Anime like Nana Maru San Batsu

Hi Score Girl

Also known as Hi Score Girl.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment , G-mode , Warner Bros. Japan , Real-T , Tengu Kobou , Capcom , Bandai Namco Entertainment , Picona Creative Studio , BIGLOBE , Magic Capsule , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who's popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he can’t beat her at any game. Haruo can’t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd couple begins a strange bond and friendship.

Tags: Video Games , Full CGI , Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Urban , Ojou-sama , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Seinen , School , Tsundere , Slapstick , Primarily Child Cast , CGI

Yamada-kun to Lv999 no Koi wo Suru

Also known as My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999.

Studio: Aniplex , MADHOUSE , Comic Smart , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Movic , KADOKAWA , EGG FIRM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Akane Kinoshita, a female college student, faces the absolute worst situation when she ends up breaking up with her boyfriend after he has an affair with a woman he met playing an online game. While relieving her stress by rampaging through the open hunting grounds of an online game, Akane spills everything about her heartbreak to “Yamada”, a player she met by chance who happens to be in the same guild. “I don't care,” is his curt reply. But when Akane gets a makeover and joins an offline event to get back at her ex-boyfriend, she hears those dreadful words again. And that was Akane's fateful encounter with “Yamada”─！



Tags: Kuudere , Video Games , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Shoujo , Otaku Culture , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Love Triangle , Age Gap , E-Sports , Unrequited Love , Konbini , CGI

Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle

Also known as Phi Brain: Puzzle of God.

Studio: Sunrise , NHK Enterprises , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Mystery

Kaito Daimon would be a completely average high school student except for one thing: he's a 'demon' at solving puzzles. Kaito is so brilliant, in fact, that when he's asked to take some 'special' tests of his unique ability, he immediately suspects that the test itself is a test. Kaito suddenly finds himself caught up in a lethal Philosopher's Puzzle made by the sinister group POG, a murderous maze of trap upon trap, where failing to solve the secret correctly will result in death! Fortunately, Kaito's skills prove up to the first test, both for himself and his childhood friend Nanoha, who is also caught up in the deadly scheme. But now that he has been designated as a Solver, he is pulled into a new life where he must travel the world with other Solvers, attempting to solve the latest deadly riddles left by POG. There's a new conundrum around every corner and each deception could lead to death, but once a riddle has been posed, you can count on Kaito to unfold, unravel and unlock it!



Tags: Male Protagonist , Super Power , Orphan , Death Game , Card Battle , Acting , Memory Manipulation , Dissociative Identities , Episodic , Shounen , Adoption , Urban , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Conspiracy , Tomboy , Travel , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School , Crossdressing , Idol , Motorcycles , Achromatic , Femboy

Hanayamata

Also known as HaNaYaMaTa.

Studio: MADHOUSE , DIVE II Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Normal appearance, normal intelligence, normal in arts and sports... just normal. This is the entirely normal 14-year-old, Naru Sekiya. While she admires "Heroines" she continues to live a normal life until one moonlit night she meets a fairy. This foreign girl then guides her into the extraordinary world of the yosakoi dance.


Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Dancing , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Band , Seinen , Tsundere , Idol

Ryuuou no Oshigoto!

Also known as The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!.

Studio: project No.9
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

16 year old Kuzuryuu Yaichi has fallen into a slump after winning the major shogi title "Dragon King", the pressure of his losses continue until an elementary schooler called Hinatsuru Ai, with an extraordinary shogi talent, arrives at his doorstep.

Tags: Shogi , Board Game , Tsundere , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Female Harem , Kuudere , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , Work , Age Gap

Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru

Also known as Run with the Wind.

Studio: Production I.G , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

Former ace runner of Sendai Josei High School, Kakeru Kurahara is chased away from a convenience store for shoplifting. Shaking off his pursuer, he runs into Haiji Kiyose, another student from his university. Haiji is impressed by Kakeru's agility and persuades him to live in Chikusei-sou, the run-down apartment where Haiji resides along with eight other students. Having lost his entire apartment deposit at a mahjong parlor, Kakeru accepts the offer reluctantly. However, Haiji reveals a secret during Kakeru's welcoming party: the apartment is actually the dormitory of the Kansei University Track Club. He unveils his ultimate goal of participating in the Hakone Ekiden—one of the most prominent university marathon relay races in Japan. Unfortunately, all the residents apart from Haiji and Kakeru are complete running novices. Worse still, none of the inhabitants are even remotely interested in being involved with Haiji's ridiculous plan! With only months before the deadline, will the fourth-year student be able to convince them otherwise and realize his elusive dream of running in the Hakone Ekiden?

Tags: Athletics , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , School Club , Primarily Adult Cast , Fitness , Rehabilitation , College , Outdoor Activities , CGI , Twins , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Heterosexual , Tanned Skin , Food , Trains

Chihayafuru

Also known as Chihayafuru.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

Chihaya Ayase is a girl who has spent most of her life simply supporting her sister in her model career. That changes when she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, a talented karuta player who recognizes Chihaya's potential to become a great player herself. As Chihaya takes on a new dream of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends, Taichi Mashima and Arata Wataya, as they grow up. Now in high school, Chihaya still continues to play karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.



Tags: Karuta , Female Protagonist , School Club , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Josei , School , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Unrequited Love , Athletics , Bullying , Slapstick , Tomboy , CGI

Bernard-jou Iwaku.

Also known as Miss Bernard said..

Studio: Dream Creation , Creators in Pack
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The short gag manga is about the love of famous works of literature. It follows Sawako "Miss Bernard" Machida, a lazy girl who wants to be a well-read person — but does not actually read much. The manga recounts the conversations between "Miss Bernard" and her bookworm friends about the Bible, The Tale of the Heike, Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Door into Summer, The Great Passage, Fermat's Last Theorem, and more masterpieces that she has not necessarily read.



Tags: Episodic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Classic Literature , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Chuunibyou