Anime like 12-sai.: Chiccha na Mune no Tokimeki

Naisho no Tsubomi

Also known as Naisho no Tsubomi.

Studio: Arms , Studio Kikan
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Tsubomi Tachibana is a fifth grader dealing with rather sensitive issues such as her mother's pregnancy, her first period and the strange feelings she has started to get when she has been around boys.



Tags: Family Life , Kids , Shoujo , Age Regression , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Educational , School , Heterosexual , Pregnancy , Tomboy , Reincarnation , Memory Manipulation , Chibi

Kirarin☆Revolution

Also known as Kirarin Revolution.

Studio: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , SynergySP , Viz Media , G&G Entertainment , MediaNet , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music , Romance

Kirari Tsukishima, a gluttonous 14-year-old beauty, is a girl who does not care about idols and the entertainment world because her mind is occupied by food. Her obsession with food only causes her to be clueless about love.

One day, after saving a turtle that is stranded in a tree, Kirari meets with a handsome and gentle boy named Seiji, who gives her ticket to a SHIPS (a popular idol group) concert to show his gratitude for her saving his pet. Kirari then storms off to the concert and runs into another boy, who tears up her ticket and warns her to stay away from Seiji because she and Seiji live in different worlds. The outraged Kirari then sneaks into the concert, only to discover that Seiji and the boy who tore her ticket, named Hiroto, are actually members of SHIPS.

Finally understanding the meaning of "different worlds" (Seiji is a popular idol while she is an average middle school student), Kirari refuses to give up. Filled with determination to be with Seiji, she declares that she will also become an idol.

Tags: Shoujo , Idol , Female Protagonist , Musical Theater , Love Triangle , Primarily Child Cast , Crossdressing , Fashion , CGI

Gakuen Alice

Studio: Aniplex , Group TAC , Sogo Vision , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

Sakura Mikan and Imai Hotaru are best friends, and Mikan is shocked to find that Hotaru is transferring to a school in Tokyo for gifted students like her - Alice Academy. Mikan hears rumors that the students are like prisoners there, and worried what would happen to Hotaru, she runs away to head to the school herself. She finds out all the wonderful things about this school. And she heads into a great adventure!!

Tags: Super Power , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Child Cast , Love Triangle , Magic , Kuudere , Class Struggle

Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji

Also known as Wolf Girl and Black Prince.

Studio: TYO Animations , Yomiuri TV , Nippon Television Network , VAP
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

The story centers around Erika Shinohara, a vain 16-year-old girl who tells her friends about her romantic exploits, but she actually has no boyfriend. She claims that a handsome boy in a candid photo is her boyfriend, but it turns out that boy is a schoolmate named Kyouya Sata. She has no choice but to make him her fake boyfriend. Unfortunately, Sata may look like a sweet person, but he is actually an ultra-black-hearted sadist. Sata takes advantage of Erika's weakness and treats her like his dog.



Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Gyaru , Love Triangle , Fake Relationship

Lovely★Complex

Also known as Lovely Complex.

Studio: Toei Animation , TBS , TAP , Discotek , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Love is unusual for Koizumi Risa and Ootani Atsushi, who are both striving to find their ideal partner in high school—172 cm tall Koizumi is much taller than the average girl, and Ootani is much shorter than the average guy at 156 cm. To add to their plights, their crushes fall in love with each other, leaving Koizumi and Ootani comically flustered and heartbroken. To make matters worse, they're even labeled as a comedy duo by their homeroom teacher due to their personalities and the stark difference in their heights, and their classmates even think of their arguments as sketches.

Lovely★Complex follows Koizumi and Ootani as they encourage each other in finding love and become close friends. Apart from their ridiculous antics, they soon find out an unexpected similarity in their music and fashion tastes. Maybe they possess a chemistry yet unknown, but could love ever bloom between the mismatched pair?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Shoujo , School , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Tomboy , Netorare , Basketball , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gender Bending , Femboy