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Anime Like The Demon Prince of Momochi House

After being raised as an orphan, Himari Momochi is thrilled when she learns that she inherited the Momochi House, a secluded mansion in the woods, on her 16th birthday. Hoping to learn more about her dead parents, she ignores the rumors that the Momochi House is haunted and hopes to live there.

Inside, she is surprised to meets the handsome Aoi Nakamori and his two shikigami, Ise and Yukari, that live there.

Himari learns that the Momochi House sits in a space that connects the human and spirits worlds, and Aoi is serving as a guardian, a position that was once supposed to be Himari’s. While Aoi initially tries to drive her away, Himari moves in and assists Aoi with his duties.

While enjoyable for what it is, people who have watched a lot of supernatural shoujo romance anime will find that this series lacks a lot of originality and passion, but it does have some slick designs – both in character and clothing patterns. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Demon Prince of Momochi House, head on down below.

Anime Like The Demon Prince of Momochi House

For Fans of Living With Supernatural Boys

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Kamisama Kiss

Homeless and in debt, high schooler Nanami Momozono thinks things are looking up when she rescues a man and he offers to let her stay at his home. She soon discovers that his home is a rundown shrine.

Trying to leave, she is mistaken for the man she saved – the man that is also the land god of the shrine, Mikage.

Finding out she was tricked into being a god and not wanting to be homeless, Nanami tries to embrace her new divine duties, but has to deal with a hot-headed fox familiar to keep things running smoothly.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Kamisama Kiss

  • Both feature homeless girls with no or very unreliable families who go live in a mysterious, secluded house
  • That house is occupied by at least one beautiful, mysterious supernatural boy
  • The female main characters discover that they now have a sacred task or their family had one previously
  • Both series progress as shoujo anime about the heroines helping people and falling for their familiars

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Kamisama Kiss

  • The Aoi is friendly to Himari in Momochi House while the male lead is openly grumpy to the main character in Kamisama Kiss
  • Kamisama Kiss emphasizes the slow thawing relationship between the two leads while Momochi House is more about unraveling the mystery of Aoi
  • Momochi House has more frequent action while Kamisama Kiss makes plenty of time for more comedic or cute breather episodes
Tohru being greated by the Sohma family in Fruits Basket

Fruits Basket

When Tooru Honda finds herself homeless, she decides to live in a tent in the wilderness. However, one day she is discovered by a classmate, Yuki Souma, and invited to come live in his house.

From there, she gets to know many members of the Souma family, not realizing that they all are inflicted by a curse. When they hug the opposite gender, they turn into an animal from the Chinese zodiac.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Fruits Basket

  • Both series follow homeless girls with no family moving into a house with several mysterious men
  • The men turn out to be supernatural and able to transform
  • The female main characters help these men work through their issues
  • Both plots surround unraveling the supernatural mystery of these characters
  • Both series feature the female main character falling for a man in that house
  • Handsome men, handsome men everywhere!

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Fruits Basket

  • As it follows a whole cursed extended family, Fruits Basket is more focused on the female main character helping a whole family with their various character problems while Momochi House keeps things compact
  • Fruits Basket has virtually no action and is more a supernatural shoujo character drama
kakuriyo bed and breakfast for spirits anime

Kakuriyo – Bed and Breakfast for Spirits

Since she was a child, Aoi could see spirits. One day, while feeding a hungry spirit, she is whisked off to the hidden realm of spirits where an ogre states she will be his bride.

It seems her grandfather sold her off to marry him in order to satisfy his debt that he accrued at his inn in the spirit world. Instead, Aoi refuses and works off the debt owed in the bed and breakfast as an employee.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Kakuriyo

  • Both are about female protagonists taken to a mysterious large home full of supernatural
  • These women befriend the various supernatural beings there and help them with their issues
  • The male heads of these homes are dark and mysterious, but kind
  • Both series really lean into creating handsome supernatural men

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Kakuriyo

  • Kakuriyo is about living at an inn in the spirit world and running a restaurant there while Momochi House is about living at a house that serves as a gateway to the spirit world
  • Kakuriyo doesn’t have much action
  • Momochi House is about unraveling Aoi’s mystery while Kakuriyo is more about the female main character, Aoi, slowly warming up to her forced fiancee
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Inu X Boku SS

Ririchiyo Shirakiin is the sheltered daughter of a rich family, but she has been dependent on them her entire life. However, while she seeks to change that, she has a sharp tongue that needs minding.

When she moves into a high security apartment complex to start her new life of independence, she discovers that the residents are not only strange, but everyone in the apartment – including herself – are half-human and half-yokai.

Furthermore, as a condition of being able to move out, she now has to live with her new bodyguard, Soushi – a handsome and oddly submissive secret service agent.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Inu X Boku SS

  • Both series feature a girl from a supernatural family living with a mysterious supernatural man
  • The man is oddly doting on the high school main character he is protecting
  • Both series feature much romantic tension between the two

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Inu X Boku SS

  • Inu X Boku takes place in a dorm with other residents while Momochi House is more secluded
  • Inu X Boku doesn’t follow the same shoujo formula of “girl helps everyone with their problems” like Momochi House does
  • Inu X Boku has a more comically submissive male lead while Momochi House’s male lead is more mysterious
  • Inu X Boku does focus more on comedy than Momochi House that tries for more action/drama

For Fans of Powerless Human Girl Pulled Into The Supernatural

Yukine, Yato, and Hiyori falling while looking at a smartphone in the Noragami anime

Noragami

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.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Noragami

  • Both series follow human girls who gets pulled into the orbit of a supernatural problem-solving man
  • Both series feature the female and male main characters dealing with the issues of their battle shikigami/weapons
  • The male main characters are pleasant with a mysterious darkness lurking in their pasts
  • Both series focus on action plots

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Noragami

  • Noragami focuses more on grander shounen style action while Momochi House is more shoujo action where the battles are over quickly
  • Noragami doesn’t have an obvious romance plot like Momochi House
  • Noragami has a bigger focus on comedy outside of the action while Momochi House often leans more into drama
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Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun

Hanako is said to be a ghost that occupies the third stall of the third floor girls’ bathroom in the old building. When summoned, she is said to grant any wish.

