Anime like Hanasaku Iroha: HOME SWEET HOME

Sakura Quest

Also known as Sakura Quest.

Studio: P.A.WORKS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Five young women have one thing in common—the careers they planned for themselves weren’t working out. Job dissatisfaction, trying to make ends meet, and personal insecurities lead each of them to start working at a local tourism bureau where their lives become intertwined. As the girls experience their first year on the job, they learn a lot about their town, their industry, and themselves.



Tags: Work , Rural , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Politics , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Acting

Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi

Also known as Spirited Away.

Studio: Studio Ghibli , Studio Hibari , Walt Disney Studios , GKIDS
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Supernatural

On the way to their new home, 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino's family stumbles upon a deserted theme park. Intrigued, the family investigates the park, though unbeknownst to them, it is secretly inhabited by spirits who sleep by day and appear at night. When Chihiro's mother and father eat food from a restaurant in the street, angry spirits turn them into pigs. Furthermore, a wide sea has appeared between the spirit world and the human one, trapping Chihiro, the sole human, in a land of spirits. Luckily for her though, a mysterious boy named Haku appears, claiming to know her from the past. Under his instructions, Chihiro secures a job in the bathhouse where Haku works. With only her courage and some new found friends to aid her, Chihiro embarks on a journey to turn her parents back to their original forms and return home.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Youkai , Shapeshifting , Magic , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Work , Mythology , Curses , Gods , Witch , Anthropomorphism , Isekai , Memory Manipulation , Travel , Dragons , Trains , Primarily Child Cast , Twins

Nagi no Asukara

Also known as A Lull in the Sea (Nagi-Asu: Nagi no Asukara).

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Rondo Robe , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

Since long ago, human civilization had lived on the ocean floor. However, there were many humans who wanted to live above the surface and they moved to land creating a fundamental separation between the two. After their school closes down, four 14-year-old middle school students from the sea village, Shioshishio, have to attend Mihama Middle School on the surface. What follows is their struggles to adjust to a new environment and the relationships between the sea and land people, while dealing with their own newfound feelings that have just started appearing with the end of their childhood.



Tags: Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Time Skip , Heterosexual , Coastal , Tragedy , Environmental , Ensemble Cast , Gods , School , Age Gap , Amnesia , Lost Civilization , Primarily Child Cast , Male Protagonist , Fishing , Female Protagonist , Swimming , Cohabitation

TARI TARI

Also known as Tari Tari.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Dentsu , Sotsu , Lantis , P.A.WORKS , Pony Canyon , Sentai Filmworks , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

The last year of high school is always a time of both looking forward and looking back. Before you lives the future, alternately bright and scary. Behind you lie memories, both happy and sad. And somehow, in the course of one year, you have to reconcile those two and decide where your life is going to go.

For Wakana Sakai, who had started studying music, it's time to face the tragedy that made her abandon that path. For Sawa Okita, it's about her dreams of riding professionally. And for Konatsu Miyamoto, it's about bringing her friends together through the magic of a song. Can something as simple as the formation of a choir club really help solve the hurts and pangs that come with growing up? Can music bring people together despite their differences?



Tags: Ensemble Cast , Coastal , Coming of Age , School Club , Band , School , Animals , Family Life , Tragedy , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist

Wakaokami wa Shougakusei! (Movie)

Also known as Okko's Inn.

Studio: MADHOUSE , DLE
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The film will tell a story not told in either the original book series or the television series — specifically, a story about "Okko" and her parents.



Tags: Ghost , Female Protagonist , Demons , Primarily Child Cast , Inn , Work , Rural , Ojou-sama , CGI

SHIROBAKO

Also known as SHIROBAKO.

Studio: P.A.WORKS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Once upon a time, five girls made an animated film and it was so much fun that they pledged to get jobs in animation so that someday they could make another film together. Now, two years later, Aoi, Shizuka, Ema, Misa and Midori have learned the truth about the anime industry: it's not always fun, it's anything but easy, and having talent isn't always enough to open the right doors.

Which is why Aoi's overwhelmed by her job as a production assistant, Shizuka's waiting on tables between auditions, Midori's currently scriptless, Misa's switched to C.G., and Ema's working long hours as a key animator. Is it what they imagined? No. But are they ready to give up? Not just yet! Sometimes, when things happen in animation, they can happen in the most wonderful ways!



Tags: Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Drawing , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Otaku Culture , Educational , Office Lady , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Office , Acting , Cars , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast

Yakunara Mug Cup Mo

Also known as Let's Make a Mug Too.

Studio: Nippon Animation , Half H.P Studio , TOKYO MX , Maho Film , Nippon Columbia , BS11 , Planet , 81 Produce , Zipang , CBC TV , CBC Radio
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Together with her father, who had quit his salaryman job, Toyokawa Himeno moves to Gifu prefecture's Tajimi city. That's the city where her mother is from, whom she had lost when she was still young. Himeno is now attending her mother's alma mater, where her classmate Kukuri Mika invites her to tag along to a special place. That place turns out to be the pottery club! There, she learns for the first time that her mother was a legendary potter, and is consequently pulled into the world of pottery.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , School Club , Rural , Educational , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Family Life , Food

SHIROBAKO Movie

Also known as SHIROBAKO the Movie.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Infinite
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

The story is set four years after the events of the original Shirobako anime. Aoi Miyamori keeps busy dealing with the ordinary troubles in her daily work at Musashino Animation. After a morning meeting, Watanabe talks to Aoi and puts her in charge of a new theatrical anime project for the studio. The project has unexpected problems, and Aoi is unsure if the company can proceed with a theatrical anime with its current state of affairs. While dealing with that anxiety, Aoi meets a new colleague named Kaede Miyai. She and the MusAni team work together to complete the project.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Drawing , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Educational , Otaku Culture , Primarily Female Cast , Acting , Office Lady , Mahjong , Kuudere

Yuru Camp△ Movie

Also known as Laid-Back Camp The Movie.

Studio: C-Station , FuRyu , Half H.P Studio , MAGES. , DeNA , Houbunsha , 81 Produce , Sony Music Solutions , KLOCKWORX , AT-X , BS11 , Sotsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Rin Shima has left her hometown in Yamanashi to live on her own in Nagoya while working for a small publishing company there. On one winter’s weekend in the not-too-distant future, as she’s planning a bike tour, she unexpectedly receives a message from an old high school friend, Chiaki Oogaki, saying she’s currently in Nagoya. Chiaki now works for an organization promoting tourism in Yamanashi, and she’s in charge of a project to reopen a facility that was closed a few years ago. When Rin casually suggests that such a large property would make a good campground, Chiaki is inspired. She gathers up all of their old camping buddies— Nadeshiko Kagamihara, who works at an outdoor goods store in Tokyo; Aoi Inuyama, who’s now an elementary school teacher in their hometown of Yamanashi; and Ena Saitou, who works at a dog grooming salon in Yokohama—and the campground-opening project is set in motion. So the story of five outdoorsy girls who became friends thanks to their shared love of camping begins once more, taking on a new challenge with the knowledge and experience they’ve gained.



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Primarily Adult Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Camping , Iyashikei , Time Skip , Primarily Female Cast , Food , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Rural , Travel , Work , Mopeds , Motorcycles , Animals , Seinen , Robots