...episodes with lunch every day means that I can usually follow about ten series.) <Sigh> Damnit, I want something more along the lines of Yami no Matsuei or Mirage of Blaze (and not just because of the yaoi content, either), or at least Utawarerumono. Or even Claymore, which was one of this summer's guilty-pleasure series. ...

...think you're right--vampires, ghosts, and mindless zombies or skeletons do show up in various anime, but no liches that I can recall (even the nastier revived spirits in Mirage of Blaze don't quite fit the bill), and there aren't many in whose mythos they'd fit very well. Kaibutsu Oujo might conceivably have one, but I doubt I'll...