Anime like Tokyo Ghoul

Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu

Also known as Parasyte -the maxim-.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Kodansha , Nippon Television Network , Forecast Communications , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Psychological , Sci-Fi

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade–and take control of–a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret–except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?



Tags: Body Horror , Shapeshifting , Survival , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Gore , Anti-Hero , Revenge , Seinen , Heterosexual , Crime , Tragedy , Cannibalism , Environmental , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Military , Guns , Love Triangle , Villainess , Female Harem , Bullying , Unrequited Love , Nudity

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

Chainsaw Man

Also known as Chainsaw Man.

Studio: MAPPA , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.

One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man" — a man with a devil's heart.



Tags: Demons , Monster Boy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Gore , Tragedy , Body Horror , Urban , Shapeshifting , Henshin , Shounen , Surreal Comedy , Monster Girl , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism , Revenge , Assassins , Guns , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , CGI , Age Gap , Cannibalism , Police , Anti-Hero , Crime , Yandere , POV , Homeless , Amnesia , Tomboy , Zombie , Angels

Elfen Lied

Also known as Elfen Lied.

Studio: VAP , Arms , Genco , ADV Films , A Line
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The Diclonius, a mutated homosapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possess two horns on their heads and have a "sixth sense" which gives them telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murders most of the guards in the laboratory where she is being held, only to be shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives, falling off a cliff into the ocean and manages to drift along to a beach where two teenagers, Kouta and Yuka, discover her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the psychotic side of Lucy is not dead just yet...



Tags: Gore , Fugitive , Amnesia , Super Power , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Monster Girl , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Revenge , Body Horror , Yandere , Conspiracy , Incest , Love Triangle , Primarily Female Cast , Bullying , Kemonomimi , Male Protagonist , Military , Heterosexual , Family Life , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Coastal , Female Harem , Slapstick

Ajin

Also known as AJIN: Demi-Human.

Studio: POLYGON PICTURES
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Kei Nagai’s body should have died when a truck slams into his body, but instead, he finds himself resurrected with all of his wounds healed. Now revealed to be an Ajin, one of a mysterious new breed of immortal demi-human, he’s been marked with an international bounty, and in the eyes of the world, Kei is a specimen to be taken by any means possible. Now he’s on the run, and his only hope is to discover the terrifying secrets behind his new abilities before he’s forced to use them in battle!



Tags: Super Power , Anti-Hero , Crime , Terrorism , Fugitive , Full CGI , Police , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Gore , Body Horror , Dystopian , Torture , Cosmic Horror , Video Games

Deadman Wonderland

Also known as Deadman Wonderland.

Studio: Manglobe , Funimation , AMG MUSIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Sci-Fi

Ganta is the only survivor after a mysterious man in red slaughters a classroom full of teenagers. He's framed for the carnage, sentenced to die, and locked away in the most twisted prison ever built: Deadman Wonderland. And then it gets worse.

At Deadman Wonderland, convicts are forced into brutal deathmatches for the amusement of the masses, the cheers of the crowd drowning out the screams of the dismembered. Even when Ganta befriends Shiro, an unusual female inmate, his dark fate crushes all hope —until he discovers the strange ability to wield his spilled blood as a weapon. Ganta learns his new skill might be related to the murderous man in red and uncovers disturbing secrets that could expose those who stole his freedom. He's determined to see justice served —but first he'll have to fight for his life in a prison that holds a million ways to die.



Tags: Tragedy , Super Power , Survival , Gore , Death Game , Prison , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Dissociative Identities , Memory Manipulation , Shounen , Orphan , Rehabilitation , Guns , Tanned Skin , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity

Kemono Jihen

Also known as Kemono Jihen.

Studio: Ajiado
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

Special detective Kohachi Inugami is sent to investigate a grisly phenomenon involving animal corpses near a remote mountain village. But after meeting a strange boy who agrees to help, he discovers cursed supernatural forces at work. Little by little, Inugami uncovers the truth behind the killings and the boy who may not even be human.



Tags: Monster Boy , Youkai , Primarily Child Cast , Male Protagonist , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Shounen , Kemonomimi , Femboy , Primarily Male Cast , Detective , Found Family , Body Horror , Monster Girl , Gore , Tsundere , Urban , Tragedy , Shapeshifting , Animals , Nekomimi , Vampire , Orphan , Love Triangle , Bullying

Devils' Line

Also known as Devils' Line.

Studio: Platinum Vision , Sentai Filmworks , Kodansha , King Records
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Everything you thought you knew about vampires is wrong. They can walk in the daylight and holy water doesn't burn them. In fact, vampires can pass as normal humans so perfectly that even other vampires have trouble spotting them. Until they drink human blood, that is; then they transform into monstrous beasts who mindlessly rape and murder. But not all vampires are evil. The secret task force that patrols Tokyo's vampire population has several fanged operatives, including half-human Yuuki Anzai, who believes that his human heritage lets him resist his species' basest cravings. But after Yuuki rescues college student Tsukasa Taira from a vampire stalker, he realizes that he's succumbing to urges he's never felt before.



Tags: Vampire , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Espionage , Nudity , Masturbation

Kaijuu 8-gou

Also known as Kaiju No.8.

Studio: Toho , Shueisha , Production I.G , Production I.G , Studio Khara
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

With the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation. How can he fight kaiju now that he’s become one himself?!



Tags: Kaiju , Monster Boy , Shapeshifting , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Henshin , Shounen , Military , Work , Guns , Gore , Kuudere , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Tokusatsu , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Ojou-sama , Swordplay , Martial Arts

Yakusoku no Neverland 2

Also known as The Promised Neverland Season 2.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Shueisha , Dentsu , Fuji TV , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Psychological , Thriller

The second season of Yakusoku no Neverland.

Fifteen children escape Grace Field House, a false paradise, hoping for a chance at freedom. Instead, they encounter plants and animals they have never before seen, and are chased by demons. The outside world is so beautiful, and yet is almost too cruel to face.

Even so, the children refuse to give up. They are guided in their search for better lives only by a message from Minerva and a pen Norman left behind in order to fulfill their promise to return to the House to save those of their family who are still trapped within.


Note: Episode 1 streamed early on Amazon Prime on Jan 7, 2021. The regular TV broadcast started on Jan 8, 2021.

Tags: Survival , Primarily Child Cast , Dystopian , Demons , Fugitive , Travel , Orphan , Revenge , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Gore , Archery , Food , Tanned Skin , Crime