Anime like Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Haikara!

Mahou Shoujo Ore

Also known as Magical Girl Ore.

Studio: Studio Signpost , AT-X , KLOCKWORX , Crunchyroll , Bandai Namco Arts , My Theater D.D. , Genco
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

This story is about a 15-year-old girl who is a newbie idol in love with her best friend's brother who is also a popular idol. But she runs into a scary yakuza guy and finds out that her mother was an ex-magical girl, and the yakuza was her mascot. Her love interest gets kidnapped by demons that look like burly men with cute squirrel heads. So she contracts the yakuza to become a magical girl, which in this story means she turns into a handsome guy in a magical girl outfit. On top of that, her love interest shows an attraction toward her magical guy form. Her best friend turns out to be in love with her and also becomes a magical cross-dressing guy to save her life.
Thus, their manager, who is a magical girl geek, then decides to turn them into an idol unit.


Tags: Parody , Magic , Gender Bending , Slapstick , Henshin , Meta , Female Protagonist , Boys' Love , Crossdressing , Urban Fantasy , Idol , Fairy , Gore , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yakuza , Demons , Kaiju , Super Power

RobiHachi

Also known as RobiHachi.

Studio: Studio Comet
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The anime's story is set in Neo Tokyo in the year G.C. (Galaxy Century) 0051, which marks a half century since first contact was made. Humans have obtained super light-speed navigation technology and formed a commonwealth of planets with aliens. A streak of bad luck is continuing for self-proclaimed freelance reportage writer Robby Yarge, who is around 30 years old. He fails at work, so his contract is cut. His girlfriend leaves him, he nearly dies in a traffic accident, and debt collectors come after him.

One day, a bag snatcher steals Robby's bag, and a young man helps him. Hatchi Kita, an 18-year-old part-time worker, catches the criminal and returns Robby's bag. Robby offers him his gratitude and a meal in return. The pair discover they are complete opposites and soon part ways.

However, Hatchi turns up again in Robby's life as a debt collector. Hatchi explains that it's his part-time job working for the loan shark Yan. A cat-and-mouse chase begins, and Yan's Finance president Yan takes his subordinates Aro and Gra along for the ride. Robby manages to elude Hatchi and escape to space while shaking off Yan's group. Robby thinks of escaping to Isekandar, a distant and legendary planet in the Milky Way that is said to bring happiness to those who go there. Though Robby thought he had escaped to space alone, he discovers Hatchi inside his spaceship. The two decide to travel across the galaxy together in search of Isekandar.



Tags: Fugitive , Space , Aliens , Episodic , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Super Robot

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! LOVE!

Also known as Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! LOVE!.

Studio: Studio Comet , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

The second season of Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE!

Teenage boys are notoriously lazy, and the members of Binan High School's Earth Defense Club are no exception. Their definition of “earth defense” is bumming around all day at the local bathhouse. But when a pink wombat appears out of thin air and begs the boys to help him save the planet, even the idlest high schoolers jump to action. Watch the magical boys transform and save the earth with the power of LOVE!



Tags: Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Super Power , Henshin , Primarily Male Cast , Idol , Twins , Episodic , Magic , Urban , Parody , School Club , Aliens , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , School , Superhero , Meta , Animals

Sanrio Danshi

Also known as SANRIO BOYS.

Studio: Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

The project's premise follows Kouta Hasegawa, a high school boy that loves the yellow Pom Pom Purin dog. By mere coincidence, he ends up attending the same school as Yuu Mizuno, a boy who likes the bunny My Melody. Yuu tells Kouta that there's nothing to be ashamed of for liking Sanrio's cute characters. Together, Kouta, Yuu, Shunsuke Yoshino, Ryou Nishimiya, and Seiichiro Minamoto learn to accept their love of the characters instead of feeling embarrassed.



Tags: Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Primarily Male Cast , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Shoujo , Bullying , Gyaru , Educational , Femboy

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!

Also known as Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!.

Studio: Studio Comet , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

An OVA to continue on from the second season.

Tags: Parody , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Aliens , Magic , Urban , Swordplay , Primarily Male Cast , Henshin , Animals , Super Power , Twins , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Musical Theater , CGI , Superhero , Meta

Gekkan Mousou Kagaku

Also known as Delusional Monthly Magazine.

Studio: OLM , Pony Canyon , Crunchyroll , MediaNet , Sotsu , BS Asahi , OLM
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

The story takes place in the town of Most City in a certain country. On the second floor of an old building is a publishing company that puts out a periodical called Delusional Monthly Magazine, a science magazine featuring articles about shocking, bizarre events and inexplicable phenomena that make even scientists throw up their hands in defeat. Its staff consists only of a beautiful editor-in-chief and her one editor, Tarou J. Suzuki, who are joined by grade-school-aged assistant Jirou Tanaka and his dog, Saburou. The editorial department is always empty, and Tarou, Jirou, and Saburou are usually hanging out in Rock, a coffee shop on the first floor. One day, the scientist Gorou Satou visits them for a consultation, and therein lies the beginning of an outlandish new story...



Tags: Shapeshifting , Lost Civilization , Anthropomorphism , Henshin , Surreal Comedy , Femboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Boys' Love

Tropical-Rouge! Precure

Also known as Tropical-Rouge! Precure.

Studio: Toei Animation , ADK Emotions , TV Asahi , ABC Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Manatsu Natsuumi is a first-year junior high school student born and raised on a small island. On the day she moves from the island, She meets Laura, a mermaid girl who has come to the earth alone in search of the legendary warrior, PreCure. Laura's hometown, Grand Ocean, is attacked by a witch who lives in the dark depths of the ocean, and all of their motivational power is taken away. It is said that if the motivational power of humans is also taken away, the world will be in deep trouble. Laura is captured by the witch's servant, and Manatsu transforms into Cure Summer to save her.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Mermaid , Primarily Child Cast , Magic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , School Club , Superhero , Kids , Coastal , Makeup , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Memory Manipulation , Body Swapping , Tokusatsu , Butler , Urban

Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu HAPPY KISS!

Also known as Cute High Earth Defense Club HAPPY KISS!.

Studio: Studio Comet , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

Several years have passed since Binan High's Earth Defense Club saved the world from an alien invasion that sought to sap the world of love—okay, maybe that's how it happened. The truth is that no one really remembers if something like that happened or not, and now five friends-of-convenience share the defunct Earth Defense clubroom to goof off after school. But even if they don't know the club's history, their gathering at the local bathhouse attracts the attention of another adorable extraterrestrial: Karurusu, the otter-prince of Honyaraland. As part of his planet's conquest initiative—"tributary outreach program"—Karurusu transforms these five misfits into magic knights who will bring happiness to all lost souls. Unfortunately, the fox-prince Rafunui has his own ideas about how to improve this Earth colony, empowering his own trio of dark knights to oppose this new batch of magical boys.



Tags: Magic , Primarily Male Cast , School , Animals , Urban , Superhero , Urban Fantasy , Super Power , Body Image , Swordplay , Isekai , Spearplay , Henshin , Episodic , Parody , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club