5, 2013 – March 30, 2013

Season 2: July 8, 2013 – September 29, 2013

Studio: Studio Deen

Natsume's Book of Friends 夏目友人帳 (Natsume Yuujinchou)

Genre: Supernatural, Comedy, Drama, Youkai/Monsters, Slice of Life, 

               Ghosts/Spirits, Folklore

Description: 

Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him. Containing the names of these spirits, a binding contract was formed between the spirits and the owner of the book. Now, Natsume is determined to free the spirits and dissolve the contracts. With the help of a spirit cat, his days are filled trying to return the names to these spirits.

Episode

Season 1: 13 episodes

Season 2: 13 episodes + 5 Special

Season 3: 13 episodes

Season 4: 13 episodes + 1 Special + 1 OVA
Season 5: 11 episodes + 2 Special
Season 6: 11 episodes + 2 Special + 2 Movies + 2 ONAs

Season 7: 

Original Run

Season 1: July 7, 2008 – September 29, 2008

Season 2: January 5, 2009 – March 30, 2009
Special: April 22, 2009 – August 26, 2009 

Season 3: July 5, 2011 – September 27, 2011

Season 4: January 2, 2012 – March 26, 2012
Special: December 15, 2013
OVA: February 1, 2014
Season 5: October 4, 2016 – December 20, 2016
Special: March 22, 2017 – April 26, 2017
Season 6: April 12, 2017 – June 21, 2017

Special: September 27, 2017 – October 25, 2017
Movie: September 29, 2018

Movie: January 16, 2021

ONA: March 21, 2021

ONA: April 21, 2021

Season 7:  To be on aired October 2024

Studio: Brain's Base (S1-4) / Shuka (S5 onwards)

Gosick ゴシック (Goshikku)

Genre: Drama, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Alternate History, Library,   
               Detectives, Gothic, Lolita, War, Folklore, Occult, Historical, School

Description: 

GOSICK takes place in 1924 in a small, made-up European country of Sauville. The story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who is a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. There he meets Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the entire content of the library or solving mysteries that even detectives can't solve.

Episode: 24 + 1 Special 

Original Run
Series: January 7, 2011 – July 2, 2011
Special: March 26, 2011

Studio: Bones