Top Werewolf Anime Recommendations

Kekkai Sensen

Also known as Blood Blockade Battlefront.

Studio: bones
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Supernatural

A breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened up over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers and creatures from other dimensions in an impenetrable bubble. They've lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities. Now someone is threatening to sever the bubble, and a group of stylish superhumans is working to keep it from happening.



Note: The last episode aired with a runtime of ~46 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Aliens , Alternate Universe , Ensemble Cast , Urban , Tanned Skin , Dystopian , Slapstick , Vampire , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Gore , Post-Apocalyptic , Demons , Foreign , Tomboy , Tragedy , Werewolf , Twins , Philosophy , Parkour

Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki

Also known as Wolf Children.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Studio Chizu
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

The theme of the film is the love between parents and children. The story covers 13 years and begins with a 19-year-old college student named Hana who encounters and falls in "fairy tale-like" love with a "wolf man." After marrying the wolf man, Hana gives birth and raises two wolf children—an older sister named Yuki who was born on a snowy day, and a younger brother named Ame who was born on a rainy day. The four quietly lived in a corner of a city to conceal the existence of the "wolf children," but when the wolf man suddenly dies, Hana decides to move to a rural town far removed from the city.



Tags: Parenthood , Family Life , Werewolf , Coming of Age , Shapeshifting , Female Protagonist , Rural , Environmental , Kemonomimi , Animals , Mythology , Tragedy , Snowscape , Urban , Agriculture , Urban Fantasy , School , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist

HELLSING OVA

Also known as Hellsing Ultimate.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Satelight , Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Horror , Supernatural

Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, has long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing controls her own personal army to eliminate the undead beings, but even her highly trained soldiers pale in comparison to her most trusted vampire exterminator, a man by the name of Alucard, who is actually a powerful vampire himself. Along with Integra's mysterious butler and Alucard's new vampire minion, Seras Victoria, The Hellsing Organization must face not only regular ghouls and vampires, but a rivaling secret organization from the Vatican, and Millennium, an enigmatic group of madmen spawned by a certain war over 50 years ago...
A bloody battle between monsters is about to begin, the dead are dancing, and all hell is singing...

Tags: Vampire , Gore , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , War , Foreign , Anti-Hero , Primarily Adult Cast , Religion , Military , Urban , Guns , Cannibalism , Butler , Body Horror , Monster Girl , Monster Boy , Male Protagonist , Noir , Primarily Male Cast , Female Protagonist , Demons , Age Regression , Slapstick , Tomboy , Gender Bending , Kemonomimi , CGI , Werewolf , Nekomimi , Chibi , Time Skip , Nudity , Bisexual , Super Power , Philosophy

Blood Lad

Also known as Blood Lad.

Studio: Brain's Base
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi , Supernatural

Staz is the vampire boss of a section of the demon world, but he has little interest in human blood. He's more infatuated with Japanese culture. When he learns that Yanagi Fuyumi, a Japanese teenage girl, accidentally wanders into the demon city, he jumps to the occasion. However, while Staz deals with an intruder on his turf, the oblivious Fuyumi is killed by a monster and becomes a wandering ghost. The disappointed Staz vows to her that he will find a way to bring Fuyumi back to life.

Tags: Demons , Vampire , Afterlife , Ghost , Delinquents , Urban , Otaku Culture , Male Protagonist , Parody , Love Triangle , Werewolf , Skeleton , Heterosexual , Guns , Seinen , Unrequited Love , Female Protagonist , Zombie , Boxing , Isekai , Nudity , Kuudere , Dragons

Shiki

Also known as Shiki.

Studio: Daume
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

During a fiercely hot summer in Sotoba, a peaceful and quiet village with a population of 1300 people, a series of bizarre deaths begin to occur. At the same time, a strange family moves into a long abandoned mansion in the region. After supposedly visiting this strange family, the fashionable Shimizu Megumi goes missing and the entire village goes out in search for her.

Tags: Vampire , Survival , Tragedy , Rural , Anti-Hero , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Denpa , Zombie , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Pandemic , Medicine , Male Protagonist , Revenge , Religion , Achronological Order , Yandere , Writing , Guns , Primarily Teen Cast , Werewolf

Kekkai Sensen & BEYOND

Also known as Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond.

Studio: bones
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Supernatural

Three years ago, a gateway between Earth and the Beyond opened in New York City, trapping extradimensional creatures and humans alike in an impermeable bubble. After the city's restoration, monsters, magic, and madness are common findings in the area now known as Hellsalem's Lot. Leonardo Watch, a young photographer who unwillingly obtained the "All-seeing Eyes of the Gods" in exchange for his sister's eyesight, came to this paranormal city to find answers to the mysterious power that he possesses. He later finds his life drastically changed when he joins Libra, a secret organization of people with supernatural abilities dedicated to maintaining order in the everyday chaos of Hellsalem's Lot.

