Anime Shikigami

Anime with shinigami frequently take place in the afterlife or follow a shinigami as they complete their duties.

Anime shikigami. Yura uses people shaped papers on which each shikigami s name has been written and ryūji uses cylindrical wooden containers which summon his shikigami when opened. The term shikigami refers to servants that onmyouji manipulated shiki meaning servitude and shikigami being spirits who serve their practitioner. These beings may assist souls in passing to another world by arriving to lend a helping hand at the moment a person dies or might maliciously divert a passing soul for their own motives.

Shikigami make an appearance in many manga and anime such as in inuyasha where two of them have a human form called kochô and asuka. Shinigami also known as death gods are mysterious figures that interact with the dead or the soon to be deparated. Shikigami are used to protect and serve their master much like the western concept of the witch s familiar.

Shikigami 式神 is the term used for the summoned spirits of an onmyouji a japanese sorcerer. Shikigami are a type of familiar used by practitioners of onmyoudou. In spirited away an animated movie by hayao miyazaki shikigami are seen chasing and attacking haku.