Horror anime is a large genre. Horror anime that includes ghosts is great for lovers of the paranormal.
10) La Portrait De Petite Cosette
Eiri Kurahashi works for his uncle in an antique shop and is surprised when he sees a young girl in one of the glasses. When he touches it he is transported to the girls world where he finds out she was murdered because of her beauty. In order to free her spirit Eiri must bear the consequences of the man who killed her.
Beauty: Cosette was killed because of her beauty. Now Eiri is obsessed and will do anything for her, even die.
9) Corpse Princess
Makina Hashimura is murdered and turns into a Shikabane. The only way she can get into heaven is to kill 108 other Shikabane. With the help of a Buddhist monk and her submachine gun Makina’s goal is to avenge her family and kill the Shikabane known as the Seven Stars.
Introductions: Makina prefers her submachine gun to kill and she will kill anything that is dead.
8) Ghost Hunt
Mai Taniyama leads us through her ghost hunting adventures with Kazuya Shibuya (Naru). Mai is a first year highschool student and works at Shibuya Psychic Research. Throughout her journey Mai focuses on her own psychic abilities demonstrated through her dreams.
Evil Spirits: Remain calm in the face of evil. Mai Taniyama comes face to face with an evil spirit during her hunt.
7) Ghost Hound
On the Island of Kyushu reality collides with the spirit realm. Three highschool boys, Tarō, Makoto and Masayuki, enter the spirit realm to investigate the phenomenon. While there, they discover the key to their own childhood traumas.
The vail breaks: Those from the spirit realm walk freely among the people that live on Kyushu. Unfortunately not all of them are friendly.
6) Mononoke
The Medicine Seller must find, fight, and kill the mononoke. He has to fend them off until he can learn their shape, truth, and reasoning. This is the only way he can properly exorcise the mononoke.
Medicine Seller: Medicine Seller calmly disposes of the Mononoke.
5) Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Middle school student Teiichi Niiya is enrolled for his first year at Seikyou Private Academy. He gets lost in the school's maze-like structure and meets a girl named Yuuko Kanoe, who reveals herself to be a ghost. Teiichi solves a series of mysteries to help Yuuko remember how she died.
My shadow: Yuuko Kanoe and Shadow Yukko find each other and Yuuko starts to remember what happened to her.
4) Ghost Stories
Satsuki Miyanoshita moves to the town of her now deceased mother. Her brother Keiichirou and a few other friends decide to visit the abandoned school across from their own school. Once inside Satsuki learns her mother sealed away several ghosts who used to haunt that building. Now Satsuki has to learn how to put them back with the help of a demon named Amanojaku.
Run away: Momoko, Hajime, Reo, KeiiChirou, and Satsuki released the ghosts who were sealed away.
3) Yami Shibai
A man in a yellow mask shows up at 5PM weekly to tell the children ghost stories. These stories are based on myths from the Japanese culture. The shape of the old man and the location he tells the stories changes every season.
Contradiction: Showing up on Yuuko’s door step Tooru’s face has been cut and disfigured and she keeps saying the phrase “I can leave?”
2) Corpse party: Tortured Souls
At Kisaragi Academy a group of school kids perform a ritual they found online called Sachiko Ever After to bind their friendship. After the charm is performed the students are transported to Heavenly Host Elementary school, a place terrorized by the people killed there. The students are separated and must put the spirits to rest in order to escape the gruesome place.
Sachiko Shinozaki: When alive she was shy and didn’t have a lot of friends. Now dead and trapped at Heavenly Host she uses her shyness as a lure for her murderous tendencies.
1) Another
In 1972 a student, Misaki, in class 3 died. Now in 1998, Kouichi Sakakibabra transfers to the current class 3. He notices a girl with an eye patch everyone ignores, and asks why no one talks to her. He is told to ignore the girl but doesn’t listen to this advice and become good friends with her. Her name is Misaki.
Shoji Kubodera: The homeroom teacher stabs himself in front of a classroom full of students. Not the first strange death and certainly not the last.
