The spiritual creatures of Ayakashi are invisible to most people, but as children both Suzu Kanade and Matsuri Kazamaki discover they can see them. For Kazamaki, he comes from a long line of exorcists that destroy powerful Ayakashi. For Kanade, she is an Ayakashi medium, a rare individual whose vitality attracts Ayakashi.
After discovering Kanade’s power, Kazamaki decides to take up his grandfather’s role as exorcist to keep her safe. However, after one encounter with the King of Ayakashi, Kurogane, who had targeted her, Kazamaki finds that he has been turned into a girl!
Still following his mission, Kazamaki and Kanade try to find a way to turn Kazamaki back into a boy again.
While most people likely watch this for its ecchi, the series itself isn’t actually too bad of a supernatural battler. So, it is pretty much a win for people that like both. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Ayakashi Triangle, head on down below.
Anime Like Ayakashi Triangle
For Fans of Gender-Bending
Reborn to Master the Blade – From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire
On his deathbed, Hero-King Inglis is visited by the goddess who gave him her blessing in his youth. He used it to build a mighty empire, but regrets that leadership had to take priority over his martial training.
Offering him a wish, he wishes to be reincarnated in order to devote himself to the life of a warrior.
She grants it, but when he awakens, he finds himself in the body of a baby girl.
Despite the setback, Inglis still maintains some power from his previous life as well as his memories. With his body growing stronger each day, he continues to hone his blade skills.
While both of these anime have different set ups to explain their gender-bending, they both end up with a similar sort of dynamic.
In both Ayakashi Triangle and Reborn to Master the Blade, you have men-who-are-now-hot-women dedicating themselves to martial arts. While doing that, they are also protecting their cute and strangely similar looking childhood friend.
However, as Kanade knew Kazamaki before he was gender-bent, Ayakashi Triangle maintains a sort of romantic element. Since Reborn to Master the Blade had Inglis become friends with Rafinha after being reborn a girl, they are less like potential lovers and more like best friends.
While Ayakashi Triangle is more frequently ecchi, Reborn to Master the Blade starts with more ecchi in the beginning before tapering off and focusing more on its action.
The Ambition of Oda Nobuna
High schooler Sagara Yoshiharu has the misfortune one day to time travel back to the Sengoku period. However, all the powerful feudal lords are actually cute girls.
On chance, he happens across Oda Nobuna, and begins to serve her in the place of recently deceased Kinoshita Tokichiro.
Both Ayakashi Triangle and The Ambition of Oda Nobuna are gender-bending anime series with just as much emphasis on ecchi as there is action.
However, while there is some ayakashi magic at work in the gender-bending of Ayakashi Triangle, The Ambition of Oda Nobuna takes the approach of “these historical warlords are women, just enjoy it and don’t ask questions” towards its gender-bending element.
What you get in both anime is the occasional battle and a whole lot of ecchi situations.
Ranma ½
Ranma Saotome is a top-notch martial artist, but while training in China with his father, he meets a terrible fate. After accidentally falling into a cursed spring, he now turns into a girl when splashed with cold water.
Luckily, splashing hot water on him can turn him back into a boy.
Things are complicated further when Ranma discovers he is arranged to marry a daughter of another dojo, but this girl, Akane, is notorious for hating men.
Ranma ½ and Ayakashi Triangle share quite a lot, but also still feel very unique in their own ways.
Most obviously, Ranma ½ and Ayakashi Triangle both follow the action-and-ecchi adventures of a guy who has been gender-bent into a woman. However, Ranma ½ also has a way for him to easily switch back, adding a element of chaos to the antics.
While Ayakashi Triangle is more focused on an overall goal, Ranma ½ often wanders from one arc to the next with no overall plot really laid out for it. The comedy in both anime comes from the slice of life and gender-bending shenanigans while the action is often just thrown in to keep things interesting.
For Fans of Exorcists and Spirits
Twin Star Exorcists
Parallel to our world is Magano where the Kegare dwell. Exorcists are sent in to deal with these monsters and cleanse impurities.
One day, a talented young exorcist named Benio is returning to Tokyo in order to meet with the Exorcists Union. On the road, she meets a young exorcist named Rokuro. After seeing some kids being plagued by Kegare, Benio rushes in and drags Rokuro with her. There she discovers he has skill to rival her own, but refuses to fight.
