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TV Shows & Series: Best "japanese mythology" TV Shows/Series

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Naruto(2002-2007)

TV-PG
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.2/5 (with 2,644 votes)

Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and strongest ninja.

Directed by Hayato Date
Subscription Netflix

Monogatari(2009-2015)

TV-14
| 25min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 213 votes)

Although there are still traces of the brief period he became a vampire, third-year high school student Koyomi Araragi is human again. He happens upon others with their own supernatural problems and finds that he can empathize. Koyomi becomes involved in their lives, seeking to help them and occasionally asking for advice from Meme Oshino, the homeless man who helped him become human again.

Natsume Yujin-cho(2008-)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 33 votes)

Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.

Dororo(2019)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
4.3/5 (with 523 votes)

A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned infant survives thanks to a medicine man who equips him with primitive prosthetics—lethal ones with which the wronged son will use to hunt down the multitude of demons to reclaim his body one piece at a time, before confronting his father. On his journeys the young hero encounters an orphan who claims to be the greatest thief in Japan.

Directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Owarimonogatari(2015-2017)

TV-MA
| 25min per episode | Comedy, Mystery, Animation, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A peculiar transfer student named Ougi Oshino has just arrived at Naoetsu Private High School. She is quickly introduced to senior student Koyomi Araragi by their mutual friend Kanbaru Suruga, in hopes of obtaining advice regarding a strange discovery she has made. After taking a look at the school's layout, Ougi notices that a classroom has appeared in an otherwise empty area—a place that should not exist.Unsure if this is the work of an apparition, Araragi and Ougi attempt to unravel the truth behind this enigma. But Araragi soon discovers, after finding himself locked in with Ougi, that the room holds the memory of an event he had long since forgotten.

Mushi-Shi(2005-2014)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 91 votes)

Ginko, a Mushi master, travels from place to place researching the Mushi and helping people who are suffering because of it.

Kamisama Kiss(2012-2015)

TV-PG
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.3/5 (with 412 votes)

Nanami was just a normal high school girl down on her luck until a stranger’s lips marked her as the new Land God and turned her world upside down. Now, she’s figuring out the duties of a deity with the help of Tomoe, a reformed fox demon who reluctantly becomes her familiar in a contract sealed with a kiss. The new responsibilities—and boys—are a lot to handle, like the crow demon masquerading as a gorgeous pop idol and the adorable snake spirit who’s chosen the newly minted god to be his bride. As the headstrong Tomoe tries to whip her into shape, Nanami finds that love just might have cute, pointed fox ears. With romance in the air, will the human deity be able to prove herself worthy of her new title?

Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai(2013-)

TV-MA
| 4min per episode | Animation
3.7/5 (with 19 votes)

Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

Mononoke(2007)

TV-MA
| 23min per episode | Animation, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 23 votes)

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 it; he must first learn its Form, its Truth, and its Reason in order to wield the mighty Exorcism Sword and fight against it. He must begin his strange exorcisms with intense psychological analysis and careful investigative work—an extremely dangerous step, as he must first confront and learn about the mononoke before he even has the means to defeat it.

Directed by Kenji Nakamura

Hozuki's Coolheadedness(2014-2018)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Animation, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Hōzuki is the aide to the great king of Hell, King Enma. Calm and super-sadistic, Hōzuki tries to resolve the various problems in Hell, including a rampaging Momotarō and his companions. However, he also likes spending his free time on his hobbies, such as fawning over cute animals and raising "Goldfish Flowers."

xxxHOLiC(2006-2008)

TV-PG
| 25min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 391 votes)

Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student plagued by ayakashi spirits, both of which are invisible to everyone else but him. The series begins when Watanuki stumbles, seemingly by chance, into a shop that grants wishes. The shop is owned by Yūko Ichihara, a mysterious witch of many names and esoteric renown. For a price, she offers to grant Watanuki's wish to be rid of the spirits. The price, according to Yūko, must be of equal value; so, as payment, he must become Yūko's temporary, part-time cook and housekeeper.

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan(2010-2011)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
3.8/5 (with 39 votes)

Rikuo Nura, is 3 parts human and a quarter Demon, lives in a house of spirits with his grandfather, The current clan head of the Nura youkai. Rikou is set to be the next clan head, despit the fact he dilikes his demon side. He soon come to terms with his demon blood and decides to take his position as young master of the Nura house. However there are those who will certainly not allow it to be easy.

