Anime like Yofukashi no Uta

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Aniplex of America , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/6. Contains the arcs Hitagi Crab, Mayoi Snail, Suruga Monkey, Nadeko Snake, and Tsubasa Cat from the Bakemonogatari light novels.

Thanks to Meme Oshino, Koyomi Araragi, a high school student, is able to remain a human after coming across a female vampire... However, since the incident, Koyomi seems to meet girls who have an apparition-related issue. Hitagi Senjougahara doesn’t weigh anything, Suruga Kanbaru’s right arm becomes like that of a monkey’s, and a young girl, Mayoi, cannot find her way home no matter how many times she tries. Koyomi, a Mr. Nice Guy, ends up helping each and every girl solve her problem with the help of Meme Oshino.



Note: Only the first 12 episodes were broadcast on television; the remaining three episodes were distributed on the anime's website between November 3, 2009, and June 25, 2010.

Tags: Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Vampire , Primarily Female Cast , Ghost , Satire , Meta , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Dissociative Identities , Psychosexual , Gore , Curses , Exorcism , Monster Girl , Mixed Media , Rotoscoping , Gods , Love Triangle , Yandere , Parody , Tomboy , Nudity , Unrequited Love , Nekomimi , Female Harem , Tsundere , CGI , Seinen , School , Amnesia , Rehabilitation

Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia

Also known as Insomniacs After School.

Studio: Pony Canyon , LIDENFILMS , TV Tokyo , Shogakukan , Ultra Super Pictures , MAGNET , CHOCOLATE
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Ganta Nakami is a high school student who suffers from insomnia. One day, he meets Isaki Magari, a girl with the same condition. A strange, but special relationship forms as they share a secret and catch up on their sleep in their school’s abandoned observatory…



Tags: Coming of Age , Iyashikei , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Photography , Seinen , School Club , Astronomy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , School , Camping , Rural , Outdoor Activities , Disability , Animals , Tanned Skin , Swimming

Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen

Also known as Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 2/6. Contains the arc Koyomi Vamp from the Kizumonogatari light novel.

March 25th—just another day during spring break. Koyomi Araragi, a second year high school student at Naoetsu High School, befriends Tsubasa Hanekawa, the top honors student at his school. Hanekawa mentions a rumor about a "blonde vampire" that has been sighted around their town recently. Araragi, who is usually anti-social, takes a liking to her down-to-earth personality.

That night, Araragi encounters the rumored vampire: she is Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, also known as the "iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded King of Apparitions." The stunningly beautiful vampire cries out for Koyomi to save her as she lies in a pool of her own blood, all four of her limbs cut off. Kiss-shot asks Araragi to give her his blood, and when he does, the next moment he awakes, Araragi finds himself reborn as her vampire kin. As Araragi struggles to accept his existence, Kiss-Shot whispers, "Welcome to the world of darkness..."



Tags: Vampire , Urban Fantasy , Rotoscoping , Urban , Suicide , Body Horror , Male Protagonist , Gore , Noir , Coming of Age , Age Regression , CGI , Yandere , Nudity

Dagashi Kashi

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

Shikada Kokonotsu's father owns a rural sweets shop, and his plan is for Kokonotsu to take it over one day. However, Kokonotsu wants to be a manga author instead! One day in summer, the cute but weird girl Shidare Hotaru, from the famous sweets company, comes to pay a visit. Apparently, Kokonotsu's father is famous and she wants him to join her family's company. However, he will only agree if she can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family business!



Tags: Food , Episodic , Work , Rural , Educational , Heterosexual , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Economics , Primarily Female Cast

Zom 100: Zombie ni Naru Made ni Shitai 100 no Koto

Also known as Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead.

Studio: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , BUG FILMS , Shaft
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Horror , Supernatural

Surviving a zombie apocalypse beats being a wage slave any day! After spending years slaving away for a soul-crushing company, Akira's life has lost its luster. He lives in a trash-filled apartment, his pay is abysmal, and he can't even muster up the nerve to confess his love to his beautiful co-worker. But when a zombie apocalypse ravages his town, it gives him the push he needs to live for himself. Now Akira's on a mission to complete all 100 items on his bucket list before he...well, kicks the bucket.



