Anime like Akiba's Trip: The Animation

Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shoujo

Also known as RUMBLE GARANNDOLL.

Studio: Lerche , KADOKAWA , MAGNET , Bandai Namco Arts , Quaras , BS11 , Scarlet , AT-X , TOKYO MX , Studio Hibari , EGG FIRM , Lantis
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Conquered by alternate-world invaders, Japan has become a shadow of what it once was. Manga, anime, idols, and more are censored by these parallel universe overlords...or so it seems. In the less-than-legal stores of Akihabara, Hosomichi joins a group of female freedom fighters made up of pilots and otakus.



Tags: Robots , Otaku Culture , Meta , Dystopian , Female Harem , Parody , Idol , Primarily Female Cast , Satire , Super Robot , Chuunibyou , CGI , Heterosexual , War , Lost Civilization , Ensemble Cast , Video Games , Isekai

Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers

Also known as Magical Destroyers.

Studio: Bibury Animation Studios , Mainichi Broadcasting System , King Records , Bit Grooove Promotion , SANKYO
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Mahou Shoujo

Freedom of expression is threatened when a mysterious group, the SSC, destroy Japan’s otaku culture. However, a young revolutionary, Otaku Hero—who loves the culture more than anything—rises up. With the help of three rambunctious magical girls—Anarchy, Blue, and Pink—they’ll team up to create a world free of this oppressive rule. Be part of the rebellion to bring back fandom!



Tags: Otaku Culture , Henshin , Dystopian , Urban , Meta , Magic , Surreal Comedy , Heterosexual , War , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Religion , Swimming , Urban Fantasy , Outdoor Activities , Video Games , Tragedy , Denpa , Drugs , Philosophy , Idol , Survival , Female Harem , Crossdressing , Cars , Gods , Guns , Military , Body Horror , Gore , Amnesia

Ben-To

Also known as Ben-To.

Studio: AT-X , David Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

Sato Yo is a high school boy who likes SEGA games. One day, he enters a grocery store to buy some food for dinner. When he tries to take a bento box, he loses consciousness. He comes around to find all the bento sold out. He notices there is a war game going on at grocery stores and players called "Wolves" compete for the half-priced bento. Yarizui Sen, the leader of the Half-Pricer Club, forces Yo to join the club and he enters the bento war.

Tags: Battle Royale , Food , Male Protagonist , Twins , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , Philosophy , Bullying , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Martial Arts , School Club , School , Video Games , Parody , Achromatic

Akiba Meido Sensou

Also known as Akiba Maid War.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Cygames , Tencent , Happinet Media Marketing , Movic , TOKYO MX , Shouchiku , Fields
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

Akihabara is the center of the universe for the coolest hobbies and quirkiest amusements. In the spring of 1999, bright-eyed Nagomi Wahira moves there with dreams of joining a maid café. She quickly dons an apron at café Ton Tokoton, AKA the Pig Hut. But adjusting to life in bustling Akihabara isn’t as easy as serving tea and delighting customers. Paired with the dour Ranko who never seems to smile, Nagomi must do her best to elevate the Pig Hut over all other maid cafés vying for top ranking. Along the way she’ll slice out a place for herself amid the frills and thrills of life at the Pig Hut. Just when Nagomi’s dreams are within her grasp, she discovers not everything is as it seems amid the maid cafés of Akihabara.



Tags: Yakuza , Maids , Primarily Female Cast , Crime , Gangs , Female Protagonist , Work , Guns , Parody , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Restaurant , Surreal Comedy , Tragedy , Otaku Culture , Found Family , Gore , Revenge , Slapstick , Kemonomimi , Anti-Hero , Anachronism , War , Ensemble Cast , Gyaru , Orphan , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Homeless , Conspiracy , Time Skip , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Gambling , Tanned Skin , Food , Disability , Boxing , Ninja , Baseball , Nudity , Poker , Fishing

Kill la Kill

Also known as Kill la Kill.

Studio: Aniplex , TRIGGER , Dentsu , Kadokawa Shoten , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Ultra Super Pictures , Movic , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

After the murder of her father, Ryuuko Matoi has been wandering the land in search of his killer. Following her only lead—the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade—she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a high school unlike any other. The academy is ruled by the imposing and cold-hearted student council president Satsuki Kiryuuin alongside her powerful underlings, the Elite Four. In the school's brutally competitive hierarchy, Satsuki bestows upon those at the top special clothes called "Goku Uniforms," which grant the wearer unique superhuman abilities.

Tags: Henshin , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Class Struggle , Nudity , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Dystopian , Tomboy , Super Power , Psychosexual , Aliens , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Incest , School , Military , Anti-Hero , Cult , Villainess , Bullying , Ensemble Cast , School Club , Tokusatsu , Delinquents , CGI , Gore , Tragedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Orphan , Exhibitionism , Tsundere , Cosplay , Yandere , Cheerleading

Vlad Love

Also known as VLAD LOVE.