However, this is only the beginning of Leonardo's unexpected journey ahead. Regardless of the constant threat of otherworldly enemies, he is determined to uncover the secrets of his power and find a way to restore his sister's eyesight. Kekkai Sensen & Beyond follows Leonardo as he sets off on more crazy adventures with his comrades, fighting to ensure peace and order.



Tags: Episodic , Urban , Urban Fantasy , Aliens , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Foreign , Super Power , Shounen , Vampire , Dystopian , Cosmic Horror , Werewolf , Tanned Skin , Tomboy , Gore , Demons , Alternate Universe , Post-Apocalyptic , Guns , Parkour

NOBLESSE

Also known as Noblesse.

Studio: Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

For 820 years he had slumbered with no knowledge of mankind's advancement and scientific progress. The land which he once knew has become an unfamiliar place with new technology, attitudes, and lifestyles. Upon awakening, Cadis Etrama Di Raizel (aka Rai), seeks to familiarize himself with this era. He locates a loyal servant of his, Frankenstein, who is currently the principal of a South Korean High School. Rai decides that this school is the perfect place to help him learn about the modern world, enrolls, and begins associating with a group of good-natured students in order to 'blend in'. But this new world is no safer than the old; and the dignified, bewildered, technologically inept Rai finds himself embroiled in adventures both ridiculous and dangerous.

Tags: Urban Fantasy , War , Super Power , Vampire , Shounen , Time Skip , School , Ensemble Cast , Werewolf , Memory Manipulation , Cult , Assassins , College , Basketball , Male Protagonist

Isekai Shikkaku

Also known as No Longer Allowed in Another World.

Studio: Atelier Pontdarc
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Pulled into an otherworldly adventure with cute sidekicks and superpowers, you’d think Osamu hit the jackpot. Nope! From a time before pixels, the early 20th-century gloomy author just wants to find a quiet place to meet his maker, not to rack up XP. Sadly, his poetic demise is constantly thwarted by inconvenient heroics. Dive into the hilariously tragic life of the most reluctant hero!



Tags: Isekai , Suicide , Satire , Male Protagonist , Travel , Seinen , Philosophy , Magic , Nekomimi , Writing , Elf , Drugs , Heterosexual , Royal Affairs , Gore , Werewolf , Disability , Desert , CGI , Medieval

Witch Watch

Also known as WITCH WATCH.

Studio: Bibury Animation Studios
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Morihito Otogi, a high school student who comes from a lineage of ogres, enjoys a peaceful, ordinary life until his childhood friend, Nico, moves in with him. Nico is a witch-in-training, and chooses Morihito to be her familiar. While Nico is thrilled to reunite with her old friend and crush, Morihito is tasked with the perilous duty to protect her from a foretold calamity. Between the unpredictable chaos caused by Nico’s magic, and the awkwardness of sharing a home, their lives become a whirlwind of supernatural hijinks and threats.



Notes:
- Worldwide premiere of Episodes 1-3 titled as WITCH WATCH: WATCH PARTY before the Japanese premiere was pre-screened in advance in theaters on March 16, 2025 in North America by GKIDS Films and March 22 and 23 in Europe by Animation Digital Network.
- Episodes 1-2 + a selection of stories (Cat Scout, Kanshi's Part Time Job Diaries ~ The Side Job ~, and Kan & Nico's Channel) was pre-screened in advance in theaters on March 30, 2025 in Japan. The regular TV broadcast began April 6, 2025.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Slapstick , Found Family , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Urban Fantasy , Cohabitation , Otaku Culture , Parody , Shounen , Vampire , Meta , Youkai , Werewolf , Gender Bending , Drawing

Grancrest Senki

Also known as Record of Grancrest War.

Studio: A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Romance

The series takes place on a continent ruled by chaos. The chaos breeds disaster, but the Lords of the continent have the power of "Crest" (Holy Seal) that can calm the chaos and protect the people. However, before anyone realizes it, the rulers cast aside their creed of purifying the chaos, and instead start to fight each other for each others' Crests and to gain dominion over one another. Siluca, an isolated mage who scorns the Lords for abandoning their creed, and a wandering knight named Theo, who is on a journey to train to one day liberate his hometown, which is under tyrannical rule, make an everlasting oath to each other as master and servant and work together to reform this continent dominated by wars and chaos.



Tags: War , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Adoption , Werewolf , Vampire , Witch , Estranged Family , Kingdom Management , Medieval , Primarily Adult Cast , Revenge , Royal Affairs , Ships , Twins , Villainess , Vikings , Slavery , Curses , Post-Apocalyptic , Lost Civilization , Swordplay , Magic , Male Protagonist , Marriage , Gore , Acting , Demons , Nudity , Tsundere , Netorare

Tenrou: Sirius the Jaeger

Also known as Sirius the Jaeger.

