After being cursed by a witch and vowing to hunt down the culprit, the fiery and feral Guideau joins the Order of Magical Resonance, an order that deals with witches and those who abuse magic.
Paired up with Guideau is the suave and mysterious mage, Ashaf who keeps Guideau’s more violent nature in check. The pair travel the country dealing with a series of magic-related cases while also searching for the unknown witch that cursed Guideau.
Although it had a spectacular start, The Witch and The Beast was one of those series that ultimately meandered about right up until it ended. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Witch and The Beast, head on down below.
Anime Like The Witch and the Beast
For Fans of Mage Hunting
Witch Hunter Robin
The world is filled with witches living low key among the population. With powers like ESP, mind control, and telekinesis, they are fiercely powerful.
While many go undetected, the STN-J is responsible for capturing witches alive and turning them in for study in order to learn why they become witches in the first place.
In order to aid in their investigation and replace the member they just lost, a witch named Robin from Italy is sent to aid them, much to the chagrin on the normal humans on the squad.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and Witch Hunter Robin
- Both series are about witch hunters
- Episodic plots about hunting different witches with minimal overarching plot
- The witch hunters are a mysterious organization that also employ magic users
- Dark and occasionally bloody action
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and Witch Hunter Robin
- Witch Hunter Robin does better explaining the overall plot of its characters and the overarching intrigue around why they are hunting witches
- Instead of a duo like in The Witch and The Beast, Witch Hunter Robin follows a small team
- The Witch and The Beast is a fantasy world while Witch Hunter Robin is more grounded in our real world, but witches do exist in it
Dorohedoro
Hole is a disorderly district where death and mutilation are common. The residents of Hole are the dregs of society and the test subjects of the magic users that live separate from it. As such, these residents are constantly tested on or just murdered by these mages.
In Hole is Kaiman, a man with a head cursed to be that of a lizard, but with an immunity to magic. He spends his time set on hunting down these magic users in one small bit of justice for the people that live in Hole.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and Dorohedoro
- Both series follow gritty, grumpy mage hunters
- Both series enjoy their more bloody action
- Both series craft rather unique fantasy worlds where magic and modern technology both exist
- At least, in part, episodic storytelling
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and Dorohedoro
- Dorohedoro is less episodic and does have more of an overall plot to the story
- Dorohedoro is bloody, but also uses that to engage in some frequent dark comedy as well
- Dorohedoro is like if witches ruled over humanity in The Witch and The Beast – they treat humans as playthings for magic
The Kingdoms of Ruin
With the help of witches blessed upon humanity by the goddess, human civilization flourished for generations. However, as humanity adapted more independence from the magic of witches through innovations in science and technology, they began to violently persecute witches.
Leading the persecution and execution of witches is the ruthless Redia Empire. Adonis, a human boy, is forced to watch the brutal public execution of the kind witch who raised him and granted him access to use magic.
After years of isolation and imprisonment, Adonis is freed and begins his bloody vengeance on the empire.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and The Kingdoms of Ruin
- Both series take place in worlds where witches are prosecuted
- Both series enjoy their occasional moments of gory action
- Both series have a main duo – one tempers the more extreme personality of the other
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and The Kingdoms of Ruin
- Witches aren’t actually that evil in The Kingdoms of Ruin whereas The Witch and The Beast paint them as more malicious
- The main character in The Kingdoms of Ruin is revenge-driven while his cheerful partner tempers that
- The Kingdoms of Ruin has a more clear overall plot of traveling for vengeance
For Fans of Dark Supernatural Fantasy
The Ancient Magus’ Bride
After being abandoned by her family, Chise Hatori is a 16-year-old teenager without hope.
In order to not have to worry about herself, she sells herself to slavers, only to be purchased by Magus Elias Ainsworth.
There, she is told she will become his apprentice and, in the future, his bride. Together, they work to build a relationship and work to control her own magus powers that will eventually result in her early death.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and The Ancient Magus’ Bride
- Both series create whimsical magical worlds that are still a modern civilization
- Both series feature mages solving various magic-related problems
- The magical stories can occasionally be monstrous
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and The Ancient Magus’ Bride
- The Ancient Magus’ Bride is stet up around a romance, although it is isn’t the main focus of the series
- The Ancient Magus Bride follows mages who are often helping other mages or magical creatures, not hunting them down like The Witch and The Beast
- The Ancient Magus’s Bride has better fleshed out characters and more emotional storytelling
The Case Study of Vanitas
Scorned by his vampire peers for being born under a blue moon, it is said that the vampire Vanitas created a powerful grimoire known as the Book of Vanitas that would bring retribution to all crimson moon vampires.
On his way to Paris, Noe is searching for this fabled book. While traveling aboard an airship, he is saved from a vampire attack by an eccentric man that claims to posses the Book of Vanitas and uses it to cure the attacking vampire that was driven rabid by a progressing event afflicting vampires called the Charlatan’s Parade.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and The Case Study of Vanitas
- What The Witch and The Beast tries to do with reinvigorating traditional witch lore, The Case Study of Vanitas does with vampires
- Both series take place in unique fantasy worlds where both technology and magic exist
- The main characters are mysterious duos and part of the interest of the series is learning more about them
- The main characters solve bloody events calmly with their skills
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and The Case Study of Vanitas
- The Case Study of Vanitas can be somewhat shoujo and even a little BL baity in its character relationships whereas The Witch and The Beast has very serious character relationships in that no one has a nice relationship with each other
- The main characters in The Case Study of Vanitas are attempting to help vampires and not kill or capture them like witches in The Witch and The Beast
- The main duos both have a bit of a contentious relationship, but it is much friendlier in The Case Study of Vanitas
- The Case Study of Vanitas is more Victorian steampunk blended with magic since vampires live on a separate plane from humans
Black Butler
Young Earl Ciel Phantomhive is a noble in the service of Queen Victoria of England. Not only does he handle the business affairs of his family’s toy business, but he travels around solving mysteries that irk Her Majesty’s kingdom. However, he doesn’t do it alone.
