Anime like Gakkou no Kowai Uwasa Shin: Hanako-san ga Kita!!

Gakkou no Kaidan

Also known as Ghost Stories.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Aniplex , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Kids and ghosts. When young Satsuki finds an old book of spells from her passed away mother, she gains the power to fight ghosts that are haunting her new school. With the help of her friends, and of a really wicked devil cat, she must protect everyone around her or be haunted for ever more.



Tags: Ghost , Primarily Child Cast , School , Curses , Male Protagonist , Afterlife , Youkai , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Parody , Demons , Ensemble Cast , Animals , Skeleton , Tanned Skin , Dullahan

Kaidan Restaurant

Studio: Toei Animation , TV Asahi
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

TV Asahi announced a new kids anime "Kaidan Restaurant (Thriller Restaurant)" based on a picture book. Each episode will consist of three stories or ''dishes'': the appetizer, the main dish, and dessert. The first two ''dishes'' will deal with an ordinary sixth-grade schoolgirl named Ako Ozara and the bizarre occurrences that befall her classmates. The third ''dish'' will be a standalone short ghost story told by Ako and her friends.

Tags: Demons , Youkai , Ghost , Kids , Achronological Order , Primarily Child Cast , School

Gakkou no Kaidan SP

Also known as Ghost Stories SP.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Gakkou no Kaidan SP is a prequel season of Gakkou no Kaidan anime. It is considered a season 2 of Gakkou no Kaidan.

In this anime the ghost are presented more friendly, they live in abandoned theater (with an invisible audience). In this theater are presented short stories of terror, all of them based in Japaneses tales.

Tags: Ero Guro

Gegege no Kitarou (2007)

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Horror

The classic tale of Gegege no Kitaro told yet again. The story is the usual in the Gegege no Kitaro series. Kitaro is a boy living in the Gegege Forest/Cemetery (lands where many Yokai roam) with his mostly dead father (who survives only in his eye), Sunakake Babaa, NekoMusume, and Konaki Jiji. One difference between this Kitaro and all of the others that came before him, is that this one has brown hair instead of the standard grayish silver.

Tags: Youkai

Gegege no Kitarou (2018)

Also known as GeGeGe no Kitaro.

Studio: Toei Animation , Fuji TV , Toei Animation , Yomiuri Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Horror , Supernatural

Nearly twenty years into the 21st century, people have forgotten the existence of Yokai. When a number of unexplainable phenomena plague adults of the human world with confusion and chaos, thirteen-year-old Mana writes a letter to the Yokai Post in search of answers, only to be greeted by Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro...



Tags: Youkai , Mythology , Ghost , Magic , Episodic , Conspiracy , War , Nekomimi , Satire , Witch , Politics , Kids , Vampire , Age Regression , Bullying , Homeless , Rural , Family Life , Body Image , Werewolf