Best tv shows like Somali and the Forest Spirit
Last updated March 2024
Looking for tv shows similar to Somali and the Forest Spirit? Offer your insights to direct others to tv shows and movies you've already watched that might appeal to them also. Support expanding the assembly of people recommending videos to one another. We encourage your participation!
Plot Summary:
The world is ruled by spirits, goblins, and all manner of strange creatures. Human beings are persecuted, to the very point of extinction. One day, a golem and a lone human girl meet. This is a record of the pair, one a member of a ruined race, the other a watchman of the forest. It tells of their travels together and of the bond between father and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy
Best tv shows and movies like Somali and the Forest Spirit (2020):
Similar in 86%
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023)
Plot Summary:
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s mortality. She takes on a new apprentice and promises to fulfill old friends’ dying wishes. Can an elven mind make peace with the nature of life and death? Frieren embarks on her quest to find out.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, existential, fairy tale, iyashikei, 2d animation
Similar in 76%
If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dale is a cool, composed, and highly skilled adventurer who's made quite a name for himself despite his youth. One day on a job deep in the forest, he comes across a little devil girl who's almost wasted away. Unable to just leave her there to die, Dale takes her home and becomes her adoptive father. Devil or not, Latina is beyond adorable, and the adventurer soon finds himself head over heels with being a parent. But why was she out in the forest to begin with, and why does she carry the mark of a criminal?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, humorous, seinen, suspenseful, serious
Similar in 88%
Sankarea: Undying Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Zombie-obsessed Furuya is making a potion to reanimate his dead cat when he meets Rea. She’s about as miserable as a girl can get, thanks to her creepy, domineering father. When the pain becomes too much, she tries to commit suicide with a sip of Furuya’s weird elixir. The potion doesn’t kill her – but it does turn her into a zombie after she falls from a cliff. Now that Rea’s undead and ready to finally live, she hides out with Furuya, who’s always dreamed of having a zombie girlfriend. Their one-of-a-kind relationship comes with some challenges, like the fact that Rea is decomposing. Even worse, her freak-show dad is dangerously determined to get her back under his control. As Furuya fights to keep his ghoulfriend safe, Rea finds the secret to resurrecting her happiness: Live like you’re dying – even if you’re already dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, ecchi, absurd, bleak
Similar in 80%
Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost (2022)
Plot Summary:
From sunup to sundown, Fushihara-san works ’round the clock. She spends so much time there that even the ghosts worry about her well-being! One night, Fushihara-san was working late as usual when a little ghost girl whispered to her, “Leave now”—an encounter that would change her life forever. Be healed by the heartwarming daily life of the cute little ghost and Fushihara-san!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, sincere
Similar in 86%
Negima!? Magister Negi Magi (2006)
Plot Summary:
Wizard Negi Springfield may be a boy, but he has a man-sized job to do! Fresh from the Academy of Magic, Negi continues his training as an instructor at Mahora Academy in Japan. But before he can get his Master’s in magic, the 31 schoolgirls of Class 3-A are gonna keep him up all night cramming for a final exam in will power. Temptation aside, Negi has more on his syllabus than flirting and spells. Darkness is closing in, and Negi is gonna need help from his student bodies to drive the ghouls from their school. These girls want to prove that they’re best in class, and extra credit is available to the cuties that aren’t afraid of after hours phantom fighting – especially if it means more time with their favorite professor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, ecchi, shounen, super sentai
Similar in 80%
Alice & Zouroku (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a little girl called Sana, who is one of the children that holds the power of "Alice's Dream," an ability that enables her to materialize anything she imagines. After escaping a lab where she was a test subject, Sana ends up in a normal world where she encounters an old man named Zouroku, but will he help her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 83%
To Your Eternity (2021)
Plot Summary:
An immortal being was sent to the surface of the earth and met a boy living alone in the middle of tundra. The being can take the shape of dying things, but only if the "impetus" is stronger than the previous one. What sort of experiences and meetings will the being encounter while living forever?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure, psychological, manga, shounen
