Anime like Mononogatari

Jujutsu Kaisen

Also known as JUJUTSU KAISEN.

Studio: Toho , MAPPA , Shueisha , Sumzap , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Supernatural

A boy fights... for "the right death."

Hardship, regret, shame: the negative feelings that humans feel become Curses that lurk in our everyday lives. The Curses run rampant throughout the world, capable of leading people to terrible misfortune and even death. What's more, the Curses can only be exorcised by another Curse.

Itadori Yuji is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a friend who has been attacked by Curses, he eats the finger of the Double-Faced Specter, taking the Curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with the Double-Faced Specter. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Gojou Satoru, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical High School of Sorcery, an organization that fights the Curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a Curse to exorcise a Curse, a life from which he could never turn back.



Note: The first episode received an early web premiere on September 19th, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 3rd, 2020.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Youkai , Super Power , Curses , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Exorcism , Dissociative Identities , Demons , Orphan , Urban , Body Horror , Magic , Martial Arts , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Gore , Shapeshifting , Swordplay , School , Anthropomorphism , Rotoscoping , Slapstick , Mythology , Surreal Comedy , Twins , Boarding School , Baseball

Noragami

Also known as Noragami.

Studio: bones , Avex Entertainment , Dentsu , Shouchiku , Kodansha , Movic , Lawson Entertainment , A-Sketch , Ai Addiction , Funimation , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Supernatural

Minor god Yato is down on his luck. Fed up with his slacker lifestyle, his partner abruptly quits. He has no money, no worshippers, and no shrine to call home. But just when things are starting to seem hopeless, a bus accident forces him to cross paths with Hiyori Iki, a sweet and perky high school girl. After the accident, Hiyori's soul has a bad habit of slipping out of her body, and after enlisting Yato's help to get her back to normal, she begins to fall into the world of spirits and gods.

But Hiyori's not the only one who's keeping tabs on Yato. A god from Yato's past is back, and he's not interested in a friendly reunion.



Tags: Gods , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Mythology , Anti-Hero , Shapeshifting , Swordplay , Memory Manipulation , Found Family , Urban , Nekomimi , Shrine Maiden , Revenge , Outdoor Activities , Age Gap , Bullying , Environmental , Exorcism

BLEACH

Also known as Bleach.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , TV Tokyo , Dentsu , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Supernatural

Ichigo Kurosaki is a rather normal high school student apart from the fact he has the ability to see ghosts. This ability never impacted his life in a major way until the day he encounters the Shinigami Kuchiki Rukia, who saves him and his family's lives from a Hollow, a corrupt spirit that devours human souls.

Wounded during the fight against the Hollow, Rukia chooses the only option available to defeat the monster and passes her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. Now forced to act as a substitute until Rukia recovers, Ichigo hunts down the Hollows that plague his town.

Tags: Swordplay , Super Power , Shounen , Afterlife , Ghost , Male Protagonist , Demons , Exorcism , Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Time Skip , Memory Manipulation , Language Barrier , Tanned Skin , Ninja , Tomboy , Centaur , Time Manipulation , Isekai , Kuudere , Spearplay

Kemono Jihen

Also known as Kemono Jihen.

Studio: Ajiado
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Special detective Kohachi Inugami is sent to investigate a grisly phenomenon involving animal corpses near a remote mountain village. But after meeting a strange boy who agrees to help, he discovers cursed supernatural forces at work. Little by little, Inugami uncovers the truth behind the killings and the boy who may not even be human.



Tags: Monster Boy , Youkai , Primarily Child Cast , Male Protagonist , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Kemonomimi , Femboy , Primarily Male Cast , Detective , Found Family , Body Horror , Monster Girl , Gore , Tsundere , Urban , Tragedy , Shapeshifting , Animals , Nekomimi , Vampire , Orphan , Love Triangle , Bullying

Nurarihyon no Mago

Also known as Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Rikuo Nura appears to be an average middle school student. No one knows that he comes home every day to a house full of youkai, nor that he transforms into the all-powerful leader of these spirits at night. However, much to the disappointment of many, Rikuo is determined to live as normal a life as possible.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Shounen , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Demons , Dissociative Identities , Youkai , Shapeshifting , Politics , Swordplay , School , School Club , Kuudere

Momochi-san Chi no Ayakashi Ouji

Also known as The Demon Prince of Momochi House.

