20 anime like Life of the Dead, ranked by the community. These aren't random picks — they're the shows people watch next when they want more comedy.
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It's just another normal day at a maid café until one of the customers turn out to be a zombie! Disrupting business and infecting some of the maids, everything suddenly descends into chaos as people are attacked. As one of the more experienced maids comes to deal with the unruly...
Nube is a clumsy, easygoing, and very kind teacher, but he has a secret under his glove on the left hand. He has a monster hand, and he also has the ability to sense ghosts and evil spirits. So he protects his dear students from these evil spirits with his monster hand, proving...
Miko Yotsuya's eyes water as she fixates on a single spot on her phone—she ignores yet another dreadful, horrific monster that is in her face, uttering the disturbing words: "Can you see me?" Before now, Miko enjoyed her unassuming high school days, with late-night horror shows...
Nearly twenty years into the 21st century, people have forgotten the existence of youkai. When a number of unexplainable phenomena plague adults of the human world with confusion and chaos, thirteen-year-old Mana writes a letter to the Youkai Post in search of answers, only to...
The story follows college student Gao Ying, who, on his way to university, accidentally stumbles into the Great Qing Hotel in Nanting Village. There, he encounters a series of bizarre events and unexpectedly awakens the long-sealed Prince Zhennan, Yinting. He is then dragged...
Meisuke "Nube" Nueno, a teacher at Doumori Elementary School and expert in the occult, finds it increasingly difficult to protect his students against dark forces. After one of his students is sent to a parallel world, Nube encounters an unusual spirit that sends him back in...
The classic tale of Gegege no Kitaro told yet again. The story is the usual in the Gegege no Kitaro series. Kitaro is a boy living in the Gegege Forest/Cemetery (lands where many Yokai roam) with his mostly dead father (who survives only in his eye), Sunakake Babaa, NekoMusume,...
Based on a manga by Mitsunaga Yasunori, serialised in Monthly Shounen Sirius. Hiyorimi Hiro moves to a new city to live with his older sister, but dies before he can find her. He then awakens to a new life as a servant of a Princess of the Monster Realm, who just happens to be...
Legend says that centuries ago, a colossal spider ravaged Tokyo. Resistance was futile, as none could quell the havoc wrought upon the city by the beast. Fortunately, one man—the legendary exorcist—stopped the devastation. Using his divine powers, he sealed the monster away and...
Kitarou, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity.
When Hiro Hiyorimi tries to save a beautiful young woman from certain death, he ends up a dead hero himself! However, since the drop-dead girl is Hime, daughter of the King of the Monsters, his "reward" is to come back as a not-quite-living soldier in her honor guard of horror!...
Episode 26 included in the ninth DVD volume of Kaibutsu Oujo.
Amagane Rinne had an accident and died while hurrying to school. She suddenly arrived in an awkward school... in Hell, filled with demons. While she is struggling and wishing to go back to the world whence she came from, she makes friends with her demon schoolmates and develops...
The year is 2023 and Alien Beings known as "Lucifer Hawks" have begun invading earth from another dimension. All that stands between them and the enslavement of the human race is the Attacked Mystification Police Department - a special division of the Tokyo Police staffed by...
Kaibutsu-kun and his companions, Dracula, Wolfman, and Franken, travel from Kaibutsu Land to the Human Realm, where they encounter and battle several monsters, mainly assassins from the demon group Demonish. (Source: Wikipedia)
The prince of Kaibutsu Land, Kaibutsu-kun, decides to go to the human world as part of his training to become the King. (Source: ANN)
The origins of Kitarou.
Short animations based on the plot of Biohazard/Resident Evil 4 in the style of Nippon Animation's classic World Masterpiece Theater series posted to the official YouTube to promote the 2023 game release.
The first series is a set of 25 stories about a male businessman arriving at the hotel after taking a train home from work. He encounters the mysterious owner of the hotel, an old mouse known as Gregory, who suggests that he stay a while. Soon, the man becomes drawn into a...
Fans who liked Life of the Dead tend to recommend Maid of the Dead, Dorohedoro Season 2, Hell Teacher Nube the most. If you're into Comedy and Horror, any of these are a solid pick.
Life of the Dead has a 5.29 on MAL from 603 ratings. Scores are mixed, but plenty of fans swear by it. Worth trying if the premise sounds interesting.
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