Anime Like Tonari no Yokai-san

In a rural town, yokai, humans, and gods all live their normal, everyday lives together.

One summer, an aging cat named Buchio evolves into a nekomata. Wondering why this evolution happens, he meets with other yokai that live in the area to learn about his evolution and what he is to do now.

Elsewhere in the neighborhood, the young Muu-chan spies on the guardian of her town, a tengu named Jirou. As she watches him perform his duties, she begins to respect him more and more for the long service he has done for the town.

While everyone lives in relative peace, the will of some yokai often create unpredictable and dangerous circumstances that threaten the peace.

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.

After his parents died and he realized he was a burden to his relatives, Inaba Yuushgi decided to move into a dorm for high school.

Limited by his low funds, he ends up living in Monster House, a place with cheap rent that turns out to be an apartment complex where humans and the supernatural live together.

Although not completely common, Ajin, or demi-humans, have become a part of society. High school biology teacher Tetsuo Takahashi is increasingly interested in Ajin for research, but having never met one himself, he let it be.

He was going to give up until he found out that not only are three students in his school demi-humans, but a fellow teacher as well.

As he sets up interviews with them, Tetsuo finds out that they have both human and demi problems to overcome.

Yurie Hitotsubashi is a middle school student who spends her days studying and trying to get Kenji, the clueless boy she likes, to notice her.

One day she playfully tells a friend that the night before she had become a goddess, which attracts the attention of another classmate, Matsuri. With her family’s Shinto shrine in financial trouble, Matsuri asks her to become their new goddess.

Now, Yurie must balance school life with granting the wishes of those that seek her help.

The young Makoto Kowata is a witch, but her skills in magic leave something to be desired. To further train her craft, she moves to rural Aomori to live with her cousins.

This area, rich in nature, is the perfect place to commune with natural forces and hone her craft.

Gintarou is a fox spirit that has protected the same small temple since the Edo era. The owners of the temple have always possessed the ability to see him, but only one family member at a time can have it.

After her mother passed away, Saeki Makoto inherited the ability and using the fox spirit’s power, she tries to help her community.

In this world, there exist Mushi, spirits that often exist with no purpose. However, these Mushi can affect the physical world in countless forms from diseases to more pleasant phenomenon.

Why do these Mushi exist?

That is the question that Ginko the Mushi-shi, a researcher on the phenomenon, asks himself as he travels the land investigating Mushi-related incidents.

After losing his temper on a critic, renowned calligraphy artist Sieshuu Handa is exiled to the Goto Islands by his father for a period of self-reflection.

There, he seeks to find new inspiration for his art, but finds that his neighbors and some neighborhood kids keep getting in his way.

Subaru is a novelist, and not very good with people. He’s been alone since his parent’s death, but one day while praying at their grave, a cat comes and eats his offering.

Deciding to take it home, he now is shouldered with a cat, and this stray is shouldered with caring for a human who can barely care for himself.