Forever in twilight in a space between life and death, the Tasogare Hotel welcomes customers who are unaware of who they are or even if they are living or dead. Given rooms filled with items that may help them remember who they are and what happened to them that caused them to be stuck in this limbo, most guests unravel their mystery and move on after a few days.
However, on occasion, there are some guests of the Tasogare Hotel who remember who they are, but do not move on. Neko Tsukahara is one such woman. Too invested in the plights of other guests, Neko decides to stay on at the hotel as a maid.
Stories of the lives people live are fine and dandy, but you should also probably have a reason we are being told them. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Tasokare Hotel, head on down below.
Anime Like Tasokare Hotel
For Fans of The Places We Go After Death

Death Parade
After death, there is no heaven or hell, but there is a bar that decides whether you reincarnate or disappear into oblivion. Pairs of the recently deceased must play a random game which decides their fate.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and Death Parade
- People have died and are sent to a location they can’t leave to reflect on their life before going to the afterlife.
- Mysterious individuals run the location, except for the main character who is first a patron, then part of the staff.
- New episode, new character story
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and Death Parade
- Death Parade is set in a bar and forces people to play stressful bar games until they have a revelation about what sort of person they were. So it has a bit more intensity to the storytelling at times.

Haibane Renmei
Rakka is an amnesiac who only remembers emerging from her cocoon. She is born into the world as a Haibane, a group of young people who have small gray wings and halos.
While she tries to live a normal life, there is much that the Haibane don’t know and must figure out.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and Haibane Renmei
- People who end up in a specific location can’t remember who they are or why they are there.
- They may or may not be dead and/or in the afterlife
- Slowly unraveling character stories is the plot
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and Haibane Renmei
- Slow and atmospheric with long lingering moments of minimal dialogue, Haibane Renmei is the very definition of melancholy.
- Haibane Renmai trusts you to infer a great deal about its vague, subtle story whereas Tasokare Hotel feeds you every detail so you understand it easily.
- Haibane Renmei features an entirely female main cast

Angel Beats
One evening, Otonashi wakes up in a strange place and a strange girl with a gun tells him he is dead.
Trying to recruit him to her organization that rebels against God, Otonashi decides to talk to her enemy, a mysterious girl named Angel. After she kills him for being too literal, he finds himself siding with the SSS Battlefront and the oddballs within.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and Angel Beats
- A variety of characters are trapped in the location on their way to the afterlife and may or may not be dead.
- Large cast of characters and the series often spends its time slowly unraveling their sad back stories and tragic deaths.
- Characters occasionally move on as they learn and accept things about themselves
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and Angel Beats
- Angel Beats introduces you to its large cast fair quickly, then has them do fun things together to endear them to you, and then uses that to hurt you greatly as it reveals their tragic circumstances.
- Angel Beats is more like a slice of school life comedy since it is set in a school.
- Angel Beats is very emotionally charged and designed to make you cry.
For Fans of Dark Character Stories

Hell Girl
It is said that those who hold a powerful grudge can access a particular website at midnight. By entering a name here, that person can be ferried straight to hell.
This is the tale of Ai Enma, the Hell Girl that carries out those orders.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and Hell Girl
- Supernatural character stories
- New episode, new story to be told
- The main character is more a witness to the character stories than a character herself
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and Hell Girl
- Hell Girl is about a girl who drags people to hell after they agree to sacrifice their soul to get revenge on someone. So while some of the stories are not too terrible or tragic in Tasokare Hotel, there are very few happy stories in Hell Girl.
- Hell Girl is far darker and more melancholy

In/Spectre
At a young age, Kotoko Iwanaga was abducted by yokai and asked to become their Goddess of Wisdom to act as a mediator between spiritual and human issues. She agreed and lost her right eye and left leg in the agreement.
Meanwhile, Kotoko meets Kuro Sakuragawa, a man who just broke up with his girlfriend after a kappa fled before him.
Kotoko makes her move to not only lock him down as a boyfriend, but to have him help her settle various disputes with spirits.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and In/Spectre
- Supernatural character drama is the plot
- Surprisingly dark stories despite occasional silliness between the core characters
- The main character often listens and helps other characters figure out their problems
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and In/Spectre
- In/Spectre follows a mediator that helps talk through problems between the supernatural world and humans, so no one is trapped in a hotel or dead like in Tasokare Hotel.
- Tasokare Hotel is about slowly watching characters reveal their stories, In/Spectre is more like a mystery series wherein a mystery happens, they investigate, and then the main character talks her way through it to a solution.

