Anime like Aiura

Joshikousei no Mudazukai

Also known as Wasteful Days of High School Girls.

Studio: Passione , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tanaka Nozomu isn’t exactly brilliant. But, given that her only goal for high school was to get a boyfriend, who else would fail to realize that attending an all-girls school was a bad idea? Well, there’s always the fallback plan of getting other girls to introduce her to boys they know.

Too bad that Tanaka’s “bright” idea of giving her classmates nicknames based on less attractive character traits has caused her un-flattered friends “Robo” (for her apparent lack of emotions) and “Wota” (a reference to a creepy otaku types), as well as not-friends like “Loli” (who’s hypersensitive about her petite size,) to “reward” Tanaka with the special nickname of “Baka” (“idiot”), which is quickly adopted by the entire student body. Well, maybe the second week of school will be better.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Female Cast , Slapstick , Ensemble Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Shounen , Chuunibyou , Kuudere , Twins , Otaku Culture , LGBTQ+ Themes , Video Games , Love Triangle

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou - My Ordinary Life.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Kadokawa Shoten , Movic , Rakuonsha , Bandai Entertainment , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , KLOCKWORX , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Slapstick , School , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Achronological Order , Parody , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Robots , Shounen , Drawing , Tsundere , Guns , Football , Love Triangle

Joshikausei

Also known as Joshi Kausei.

Studio: Seven
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

This is a story of silent high school girls who are adorable even if they do not speak! Centered around the tragic yet beautiful Momoko, this anime is about the lives of three high school girls including the cool, glasses character, Shibumi, and the iyashikei chibi, Mayumi. This silly, comical daily life of these girls is about having fun alone or together with each other.



Tags: No Dialogue , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Philosophy , Rural , Iyashikei

Onipan!

Also known as Onipan!.

Studio: Wit Studio , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Over the centuries, oni (AKA demons of Japanese folklore) got a pretty bad reputation. Now it’s up to three plucky oni kids — sunny Tsutsuji, cool Tsuyukusa and boisterous Himawari — to improve human-oni relations through love, friendship and superpowered underpants!



Note: Aired in 2 versions, a 60-episode 3-minute short series, and a combined 12-episode 14-minute TV series with the same content. Each episode of the combined version is 5 parts of the original.

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Monster Girl , Kids , Meta , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Idol , Real Robot , Card Battle

Yuyushiki

Also known as Yuyushiki.

Studio: Kinema Citrus , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Everyone knows you can learn a lot on the internet, and some of it is even true. But if you want to know what's REALLY going on and important, then there's just one place to go: the computer club!

Okay, so maybe it's not the club itself, but the three girls you're most likely to find there. And maybe they do spend more time chatting about their social lives and debating things like the virtues of ketchup versus mayonnaise than they do learning about the ins and outs of a keyboard, but whatever they're up to, it's sure to put a smile on your face.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Iyashikei , School Club , Episodic , Seinen , Educational

Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu

Also known as Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu.

Studio: C2C
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hitori Bocchi suffers from extreme social anxiety, she’s not good at talking to people, takes pretty extreme actions, is surprisingly adept at avoiding people, her legs cramp when she overexerts herself, gets full of herself when alone, will vomit when exposed to extreme tension and often comes up with plans. Now she is entering middle school and her only friend, Yawara Kai, is attending a different school. This leaves Bocchi alone, surrounded by new classmates with whom she must make friends before Kai will talk to her again.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Ninja , Coming of Age , Tomboy , Shounen

Komori-san wa Kotowarenai!

Also known as Komori-san Can't Decline!.

Studio: Artland , DAX Production , Genco
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Syuri Komori is a 14-year-old girl, who is so nice that she can not turn down people’s request. She gains amazing abilities while she fulfills people’s request. There are many fun & happy things in her life, since she is an adolescent middle school student after all!



Tags: School , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Slapstick , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Azumanga Daiou THE ANIMATION

Also known as Azumanga Daioh.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Genco , Lantis , Imagica , TV Tokyo Music , Cosmic Ray , Sentai Filmworks , J.C. Staff
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Ten year old child prodigy, Chiyo Mihama, is finding it tough fitting in at high school with the girls five years her elder: Osaka (dimwitted with a weird take on the world), Tomo (a powder keg that goes off at a moment’s notice), Kagura (the competitive athlete of the bunch), Yomi (the hothead), and Sakaki (timid and obsessed with a love of animals that isn’t reciprocated). Together with their teacher, they navigate the rough waters and fun times of high school.



Tags: Episodic , School , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Teacher , Iyashikei , Tomboy , Shounen , Kuudere , LGBTQ+ Themes

Choboraunyopomi Gekijou Ai Mai Mii

Also known as Ai-Mai-Mi.

Studio: Seven , Dream Creation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The anime adaption of the four-panel manga "Ai Mai Mi".

The story follows girls in a manga club —Ai, Mai, Mii, and Ponoka-sempai—who might be fighting evil invaders threatening Earth, facing off against rivals in tournaments, and dealing with other absurd situations when they are not drawing manga.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Primarily Female Cast , Otaku Culture , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen

Non Non Biyori

Also known as Non Non Biyori.

Studio: Media Factory , SILVER LINK. , Sentai Filmworks , AT-X , Lantis , Sony Music Communications , TV Tokyo , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

When Hotaru moves from Tokyo to a tiny town in the rural countryside, she’s in for some serious culture shock: the nearest place that sells comics is 20 minutes away, the nearest video store is ten train stations down the line, and there are only three other girls and one boy in her entire school! Even though everything’s so different, there’s something about the laid-back atmosphere that makes her feel strangely comfortable. While she’ll certainly miss parts of her old life, there’s a whole lifetime of experiences waiting to be enjoyed with her new friends Renge, Komari, Natsumi, and Suguru!



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Iyashikei , Rural , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , School , Agriculture , Seinen , Achronological Order , Tomboy , Kuudere