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Is There An Anime For 'Got Dropped Into A Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work'?

Love ghost-hunting office plots and can't find the anime adaptation. Do they exist or is this just a manga/web novel series? Searching for like 'supernatural workplace anime' too.
2026-06-08 20:28:05
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Joi Joi
Joi Joi
To my knowledge there isn't an anime adaptation of ‘Got dropped into a ghost story, still gotta work’, though there are many web novels with similar premises. Right now the closest thing might be ‘The Erotica Heroine Trapped in a Horror Game’. It’s a story in which the protagonist, a heroine of erotic fiction, is forced to play through deadly horror game scenarios. She uses her old skills in the most unexpected ways in her struggle to survive each level, and it is a very tense and funny story. It is posted in full on many web novel sites.
2026-07-31
Xander
Xander
This anime is part of a larger category of supernatural anime. I haven’t found anything quite like ‘Got dropped into a ghost story, still gotta work’ but there are a number of stories similar to it. The anime ‘Mieruko-chan’ is a good example of this. The main character of ‘Mieruko-chan’ is a high school girl. She sees all sorts of terrible monsters but pretends not to see them in order to avoid getting their attention. She deals with these spirits in a normal manner, going to school and performing normal daily tasks. It is both funny and spooky.

The Morose Mononokean is another that manages to incorporate the protagonist’s work at the supernatural office with his work in school. The series doesn’t lean as heavily toward horror, rather a supernatural fantasy with a mostly light-hearted tone. I’d be happy to see The Morose Mononokean compared with Ghost Hound, a more horror-based anime that combines elements of supernatural mystery and thriller. It’s not really the kind of thing I’d look to watch, but it does show that a ghostly day job can be quite interesting. Now I wish I had time to write up a series in which a worker is trying to file TPS reports while dodging vengeful spirits.
2026-06-09
Jillian
Jillian
Unfortunately I’m a bit of a supernatural anime binge-watcher on Netflix, so while that would explain a lot about my belief in ghosts (I don’t, probably), from what you described the closest to a work-comedy would probably be Natsume’s Book of Friends (with some episodes treating his ‘work’ with the spirits as community service and others not). On the flip side, there’s the anime Kakuriyo: Bed and Breakfast for Spirits in which a girl is transported to the spirit world and tries to repay a debt by running a bed-and-breakfast for them.

A wild card could be Dusk Maiden of Amnesia. While it is more dramatic than the other examples above, it has a good amount of school life mixed in with ghostly love interests. I would really love to see a work-comedy with a ghostly twist like this become a reality, The Office with a ghost from The Ring would be my ideal show. Until then I'll just have to make do with these examples.
2026-06-09
Ellie
Ellie
It seems that anime with a workplace setting and ghosts is rather uncommon. While many anime with a supernatural twist are either extremely dark and focus on exorcism or are extremely lighthearted and focus on a particular daily occurrence of the main characters, there is a kind of "middle ground" that remains largely unexplored. In the case of "Hell Girl" the supernaturalAi Enma has a job, but she doesn't work in an office. Rather her work is a form of poetic justice. The only anime that comes close to this is "Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko" by Chihaya Hayashihiro, a beautifully quiet manga with a decent OVA.

On a somewhat related note, there are a couple of examples where a supernatural workplace is portrayed, i.e. ‘Death Parade’ (where a number of characters are working at a bar where people who have died are able to participate in a game to see how they are) and ‘Hoozuki no Reitetsu’ (a brutally funny take on hell’s bureaucracy from the perspective of the underling of its leader). While these are certainly about supernatural workplace environments, they lack ghosts. Perhaps there is actually a big gap in the market for a supernatural office comedy featuring a salaryman haunted by a ghost co-worker and insisting that he participate in after-work team-building sessions.
2026-06-10
SillyLilly
SillyLilly
It’s also worth asking what hasn’t yet been adapted to screen yet. While Solo Leveling is currently getting a huge anime, there are ten more, rather unusual stories like this one waiting to be picked up by adaptors. The landscape of adaptation is changing though, and with many streaming services now producing original anime, the ‘gatekeepers’ of what does and doesn’t get made have changed. Netflix in particular might be interested in adapting this rather unusual concept to screen for a global audience familiar with the stresses of the office worker.

So lack of TV announcement doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not happening and is getting killed off. It could be getting greenlit as a Netflix Original or as a Hulu original. Those type of deals usually get announced as part of a larger slate of content that will be getting released at some point in the year and that announcement usually happens at their respective anime presentation events for the year. If it does get announced for either of those streaming services, expect a full season drop, which is actually preferable to the weekly drop that TV anime typically follows.
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