Anime like Ningyo no Mori

Baoh Raihousha

Also known as Baoh the Visitor.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Toho , AnimEigo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

A secret organization called "Doress" has funded the development of a genetically engineered parasite code-named "BAOH." Organisms infected by BAOH become living survival machines, virtually indestructible, able to mutate their body structure to meet any threat. Properly controlled, the BAOH parasite could allow Doress to control the World.

Unfortunately, their first human guinea-pig, a young man named Hashizawa Ikuroo, has managed to escape, along with a young girl, Sumire, who has a strange precognitive gift. Unless Doress operatives can find and destroy Ikuroo before the BAOH parasite fully manifests, their evil dream will come to naught.

But BAOH, comfortably hiding in Ikuroo's brain, won't make it easy.



Tags: Super Power , Shounen , Body Horror , Gore , Fugitive , Robots , Conspiracy , Henshin , Amnesia , Guns , Male Protagonist , Time Skip

Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch

Studio: SynergySP , Actas
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Music , Romance

As the mermaid princess of the North Pacific (one of the seven mermaid kingdoms), Lucia entrusts a magical pearl to a boy who falls overboard a ship one night. Lucia must travel to the human world to reclaim her pearl and protect the mermaid kingdoms. Using the power of music Lucia is able to protect herself and the mermaid kingdoms from a growing evil force.

Tags: Musical Theater , Mermaid , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Suicide , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Magic , Idol , Primarily Teen Cast , Animals , Swimming , Primarily Female Cast , Surfing , Kuudere , Primarily Child Cast , Revenge , Coastal

Inuyasha

Also known as InuYasha.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Sunrise , Yomiuri TV , Viz Media , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

Kagome Higurashi, an average ninth grader, gets pulled into an ancient well by a demon, bringing her 500 years in the past to the feudal era. There, she meets Inuyasha, a half-demon who seeks the Shikon Jewel to make himself a full-fledged demon. With Inuyasha and new friends, Kagome's search for the Jewel of Four Souls begins...



Tags: Reincarnation , Youkai , Historical , Demons , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Rural , Revenge , Magic , Swordplay , Isekai , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Shounen , Time Manipulation , Kemonomimi , Male Protagonist , Monster Boy , Archery , Shapeshifting , Shrine Maiden , Travel , Episodic , Orphan , Curses , Age Gap , Necromancy , Kuudere , Body Horror , Primarily Teen Cast , Monster Girl , Memory Manipulation

Blade

Also known as Blade.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Marvel Entertainment , Sony Pictures Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

The story revolves around Blade, a "Daywalker" vampire hunter who was born with vampire and human blood after a vampire attacked his mother. While visiting Japan on a mission, Blade tracks down Deacon Frost, the vampire who killed his mother. Blade confronts "Existence," a mysterious organization composed of vampires modified by Frost.



Tags: Vampire , Martial Arts , Swordplay , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Power

Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch Pure

Studio: Actas , Synergy Japan , SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Music , Romance

After the final battle against Gaito, Sara had given her life to remain with him. The sea world is now at peace, but only with six mermaid princesses.

While Caren, Noel, and Coco have returned to their kingdoms, it should be time for Lucia, Hanon, and Rina to do the same. After all, Mitsuki Tarou is leaving for Germany, and Doumoto Kaito is heading to Hawaii. Lucia is devestated, and when things couldn't get any worse, Kaito is lost at sea! Worst of all, a strange angel named Michel has appeared, wanting the mermaids to join him. But on the lighter side, Sara's spirit tells Lucia of Sara's successor, a young mermaid named Seira. The mermaids are in for another adventure!

Tags: Mermaid , Magic , Shoujo , Musical Theater , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Dissociative Identities , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Kuudere , Suicide , Denpa , Tragedy , Animals , Surfing , Cosplay , Amnesia , Boxing , Coastal

Tropical-Rouge! Precure

Also known as Tropical-Rouge! Precure.

Studio: Toei Animation , ADK Emotions , TV Asahi , ABC Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Manatsu Natsuumi is a first-year junior high school student born and raised on a small island. On the day she moves from the island, She meets Laura, a mermaid girl who has come to the earth alone in search of the legendary warrior, PreCure. Laura's hometown, Grand Ocean, is attacked by a witch who lives in the dark depths of the ocean, and all of their motivational power is taken away. It is said that if the motivational power of humans is also taken away, the world will be in deep trouble. Laura is captured by the witch's servant, and Manatsu transforms into Cure Summer to save her.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Mermaid , Primarily Child Cast , Magic , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Primarily Teen Cast , Kids , Superhero , Makeup , Memory Manipulation , Body Swapping , Coastal , School , Butler , Tokusatsu , Urban

Deimos no Hanayome: Ran no Kumikyoku

Studio: MADHOUSE , Toei Video , Akita Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery , Romance

Deimos no Hanayome: Ran no Kumikyoku revolves around high school girl, Minako Ifu, who has become the focus of the attentions of Deimos, former god of terror. For the forbidden love between him and his younger twin sister, Venus, the former goddess of love, he was turned into a demon by Zeus, and she was imprisoned in the Swamp of Death. In order to rescue Venus from her fatal punishment, he has to bring Minako, who appears to be her physical reincarnation, to the underworld so she can possess her body.

Adapting a chapter of the manga, this OVA is centered on Minako visiting the mansion of an infamous botanist in search and investigation of her missing friend.

Tags: Tragedy , Gods , Shoujo , Mythology , Demons , Female Protagonist , Twins , Archery

Youma

Also known as Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Toho , Animate Film , ADV Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Horror , Supernatural

A terrible war has ravaged the land, and now, fueled by the blood of numerous fallen warriors the Yoma, demons from hell, emerge once more. A skilled ninja seeks to end the bloodshed these demons inflict upon humanity, but to do this he must fight against his undead former best friend and fellow ninja who was killed in battle and has been resurrected to serve the Yoma.



Tags: Ninja , Demons , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Gore

Shiki

Also known as Shiki.

Studio: Aniplex , Daume , Dentsu , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. After supposedly visiting this strange family, the fashionable Shimizu Megumi goes missing and the entire village goes out in search for her.

Tags: Vampire , Survival , Tragedy , Rural , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Zombie , Philosophy , Denpa , Gore , Pandemic , Urban Fantasy , Medicine , Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Religion , Revenge , Yandere , Writing , Guns , Primarily Teen Cast , Werewolf , Foreign , Monster Girl

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