Anime like Kuma Miko

Edomae Elf

Also known as Otaku Elf.

Studio: C2C , Nikkatsu , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Kodansha , NetEase Games
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Takamimi Shrine has an unusual resident – Elda, an ancient elf who’s obsessed with video games! The shrine’s teenage attendant, Koito Koganei, keeps this reclusive otaku well supplied with energy drinks and junk food. Even though she loves 100%-ing her games, Elda has duties to attend to, and Koganei is bound and determined to make this otaku elf fulfill them! It’ll just take an offering or two to bribe—um, we mean convince Elda to put down her new game…



Tags: Otaku Culture , Elf , Hikikomori , Primarily Female Cast , Shrine Maiden , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Iyashikei , Historical , Religion , Educational , Rehabilitation , Slapstick , Food , Isekai , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Work , Shounen , Fashion , School , Tanned Skin , Archery , Kuudere , Urban Fantasy

Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!

Also known as WataMote: No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!.

Studio: Square Enix , SILVER LINK. , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

At the tender age of 15, Tomoko Kuroki has already dated hundreds of boys — or at least in dating games she has. The sad truth is that she gets tongue-tied just talking to people, which makes her entrance into the social pressure cooker of high school especially odious and riddled with anxiety. Can Tomoko overcome her crippling social anxiety and finally have the popular high school life she’s always dreamed of? Or will she merely get caught in the downward spiral that is her awkward life?



Tags: Bisexual , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist , Disability , Psychosexual , Satire , Otaku Culture , School , Parody , Slapstick , Meta , Achronological Order , Chuunibyou , Video Games , Rehabilitation , Shounen

Gingitsune

Also known as Gingitsune: Messenger Fox of the Gods.

Studio: diomedéa , Pony Canyon , AT-X , Movic , Glovision , KLOCKWORX , Lantis , MediaNet
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

Gintaro is a fox spirit that has been protecting the small Inari temple since the Edo era. Saeki Makoto's family possesses the power to see the gods' agent, but the ability is limited to one living relative at a time. When Makoto's mother passed away while she was still young, Makoto inherited the ability as the sole remaining family member. With the help of fox spirit's power, Makoto and Gintaro help the people of their community, in spite of their many differences.



Tags: Seinen , Mythology , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Animals , Shrine Maiden , Rural , School , Episodic , Anthropomorphism

Barakamon

Also known as Barakamon.

Studio: Kinema Citrus , VAP , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Seishuu Handa is an up-and-coming calligrapher: young, handsome, talented, and unfortunately, a narcissist to boot. When a veteran labels his award-winning piece as "unoriginal," Seishuu quickly loses his cool with severe repercussions.

As punishment, and also in order to aid him in self-reflection, Seishuu's father exiles him to the Goto Islands, far from the comfortable Tokyo lifestyle the temperamental artist is used to. Now thrown into a rural setting, Seishuu must attempt to find new inspiration and develop his own unique art style—that is, if boisterous children (headed by the frisky Naru Kotoishi), fujoshi middle schoolers, and energetic old men stop barging into his house! The newest addition to the intimate and quirky Goto community only wants to get some work done, but the islands are far from the peaceful countryside he signed up for. Thanks to his wacky neighbors who are entirely incapable of minding their own business, the arrogant calligrapher learns so much more than he ever hoped to.



Tags: Calligraphy , Rural , Found Family , Iyashikei , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Family Life , Seinen , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Teacher , Coastal , Tsundere , Slapstick , Fishing

Kakushigoto

Also known as Kakushigoto.

Studio: Ajiado , Funimation , A-Sketch , Studio Mausu , Dentsu , AT-X , TOKYO MX , Kodansha , GREE
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Single father Kakushi Gotou has a secret. He’s a top-selling artist of popular erotic manga, but his impressionable young daughter, Hime, can never find out! Now he’s having to bend over backwards just to keep her inquisitive little mind from discovering what he does for a living. A father-daughter tale of love and laughter.



Tags: Family Life , Work , Drawing , Coming of Age , Parenthood , Time Skip , Meta , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Shounen

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Also known as Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear.

Studio: EMT Squared , KADOKAWA , Shufu to Seikatsusha , Nippon Columbia , AT-X , Kadokawa Media House , TOKYO MX , Good Smile Company , CREST , Kanon , Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyuujo
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Yuna's not your typical 15-year-old. First, she's crazy rich from playing the stock market. Second, she's a recluse obsessed with a VRMMO game, and she's really good at that too. Her life is pretty much perfect—until she wakes up one day inside the game she loves and back at level one. She has to start over, but this time, she has a powerful bear suit that's guaranteed to take her places!



Note: The first episode was streamed on Abema TV on September 19, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 7, 2020.

Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Isekai , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Food , Video Games , Henshin , Virtual World , Animals , Augmented Reality , Iyashikei

Jingai-san no Yome

Studio: Saetta
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

Hinowa Tomari is a normal high schooler, until one day he's told that he has to become the wife of a mysterious creature called Kanenogi. This is the start of their newly married life.

Tags: Marriage , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Josei , Satire , School , Twins , Language Barrier , Chibi , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things

Alice to Zouroku

Also known as Alice & Zoroku.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Lantis , Bandai Visual , Tokuma Shoten , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , TOKYO MX , Sony PCL
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mystery , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

The fantasy story begins with a group of young girls who hold a power named "Alice's Dream," which allows them to make their imaginations come true. These girls have been locked up and treated as research subjects. Sana, one of these girls whose specific power includes the ability ignore the laws of physics and physically manifest anything she can imagine, has escaped. Afterwards, she meets an old man named Zouroku, who dislikes disruptions in his everyday life.



Note: The first episode aired with a runtime of ~44 minutes as opposed to the standard 25 minute long episode.

Tags: Super Power , Fugitive , Rehabilitation , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Twins , Seinen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Family Life

Ikoku Meiro no Croisée

Also known as Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth ~ The Animation.

Studio: Satelight , Sentai Filmworks , Sony Music Communications , Bushiroad
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The story takes place in the second half of the 19th century, as Japanese culture gains popularity in the West. A young Japanese girl, Yune, accompanies a French traveller, Oscar, on his journey back to France, and offers to help at the family's ironwork shop in Paris. Oscar's nephew and shop-owner Claude reluctantly accepts to take care of Yune, and we learn how those two, who have so little in common, get to understand each other and live together in the Paris of the 1800s.

Tags: Historical , Foreign , Iyashikei , Seinen , Age Gap , Family Life , Found Family , Urban , Ojou-sama

Amaama to Inazuma

Also known as Sweetness & Lightning.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He's pretty bad at cooking and doesn't have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it's no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious.



Tags: Family Life , Food , Iyashikei , Found Family , Restaurant , Educational , Teacher , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Parenthood , Orphan , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , School , Chibi