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Maou-jou de Oyasumi

Also known as Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle.

Studio: Doga Kobo , Lantis
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Sshhh! Princess Syalis is trying to get a good night's sleep. Some shut-eye. Forty winks. Catch some Z's. Long ago in olden times when people and demons lived together in—well, disharmony, really—a demon king kidnaps a human princess and imprisons her in his castle. Bereft, the princess's subjects beat their chests in anguish…until a hero arises to spearhead Project Rescue Our Princess! While waiting for her knight in shining armor, what's an imprisoned princess to do...? Teddy-bear guards with bat wings are all very well, but her dungeon cell is bo-o-o-ring! So, she decides to wile away the long hours by sleeping. Now if only she could get comfortable…and didn't suffer from insomnia...



Tags: Ojou-sama , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Prison , Parody , Demons , Slapstick , Iyashikei , Kuudere , Primarily Male Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Magic , Ensemble Cast , Skeleton , Monster Boy , Dungeon , Villainess , Fairy Tale , Found Family , Goblin , Primarily Adult Cast , Monster Girl , Animals , Snowscape , Mythology , Dragons , Succubus , Swordplay

Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level MAX ni Nattemashita

Also known as I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level.

Studio: REVOROOT , Nippon Columbia , Studio Mausu , BS11 , AT-X , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Medicos Entertainment , Movic , Bushiroad , KLOCKWORX , Square Enix , SB Creative , DMM.com
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

An at-home comedy about a powerful girl who doesn’t work too hard!(⋈◍ ˃ᴗ˂ ◍)。✧♡

After dying of overwork in the real world, I’m reincarnated as an immortal witch, and I spend 300 years enjoying a relaxing life. At some point, though, I end up at level 99! All those years spent killing slimes to make the money to pay the bills gave me a ton of experience points… Rumors of the level 99 witch spread, and soon I’m up to my ears in curious adventurers, duelist dragons, and even a monster girl calling me her mom! “This isn’t a dojo, so don’t come here to fight me…!”

I’ve never been on an adventure, but I’m the strongest in the world… What’s going to happen to my relaxing life?!



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Family Life , Witch , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Rural , Reincarnation , Isekai , Parenthood , Dragons , Episodic , Monster Girl , Elf , Demons , Magic , Time Skip , Slapstick , Ghost , Work , Yuri , Tanned Skin , Medicine , Age Regression , Female Harem , Medieval , Anthropomorphism

Machikado Mazoku

Also known as The Demon Girl Next Door.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , TBS , Pony Canyon , Houbunsha , Medicos Entertainment , Nichion , Ray
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

When Yuuko Yoshida wakes up one morning to discover that she’s sprouted horns and a tail, she learns something that her mother has been meaning to tell her. You know that battle between the Light and Dark that’s been going on since the dawn of time? Well, Yuuko’s family are the bad guys.

So now, Yuuko has to defeat a local magical girl to win back some of her family’s vanquished power so they can afford to go to the all-you-can-eat pancake restaurant. And, of course, it turns out that the Magical Girl goes to Yuuko’s school, but Momo’s really nice and keeps rescuing Yuuko, which is pretty embarrassing and leaves Yuuko rather conflicted… but… all you can eat pancakes?



Tags: Slapstick , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Demons , Magic , Parody , Urban Fantasy , Meta , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Henshin , Surreal Comedy , Super Power , Seinen , Urban , Yuri , Tsundere , Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Monster Girl , School , Food , Family Life , Coming of Age

Maou no Musume wa Yasashi Sugiru!!

Also known as The Demon King's Daughter is Too Kind!!.

Studio: EMT Squared , DMM.com , Hakusensha , Yomiuri TV Enterprise , Pony Canyon , Bit grooove promotion , EMT Squared
Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Once feared as the ruler of all demons, Demon King Ahriman seeks to conquer the world…until he’s stopped by an unexpected force: his daughter, Dou! Too kind for chaos and too gentle for war, Dou melts the hearts of demons, humans, and even angels. Desperate to restore demon pride, Ahriman’s aide Jahi vows to train Dou to become a proper demon. But is Jahi any match for Dou’s compassion?!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Demons , Family Life , Rural , Iyashikei , Parenthood , Slavery , Magic

Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai!

Also known as The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!.

