Anime like Chobits

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

Elfen Lied

Also known as Elfen Lied.

Studio: VAP , Arms , Genco , ADV Films , A Line
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Ecchi , Horror , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

The Diclonius, a mutated homosapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possess two horns on their heads and have a "sixth sense" which gives them telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murders most of the guards in the laboratory where she is being held, only to be shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives, falling off a cliff into the ocean and manages to drift along to a beach where two teenagers, Kouta and Yuka, discover her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the psychotic side of Lucy is not dead just yet...



Tags: Gore , Fugitive , Amnesia , Super Power , Monster Girl , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Seinen , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Revenge , Body Horror , Yandere , Love Triangle , Conspiracy , Incest , Primarily Female Cast , Bullying , Male Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Military , Heterosexual , Family Life , Rural , Primarily Teen Cast , Coastal , Female Harem , Slapstick , Tsundere , Disability , Cyborg , Cohabitation

DearS

Also known as DearS.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Hal Film Maker , Genco , Lantis , Daume , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

Ikuhara Takeya is a high school student living a normal life. He is not interested in the commotion around a UFO filled with beautiful alien females that crashed on earth a year ago. The aliens, known as DearS, are deciding to take permanent residence on earth. What no one knows is that these aliens are a slave species whose sole purpose is to serve and please their masters. One day, Takeya spots a person shivering behind some bushes. This person, Ren, is one of the DearS, and after being saved by Takeya she chooses him as her master. Takeya, who doesn't know about the master-slave relationship of DearS, tries to teach Ren the normal lifestyle of the people on earth, though he constantly fears that Ren is an evil alien who's trying to brainwash him. Ren, however, isn't like other DearS. She is in fact malfunctioning and is being tracked down by their leader. Meanwhile, Takeya begins to learn more about DearS, and a mythical DearS relationship called “Gift” begins to develop between them.



Tags: Aliens , Slavery , Female Harem , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast

Boku no Tsuma wa Kanjou ga Nai

Also known as My Wife Has No Emotion.

Studio: Tezuka Productions , Nikkatsu , TMS Entertainment , KADOKAWA , Mainichi Broadcasting System , TOKYO MX , BS Asahi , 81 Produce , Ray
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Takuma isn’t the most exciting guy. He’s awkward, single, and does nothing but go to work and come home. Tired of doing chores, he decides to buy a housekeeping robot named Mina. She can cook and clean perfectly, and the two get to know each other better over time. Soon, Takuma starts to fall for Mina! But could a robot ever love him back?



Note: Boku no Tsuma wa Kanjou ga Nai was streamed 3 days in advance of the TV broadcast on ABEMA, dAnimestore, and Crunchyroll beginning June 29, 2024. Regular broadcasting began on July 2, 2024.

Tags: Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Family Life , Heterosexual , Marriage , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Maids , Iyashikei

Kobato.

Also known as Kobato.

Studio: MADHOUSE , NHK , NHK-BS2 , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Sweet and naïve Hanato Kobato came to Earth on a mission to collect and fill a bottle with 'konpeito,' which appear after healing a person's heart that is suffering. Kobato collects these because it is her wish to go to a certain place. Despite her strangeness, Kobato turns out to be well-suited for this mission as her heartfelt sincerity in helping others earns her the love and admiration of everyone she meets. However, she is not allowed to fall in love with anyone whose heart she heals.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Female Protagonist , Reincarnation , Shoujo , Magic , Episodic , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Crossover , Time Skip , College , Anthropomorphism

Mahoromatic

Also known as Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden.

Studio: Gainax , Shaft , TBS , Pioneer LDC , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

Vesper is a secret agency fighting an army of alien invaders by using super-powerful battle androids. Mahoro is Vesper's most powerful battle android and has won many battles, but she has little operating time left and soon will cease to function. However, if she lays down her arms and conserves her remaining power, the time she has left can be prolonged to just over a year. Mahoro is given an opportunity to live the remaining time she has as a normal human. She chooses to live as a maid for Suguru, a phenomenally messy high school student who lives by himself after his family passed away.



Tags: Maids , Robots , Heterosexual , Military , Aliens , Nudity , Found Family , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Teacher , School

Saishuu Heiki Kanojo

Also known as She, The Ultimate Weapon.

Studio: GONZO , Touhouku Shinsha , Doga Kobo , Viz Media , Toei Video , Toshiba EMI , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

Shuuji and Chise are third year students at a high school in Hokkaido. The shy Chise is finally confessing to Shuuji, and finally the two of them are starting to exchange diary awkwardly. One day, Shuuji tries to escape from a sudden enemy air raid on Sapporo. While desperately escaping from the air raid, Shuuji sees a scene that he could not forget for his life. He sees Chise, with a huge weapon looking as if it was part of her hand, shooting the enemy fighters down one by one. Apparently, Chise is the ultimate weapon with destructive power which is important for the war.



Tags: Military , Anti-Hero , Coming of Age , War , Tragedy , Heterosexual , School , Cyborg , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Guns , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Primarily Adult Cast , Psychosexual , Urban , Robots , Age Gap , Motorcycles , Natural Disaster , Work , Unrequited Love , Nudity

ATRI: My Dear Moments

Also known as ATRI -My Dear Moments-.

Studio: TROYCA , Aniplex , bilibili
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and one of his legs in an accident some years earlier, returns disillusioned from a harsh life in the big city to find his old countryside home half-swallowed by the sea. Left without a family, all he has to his name is the ship and submarine left to him by his oceanologist grandmother, and her debts. His only hope to restore the dreams for the future that he has lost is to take up an opportunity presented to him by the suspicious debt collector Catherine. They set sail to search the sunken ruins of his grandmother's laboratory in order to find a treasure rumor says she left there. But what they find is not riches or jewels; it is a strange girl lying asleep in a coffin at the bottom of the sea, Atri. Atri is a robot, but her appearance and her wealth of emotions would fool anyone into thinking she's a living, breathing human being. In gratitude for being salvaged, she makes a declaration to Natsuki.



Tags: Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Environmental , Robots , Dystopian , Disability , Post-Apocalyptic , Male Protagonist , Artificial Intelligence , Lost Civilization , CGI , Cyberpunk , Time Skip

Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer

Also known as Angelic Layer.

Studio: bones , TV Tokyo Music , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi , Sports

From the moment twelve-year-old Misaki Suzuhara first arrives in Tokyo to live with her aunt, she finds herself swept away by the amazing world of Angelic Layer – a fast-paced high-tech game where dolls called “Angels” are controlled by the thoughts of their operator, or “Deus”. Discovering that her new friends are as interested in Angelic Layer as she is, Misaki builds her own Angel, Hikaru, and begins competing in battles where will and determination count far more than size and strength. The competitions are going to be fierce and, with the national championships looming on the horizon, you can bet that not everyone Misaki meets will be on her side. Can Misaki handle the pressure of non-stop competition while struggling to adapt to life in an unfamiliar city?



Tags: Robots , Female Protagonist , Real Robot , Shounen , Primarily Female Cast , Proxy Battle , Disability , Primarily Child Cast

Denei Shoujo VIDEO GIRL AI

Also known as Video Girl Ai.

Studio: Production I.G , Shueisha , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

When Yohta is told by the girl he likes, Moemi, that she likes someone else, he rents a video girl tape from a strange video rental shop. When he plays the tape at home, Video Girl Ai emerges from the screen to help him win Moemi's love. But Yohta's VCR had been malfunctioning and now Ai's personality isn't quite what it was designed to be.



Tags: Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Artificial Intelligence , Shounen , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Gore