Studio: Drive , Production I.G , Ichigo Animation , Comic Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Mitsugu Bamba is a high school girl who is crazy about donating her blood, to the point that she feels compelled to visit a local blood bank despite the unfriendly nurse. One day, Mitsugu encounters a beautiful girl there who looks like she has come from overseas. The girl is so pale that she appears ready to faint. Instead, she suddenly starts trashing the blood bank. The girl then loses consciousness and so Mitsugu takes her home...



Note: The first episode was streamed on the official Vlad Love YouTube channel on Dec 18, 2020. The first 6 episodes were released on streaming platforms on Feb 14, 2021. The last 6 episodes were released on Mar 14, 2021.

Tags: Vampire , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Parody , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Satire , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Tomboy , Acting , School , Urban , Educational , College , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban Fantasy , Cosplay , Dragons , Video Games

Punch Line

Also known as PUNCH LINE.

Studio: MAPPA , MAGES. , Kansai TV , KYORAKU
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

When your day begins with being held hostage in a hijacking, can things get much worse? How about being kicked out of your own body? Or learning that if you can't re-possess your physical shell, you'll trigger a panty-fueled apocalypse that will wipe out all life on the planet? For Yuta Iridatsu, it's just the start of the worst out-of-body experience ever. Now, if his dissed disembodied spirit doesn't pursue the persuasions of a porn-obsessed paranormal pussycat and purloin a missing mystical manual, a meteor will collide with Earth! And to stack the odds even further, the book is hidden somewhere in the boarding house Yuta shares with a bevy of beautiful babes, but if he gets an eyeful of his ravishing co-renters in their unmentionables before he's back in himself, it's flash-forward to Doomsday! Will the literal end of the world be wearing briefs, a bikini, or a thong? Find out when panties, possessions and extinction level events have the ultimate rear-end collision in PUNCH LINE!



Tags: Afterlife , Superhero , Ghost , Super Power , Time Manipulation , Gender Bending , Urban Fantasy , Time Loop , Body Swapping , Primarily Female Cast , Alternate Universe , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Military , Transgender , Robots , Bisexual , Bullying , Found Family , Video Games , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Rolling☆Girls

Also known as The Rolling Girls.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , Dentsu , Shouchiku , Pony Canyon , Movic , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

Ten years after the Great Tokyo War, each prefecture in Japan has split up into independent nations. Each nation is ruled by a prophet called "Mosa" and an army called "Mob" as they start to compete to take over other countries. Four "Mob" girls from the Saitama clan, Nozomi, Yukina, Ai, and Chiaya, are ordered by their "Mosa" to travel around Japan riding their motorcycles to mediate multiple battles between nations and clans as they emerge.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Super Power , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Motorcycles , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Aliens , Superhero , Politics , Mopeds , Rural , Meta , Lost Civilization , Idol , Family Life , Space , Super Robot , Drawing

Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu.

Also known as Gonna be the Twin-Tail!!.

Studio: Production IMS , Funimation , TBS , Shogakukan , Pony Canyon , DAX Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy , Romance

Twintails: the glory of all mankind—or at least that is what first-year high school student Souji Mitsuka believes. At school, Souji spends most of his time daydreaming and rating girls' twintails, even going as far as creating a club dedicated to the hairstyle. His obsession does not go unnoticed, however; when monsters from outer space attack Earth and claim the world's twintails for themselves, a strange woman named Twoearle enlists Souji to fight back using twintails of his own!

By transforming into the twin-tailed warrior Tail Red, Souji combats the vicious alien organization known as Ultimegil, whose main goal is to colonize Earth and steal everyone's spiritual energy, or "attribute power." Alongside fellow twin-tailed fighters Aika Tsube and Erina Shindou, Souji must find a way to defeat the invading army and defend the twintails he holds so dear.

Tags: Henshin , Tokusatsu , Gender Bending , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Super Power , Satire , Otaku Culture , Tsundere , Superhero , School , Swordplay , Crossdressing , Aliens , Female Harem , Idol , Love Triangle , Ojou-sama

Anime-Gataris

Studio: WAO World
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The anime centers on Minoa Asagaya, a new high school student in Sakaneko Private High School. Despite being a novice to anime, Minoa's classmate Arisu Kamiigusa invites her to make an "anime research club" at school. Through conversations with her classmate Miko Kouenji, as well as various anime-loving upperclassmen, Minoa gradually gets hooked on anime. While they stand against the student council's continuous efforts to disband their club, and they ignore the impending end of the world, they talk about anime, whether in Akiba, or in real-life "sacred place" anime settings, or the hot springs.



Tags: Otaku Culture , School Club , Meta , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , School , Cosplay , Chuunibyou , Primarily Teen Cast , Butler , Ojou-sama , Urban Fantasy