Similar in 84%
The Ancient Magus' Bride (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chise Hatori, 15 years old. Lost, without hope, and without family, she is bought for money – not by another person, but by a non-human sorcerer named Elias. Though she hesitates, she begins life anew as his apprentice and future wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, enigmatic, romantic, captivating, dark fantasy, stylized, manga, shounen, exciting
Similar in 84%
SCHOOL-LIVE! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yuki Takeya, Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yuri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki decide to stay over at school. Along with the school adviser Megumi Sakura, they suddenly find themselves to be the final survivors of a zombie attack, and continue to live and survive at the school.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspenseful, surreal, psychological, super sentai, asian horror
Similar in 80%
Tweeny Witches (2004)
Plot Summary:
Arusu believes in magic and it's power to do good in the world. Unfortunately for her, her fellow witches disagree, and use their powers for all sorts of neat tricks, like turning little sprites into their slaves. Realizing that this nightmare is a reality, Arusu sets out to change the ways of the witches, and gets up to some hilarious hijinks along the way. Note: Some releases of this show pair episodes together, so it actually is shown as only 26 episodes (20 TV and 6 OVAs).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 9 min
Plot tags: anime, avant garde, enigmatic, captivating, urban fantasy
Similar in 89%
Endro! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Naral Island, a continent with swords and magic in which humans and monsters coexist. The terrible Demon King lives there. In ancient times, the first-generation hero defeated the Demon King. Over the many successive generations since then, the Demon King has been resurrected, and the hero who opposes him has likewise reappeared. Girls attend a school for adventurers in order to defeat the Demon King when he appears again. Though a bit absent-minded, Yusha has the body of a hero. The holy elf Seyla's trouble never ends because she is too serious. The cheerful warrior Fai loves to eat. Mei is a quiet otaku magician. As the four girls aim to be in the hero party, they live relaxed fantasy lives and show no sign of defeating the Demon King no matter how much time passes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
Similar in 82%
The Ancient Magus' Bride: The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm (2021)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel, an ordinary boy who just moved from London, was bored with his surrounding, until one day he saw a wisp of purple smoke from the window of his house. At that time, he hurriedly chased the smoke, looking for any kind of freedom and fun. Though they should not, the world of boys and wizards soon intersect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, shounen
Similar in 86%
The Girl From the Other Side (2022)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, in a far, faraway place, there were two lands. The world was divided into an inner land and an outer land. People feared the outer land, inhabited by eerie beings, the carriers of curse. One day, on the border to the inner land inhabited by humans, one such being finds a girl on heaps of abandoned dead bodies. The girl says her name is Shiva and shows affection to the "being" who found her, calling him "Teacher." This is a story of two people—one human, one inhuman—who linger in the hazy twilight that separates night from day.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: anime, dark fantasy, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 80%
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian is a Japanese light novel series written by Gakuto Mikumo and illustrated by G-Yuusuke. The series started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's light novel magazine The Sneaker on February 29, 2008. A manga adaptation by Chako Abeno started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Ace on March 26, 2010. Another manga adaptation by Monaco Sena started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Comp Ace on March 26, 2010. A 12-episode anime adaptation by GAINAX aired between July and October, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, gothic, seinen, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, humorous, detective
Similar in 79%
Ascendance of a Bookworm (2019)
Plot Summary:
Avid bookworm and college student Motosu Urano ends up dying in an unforeseen accident. This came right after the news that she would finally be able to work as a librarian as she had always dreamed of. When she regained consciousness, she was reborn as Myne, the daughter of a poor soldier. She was in the town of Ehrenfest, which had a harsh class system. But as long as she had books, she didn't really need anything else. However, books were scarce and belonged only to the nobles. But that doesn't stop her, so she makes a decision... "If there aren't any books, I'll just create some.".
