Anime like Tsukumogami Kashimasu

Mononogatari

Also known as Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , GREE Entertainment , Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment , Bandai Namco Music Live , BS11 , Quaras , Happinet Phantom Studios
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Filled with rage against spirits known as tsukumogami, Kunato Hyoma is sent to live with Nagatsuki Botan to help him see a different side. Though both are part of a clan that return the spirits back to their world with divine powers, their experiences with the otherworldly vessels are vastly different. Kunato, robbed of a loved one, and Nagatsuki, saved by them. Can she get through to him?



Tags: Martial Arts , Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Found Family , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Shapeshifting , Urban , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Super Power , Swordplay , Amnesia , Karuta , Battle Royale , Love Triangle

Natsume Yuujinchou

Also known as Natsume's Book of Friends Season 1.

Studio: Aniplex , Brain's Base , NAS , NIS America Inc. , TV Tokyo Music , Sony Music Entertainment , Trilogy Future Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Natsume has always been an outcast because he inherited his grandmother's ability to see yokai. After moving to his grandmother's hometown and accidentally releasing a yokai imprisoned in a Lucky Cat statue, he learns about his grandmother's "Book of Friends," which contains the names of the yokai she defeated, and allows its wielder to command the yokai named within. Since then, yokai now visit him on a daily basis, seeking to either get their names back or take possession of the Book of Friends.



Tags: Youkai , Iyashikei , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Outdoor , Urban Fantasy , Adoption , Shoujo , Rural , Found Family , Bullying , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Estranged Family , Primarily Teen Cast , Shapeshifting , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Exorcism

Fukigen na Mononokean

Also known as The Morose Mononokean.

Studio: Studio Signpost , Docomo Anime Store , Square Enix , Tokuma Japan Communications , AT-X , Studio Pierrot , Ray , Age Global Networks , Kanon , Yomiuri TV Enterprise
Status: Finished
Genres: Supernatural

Ashiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a youkai attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tea room called the "Mononokean" for help. This is a tale involving the very morose owner of Mononokean guiding the youkai that happened to wander into this world go to the next world.



Tags: Youkai , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Shounen , Exorcism

Miira no Kaikata

Also known as How to Keep a Mummy.

Studio: 8-bit , ONE MUSIC , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

When high school student Sora Kashiwagi finds himself staring down a mysterious oversized package sent to him by his self-proclaimed "adventurer" father, the last thing he expects is for it to be opened from the inside... by a little mummy so small it can fit in the palm of his hand!



Tags: Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , School , Youkai , Animals , Dragons , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast

Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi

Also known as Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

The series centers on a female college student named Aoi, who inherited the ability to see spirits from her late grandfather. Aoi prides herself on her cooking, and one day she's feeding some agricultural spirits when suddenly a god and the master of the "Tenshinya" (Heavenly Inn) appears and takes Aoi away. He says that due to her grandfather's debts, she must become his bride. Aoi hates this idea and instead declares that she will pay back her grandfather's debt by working at the Tenshinya.



Tags: Shoujo , Youkai , Food , Female Protagonist , Isekai , Inn , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Monster Boy , Male Harem , Love Triangle , Twins