Animated Ghost Stories

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia

The story takes place at Seikyou Private Academy: an extremely old school with several buildings, each built at different points in history without care for the existing architecture. Many of them overlap and mix with each other, resulting in an unintentional maze-like structure, within which the untrained can easily lose their way. The School was built over an old shrine, which is where Yuuko died. Since her body and regrets are tied to the school, she is unable to leave the school grounds even if she wanted to. In the series, a 'Ghost' is formed from the person's regrets while they were alive. One can see them only if believing in the ghost's existence—but depending on one's expectations and knowledge, what they see will vary greatly: from Yuuko's true form (as she sees herself and was before she died) to a demonic entity. The story revolves around a first-year high school student, Teiichi Niiya who had just enrolled at Seikyou Private Academy, he gets lost in this school and meets Yuuko Kanoe, a ghost with no memories. While investigating her death by looking through the school's seven mysteries, they discover the truth about these ghost stories and help those who are troubled…

Death Parade

Not a traditional ghost story but a ghost story nonetheless… The series revolves around Decim, the bartender and arbiter of the Quindecim, and his assistant the black-haired woman. If two people die at the same time, they are sent to various bars to play a game, with their lives on the line. Arbiters receive their "customers" with varying parts of the customers' memories erased. How they behave during their game affects the arbiters judgment on their souls. - it’s great to have an existential crisis and re-evaluate your entire life.

Natsume Book of Friends

A cute ghost story for balance is Natsume Book of Friends, probably the dream for every lonely weird child.- For as long as he can remember, Takashi Natsume has had the rare spiritual ability to see and commune with yõkai and ayakashi, inheriting the powers from his late exorcist maternal grandmother, Reiko. This ability resulted in his having a lonely childhood, because children his age considered him strange. He had also been passed from one paternal relative to another. Upon her death at a young adult age, Reiko bequeathed to her grandson her "Book of Friends"—a book containing the names of hundreds of spirits she had bullied into servitude.

Yamishibai

Now it wouldn’t be a ghost story anime post without this one, Yami Shibai or Theater of Darkness Each episode was animated to mimic the kamishibai method of story-telling. The series is organized into a collection of shorts with each episode being only a few minutes in length. Each episode features a different tale based on myths and urban legends of Japanese origin. - I’ve seen this anime from a young age and i can say the level fearfulness of each episode is very subjective, there were some which lingered in my mind for years, and others as passive as snow. But all of it is worth a shot.