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Kamisama Hajimemashita

Also known as Kamisama Kiss.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Dentsu , TMS Entertainment , Funimation , Pony Canyon , Sotsu , DAX Production , Hakusensha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his place is a shrine, and Nanami has unwittingly taken over his job as a local deity!

Nanami has all kinda of new responsibilities she doesn't understand, dangers she's unaware of, and a cranky ex-familiar who's... actually pretty hot. What's a new-fledged godling to do?



Tags: Gods , Shoujo , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Episodic , Time Manipulation , Demons , Male Harem , School , Monster Boy , Love Triangle , Meta , Tsundere , Bullying , Slavery , Anthropomorphism , Cohabitation

Edomae Elf

Also known as Otaku Elf.

Studio: C2C , Nikkatsu , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Kodansha , NetEase Games
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Takamimi Shrine has an unusual resident – Elda, an ancient elf who’s obsessed with video games! The shrine’s teenage attendant, Koito Koganei, keeps this reclusive otaku well supplied with energy drinks and junk food. Even though she loves 100%-ing her games, Elda has duties to attend to, and Koganei is bound and determined to make this otaku elf fulfill them! It’ll just take an offering or two to bribe—um, we mean convince Elda to put down her new game…



Tags: Otaku Culture , Elf , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Shrine Maiden , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Iyashikei , Historical , Religion , Educational , Rehabilitation , Slapstick , Food , Isekai , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Work , Shounen , Archery , Fashion , School , Tanned Skin , Kuudere , Urban Fantasy

Kamichu!

Also known as Kamichu!.

Studio: Aniplex , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Funimation , Brain's Base , Ashi Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

What would you do if you suddenly became a god?

When little Yurie, a junior high school student, discovers that she is a god, she is beside herself in indecision and asks her friends. Thus begins her new life exploring what it means to be a god and her struggle to properly fulfill all the responsibilities it entails. From finding stray gods to dealing with Martians, her life is about to become more than ordinary.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Gods , Urban Fantasy , Iyashikei , Episodic , Primarily Female Cast , Youkai , Primarily Child Cast , School , Mythology , Rural , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Shrine Maiden , Magic , Aliens , Anthropomorphism

Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi

Also known as Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

The series centers on a female college student named Aoi, who inherited the ability to see spirits from her late grandfather. Aoi prides herself on her cooking, and one day she's feeding some agricultural spirits when suddenly a god and the master of the "Tenshinya" (Heavenly Inn) appears and takes Aoi away. He says that due to her grandfather's debts, she must become his bride. Aoi hates this idea and instead declares that she will pay back her grandfather's debt by working at the Tenshinya.



Tags: Shoujo , Youkai , Food , Female Protagonist , Isekai , Heterosexual , Inn , Arranged Marriage , Monster Boy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Harem , Love Triangle , Twins

Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu

Also known as A Whisker Away.

Studio: Studio Colorido , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation , BS Fuji , KDDI , KADOKAWA , Twin Engine , Dentsu Meitetsu Communications , Fuji Creative Corporation , Fuji TV , Toho , Universal Music Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Miyo Sasaki is an energetic high school girl who comes from a broken family consisting of her unconfident father and an overly invested stepmother, whose attempts at connecting with Miyo come across as bothersome. Seeing Kento Hinode as a refuge from all her personal issues, she can't help herself from forcing her unorthodox demonstrations of love onto her crush.

While Miyo is unable to get Kento's attention as herself, she manages to succeed by interacting with him in the form of a white cat, affectionately nicknamed ""Tarou"" by Kento. But Miyo soon realizes that she can't help Kento with the various problems she overhears in her cat form and is now caught between two tough choices. Will she continue her relationship with him as a cat, or will she reveal her identity and risk what they have, in order to help him as her human self?

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Note: The film was slated to open in theaters in Japan on June 5, but was postponed due to COVID-19 and received an exclusive streaming on Netflix beginning on June 18.

Tags: Shapeshifting , Animals , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Kemonomimi , Family Life , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , School , Anthropomorphism , Youkai , Bullying , Tragedy , CGI , Nekomimi , Coming of Age , Rural , Feet

Gingitsune

Also known as Gingitsune: Messenger Fox of the Gods.

Studio: diomedéa , Pony Canyon , AT-X , Movic , Glovision , KLOCKWORX , Lantis , MediaNet
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

Gintaro is a fox spirit that has been protecting the small Inari temple since the Edo era. Saeki Makoto's family possesses the power to see the gods' agent, but the ability is limited to one living relative at a time. When Makoto's mother passed away while she was still young, Makoto inherited the ability as the sole remaining family member. With the help of fox spirit's power, Makoto and Gintaro help the people of their community, in spite of their many differences.



