Anime like Daa! Daa! Daa!

Chibi☆Devi!

Studio: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , SynergySP , Half H.P Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Sawada Honoka is a 14-year-old girl who is very timid. She easily gets bullied by other classmates. Honoka is a non-believer in God, Angels, and Devils. Though one day, a devil baby was dropped into her room while she was sleeping. What will Honoka believe in now?

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Demons , Chibi , Primarily Child Cast , Found Family , Magic , Parenthood , Episodic , Urban Fantasy

Mama wa Shougaku 4 Nensei

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

Natsumi Mizuki is a 4th grader whose parents have gone to London. Her Aunt Izumi comes to live with her. Izumi is an aspiring manga writer who is trying to get her first big break, so she doesn't have time for a baby that appears out of thin air on Natsumi's first night alone. The baby's name is Mirai and her mother is Natsumi, but 15 years older. Somehow, Mirai had traveled back in time. Now the young Natsumi has to raise Mirai while trying to keep her 4th grade life from falling apart and keep Mirai-chan secret from everyone. She has the dubious help of Izumi and some baby-care gadgets from the future.



Tags: Family Life , Female Protagonist , Time Manipulation , School , Heterosexual , Primarily Child Cast

Gakuen Babysitters

Also known as School Babysitters.

Studio: Brain's Base
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The manga centers on the brothers Ryuuichi and Kotarou Kashima. Ryuuichi is in high school and Kotarou is still a toddler. After their parents are killed in a plane crash, the two brothers find themselves living with the chairwoman of the Morinomiya Academy, who herself lost her son and daughter-in-law in the same accident. The chairwoman, however, has one stipulation for the brothers in order to live with her: Ryuuichi has to work at the academy's daycare center as a babysitter.



Tags: School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Iyashikei , Chibi , School , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Family Life , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Twins , Tragedy , Tsundere , Parenthood

Aka-chan to Boku

Also known as Baby and Me.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Youmex , Yomiuri Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Two months ago, Takuya Enoki's mother passed away in an accident leaving him to take care of his baby brother, Minoru, while their father works the long hours of a Japanese "salaryman". Takuya must sacrifice playtime and childhood to take care of his brother and do the responsibilities an adult would have: cooking, sewing, and scolding while trying to find it in his heart to love the brother who is causing him so much grief.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Family Life , Shoujo , Episodic , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Parenthood , School

Kodomo no Omocha

Also known as Kodocha.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Studio Gallop , NAS , Pony Canyon , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Sana Kurata has a charmed life. Not only is her mother is a famous, award-winning writer, but she's the star of the hit TV comedy "Child's Toy" while still in the fifth grade. But Sana's biggest concern is Akito Hayama, a pint-sized hellion who's organized the boys in their grade-school class into a mass of unending noise and violence. With the help of Rei, her manager, chauffeur and "pimp," Sana is determined to win back control of the classroom from her new arch-enemy. But as her crusade continues, Sana moves further into Akito's life, and finds that he might not be entirely bad...or entirely safe.



Tags: Work , Primarily Child Cast , Shoujo , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Adoption , Meta , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Surreal Comedy , School , Acting , Rehabilitation , Bullying , Urban , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Tragedy

Aishiteruze Baby★★

Also known as Love You Baby.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Animax , Toei Video , Sunny Side Up
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Katakura Kippei is in every way a high school playboy. Spending his days flirting with any female he can see, responsibility is the last thing on his mind. Life takes an unexpected turn for him as one day he returns home to find himself with the fulltime task of caring for his 5 year old cousin. Kippei's aunt Miyako had disappeared, appearing to have abandoned his cousin, Yuzuyu. With Kippei's lack of responsibility and knowledge of childcare and Yuzuyu's injured heart with the disappearance of her mother, their time together is in for a bumpy ride. Based on the manga by Maki Youko.

Tags: Family Life , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Adoption , School , Parenthood , Bullying , Heterosexual , Suicide

HUGtto! Precure

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

Nono Hana is an 8th grade student who wants to be a stylish and mature big sister like figure. She always puts on a lovely smile and loves to search for exciting things. One day, Hana meets a baby named Hug-tan and her guardian fairy named Harry who had fallen from the sky. At that exact moment, an evil organization called Dark Tomorrow suddenly appeared! They're trying to forcefully take Hug-tan's Mirai Crystal! In order to protect Hug-tan, Hana wishes to do something to help her, and her wish is granted, as she gains a Mirai Crystal and transforms into Cure Yell. The world is overflowed with Tomorrow Powerer, which is the power to create a brilliant tomorrow, which is crystallized into the Mirai Crystals. If it's stolen, everyone's future will not exist. To protect Hug-tan and everyone's future, Cure Yell will do her best!



Tags: Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Superhero , Coming of Age , Time Manipulation , Tokusatsu , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Isekai , Super Robot , Fairy , Parenthood , Super Power , Family Life , Memory Manipulation , Cheerleading , Urban Fantasy , Artificial Intelligence , Urban , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Child Cast , Bullying , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Acting , Episodic , Kids , Robots , Animals , Adoption , Anthropomorphism , CGI , Kemonomimi , Nekomimi , Swordplay , Archery , Idol , School , Ice Skating , Kuudere , Age Regression , Educational , Crossover , Mermaid , Tragedy

Hime-chan no Ribbon

Studio: Studio Gallop
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Romance

Erika, the princess of the Magic Kingdom has come to Earth in order to find a human girl who looks just like her. That girl turns out to be Himeko Nonohara, a tomboy's tomboy. Erika must give Himeko a magical item she has created in order to prove her worth as a successor to the crown. Himeko must test this item, a hair ribbon that allows her to transform into any other person she sees, to see if it is worthy. The series follows Himeko's adventures and her budding romance with Daichi, the boy who discovers her secret.



Tags: Shoujo , Shapeshifting , Magic , Tomboy , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Child Cast

BuBu ChaCha

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

Bubu Chacha is about a dog who died due to an fateful accident and was ressurected as a toy car. Together, he and Bubu learned many new things about the world and about friendship that never dies.

Tags: Reincarnation , Cars

Fruits Basket

Also known as Fruits Basket.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old Kyo and 27 year old Shigure. However, these young men and parts of the rest of their family (both close and distant) hold a curse; if they are hugged by the opposite gender, they transform into animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Everyday is an adventure for sweet Tohru, as she gets to know everyone in the large family better (especially Yuki and Kyo), in both common and bizarre situations. But, the Sohma Family curse is certainly no laughing matter... it also holds horrible cruelty and heartbreak.

Tags: Family Life , Mythology , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Male Harem , Animals , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , School , Found Family , Tragedy , Badminton , Primarily Teen Cast , Reincarnation , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Kuudere , Curses