After the death of his parents and in his darkest hour, Ciel formed a pact with a demon to help him get revenge on those that wronged him in exchange for his soul afterwards. Now this demon poses as his butler, Sebastian, a man with superhuman abilities.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and Black Butler
- Duo main characters solving supernatural events
- One partner is normal, the other is vicious and powerful
- Fantasy, but “Victorian” setting
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and Black Butler
- Black Butler offers less mature action in an almost shounen/shoujo way
- Black Butler is about a boy who sold his soul to a demon for power often dealing with demons and other nobles together with that demon
- There is different character dynamic present in the main character relationship in Black Butler
Pandora Hearts
Young Oz Vessalius is the heir to his noble house. However, during his coming-of-age ceremony, the Baskerville Clan comes to oust him from his seat and force him into the Abyss that he once thought fictional.
Inside, he finds it much like the stories so now he must learn to survive and escape this place infested with beings called Chains.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and Pandora Hearts
- Both series are about fighting specific beings in the world with a battle partner
- Both series feature normal male main characters and fiery female main characters with mysterious pasts
- The worlds are “Victorian” inspired, but deeply infused with magic and its own lore
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and Pandora Hearts
- Pandora Hearts is very Alice in Wonderland-inspired
- Pandora Hearts is less gory and tells a sinister story, but less maturely compared to The Witch and The Beast
- The male main character lacks a lot of power in Pandora Hearts
Peach Boy Riverside
In a world where humans and demihuman creatures live at odds with each other, princess Saltorine “Sally” Aldike is on a journey to find a man named Mikoto Kibitsu who is bent on exterminating all ogres. On her travels, she takes up with a number of companions despite questionable lineage as ogres or demihumans.
Whereas Mikoto is traveling and using his immense power that manifests in physical prowess and a peach shape in his eyes to slay ogres, Sally, who possesses similar powers, hopes to unite the inhabitants of the world in a more peaceful existence.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and Peach Boy Riverside
- Both series are traveling anime set in a fantasy land
- The main characters have a near-psychotic desire to kill one specific species
- Both lack a similar lack of clarity on overall plot
- Action stories with occasionally gory moments
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and Peach Boy Riverside
- Peach Boy Riverside is more of a youthful type of fantasy and action story, which makes the moments of gore more jarring
- Peach Boy Riverside is about both killing all the oni indiscriminately and/or learning to live alongside them, told in its dual main character story
- Peach Boy Riverside is frustratingly told in a non-linear way, which is what makes its storytelling so vague whereas The Witch and The Beast merely expects the audience to fill in finer details
For Fans of Fantasy Mysteries
Undead Murder Farce
In an alternate 19th century, supernatural creatures exist among humans, but have been hunted and persecuted to the point where they have become quite rare.
Tsugaru Shinuchi is an experimental half-oni that has been used by a freak show to destroy the supernatural for the entertainment of the crowd. One night, he is approached by a woman carrying a bird cage containing a severed head. The head introduces herself as Aya Rindo, and asks Tsugaru to help her find and retrieve her immortal body that was stolen from her by a mysterious foreign man.
Leaving Japan for Europe, the trio decide to become detectives who come to be known as, “The Cage User,” investigating supernatural mysteries hoping they might hold clues to the mysterious body thief.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and Undead Murder Farce
- The main character group features a similar male main character who is quiet, collected, but often glib as well as a female main character quick to anger at his glibness
- Episodic storytelling about traveling and dealing with new supernatural phenomenon
- Vicious, bloody, well-animated action, but used sparingly
- Dark, macabre supernatural story in a fantasy/Victorian setting with strong supernatural elements
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and Undead Murder Farce
- Undead Murder Farce is about supernatural detectives solving supernatural mysteries and not specifically hunting witches like The Witch and The Beast. In fact, the main characters are often advocates for supernatural beings in their world
- Undead Murder Farce is set in a Victorian era, but one where the supernatural exists compared to The Witch and The Beast which is a fantasy world
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian
After losing his eccentric grandfather, Lord Hugh “Huey” Disward is set to inherit his estate, but on one condition. He must take over care of his grandfather’s archives full of forbidden knowledge and care for a mysterious girl named Dalian.
However, he soon learns that the rival of his grandfather’s and his suspected killer is in the possession of a cursed tome that is causing problems in the world.
Now with Dalian’s help, he must work to do what his grandfather failed to do – seal the tome away.
Similarities Between The Witch and The Beast and The Mystic Archives of Dantalian
- Main character duo who deal with supernatural occurrences
- Episodic storytelling
- Vague, if present overall plot that doesn’t expand much on the goal behind doing what they are doing
- Calm, capable man and a fiery, very powerful woman
Differences Between The Witch and The Beast and The Mystic Archives of Dantalian
- The Mystic Archives of Dantalian, as an older, lower budget anime, has less beautiful animation and much less gore
- The Mystic Archives of Dantalian is about collecting supernatural forbidden books, which often involves less bloodshed than killing/capturing witches
- There is a strong suggestion of romantic attachment in the main partnership of Dantalian
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