Anime like Alma-chan wa Kazoku ni Naritai

SPY×FAMILY

Also known as SPY x FAMILY.

Studio: CloverWorks , WIT STUDIO , Toho , Shueisha , TV Tokyo , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Everyone has a part of themselves they cannot show to anyone else.

At a time when all nations of the world were involved in a fierce war of information happening behind closed doors, Ostania and Westalis had been in a state of cold war against one another for decades. The Westalis Intelligence Services' Eastern-Focused Division (WISE) sends their most talented spy, "Twilight," on a top-secret mission to investigate the movements of Donovan Desmond, the chairman of Ostania's National Unity Party, who is threatening peace efforts between the two nations.

This mission is known as "Operation Strix." It consists of "putting together a family in one week in order to infiltrate social gatherings organized by the elite school that Desmond's son attends."

"Twilight" takes on the identity of psychiatrist Loid Forger and starts looking for family members. But Anya, the daughter he adopts, turns out to have the ability to read people's minds, while his wife, Yor, is an assassin! With it being in each of their own interests to keep these facts hidden, they start living together while concealing their true identities from one another.
World peace is now in the hands of this brand-new family as they embark on an adventure full of surprises.



Tags: Espionage , Family Life , Found Family , Fake Relationship , Parenthood , Assassins , Adoption , Conspiracy , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Urban , Slapstick , Crime , Super Power , Shounen , School , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Parody , Politics , Unrequited Love , Cohabitation , Guns , Urban Fantasy , Orphan , Martial Arts , Tsundere , Bullying

Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita. r=1-sinθ (Heart)

Also known as Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It r=1-sinθ.

Studio: Zero-G , bilibili , Mirai Koujou , AMG Entertainment , Global Solutions , Kanetsuu Investment , Starry Cube , Sony Music Entertainment , Hokkaidou Bunka Housou , BS Fuji , Office Nobu , Yomiuri TV Enterprise , Flex Comics , SUPA LOVE , Touyou Recording , BloomZ , Holoimua , ANNEL
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Following the events of their trip to Okinawa, Saitama University graduate students Shinya Yukimura and Ayame Himuro have failed to obtain the data necessary to scientifically prove their love for each other. Unable to replicate the exact conditions of the trip, the two stubborn scientists decide to seek help from elsewhere in the university—the Biological Sciences department.

Assisted by fellow graduate students and longtime couple Chris Floret and Suiu Fujiwara, Yukimura and Himuro begin to quantify their feelings by measuring their output of oxytocin in various romantic situations. The two scientists soon find that their feelings for each other are nothing compared to that of a mature couple. It is here that Chris poses a question to both Yukimura and Himuro: what will they do if their "affection" is proven not to be love after all?

Desperate to find a scientific rationale for the discrepancy, Yukimura puts everything on the line to prove that their "love" is real.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , College , Educational , Heterosexual , Teacher , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Meta , Philosophy , Love Triangle , Idol , Drawing , Shounen

Buddy Daddies

Also known as Buddy Daddies.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Aniplex , ABC Animation , Nagoya TV Housou , Nitroplus , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Assassins Kazuki Kurusu and Rei Suwa meet Miri, a girl looking for her father on Christmas Day. Kazuki, Rei, and Miri unexpectedly end up living together.

Follows Kazuki Kurusu, a criminal contractor/coordinator who lives with his best friend, Rei Suwa, a professional assassin who has been raised from childhood to be a contract killer. Kazuki is outgoing and loves gambling and women, while Rei is a man of few words who spends his off time playing video games. One day, the two buddies end up caring for Miri Unasaka, a four year old girl whose father is a mafia boss, after Miri accidentally wanders into a firefight in a hotel while looking for her father.

Tags: Family Life , Found Family , Parenthood , Adoption , Assassins , Crime , Kuudere , Male Protagonist , Guns , Work , Urban , Female Protagonist , School , Espionage , Mafia , Primarily Adult Cast , Gore , Time Skip , Video Games , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes

SPY×FAMILY Season 3

Also known as SPY x FAMILY Season 3.

Studio: WIT STUDIO , CloverWorks , Toho , Shueisha , TV Tokyo , WIT STUDIO , CloverWorks , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

World peace is at stake and secret agent Twilight must undergo his most difficult mission yet—pretend to be a family man. Posing as a loving husband and father, he’ll infiltrate an elite school to get close to a high-profile politician. He has the perfect cover, except his wife’s a deadly assassin and neither knows each other’s identity. But someone does, his adopted daughter who’s a telepath!



