Modern-day fantasy settings in media form

[tecnowraith]

Anyone know any good anime, comics and novels set in modern-day with fantasy world overlapping or merging with our world? Where fantasy creatures like dragons, trolls, elves and other creatures is an everyday thing and humans are not phased by them. Magic exists and not conflicting with technology but more techomagical devices is common.

Most movies have a hidden fantasy world or the creatures are hiding which is not what I am looking for.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

As per Novels, there's The Dresden Files.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

The books of Laurell K. Hamilton might be what you are looking for, based on your original post. She is a popular author who has two lines of books set in the same world. One is the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, where the main character has vampires and werewolves and friends and enemies and she works as a bounty hunter/evil vampire slayer. The other series, set in the same world I believe (I’ve not actually read any of it) is the Merry Gentry line, about a faerie princess turned private investigator.

 

[Rackhir]

The books of Laurell K. Hamilton might be what you are looking for, based on your original post. She is a popular author who has two lines of books set in the same world. One is the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, where the main character has vampires and werewolves and friends and enemies and she works as a bounty hunter/evil vampire slayer.

While the first couple of books in the Anita Blake series are excellent and I can definitely recommend them, the series does start sliding into bad porn territory with some of the later books. Just an FYI. They are the closest thing I can think of as well. Her success has spawned a legion of imitators. So while I haven't read any of them, a gander over the back covers couldn't hurt. Some of them have to fit.

Mercedes Lackey has had a couple of modern Faey books, but I haven't read them and think they probably fall into the "hidden fantasy" section.

It's not precisely what you are looking for, but Glen Cook has the Garret novels. Which are essentially hard-boiled, Film-Noir detective stories set in a fantasy world. They are a terrific series.

Of course the later Diskworld books have a Fantasy-world pasted over the modern (or more accurately modernizing) world, structure as well.

 

[tecnowraith]

Any anime or comic series that might fit the bill?