If you enjoyed Mushi-Shi, these share its fantasy, slice of life, drama feel.
1. InuYasha
2000 · 167 episodes · Finished. Also: Contemporary Fantasy, Asia, Earth, Alternative Past.
Based on the Shogakukan award-winning manga of the same name, InuYasha follows Kagome Higurashi, a fifteen-year-old girl whose normal life ends when a demon drags her into a cursed well on the grounds of her family's…
2. My Neighbor Totoro
1988 · 1 episode · Finished. Also: Contemporary Fantasy, Japan, Asia, Earth.
Follow the adventures of Satsuki and her four-year-old sister Mei when they move into a new home in the countryside. To their delight they discover that their new neighbor is a mysterious forest spirit called Totoro who…
3. Umineko: When They Cry
2009 · 26 episodes · Finished. Also: Earth, Contemporary Fantasy, Japan, Asia.
Considered as the third installment in the highly popular When They Cry series by 07th Expansion, Umineko no Naku Koro ni takes place on the island of Rokkenjima, owned by the immensely wealthy Ushiromiya family. As…
4. To the Forest of the Firefly Lights
2011 · 1 episode · Finished. Also: Contemporary Fantasy, Japan, Earth, Asia.
Intrigued by the tale of a mountain god, six-year-old Hotaru Takegawa loses her way in the ancient forest while visiting her uncle. Exhausted and desperate for help, Hotaru is thrilled to find a masked forest spirit…
5. When They Cry
2006 · 26 episodes · Finished. Also: Japan, Asia, Earth, Detective.
Keiichi Maebara has just moved to the quiet little village of Hinamizawa in the summer of 1983, and quickly becomes inseparable friends with schoolmates Rena Ryuuguu, Mion Sonozaki, Satoko Houjou, and Rika Furude.…
6. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
2016 · 12 episodes · Finished. Also: Asia, Earth, Alternative Past, Past.
The world is in the midst of the industrial revolution when horrific creatures emerge from a mysterious virus, ripping through the flesh of humans to sate their never-ending appetite. The only way to kill these beings…
7. Rurouni Kenshin
1996 · 94 episodes · Finished. Also: Japan, Earth, Asia, Past.
In the final years of the Bakumatsu era lived a legendary assassin known as Hitokiri Battousai. Feared as a merciless killer, he was unmatched throughout the country, but mysteriously disappeared at the peak of the…
8. Shiki
2010 · 22 episodes · Finished. Also: Earth, Contemporary Fantasy, Japan, Asia.
Fifteen-year-old Megumi Shimizu dreamed of a glamorous life in the big city; however, her unexpected death in the quiet village of Sotoba marks the beginning of what appears to be a ferocious epidemic that turns the hot…
9. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
2012 · 12 episodes · Finished. Also: Contemporary Fantasy, Earth, Japan, Asia.
Seikyou Private Academy, built on the intrigue of traditional occult myths, bears a dark past—for 60 years, it has been haunted by a ghost known as Yuuko, a young woman who mysteriously died in the basement of the old…
10. Mononoke
2007 · 12 episodes · Finished. Also: Japan, Earth, Asia, Past.
The "Medicine Seller" is a deadly and mysterious master of the occult who travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called "mononoke" to slay. When he locates one of these spirits, he cannot simply kill…
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