Anime like A-Girl

CIPHER

Also known as Cipher.

Studio: Victor Entertainment , Magic Bus
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

Two brothers are in the spotlight: one a movie star making a football movie, the other a musician who occasionally goes to school (to cover for his sibling). What will destiny bring them?

Tags: Acting , Twins , Shoujo , Foreign , American Football , Male Protagonist , School , Dancing , Incest , Meta , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes

Hana Yori Dango

Also known as Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers).

Studio: Toei Animation , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Makino Tsukushi: a girl who comes from a poor family just wants to get through her 2 last years at Eitoku Gakuen, quietly. But once she makes herself known by standing up for her friend to the F4, the 4 most popular, powerful and rich boys at the school. She gets the red card: F4's way of a "Declaration of War". But when she doesn't let herself be beaten by them and is starting to fall for one of the F4; Hanazawa Rui. She starts to see that there is more than meets the eye...



Tags: Bullying , Female Protagonist , School , Shoujo , Tsundere , Male Harem , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Revenge , Foreign

Otohime CONNECTION

Studio: Animate , ING , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance , Slice of Life

Special based on the manga by Ooya Kazumi, published in Betsukomi Flower Comics.

An all-male pop group doubles as a detective agency. The cute girl member of the agency is kidnapped when one of the men's past returns to trouble them all in the present.



Tags: Shoujo

Yami no Purple Eye

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Youmex , Toei Animation , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

The original story follows the struggles of a teenage girl after she finds herself turning into a lycanthropy-leopard and having to battle her newly found predatory instincts.

Tags: Shapeshifting , Female Protagonist , Super Power , No Dialogue , Shoujo , Urban

Radio City Fantasy: Machikado no Märchen

Studio: Kitty Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

A boy with a drawing book meets a mysterious girl in the streets of Tokyo. They become friends and enjoy each other's fantasies.

Tags: Musical Theater , Urban , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , No Dialogue

Bobby ni Kubittake

Studio: MADHOUSE , Kadokawa Shoten , Project Team Argos
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

The "Bobby" referred to in the title is actually 17-year-old Akihiko Nomura, an underachieving high school kid with a deep love for motorcycles. His grades are failing, and his father – traditional and strict (but who must have also at some point gave in and allowed him to have a motorcycle) – is trying everything he can think of to get the kid to apply for college. His mother is so silent, she might as well not even exist. Really, his support system lies entirely in his twinkle-toed little sister, who's nosy but cheers him on in her own way.

Bobby really does little else but work on his bike. He cleans his bike. He tunes up his bike. He rides his bike. One would call him a motorcycle otaku. His most recent achievement seems to have been getting photos of himself on a road trip printed in a motorcyclist hobby magazine. This leads to an unexpected result: a girl his age, who picked up that issue on a whim, decides to write him a letter. A long, rambling letter, but dreamily romantic just the same. Bobby admits to his sister that he's never gotten a letter from a girl before. He writes back, "I got your letter. I'm happy 'cause it was from a girl."

Bobby is not a well-rounded kid. He barely speaks – even to his own family – and the "letters" he writes back to the mystery girl usually consist of a single sentence or so. His motorcycle obsession is all-consuming, to the point where he happily quits school to work at a biker bar. Of course, his father, at a loss, kicks him out of the house. Staying with a friend, he's delighted when his female pen pal says she'll call him. On that day, his boss at the bar decides to take him to a motocross track. But that's a day that wouldn't end in a way that anybody would expect.



Note: Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Tags: Motorcycles , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Foreign

SINGLES

Studio: MADHOUSE , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Saki secretly loves her sister's boyfriend, Kaname. When she starts college, she decides to begin a new chapter of her life, forgetting Kaname and searching for a new love.

Tags: Love Triangle , Female Protagonist , College , Shoujo , Heterosexual

Yume kara, Samenai

Studio: Shaft
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Student Fuji Takao is inexorably drawn towards his classmate Kawahara Sunao despite class rumors that she has appeared in a porno movie.



Tags: Male Protagonist , School , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Athletics

Natsu e no Tobira

Studio: MADHOUSE , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Marion is a young schoolboy who prides himself on his adherence to a philosophy he calls "rationalism". Because of his disdain for emotional display, he ignores anything remotely akin to affection. But when he's entangled in a romantic affair with an older courtesan, his rationalism is revealed to be little more than a cover for his own emotional immaturity. Learning to love, Marion blossoms under his older lover's care but unfortunately, Marion has yet to learn the true price of the affair.



Tags: Coming of Age , Age Gap , Male Protagonist , Psychosexual , Shoujo , Tragedy , Nudity , Foreign , School , Suicide , Boys' Love , Trains