Anime like Kannagi

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Also known as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Bandai Entertainment , Kadokawa Pictures USA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Kyon, your typical high school student, has long given up his belief in the supernatural. However, upon meeting Haruhi Suzumiya, he quickly finds out that it is the supernatural that she is interested in; aliens, time travelers and espers among other things. When Haruhi laments about the lack of intriguing clubs around school, Kyon inspires Haruhi to form her own club. As a result, the SOS Brigade is formed, a club which specializes in all that is the supernatural.

Much to his chagrin, Kyon, along with the silent bookworm, Yuki Nagato, the shy and timid Mikuru Asahina, and the perpetually smiling Itsuki Koizumi, are recruited as members. The story follows the crazy adventures that these four endure under their whimsical leader, Haruhi. The story is based on the light novels by Nagaru Tanigawa.

Note: This entry is for the original 14-episode 2006 airing. The series was further expanded and reordered into a 28-episode series in 2009.

Tags: School Club , Achronological Order , Urban Fantasy , School , Gods , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Manipulation , Aliens , Alternate Universe , Meta , Philosophy , Parody , Male Protagonist , Magic , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Episodic , Kuudere , Kaiju , Ensemble Cast , Filmmaking , Baseball , Maids , Unrequited Love

Tsugumomo

Also known as Tsugumomo.

Studio: Zero-G , Hakuhodo , Futabasha , Toei Video , Pony Canyon , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Animax , My Theater D.D. , Kakao Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Supernatural

One day Kagami Kazuya, an ordinary boy, encounters Kiriha, a beautiful girl in a kimono. It turns out Kiriha is a tsukumogami, a spirit, whose true identity is the precious obi Kazuya carries around as a memory of his late mother. All kinds of bizarre things unfold in this supernatural action comedy!



Tags: Coming of Age , Youkai , Nudity , Gods , Primarily Child Cast , Female Harem , School , Age Regression , Bisexual , Seinen , Henshin , Primarily Female Cast , Super Power

Mikakunin de Shinkoukei

Also known as Engaged to the Unidentified.

Studio: Doga Kobo , Toho , DAX Production , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Not every girl gets what she wants on her 16th birthday, but Kobeni's gift is something she never saw coming: an arranged marriage! Thanks to her late grandfather, Kobeni's been engaged to a total stranger since childhood, and even though she's supposedly met him she doesn't remember a single thing about him. Even weirder is that both her Mom and creepily over-doting sister, Benio, seem completely unsurprised when the groom-to-be, Hakuya, and his younger sister, Mashiro, show up on the family's doorstep to move in with them!

But it's not until they start attending Kobeni's school that things take an even stranger turn after she starts to pick up some very... unusual vibes from her potential future family. From Mashiro's obsession with aliens and UMAs (Unidentified Mysterious Animals) to Hakuya's disconcerting lack of emotion, there's something very off about them that Kobeni can't quite put her finger on. What has her grandfather gotten her into, and how does this relate to the strange gap in Kobeni's memory?



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Family Life , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Tsundere , Super Power , Food , Arranged Marriage , Cohabitation , School Club , Seinen , Rural

Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru

Also known as Oreshura.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Eita enters high school aiming for the National University School of Medicine. Because of his parents' divorce—and his goal—he shuns anything to do with romance or love. One day, Masuzu, the school beauty with the silver hair who has just returned to the country, enters his life in a most unexpected way. Chiwa, his childhood friend since elementary school, will not let this go without a fight.

Tags: Female Harem , School , School Club , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Tsundere , Chuunibyou , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Heterosexual , Fake Relationship , Kuudere , Meta , Love Triangle , Blackmail

Kamisama ni Natta Hi

Also known as The Day I Became a God.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Aniplex , ABC Animation , TOKYO MX , Movic , BS11 , Nagoya TV Housou , Visual Arts
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

Youta Narukami is a student focused only on his college entrance exams. During his last summer break of high school, he is approached by a girl named Hina who says she is the god of omniscience. She tells him that in thirty days, the world will end. At first Youta doesn't believe her, but after she demonstrates supernatural predictive abilities, he becomes convinced her power is genuine. Hina, meanwhile, decides for some reason to stay at his house, and they begin a tumultuous vacation facing the end of the world together.



