Anime like Hanamaru Youchien

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 , School , Chibi , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Family Life , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Twins , Tragedy , Tsundere , Parenthood

Amaama to Inazuma

Also known as Sweetness & Lightning.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He's pretty bad at cooking and doesn't have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it's no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious.



Tags: Family Life , Food , Iyashikei , Found Family , Restaurant , Educational , Teacher , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Parenthood , Orphan , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , School , Chibi

Mitsuboshi Colors

Also known as Mitsuboshi Colors.

Studio: SILVER LINK. , Frontier Works , Kadokawa Shoten , AT-X , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hark! The city is in peril! Who you gonna call? Colors!

Sacchan, Yui and Kotoha are here to protect the city, solving mysteries and battling enemies with help from their friends.
But their quest isn't an easy one as their arch-nemesis Saitou, the violent police officer of Ueno, meets them at every turn.

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Episodic , Urban , Female Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Rural , Ensemble Cast , Bullying , Police , Shounen , Animals

Tadaima, Okaeri

Also known as Tadaima, Okaeri.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Nikkatsu , Sony Pictures Entertainment , Crunchyroll , Culture Entertainment , Nippon Columbia , Fusion Product , Animax Broadcast Japan , Movic , Bit grooove promotion
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Masaki Fujiyoshi is a stay-at-home spouse and parent. He has fought long and hard with feelings of being a burden to his loving husband, Hiromu, due to his status as an omega—and the difficulty they faced to achieve this domesticity. When their son, Hikari, was born, the family moved to an area better suited for raising children.

Despite their newfound domestic bliss, the family's ties to their past are in tatters. There are people they left behind to pursue the creation of their happy family, and when they begin to return, Masaki and Hiromu aren't quite sure they have good intentions.



Tags: Boys' Love , Omegaverse , Family Life , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Parenthood , LGBTQ+ Themes , Age Gap , Twins , Cohabitation

Potemayo

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Lantis , Futabasha , Bandai Visual
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Sunao Moriyama finds a strange but cute creature that he names Potemayo. Potemayo starts following him everywhere, usually riding on top of his head. His discovery becomes the center of attention in his class at school. Soon after, a similar creature appears, and is named Guchuko by one of Sunao's classmates. However, Guchuko doesn't seem to be as good-natured as Potemayo.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Chibi , Seinen , School , Kuudere , Slapstick , LGBTQ+ Themes

Uramichi Oniisan

Also known as Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan.

Studio: Studio Blanc , Bit grooove promotion , King Records , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Being an adult is hard. For 31-year-old Uramichi Omota, that depressing truth weighs on him. While on TV, he’s an upbeat exercise instructor for a children’s show, but sometimes he can’t keep his sardonic comments to himself. Even his coworkers, a pair of mascots and a singing duo, keep revealing the plight of adulthood on air. Regardless, they’re working through it one a day at a time.



Tags: Work , Satire , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Acting , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Josei , Musical Theater , Primarily Male Cast , Acrobatics

Koujo Denka no Katei Kyoushi

Also known as Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter.

Studio: Studio Blanc , King Records , Bit grooove promotion
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

After Allen failed the court sorcerer exam, he couldn’t return home even if he wanted to. While searching for a job, an unexpected offer comes his way to be the private tutor of the duke’s daughter. Just as he lowers his guard, he faces a girl who can’t use magic at all! But what is preventing her magic from working? Allen’s unconventional lessons gently shine a light on the girl’s future.



Note: Each episode streamed 1 week early on ABEMA and dAnimeStore. The original TV broadcast started on July 6, 2025.

Tags: Magic , Female Harem , Royal Affairs , Boarding School , Cohabitation , School , Male Protagonist , Teacher , Kemonomimi , Blackmail , Age Gap

Chitose Get You!!

Also known as Chitose Get You!.

Studio: AT-X , SILVER LINK. , Dream Creation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Chitose is an 11-year-old girl who is madly in love with an older guy named Hiroshi. He works at the town hall right next to the school and Chitose spends every day relentlessly pursuing him. Can Chitose ever convince Hiroshi to go out with her?

Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Seinen , School , Kuudere

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

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 , Episodic , Magic , Parenthood , Urban Fantasy