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, unusual plot structure, exciting, light
Similar in 85%
Shakugan no Shana (2005)
Plot Summary:
The world has become a slaughtering ground for the Crimson Denizens, mysterious beings from a parallel universe who thrive on the life energy of humans. These merciless murderers only leave behind scant remainders of souls called "Torches," which are mere residues that will eventually be destroyed, along with the very fact of the victims' existence from the minds of the living. In an ambitious endeavor to put an end to this invisible, hungry massacre, warriors called Flame Hazes relentlessly fight these monsters. One fateful day, Yuuji Sakai ceases to be a regular high schooler—he becomes trapped in a crevice of time and is suddenly attacked by a Denizen. Coming to his rescue just in the nick of time is a nameless hunter who seems no different from an ordinary young girl except for her blazing eyes and burning crimson hair. However, before Yuuji can learn anything more about his situation, he discovers that he has already been reduced to a Torch—merely a scrap of memory waiting to be extinguished.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, romantic, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, manga, seinen
Similar in 80%
Record of Grancrest War (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a continent ruled by chaos, the Lords have the power of a holy seal that can calm the chaos and protect the people. However, before anyone realizes it, the rulers cast aside their creed of purifying the chaos, and instead start to fight each other for each other's holy seals to gain dominion over one another. Siluca, an isolated mage who scorns the Lords for abandoning their creed, and a wandering knight named Theo, who is on a journey to train to one day liberate his hometown, make an everlasting oath to work together to reform this continent dominated by wars and chaos.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, captivating, exciting, tense, entertaining
Similar in 85%
Zenki the Demon Prince (1995)
Plot Summary:
Zenki is a Japanese manga series written by Kikuhide Tani and illustrated by Yoshihiro Kuroiwa. It was serealized in the Shueisha publication, Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 1996. Zenki was adapted into a fifty-one episode anime television series in 1995 by Studio Deen and also spawned five video games. Enoki Films handles the English language version of the anime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, corny
Similar in 75%
Digimon Ghost Game (2021)
Plot Summary:
In a relatively near future, an innovative technology has emerged. On social networks, rumors are circulating about strange phenomena whose authenticity is unknown, referred to as "Hologram Ghosts". Hiro Amanokawa is a high school freshman at Hazakura Academy, who by activating a mysterious device left behind by his father called "Digivice", has the effect of making unknown creatures that cannot be seen by ordinary people, the Digimon, visible to his eyes. Since the day he met Gammamon, a mischievous Digimon entrusted to him by his father, Hiro is caught up in various strange phenomena: A man with a sewn mouth steals time from human beings, a mummy man wanders around every night and kidnaps humans... The hologram ghosts are all around us, and take us for target. From now on, here is the story of this other side of the world that nobody is aware of. With their friends, Hiro and Gammamon dive into the mysterious world where these creatures live.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Haruhito awakens, he's in the dark. He doesn't know where he is, why is he here, and where he came from. Around him there are several men and women who have the same circumstances. Haruhito and his companions find themselves in a "game-like world" called Grimgar and must form a party, cooperate, and learn new skills to survive the harsh environment together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, stylized, exciting, suspense, disturbing, manga, seinen, suspenseful, dark fantasy
Similar in 78%
Peach Boy Riverside (2021)
Plot Summary:
"This is a tale that took place long ago. There once lived an old man and an old woman. The old man went into the woods to cut down some grass and the old woman went to the river to... (You know the rest.) The ogres had finally been defeated, but apparently, there were more ogres living elsewhere, so Peach Boy crossed the sea... It was an amazing feat to defeat the ogres and a joyous feat that Peach Boy saved many lives. But the one thing that went wrong... Was that they had fun. This is nothing more than a "What if"... What if there was more than one peach that tumbled down the river?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 76%
King's Raid: Successors of the Will (2020)
Plot Summary:
