Anime like Kakkou no Iinazuke

Nisekoi

Also known as Nisekoi.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

As a child, Raku Ichijo made a secret promise with his childhood sweetheart, keeping a pendant as a memento while his love took the key. He dreams of one day meeting his past love, but years later, reality smashes his hopes when Chitoge Kirisaki accidentally knees him in the face...

Though Raku's a normal high schooler, his family heads the notorious yakuza gang the Shuei-Gumi faction! And he's dragged into family affairs when he's forced into a relationship with Chitoge, the daughter of a rival gang's boss!

Despite their constant spats, the two somehow fool everyone with their false relationship. Raku then discovers that Chitoge has a mysterious key from her past, which she can't remember... Plus, two other girls appear with keys as well—Kosaki Onodera and Marika Tachibana!

Caught in the midst of this love maelstrom, even more complications arise for Raku when his class decides on Romeo and Juliet as the class's play for the school festival. Can the two false lovebirds pull off the impossible and make the play a success?



Tags: Love Triangle , Female Harem , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Tsundere , School , Slapstick , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Yakuza , Mafia , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Fake Relationship , Shounen , Arranged Marriage , Tomboy , Gangs , Crossdressing

Go-toubun no Hanayome

Also known as The Quintessential Quintuplets.

Studio: Tezuka Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Uesugi Fuutarou, a high school second-year from a poor family, receives a highly appealing offer to work part-time as a tutor... but his students turn out to be girls from his own class! What's more, they're quintuplets... and all five are beautiful, but happen to be problem students who have borderline grades and hate studying! Looks like his first assignment will be to win all the sisters' trust?! Every day is a wild party in this rom-com centering around the quintuplet sisters of the Nakano household!



Tags: Twins , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Teacher , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Tsundere , Shounen , Kuudere , School Club , Ojou-sama , Work , Acting , Time Skip

Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman.

Also known as More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers..

Studio: KADOKAWA , studio MOTHER , AT-X , Bandai Namco Music Live , Sun Television , KLOCKWORX , Exa International
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Third-year high school student Jirou Yakuin hoped to partner with Shiori Sakurazaka of the same class in the mandatory "Couple Practical" course. In this practical, students must demonstrate that they have the necessary skillset to live with a partner of the opposite sex while presenting a certain level of harmony to the video surveillance that grades them.

Unfortunately, random chance put his slightly subdued self into the practical with the person polar opposite to him, the gyaru Akari Watanabe. Akari on the other hand hoped to be paired with her crush Minami Tenjin.

Their hopes are doubly dashed when they find out that Shiori and Minami are assigned together. Thus, they reluctantly decide to cooperate to reach the top ten, which would give them the right to exchange partners if both couples agree. To that end, Jirou steals Akari's first kiss without realizing what he'd done, while giving a hurried good-bye kiss...

Tags: Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Gyaru , Tsundere , Family Life , Shounen , School , Female Harem , Kuudere , Otaku Culture , Coming of Age , Feet , Tomboy , Achronological Order , Athletics , LGBTQ+ Themes , Fake Relationship

Kanojo mo Kanojo

Also known as Girlfriend, Girlfriend.

Studio: Tezuka Productions , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Kodansha , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Forecast Communications , Nikkatsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

The protagonist, Naoya, is a first-year in high school. He asks out Saki, a girl he has been in love with, and she agrees to be his girlfriend. He's currently on cloud nine. But then, a beautiful girl named Nagisa comes up to Naoya one day and tells him that she wants to go out with him. Naoya feels himself wavering because Nagisa is such a good girl, and he comes to a decision! A new kind of romcom from a rather unexpected decision is about to begin!



Tags: Female Harem , Polyamorous , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Satire , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Tsundere , Shounen , School , Yandere , Nudity , Bisexual , Cosplay , Video Games , Crossdressing

Koi to Uso

Also known as LOVE and LIES.

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Sentai Filmworks , Frontier Works , Pony Canyon , Kodansha , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Memory-Tech , Amuse , Ultra Super Pictures , DeNA , A-Sketch , Animatic
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In a world where the government assigns you a marriage partner once you turn sixteen, Yukari Nejima, a below average teen, confesses to his childhood crush Misaki Takasaki on the eve of his sixteenth birthday… only to find out that he has been assigned to Ririna Sanada instead.

Would you rather choose the girl you have always loved, or the girl you met because you were told she was your partner? Which one is love? Which one is a lie? There is only one way to find out!

Tags: Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Shounen , Coming of Age , Tsundere , Dystopian , LGBTQ+ Themes , Mixed Gender Harem , Yandere , Otaku Culture , Arranged Marriage , Crossdressing

Mamahaha no Tsurego ga Motokano datta

Also known as My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex.

