When it comes to Ghosts and the supernatural in anime, there is an entire subgenre that looks into that, and you will love most of its anime. So if you were looking for the most popular anime Ghosts, then you have come to the right place because this time, we will be looking at the supernatural anime surrounding their plots, mostly on ghosts.
There are different anime genres out there, and fans have their own preferences. While some might focus more on gore and blood-spilling anime. Some like thrilling and supernatural plots that center around ghosts or simply the supernatural. So if you do not have a strong heart, then you might not want to watch these shows late at night.
But we have enough shows to refer to that will keep you busy for a while. So if you have not come across some of these shows, then you might want to add them to what you should watch next. So without further ado, let us look at the shown that you should refer to if you want to come across the most popular anime ghosts.
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Anohana anime takes place in Chichibu, Saitama, where a group of six 6 graders and childhood friends drifted apart when one of them, Meiko Menma, ended up dying in an accident. Now five years have passed, and the group leader, Jinta, has withdrawn from society and no longer attends school. He lives as a recluse, and on one summer day, the ghost of an older looking Menma appears before him and asks to have a wish granted and tells him that she can not pass to the afterlife until the wish is fulfilled.
Initially, he agreed to help her out because he thought he was still dreaming but since Menma does not remember what her wish was. Jinta rounded up his estranged friends again, believing they were the key to solving the problem. So the group reluctantly joined him, with things seemed to be a bit more complicated.
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Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Taking place at Seikyo private academy, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia anime is about schools built-in at different points in history without the care for the existing architecture. Most of them overlap and mix with each other forming an unintentional maze-like structure, and while inside, an untrained person can easily lose their way. The school was built on top of an old shrine where Yuuko died, and since her body and regrets are both tied to the school, she cannot leave the school premises even if she wanted to.
In the anime, a Ghost is formed from the person’s regrets while they were alive, and one can see them only if believing in their existence. But depending on their expectations and knowledge, what they see will be slightly different from Yuuko’s true form.
Ghost Hunt
This anime is a bit different from the rest on the list, and it is about Ghost hunting adventures of Mai Taniyama, who is a first-year high school student who was involved with Shibuya Psychic Research. Its young manager, Kazuya Shibuya, is also nicknamed Naru because of his narcissistic attitude, and this is generally adopted by all those who come to work with him. A Buddhist monk, Houshou Takigawa, shrine maiden Ayako Matsuzaki and a celebrity teen psychic Masako Hara, together with a Catholic priest John Brow work together in these adventures.
Corpse Party: Tortured Souls
With only 4 OVAs released, Corpse Party is about a group of schoolmates coming from Kisaragi academy who performed a friendship charm called Sachiko Ever After for their classmate Mayu Suzumoto who was about to transfer to another school. When they completed their charm, they were engulfed by an earthquake and transported to the cursed heavenly host elementary school and were separated from one another.
Naomi and Seiko ended up reuniting and started to search for an exit together, but they found that all the windows and doors in the buildings were sealed. So while they rest, Seiko finds out that she has lost her paper charm slip and leaves Naomi to look for it. When Naomi was attacked by a Ghost and narrowly escaped with her life, Seiko later returned, but things got more complicated.
Ga Rei Zero
When members of the Japanese Ministry of Defense Paranormal Disaster Headquarters (PDCH) were summonsed to eliminate Kashas and Ghosts of paranormal category B beast-like beings and category C human-like beings that are only visible to a few people and vulnerable to holy water, the initial efforts of the first section were unsuccessful until they were attacked and overwhelmed, and at that point, Natsuki in Toru from the 4th division intervened to save the survivors. Even though they managed to kill the Kashas and lured them into traps, the 4th special division operatives were massacred by a katana-wielding woman.
Le Portrait De Petite Cossette
When a college art student Eiri Kurahashi was working in his antique shop, he saw the image of a girl in an antique glass. But to his shock, she appears to be moving and living out of her life before his eyes. He becomes infatuated with the girl, and one night at midnight, he makes contact with her and learns that her name is Cossette. She was an aristocrat’s daughter during the 18th century, and she ended up telling him that her spirit had been trapped within the glass because the artist Marcello Orlando ordered her. She also told Eiri that for her to escape, a man must be willing to take the punishment for the sins that she committed.
Mushishi
Taking place in an imaginary time between the Edo and the Meiji periods and featuring some 19th-century technology with Japan still a closed nation. Mushishi features ubiquitous creatures known as Mushi that often display what seems to be supernatural powers. There are many primitive life forms that normal living things like animals, fungi, and plants. But Mushi is the most primitive of them all due to their ethereal nature. Most people can not interact with Mushi and are oblivious to their existence, but there are a few who possess the ability to see and interact with Mushi.
Ghost Hound
Ghost hound anime takes place in the small town of Suiten, located in a remote mountainous region on the island of Kyushi. Similar to most Ghost related anime, it is about a story that takes place in a certain town. Ghosts and paranormal occurrences appear in the real world and spread through the town. Three high school boys, Taro, Masayuki, and Makoto, had all had traumatic experiences in their childhood when they came across a strange event at Suiten.
They investigated and went into the spirit realm even though no human is supposed to do so. They were granted the entrance only to later find out that the key to their childhood traumas lies within this new world, and the local Shinto priest and his daughter, Miyako, also became one of the people to be involved in these events.
Natsume’s Book of Friends
When Natsume traveled to a town where his grandmother Reiko lived for a while, he met an acquaintance of hers, and Nyanko-sensei followed some spirits into the woods only to end up with a weird seed stuck on him, which later became part of a spirit tree in Natsume’s front yard.
Supernatural: The Animation
When a demonic shapeshifter committed a gruesome murder, the brothers ended up investigating this case while the demonic shapeshifter took on the form of Dean to continue with its killing sprees. The anime had 22 episodes and is one of the anime with the most popular anime ghost you can come across.
These anime have been released in different years and have aired for different seasons. But still, one thing interesting about this genre is that it keeps its consistency. One thing that keeps this genre’s fandom is that it always does the work of getting one a bit scared while keeping them entertained. So there is always the unknown lying in wait, one thing that makes these anime worth following until the end.
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