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Gabriel Dropout

Also known as Gabriel DropOut.

Studio: Doga Kobo , Kadokawa Media House , AT-X , Sony Music Communications , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

An angel at the top of an angel school has descended to the human world! However, she has already acclimated to the life of the human world so much that she ends up leading a self-indulgent life, skipping school all the time and being absorbed in online games. Gabriel soon forgets about her original goal to make human beings happy and has turned into a lazy and hopeless angel, or a “sloppy angel” in short. Amazingly, she swears to continue to fully enjoy the pleasure of various entertainments of the human world.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Urban , Angels , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Demons , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , School , Gods , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Hikikomori , Parody , Magic , Tsundere , Chuunibyou , Video Games , Shounen

Anima Yell!

Studio: Doga Kobo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

The story follows Kohane Hatoya, a 1st year high school student who is a bit clumsy and scared of heights but who has a very bubbly and outgoing personality. Kohane decides to join the cheerleading club to try to make friends and overcome her weaknesses.



Tags: Cheerleading , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Dancing , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Fitness , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Twins , Tomboy

Kemono Friends

Also known as Kemono Friends.

Studio: Yaoyorozu , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

The anime's story takes place in Japari Park, a "gigantic integrated zoo." In the zoo, due to the mysterious "sand star" substance, the animals start turning into human-shaped creatures called Animal Girls. Japari Park is a place where many people visit and have fun at, but one day a lost child wanders into the park. The lost child starts a journey to return, but because so many Animal Girls join in on the quest it becomes an unexpected grand adventure.



Tags: Kemonomimi , Full CGI , Post-Apocalyptic , Primarily Female Cast , Animals , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Educational , CGI , Female Protagonist , Kids , Desert , Idol , Lost Civilization

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 , Philosophy , Shounen , Drawing , Tsundere , Guns , Football , Love Triangle

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

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 , Cosplay , Tsundere , Judo , Chibi , Maids , School Club

Endro~!

Also known as ENDRO!.

Studio: Studio Gokumi , King Records , Hobby Japan , KLOCKWORX , Sega Games , Movic , EGG FIRM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

The anime's story is set on Naral Island, a continent with swords and magic in which humans and monsters coexist. The terrible Demon King lives there. In ancient times, the first-generation hero defeated the Demon King. Over the many successive generations since then, the Demon King has been resurrected, and the hero who opposes him has likewise reappeared. Girls attend a school for adventurers in order to defeat the Demon King when he appears again.

Though a bit absent-minded, Yusha has the body of a hero. The holy elf Seyla's trouble never ends because she is too serious. The cheerful warrior Fai loves to eat. Mei is a quiet otaku magician. As the four girls aim to be in the hero party, they live relaxed fantasy lives and show no sign of defeating the Demon King no matter how much time passes.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parody , Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Ojou-sama , Elf , Primarily Child Cast , Teacher , School , Episodic , Yuri , Demons , Time Manipulation , Iyashikei , Card Battle , Dragons , Memory Manipulation

Urara Meirochou

Also known as Urara Meirocho.

Studio: J.C. Staff , TBS , Magic Capsule , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

The story is set in Meiro-chou, a town where all-female diviners (uranaishi) live and where girls from all over the country yearn to become the top diviner — "Urara." Today, a solitary girl named Chiya enters the town's gates. However, she has another purpose coming here, besides becoming the Urara. Chiya's days as an apprentice diviner begin as she meets three friends — the earnest Kon, Koume who is a fan of Western culture, and the shy Nono.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Gods , Witch , Magic , Mythology , Youkai , Historical , Seinen , Kemonomimi

Prima Doll

Also known as Prima Doll.

Studio: Bibury Animation Studios , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Visual Arts , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , MAGNET , Pia , BS Asahi , TOKYO MX , AQUA ARIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Café “Kuronekotei” boasts an unusual roster of employees. A group of automata, or autonomous mechanical dolls, serve their patrons with a smile, but they weren’t always so suited to domestic life. Just a few years prior, automata served as weapons in the great war, fulfilling the bloody purpose for which they were created. Now that the war has ended, these machines with human hearts search for their place in an unfamiliar, peaceful world — and their search begins at the Kuronekotei café.



Note: Prima Doll was streamed 5 days in advance of the TV broadcast on ABEMA beginning July 3, 2022. Regular broadcasting began on July 9, 2022.

Tags: Tragedy , Robots , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Artificial Intelligence , Primarily Female Cast , Work , War , Found Family , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Musical Theater , Memory Manipulation , Military , Steampunk , CGI , Time Skip

Do It Yourself!!

Also known as Do It Yourself!!.

Studio: PINE JAM , Avex Pictures , TV Tokyo , Yostar , MAGNET , Asmik Ace , AT-X , BS11 , Niigata Sogo Television
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Building furniture and friendships have a lot in common. Intention, effort, and hard work are needed for both crafts. This is a story of girls in a DIY club building both as they carve out their futures. None of it comes easy, but that doesn’t stop any of ’em. Furniture, friendships, and the future—they’re building it all with their own hands!



Tags: School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Tsundere , Educational , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tomboy , Slapstick