A century has passed since King Kyle of the Orvelia kingdom destroyed the fierce demon lord Angmund, restoring peace to the lands. Now in a time of peace, the apprentice knight Kasel enjoys his life without worry. His fate begins to change, however, with news of demon appearances infesting the neighborhood. Guided by a wise man, Kasel finds friends he can rely on and sets off on his mission to seek a holy sword, capable of slaying his newfound enemies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, captivating, stylized, semi serious
Similar in 89%
Gugure! Kokkuri-san (2014)
Plot Summary:
A little girl named Kohina ends up summoning a Kokkuri-san, a lower-ranking ghost in Japanese folklore. The Kokkuri-san she calls ends up being a white-haired handsome, young man. Although he had intended to merely haunt her at first, he becomes worried about her terrible eating habit of cup ramen for every meal, so he decides to haunt her in order to protect her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, shounen, super sentai, unusual plot structure
Similar in 89%
Heaven's Design Team (2021)
Plot Summary:
I made the light, the water, and the earth below. Now it's time to make the life that dwells upon it. Actually... that sounds like a giant headache, so I'll contract it out! Heaven's Design Team is an agency that creates made-to-order life forms for their client, God. Why does this life form look like that? Why does this life form live this way? Watch the trials and successes of the designers and engineers forced to breathe life into God's absurd requests!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, sincere, captivating, shounen, feel good, humorous, tense
Similar in 75%
MADE IN ABYSS (2017)
Plot Summary:
The “Abyss” is the last unexplored region, an enormous and treacherous cave system filled with ancient relics and strange creatures. Only the bravest of adventurers can traverse its depths, earning them the nickname, “Cave Raiders.” Within the depths of the Abyss, a girl named Riko stumbles upon a robot who looks like a young boy. Tantalized by the Abyss, Riko and her new friend descend into uncharted territory to unlock its mysteries, but what lies in wait for them in the darkness?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 325 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, touching, enigmatic, captivating, mecha, manga, spooky, seinen
Similar in 76%
RPG Real Estate (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story begins 15 years after the demon king was defeated and the world has become peaceful. Kotone, who graduated from school and became a magician, inquired the kingdom-affiliated RPG Real Estate in order to find a new home. In reality, RPG Real Estate was Kotone's place of employment, and together with Fa, a demi-human, the priest Rufuria, and the soldier Rakira, they help support the searches of new homes for the customers with various circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
Similar in 75%
Rakshasa Street (2016)
Plot Summary:
Requiem Street, where evil spirits are attracted to in order to destroy them. A place where spirits and humans co-exist, not all humans can enter Requiem Street. Only those rare-soul users with guardian spirits can enter. Xia Ling was just a normal university intern, but a meeting by chance changes her ordinary life... In this world full of evil spirits, can you cooperate with your guardian spirit in order to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 13 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, 2d animation, urban fantasy
Similar in 86%
Merc Storia: The Apathetic Boy and the Girl in a Bottle (2018)
Plot Summary:
Merc Storia takes places in a world where humans and monsters coexist. The protagonist, Yuu, is a healer apprentice and possesses the ability to tame monsters. In a quest to regain the memories of Merc, a girl confined in a bottle, the pair embarks on a journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
Similar in 87%
I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level (2021)
Plot Summary:
After dying of overwork in the real world, I’m reincarnated as an immortal witch, and I spend 300 years enjoying a relaxing life. At some point, though, I end up at level 99! All those years spent killing slimes to make the money to pay the bills gave me a ton of experience points. Rumors of the level 99 witch spread, and soon I’m up to my ears in curious adventurers, duelist dragons, and even a monster girl calling me her mom! I’ve never been on an adventure, but I’m the strongest in the world… What’s going to happen to my relaxing life?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, captivating, slapstick comedy, slapstick, 2d animation
Similar in 80%
Belle (2021)
Plot Summary:
Suzu is a 17-year-old high school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious dragon-like figure appears before her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, visual, adult animation, manga, 2d animation