Anime like Hinako Note

Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?

Also known as Is the Order a Rabbit?.

Studio: WHITE FOX , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Ray , Sotsu , Houbunsha , Frontier Works , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Coming to a new town to start high school can be intimidating, and that's especially true for Cocoa, who can't find the place she's supposed to be staying when she arrives. When she stops at a cafe to ask for directions, however, it turns out that she's already where she needs to be! You see, the Rabbit House is both a restaurant and a boarding house, and Cocoa will be working there along with the owner's granddaughter, Chino and the strangely military-obsessed Rize. It's a great place to work, business is hopping, and Cocoa's fits right in with her new coworkers, as well as the girls from two other rival cafes. Still, there is something just a little odd about the Rabbit House. Besides the fact that Rize usually carries a Glock and a knife hidden on her, there's also a mystery involving the shop's pet rabbit, Tippy. And then there are those girls who sometimes seem to be able to communicate without talking…



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Work , Maids , Foreign , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Tsundere , Kuudere , Episodic

K-ON!

Also known as K-ON!.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , TBS , Movic , Rakuonsha , Animation Do , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Hirasawa Yui, a young, carefree girl entering high school, has her imagination instantly captured when she sees a poster advertising the ‘Light Music Club’. Being the carefree girl that she is, she quickly signs up. However, Yui has a problem, she is unable to play an instrument.

When Yui goes to the clubroom to explain, she's greeted by the other members: Ritsu, Mio and Tsumugi. Although disheartened at Yui’s lack of musical know-how, they still try to convince her to stay to prevent the club’s disbandment. After playing Yui a short piece which re-ignites her imagination, they succeed in keeping their new member and guitarist.

Along with the tasks of school and homework, Yui begins to learn the guitar with the help of the other band members, experiencing many mishaps along the way. However, with the school-festival drawing near and Yui getting stuck with her practice, will the Light Music Club be ready in time for their debut?



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Band , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Rock Music , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Seinen , Food , Tomboy , Slapstick , LGBTQ+ Themes

Ochikobore Fruit Tart

Also known as Dropout Idol Fruit Tart.

Studio: feel. , Studio Mausu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Music , Slice of Life

Former showbiz stars Roko, Hayu, and Nina live together in a dormitory for dropout idol girls. As timing would have it, young dreamer Sakura happens to move in with the other girls just as an announcement is made to tear down the dorm due to a 100-million-yen debt!

This leads to the unexpected formation of a new idol group called Fruit Tart. Their sole mission: earn some yen and stop the demolition.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Idol , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Yuri , Meta , Dancing , Yandere , Twins

Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? BLOOM

Also known as Is the Order a Rabbit? BLOOM.

Studio: Encourage Films , Houbunsha , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , I0plus , Frontier Works , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , AT-X , Ray , Bushiroad , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The third season of Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?

As summer turns to autumn, the colorful Rabbit House regulars return to serve up warm treats and tasty drinks at the Rabbit House café — along with a heaping helping of adorable antics and cute capers, of course!



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Seinen , Tsundere , Maids , Work , Magic

Kiniro Mosaic

Also known as KINMOZA!.

Studio: Media Factory , Sentai Filmworks , Studio Gokumi , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The story begins with Oomiya Shinobu, a 15-year-old, seemingly pure Japanese girl who actually did a homestay in Great Britain. Even after coming back to Japan, she still misses her time overseas. One day, an airmail letter arrives from Alice, the girl in Shinobu's host family in Great Britain. The letter reads: Shinobu, I'm coming to Japan! The Japanese/British girls' mixed comedy follows the lives of Shinobu, Alice, and other girls from both Japan and Great Britain.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Tsundere , Language Barrier , Seinen , Tomboy , Foreign , Pirates , Baseball

RPG Fudousan

Also known as RPG Real Estate.

Studio: Doga Kobo , KADOKAWA , Houbunsha , Nippon Columbia , AT-X , BS Nippon , Kadokawa Media House
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

The story begins 15 years after the demon king was defeated and the world has become peaceful. Kotone, who graduated from school and became a magician, inquired the kingdom-affiliated RPG Real Estate in order to find a new home. In reality, RPG Real Estate was Kotone's place of employment, and together with Fa, a demi-human, the priest Rufuria, and the soldier Rakira, they help support the searches of new homes for the customers with various circumstances.

Tags: Work , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Monster Girl , Dragons , Iyashikei , Dissociative Identities , Magic , Seinen , Tragedy , Rural

Hitohira

Studio: Xebec , Genco , ASCII Media Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

A transfer student Asai Mugi is a painfully shy girl. She is so shy that she can't speak when she becomes seriously nervous. However, for some reason, she is spotted and recruited as a member of the drama club.



Tags: Acting , Female Protagonist , School Club , School , Kuudere , Seinen , Love Triangle

Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu

Also known as Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu.

Studio: C2C
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hitori Bocchi suffers from extreme social anxiety, she’s not good at talking to people, takes pretty extreme actions, is surprisingly adept at avoiding people, her legs cramp when she overexerts herself, gets full of herself when alone, will vomit when exposed to extreme tension and often comes up with plans. Now she is entering middle school and her only friend, Yawara Kai, is attending a different school. This leaves Bocchi alone, surrounded by new classmates with whom she must make friends before Kai will talk to her again.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Ninja , Coming of Age , Tomboy , Shounen

Anne Happy♪

Also known as Anne-Happy.

Studio: SILVER LINK.
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The story centers around class 1-7 of Tennogofune Academy, where all the students with "bad karma" or misfortune seem to have been gathered. Hibari, a student in this class, meets the unlucky Hanako and the perennially unhealthy Botan on her first day of school, and together they try to find a way to turn their school life into a happy one.



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

Bocchi the Rock!

Also known as BOCCHI THE ROCK!.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Houbunsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Hitori Gotou, “Bocchi-chan,” is a girl who’s so introverted and shy around people that she’d always start her conversations with “Ah...”

During her middle school years, she started playing the guitar, wanting to join a band because she thought it could be an opportunity for even someone shy like her to also shine. But because she had no friends, she ended up practicing guitar for six hours every day all by herself. After becoming a skilled guitar player, she uploaded videos of herself playing the guitar to the internet under the name “Guitar Hero” and fantasized about performing at her school’s cultural festival concert. But not only could she not find any bandmates, before she knew it, she was in high school and still wasn’t able to make a single friend!

She was really close to becoming a shut-in, but one day, Nijika Ijichi, the drummer in Kessoku Band, reached out to her. And because of that, her everyday life started to change little by little...



Tags: Band , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Rock Music , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , Hikikomori , Rehabilitation , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Mixed Media , Yuri , Slapstick , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Work , School , Rotoscoping , Chibi