Anime like Jiyi Guanli Ju

FLCL

Also known as FLCL.

Studio: Gainax , Production I.G , Starchild Records , Funimation , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Naota is a detached sixth grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. He's fooling around with his brother's ex-girlfriend when a crazed girl on a motor scooter runs him over, brains him with a bass guitar, and moves into his house. This pink-haired girl, Haruko - who claims she's an alien - hurls Naota into the middle of a mega-corporation's secret agenda. Oh, and now giant battling robots shoot from his skull. Mix in mind-bending animation and tunes that echo through your cerebellum to top off the trip that will have you falling hard for FLCL.



Tags: Coming of Age , Surreal Comedy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Meta , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Robots , Primarily Teen Cast , Slapstick , Denpa , Love Triangle , Aliens , Parody , Mopeds , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Guns , Kaiju , Urban , Gods , Super Robot , Real Robot , Nudity , Body Horror , Episodic , Baseball , CGI , Mixed Media , Motorcycles

Hei He

Also known as Undetectable Box.

Studio: 717 Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Psychological , Thriller

I often fall into the fantasy upon her back. What kind of person is she? What does she like? What world view does she hold? From the occasional detailed observations of her daily life, I have inferred many unexplainable clues... After a series of fantastic imagination, I suddenly realized that the girl who has been dialoging with me in my mind is just my own wishful thinking. Therefore, on the day of the reunion, I decided to take this step...

Tags: Denpa , Trains , Primarily Teen Cast , Chuunibyou , Skateboarding , Nekomimi

Shiguang Dailiren

Also known as Link Click.

Studio: BeDream , Studio LAN , bilibili , Aniplex , Sony Music Solutions
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

In a corner of a bustling city, there is a small shop called "Time Photo Studio" operating as usual. Although the entrance looks abandoned, it's actually run by two men with special abilities: Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang. In order to fulfil customers' requests, Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi work together and use their special abilities to enter photos. However, things don't go as planned...



Note: The final episode aired with a runtime of ~31 minutes.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Super Power , Body Swapping , Photography , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Crime , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Memory Manipulation , Natural Disaster , Episodic , Suicide , Family Life , Office , Police , Martial Arts , Boys' Love , Office Lady , College , Basketball , School

Alita de Shui Qian Gushi

Also known as A Bedtime Tale.

Studio: Studio Tumble
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy

The soul that looks to the dragon is born of dark shadows from longing; the light guides the young archer and helps him find the courage to fight the darkness.
"...Everyone has a shadow in their heart."
The grandma complains that she is running out of stories.



Tags: Dragons , Magic

Kyousougiga (TV)

Also known as Kyousougiga.

Studio: Toei Animation , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Supernatural

In Kyoto, nothing changes. No, not that Kyoto, but rather the Mirror Capital Kyoto, the world inside of a painting! Colorful, beautiful, but static, the people of this world live an idyllic, if boring life. That is, until Koto appears, like a wrecking ball slamming into still waters.

Koto's never met her mother, and in search of clues about her missing parent, she winds up in the very place she's supposed to be, yet least expected. What unfolds is a tale of a crazy, mixed-up family, where the father has mysterious powers, the mother is a goddess, and the siblings have an intense rivalry that will finally see its conclusion... even if that conclusion brings about the attention of the Shrine, an organization dedicated to protecting the multiverse.



Tags: Family Life , Alternate Universe , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Gods , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Achronological Order , Suicide , Drawing , Isekai , Super Power , Reincarnation , Anti-Hero , Demons , Twins , Shrine Maiden , Historical , Youkai , Magic

ID: INVADED

Also known as ID: INVADED.

Studio: NAZ , Funimation , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi , Thriller

Welcome to Kura, an organization that investigates crime using the Mizuhanome system which senses the drive to kill. Sakaido is a brilliant detective and pilot of the Mizuhanome. To solve a case, he enters the world of the killer's unconscious mind: the id well. In the shadows of brutal and puzzling cases lurks John Walker, the Serial Killer Creator. Where will Sakaido's pursuit lead?



Tags: Detective , Virtual World , Crime , Alternate Universe , Police , Tragedy , Memory Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Augmented Reality , Prison , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Meta , Revenge , Anti-Hero , Philosophy , Amnesia , Gore , Cyberpunk , CGI , Guns , Time Manipulation , Suicide

Cencoroll

Studio: Aniplex , Think Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

When a gigantic, unearthly monster suddenly looms on the skyline of a Japanese city, the expected occurs—the Japan Self-Defense Forces roll out the tanks while the public panics. Nobody knows what it is or where it came from, but Yuki, a bold and inquisitive teenage girl, has a secret but might be a useful clue. Her friend Tetsu has been clandestinely caring for a bizarre creature called Cenco, which will soon prove itself to have some remarkable, even impossible characteristics. Another teenage boy, a stranger with some mysterious link to the monstrosity attacking the city, shows up, and his unwelcome interest in Tetsu's pet snuffs out any doubt of a connection—and lights the fuse for the coming battle.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Kaiju , Aliens , Shapeshifting , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Military , School , Denpa , Anthropomorphism , Chuunibyou , Cars , Proxy Battle

Punch Line

Also known as PUNCH LINE.

Studio: MAPPA , MAGES. , Kansai TV , KYORAKU
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

When your day begins with being held hostage in a hijacking, can things get much worse? How about being kicked out of your own body? Or learning that if you can't re-possess your physical shell, you'll trigger a panty-fueled apocalypse that will wipe out all life on the planet? For Yuta Iridatsu, it's just the start of the worst out-of-body experience ever. Now, if his dissed disembodied spirit doesn't pursue the persuasions of a porn-obsessed paranormal pussycat and purloin a missing mystical manual, a meteor will collide with Earth! And to stack the odds even further, the book is hidden somewhere in the boarding house Yuta shares with a bevy of beautiful babes, but if he gets an eyeful of his ravishing co-renters in their unmentionables before he's back in himself, it's flash-forward to Doomsday! Will the literal end of the world be wearing briefs, a bikini, or a thong? Find out when panties, possessions and extinction level events have the ultimate rear-end collision in PUNCH LINE!



Tags: Afterlife , Superhero , Ghost , Super Power , Time Manipulation , Gender Bending , Urban Fantasy , Time Loop , Body Swapping , Primarily Female Cast , Alternate Universe , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Found Family , Military , Robots , Bisexual , Bullying , Video Games , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things