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Na-Nare Hana-Nare

Also known as Narenare -Cheer for you!-.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , DMM.com , TV Tokyo , NetEase Games , AmiAmi , P.A.WORKS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Misora Kanata is a first-year student on the Takanosaki High School cheerleading team. She won a national championship in middle school, but can’t jump after a mistake in a competition. She befriends Suzuha, Shion, Anna, Nodoka, and Megumi to form the PoMPoMs. Their new team goes beyond cheerleading to reach the hearts of the people they cheer on. They might just change the world!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Cheerleading , Primarily Teen Cast , Acrobatics , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Disability , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parkour , Iyashikei , CGI , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rural , Baseball

Comic Girls

Also known as Comic Girls.

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

The manga's story centers on the 15-year-old high school student and manga creator Kaoruko Moeta, who uses the pen name Chaos. After ranking at the bottom of a reader survey, Kaoruko's editor recommends that she enter an all-female dormitory for manga creators. Kaoruko's roommates are shoujo manga creator Koyume Koizuka, teen romance manga creator Ruki Irokawa, and shounen manga creator Tsubasa Katsuki. The girls support each other as they work to become better manga creators.



Tags: Drawing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Writing , Coming of Age , Work , Chuunibyou , Tomboy , Otaku Culture , Meta , Seinen , School

Ochikobore Fruit Tart

Also known as Dropout Idol Fruit Tart.

Studio: feel. , Studio Mausu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Music , Slice of Life

Former showbiz stars Roko, Hayu, and Nina live together in a dormitory for dropout idol girls. As timing would have it, young dreamer Sakura happens to move in with the other girls just as an announcement is made to tear down the dorm due to a 100-million-yen debt!

This leads to the unexpected formation of a new idol group called Fruit Tart. Their sole mission: earn some yen and stop the demolition.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Idol , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Yuri , Meta , Dancing , Yandere , Twins

K-ON!

Also known as K-ON!.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , TBS , Movic , Rakuonsha , Animation Do , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Hirasawa Yui, a young, carefree girl entering high school, has her imagination instantly captured when she sees a poster advertising the ‘Light Music Club’. Being the carefree girl that she is, she quickly signs up. However, Yui has a problem, she is unable to play an instrument.

When Yui goes to the clubroom to explain, she's greeted by the other members: Ritsu, Mio and Tsumugi. Although disheartened at Yui’s lack of musical know-how, they still try to convince her to stay to prevent the club’s disbandment. After playing Yui a short piece which re-ignites her imagination, they succeed in keeping their new member and guitarist.

Along with the tasks of school and homework, Yui begins to learn the guitar with the help of the other band members, experiencing many mishaps along the way. However, with the school-festival drawing near and Yui getting stuck with her practice, will the Light Music Club be ready in time for their debut?



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Band , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Rock Music , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Seinen , Food , Tomboy , Slapstick

Kiniro Mosaic

Also known as KINMOZA!.

Studio: Media Factory , Sentai Filmworks , Studio Gokumi , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The story begins with Oomiya Shinobu, a 15-year-old, seemingly pure Japanese girl who actually did a homestay in Great Britain. Even after coming back to Japan, she still misses her time overseas. One day, an airmail letter arrives from Alice, the girl in Shinobu's host family in Great Britain. The letter reads: Shinobu, I'm coming to Japan! The Japanese/British girls' mixed comedy follows the lives of Shinobu, Alice, and other girls from both Japan and Great Britain.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Tsundere , Language Barrier , Seinen , Tomboy , Foreign , Pirates , Baseball

Anne Happy♪

Also known as Anne-Happy.

Studio: SILVER LINK.
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The story centers around class 1-7 of Tennogofune Academy, where all the students with "bad karma" or misfortune seem to have been gathered. Hibari, a student in this class, meets the unlucky Hanako and the perennially unhealthy Botan on her first day of school, and together they try to find a way to turn their school life into a happy one.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , School , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Seinen , Robots , Kuudere

Yuru Yuri

Also known as YuruYuri.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Daume , Doga Kobo , Pony Canyon , DAX Production , NIS America Inc. , Studio Gram , PRA , Jumondou
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Right after starting middle school, Akari Akaza joins the Amusement Club which is composed solely by her two childhood friends, Kyouko Toshinou and Yui Funami. Chinatsu Yoshikawa, Akaza's classmate, becomes a member after finding out about the dissolution of the Tea Club.

The Amusement Club, situated at the tea room facility since the Tea Club disbanded, has no clear purpose, being free for the girls to do whatever they want.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Yuri , Love Triangle , School , Slapstick , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Child Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Kuudere , Twins

Hanayamata

Also known as HaNaYaMaTa.

Studio: MADHOUSE , DIVE II Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Normal appearance, normal intelligence, normal in arts and sports... just normal. This is the entirely normal 14-year-old, Naru Sekiya. While she admires "Heroines" she continues to live a normal life until one moonlit night she meets a fairy. This foreign girl then guides her into the extraordinary world of the yosakoi dance.


Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Dancing , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Band , Seinen , Tsundere , Idol

Hoshikuzu Telepath

Also known as Stardust Telepath.

Studio: Studio Gokumi , Nippon Columbia , Houbunsha , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Asmik Ace , AT-X , BS Nittele , Movic , Studio Mausu , KLOCKWORX , San Blas Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Konohoshi Umika is a high-schooler who is very bad at communicating with others. Feeling almost like an alien trapped on Earth with nowhere to belong, one day she meets a girl who claims to be an actual alien!

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Aliens , School Club , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Educational , Amnesia , Coastal , Seinen , Chuunibyou , Rural

Hinako Note

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

Hinako is poor at speaking and lives in a rural part of Japan. She wants to improve her speech to be able to talk to people freely, so in high school, she transfers schools to Tokyo and plans to join a theater club. When she arrives, it turns out her boarding house is a secondhand bookstore, and a girl who eats books lives there.



Tags: Acting , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Urban , Dancing , Episodic , Cosplay , Tsundere , Chibi , Rural , Shrine Maiden , Judo , Maids , School Club