Tag: youkai
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Monster Heaven
An anthology of strange horror tales featuring yokai. It begins with astronauts finding a katana on the moon.
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Spooky Kitaro: The Great Sea Beast
Kitaro is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery and, aside from his mostly decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost Tribe (幽霊族 yūrei zoku?). He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former…
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Hell Teacher Nube
Kumiko Ijima is a very timid girl who happens to recognize a murderer still in pursuit at a park. With the help of her friend Kyoko Inaba, she warns the police about the wanted man. After trying to escape the police by car, the murderer crashes and ends up in the hospital. Some time later,…
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Spooky Kitaro: Yokai Express! The Phantom Train
Kitarou, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. In this episode The Western demons hijacked the Phantom Train. Kitaro and his friends must stop this crime.
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Hell Teacher Nube: At 0 a.m. Nube is Dead!!
Nube gets a new student called Jun Kagami, a shy boy who has just transferred to Doumori Elementary School. Due to his insecurities, Jun believes that his only friend is a mysterious clown entity that lives inside mirrors. It is up to Nube to find out the true nature of this clown.
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Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time
InuYasha is a half-demon who was trapped in the Legendary Tree and was set free by Kagome, a girl who traveled 500 years through time. This time, both of them will have to face Menomaru, a Chinese demon whose father, known as Hyoga, came 300 years ago to invade Japan, but was stopped by InuYasha’s…
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Spirited Away
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
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Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyday lives. But their peace is fleeting as another adversary emerges: Kaguya, the self-proclaimed princess from the Moon of Legend, hatches a plot to plunge the world into an eternal night of the full moon. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango and Shippou…
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Inuyasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler
Inuyasha and his brother, Sesshomaru, each inherited a sword from their father after his death. However, their father had a third sword, named Sounga, that he sealed away. Seven hundreds years after his death, Sounga awakens and threatens mankind’s very existence. How will the children of the Great Dog Demon stop this unimaginable power?
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Inuyasha the Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island
The mysterious island of Houraijima has reappeared after 50 years, and with its reappearance has brought the attack of four gods, the Shitoushin, who have their eyes set on the powers that protect and sustain the island. Now it’s up to Inuyasha and his friends, along with Sesshoumaru, to find a way to defeat the…
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Humanoid Monster Bella Episode 0
Ohno Shiori is just an ordinary high school girl. One day, Umenokisaka Bella comes to her class as a transfer student. Bella is given the seat of the recently deceased Sasaki Kozue, a close friend of Shiori’s that died in a tragic accident. Shiori notices that Bella has the same kaleidoscope key chain that her…
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Humanoid Monster Bem
Bem, Bela, and Belo are not “monsters,” nor “humans,” but “humanoid monsters.” They usually disguise themselves as a human family living together, but their appearances transform into ugly monsters when their emotions become uncontrollable due to intense anger or extreme sorrow. Even if they save humans out of a sense of justice, they are feared…
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Death Kappa
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan’s defenses are helpless against it. Mankind’s only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the “Death Kappa.” The two rival monsters must go head-to-head…
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Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
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Hell Teacher Nube: Summer Holiday of Fear! Legend of the Sea of Suspicion
When Nube and his class arrive at a small island to carry out beach activities, they heard a forbodding tale from an old man residing on the island. Legend has it that there is a creature known as the sea spider in the open seas around the island. When the creature is past 200 years…
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A Letter to Momo
A shy 11-year-old’s life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.
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Mushi-Shi: The Shadow That Devours the Sun
A strange shadow forms blocking the sun from a village following a solar eclipse. Ginko enlists the help of the villagers to solve the mystery of the shadow before it destroys their crops.
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The Great Yokai War
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes “chosen,” and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of…