Curated playlist
Demons in anime and manga
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)In a 2020 poll, Japanese schoolchildren admired a fictional demon slayer more than their own mothers.
- InuyashaIn the manga Inuyasha, a dying priestess orders her own body burned along with a sacred jewel.
- DevilmanDevilman was a dark manga born from a TV studio's request for something softer.
- Berserk (manga)Kentaro Miura's manga Berserk kept going after he died in 2021. His friend Kouji Mori now supervises the story.
- Dragon Ball DaimaDragon Ball Daima is a Japanese anime television series from Toei Animation, and it reached viewers just after the death of its creator, Akira Toriyama, on the 1st of March 2024. It is the sixth televised animated installment of the Dragon…
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no YaibaDemon Slayer began as a quiet manga about a boy who sold charcoal. By July 2025 it had over 220 million copies out.
- Black ButlerIn Black Butler, a demon ignores a cult's summoning and answers a twelve-year-old boy's call instead.
- DororoA daimyo in the manga Dororo trades his newborn son's body to 48 demons. The boy's mother sets him adrift on a river.
- Panty & Stocking with GarterbeltPanty & Stocking with Garterbelt is a Japanese anime series that began with a director's blunt promise. Hiroyuki Imaishi said the theme of the show would be vulgar and indecent jokes. He added, "If we are going to do this, we will try it…
- Blue ExorcistIn Blue Exorcist, a teenager pulls a sword and learns he is the son of Satan. His flames burn blue.
- Violence JackThe final chapter of manga Violence Jack reveals its ruined world was re-created by God.
- Black CloverIn the manga Black Clover, the hero wants to be Wizard King but has no magic.
- Chainsaw ManChainsaw Man is a Japanese manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, and its world contains a creature that can erase an idea from human memory. When the Chainsaw Devil devours another devil, the thing that devil stood for vanishes from existence and…