Studio: Drive , Aniplex , Crunchyroll , Movic , BS11
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Supernatural

Himari’s 16th birthday will be one she never forgets. Unexpectedly, she receives a will detailing her inheritance of a mysterious estate: the Momochi House. She arrives only to discover that the home was built on the cusp between the human world and the spiritual realm. There, she encounters Yukari, Ise, and a peculiar boy named Aoi, who seems to be concealing a shadowy secret.



Tags: Youkai , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Primarily Male Cast , Orphan , Male Harem , Urban Fantasy , Kemonomimi , Nekomimi , Heterosexual

Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen

Also known as Mission: Yozakura Family.

Studio: SILVER LINK. , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Mainichi Broadcasting System , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Shueisha , SILVER LINK. , Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance

Taiyou Asano is a super shy high school student and the only person he can talk to is his childhood friend, Mutsumi Yozakura. It turns out that Mutsumi is the daughter of the ultimate spy family! Even worse, Mutsumi is being harassed by her overprotective, nightmare of a brother, Kyouichirou. What drastic steps will Taiyou have to take to save Mutsumi?! A spy family comedy - the mission begins!



Tags: Shounen , Espionage , Marriage , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Surreal Comedy , Body Horror , Yandere , Heterosexual , Guns , School , Conspiracy , Swordplay , Tragedy , Episodic , Crossdressing , Nudity , LGBTQ+ Themes , Orphan , Mixed Gender Harem

Tsukumogami Kashimasu

Also known as We Rent Tsukumogami.

Studio: Telecom Animation Film , TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

In a place and time where disasters are commonplace, Oko and Seiji cater to local customers at Izumoya, their renowned rental shop for everyday items. Mixed with Izumoya’s regular inventory are tsukumogami, ancient spirits disguised as ordinary objects. Unlike most people, Oko and Seiji can see and listen to the spirits, and Izumoya becomes a hub of paranormal activity as numerous tsukumogami end up in the shop. And when Oko and Seiji spread the supernatural love by lending their “special” tsukumogami to unwitting customers, things get really interesting!



Tags: Youkai , Inseki , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Police , Love Triangle , Demons , Transgender

Ao no Exorcist

Also known as Blue Exorcist.

Studio: Aniplex , Dentsu , A-1 Pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Movic , Aniplex of America , Sakura Create , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Supernatural

This world consists of two dimensions joined as one, like a mirror. The first is the world in which the humans live, Assiah. The other is the world of demons, Gehenna. Ordinarily, travel between the two, and indeed any kind of contact between the two, is impossible. However the demons can pass over into this world by possessing anything that exist within it. Satan the god of demons, but there's one thing that he doesn't have, and that's a substance in the human world that is powerful enough to contain him!! For that purpose he created Rin, his son from a human woman, but will his son agree to his plans? Or will he become something else...? An exorcist?

Tags: Demons , Shounen , Super Power , Youkai , Male Protagonist , Exorcism , Twins , Religion , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Adoption , Swordplay , Tragedy , Body Horror , Wuxia , School Club , Guns , CGI

Fukigen na Mononokean

Also known as The Morose Mononokean.

Studio: Studio Signpost , Docomo Anime Store , Square Enix , Tokuma Japan Communications , AT-X , Studio Pierrot , Ray , Age Global Networks , Kanon , Yomiuri TV Enterprise
Status: Finished
Genres: Supernatural

Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a youkai attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tea room called the "Mononokean" for help. This is a tale involving the very morose owner of Mononokean guiding the youkai that happened to wander into this world go to the next world.



Tags: Youkai , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Shounen , Exorcism