Anime like Android Ana MAICO 2010

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Studio: Shaft , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Fumihiko Matsumaru is an average salaryman with no girlfriend. He invited his colleague Miss Tanaka to a movie but was stood up. Right at the time he was about to toss tickets into a trash can, a cute girl appeared and asked him not to waste those two tickets. After movie and dinner, he escorted her home and found they live in the same neighborhood, yet unfortunately her apartment caught on fire hours later. Having nowhere else to stay, rookie seiyuu Aka Onda moved to Matsumaru's place, and the two had started a "more than friend but not yet lovers" relationship under the same roof while keeping this secret from their employers.



Tags: Acting , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Heterosexual , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Meta , Bar

Bannou Bunka Neko-Musume (1998)

Also known as All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV.

Studio: Movic , Ashi Productions , Discotek , TV Tokyo , King Records
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Each episode centers on Nuku Nuku's adventures and mishaps in high school, and her relationship to students, the overall series plot centers on the evil Mishima Industries' scheme to dominate the world through its products. In opposition to this plan are the slightly nutty Kyuusaku Natsume and Nuku Nuku, the android who acts as a companion to his young son. Nuku Nuku's classmates are all eccentrics, Futaba, the class president, is a domineering control-freak, who cannot leave her authority in school. Chieko Shirakaba is the rich snob with the two yes-girls who always take her side. There is a bookworm, a mystic, a scientist, and a pop singer. All of these are true to their descriptions: the mystic is always foretelling doom via tarot cards, spirits, or some other occult technique. The pop singer never says anything except as a song. The bookworm always has her nose in a book. These eccentricities add to the series' humor.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Nekomimi , Robots , Slapstick , Ojou-sama , Idol , School , Musical Theater

Battle Programmer Shirase

Studio: AIC , GANSIS , Maiden Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

Battle Programmer Shirase, also known as BPS, is a free programmer with super hacking abilities who doesn't work for money. What he does work for is certainly something that only people like him would appreciate. But, his demeanor certainly doesn't suit the jobs he is hired for. With the evil King of America causing trouble via the internet, Shirase is nothing but busy as each new adventure brings even more interesting people into the picture.




Tags: Hikikomori , Software Development , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Episodic

Seiyuu Radio no Uraomote

Also known as The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio.

Studio: CONNECT , Nippon Columbia , KADOKAWA , Happinet Phantom Studios , Movic , BS Nittele , AT-X , Studio Mausu , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Yuuhi Yugure and Yasumi Utatane, high school classmates and co-hosts of a weekly radio program, paint a picture-perfect friendship for their listeners. Yet, in reality, they couldn’t be more different. Their off-air dynamic is a whirlwind of chaos and insults. As their tumultuous relationship unfolds, they navigate the turbulent waters of friendship and rivalry in the cutthroat realm of showbiz.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Acting , Work , Gyaru , Idol , Otaku Culture , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Super Robot

Nanako SOS

Also known as Nanako SOS.

Studio: Kokusai Eigasha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Nana, is a young girl who unexpectedly acquires supernatural powers and at the same time loses her past memory. By accident, a scientific genius called Marlow, is present when she acquires her powers. Marlow is an industrious high school boy with extraordinary ambitions. He talks to Nana into joining his detective agency by promising to help her regain her memory. Nana innocently believes him, but Marlow's real intent is to use her powers to benefit his agency and himself.

The story unfolds as Nana encounters a variety of dangerous missions and mysterious events, but her natural sunny disposition helps her through all the incidents as she solves each mystery one after the other.



Tags: Super Power , Female Protagonist , Kuudere

Nami yo Kiitekure

Also known as Wave, Listen to Me!.

Studio: Sunrise , DMM pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

On a drunken night out to complain about an ex, Minare Koda absentmindedly shares too much information with a stranger from the radio station. The next morning, she’s shocked to hear her voice on the radio. Bursting into the station with intentions to justify her previous night’s rant quickly turns into an interview on-air and the offer to share her chaotic life with an unsuspecting audience!



Tags: Work , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Restaurant , Urban , Educational , Food , CGI

Plastic Memories

Also known as Plastic Memories.

Studio: Doga Kobo , MAGES. , Hanabee Entertainment , Aniplex of America , Aniplex , Asahi Broadcasting Corporation , ASCII Media Works , AT-X , Bushiroad
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they... Well, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but...



Tags: Robots , Tragedy , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Kuudere , Urban , Work , Amnesia , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Slapstick , Coming of Age , Female Harem

Koume-chan ga Iku!!

Also known as Here Comes Koume!.

Studio: Gainax , Group TAC , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Koume is a new employee of Caramel Ribbon, Inc., a firm of designers. This is the story of her days and nights, complete with humour unique to Osaka. Seen from outside, Kansai doesn't seem like the rest of Japan. Watching this show will make you an expert, even if you know nothing about the area right now.

It's a humorous tale of life in a Japanese company, with Koume, her effeminate boss, and Kimi, a one-time girl gang member, as they try to sell (supposedly) new and fresh designs. The voice actors also come from Kansai, ensuring authenticity.



Note: Part of Anime no Ai Awa Awa Hour (アニメ愛のあわあわアワー), three relationship-related comedy series aimed at women that were aired on the same day.

Tags: Tanned Skin , Office Lady , Urban , Work , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Josei , Delinquents

Planetes

Also known as Planetes.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Visual , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

In the year 2075, mankind has reached a point where journeying between Earth, the moon and the space stations is part of daily life. However, the progression of technology in space has also resulted in the problem of the space debris, which can cause excessive and even catastrophic damage to spacecrafts and equipment. This is the story of Technora's Debris Collecting section, its EVA worker, Hachirota "Hachimaki" Hoshino, and the newcomer to the group, Ai Tanabe.



Tags: Space , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Philosophy , Seinen , Tragedy , Politics , Terrorism , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Tanned Skin , Episodic

Chobits

Also known as Chobits.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Funimation , TBS , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the future, personal computers have developed into "Persocoms", mobile computers that look like human beings. Hideki Motosuwa, a prep school student, desperately wants to buy a Persocom but cannot afford to. One day he finds a Persocom that has been thrown away and decides to keep it. When he turns on the Persocom, all she can say is "Chii" so he decides to name her that. After a while it starts to become apparent that Chii is more than an average Persocom. Having much better performance, it seems that Chii might be a "Chobit", a type of advanced Persocom rumored to have independent thought.



Tags: Artificial Intelligence , Philosophy , Amnesia , Robots , Memory Manipulation , Heterosexual , Seinen , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Nudity , Twins , Asexual , Henshin , Conspiracy , Age Gap