Tags: Espionage , Urban , Assassins , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Martial Arts , Ensemble Cast , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Found Family , Shounen , Fake Relationship , Parenthood , War , Terrorism , Female Protagonist , Military , School , Politics , Cohabitation , Guns , Tragedy , Food , Dissociative Identities , Volleyball , Primarily Child Cast

Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita.

Also known as Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It.

Studio: Zero-G
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Yukimura Shinya, and Himuro Ayame are two scientists that want to find out if love can be solved by a scientific theory. These two scientists also have feelings for each other and want to be able to solve their true feelings through similar theoretical facts. With this perfect opportunity, these scientists will attempt to solve the theory of the love they express for each other.

Note: All episodes premiered on Amazon on January 11, 2020 but aired weekly on TV.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , College , Heterosexual , Educational , Male Protagonist , School Club , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Episodic , Otaku Culture , Video Games , Parody

ATRI: My Dear Moments

Also known as ATRI -My Dear Moments-.

Studio: TROYCA , Aniplex , bilibili
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and one of his legs in an accident some years earlier, returns disillusioned from a harsh life in the big city to find his old countryside home half-swallowed by the sea. Left without a family, all he has to his name is the ship and submarine left to him by his oceanologist grandmother, and her debts. His only hope to restore the dreams for the future that he has lost is to take up an opportunity presented to him by the suspicious debt collector Catherine. They set sail to search the sunken ruins of his grandmother's laboratory in order to find a treasure rumor says she left there. But what they find is not riches or jewels; it is a strange girl lying asleep in a coffin at the bottom of the sea, Atri. Atri is a robot, but her appearance and her wealth of emotions would fool anyone into thinking she's a living, breathing human being. In gratitude for being salvaged, she makes a declaration to Natsuki.



Tags: Heterosexual , Robots , Disability , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Dystopian , Environmental , Artificial Intelligence , Lost Civilization , CGI , Cyberpunk , Time Skip

Alice to Zouroku

Also known as Alice & Zoroku.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Lantis , Bandai Visual , Tokuma Shoten , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , TOKYO MX , Sony PCL
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

The fantasy story begins with a group of young girls who hold a power named "Alice's Dream," which allows them to make their imaginations come true. These girls have been locked up and treated as research subjects. Sana, one of these girls whose specific power includes the ability ignore the laws of physics and physically manifest anything she can imagine, has escaped. Afterwards, she meets an old man named Zouroku, who dislikes disruptions in his everyday life.



Note: The first episode aired with a runtime of ~44 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.

Tags: Super Power , Fugitive , Found Family , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , Rehabilitation , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Twins , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Family Life

Tefuda ga Oome no Victoria

Also known as Victoria of Many Faces.

Studio: Studio DEEN , KADOKAWA , TV Tokyo , Docomo Anime Store , Toy's Factory , Studio DEEN
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Betrayed by her own organization, Chloe flees her life as a spy and starts over under the new identity of Victoria in the Kingdom of Ashberry. Victoria wants a simple civilian life, but the locals have other plans, becoming enmeshed with an abandoned girl and a knight. As the trio bonds and Victoria’s past catches up to her, the skills she perfected as a spy prove useful in her new life.



Tags: Found Family , Family Life , Josei , Parenthood , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Suicide , Rural , Espionage , Fugitive , Royal Affairs

Amaama to Inazuma

Also known as Sweetness & Lightning.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He's pretty bad at cooking and doesn't have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it's no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious.



Tags: Family Life , Food , Iyashikei , Found Family , Restaurant , Educational , Teacher , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Parenthood , Orphan , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , School , Chibi

Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari

Also known as The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting.

Studio: feel. , Gaina , bilibili , Micro Magazine Sha , Docomo Anime Store , Pony Canyon , Bushiroad Move , TOKYO MX , Micro House
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Kirishima Tooru was accustomed to solving all problems through violence and was called “the Demon of Sakuragi.” One day, the boss of the Sakuragi family suddenly summons Kirishima and appoints him caretaker of his only daughter, Yaeka! A heartwarming comedy about a yakuza crime family’s right-hand man and the boss’ only daughter. The two of them are about to begin their new daily lives together!



Tags: Family Life , Yakuza , Josei , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Found Family , Parenthood , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Anti-Hero , Guns , Iyashikei , Food , Delinquents , Tragedy , Suicide , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Male Cast , Episodic