Being paired up by the head exorcist, they are lauded as the Twin Star Exorcists and prophesied as the future parents of the reincarnation of the Abe no Seimei, who will cleanse the world of Kegare.
If you liked the exorcism-based ayakashi fighting aspects of Ayakashi Triangle, but don’t need all the frequent ecchi, Twin Star Exorcists is a solid option.
While it is distinctly more action focused, it still isn’t without its moments of fan service, but the character aren’t exactly designed with ecchi in mind.
While both series are about fighting off ayakashi with exorcist powers, they also share a romantic element in common as well. In both series, you watch the main duo clash, but also grow closer with each other emotionally over time.
Rin-ne
After disappearing into the woods and not being able to recall what happened, Sakura returns being able to see ghosts.
In high school, the desk next to hers sat empty until a boy named Rinne suddenly filled it. He has the same mysterious powers, and sometimes people can’t even see him.
If you took the ecchi and gender-bending out of Ayakashi Triangle, it would closely resemble Rin-ne.
Both series follow a boy who is an exorcist and a girl who can see spirits. While Ayakashi Triangle sets them as childhood friends, Rin-ne takes the more clandestine crossed paths approach. Regardless, they both grow close as they explore spiritual matters together.
Instead of ecchi, Rin-ne commits itself more to spiritual exorcist-based action and some comedy.
Re-Kan
Hibiki Amami is a regular high school girl, except that she can see spirits. However, instead of being afraid, she often befriends these ghosts, helping them with their problems. In return, the ghosts often end up helping her do various tasks.
While her friends accept that she has this power, Narumi Inoue, a girl terrified of ghosts, refuses to acknowledge it. However, even she, like Amami’s other friends, agree to help the ghosts with their issues too.
Re-Kan is kind of like if Kanade in Ayakashi Triangle wasn’t violently targeted by spirits and just happily lived out her school days with a group of girl friends and helping the ayakashi she attracted.
However, while Re-Kan has quite the array of cute girls, it isn’t an ecchi anime. So it is more just school and spirit-based comedy.
For Fans of Ecchi
To Love-Ru
Timid Rito wants is to confess his love to a girl in class. However, things quickly become complicated when one night a naked girl comes crashing in on him while he is in the bath.
This girl, as it turns out, is an alien princess on the run and she wants to marry him to avoid a political marriage.
Thus begins Rito’s endless days of girl struggle.
As To Love-Ru and Ayakashi Triangle share the same author, you can usually expect to see a lot of similar themes. While To Love-Ru is about a boy’s life being invaded by alien girls and Ayakashi Triangle is a gender-bender ayakashi fighter, these anime series do still share the most important theme of all – boobies.
If you enjoyed Ayakashi Triangle because it was fun, relatively light-hearted ecchi, then To Love-Ru – particularly the near-hentai To Love-Ru Darkness – will satisfy that. However, it doesn’t have the same moments of action that Ayakashi Triangle injects.
Kampfer
One day, Natsuru is transformed into a girl and informed by a stuffed tiger that he is now a Kampfer.
These female warriors are forced to fight each other in a endless battles for mysterious reasons, and Natsuru has now become a target of many at his school.
If the threat of getting attacked wasn’t enough, he has also discovered that his childhood friend is into girls and that there is a rumor at his school that he is dating his female self.
With his life all chaos, Natsuru now has to deal with his new body and his new life or die!
While Kampfer is most like Ayakashi Triangle in that they are both gender-bender anime, Kampfer does something much more extreme. It really piles on the ecchi.
Certainly Ayakashi Triangle knows how to frequently heap on ecchi, but Kampfer goes above and beyond the call of booby on that front.
Aside from that, they also spend the rest of their time exploring action and a few girl’s love shenanigans.
Omamori Himari
Yuuto’s only real worry is his severe cat allergies. However, one day he is attacked by a spirit for the sins of his ancestors. He is then saved by a sword-wielding cat girl. It turns out, his ancestors were demon slayers and she is their protector.
Both Ayakashi Triangle and Omamori Himari are about people that are frequently targeted by demons. Due to this, they also have someone that is dedicated to protecting them. However, the roles are gender-flipped. Kazamaki is protecting a girl in Ayakashi Triangle and Himari is protecting a boy in Omamori Himari.
While they both are prone to moments of satisfying action, most people will find its ecchi sensibilities more satisfying and frequent.
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