Tags: Zombie , Travel , Post-Apocalyptic , Surreal Comedy , Survival , Rural , Male Protagonist , Urban , Revenge , Urban Fantasy , Slapstick , Primarily Adult Cast , Rehabilitation , Work , Tsundere , Seinen , Gore , Body Horror , Tragedy , Nudity , Agriculture , Heterosexual , Motorcycles , Rugby , Achromatic , Office , Suicide , Cultivation

Vanitas no Carte

Also known as The Case Study of Vanitas.

Studio: bones , Aniplex , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Square Enix , Contents Seed
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

It’s 19th-century Paris, and young vampire Noé hunts for the Book of Vanitas. Attacked by a vampire driven insane, a human intercedes, rescues Noé, and heals the sick creature. Commanding the book and calling himself Vanitas, this doctor tempts Noé with a mad crusade to “cure” the entire vampire race. Allying with one who wields arcane power so easily may be dangerous, but does he have a choice?



Tags: Vampire , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Foreign , Steampunk , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Tsundere , Anachronism , Historical , Gore , Tanned Skin , Chibi , Religion , Shounen , Assassins , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Male Cast , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Henshin , Coming of Age , Drugs , Adoption , Super Power , Human Experimentation

Nazo no Kanojo X

Also known as Mysterious Girlfriend X.

Studio: Starchild Records , Kodansha , Hoods Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks , Yomiuri Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Mystery , Romance

When the oddly peculiar Mikoto Urabe transfers into Akira Tsubaki's class, he finds that life has thrown him the weirdest curve ball ever. Because while Urabe may be an anti-social loner who sleeps on her desk, carries a pair of scissors in her underwear and breaks out in sudden fits of insane laughter, there's something about her that Tsubaki just can't quite put his finger on. Until he accidentally puts his finger in it, and suddenly the phrase "sharing spit with a girl" takes on an entirely new meaning! Before he can wipe her drool off his face, Tsubaki is mysteriously addicted to Urabe, which isn't half as strange as the fact that she not only finds this normal, but already seems to have plans for her new drooling boyfriend.



Tags: Coming of Age , School , Kuudere , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Nudity , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love

Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari

Also known as Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You.

Studio: Asahi Production , TBS , Asmik Ace , Asahi Production , arma bianca , ADK Marketing Solutions , Nichion , AbemaTV , Square Enix
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Sasaki is an overworked salaryman drifting through the corporate grind, sustained by cigarettes and the cheerful service and smile of Yamada, the clerk at his favorite supermarket. But one night after a grueling shift, he arrives late to find Yamada nowhere to be seen. With nowhere left to smoke, his spirits sink—until a pierced young woman calls out to him: “You can smoke here.”



Note: Episodes 1-6 had an early release by ABEMA and Crunchyroll on June 3rd, 2026 in a mini-episode batch format that splits 6 episodes into 12, ahead of the TV broadcast which started on July 10th, 2026.

Tags: Seinen , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Konbini , Age Gap , Drugs , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Urban , Office

Mayonaka Punch

Also known as MAYONAKA PUNCH.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , KADOKAWA , P.A.WORKS , Docomo Anime Store , Movic , AT-X
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Meet Masaki, the now former member of the popular NewTuber group, Harikiri Sisters. After a career setback, aka getting fired unexpectedly via a livestream, she joins forces with Live, a partner with superhuman abilities. Together, they aim to create sensational content and reach 1 million subscribers. Will they reach their content dreams or be hit with the block button?



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Vampire , Monster Girl , Yuri , Urban Fantasy , Cohabitation , Primarily Adult Cast , Anti-Hero , Found Family , VTuber , Super Power , Surreal Comedy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Wilderness , Food , Coastal , Shapeshifting

Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen

Also known as Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu.

Studio: Shaft , Toho , Aniplex , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 4/6. Contains the arc Koyomi Vamp from the Kizumonogatari light novel.

With help from Meme Oshino, the apparition specialist, Koyomi defeats the three powerful vampire hunters: Dramaturgy, Episode and Guillotinecutter. Koyomi takes back all the limbs of Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade in order to become a human again. But, when he returns to Kiss-Shot, she reveals to him the cold truth of what it means to be a vampire—a creature of the night. Unable to take back what he has done, Koyomi feels nothing but regret and can only deny his dreadful fate. While Koyomi is struggling to face reality, his “friend” Tsubasa Hanekawa comes to him with a certain plan…



Tags: Vampire , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Body Horror , Rotoscoping , Nudity , Philosophy , Survival , Gore , Suicide , Noir , Psychosexual , Anti-Hero , Monster Girl , Age Regression , CGI , Slapstick