Rakshasa Street 镇魂街 (Zhèn Hún Jiē)

 

Genre: Action, Supernatural, Youkai, Spirits, 

 

Description: 

 

Requiem Street, where evil spirits are attracted to in order to destroy them. A place where spirits and humans co-exist, not all humans can enter Requiem Street. Only those rare-soul users with guardian spirits can enter. Xia Ling was just a normal university intern, but a meeting by chance changes her ordinary life... In this world full of evil spirits, can you cooperate with your guardian spirit in order to survive?

 

Episode

Season 1: 24 + 2 ONA 

Season 2: 5 + 10

Season 3: 16

Season 4: 26

 

Original Run

Season 1: April 28, 2016 – October 20, 2016

ONA: July 21, 2016 – July 28, 2016

Season 2a: December 28, 2019 – January 18, 2020

Season 2b: May 15, 2021 – June 26, 2021

Season 3: July 29, 2023 – November 4, 2023

Season 4: November 22, 2024 – Ongoing

Studio: L²Studio

 

Television Drama: August 2, 2017 – September 6, 2017 (24 Episodes)

The Ancient Magus' Bride 魔法使いの嫁 (Mahou Tsukai no Yome)

Alternative Name: 魔法使的新娘 (Mó Fǎ Shǐ De Xīn Niáng)

 

Genre: Drama, Magic, Romance, Dark Fantasy, Mystery, Occult,

               Supernatural, Slice of Life, Spirits, Youkai, Dragons,

 

Description: 

 

Chise Hatori is 15-year-old orphan. She has no relatives, means, or hopes when a demonic sorcerer who can't become human buys her. He states that Chise will now be his apprentice and bride.

 

Episode

Season 1: 24 + 3 OVA + 1 ONA + 24 ONA + 1 Special + 1 ONA + 3 OVA

Season 2: 12 + 12

 

Original Run

Season 1: October 7, 2017 – March 24, 2018

OVA: September 10, 2016 – September 9, 2017

ONA: October 3, 2017

ONA: October 10, 2017 – March 27, 2018

Special: December 31, 2017

ONA: March 10, 2019

OVA: September 10, 2021 – September 10, 2022

Season 2a: April 6, 2023 – June 22, 2023

Season 2b: October 5, 2023 – December 21, 2023

Studio: Wit Studio / W-Toon Studio & DMM.Futurework (ONA) / Studio Kafka (OVA 2021 & S2)

Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation ムヒョとロージーの魔法律相談事務所 (Muhyo to Rouji no Mahouritsu Soudan Jimusho)

Alternative Name: 六冰与郎次的魔法律顾问事务所

                                     (Liù Bīng Yǔ Láng Cì De Mó Fǎ Lǜ Gù Wèn Shì Wù Suǒ)

 

Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Supernatural, Ghosts/Spirits, 

               Youkai/Monsters, Magic, Dark Fantasy, Drama, Occult

 

Description: 

 

Muhyo and Roji are masters of magical law and solve many cases having to do with ghosts, monsters, and all things supernatural.

 

Episode: 12 + 12

 

Original Run

Season 1: August 3, 2018 – October 19, 2018

Season 2: July 7, 2020 – September 22, 2020

Studio: Studio Deen

Monster Incidents 怪物事変 (Kemono Jihen)

Alternative Name: 怪物事变 (Guài Wù Shì Biàn)

 

Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Supernatural, Demons, 

               Ghosts/Spirits, Youkai/Monsters

 

Description: 

 

In a quiet rural village, many domestic animals die unnatural deaths in a strange incident. To resolve the incident, an odd-looking man from Tokyo who goes by the name "Inugami" comes to the town to investigate. In the town, he meets a young boy who has a mysterious air about him called "Dorotabō."

 

Episode: 12

 

Original Run: January 10, 2021 – March 28, 2021

Studio: Ajia-Do

 

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun 地縛少年花子くん (Jibaku Shōnen Hanako-kun)

Alternative Name: 地缚少年花子君 (De Fù Shào Nián Huā Zǐ Jūn)

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Ghost/Spirit, Horror, Romance, 

               Supernatural, Youkai, School, Twins, Alternative Version

 

Description: 

 

If you go to the third stall of the third-floor girls' bathroom in the old school building and knock three times, Hanako-san will appear and grant your wish – for a price. Except when lovelorn high school first-year Nene Yashiro tries, a boy appears from the stall, Hanako-kun. He's willing to grant her wish, but he warns her that the more supernatural the solution, the more bitter the price and that maybe her wish, for the most popular second-year boy in the school to like her, isn't really what she's looking for. Yashiro is stubbornly insistent that it is, however, she agrees to use Hanako-kun's down-to-earth solutions out of a self-help book. When none of those work, though, she seizes on a mermaid scale curse, despite Hanako's warnings, not only cursing herself, but also binding her to Hanako-kun for this life and beyond.