Studio: P.A.WORKS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Imperial Capital, 1930.
A strange group of people carrying musical instrument cases landed on Tokyo station.
They are called the “Jaegers”, who came to hunt vampires.
Amongst them, there stood a young man with striking serenity and unusual aura.
His name is Yuliy, a werewolf whose home village was destroyed by vampires.
Yuliy and the Jaegers engage in deadly battle over a mysterious holy arc only known as “The Arc of Sirius”.
What truth awaits them at the end…?
With eternal affinity and spiral of conspiracy entwine, the highly anticipated action-thriller anime begins!



Tags: Vampire , Revenge , Werewolf , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Guns , Gore , Military , Foreign , Historical

SERVAMP

Also known as SERVAMP.

Studio: Brain's Base
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Mahiru Shirota dislikes difficult things, preferring to live a simple life. But after rescuing a cat he names Kuro, life takes a turn for the complex. Kuro turns out to be a servamp—a servant vampire, named Sleepy Ash and the two form a contract. Kissing his simple life goodbye, Mahiru is pulled into the world of vampires, the seven deadly Servamps, and war. Life couldn’t be more complicated!



Tags: Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Revenge , Shapeshifting , Adoption , Urban , Super Power , Shoujo , Werewolf , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Animals , School , Memory Manipulation

Undead Girl Murder Farce

Also known as Undead Murder Farce.

Studio: Lapin Track
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

The 19th century — a world inhabited by vampires, golems, werewolves and other paranormal creatures. Immortal beauty and disembodied head Aya Rindo, along with half-human-half-demon "Demon Killer" Tsugaru Shunichi and her loyal maid Shizuku Hasei, travels through Europe as supernatural detective "The Cage User," solving supernatural mysteries while she searches for her lost body.



Tags: Detective , Classic Literature , Monster Girl , Historical , Monster Boy , Travel , Female Protagonist , Youkai , Crime , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Conspiracy , Revenge , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Werewolf , Fairy Tale , Gore , Vampire , Rakugo , Rural , Maids , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes

Wolf's Rain

Also known as Wolf's Rain.

Studio: bones
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi

In some distant future, it's common knowledge that all wolves have been extinct for 200 years. However, it seems this is false as wolves have not disappeared but rather have taken human form. Kiba, a lone wolf, wanders into a city, trying to sniff out the Lunar Flowers that are supposed to lead whoever follows the scent to paradise. The source of the smell is Cheza, a girl who sleeps in what appears to be suspended animation in a lab. She and the wolves are drawn to each other, and Kiba hopes to find paradise once he finds the source of the scent of Lunar Flowers. However, once Kiba finds Cheza, she is kidnapped by a mysterious person called Darcia, and his search begins anew. Before he leaves the city, he meets 3 other wolves, Tsume, Hige and Toboe. All four wolves have very different personalities and ideas, and their friendliness towards each other is a little rough around the edges. However, they soon band together to continue to search for paradise.



Tags: Survival , Primarily Male Cast , Animals , Dystopian , Tragedy , Werewolf , Post-Apocalyptic , Memory Manipulation , Tanned Skin , Snowscape , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Indigenous Cultures , Boys' Love

Mahoutsukai no Yome SEASON 2

Also known as The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2.

Studio: Studio Kafka
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The second season of Mahoutsukai no Yome.

Chise was able to accept Elias and herself, if not necessarily everything about her situation. After Cartaphilus fell back into a slumber that would not last forever, Chise was able to go back to her regular life. Then she receives an invitation from a mutual aid organization for mages called the College. Under the British Library exists a secret society of mages. Encounters and interactions with people are about to open some new doors. This is a story about saving yourself to save another.



Note: Episode 1 of season two premiered in a preview screening event together with "Fuyu no Okorimono" at Tachikawa Cinema City's Cinema Two in Tokyo on March 11, 2023.  

Tags: Urban Fantasy , Magic , Female Protagonist , Mythology , Fairy , School , Heterosexual , Rural , Age Gap , Teacher , Monster Boy , Marriage , Kuudere , Tragedy , College , Animals , Orphan , Skeleton , Outdoor Activities , Foreign , Disability , Shapeshifting , Adoption , Monster Girl , CGI , Tomboy , POV , Chibi , Time Manipulation , Shounen , Werewolf

Isshun de Chiryou Shiteita no ni Yakutatazu to Tsuihou Sareta Tensai Chiyushi, Yami Healer Toshite Tanoshiku Ikiru

Also known as The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows.