Studio: SILVER LINK. , ABC Animation , Square Enix
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The Great Jahy, the Dark Realm’s second-in-command, cuts a frightening figure, feared and revered by all. But when a run-in with a magical girl results in the destruction of the precious mana crystal, the Dark Realm falls, transporting the newly puny and powerless Jahy to the human world! Unfortunately, plotting the revival of the Dark Realm from a cramped, crumbling one-room apartment is no easy feat when you have rent to pay and a job to keep!



Tags: Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Demons , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , Henshin , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Magic , Super Power , Isekai , Tanned Skin , Work , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Reverse Isekai , Masochism , Shounen , Monster Girl , Nudity , Wrestling , Yuri

Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita

Also known as Reincarnated as a Sword.

Studio: C2C , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Some isekai protagonists are reincarnated as powerful warriors or skilled wizards, but our protagonist was reborn in another life as a sentient sword! He’s taken up by Fran, a desperate girl fleeing evil-doers intent on selling her into slavery. With her new weapon’s help and guidance, she’s able to strike down her captors and secure her freedom. Together, this unconventional master-student duo embark on an epic journey to liberate those in need and exact justice on the cruel of heart.



Note: Episode 1 was streamed in advance on September 28, 2022 on AbemaTV. The regular TV broadcast began on October 5, 2022.

Tags: Swordplay , Nekomimi , Orphan , Reincarnation , Isekai , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Magic , Medieval , Kemonomimi , Dungeon , Food , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Slavery , Gore , Goblin , Demons

Gabriel Dropout

Also known as Gabriel DropOut.

Studio: Doga Kobo , Kadokawa Media House , AT-X , Sony Music Communications , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

An angel at the top of an angel school has descended to the human world! However, she has already acclimated to the life of the human world so much that she ends up leading a self-indulgent life, skipping school all the time and being absorbed in online games. Gabriel soon forgets about her original goal to make human beings happy and has turned into a lazy and hopeless angel, or a “sloppy angel” in short. Amazingly, she swears to continue to fully enjoy the pleasure of various entertainments of the human world.



Tags: Angels , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Urban , School , Gods , Episodic , Chibi , Hikikomori , Magic , Tsundere , Chuunibyou , Parody , Video Games , Shounen , Work

Machikado Mazoku: 2-Choume

Also known as The Demon Girl Next Door Season 2.

Studio: TBS , J.C.STAFF , Pony Canyon , Houbunsha , Nippon BS Broadcasting , Medicos Entertainment , Nichion , Ray
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

The second season of Machikado Mazoku.

Shamiko, AKA Shadow Mistress Yuuko, aims to break the curse placed on her family by the Clan of Light. Along the way, she forms an unlikely allegiance with Momo, a rival from the Light Clan! They’ll need to work together to find another magical girl who’s gone mysteriously missing, and what this? There’s a dangerous force lurking somewhere in the city, plus Shamiko’s mysterious father might be closer than she thinks?



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Food , Seinen , Slapstick , Anthropomorphism , Henshin , Memory Manipulation , Parody , Urban , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Kemonomimi , Meta , School , Family Life , Youkai , Iyashikei , LGBTQ+ Themes , Work , Hikikomori

Dungeon Meshi

Also known as Delicious in Dungeon.

Studio: TRIGGER , KADOKAWA , Ultra Super Pictures , Good Smile Company , Tencent
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!



Note: A world premiere screening of Episode 1 was shown in the Studio TRIGGER panel at Anime Expo on July 1, 2023.

Tags: Dungeon , Food , Magic , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Elf , Environmental , Medieval , Monster Girl , Dragons , Necromancy , Body Horror , Lost Civilization , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Seinen , Tragedy , Chimera , Nekomimi , Anthropomorphism , Kemonomimi , Episodic , Curses , Politics , Asexual , Super Power , Shapeshifting , Ghost , Ninja , Nudity , Cannibalism , Zombie

Akujiki Reijou to Kyouketsu Koushaku: Sono Mamono, Watashi ga Oishiku Itadakimasu!

Also known as Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!.

Studio: Asahi Production , TBS , Crunchyroll , Movic , Kodansha , BS11 , Asahi Production , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance

Any proper noble lady must cultivate refined tastes, and Lady Melphiera’s delicacy of choice is…monsters! Unfortunately, society frowns upon such unladylike cravings and brands her the “Voracious Villainess.” At a banquet, she’s attacked by a monster, only to be saved by the feared “Blood-Mad Duke.” He’s brutal, mysterious, and charming. Could he be the one to appreciate her monstrous appetite?



Tags: Food , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Marriage , Magic , Heterosexual , Royal Affairs , Villainess , Dragons