Bokkesan

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Both series are about an average, unassuming guy who gets sucked up into a world of classical Japanese spirits living in the world without humans knowing, and ends up becoming a powerful force and influencing the struggle between spirit and human. 

Both series deal with tensions between humans and the supernatural in a contemporary setting. Although Bokkesan treats the supernatural as a "secret world" and Aratama deals with it as a publicly acknowledged menace, they both riff on the same themes and give comparable views of similar subjects. 

Both series are about a quiet, relatively antisocial, and seemingly normal boy who turns out to belong to a secret world living in harmony with the world we know without "normal" people knowing. It's hard to put my finger on it, but at times they seem to have a very similar atmosphere.