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Ghost Hound(2007-2008)

TV-14
| 25min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

In an isolated region of Kyushu lies the town of Suiten. Though seeming small and modest, Suiten is not a picturesque place for a vacation, unless it is from the “Unseen World”. Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, three boys with traumatic pasts, learn to let their souls cross between the two parallel worlds. However, the Unseen World is no mere copy of the real Apparent World. The Unseen World is the home of ghosts, but changes are now allowing the souls of the dead to pass over into the Apparent World, with unpredictable effects. Follow the journey of Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, as they cross between the two worlds, trying to unravel a great mystery.

ONI: Thunder God's Tale(2022)

TV-Y7
| Action & Adventure, Animation
3.9/5 (with 15 votes)

In a mystical world of Japanese gods and spirits, a courageous girl strives to follow in her mysterious father's footsteps and find her true powers.

Subscription Netflix

Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-(2018)

24min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
4.2/5 (with 70 votes)

After losing her grandfather, Aoi—a girl who can see spirits known as ayakashi—is suddenly approached by an ogre. Demanding she pay her grandfather’s debt, he makes a huge request: her hand in marriage! Refusing this absurd offer, Aoi decides to work at the Tenjin-ya bed and breakfast for the ayakashi to pay back what her family owes.

The Eccentric Family(2013-2017)

TV-14
| 25min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

In Kyoto, humans and supernatural creatures live side-by-side. Soichiro Shimogamo used to be the head of tanuki society, but without warning one day he was made into tanuki stew, and no one knows how it happened. He left four sons behind who all live happily with their mother. What does fate have in store for this strongly bonded family?!

The Morose Mononokean(2016-2019)

24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

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.

Mokke(2007-2008)

24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

This is a story about two sisters: Shizuru is a high school student who is able to see ghosts while her younger sister, Mizuki, is haunted by these apparitions. Frustrated by their abilities, their parents decided to entrust the sisters into the care of their grandparents who live in the countryside. As they adapt to life in the countryside, Shizuru and Mizuki begin to learn about the importance of coexisting nature with these apparitions.

Poco's Udon World(2016)

TV-14
| 23min per episode | Animation
4.3/5 (with 35 votes)

On a visit to his hometown, Souta Tawara meets a strange child who loves udon and frogs... and has ears and a tail?! Although ordinary at first glance, it turns out that this little tyke is actually a tanuki in a human disguise! So begins the tale of a gentle, warm, and slightly weird family in Kagawa prefecture, better known as "Udon Prefecture," where time passes at a less hurried pace than in the big city...

Inari Kon Kon(2014)

TV-PG
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Fushimi Inari is a shy, not-so-bright middle school girl living in Kyoto's Fushimi ward. She has a crush on her classmate Tanbabashi, but cannot express her feelings. One day, as thanks for helping a fox pup, the deity Uka no Mitama no Kami grants her the ability to change her form.

Directed by Tōru Takahashi

Box of Goblins(2008)

TV-MA
| 23min per episode | Animation, Crime, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.

Zakuro(2010)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

The story takes place during the Westernization Movement in an alternate world where humans and spirits coexist. To solve the problems that arise between the two, human lieutenants are partnered with half-spirit girls to form the Ministry of Spirit Affairs.

Midnight Occult Civil Servants(2019)

24min per episode | Animation, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Miyako Arata is newly assigned to the Shinjuku Ward Office's Nighttime Regional Relations Department. Each of Tokyo's 23 wards has one such department, established to mitigate paranormal and occult-related events. Arata's special skill is the understanding of non-human speech, and the story begins with him encountering a youkai at Shinjuku Gyoen park who refers to him as the legendary Heian-era exorcist, Abe no Seimei.

JK Is a Snow Woman(2015)

24min per episode | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

A love story between Snow Women sisters and a male high school student.

Demon Prince Enma(2006-2007)

41min per episode | Animation, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A remake of Go Nagai’s 1973 lighthearted horror anime TV series Dororon Enma-kun. Enma, Yuki-hime and Kapaeru are demon hunters from another plane who have come to present day Japan to exterminate demons who possess humans and cause them to commit murder.