Anime like Nurarihyon no Mago

Kimetsu no Yaiba

Also known as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Studio: ufotable , Aniplex , Shueisha , Aniplex of America , ufotable , ufotable
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.



Tags: Demons , Shounen , Swordplay , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Monster Girl , Primarily Teen Cast , Revenge , Travel , Orphan , CGI , Gore , Primarily Male Cast , Mythology , Rural , Slapstick , Historical , Rotoscoping , Super Power , Body Horror , Curses , Chibi , Time Skip , Snowscape , Animals , Food

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

Kekkaishi

Also known as Kekkaishi.

Studio: Sunrise , Viz Media , YTV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Romance , Supernatural

Yoshimori Sumimura is a 14-year-old student at Karasumori School. Following in the tradition that's come down through the generations, he is the twenty-second Kekkaishi of the Sumimura clan. But he’s constantly fighting with his rival, Tokine Yukimura—his childhood friend and also a Kekkaishi—about who is the rightful heir to the magical barrier arts. Protecting people from danger while growing stronger himself, Yoshimori will battle the forces of evil again tonight!



Tags: Shounen , Youkai , Gods , Male Protagonist , School

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 , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Urban Fantasy , Adoption , Swordplay , Tragedy , Body Horror , Wuxia , School Club , Guns , CGI

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

Katekyou Hitman REBORN!

Also known as REBORN!.

Studio: Artland , Dentsu , Marvelous Entertainment , Pony Canyon , d-rights , Discotek , TV Tokyo Music , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Nowadays, the mafia world is ruled by Italy's strongest family, the Vongola. Vongola's current head, ninth in the row, is an old man ready for retirement. But before he can hand down his position, he needs help from a professional Hitman to prepare the next generation Boss for ruling over Vongola and the mafia world itself.

Sawada Tsunayoshi is just your ordinary teenage boy who attends Junior High and sucks at it. He is unpopular, has no friends, and is desperately in love with a girl from his class. But his life takes an extraordinary turn when Tsunayoshi meets Reborn, an infamous hitman, who the ninth boss of Vongola has sent to train Tsunayoshi for his upcoming title.



Tags: Mafia , Shounen , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Age Regression , Time Skip , Chibi , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , Urban Fantasy , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Alternate Universe , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , School , Anti-Hero , Ghost , Chuunibyou

Mononogatari

Also known as Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , GREE Entertainment , Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment , Bandai Namco Music Live , BS11 , Quaras , Happinet Phantom Studios
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Filled with rage against spirits known as tsukumogami, Kunato Hyoma is sent to live with Nagatsuki Botan to help him see a different side. Though both are part of a clan that return the spirits back to their world with divine powers, their experiences with the otherworldly vessels are vastly different. Kunato, robbed of a loved one, and Nagatsuki, saved by them. Can she get through to him?



Tags: Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Found Family , Martial Arts , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Shapeshifting , Urban , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Super Power , Swordplay , Amnesia , Battle Royale , Karuta , Exorcism , Love Triangle

Jigoku Sensei Nube

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Horror , Romance

Nube is a clumsy, easygoing, and very kind teacher, but he has a secret under his glove on the left hand. He has a monster hand, and he also has the ability to sense ghosts and evil spirits. So he protects his dear students from these evil spirits with his monster hand, proving to be very powerful.



Tags: Teacher , Youkai , School , Male Protagonist , Exorcism , Demons , Shounen , Primarily Child Cast , Episodic , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Ghost

D.Gray-man

Also known as D.Gray-man.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Aniplex , Dentsu , TMS Entertainment , Funimation , Half H.P Studio , Sony Music Entertainment , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

Towards the end of the 19th century, Allen Walker officially joins the organization of Exorcists that destroy the beings known as Akuma; mechanic weapons made by the Millennium Earl with the suffering souls of the dead. Allen has both a cursed eye and an anti-Akuma weapon as an arm, bearing the power of "Innocence", a gift given to him as an apostle of God. Allen, along with his fellow Exorcists must put a stop to the Millennium Earl's ultimate plot that could lead to the destruction of the world and all who live on it.

Tags: Shounen , Demons , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Foreign , LGBTQ+ Themes , Exorcism , Primarily Male Cast , Urban Fantasy , Anachronism , Steampunk , Rehabilitation , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Kuudere , Philosophy

SHAMAN KING (2021)

Also known as SHAMAN KING (2021).

Studio: Bridge , King Records , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Supernatural

On a starry night, middle-schooler Manta meets Yoh Asakura, a young shaman who has the ability to talk to spirits, and also has the ability to let them possess him to use their powers. Yoh has a heavy duty on his shoulders: he must become the Shaman King by winning the Shaman Fight, a tournament between shamans that happens only once every 500 years. Joined by his spirit medium fiancée Anna Kyouyama, his personal samurai spirit Amidamaru, and his other friends, Yoh must also face a larger evil: Hao, a powerful man who aims to create a new world with only shamans by becoming the Shaman King himself.



Tags: Ghost , Super Power , Shounen , Mythology , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Reincarnation , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Twins , Spearplay , Swordplay , Heterosexual , Religion , Revenge , Samurai , Kuudere , Necromancy , Demons , Afterlife , Youkai , Survival , Gods , Angels , Chibi , Indigenous Cultures