Anime like Ushio to Tora (TV)

also known as Ushio and Tora (TV)

What is Ushio and Tora (TV) about?

Studio: MAPPA , Studio VOLN
Status: Finished

Long ago, a ferocious monster terrorized the land, until a samurai, wielding the legendary “Beast Spear”, sealed him away. 500 years later, a middle school student named Ushio Aotsuki accidently uncovers the monster in a hidden cellar under his family’s temple. The unsealed monster and the spear attract many other supernatural creatures to the temple and Ushio is forced to release the monster in order to defeat them. Ushio names the monster “Tora” and unwillingly work together to battle other spirits and demons.



Tags: Shounen , Demons , Youkai , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Tragedy
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Karakuri Circus

Karakuri Circus

Also known as Karakuri Circus.

Studio: Studio VOLN , Twin Engine
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery

The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helped Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting some weird guys. He found out that they're not humans but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi was forced to admit that he's no opponent for them; and just when he started to think that Masaru would be captured, Shirogane, Masaru's watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Arlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus.

Tags: Shounen , Circus , Conspiracy , Robots , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Martial Arts , Tragedy , Foreign , Trains , CGI , Love Triangle
InuYasha

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
JUJUTSU KAISEN

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
SHAMAN KING (2021)

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
Bleach

BLEACH

Also known as Bleach.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , TV Tokyo , Dentsu , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Supernatural

Ichigo Kurosaki is a rather normal high school student apart from the fact he has the ability to see ghosts. This ability never impacted his life in a major way until the day he encounters the Shinigami Kuchiki Rukia, who saves him and his family's lives from a Hollow, a corrupt spirit that devours human souls.

Wounded during the fight against the Hollow, Rukia chooses the only option available to defeat the monster and passes her Shinigami powers to Ichigo. Now forced to act as a substitute until Rukia recovers, Ichigo hunts down the Hollows that plague his town.

Tags: Swordplay , Super Power , Shounen , Afterlife , Ghost , Male Protagonist , Demons , Urban Fantasy , Ensemble Cast , Exorcism , Time Skip , Memory Manipulation , Language Barrier , Tanned Skin , Ninja , Tomboy , Time Manipulation , Centaur , Isekai , Kuudere , Spearplay
Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghostfiles

Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho

Also known as Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghostfiles.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Funimation , Yomiko Advertising , Studio Pierrot , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Supernatural

Urameshi Yusuke, 14 years of age, is about as troublesome and violent as teenagers come. He is constantly ditching school, causing trouble, and getting into numerous fights everyday. One day however, he does the unexpected, sacrificing himself to save a young child. Such an action, was never ever expected, especially coming from someone as troublesome as Urameshi Yusuke. The afterlife is not prepared for Yusuke, as they never thought he would make such a sacrifice. Nowhere to go, and dead, Yusuke becomes a ghost and must earn his way back into existence.

Yusuke is "employed" by Koenma, who is in charge while his father and ruler of the afterlife, King Enma, is away. Under Koenma's command, Yusuke helps to stop menacing demons that threaten the lives of people everywhere; whether by stealing priceless and invaluable items and destructive weapons, or by wreaking havoc on humans everywhere.

Throughout Yusuke's journey, he is usually joined by; his arch-rival, and local bully, Kuwabara Kazuma. He is also joined by two demons named Hiei and Kurama, whom are ex-convicts of the afterlife that managed to escape from Koenma.

This group of unlikely allies goes on to participate and struggle in battles that have outcomes that determine the fate of humanity!



Tags: Coming of Age , Shounen , Demons , Philosophy , Super Power , Delinquents , Urban Fantasy , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Afterlife , Primarily Male Cast , Youkai , Tsundere , Cultivation , Dissociative Identities , Ghost , Heterosexual , Tomboy , School
Kekkaishi

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
Blue Exorcist

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
Shaman King

Shaman King

Also known as Shaman King.

Studio: TV Tokyo , NAS , 4Kids Entertainment , TV Tokyo Music , Xebec , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Supernatural

Shamans possess mysterious powers that allow them to commune with gods, spirits, and even the dead…and Manta Oyamada's about to learn all about them, because his class just welcomed a new transfer student: Yoh Asakura, a boy from way off in Izumo…and a shaman in training!



Tags: Shounen , Ghost , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Mythology , Primarily Child Cast , Twins , Reincarnation , Environmental , Primarily Male Cast , Kuudere , Swordplay , Travel
Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball Z

Also known as Dragon Ball Z.

Studio: Toei Animation , Funimation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Supernatural

Goku is back with his new son, Gohan, but just when things are getting settled down, the adventures continue. Whether he is facing enemies such as Freeza, Cell, or Boo, Goku is proven to be an elite of his own and discovers his race, Saiyan. He meets many new people, gaining allies as well as enemies, as he still finds time to raise a family and be the happy-go-lucky Saiyan he is.



Tags: Shounen , Super Power , Henshin , Martial Arts , Male Protagonist , Cultivation , Aliens , Space , Time Skip , Afterlife , Coming of Age , Mythology , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , Dragons , Time Manipulation , Robots , Gods , Reincarnation , Cyborg , Anachronism , Gore , Revenge , Gender Bending , Body Swapping , Dinosaurs , Battle Royale , Dissociative Identities , Rural , Memory Manipulation

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