Nene, an occult lover with dreams of romance, summons Hanako, only to find out that this traditionally girl ghost is a boy!

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun

  • Both series feature a human girl that befriends a supernatural boy that protects people from the supernatural
  • The male characters are mysterious and alluring while the female main characters are more innocent and earnest
  • They both definitely like to tease at romance but never progress things
  • Neither female main characters have any special powers

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun

  • Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun takes place in a school while Momochi House takes place in a secluded house
  • There is an infinite number of problems in Momochi House while Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun technically just has a set amount of supernatural events
  • Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is comedic if it is not being menacing while Momochi House is more like a dramatic action shoujo romance
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Inuyasha

Kagome’s normal life came to an end one day when a demon dragged her down into a well at the shrine where she lived. When she next woke, Kagome finds herself 500 years in the past in Japan’s feudal area, a time in history fraught with both war and demons.

It is there she learns that she is a reincarnation of a priestess tasked with guarding the Shikon Jewel.

With the jewel returned to the world with her, Kagome must fight off the demons that want to gain its power, including Inuyasha, a half-demon that was once a lover of her past self right up until she sealed him to a tree.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Inuyasha

  • Both series are supernatural action romances between a human girl and a supernatural boy
  • Both female main characters turn out to have some sort of destiny that led them to getting caught up in the supernatural
  • Both series feature the female main character being pretty powerless much of the time, but still being involved in the frequent fights
  • Both male main characters are partially or were human
  • Both feature a menacing, mysterious antagonist with initially unclear motives

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Inuyasha

  • Aoi is kind yet mysterious while Inuyasha is immature and a bit of a male tsundere
  • Kagome becomes more useful in battle while Himari remains less so
  • Inuyasha is very much a journey-based story while Momochi House happens in a static location
  • Not every battle is against demons in Inuyasha while the Ayakashi are the singular threat in Momochi House

For Fans of Episodic Spiritual Problem Solving

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Natsume’s Book of Friends

For as long as he can remember, Takashi Natsume has been chased by spirits, but recently he discovered that the reason was because his deceased grandmother had passed on to him her “Book of Friends,” a book containing all the spirits she had brought under her control.

Now Natsume realizes that these spirits haunt him in hopes of gaining freedom. With few friends, no loving home, and constantly hunted by malicious spirits, Natsume looks for a place where he belongs.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Natsume’s Book of Friends

  • Both series follow the main characters in episodic tales of ayakashi/yokai problems
  • The action in both series is often minimal
  • Both feature softer, shoujo-style storytelling where action is present, but not really a focus
  • Both offer a diverse array of supernatural beings and humans that are interwoven with them

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Natsume’s Book of Friends

  • Natsume’s Book of Friends is often more slice of life problem solving rather than the action romance that Momochi House offers
  • Natsume’s Book of Friends is often a somewhat soothing, if not melancholy anime compared to the very shoujo romance vibe that Momochi House has
  • There is no romance in Natsume’s Book of Friends, at least not for the main character
morose mononokean anime

The Morose Mononokean

After spending his first few days of school in the infirmary after a spirit attached itself to him, Ashiya asks for the help from the owner of a small tea shop called the Mononokean.

Though morose, this tea shop owner helps spirits wander from this world to the next.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and The Morose Mononokean

  • Both series follow a person whose job is to deal with supernatural entities in the human world
  • The actual main characters of the series serve as an assistant of sorts to the person with the actual power
  • Both series are episodic with a new mononoke/ayakashi issue every week
  • Both series are filled with handsome men

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and The Morose Mononokean

  • The Morose Mononokean is a comedy supernatural problem solver compared to the action romance in Momochi House
  • The main character does have a unique ability in The Morose Mononokean while Himari more has a birthright
  • There is no romance in The Morose Mononokean
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Midnight Occult Civil Servants

Miyako Arata is newly assigned to the Nighttime Regional Relations Department. Each ward of Tokyo has one of these offices that are dedicated to investigating the paranormal and occult-related activities in the area.

On his first night on the job, he is learning the ropes from his colleagues who are trying to ward off Tengu and Angels before a battle breaks out between them.

However, he also learns that, unlike his colleagues, he can understand what they are saying to each other. This allows Arata the ability to now mediate problems rather than turn immediately to violence.

Similarities Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Midnight Occult Civil Servants

  • Both series follow people who handle supernatural issues in the human world
  • The main character is a normal human right up until they discover they had a supernaturally famous ancestry
  • Both series follow the main characters attempting to stop villains and keep the peace between humans and the supernatural

Differences Between The Demon Prince of Momochi House and Midnight Occult Civil Servants

  • Midnight Occult Civil Servants only gives the main character a supernatural power while Momochi House gives everyone but the main character supernatural abilities
  • Midnight Occult Civil Servants is about a police organization of humans while Momochi House is about a dorm full of Ayakashi
  • There is no romance in Midnight Occult Civil Servants

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