Anime like Let’s Play: Quest Darake no My Life

Romantic Killer

Also known as Romantic Killer.

Studio: domerica , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Anzu Hoshino is a "non-heroine type" high school girl who pays no attention to fashion or romance and spends every day playing video games. When the wizard Riri suddenly appears, Anzu is forced to participate in the Magical World's project to stop population decline. This romantic comedy depicts what happens when Anzu goes from living a life immersed in her three favorite things — video games, chocolate, and cats — to being surrounded by handsome guys. Anzu is steadfast in her claim that she never wanted to live in a dating simulation game. She meets a handsome guy who is so popular it hurts, a clean-cut and athletic childhood friend, and a beautiful rich young guy who is naive about the outside world. By meeting Anzu, they all begin to change gradually.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Parody , Slapstick , Male Harem , Primarily Teen Cast , Love Triangle , Aromantic , Meta , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Video Games , Yandere , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Shounen , Disability , Baseball , CGI , Work , Shapeshifting , Memory Manipulation

Yamada-kun to Lv999 no Koi wo Suru

Also known as My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999.

Studio: Aniplex , MADHOUSE , Comic Smart , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Movic , KADOKAWA , EGG FIRM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Akane Kinoshita, a female college student, faces the absolute worst situation when she ends up breaking up with her boyfriend after he has an affair with a woman he met playing an online game. While relieving her stress by rampaging through the open hunting grounds of an online game, Akane spills everything about her heartbreak to “Yamada”, a player she met by chance who happens to be in the same guild. “I don't care,” is his curt reply. But when Akane gets a makeover and joins an offline event to get back at her ex-boyfriend, she hears those dreadful words again. And that was Akane's fateful encounter with “Yamada”─！



Tags: Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Video Games , Heterosexual , Shoujo , Otaku Culture , Primarily Adult Cast , College , Love Triangle , E-Sports , Unrequited Love , Konbini , CGI

Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

Also known as Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku.

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex , Fuji TV , Kanetsuu Investment , Christmas Holly , Dentsu , Ichijinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Having slept through all four of her alarms, the energetic Narumi Momose finds herself running late for her first day of work at a new office. As she races to catch her train, she makes a promise to herself that none of her coworkers will find out about her dark secret: that she is an otaku and a fujoshi. Her plan goes instantly awry, though, when she runs into Hirotaka Nifuji, an old friend from middle school. Although she tries to keep her secret by inviting him out for drinks after work, her cover is blown when he casually asks her whether or not she will be attending the upcoming Summer Comiket. Luckily for her, the only witnesses—Hanako Koyanagi and Tarou Kabakura—are otaku as well.

Later that night, the pair go out for drinks so that they can catch up after all the years apart. After Narumi complains about her previous boyfriend breaking up with her because he refused to date a fujoshi, Hirotaka suggests that she try dating a fellow otaku, specifically himself. He makes a solemn promise to always be there for her, to support her, and to help her farm for rare drops in Monster Hunter. Blown away by the proposal, Narumi agrees immediately. Thus the two otaku start dating, and their adorably awkward romance begins.



Tags: Otaku Culture , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei , Office Lady , Female Protagonist , Video Games , Work , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Office , Urban , Kuudere , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Cosplay , Tsundere , Bisexual , Athletics , Tomboy , Classic Literature

Net-juu no Susume

Also known as Recovery of an MMO Junkie.

Studio: Signal.MD , flying DOG , comico , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

Moriko Morioka is a 30-year-old single NEET woman. After dropping out from reality, she has taken off in search for a fulfilling life and ended up in a net game or "netoge." In the netoge world, she began her new life as a refreshing and handsome character named Hayashi. While starting out as a beginner, a pretty character named Lily reached out to help her. Meanwhile, in the real world, awaits a shocking encounter with a good-looking elite company employee, a mysterious blue-eyed blonde.



Tags: Video Games , Virtual World , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Otaku Culture , Gender Bending , Josei , Parody , Konbini , Office Lady

Gamers!

Also known as GAMERS!.

