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

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Hulu

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K-ON!!

Also known as K-ON! Season 2.

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

It is the new year, which means that the senior members of the Light Music Club are now third-years, with Azusa Nakano being the only second-year. The seniors soon realize that Azusa will be the only member left once they graduate and decide to recruit new members. Despite trying many methods of attracting underclassmen—handing out fliers, bringing people into the clubroom, and performing at the welcoming ceremony—there are no signs of anyone that plans to join.

While heading to the clubroom, Azusa overhears Yui Hirasawa say that the club is fine with only five people and that they can do many fun things together. Changing her mind, she decides that they do not need to recruit any members for the time being.

K-On!! revolves around the members of the Light Music Club as they experience their daily high school life. From rehearsing for concerts to just messing around, they are ready to make their last year together an exciting one!

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

Where to watch?

Hulu

HIDIVE

Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu

Also known as Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu.

Studio: C2C
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hitori Bocchi suffers from extreme social anxiety, she’s not good at talking to people, takes pretty extreme actions, is surprisingly adept at avoiding people, her legs cramp when she overexerts herself, gets full of herself when alone, will vomit when exposed to extreme tension and often comes up with plans. Now she is entering middle school and her only friend, Yawara Kai, is attending a different school. This leaves Bocchi alone, surrounded by new classmates with whom she must make friends before Kai will talk to her again.

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Ninja , Coming of Age , Iyashikei , Tomboy , Shounen

Where to watch?

Bilibili TV

GIRLS BAND CRY

Also known as Girls Band Cry.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

Feeling out of place in the countryside, high school dropout Nina Iseri moves to Tokyo. After a rough first day and getting locked out of her apartment, she meets her favorite guitarist, Momoka Kawaragi. The two put on a street performance together and decide to start a band with three other girls. While each girl faces her own struggles, their passion for music keeps their dreams alive.

Tags: Band , CGI , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Rock Music , Coming of Age , Full CGI , Urban , Yuri , Bullying , LGBTQ+ Themes , Denpa , Found Family , Acting , Tragedy , Family Life , Tanned Skin

Where to watch?

YouTube

Hoopla

Yuru Camp△

Also known as Laid-Back Camp.

Studio: C-Station , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Rin likes to go camping by herself along the lakes that provide a scenic view of Mt. Fuji. Nadeshiko loves to take cycling trips by herself to places where she can see Mt. Fuji. After they meet, Rin and Nadeshiko take camping trips, eat cup ramen together, and enjoy the scenery.

Tags: Outdoor , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Rural , Food , Educational , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , School Club , Kuudere , Episodic , Travel , Mopeds , Animals , Cycling

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Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai

Also known as Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night.

Studio: King Records , Doga Kobo , Asmik Ace , Kansai TV , Doga Kobo , BS11 , Movic , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

"I want to find what I enjoy."

Shibuya is a city full of identity. It is here on Shibuya’s late night streets that illustrator Mahiru Kozuki, former idol Kano Yamanouchi, Vtuber Kiui Watase and composer Mei Kim Anouk Takanashi — four young women who are slightly outside the world — join together and form an anonymous artist group called JELEE. “I” also want to shine like someone else. If it's not me but “we” then we might be able to shine.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Urban , Drawing , Band , Idol , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Hikikomori , Denpa , Yuri , VTuber , Age Gap , Motorcycles

Where to watch?

HIDIVE

iQ

Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!

Also known as WataMote: No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!.

Studio: Square Enix , SILVER LINK. , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

At the tender age of 15, Tomoko Kuroki has already dated hundreds of boys — or at least in dating games she has. The sad truth is that she gets tongue-tied just talking to people, which makes her entrance into the social pressure cooker of high school especially odious and riddled with anxiety. Can Tomoko overcome her crippling social anxiety and finally have the popular high school life she’s always dreamed of? Or will she merely get caught in the downward spiral that is her awkward life?

Tags: Bisexual , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist , Disability , Psychosexual , Satire , Otaku Culture , School , Parody , Slapstick , Meta , Achronological Order , Chuunibyou , Video Games , Rehabilitation , Shounen

Where to watch?

HIDIVE

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

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Hibike! Euphonium

Also known as Sound! Euphonium.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , Lantis , Rakuonsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

Spring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire. There, she comes across Reina, her former classmate from junior high. Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but Kumiko can’t make up her mind. She recollects her experience with Reina at a competition in junior high school.

Tags: Band , School Club , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Ensemble Cast , Unrequited Love , Classical Music , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle

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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 , Educational , Amnesia , Coastal , Seinen , Chuunibyou , Yuri

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