Anime like Makariudo: Demon Hunter

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

Also known as Digital Devil.

Studio: Tokuma Shoten , Animate Film , Movic , J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Horror , Supernatural

The story revolves around two high school students Akemi and Yumiko, who share a mysterious intertwining past lives. Akemi bullied at school but a genius has managed to create a demon summoning program to get revenge but chaos ensues. The OVA is based off the first of Aya Nishitani's Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei novels.

Tags: Demons , Reincarnation , Gore , Revenge , Gods , Mythology , Anti-Hero , Swordplay , School , Bullying

Hengen Taima Yakou Karura Mau! Nara Onryou Emaki

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Horror

Shoko and Maiko Ougi are apparently two ordinary schoolgirls in pursuit of graduating and having fun. Shii-chan is the more serious while Mai-chan is more fun-loving. In reality, the two sisters are powerful exorcists from the Karura temple. Each wields half the power...Shii-chan can "see" the spirits, and Mai-chan can banish them. This is the movie adaptation of a spooky series with heavy emphasis on traditionally Japanese occult themes.



Tags: Demons , Shoujo , Twins , Gore , Body Swapping

Kujakuou

Also known as Spirit Warrior.

Studio: AIC , Pony Canyon , Pioneer LDC , Central Park Media , Shueisha , Studio 88
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

A young mystic without a past, Kujaku was born under a dark omen possessed of incredible supernatural powers. Raised by priests, he has learned to use these powers for good. But the evil Siegfried von Mittgard seeks to steal his birthright, and rule the world as the Regent of Darkness. He has dispatched bloodthirsty minions to destroy Kujaku before he can awaken to his destiny. Now, Kujaku must unravel the riddle of his past, before the power within consumes him!



Tags: Demons , Nudity , Religion , Martial Arts

Exper Zenon

Studio: Studio Fantasia
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

Tadashi is a high school student and computer-game addict. After a long day spent playing the game Zenon, he is visited in a dream by the heroine, Sartova. In an anime replay of The Last Starfighter, she takes him to the world of Zenon, where the game is played with human lives at stake.

The show starts with our hero Hiroshi easily defeating an arcade machine, impressing all of his nerdy friends. When he gets home, he finds a bizarre new game waiting for him on his computer. The game promises him a chance at winning the heart of a beautiful girl, so Hiroshi presses "Yes" to begin...only to have the screen turn to static right in front of him.

Skip to the next day. Hiroshi starts telling his friends about this game, and they aren't sure what to believe. But right then, in the middle of the class, a huge electrical storm hits, leaving in its wake a lone white egg. When Hiroshi touches it, the egg opens, revealing a beautiful (and stark naked) green-haired girl.

This girl, Hiroko, gives Hiroshi the name Zenon and gives him all sorts of powers, including ESP. That's all well and good, but right afterwards all the way to the very end, Hiroshi/Zenon winds up battling all sorts of evil bad guys and huge meanies non-stop to protect his new sweetheart.



Tags: Super Power , Battle Royale , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Death Game , Time Manipulation , Nudity , Alternate Universe , Amnesia , Slapstick , Bullying , Foreign

Tomoe ga Yuku!

Also known as There Goes Tomoe!.

Studio: Movic , Media Rings , Animate Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama

The title character of Tomoe ga Yuku! (Tomoe Will Go!) is gutsy enough to roller skate down freeways for thrills. After losing a friend in a roller skating accident, Tomoe joins a stunt group called Green Ship. Although still mourning her friend's death, Tomoe has no reservations about embracing a relationship with the group's leader, Kazusa. Soon she discovers Green Ship is a front for an assassin training camp. She must flee her new life and love and rekindle her fiery spirit in order to fight against the organization which wants her dead.



Tags: Crime , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Fashion , Heterosexual

Dream Hunter REM

Studio: Sai Enterprise , Procen Studio , Anime R
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Rem is an ordinary woman in our world, but in the world of dreams, she becomes a dream warrior, defending humanity from the evils there. When dream demons reach the waking world, she fights them with the help of her pets which transform into a tiger and wolf.
Note: This series was originally produced as a single episode OVA, which featured explicit sexual content. After the release of the first episode, the production of the OVA changed and the first episode was re-released with another episode bundled together, while also replacing all the sexual content with new scenes. The second and third episodes followed suite and contains no sexual content either.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Demons , Henshin , Ghost , Super Power , Guns , Gore , Outdoor Activities , Tennis , Swordplay

NEW DREAM HUNTER Rem: Satsuriku no Labyrinth

Studio: Studio Sign
Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi

Rem is an ordinary woman in our world but, in the world of dreams, she becomes a dream warrior, defending humanity from the evils there. When dream demons reach the waking world, she fights them with the help of her pets which transform into a tiger and wolf.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Magic , Urban Fantasy

Kyuuketsu-hime Miyu

Also known as Vampire Princess Miyu.

Studio: AIC , AnimEigo , Pony Canyon , Soei Shinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Supernatural

A quiet gothic horror story about a vampire girl, Miyu, whose destiny it is to hunt down murderous demons known as Shinma and return them to their land of origin, the Dark. Miyu is pursued by the Spiritualist Himiko, determined to find out who Miyu is and to stop her from sucking the life blood from helpless humans. Each of the four episodes chronicle one of Miyu's encounters with a Shinma and the humans that it is affecting, from the perspective of Himiko's pursuit of Miyu.



Tags: Philosophy , Demons , Vampire , Time Skip , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , School , Gods , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Afterlife , Urban Fantasy

Jigoku Shoujo

Also known as Hell Girl.

Studio: Aniplex , Studio DEEN , Funimation , SKY Perfect Well Think
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

Somewhere in the vast sea of the Internet, there's a website that can only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. Known as the Jigoku Tsushin, rumor has it that if you post a grudge there, the Jigoku Shoujo will appear and drag whoever torments you into the inferno. Very little is known about the girl - all we know for sure is that she lives with her equally enigmatic grandmother, that three magical straw dolls accompany and serve her, and that whenever a posting on the Jigoku Tsushin moves her, she becomes the Jigoku Shoujo.


Tags: Revenge , Tragedy , Bullying , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Curses , Afterlife , Detective , Oiran , Crime , Gore , Conspiracy , Aliens , Cosmic Horror , School , Circus , Kuudere ,

Umi no Yami, Tsuki no Kage

Also known as Darkness of the Sea, Shadow of the Moon.

Studio: Movic , Magic Bus , Bandai , Visual 80
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Romance

Lumi and Luka Kobayakawa are identical twins who both are members of the track team and have a crush on a handsome upperclassman Katsuyuki Tohma, but he chooses the latter. While Luka doesn't want to hurt Lumi's feelings, Lumi feels betrayed by her own sister. On their way to the party celebrating the graduation of eldest members of the team, they take shelter in a cave, which turns out to be a mass grave, and all members were killed by the strange smell from the cave, with Lumi and Luka only survivors. After the tragedy, Lumi has become a completely different person, and one day she literally emerges from the floor of Luka's room...



Tags: Twins , Shoujo , Love Triangle , Gore , Super Power , Athletics