Anime like Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆ Specials

K-ON!: Live House!

Also known as K-ON!: Live House!.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , Movic , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Ritsu's middle school friend invites the band to perform live on New Year's Eve. The girls get acquainted with other bands, and become a little nervous as the performance approaches. When the time comes, will they be able to rock the house?



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Band , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , Rock Music , Primarily Teen Cast , Iyashikei , Ensemble Cast , Seinen , School

Lucky☆Star OVA

Also known as Lucky☆Star OVA.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Kadokawa Shoten , Movic , Bandai Entertainment , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The OVA features six separate stories revolving around the cast, some of which border on the bizarre; one of which is an MMORPG environment being played by Konata, Kagami, Tsukasa, and Nanako Kuroi, and another in which Kagami has a "suggestive" dream about Konata.


Tags: Parody , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Otaku Culture , School , Virtual World , Magic , Volleyball , Video Games , Twins , Kuudere , Shounen , LGBTQ+ Themes

Azumanga Daiou: Gekijou Tanpen

Also known as Azumanga Daioh: The Very Short Movie.

Studio: J.C. Staff , ADV Films , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

In this short movie featuring familiar characters from Azumanga Daiou, Osaka is yet again having a strange dream of Chiyo-Chan's pigtails being posessed. As Chiyo-Chan's pigtails bounce out of the window, who knows if young Chiyo will ever be happy again.



Tags: School , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Slapstick , Kuudere

Paniponi Dash!

Also known as Pani Poni Dash!.

Studio: Shaft , Square Enix , Starchild Records , Funimation , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The 11 year old Miyamoto Rebecca becomes the new teacher of a classroom which is full of weirdos. Despite her cute looks she's a little beast and can be pretty sarcastic and offensive. The school is not safe anymore now that she's in charge of a class and her students, Himeko, Ichijou, Rei and a white rabbit who took a liking to Rebecca help her to rough up the school and the neighbour-class with its teacher "ojii-chan".



Tags: Parody , School , Surreal Comedy , Teacher , Meta , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Aliens , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Robots , Twins , Anachronism , Kuudere , Card Battle , Gods

Nichijou no 0-wa

Also known as Nichijou - My Ordinary Life: Episode 0.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

While the title suggests a story of simple, everyday school life, the contents are more the opposite. The setting is a strange school where you may see the principal wrestle a deer or a robot's arm hide a rollcake. However there are still normal stories, like making a card castle or taking a test you didn't study for.

Tags: School , Surreal Comedy , Ensemble Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Fishing

Asobi Asobase OVA

Also known as Asobi Asobase -workshop of fun- OVA.

Studio: Lerche
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Included with seventh volume of the Asobi Asobase manga.

Tags: Parody , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Female Cast , School , Meta , School Club , Satire

Joshikousei Specials

Also known as Girl's High Specials.

Studio: Arms , Studio Kelmadick , Studio Guts
Status: Finished
Genres: Ecchi , Slice of Life

Bonus episodes on the DVDs featuring the girls on a field trip to Chichibu.

Tags: School , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist

Pon no Michi

Also known as Pon no Michi.

Studio: OLM , Kodansha , DMM.com , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Good Smile Company , Myrica Music , SUPA LOVE , OLM , SANKYO , Yostar , AQUA ARIS , Bit Grooove Promotion
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The anime is set in Hiroshima Prefecture's Onomichi City, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha was kicked out of her house. Without a place to play with her friends, she learns that the mahjong parlor that her father used to run is now vacant. She fixes the mahjong parlor and turns it into a place where she and her friends can have fun, cook, have tea, and sometimes play mahjong.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Mahjong , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Food , Primarily Teen Cast , Advertisement , CGI , Board Game

Paniponi Dash!: Danjite Okonaeba Kishin mo Kore wo Saku

Also known as Pani Poni Dash!: Danjite Okonaeba Kishin mo Kore wo Saku.

Studio: Shaft
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Paniponi Dash! special included in the DVD-Box.

Tags: Parody , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Twins , Female Protagonist , Kuudere

Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou Specials

Also known as Daily Lives of High School Boys Specials.

Studio: Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The original gag comedy manga follows the humorous yet "realistic" everyday life of Tadakuni, Hidenori, Yoshitake, and other students at a boys' high school.

This entry refers to the unaired episodes released on the DVDs and BDs. The pre-air specials were all included in the TV series and are not listed separately. Episode 4.5, an uncensored version of "Danshi Koukousei to 100" is also not counted.

Episode 1: High School Boys and Ideals
Episode 2: High School Boys and Loneliness
Episode 3: High School Boys and Zippers
Episode 4: High School Boys and Tricks
Episode 5: High School Boys and Hiccups
Episode 6: High School Boys and Consideration


Tags: School , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things