Anime like Hetalia Axis Powers

What is Hetalia Axis Powers about?

Studio: Studio DEEN
Status: Finished

Based on a popular web-released manga series by Hidekazu Himaruya, this has been described as a "cynical gag" story set in Europe in the years between WW1 and WW2 (1918-1939), using exaggerated caricatures of the different nationalities as portrayed by a gaggle of bishōnen. For example, the Italia Veneziano character is into pasta and women. The Deutsche (German) bishi loves potatoes and sausages, and Nippon is an otaku boy. Installments of the manga have jumped back and forth in setting from the ancient times to modern-day geopolitics. The manga's title comes the Japanese words for "useless" (hetare) and Italy (Italia).

Tags: Parody , Historical , Slapstick , Primarily Male Cast , Educational , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Male Protagonist , Politics , Anthropomorphism , Anachronism , Chibi , Maids , Economics , Astronomy

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Hulu

Tubi TV

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Obey Me!

Also known as Obey Me!.

Studio: Colored Pencil Animation Japan , NTT Solmare
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Lucifer, Satan, and the other five princes of hell are students at the Royal Academy of Diavolo, where they train to rule the Demon World. From following humans to falling in love, their individual quirks land them in interesting situations every single day! Will their antics get them expelled, or will one of these infamous brothers come out on top?

Note: Episode 7 is an Audio Commentary by the VAs, and has an extended runtime of ~35 minutes as opposed to the standard 5 minute long episode.

Tags: Episodic , Primarily Male Cast , Demons , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Crossdressing , Magic , POV , Cosplay , Video Games , Body Swapping , Primarily Teen Cast

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YouTube

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Miracle☆Train: Oedo-sen e Youkoso

Also known as Miracle Train: Welcome to the Oedo Line.

Studio: Aniplex , Yumeta Company , TYO Animations , DAX Production , Lantis , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

Another version of Miracle Train: Chuo-sen e Youkoso.

The first version of the Miracle Train project focused on the stations of the central Chuo line, while the new anime and related stories deal with the Oedo subway line. As a result, the anime will feature a newer cast of characters — specifically, Fumi Roppongi, Rintarou Shinjuku, Izayoi Tsukishima, Iku Shiodome, Saki Tochou, and Itsumi Ryougoku.

Tags: Trains , Primarily Male Cast , Educational , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Urban , Memory Manipulation , Age Regression , Amnesia , Time Manipulation

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Gakkou no Kaidan

Also known as Ghost Stories.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Aniplex , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Supernatural

Kids and ghosts. When young Satsuki finds an old book of spells from her passed away mother, she gains the power to fight ghosts that are haunting her new school. With the help of her friends, and of a really wicked devil cat, she must protect everyone around her or be haunted for ever more.

Tags: Ghost , Primarily Child Cast , School , Episodic , Youkai , Afterlife , Male Protagonist , Curses , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Parody , Denpa , Demons , Animals , Ensemble Cast , Skeleton , Tanned Skin , Dullahan , Orphan

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Crunchyroll

Amazon Prime Video

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Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga

Also known as Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga.

Studio: Studio Signpost , Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The Warring States Period is a time of feuding warlords. Oda Nobunaga, the greatest of them all, is reborn in modern-day Japan... as a shiba-inu! The other generals of the era, too, have also inexplicably been reborn as dogs. Their warring states rivalry will resume at the dog park!

Tags: Animals , Reincarnation , Isekai , Seinen , Primarily Animal Cast , Historical , Time Skip

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Crunchyroll

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Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

Also known as Daily Lives of High School Boys.

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo , Square Enix , NIS America Inc. , Trinity Sound
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tadakuni, Hidenori, and Yoshitake are students at the all-boys academy, Sanada North High School. This is a tale about just that—their daily lives as students. Winning the basketball tournament? Finding true love? You won't find any of that here. Whether it's sparking random arguments while hanging out with friends, meeting that one weird co-worker at a part-time job, or even letting imaginations run wild on a windy afternoon, we've all experienced the show's ordinary but true-to-life themes at one point or another.

Tags: School , Episodic , Slapstick , Primarily Male Cast , Satire , Meta , Shounen , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Tomboy , Crossdressing , Tanned Skin , Femboy

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Hataraku Saibou

Also known as Cells at Work!.

Studio: David Production , Magic Capsule , Aniplex , Kodansha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

The average human body contains about 60 trillion cells, and each of them has work to do! But when you get injured, viruses or bacteria invade, or when an allergic reaction flares up, everyone from the silent but deadly white blood cells to the brainy neurons has to work together to get through the crisis!

Tags: Educational , Work , Medicine , Anthropomorphism , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Gore , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Tragedy , Chibi , CGI

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Crunchyroll

Netflix

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Starry☆Sky

Studio: Studio DEEN , Frontier Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

The heroine, Tsukiko, enrolled to a school that was recently changed from all-boys school to co-ed. Since the area where the school is conveniently rural and the rather exclusive curriculums the school has, up until now the heroine is the only one female who enrolled to the school.

In Starry Sky, the 13 constellations of the Zodiac are personified into handsome young men. The anime will be directed by Kiyomo Sayaka who worked with Vampire Knight. Similar to Hetalia - Axis Powers, Starry Sky's anime will be distributed through the Animate.tv website and other means.

Tags: School , Male Harem , Female Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , School Club , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Astronomy , Male Protagonist , Archery , Tragedy

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Ketsuekigata-kun!

Studio: Earth Star Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The anime adapted from the manga remake version of the Korean webtoon "A Simple Thinking about Bloodtypes" involving the faceless and nameless characters of four different blood types to discuss about popular anthropomorphized blood types (the stereotypes about the blood types) in Japan and Korea.

Tags: Episodic , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Chibi , Male Protagonist

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Wan Sheng Jie

Also known as All Saints Street.

Studio: FENZ , Tencent Penguin Pictures , Tianwen Kadokawa , HMCH , Observatory Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The pure and cute little demon Nini lives in Unit 1031 of All Saints Street Apartment. His roommates are no ordinary people: The lazy and wacky vampire Ira who spends most of his time gaming or watching TV, the unlucky dancer werewolf Vladimir, the serious and old-fashioned angel landlord Lynn and his naive little sister Lily, and many more.

What none of them realize is that within Nini sleeps the power of the demon king. With evil forces in hot pursuit, can Nini and his friends head off disaster?

Tags: Demons , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Magic , Vampire , Male Protagonist , Angels , Primarily Adult Cast , Werewolf , Found Family , Urban , Kemonomimi , Shapeshifting , Episodic , Video Games , LGBTQ+ Themes

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Tencent Video

Bilibili

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Boku no Tonari ni Ankoku Hakaishin ga Imasu.

Also known as A Destructive God Sits Next to Me.

Studio: EMT Squared , KADOKAWA , JY Animation , Toei Video , AT-X , Crunchyroll , Video Market , Yomiuri TV Enterprise , Being , MAGNET
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Seri Koyuki is just trying to have a normal school life, but instead he ends up acting as the straight man to his odd classmate, Kabuto Hanadori. Kabuto is a delusional high school student, whose fantasies range from believing he is a knight on a journey, to claiming that removing his eyepatch will release a darker alter-ego who he refers to as Michael Offenbarung Dunkelheit. Seri is determined not to let himself get pushed around by Kabuto, but it seems that this will be easier said than done!

Tags: Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Chuunibyou , Primarily Male Cast , Chibi , Primarily Teen Cast , Shoujo , School , Male Protagonist , Gods , Tsundere , Episodic , Twins

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