Bartender
Ryuu Sasakura is a genius bartender who is famous for his incredible cocktails. He trained in Japan, practiced overseas, and has recently returned home for unknown reasons to work in a small bar called Edenhall.
Seeking his Glass of God, individuals from all walks of life visit his bar to drink his cocktails, bend his ear, and, most of all, get help for their problems.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and Bartender
- New episode, new patron whose story we get to watch unfold (This is only true for the 2006 Bartender series, the 2024 Bartender anime has a more linear plot focusing on the main character)
- Main character is more a witness to character stories than a character themselves
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and Bartender
- The whole thing in the 2006 Bartender anime is that the bartender makes the right cocktail to sooth the various worries expressed by their customer. Which is different from Tasokare Hotel, but still actually feels very similar to helping the guests regain their memories.
- Bartender is not a supernatural series, just a character drama series.
- The stories in Bartender are not always dark or about death like in Tasokare Hotel.
For Fans of Unraveling The Mystery of a Mysterious Place

Shadows House
The Shadows are a family of nobles who live in their massive mansion. They are pitch black in appearance and emit soot that will linger on everything they touch. In order to effectively display their emotions, each Shadow is given a Living Doll to be their attendant and their face.
This is the tale of cheerful and curious Emilico, a newly created doll, who was given to her more soft-spoken young Shadow, Kate.
While it is promoted that Living Dolls be loyal and unconcerned about trivial matters, Emilico is constantly intrigued by the massive mansion and those that live within.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and Shadows House
- Big fancy house full of people and mysteries
- The main character is part of the staff, confined to the house, and witness to many character stories
- Characters that look different from normal humans living among people who appear to be normal humans.
- Ultimately, unraveling the truth of the house and the people inside is the plot.
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and Shadows House
- Tasokare Hotel is more straightforward in its setting, Shadows House is more mysterious and sinister.
- While both are supernatural, horror-adjacent series, Shadows House is definitely more menacing, darker, and leans more into supernatural aspects.
- Tasokare Hotel is often just the next guest and the next story, Shadows House has a more linearly unfolding plot that focuses more on the main character.

Angels of Death
Rachel awakens to find herself trapped in the basement of an abandoned building. After wandering around – lost, dizzy, and without her memories – she happens across a man in full bandages named Zack.
While at first he tries to kill her, eventually they come to an agreement. Together, they try to find a way to escape from their bizarre circumstance. In return for his help, Rachel offers up her own life to him.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and Angels of Death
- The main character wakes up in a mysterious place she can’t leave, and needs to figure out why she is there.
- Much of the series is exploring the stories behind the other people also trapped in the building
- Serial killers and tragic stories.
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and Angels of Death
- Many of the people are nice and normal in Tasokare Hotel, but everyone in Angels of Death is some kind of messed up murderer.
- Angels of Death is bloodier, darker, and has more action

Sonny Boy
One normal day during summer vacation, the school and the 36 students inside began to drift into another dimension. Once there, many of the students begin to develop supernatural powers.
At first, the school is surrounded by blackness, but their world soon changes, and as they drift, they find their new realities bound by certain rules.
Similarities Between Tasokare Hotel and Sonny Boy
- A series of people are trapped in a strange place where strange things occasionally happen
- The people there may or my not be dead
- Discovering the truth of the place and how to leave it is the plot, the character stories of the various characters helps drive that forward.
Differences Between Tasokare Hotel and Sonny Boy
- Sonny Boy is a bit of an isekai-adjacent story in that it is about a class of kids sent to another world
- Sonny Boy is surreal and leans a bit into mindfuckery and being intentionally vague and weird, often letting you make your own interpretations of various things. Tasokare Hotel is far more straightforward and easier to understand.
- The characters in Sonny Boy occasionally manifest various powers.
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