Studio: Makaria
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy

Banished as “useless,” Zenos, a self-taught healer from the slums, turns despair into defiance and opens a secret clinic in the city’s shadows. With unlicensed, unmatched magic, he cures, comforts, and rights wrongs, quietly becoming a legend. But as his power grows, even the royal palace takes notice. Can he buck the odds and heal a world that cast him aside?



Tags: Medicine , Magic , Female Harem , Male Protagonist , Elf , Monster Girl , Nekomimi , Ghost , Kemonomimi , Class Struggle , Werewolf , Revenge , Slavery , Guns , Dystopian

Lord El-Melloi II-sei no Jikenbo: "Rail Zeppelin" Grace note

Also known as Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note.

Studio: TROYCA
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

Ten years after facing defeat in the Fourth Holy Grail War, Waver Velvet, now Lord El Melloi II, teaches classes at the Clock Tower—the center of education for mages. However, his new status as "Lord" comes with a caveat: obey the orders of Reines, the younger sister of the deceased Kayneth El Melloi, until she is old enough to rule the House of El Melloi.

Waver, along with his mysterious apprentice Gray, takes on a series of cases assigned by Reines and the Mages Association. With each case proving to be more complex than the last, could there be more to the Clock Tower than meets the eye, and what secrets does Reines hide?

Tags: Magic , Urban Fantasy , Detective , Trains , Teacher , Necromancy , Ghost , Astronomy , Snowscape , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Religion , Fairy , Ojou-sama , Werewolf , Vampire , Spearplay

Cheat Kusushi no Slow Life: Isekai ni Tsukurou Drugstore

Also known as Drug Store in Another World - The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist.

Studio: EMT Squared
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Reiji Kirio was a corporate wage slave, who did nothing but work all day, every day. On a typical day of walking to work with a hollow look on his face, he suddenly found himself in the forest of another world. "Oh, this must be one of those isekai reincarnations people keep talking about." The two skills he has are "Appraise" and "Drug Discovery." Those don't sound too impressive... well, whatever. Except these turn out to be particularly overpowered skills! He's able to produce the healing medicines that were sorely lacking in the world, one after another, leading to an overnight fortune. No one will ever force him to work like a slave again! He decides to adopt a deliberately slow life, and opens a drug store. And so, a story about following the slow life philosophy while running a drugstore in another world begins.



Tags: Episodic , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Drugs , Medicine , Isekai , Female Harem , Kemonomimi , Ghost , Gods , Conspiracy , Werewolf , Magic , Found Family , Elf , Makeup

Vampire Hunter D (2000)

Also known as Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Romance , Sci-Fi

The story revolves around D, the infamous "dunpeal" (born of a vampire father and a human mother) outcast and renowned vampire hunter. His prowess at hunting the creatures of the night allowing his acceptance among humans, he is called upon to locate Charlotte Elbourne, the lovely daughter of an affluent family who has been mysteriously kidnapped.

When the sun sets, the hunt goes on! Charlotte`s father offers a rich bounty, be she dead or alive, a task D willingly accepts, even with notorious Markus brothers and their gang of bounty hunters seeking the prize as well. Amidst the chase and unknown to all lurks a sinister evil which has been secretly manipulating their every move and has set a chilling trap that none will expect and few will survive. With the tables turned and the secrets revealed, the hunters could quickly become the hunted!



Tags: Vampire , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Dystopian , Heterosexual , Fugitive , Post-Apocalyptic , Travel , Swordplay , Guns , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , Magic , Monster Girl , Tomboy , Gore , Steampunk , Nudity , Time Skip , Werewolf , Age Gap

Dance in the Vampire Bund

Also known as Dance in the Vampire Bund.

Studio: Shaft
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Romance , Supernatural

On live television, Mina Tepes, the ruler of all vampires, reveals the existence of her species to the world and states her plan to build a sanctuary in Japan for vampires, called the Vampire Bund. Using her family's wealth to pay off the nation's debt, they have agreed to let her build this safe-haven for her fellow creatures of the night. But not everyone is so easily swayed by Mina's influence, as her announcement brings about conflict with humans who believe that the queen's quest for peace is a façade.

Akira Kaburagi does not believe in vampires and gets uneasy whenever they are brought up, although he has yet to realize why. Apart from suffering a head injury a year ago, he lives on blissfully until he meets Mina. She triggers within him memories of a life he had long forgotten, and he soon begins protecting her without understanding why. But Akira's secret is far stranger than he could have ever thought possible—he discovers that he is a werewolf, sworn from birth to protect the vampire queen, even if it costs him his life. Now, as these two dance a rondo of death in the Vampire Bund, Mina and Akira find out just how deep their bond goes.



Tags: Vampire , Amnesia , Urban Fantasy , Werewolf , Heterosexual , Cohabitation , Nudity , Urban , Seinen , Age Gap , Clone , Politics , School , Love Triangle , Body Horror , Maids , Female Harem , Nun