William Parrish er en ekstremt rig og magtfuld mand, der står i spidsen for et verdensomspændende multimedieimperium. På trods af tabet af sin højt elskede kone er William tilfreds med sit liv, og han har et meget tæt forhold til sine to døtre, Allison og Susan. En aften begynder William at vise symptomer på et alvorligt hjerteanfald og får besøg af en mystisk fremmed, Joe Black. Joe er i virkeligheden en dødsengel, der har taget skikkelse som en mand for at besøge William.
Metropolis tegner en fremtid, hvor skellene mellem de forskellige klasser i samfundet er trukket skarpt op. Tænkerne bor højt oppe i højhusene, der udgør den flotte by. Arbejderne bor i katakomber under byen og må hver dag knokle i en stor fabrik under umenneskelige kår. Freder Fredersen er søn af en af Metropolis' ledere og ser en dag en smuk arbejderpige, Maria, som vinder hans hjerte. Han følger efter hende og ser, hvor forfærdeligt arbejderne har det. Freder prøver at overtaler sin far til at forbedre arbejdernes vilkår, og Maria fortæller arbejderne, at der en dag vil komme en mand, som både bruger sine hænder og sin hjerne, og han vil være hjertet. En gal professor laver en robot med Marias udseende, og der begynder at opstå revner i Metropolis' fine facade.
Frank Bannister har alle tiders fidus. I kraft af sine overnaturlige evner, får han en gruppe sølle spøgelser til at spøge udvalgte huse, til skræk og rædsel for beboerne. Bagefter rykker han selv ud og klare problemerne for et beskedent vederlag. Men så en dag bliver byen hjemsøgt af virkelige gespenster med alt andet en reelle hensigter.
Maurice, en smart gadekat snyder sammen med en fløjtespiller og en hær af kloge talende rotter naive bymennesker til at give ham en masse penge. Alt går efter planen, indtil de ankommer til en by, hvor der trods en angivelig rotteplage, ikke er en eneste almindelig rotte at finde. Sammen med pigen Malicia sætter de sig for at opklare mysteriet og finder hurtigt ud af at der er noget ondt på spil.
Ridderen Antonius Block vender tilbage fra et korstog til middelalderens pesthærgede Sverige. Ridderen er begyndt at tvivle på sin Gud, efterhånden som han møder stadig mere nød og elendighed på sin vej mod hjemmet. Pludselig står han øje til øje med Døden, der er kommet for at hente ham. Ved at udfordre Døden til et spil skak skaffer Antonius sig dog en frist, som han vil bruge til at søge et konkret tegn på Guds eksistens. Bergman's berømte drama modtog juryens pris ved filmfestivalen i Cannes.
Da high school-eleven Ichigo pludselig får en sjælehøsters evner, vil han helst slippe af med dem. Men først er han nødt til at høste nogle sjæle.
Francesco Dellamorte Dellamore er vagt på Buffalora-kirkegården, hvor de døde genopstår inden for syv nætter efter deres sidste åndedrag. Dellamorte har lært, at den eneste måde at stoppe dem på er ved at flække deres hoveder! En spade virker, men dumdum-kugler virker endnu bedre, og han bruger uden videre, hvad han har ved hånden. Han føler, at det er en offentlig tjeneste at bringe de døde til hvile igen. Men en dag bliver Dellamorte distraheret, da han falder for en sørgende ung enke.
A group of supernatural demon hunters known as "Counters," each with unique abilities, disguise themselves as employees of a noodle restaurant, while tracking down evil spirits that terrorize the mortal world.
In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.
The exploits of the Grim Reaper, who has been forced into being the best friend of two children. A spin-off of the show Grim & Evil.
At the Death Weapon Meister Academy, three teams must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch.
At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.
A Grim Reaper, a detective and a woman who foresees death get ensnared in matters of life and death -- and dark mysteries of twenty years past.
Once guiding the 'dead', now saving those who want to die! The Afterlife Office Human Fantasy.
21 year-old slacker Sam Oliver learns that his parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born, and now Sam has to repay the debt by becoming the Devil's bounty hunter, retrieving souls that have somehow escaped from Hell.
When her life comes to an abrupt end, George discovers that death is nothing like she thought it would be. Recruited to collect the souls of others as they die, she suddenly finds herself an unwilling participant in a line of work she never knew existed: Grim Reaping!
After an accident shatters her storybook life, a comatose woman gets a second chance at life when a reaper from above intervenes, at a cost.
A fantasy medical drama about a high-ranking grim reaper named Kkok Du, who is the only being to exist in the underworld. Every 99 years, the cold and cruel Kkok Du must take a break from his job in the underworld and spend 49 days in the mortal realm—and this time, he winds up inhabiting the body of the human Do Jin Woo. While living as Do Jin Woo, he meets Han Gye Jeol, a female doctor who has the mysterious ability to order Kkok Du around.
Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase “Congratulations! I’m here to call on you” although it is hard to say how this can be a happy occasion, and watch over the dying. To a grim reaper, persuading people attempting to commit suicide and preventing unforeseen deaths is also an important task. But because #413 is new to this grim reaper work, he has a tendency to lean towards humans in his judgments, break the rules of the nether world and get reprimanded by his superior.
Morino Hotaru is a second year high school student who has had an unrequited crush on Otaka Ren since junior high school. One day, while on a school trip with Ren and her good friend Yamamoto Shiori, their bus gets into an accident. When Hotaru wakes up, a young man who is dressed fully in black appears in front of her. He is Kuro, a grim reaper.
A story with fantasy elements revolves around the god of death, the ghost keeper and the judge. In helping save others from death, three ghost keepers learn the value of living. Xiao Yi, Wu Xin, and Yin Zheng Feng are three people whose names were mistakenly put into the book of death. As a result, they are invited to become ghost keepers and tasked with helping the god of death. Once they restore the system and save everyone who has been erroneously sentenced to die, they can then be reborn.
After losing all hope to live, Jeong Hee-wan unexpectedly reunites with her first love, Kim Ram-woo, who is now a grim reaper, opening a new chapter in her life.
Shinigami are the gods of death who come to take the souls from the ones who are no longer living and Daniel, was assigned to the most unusual from them, since Momo doesn't look anything like other death gods. She wears all white and instead of being cold and dispassionate towards her charges, she cries for their plight. These are stories about the ones who carry the mission of reaping.
