Anime Like Daemons of the Shadow Realm

In an isolated mountain village, twins are born, separated by day and night. While Yuru, the male twin, grows up a hunter, his sister, Asa, is locked away in the cage to perform a special duty. One day, the village is attacked by men in helicopters who descend and start killing everyone in sight.

When Yuru rushes to defend Asa, he finds a dead body and her killer claims to be the real Asa who was spirited away when their parents ran from the village years ago.

With the help of a frequent outside visitor to their village, Yuru leaves his mountain home and descends to the modern world, searching for answers.

There is a battle about to begin in Tokyo – the Shaman Fight.

This tournament is held every 500 years where shamans, those who command spirits, test their skills in combat. The winner becomes the Shaman King and gains command of the Great Spirit.

Shaman King follows the story of the carefree Yoh Asakura and his spirit Amidamaru.

Death City is home to a famous technical academy and ran by Lord Death himself.

At this academy, meisters train with their human weapons in order to evolve them into Death Scythes to be wielded by the Grim Reaper, Lord Death. Only by consuming 99 evils souls and the soul of one witch will a weapon be able to evolve.

This is the story of several students of the academy as they try to grow stronger and protect Death City in the process.

Ushio Aotsuki doesn’t share his eccentric priest father’s beliefs in youkai. However, on a fateful trip to the basement, he encounters a menacing youkai impaled by a spear.

This youkai, Tora, begs him to be set free, but Ushio doesn’t give in. However, after a youkai outbreak threatens the lives of those dear to him, he is given no choice.

Now, Ushio must get Tora to work with him, threatening to seal him with the spear to keep him in check.

After his father’s death left him with a pile of debt, Denji and his pet devil Pochita struggle to pay it off. However, after the yakuza kills him, Pochita fuses himself with Denji’s corpse and he awakens as a Chainsaw Devil.

Found by government devil hunters, Denji is brought in to hunt other devils on an experimental squad where he is finally able to pursue his simple teenage dreams of eating good food and spending time with a cute girl.

There will be times where you may happen across an odd phone number written in red. If you call it, you will get in touch with a young man who introduces himself as the Yato God.

This Yato God is a minor deity and the self-proclaimed God of Delivery. He dreams of having millions of worshipers, but there isn’t a single shrine dedicated to his name. He spends his time doing odd jobs for spare yen until the day his weapon partner deserts him.

Just as things are looking down, he happens across a young school girl that saves him from a car accident by taking the hit for him. She survives, but her soul becomes loose. Together they set out to find a way to tighten her soul back up.

Arajin Tomoshibi has returned to the town where he lived as a child with the sole hope of getting himself a cute girlfriend. However, his new school is full of delinquents with few girls in sight.

Just when Arajin has his heart stolen by the one cutie he could find, his old boyhood friend Matakara Asamine gets him pulled into a huge brawl between two gangs.

Despite wanting to train to be a Honki person, a group of mythical strong warriors from the past, as a child with Matakara, Arajin wants nothing to do with brawling and flees. However, he ends up having an encounter with a sealed genie and genuine Honki person named Senya who fuses with him and grants him incredible strength.

In order to gain more power, demons search for fragments of the legendary demon Sukuna to consume them.

One day, Yuuji Itadori, who just lost his grandfather, learns of this as he saves his school friends from being consumed by demons after they break the seal on one of the body parts of Sukuna that was at their school.

In order to stand a chance, he eats it, revealing himself as a rare vessel that can utilize and control the curse of Sukuna, meaning when he dies, Sukuna’s curse dies with him.

After their attempt to bring their mother back from the dead goes horribly wrong, Edward is left without an arm and leg while his brother Al’s soul is only bound to this world by a suit of armor.

The two brothers journey to look for a way to bring Al’s body back, in the process joining the military as alchemists.

However, the object that could bring back Al’s body is not the only problem they encounter.

After the death of his father, Tanjirou has taken up the role of the man of the home, supporting his mother and five siblings. However, after selling charcoal in town, he returns to tragedy.

All his family was brutally slaughtered, save for one of his sisters. Unfortunately, she has been attacked by a demon and mingled their blood, turning her into a demon as well.

However, she still shows signs of humanity, thrusting Tanjirou onto a quest to find a way to change his sister back and preserve what is left of his family.

Humans and demons known as Katawara live in contentious balance with each other. With Katawara often devouring humans, even offering their protection and blessing in return or sacrifices, they seem to hate humanity and humanity lives in fear and hatred of them.

Tama is a Katawara that loves humans and has vowed to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting others of her own kind. Jinka is a human raised by Katawara that hates humans despite mostly being one. The pair of sworn siblings are joined by Shinsurke, a cowardly swordsman who is on a quest to earn true strength.

However, the group gets on the wrong side of an organization of priests working for the Shogunate that are experimenting with a process to create super-powered humans by fusing them with Katawara. Now it is both a fight for their survival and to save the numerous humans and Katawara being used in vicious experiments.

When they were children, Jinta and his demon-infused sister Suzune run away from their abusive home. They are taken in by the Sentinel of Kadono village, who raises them alongside his daughter.

While Jinta is raised to protect the village from demon threats, even becoming the new Sentinel for the new shrine priestess he is in love with, Shirayuki. He is devastated when demons attack the village resulting in Suzune turned into a full demon, Shirayuki dead, and him transformed into an ageless demon.

Knowing it is his duty to stop his sister, Jinta now travels Japan dealing with demonic threats as he tries to prevent the rise of the prophecized Demon God.