Tags: Seinen , Mythology , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Animals , Shrine Maiden , Rural , School , Episodic , Anthropomorphism

Natsume Yuujinchou

Also known as Natsume's Book of Friends Season 1.

Studio: Aniplex , Brain's Base , NAS , NIS America Inc. , TV Tokyo Music , Sony Music Entertainment , Trilogy Future Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Natsume has always been an outcast because he inherited his grandmother's ability to see yokai. After moving to his grandmother's hometown and accidentally releasing a yokai imprisoned in a Lucky Cat statue, he learns about his grandmother's "Book of Friends," which contains the names of the yokai she defeated, and allows its wielder to command the yokai named within. Since then, yokai now visit him on a daily basis, seeking to either get their names back or take possession of the Book of Friends.



Tags: Youkai , Iyashikei , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Adoption , Found Family , Rural , Shoujo , Urban Fantasy , Estranged Family , Bullying , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Shapeshifting , Outdoor Activities , Exorcism , Tsundere , Coming of Age

Fruits Basket: 1st Season

Also known as Fruits Basket (2019).

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Funimation , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Tohru Honda thought her life was headed for misfortune when a family tragedy left her living in a tent. When her small home is discovered by the mysterious Soma clan, she suddenly finds herself living with Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure Soma. But she quickly learns their family has a bizarre secret of their own: when hugged by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Zodiac!



Tags: Found Family , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Shoujo , Fairy Tale , Mythology , Coming of Age , Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Orphan , Shapeshifting , Rehabilitation , Animals , School Club , Delinquents , Kuudere , Homeless , Primarily Male Cast , School , Slapstick , Episodic , Bullying , Tsundere , Male Harem , Unrequited Love , Denpa , Curses , Heterosexual , Memory Manipulation , Love Triangle , Femboy , Suicide , Agriculture , Yandere , Cohabitation , Gender Bending , Crossdressing , Nekomimi , Kemonomimi , Body Horror , Gangs , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Card Battle , Amnesia , Chibi , Philosophy

Konohana Kitan

Also known as KONOHANA KITAN.

Studio: Lerche
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

The manga's story is set in Kokohana-tei, a hot spring hotel located in an inn town between our world and the other world, where many people go to visit. The story portrays the lives of fox spirits, who take the form of girls and work at the hotel.



Tags: Iyashikei , Kemonomimi , Mythology , Youkai , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Inn , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Work , Episodic , Yuri , Gods , Afterlife , Seinen , Heterosexual , Time Manipulation , LGBTQ+ Themes , Crossdressing

Kimi wa Kanata

Also known as Over the Sky.

Studio: Digital Network Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

Mio is a girl in high school who slacks off, puts off doing her homework, and isn’t any good at giving things her all. She and her childhood friend Arata and best friend Madoka spend their after-school days in Ikebukuro hanging out.

One day, though, Madoka tells Mio that she’s in love with Arata, and Mio realizes that she loves Arata, too. But she’s scared of the trio’s relationship falling apart and lies and says that she’ll help them. Mio doesn’t know what to do, so she deliberately acts coldly to Arata, and the two of them get into a fight. Mio soon realizes that all she’s doing is running from her feelings and decides to work things out with Arata and makeup with him. She heads to meet him in the rain but gets into a car accident.

When she wakes up, she finds herself in a mysterious world. Trains are running on the water, and beside them, beautiful whales are swimming. It’s a place she’s never seen before. When her train gets to the station, and she leaves the turnstiles, she finds herself in the Ikebukuro she knows so well! But something’s different.

As she nervously wanders around the city, she meets GiMON, who calls himself this world’s guide. GiMON says that she’s at the "World Border" and tries to get her to open a door that he says will lead her to any world she wants to go to.

A mysterious girl called Kiku stops her, and she tells her that the real exit from the World Border is a place called the Forgotten Things Counter. When she gets there, she’ll have to share with it a treasured lost memory and her strong desire to return home.

Together with GiMON and Kiku, she finds the Forgotten Things Counter, but for some reason, she doesn’t know what her treasured memory is. When she can’t answer, the two of them disappear.

Left alone in an empty Ikebukuro, she’s forced to search for the lost thing she treasures in a city now overflowing with memories...



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Isekai , Love Triangle , Super Power