10 Best Ghost Anime Characters That You Should Know Update 04/2024

Ghost Anime Characters

No matter if they’re still alive or not, these anime characters are always surrounded by the macabre and eerie.

Japan has a rich history of ghost stories and urban tales that are enjoyable to explore in animated form. This might be a new take on folklore with a ghost, a monster, or a spiritually-aware human as the protagonist. It’s possible that certain characters are surrounded by death and cursed with bad luck.

It doesn’t matter if they fear their loved ones or frighten themselves, strange otherworldly events will follow these folks everywhere they go. A fan’s fall or Halloween-themed anime list would be incomplete if they didn’t include these characters.

10. Hanako-kun Adds A Unique Spin To The Hanako Legend (Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun)

Hanako-Kun (Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun

Hanako-san of the Toilet is well-known to most anime viewers. When you’ve knocked three times on the door of the third stall, scream out for the ghostly girl to come out of hiding. On the other hand, Hanako-San will either pull her victim into hell or kill them on the spot when summoning. To make this urban legend more terrifying, Hanako-kun came up with his own version of it.

The ghost is actually a young boy by the same name, instead of a girl. He’s pleasant and curious, but he’s also a little bit of a prankster at heart. Even so, he has good intentions. Hakujodai, small white spheres of spirit, accompany him or the person calling for him. Even so, Hanako has a few mysteries of her own. You can learn about his past and the environment he presently inhabits if you approach close enough.

9. Kazuma Kuwabara’s Spiritual Awareness Kept Him On His Toes (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Before meeting Yusuke, Kazuma already possessed a level of spiritual insight well above the typical person’s. Most of his life, he’s been paranoid about ghosts that no one else can see. He’s had nightmares about them and sometimes feels their presence in the present.

Neither Kazuma nor his younger sister, Shizuru, have ever displayed this skill. When Genkai noticed that he had a spiritual awareness, he volunteered to assist him improve it. Though Kazuma hasn’t quite reached the level of Yusuke and the others, his fear of the odd ghostly visitor has subsided.

8. Ghosts And Neighborhood Gangsters Can’t Get Enough Of Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)

Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach)

There were always a few spirits following Ichigo about while he wasn’t battling off his everyday opponents. Since he was a child, he’d grown a keen sense of spirituality, and seeing local supernatural beings was nothing new to him. He was an outsider because no one else could see what he saw.

Ichigo’s spiritual talents skyrocketed once he was became a Shinigami. Rukia and other Shinigami in the Soul Society were aware of the force that lay latent, ready to burst forth at any moment. Getting him on board was a smart move.

7. Hiyori Iki Had A Life-Changing Experience Once She Met Yato (Noragami)

Hiyori was an ordinary middle schooler before she met Yato and Yukine. Trying to make it to school, she saves Yato from an approaching truck and loses her life in the process. In reality, the link between her spirit and her physical body has been severed, allowing her to perceive the otherworldly.

Despite her newfound ability to travel between the human and spirit worlds, wicked monsters are waiting to devour Hiyori if she fails to exercise caution. In order to restore the link and protect herself from these hazardous creatures, she has no choice but to beg Yato for assistance. For as long as she assists him, he’ll gladly lend a hand.

6. Hibiki Amani Made Friends With Her Local Ghosts (Re-Kan!)

Hibiki Amani (Re-Kan!)

This ability was passed down to Hibiki by her mother, who passed away when Hibiki was just a baby. Instead of freaking out, she becomes friends with all the spirits she encounters. There are few spirits she is afraid to talk to, because to her friendliness and lack of fear.

Unfortunately, none of her new classmates can see who she’s conversing with at this point in time. In spite of Hibiki’s unusual abilities, Narumi is willing to spend time with her. Narumi, it turns out, is terrified of all things eerie.

5. Takashi Natsume Spends Most Of His Childhood Running From Spirits (Natsume’s Book of Friends)

Takashi, despite his best efforts, will always be able to see the ghosts of the dead. It’s because of this that he’s a prime target for any local ghosts. Using her pranks, Reiko was able to get their names into her Book of Friends, a powerful book that allowed her to control people at any time.

Takashi has been surrounded by spirits since he was a child. But no one else can watch him rush away in fear. Most members of his family refuse to adopt him because they consider him “weird,” and he’s lost all of his pals. After a while, Takeshi comes to terms with his newfound gift and devotes himself to learning more about his departed grandmother and the spirits that haunt him in Natsume’s Book of Friends.

4. Light Yagami Went From Normal To Spiritually Aware In One Day (Death Note)

Light Yagami

Light was a normal youngster before he met the Death Note. Before discovering the unusual journal, he possessed no spiritual or superhuman ability.

Because he was bored, Ryuk dumped the book into the human world. Since accepting the book, Light is now able to see the Shinigami around him. When he learns that he’s the only one who can see these spirits, he’s overjoyed. In spite of this, he exploits the Death Note to further his own ends without realizing that there is more to it than meets the eye.

3. Horrifying Ghosts Follow Miko Wherever She Goes (Mieruko-chan)

Miko Yotsuya is a normal high school student until she begins to see the most horrific spirits. There are gruesome creatures lurking in the shadows, with torn arms, filth and bloodstains, and dragged entrails. As if that wasn’t bad enough, they follow her all the way to school, causing stress and anxiety in her daily life.

Despite her rising anxieties, Miko can only strive to ignore them. However, it becomes increasingly difficult for her to maintain her neutrality when she is surrounded by her peers.

2. Jinta’s Dead Friend’s Spirit Still Haunts Him (AnoHana)

Jinta (AnoHana)

Jinta hasn’t left his room since Menma’s death, and he never goes to school. He’s become estranged from the rest of his buddies as a result of his remorse over the circumstances of her death. He’s not the only one in his solitary confinement, however. To his companions, he is the only one who can see Menma.

She accompanies him wherever he goes, pleading with him to fulfill her one final request before she dies. Jinta initially believes he’s hallucinating Menma to deal with his grief, but her periodic apparition gradually becomes an obvious fact and the impetus he needs to reunite with his childhood pals..

1. Kotoko Iwanaga Is The Spirits’ And Humans’ Mediator (In/Spectre)

As an 11-year-old, Kotoko was kidnapped by spirits and given the responsibility of being their “goddess of wisdom.” It was her superior reasoning abilities that allowed her to interact with the living as well as the dead. Ghosts of all kinds come to seek her counsel from all throughout Japan.

In exchange for the spirits’ compliance, Kotoko exchanged her right eye and left leg. They revere her and frequently turn to her for assistance, despite the fact that a few careless monsters like causing mischief. Kotoko is proud of her work, even if it frightens the people around her.