Anime like Little Busters!

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Studio: J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished

When tragedy struck Riki Naoe as a child, he was rescued from grief over his parent's deaths when four other kids "recruited" him for their group—the "Little Busters." Now in high school, Riki and the other Busters are still fast friends, and though their vision of being heroes for justice may have faded, they'd still do anything for each other. Which is why Riki is now on TWO special missions. The not so secret one: recruiting new members so the Busters can form a baseball team. Preferably FEMALE recruits, as the current dude/babe ratio is an inconvenient 4 to 1. The OTHER mission, though... That's the strange one. Because Riki and Rin, the group's singular girl, are receiving odd messages, delivered by cats, concerning the existence of a "secret world" and assigning them tasks they have to complete. Were their youthful dreams of being crusaders not so fanciful after all? Or is there something even more vital at stake? Between steeling his courage to talk to girls, dealing with his own narcolepsy and facing his feelings concerning Rin, Riki may just need the strength of a superhero to solve the ultimate mystery of the Little Busters!

Tags: School , Found Family , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Slapstick , Urban Fantasy , Orphan , Baseball , School Club , Memory Manipulation , Twins , Kuudere , Crossdressing , Foreign , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , War

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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 , Ensemble Cast , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Ghost , Primarily Female Cast , Amnesia , Slapstick , Female Harem , Gangs , Kuudere , Baseball , Tsundere , Twins , Basketball , Female Protagonist , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things

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Kanon (2006)

Also known as Kanon (2006).

Studio: Kyoto Animation , TBS , Pony Canyon , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

As a young child, Aizawa Yuuichi had often visited his cousin in the city. However, something drastic happened to keep him away for seven long years. Now, Yuuichi returns, his memories of those days are simply gone.

Settling into the wintry town, Yuuichi comes across several young girls, all of whom are connected to his past. As he befriends them and continues to interact with them, the long forgotten memories from his childhood begin to resurface...

Tags: Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Snowscape , Tragedy , Female Harem , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Ghost , Family Life , Kuudere , Tsundere , Super Power , Ensemble Cast , Demons , Cohabitation , Unrequited Love , Incest , Suicide

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Angel Beats!

Also known as Angel Beats!.

Studio: Aniplex , ASCII Media Works , P.A.WORKS , Visual Arts , Movic , Dentsu , Mainichi Broadcasting System , CBC TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Supernatural

Otonashi wakes up in the afterlife to find out he has no memories of his life before death. Desperate to survive in a war that could yield another unfortunate fate, he joins the SSS in the battle against Angel, whose very mission is to destroy all inhabitants of this afterlife. As Otonashi struggles to recover his memory and learn more about this world, he finds that not all is as it had seemed.

Tags: Afterlife , Tragedy , School , Amnesia , Primarily Teen Cast , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Isekai , Boarding School , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Slapstick , Angels , Survival , Found Family , Guns , School Club , Politics , Rock Music , Band , Suicide , Baseball , Heterosexual , Chuunibyou , Drugs

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

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CLANNAD: After Story

Also known as Clannad: After Story.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , TBS , Rakuonsha , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

A few months have passed since Tomoya declared his love to Nagisa, and his life keeps moving forward as he continues to meet a variety of new people, expanding his world in the process. While Tomoya's world continues to expand, his and Nagisa's relationship is entering a new phase, and neither of them is quite sure where it will take them. Through his relationship with Nagisa, Tomoya begins to understand the meaning and importance of family.

But as Tomoya and Nagisa begin a family of their own, they are faced with many hardships along the way in Clannad: After Story

Note: Includes 2 un-numbered 'extra' and 'summary' episodes that aired at the end of the series.

Tags: Family Life , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Parenthood , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Marriage , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Rehabilitation , Afterlife , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Primarily Female Cast , Trains , School , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Baseball

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Charlotte

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Aniplex , Visual Arts , TOKYO MX , KADOKAWA , ASCII Media Works , Mainichi Broadcasting System , BS11 , Movic , Key
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

The story centers around the special abilities that occur among a small percentage of boys and girls in puberty. Yuu Otosaka uses his power without others knowing, and lives a fairly normal, average school life. Before him suddenly appears a girl, Nao Tomori. Due to his meeting with her, the fate of special power-users will be exposed.

Tags: Super Power , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , School Club , School , Body Swapping , Amnesia , Tsundere , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Survival , Anti-Hero , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Slapstick , Torture , Delinquents , Tomboy , Yandere , Band , Mahjong , Bullying , CGI , Baseball

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Summer Pockets

Also known as Summer Pockets.

Studio: Key , feel. , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Visual Arts , Mainichi Broadcasting System , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Bushiroad , FuRyu , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Marui Group
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Takahara Hairi never expected summer to feel like a dream. Sent to Torishirojima Island to sort through his late grandmother’s belongings, he’s met with endless sea, quiet nostalgia, and mysterious girls, each chasing something just out of reach. As he settles into island life, lost memories begin to surface and he finds what he never knew he’d lost.

Tags: Rural , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Coastal , Family Life , Time Loop , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Heterosexual , Age Regression , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Kuudere , Ghost , Swimming , Shrine Maiden , Tsundere , Fishing , Twins , Table Tennis , Food , Bisexual , Mopeds , Female Harem

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Kokoro Connect

Also known as Kokoro Connect.

Studio: Starchild Records , SILVER LINK. , Sentai Filmworks , Enterbrain
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The five members of the Cultural Research Club - Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki - encounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch bodies without warning. The same begins to happen to the other club members, throwing their daily lives into disarray.

At first the five students find some amusement amidst the confusion, but this unwarranted connection also exposes the painful scars hidden within their hearts. As their calm lives are shattered, the relationships between the five students also begin to change...

Tags: School , Coming of Age , Body Swapping , School Club , Urban Fantasy , Love Triangle , Primarily Female Cast , Age Regression , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Gender Bending , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Philosophy , Chuunibyou , LGBTQ+ Themes

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AIR

Also known as Air.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Pony Canyon , TBS , Key
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Yukito Kunisaki is on a journey in search of the Winged Maiden who was bound to the sky centuries ago, after hearing an old childhood tale from his mother. As Yukito shows his puppet show to people in an attempt to make some money, he finds himself in a small town in which he did not expect to stay very long. However, when he meets an unusual girl named Misuzu, things take a drastic turn as he is invited to stay with her.

By staying in the quaint town, Yukito soon becomes friends with the locals. As he gets to know them better, he learns of their problems and decides to help, putting his search for the Winged Maiden on hold. With his search on hold, and his growing attachment to Misuzu and the small town, will Yukito ever find the Winged Maiden, or is she closer than he thought?

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Note: Includes episode 13, Soushuuhen (Summary).

Tags: Tragedy , Reincarnation , Historical , Magic , Homeless , Family Life , Rural , Cohabitation , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Kuudere , Samurai , Primarily Female Cast , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Wilderness , Dinosaurs , Female Harem , Time Skip , Slapstick , Work , Female Protagonist

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Kaginado

Also known as KAGINADO.

Studio: LIDENFILMS Kyoto Studio , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation , Visual Arts , Key
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Laughs and shenanigans are on the horizon in this crossover! Fan-favorite characters from Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters!, Rewrite, and more start the school year together in a new world where anything is possible. With so much personality in one anime universe, every day feels like a new kind of dream.

Tags: Crossover , Chibi , Ensemble Cast , Slapstick , Meta , School , Baseball

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