Studio: project No.9 , Happinet Phantom Studios , KADOKAWA , Asmik Ace , Pony Canyon , Movic , Sotsu , Bit Grooove Promotion , AT-X , BS Nippon , BS Fuji , KLOCKWORX , YOMIURI BRAND STUDIO , Bergamo , DMM pictures , APDREAM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Ah, high school. Is there any better place to start fresh after a horrible middle school relationship? Nope! Not unless your ex ends up at the same school as you and is now your stepsibling. What was supposed to be a sanctuary of peace where I could avoid ever seeing her again has become a living nightmare! Everywhere I look, I see her—in my house, in my school, in my class. There's no escape! She even claims that she’s the older sibling. Like hell she is! But I won't lose to her. After all, I'm the older brother in this new family situation. That’s right, we’re family now. No matter how much we may have thought we loved each other before, we saw one another’s true colors and realized we weren’t meant for each other. That’s why even though we may keep up a buddy-buddy sibling act for the sake of our parents, things will never go back to the way they used to be.



Tags: Heterosexual , Inseki , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , School , Tsundere , Family Life , Philosophy , Slapstick , Otaku Culture , Love Triangle , Feet

Bokutachi wa Benkyou ga Dekinai

Also known as We Never Learn: BOKUBEN.

Studio: Studio Silver , Arvo Animation , Aniplex of America , Aniplex , Movic , Nippon BS Broadcasting , ADK Marketing Solutions , Shueisha , Barnum Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

His late father always said that a useless man should strive to be useful, so to that end, third-year high school student Nariyuki Yuiga dedicated himself to becoming a high-achieving student in his school, despite his history of poor grades. In order to give his destitute family a better life, his ultimate goal is to obtain the special VIP nomination, a prestigious scholarship covering all future university tuition fees. Although Nariyuki could feasibly be a shoe-in for the nomination, he is constantly overshadowed by classmates Rizu Ogata and Fumino Furuhashi in mathematics and literature, respectively.

To his delight, Nariyuki receives the nomination, but there’s a catch: he has to tutor his two star classmates, who are each hopelessly mediocre at the other’s subject of expertise! To make matters worse, the subjects they are horrible at are the same subjects they want to pursue for their future. As the time to submit university applications draws nearer, Nariyuki must find an effective tutoring method for the girls before it’s too late.



Tags: Female Harem , Slapstick , School , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Swimming , Teacher , Tanned Skin , Kuudere , Tsundere , Tomboy , Maids , Shounen

Kanojo, Okarishimasu 2nd Season

Also known as Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 2.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , DMM pictures , Studio Comet , Kodansha , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

The second season of Kanojo, Okarishimasu.

A hopeless college student, Kazuya Kinoshita, meets a graceful rental girlfriend, Chizuru Ichinose, and ends up introducing her as his girlfriend to his family and friends. Time goes on with Kazuya unable to tell the truth, as he's surrounded by devilish ex-girlfriend Mami Nanami, who keeps coming back to tempt him for some reason, hyper-aggressive provisional girlfriend Ruka Sarashina, who doesn't know how to take no for an answer, and super shy but diligent and hardworking younger rental girlfriend, Sumi Sakurasawa… beautiful girlfriends of all types! The pub, the beach, hot springs, Christmas, and New Year’s… Having gone through these challenging events, Kazuya's feelings for Chizuru keep growing stronger. But she reveals a shocking truth that threatens to shake their "relationship" to the very core!



Tags: Heterosexual , Female Harem , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Fake Relationship , Kuudere , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Work , Primarily Female Cast , Slapstick , Masturbation , Urban , Shounen , College , Acting

Tonikaku Kawaii

Also known as TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You.

Studio: Seven Arcs , Crunchyroll , Shogakukan , Warner Bros. Japan , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

The story follows a protagonist whose name is written with the characters for "Hoshizora" ("Starry Sky" in Japanese), but whose name is pronounced as "Nasa". On the day of his high school entrance exams, Nasa encounters a beautiful girl named Tsukasa. For Nasa, it feels like destiny is finally calling out to him that he will have a girlfriend, but things take a turn for the worse when Nasa is hit by a car and unable to attend his entrance exams.

After Tsukasa helps the injured Nasa, he confesses his feelings to her, and she agrees to go out with him, but only if Nasa agrees to marry her first. A year later Nasa aces the entrance exams, but he decides to work a part time job and live by himself instead of going to school. After Nasa turns 18, Tsukasa re-appears, and their happy, romantic, and mysterious married life together begins.



Tags: Marriage , Family Life , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Shounen , Coming of Age , Primarily Adult Cast , Meta , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Maids , Primarily Teen Cast , Video Games , Love Triangle

Domestic na Kanojo

Also known as Domestic Girlfriend.

Studio: diomedéa , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Ecchi , Romance

Natsuo Fuji has a serious crush on one of his teachers, Hina Tachibana, but since he knows he has zero chance of ever being in a relationship with her, he lets his friends talk him into going to a party where he meets Rui. One thing leads to another and then, well, neither of them is a virgin anymore. Unfortunately, it wasn't what they expected, but that's fine. They're just ships passing in the night and they'll never have to see each other again, right? Except when Natsuo's father announces that he's getting married again, Natsuo discovers that he's getting two new step-sisters as well. Now there's a problem, because one is his teacher, Hina, and the other is Rui.



Tags: Inseki , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Teacher , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Tsundere , Tragedy , Female Harem , School , Nudity , Netorare , School Club , LGBTQ+ Themes , Shounen