Anime Like Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master

In the world of Yamauchi, the Yatagarasu clan rules over all. The Yatagarasu are those who possess the ability to transform between human and giant crow forms.

Yukiya, a boy serving a minor lord of the Northern House, is chosen to serve the crown prince of the Yatagarasu, a man who is hailed as the Kin’u, a rare-colored Yatagarasu said to hail unprecedented prosperity in the future.

While that crown prince had chased off every other aid, Yukiya and his eccentricity earn his approval. Together, the pair navigate a number of plots put underway in the conspiracy-filled imperial court.

Learning to be an apothecary from her father, Maomao honed her skills in the brothels of her town. However, one day she is kidnapped and forced to work as a servant in the rear section of the Imperial Palace that houses the emperor’s consorts.

While trying to stay under the radar until her contract was up, Maomao catches the attention of the emperor’s favorite consort when her skills as an apothecary end up saving the life of the consorts’ baby daughter.

This act leads to her being taken on as the consort’s lady-in-waiting and food taster due to Maomao’s prolific knowledge of both medicine and poisons.

In the Edo period of Japan, a strange disease started in the mountains and rapidly spread across the country. This version of small pox, named the Redface Pox, only infected and killed men.

Within the first years of the outbreak, only one-forth of the male population remained, sending the gender roles of Japan into upheaval.

Whereas men once worked the fields and fished the seas, now women take up the role. Whereas businesses were once passed from father to son, now fathers are forced to leave them to their daughters. Now a rarity, men became coveted by women in order to produce children. Having a husband became a status symbol and men often found coin selling their bodies to women in the same way women once did for men.

This is the tale of the first female Shogun after the dawn of the plague who navigated the turbulent times and set the foundation for an Inner Chamber of male concubines that serve as consorts to the Shogunate.

Within the imperial palace, the emperor lives with his consorts. One such woman is the Raven Consort, who does not perform night time duties and remains in solitude.

This Raven Consort, a title currently held by the young Liu Shouxue, is charged with handling spiritual matters brought to her – everything from finding lost items to sending on spirits. It is even said that she can perform curses.

After living her days often undisturbed, she is visited by the young emperor Xia Gaojun, whose visits become even more frequent as the pair bond and she assists him in unraveling the spiritual mysteries of the inner palace.

Although her family was once nobles, they fell on hard times. Now, with her father making a pittance as an archivist, Shuurei takes odds jobs to make ends meet.

One day, she receives an offer to become the emperor’s consort for a huge sum of money. She accepts in hopes that it could further her own governmental ambitions.

In what started as a normal day as a normal high school student, Nakajima Youko has her reality shattered when a strange man named Keiki appears before her, swearing his allegiance.

When Youko and her friends are attacked by demons, they are pulled into a different world, one she has never known.

Separated from Keiki, Youko and her friends must do whatever they have to in order to survive this strange, harsh place.

It is said that a widespread drought is coming to the Shin Yogo Empire, and in order to avoid famine, the reincarnation of the water spirit must be sacrificed in order to prevent it. However, the water spirit is the emperor’s own son.

In effort to save his life, the prince’s mother spirits the boy away with a mysterious female mercenary to protect him until the Emperor reconsiders.

After having her luxurious life shattered by the betrayal of her cousin, Princess Yona is forced to escape with her childhood friend and bodyguard Son Hak.

However, leaving her palace forces her to see the poverty and strife that really makes up her beloved kingdom.

Now, she must journey to not only regain her rightful throne, but to return her kingdom to its former glory.

Within the realms of the Sun Kingdom, it never rains. However, in the Principality of the Rain, the women of the family possess the ability to call upon the rain. So when the Sun King, recent conqueror of the world, Livius I decides to take a wife, it is only natural to pick one of the four princesses from the Principality of the Rain.

Nike Remarcier is the youngest and lost a game to her sisters, so she was chosen to go. Frustrated at her lot, she journeys to the kingdom and is surprised to find that the Sun King is not as scary as they say, and also that he is just a boy.

After hundreds of years of war between the kingdom of beasts and the neighboring human kingdom, a peace treaty was signed. The conditions of this treaty say that humans must offer a sacrifice to be devoured by the King of Beasts every year on a particular night.

Sariphi is the latest sacrifice to be sent, adopted by her parents to specifically protect their true-born daughter. Despondent after learning that truth and feeling like she has no home to return back to anyway, Sariphi is fine with dying and unafraid of the King of Beasts.

Intrigued by her lack of fear, the King of Beasts begins to grow closer to her, and when the day of sacrifice comes, he defies his advisors and decides to takes this interesting girl as his wife.