 

Episode: 12 + 12

 

Original Run

Season 1: January 9, 2020 – March 26, 2020

Season 2: January 12, 2025 – Ongoing

Studio: Lerche

 

Ninja Collection 忍者コレクション

Alternative Name: 忍者收藏 (Rěn Zhě Shōu Cáng)

Genre: Horror, Supernatural, Alternative Version, Youkai, Spirits, 

               Onmyouji, Ninjas

 

Description: 

 

The Tōkeshū ninja group oversee Tokyo, the city where dreams and desires swirl like eddies in a river. With ancient techniques passed down through generations, the ninja are intent on wiping out the "darkness" enveloping people in the current Reiwa era.

 

Episode: 13

 

Original Run: July 13, 2020 – October 26, 2020

Studio: ILCA, DRAWIZ & Toho Interactive Animation

 

In/Spectre 虚構推理 (Kyokō Suiri)

Alternative Name: 虚构推理 (Xū Gòu Tuī Lǐ)

Genre: Mystery, Romance, Supernatural, Thriller, Demons, Youkai, 

               Exorcists/Onmyouji, Spirits

 

Description: 

 

When she was still just a girl, Kotoko was kidnapped by yokai. These spirits made her into a powerful intermediary between the spirit and human worlds, but this power came at a price: an eye and a leg. Now, years later, she watches out for dangerous yokai while developing feelings for a young man named Kuro, who is also special: an incident with a yokai has given him healing powers. He's surprised when Kotoko asks him to team up to handle renegade yokai, preserving the thin line between reality and the supernatural.

 

Episode

Season 1: 12 + 38 ONA + 12 ONA

Season 2: 12 + 16 ONA

 

Original Run:

Season 1: January 12, 2020 – March 29, 2020

ONA: November 15, 2019 – February 10, 2020

ONA: January 17, 2020 – April 3, 2020

Season 2: January 9, 2023 – March 27, 2023

ONA: February 11, 2022 – September 30, 2022

Studio: Brain's Base

Eight Clouds Rising 八雲立つ (Yakumo Tatsu)

  

Alternative Name: 出云传奇 (Chū Yún Chuán Qí)

Genre: Adventure, Horror, Supernatural, Historical, Fantasy, Martial Arts,

               Ghosts/Spirits, Demons, Occult, Onmyouji

Description: 

Kuraki Fuzuchi is a quiet young man who has immense psychic powers and sword skills. He later meets Takeo Nanachi, a college student with similar latent powers. The story opens with Nanachi traveling to a small shrine in the mountains for a festival that only occurs every 49 years in order to purify his (now deceased) grandfather’s sword. There he meets Kuraki and later accidentally stumbles upon Kuraki’s initiation ritual as a Shaman. From there on, their lives are inexplicitly intertwined as they encounter various ghosts, spirits, demons, and other characters with supernatural powers while the author also provides a parallel running story depicting their previous life.

Episode: 2

Original Run: October 25, 1997 – November 25, 1997

Studio: Studio Pierrot

Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens かんなぎ

Alternative Name: 神薙 (Shén Tì)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural, Ghosts/Spirits, 

               Split Personality, Gods/Goddesses/Deities,

Description: 

An art student named Jin Mikuriya carves a statue from the wood of the Kannagi tree only to have the statue come to life in the form of a goddess, who has now taken over the statue. He and "Nagi" work together to destroy the impurities that are gathering in the town.

Episode: 13 + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: October 4, 2008 – December 27, 2008

Special: May 27, 2009

Studio: A-1 Pictures & Ordet

Tales of Exorcism 降灵记 (Jiàng Líng Jì)

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Demons, Onmyouji, Youkai, Ghosts/Spirits

Description: 

A tough girl is known as spirit exorcist, she met a bad spirit who in his journey of searching his own existence and he was seal by her into a dagger. She accepted him as her spiritual servant. Although they encounter various monsters along the way, they will keep each other accompany and become more reliable companions.

Episode: 15

Original Run: March 22, 2017 – August 16, 2017

Studio: Pb Animation CO. Ltd. & Studio LAN

Twin Star Exorcists 双星の陰陽師 (Sousei no Onmyouji)

Alternative Name: 雙星之陰陽師 (Shuāng Xīng Zhī Yīn Yáng Shī)

Genre: Action, Romance, Supernatural, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, 

               Exorcists/Onmyouji, Ghosts/Spirits, Youkai/Monsters, 

Description: 

Rokuro is from a family of exorcists who remove the evil Kegare, but his real dream is to be a singer, a soccer player, or anything other than an exorcist. When another exorcist name Benio arrives, Rokura is suddenly inflamed with competitive spirit and decides to put his natural knack to good use. Their rivalry gets more complicated when they both learn they are the destined "Twin Star Exorcists," two ultimate fighters fated to marry and create the prophesied child who will eliminate all the Kegare in the world.