Studio: PINE JAM , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Keita Amano is a fan of one thing: gaming! Whether he’s on his phone or console, he just loves playing video games. And when the beautiful president of the game club, Karen Tendou, invites him to join, it seems like an EZ choice. Except, he declines! KO’d by the shock, Karen suddenly makes getting close to Amano her main quest. But she’s not the only one interested in him!



Tags: Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Video Games , School , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Female Harem , Unrequited Love , Otaku Culture , Parody , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Meta , Tsundere , Dissociative Identities , E-Sports , Board Game , Nudity

Bukiyou na Senpai.

Also known as My Awkward Senpai.

Studio: Asmik Ace , Studio elle , arma bianca , King Records , TOKYO MX , BS Nittele , Bit grooove promotion , Kadokawa Media House , KLOCKWORX , Happinet Media Marketing , Square Enix
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Kannawa has a secret: Even though she has a reputation in the office as intense, strict, and scary, she’s actually just…awkward. So, when she learns she has to train Kamegawa, the cute, nerdy newbie, she’s at a complete loss! Can this awkward senpai figure out how to handle her budding feelings?!



Tags: Office Lady , Office , Seinen , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Video Games , Iyashikei

Tadaima, Ojamasaremasu!

Also known as Pardon the Intrusion, I'm Home!.

Studio: Tatsunoko Production , Nippon Television Network , Yomiuri TV , NTT Solmare , BS Nittele , Movic , NTV Music
Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

So is this what it means to have roommates now?! Office worker Rinko, 24, lives alone and is secretly an otaku. One day, her apartment gets connected to the two neighboring rooms through a "hole" in the wall. In the room on the left is a fresh-faced yet mysterious guy who is overly-sweet to Rinko. The room on the right is occupied by a guy with violent tendences who is similarly mysterious... But wait! "I... I think I know him!" Rinko's only source of solitude, her apartment, has been turned upside down. Now, every day is full of heart-pounding surprises!



Tags: Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Male Harem , Otaku Culture , Shoujo , Primarily Adult Cast , Cohabitation , Chibi

Hi Score Girl

Also known as Hi Score Girl.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment , G-mode , Warner Bros. Japan , Real-T , Tengu Kobou , Capcom , Bandai Namco Entertainment , Picona Creative Studio , BIGLOBE , Magic Capsule , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who's popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he can’t beat her at any game. Haruo can’t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd couple begins a strange bond and friendship.

Tags: Video Games , Full CGI , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Urban , Ojou-sama , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Seinen , CGI , School , Tsundere , Slapstick , Primarily Child Cast

NEW GAME!

Also known as NEW GAME!.

Studio: Doga Kobo , MAGES. , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Fresh out of high school, 18-year-old Aoba Suzukaze is bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and ready for her first day of work at her dream job. She’s joining the character design team at Eagle Jump, the company that makes her favorite video games! But the real world of office culture can be a challenge for a total noob. From her awkward first day to her first game’s debut, she’s got a lot of skills to master. Luckily, her charming determination wins over even her quirkiest of coworkers, and before she knows it, Aoba has joined the party!



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Work , Primarily Female Cast , Software Development , Video Games , Office Lady , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Office , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Drawing , Episodic , Tomboy , Politics , Airsoft , Tanned Skin , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tsundere , College , Cosplay

Douse, Koishite Shimaunda.

Also known as Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You..

Studio: TBS , TYPHOON GRAPHICS , Kodansha , Crunchyroll , Universal Music , BS11 , arma bianca , TYPHOON GRAPHICS , Pia , Nichion , Happinet Media Marketing
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

It's July 1, 2020. Mizuha, a high school second-year, is having the worst seventeenth birthday ever. She's missing her chance to get close to the older student she admires, and her parents didn't even remember that it's her birthday. Worst of all, there's a new and unknown infectious disease making the rounds, so all her club tournaments and school trips have been canceled.

She's convinced that she'll never have the dazzling youth that she's always dreamed of... but then her childhood friend, Mizuki, suddenly declares himself a candidate to be her boyfriend.

This is a school youth story about four childhood friends who grew up like family, one being the heroine, Nishino Mizuha, and the four boys she grew up with whom she sees as family.



Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Male Harem , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Male Cast , Coastal , Drawing , Heterosexual , School , Swimming