Anime like Hitohira

Hinako Note

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

Hinako is poor at speaking and lives in a rural part of Japan. She wants to improve her speech to be able to talk to people freely, so in high school, she transfers schools to Tokyo and plans to join a theater club. When she arrives, it turns out her boarding house is a secondhand bookstore, and a girl who eats books lives there.



Tags: Acting , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Cosplay , Tsundere , Judo , Chibi , Maids , School Club

Joukamachi no Dandelion

Also known as Castle Town Dandelion.

Studio: Production IMS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

In the story, the everyday lives of the nine super-powered siblings of the royal family are monitored by more than 200 surveillance cameras and broadcast nationwide. The people of the nation who are watching the broadcast will have the ability to elect the next monarch. The story focuses on Akane, the third-oldest sister who can manipulate gravity. She is shy and desperately does not want to be caught on camera.



Tags: Super Power , Ensemble Cast , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Chuunibyou , Seinen , Idol , Age Regression , Heterosexual

Yagate Kimi ni Naru

Also known as Bloom Into You.

Studio: TROYCA , AT-X , Sony Music Entertainment , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Yuu Koito thought love would be something amazing and magical, but when a male friend asks her to date, she feels nothing. She doesn't even know how to respond until she overhears the student council president of her new high school, Touko Nanami, turning down a similar request. With Touko's help, Yuu manages to let her friend down gracefully, but then Touko confesses that she, herself, is starting to have feelings for Yuu, leaving Yuu in a quandary. Yuu doesn't think that she's in love with Touko, but she does feel something. As Yuu joins the Student Council, and she and Touko become closer, her confusion about her feelings only continues to grow. Because you can't control who you love, or who falls in love with you.



Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Coming of Age , School , School Club , Asexual , Aromantic , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Philosophy , Bisexual , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , POV , Acting , Shounen , Meta , Trains , Writing , Athletics

Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu

Also known as Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3.

Studio: Gainax , Pony Canyon , TBS , Sentai Filmworks , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

Yura Yamato has just arrived at the high school division of Stella Women's Academy, when Sonora Kashima invites her to join a club called "C³". Sonora is the third-year student who became the new head of this club for military survival games. The other members include two second-year students (part-Japanese Karila Hatsuse and G36K-wielding Honoka Mutsu) and two other new students (Rento Kirishima whose family runs a Japanese sweets shop and the really short Yachiyo Hinata).



Tags: Airsoft , School Club , Tomboy , School , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Outdoor , Coming of Age , Military , Seinen , Slapstick , Guns

Hoshikuzu Telepath

Also known as Stardust Telepath.

Studio: Studio Gokumi , Nippon Columbia , Houbunsha , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Asmik Ace , AT-X , BS Nittele , Movic , Studio Mausu , KLOCKWORX , San Blas Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Konohoshi Umika is a high-schooler who is very bad at communicating with others. Feeling almost like an alien trapped on Earth with nowhere to belong, one day she meets a girl who claims to be an actual alien!

Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Aliens , School Club , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Educational , Amnesia , Coastal , LGBTQ+ Themes , Seinen , Chuunibyou

Tsuyokiss

Studio: Trinet Entertainment , Three Fat Samurai , Sol Blade
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Sunao Konoe starts her first day at a new school and is surprised to find that there is no drama club. So, she decides to make one of her own. But between a childhood friend showing up, the crazy student body, and the arrogant student council president blocking her at every turn, it seems that actually creating the club is going to be more difficult than she thought.

Tags: School , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , School Club , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Acting

World Dai Star

Also known as Stella of the Theater: World Dai Star.

Studio: Lerche , Bandai Namco Filmworks , GREE Entertainment , Bandai Namco Music Live , Hawkeye , Daito Giken , Good Smile Company , Studio Hibari , EGG FIRM , Lantis
Status: Finished
Genres: Music

Theater has taken the entire world by storm in the 20th century, and teenager Kokona Ohtori aims to take the big stage. Performers who shine the brightest are called Dai Stars, and for Kokona, her first step into stardom is auditioning for the prominent theater troupe—Sirius. As she cultivates her unique sense for the stage, a story of passion and aspiration unfolds in this super-theater age.



Tags: Acting , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Musical Theater , Super Power , Dissociative Identities , Ojou-sama , Idol , Chuunibyou , Tsundere

Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight

Also known as Revue Starlight.

Studio: Kinema Citrus , Pony Canyon , OVERLAP , APDREAM , TBS , Sound Team Don Juan , Nelke Planning , Bushiroad , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Music , Psychological

The franchise centers on "Starlight" — the song and dance revue troupe loved throughout the world. Karen and Hikari make a promise with each other when they're young that one day they'll stand on that stage together. Time passes, and now the girls are 16 years old. Karen is very enthusiastic about the lessons she takes every day, holding her promise close to her heart. Hikari has transferred schools and is now away from Karen. But the cogs of fate turn, and the two are destined to meet again. The girls and other "Stage Girls" will compete in a mysterious audition process to gain acceptance into the revue.



Tags: Musical Theater , Primarily Female Cast , Ensemble Cast , Acting , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Meta , Fairy Tale , Battle Royale , Yuri , School , Coming of Age , Henshin , Time Loop , Swordplay , Dancing , Time Manipulation , Boarding School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Revenge , Tomboy , Archery , Writing , Baseball , Motorcycles

Hanayamata

Also known as HaNaYaMaTa.

Studio: MADHOUSE , DIVE II Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Normal appearance, normal intelligence, normal in arts and sports... just normal. This is the entirely normal 14-year-old, Naru Sekiya. While she admires "Heroines" she continues to live a normal life until one moonlit night she meets a fairy. This foreign girl then guides her into the extraordinary world of the yosakoi dance.


Tags: Dancing , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , School , Iyashikei , Seinen , Tsundere , Band , Idol

CLANNAD

Also known as Clannad.

Studio: Sentai Filmworks , Animation Do , Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , TBS , Movic , Key
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Tomoya is a bitter, third year high school student. His mother passed away, causing his father to resort to alcohol and gambling. Tomoya is distant with his father and has become a delinquent in the years since his mother's death. Walking to school, he meets Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older but is repeating the grade due to illness. She is alone, as most of her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out, and as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life shifting in a new direction.



Tags: School , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , School Club , Ghost , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , Amnesia , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Female Harem , Gangs , Kuudere , Baseball , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Twins , Basketball