Top 5 Anime Like Starlight Promises (Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri) [2024 List]

Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri

Shoma Mihara is a first-year high school student. Shoma hasn't seen his good friend Atsushi in 3.5 years, ever since they lost contact with each other after elementary school. One day, Atsushi gets in contact with Shoma to invite him to a rare festival, so they can meet up and talk. Shoma goes to the "Tanabata Seven Night Festival" deep in the mountains, but Atsushi is not there. Instead, a girl named Shiori who also has a person she wants to meet is there. The festival's program manager Kanna suggests that he stay until the festival is over, and so Shoma and Shiori help Kanna prepare for the festival. Shoma and Shiori then get wrapped up in some strange events happening in the town.

Starlight Promises has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 約束の七夜祭り, The Promised Seventh Night Matsuri

Genres: Japan , Supernatural , Ghost

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Top 5 Anime Like Starlight Promises (Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri) [2024 List]

5. Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri

Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri

Shoma Mihara is a first-year high school student. Shoma hasn't seen his good friend Atsushi in 3.5 years, ever since they lost contact with each other after elementary school. One day, Atsushi gets in contact with Shoma to invite him to a rare festival, so they can meet up and talk. Shoma goes to the "Tanabata Seven Night Festival" deep in the mountains, but Atsushi is not there. Instead, a girl named Shiori who also has a person she wants to meet is there. The festival's program manager Kanna suggests that he stay until the festival is over, and so Shoma and Shiori help Kanna prepare for the festival. Shoma and Shiori then get wrapped up in some strange events happening in the town.

Starlight Promises has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 約束の七夜祭り, The Promised Seventh Night Matsuri

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4. Hakaba Kitarou

Hakaba Kitarou

Kitarou is a youkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and youkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter.
This version of the Kitarou story is based on the original Hakaba Kitarou manga, the manga which inspired the popular Gegege no Kitarou series in the late 60's.

Graveyard Kitaro has finished airing and it has 11 Episodes. It is also Known as: 墓場鬼太郎, Hakaba Kitarou

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3. Youkai Watch

Youkai Watch

Primary school student Keita Amano's curiosity is as innocent as any other child's his age. But when one day he decides to venture deeper into the forest, he encounters a small and mysterious capsule. Out from its depths comes Whisper. After 190 years of imprisonment, this ghost-like creature is glad that someone has been kind enough to set him free. He decides to reward Keita by becoming his guardian against supernatural forces. Whisper is one of many Youkai that exist in the world, and provides Keita with a special Youkai Watch, which enables him to see and interact with all the other Youkai.Youkai Watch follows Keita, Whisper and the cat spirit Jibanyan as they encounter Youkai, befriend them, fix all the trouble that they so often cause, and, with the help of the watch, use the powers of previously encountered Youkai to aid them. Young Keita may have been just an ordinary primary school student when he first encountered the Youkai, but the many adventures that follow his discovery provide him with invaluable experiences and precious life lessons that help him grow.

Yo-kai Watch has finished airing and it has 214 Episodes. It is also Known as: 妖怪ウォッチ, Yokai Watch

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2. Mieruko-chan

Mieruko-chan

All of a sudden, a girl is able to see grotesque monsters all around her; but no one else can. Rather than trying to run away or face them, she instead musters all of her courage and... ignores them.

Join her day-to-day life as she keeps up her best poker face despite the supernatural goings-on.

Mieruko-chan has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 見える子ちゃん, The Girl That Sees "Them"

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1. Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun

Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun

"Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you there?"

At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Yashiro Nene, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom...but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 地縛少年 花子くん, Toilet bound hanako-san

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