Anime like Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu

Love Live! Sunshine!!

Also known as Love Live! Sunshine!!.

Studio: Sunrise , Lantis
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

Uranohoshi Girls’ High School, a private school in the seaside neighborhood of Uchiura at Numazu city, Shizuoka prefecture. A small high school in a corner of Suruga Bay, it is home to nine teens, led by second-year student Chika Takami, driven by one seriously big dream: To become the next generation of bright, sparkling “school idols”! As long as we don’t give up, any dream can come true... All we have to do now is keep pushing hard for fame and glory! Now their “School Idol Project” begins to make their dreams come true!



Tags: Idol , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Dancing , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Coastal , Rural , Chuunibyou , CGI

Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai

Also known as Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Namco Arts , Bushiroad , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

Nijigasaki High School is known for their diverse subjects and the freedom they give to students. Second-year student Yuu Takasaki has been turned on to the charms of school idols, so she knocks on the door of the School Idol Club with her friend, Ayumu Uehara. Sometimes friends, sometimes rivals, the members of this club each contribute their own thoughts and motivations to the group.



Tags: Idol , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Dancing , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , Kuudere , Episodic , CGI

Zombie Land Saga

Also known as ZOMBIE LAND SAGA.

Studio: MAPPA , Cygames , Avex Pictures , dugout , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Supernatural

A typical morning. The usual music. Their normal lives. The peace these seven girls experience will suddenly be destroyed. By the living dead... zombies. A reality that they never wanted a part of, an amazing and terrifying zombie world. They all share one wish: "We want to live." These girls will struggle through this saga, in order to achieve a miracle. MAPPA, Avex Pictures, and Cygames team up to bring you a juicy, 100% original anime. A timeless shocker for all audiences, a brand new style of zombie anime, will soon rise.



Tags: Zombie , Idol , Monster Girl , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Satire , Necromancy , Parody , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , Dancing , CGI , Time Skip , Rural , Transgender , Oiran , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Motorcycles , Gangs , Hip-hop Music

Kami Kuzu☆Idol

Also known as Phantom of the Idol.

Studio: Avex Pictures , Studio Gokumi , TV Tokyo , Ichijinsha , Sotsu , AT-X , BS11 , Contents Seed , Bit Grooove Promotion , NTV Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Most idols are fueled by their love of performing before adoring fans. Yuuya, however, is fueled by his love of an easy paycheck! Yuuya is one half of the idol duo ZINGS, but his supreme laziness (not to mention his disdain for idol fans in general) has him on the brink of getting blacklisted from the business. In a chance backstage encounter, he meets the spectral Asahi, a mysterious former idol who’s eager to stage her own comeback by any means necessary… including assuming complete control of Yuuya's willing body and aiming to become the best idol in the world together! Is their zany partnership a match a made in heaven, or is it pure idol hell?



Tags: Idol , Ghost , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Otaku Culture , Urban Fantasy , Acting , Afterlife , Urban , Josei , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , CGI

Wake Up, Girls!

Also known as Wake Up, Girls!.

Studio: Ordet , Tatsunoko Production , Ultra Super Pictures , DIVE II Entertainment , Wake Up, Girls! Partners , AT-X , Toho , TV Tokyo , Sotsu , Avex Entertainment , Sega Games , Good Smile Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

The gateway to Idol stardom might have opened for the newly formed singing group Wake Up, Girls, but the path to fame is full of perils and pitfalls. And for Mayu, Airi, Minami, Yoshino, Nanami, Kaya and Miyu, it's going to be especially difficult knowing who to trust, as their manager Matsuda's lack of experience could give other, less scrupulous, individuals a chance to take advantage.

That's a situation that quickly comes to a head when Green Leaves' president suddenly disappears with most of the money, and things only get worse when the replacement producer seems more interested in getting the girls into revealing swimsuits than promoting their music.

As malicious gossip begins to surface regarding Mayu's past membership in a rival group, and internal tensions begin to tear the team apart, they'll need more than just ambition to survive. Singing may be a business, but friendship and a love of music is what will keep everything together.



Tags: Idol , Primarily Female Cast , Musical Theater , Dancing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School

Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai

Also known as Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night.

Studio: King Records , Doga Kobo , Asmik Ace , Kansai TV , Doga Kobo , BS11 , Movic , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

"I want to find what I enjoy."

Shibuya is a city full of identity. It is here on Shibuya’s late night streets that illustrator Mahiru Kozuki, former idol Kano Yamanouchi, Vtuber Kiui Watase and composer Mei Kim Anouk Takanashi — four young women who are slightly outside the world — join together and form an anonymous artist group called JELEE. “I” also want to shine like someone else. If it's not me but “we” then we might be able to shine.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Urban , Drawing , Band , Idol , Transgender , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Hikikomori , Denpa , Yuri , VTuber , Age Gap , Motorcycles

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

Paripi Koumei

Also known as Ya Boy Kongming!.

Studio: P.A. Works , DMM pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Avex Pictures , Kodansha , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music , Supernatural

Fate and reincarnation deliver brilliant military strategist, Kongming, from warring, ancient China to Japan’s modern party hot spot in Shibuya City, Tokyo. After a lifetime of battles and military skirmishes, Kongming wished with his last breath to be reborn in a world of peace and prosperity. It’s nearly two millennia later and he’s finding his way in a very different world than that of his past life. When he meets Eiko, an amateur musician with big dreams, the unlikely duo strikes up an even unlikelier friendship. Eiko has street smarts to help Kongming navigate this strange new world, and Kongming will use his strategic mind to help Eiko achieve stardom!



An advanced online screening of the first episode was held on March 31, 2022, but the weekly TV release began on April 5, 2022.

Tags: Reincarnation , Urban , Band , Anachronism , Primarily Adult Cast , Idol , Historical , Hip-hop Music , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Work , Bar , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Military , Classic Literature , Time Manipulation , Rock Music , Dancing , Fugitive

Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou.

Also known as I'm in Love with the Villainess.

Studio: Platinum Vision , King Records , Asmik Ace , Ichijinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

The world turns upside down when a corporate drone wakes up as Rae Taylor, the heroine in her favorite otome game, Revolution. Rae is elated at the opportunity to court Claire François, the game’s villainess and the object of her affection. Armed with her knowledge of the game and events to come, Rae sets out to make Claire fall for her. But how will the villainess take Rae’s romantic advances?



Tags: Yuri , Villainess , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Isekai , Reincarnation , Ojou-sama , Tsundere , Video Games , Magic , School , Maids , Class Struggle , Primarily Teen Cast , Boarding School , Politics , Primarily Female Cast , Bullying , Love Triangle , Bisexual , Slapstick , Foreign , Royal Affairs , Crossdressing , Incest , Heterosexual

Sakura Trick

Also known as Sakura Trick.

Studio: Studio DEEN , TBS , Sentai Filmworks , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Haruka and Yuu have been best friends forever and they've always sat next to each other in class since… well, since they were just girls in junior high anyway. But on their first day of high school, they're stunned to learn that the new seating plan has them on opposite sides of the classroom! So, since everyone knows that long distance relationships won't work unless the parties involved put extra effort into it, they decide they need to do something extra special to permanently seal their friendship. However, deciding to kiss each other awakens a whole new level of feelings, and it doesn't help that some of their classmates seem to be 'involved" in similar circumstances. So what's a girl to do when her best girl friend suddenly seems more like a girlfriend? It's a life lesson that the school curriculum isn't normally prepared to teach, except maybe in French class, and our two young heroines are about to get a private education you'll never forget!



Tags: Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Religion , Seinen , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Incest , Anachronism