Curated playlist
Yōkai in anime and manga
- Spirited AwayIn Spirited Away, a girl's parents turn into pigs in an abandoned resort town. Ten-year-old Chihiro is left alone.
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)In a 2020 poll, Japanese schoolchildren admired a fictional demon slayer more than their own mothers.
- Jujutsu Kaisen (TV series)In 2024, Guinness World Records and the data-science firm Parrot Analytics named Jujutsu Kaisen the most in-demand animated television show, taking the title from Attack on Titan. Jujutsu Kaisen is a Japanese anime series produced by the…
- InuyashaIn the manga Inuyasha, a dying priestess orders her own body burned along with a sacred jewel.
- Pom PokoStudio Ghibli's Pom Poko ends on a golf course, where a grassy clearing is all that remains of an ancient forest.
- 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.
- Jujutsu KaisenA rotten finger sets off the manga Jujutsu Kaisen. A student swallows it and hosts a thousand-year-old sorcerer.
- 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.
- Re:ZeroSubaru Natsuki is walking home from a convenience store when he is suddenly transported to another world. That moment opens Re:Zero, a Japanese light novel series written by Tappei Nagatsuki. It is also known, less commonly, as Re: Life in…
- YuYu HakushoYuYu Hakusho begins with a 14-year-old street brawler named Yusuke Urameshi shoving a young boy out of the path of a car. The boy lives. Yusuke does not. It is an uncharacteristic act of kindness from a teenage delinquent, and it kills him…
- Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (film)Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a 2021 Japanese animated dark fantasy film, and its first audience came at midnight. About 15,000 people watched it at the earliest public screenings on opening day, spread across 58 screens. Theaters had planned to…