Note: The first episode received an early screening on October 3rd, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 11th, 2020.

Tags: Disability , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Gods , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Rehabilitation , Urban Fantasy , Filmmaking , Coming of Age , Time Skip , Cosmic Horror , Love Triangle , Kuudere , Acting , Video Games , Mahjong , Tsundere , Baseball , Episodic , Basketball

Jitsu wa Watashi wa

Also known as Actually, I Am.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Sotsu , 3xCube , TMS Music , TV Tokyo , DAX Production , Asmik Ace , AT-X , MediaNet , Akita Shoten , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance

The romantic comedy centers around Asahi Kuromine, who has a crush on a cute girl named Yōko Shiragami. Shiragami just happens to be a vampire. Asahi cannot keep a secret, but he is determined to keep Shiragami's secret anyways.



Tags: School , Vampire , Heterosexual , Monster Girl , Urban Fantasy , Female Harem , Demons , Love Triangle , Aliens , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Werewolf , Gender Bending

Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko.

Also known as Hentai Prince & the Stony Cat.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Frontier Works , Media Factory , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Supernatural

Youto Yokodera is always thinking about his carnal desires, but no one acknowledges him as a pervert. He learns about a cat statue that supposedly grants wishes. The boy goes to pray that he will be able to express his lustful thoughts whenever and wherever he wants. At the statue, Youto encounters Tsukiko Tsutsukakushi, a girl from his high school with her own wish—that she would not display her real intentions so readily.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Crossdressing , Found Family , Gods , Memory Manipulation , Heterosexual , Amnesia , Female Harem , School , Male Protagonist , Tsundere , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Manipulation , Kuudere , Yandere , Meta , Bisexual , Gyaru

Sankarea

Also known as Sankarea: Undying Love.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Funimation , Lantis , Pony Canyon , TBS , Kodansha , BS-TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Horror , Romance , Supernatural

Furuya's not interested in the living, he's got zombies on the brain! When Furuya's cat dies, he decides he's going to try and bring it back to life. In the process, he stumbles across a girl who is involved in an accident and turns into a real zombie! What's Furuya going to do now that the thing he loves the most is right in front of his eyes?



Tags: Zombie , Monster Girl , Ojou-sama , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Rural , Shounen , Animals , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Age Gap , Medicine , Unrequited Love , Cohabitation , Incest , Love Triangle , School , Maids , Nudity , Kuudere , Fencing , Torture

Temple

Also known as TenPuru.

Studio: Gekkou , King Records , Kodansha , Crunchyroll , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

"I know! I'll become a monk!" Akagami Akemitsu has spent his days and nights absorbed in studying and part-time work in an effort to distance himself from his family, which is notorious as a household of philanderers. One day, he falls in love at first sight with a girl named Aoba Yuzuki, and suddenly he's constantly drowning in worldly desires. Hoping to fight back against his genes and live a more stoic life, he enters a temple... only to find out that it's a convent filled with gorgeous girls! So begins a new rom-com about the temple life of three adorable triplets and two beautiful freeloaders!



Tags: Female Harem , Heterosexual , Large Breasts , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Slapstick , Tsundere , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Religion , Seinen , Philosophy , Archery , Arranged Marriage

Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko

Also known as Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl.

Studio: Shaft , Starchild Records , NIS America Inc. , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Makoto Niwa just moved to the city to live with his aunt Meme after his parents were reassigned to work overseas. He is perfectly fine with that, saying it will give him the chance to live the dream life of an adolescent boy. He keeps track of the things he does by assigning "points" to them—positive or negative—and adds them up on a regular basis to grade his adolescent life.

And then he discovers Meme has a secret daughter (and self-proclaimed alien) named Erio. He finds her rolling around by the front door of Meme's house wrapped up in a futon. It is then he realizes that his dream adolescent life will not come true, and begins a life of experiences that are out of this world.



Tags: Denpa , Chuunibyou , Wrestling , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Aliens , Coastal , Primarily Female Cast , Incest , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Family Life , School , Baseball , Memory Manipulation , Female Harem , Amnesia , Parody , Hikikomori , Meta , Cohabitation , CGI , Chibi , Basketball , Episodic