Episode: 50

Original Run: April 6, 2016 – March 29, 2017

Studio: Studio Pierrot

Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs ゆらぎ荘の幽奈さん (Yuragi-sō no Yūna-san)

Alternative Name: 搖曳莊的幽奈小姐 (Yáo Yè Zhuāng De Yōu Nài Xiǎo Jiě)

Genre: Comedy, Supernatural, Harem, Romance, Ecchi, Spirits, Youkai,

Description: 

Kogarashi, a high school boy cursed with misfortune to see ghosts since birth, finds a haunted inn offering rent-free room to anyone able to exorcise a ghost. When the ghost turns out to be an innocent young girl, Kogarashi decides to help her move on rather than purify her. While he works on that, Kogarashi is pulled into the paranormal hijinks of the other residents of the inn and even his new schoolmates. 

Episode: 12 + 4 OVA

Original Run

Series: July 14, 2018 – September 29, 2018

OVA: July 4, 2018 – December 4, 2018

Studio: Xebec / Xebec & Signal.MD (OVA)

My Holy Weapon 我的逆天神器 (Wǒ De Nì Tiān Shén Qì)

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Fantasy, 

               Reincarnation, Spirits, Action

Description: 

One day, while being attacked, Chang Tian unintentionally invokes an artifact called Xiao Bai that protects him from a terrible fate. After this, he finds himself on a battlefield, where he will fight alongside several other people like him, able to invoke artifacts...

Episode: 16

Original Run: April 26, 2018 – August 9, 2018

Studio: Haoliners Animation League & Pb Animation Co. Ltd

Thriller Restaurant 怪談レストラン (Kaidan Restaurant)

Alternative Name: 怪谈餐馆 (Guài Tán Cān Guǎn)

Genre: Horror, Kids, Mystery, Supernatural, Comedy, Ghosts/Spirits

Description: 

Shou transfers from London into Ako's class at Yamazakura Elementary School. Because strange things are always happening in Yamazakura, people call it a cursed town. It's a good thing Shou is interested in paranormal phenomena, because in each episode he, Ako (whom everyone calls Anko), and their friend Reiko are in three short horror stories introduced by the ghostly garcon of the restaurant. But don't worry. The restaurant adjusts the spices so those who don't like scary stories can still enjoy the meal.

Episode: 23

Original Run: October 13, 2009 – June 8, 2010

Studio: Toei Animation

Live-Action Film: August 21, 2010

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

SpiritPact スピリットパクト

Alternative Name: 灵契 (Líng Qì)

Genre: Drama, Romance, Supernatural, Shounen-Ai, Ghosts/Spirits,

               Onmyouji, Youkai

Description: 

Poverty-strikened Yang Jinghua had an accident. The moment he woke up, he seemed to turn 10 years younger overnight. Yang Jinghua thought he had been reborn and when he was about to step on the path for a new beginning, a white-haired, rich and handsome guy named Duanmu Xi, appeared right in front of him. He not only told Yang Jinghua that Yang Jinghua was already dead, he even asked for an invitation: "Young man, do you want to sign a contract with me and stay with me for the rest of your life?"

Episode: 20 ONA + 12 Episodes

Original Run
Season 1: June 21, 2016 – November 1, 2016
Season 2: February 23, 2018 – May 11, 2018

Studio: Haoliners Animation League

Live-Action Film: March 11, 2018

Punch Line パンチライン

Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Apocalypse, Genetic Modification, Parody, 

               Ghosts/Spirits, Terrorism, Time Travel, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi,

               Supernatural, Body Switching

Description: 

High schooler Yūta Iridatsu has experienced “astral projection” i.e. his spirit has been separated from his body. He woke up in a mansion named Koraikan and met a cat spirit named Chiranosuke, who told him “You must find the Sacred Tome of Koraikan in order to return to your physical body.” While searching through corridors of Koraikan, Yūta bumped into underpants of its female residents, and doing so would, eh, create some big trouble for planet Earth.

Episode: 12

Original Run: April 9, 2015 – June 25, 2015

Studio: MAPPA

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 Rebirth of Buddha 仏陀再誕

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Psychological, Romance, Reincarnation, 

               Ghosts/Spirits, Gods/Goddesses/Deities

Description: 

17 year-old Sayako Amanokawa aspires to become a journalist, just like Kanemoto, an elite newspaper writer she looks up to. But Kanemoto, shamed from an erroneous report about a corruption scandal, jumps in front of a train and commits suicide. Since that incident, Sayako suddenly becomes able to see spirits and almost loses her life. However, from that near-fatal incident she experiences something extraordinary. The journalist inside her stirred, she embarks to find out about the truth. But the forces that stand in her way turn out to be much formidable than she ever imagined

Original Run: October 17, 2009

Studio: Group TAC