Anime like Arashi no Yoru ni

BEASTARS

Also known as BEASTARS.

Studio: Orange , Toho , Fuji TV , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Akita Shoten , Bandai , BANDAI SPIRITS , Movic , BS Fuji , Q-Tec
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, herbivores and carnivores coexist with each other. For the adolescents of Cherryton Academy, school life is filled with hope, romance, distrust, and uneasiness.

The main character is Legoshi the wolf, a member of the drama club. Despite his menacing appearance, he has a very gentle heart. Throughout most of his life, he has always been an object of fear and hatred by other animals, and he’s been quite accustomed to that lifestyle. But soon, he finds himself becoming more involved with his fellow classmates who have their own share of insecurities and finds his life in school changing slowly.



Tags: Anthropomorphism , Coming of Age , Animals , Cannibalism , Full CGI , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Male Protagonist , Boarding School , CGI , Psychosexual , Love Triangle , Gangs , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Crime , Bullying , Philosophy , School Club , Shounen , Primarily Animal Cast , Class Struggle , Female Protagonist , Acting , Mafia , Politics , Urban , Vore

Chirin no Suzu

Also known as Ringing Bell.

Studio: Sanrio , Discotek , Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

A little lamb's life is turned upside down by the wolf that killed his mother. He seeks to avenge his mother, but in order to defeat the wolf, he must become one.



Tags: Revenge , Animals , Time Skip , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Rural , Snowscape , Orphan , Cultivation

Omae Umasou da na

Also known as Heart and Yummie.

Studio: Graphinica , Ajiado , TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

A Tyrannosaurus called Heart was raised by a herbivorous dinosaur. As he grew up, he was scared by other dinosaurs. One day, Heart meets a baby Ankylosaurus and he names the baby "Umasou (looks delicious)". Umasou started to be attached to Heart and a strange family love develops between the two.

Tags: Dinosaurs , Family Life , Animals , Found Family , Primarily Animal Cast , Kids , Food , Cultivation , Tragedy , Anthropomorphism

Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko

Also known as Pom Poko.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Studio Ghibli , Daiei , Walt Disney Studios , GKids
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

Faced with the destruction of their habitat due to the growth of Tokyo, a group of tanuki try to defend their homes. They decide to use their transforming talents to try to hold back the new development. Two of them, especially skilled at transforming, are sent to Shikoku to enlist the help of three sages. Meanwhile, the rest of them do their best to disrupt the construction site, at first causing accidents, and then actually haunting the site. However, the humans are very persistent, and soon the tanuki are forced to use more and more extreme measures to save their home.



Tags: Environmental , Mythology , Ensemble Cast , Animals , Rural , Primarily Animal Cast , Anthropomorphism , Henshin , Shapeshifting , Revenge , Primarily Male Cast , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Youkai , Kids , Travel , Transgender

Tanoshii Moomin Ikka: Moomindani no Suisei

Also known as Comet in Moominland.

Studio: Telescreen BV
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Unusual things have been happening in Moominvalley. Moomin, Sniff and Mee leave for the Observatory on the Lonely Mountains to confirm the Muskrat's words: a comet is about to hit Moominvalley and destroy everything. On the way they meet Snufkin, the Hemulen and the Snorks and experience many adventures.



Tags: Astronomy , Environmental , Rural , Animals , Family Life , Classic Literature , Anthropomorphism , Kids , Iyashikei

Kawa no Hikari

Studio: NHK , Studio Gallop , NHK Enterprises
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

A story of a rat family who have to leave their home because humans start a construction site. Now the rats are searching for a place to stay.

Tags: Urban , Family Life , Animals , Environmental , Kids

Yasashii Lion

Studio: Mushi Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy

This is an animated version of Yanase Takashi's picture book featuring the friendship between a mother dog, Muku-muku, who lost her puppy, and the baby lion Buru-buru, who lost her mother. Although Tezuka Osamu planned to create an entire musical animated series for this story focused on the feelings of the mother dog and baby lion, this animated production was the only one never completed.



Tags: Kids , Circus , Coming of Age , Musical Theater , Time Skip , Tragedy , Fairy Tale , Animals , Orphan

Mononoke-hime

Also known as Princess Mononoke.

Studio: Studio Ghibli , Tokuma Shoten , GKids , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

A calm village residing in the mountains comes under attack from a demon-possessed boar one day.

Ashitaka, a young man and prince of the tribe, engages the creature in an attempt to save his village. During the battle, the boar bites him on the arm, leaving it blackened and cursed. Following his village's traditions, Ashitaka is exiled and becomes a wanderer, looking for a solution to the curse before it engulfs him.

Iron Town is a fortress under the leadership of Lady Eboshi. Through the clearing of the surrounding forests, Iron Town produces large amounts of Ironsand, used for gunpowder and other machinery. However, because of the forests destruction, nearby animal clans seek revenge led by a human girl of the Wolf clan called San.

When Ashitaka comes to Iron Town, he discovers the area consumed in battle. Horrified, he attempts to create peace and befriend the Wolf Clan. However, after the forest's eradication and the ongoing war between Human and Beast, will the Spirit of the Forest be forgiving and accept Ashitaka's request to expel his curse?

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Environmental , Mythology , Animals , Philosophy , War , Gods , Eco-Horror , Rural , Youkai , Demons , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Historical , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Guns , Disability , Travel , Archery , Primarily Adult Cast , Tomboy , Outdoor , Body Horror , Gore , Kaiju

Yama Nezumi Rocky Chuck

Also known as Fables of the Green Forest.

Studio: Nippon Animation , Mushi Production , Fuji TV , Zuiyou Eizou
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

Various stories about a group of animals that live together in a forest. The stories are adaptations from the many children's books written by Thornton W. Burgess.

Tags: Kids , Animals

Annyeong, Tyrano: Yeong-wonhi, Hamkke

Studio: Tezuka Productions , Korea Investment Partners , Beijing Resolution , Media Castle
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

A joint production between South Korea, Japan and China. Based on the Tyrannosaurus series of picture books by Tatsuya Miyanishi.

It depicts the friendship of a lonely Tyrannosaurus rex who does not eat meat, Tyrano, and an orphaned baby dinosaur Punon, who cannot fly, run into each other and begin their journey to find ‘Paradise’. While on their way, they learn about each other’s difference and become important to each other.

Tags: Animals , Dinosaurs