Otogi Zoshi is an Anime produced by Production I.G, which follows the story of Hikaru and a number of people surrounding her. While at first it may look to nothing more than Historical Fiction with fantasy elements mixed in, that's only true of the first half. Halfway through, the series goes through a combination Time Skip / Genre Shift to present day where strange Urban Legends keep coming true. The two plots do overlap, and as a whole it's Better Than It Sounds. It was later adapted into a two-volume Manga.