Anime like Majimoji Rurumo

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

Little Witch Academia

Also known as Little Witch Academia.

Studio: TRIGGER
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

For young witches everywhere, the world-renowned witch Shiny Chariot reigns as the most revered and celebrated role model. But as the girls age, so do their opinions of her—now just the mention of Chariot would get a witch labeled a child. However, undeterred in her blind admiration for Chariot, ordinary girl Atsuko Kagari enrolls into Luna Nova Magical Academy, hoping to someday become just as mesmerizing as her idol.

However, the witch academy isn't all the fun and games Atsuko thought it would be: boring lectures, strict teachers, and students who mock Chariot plague the campus. Coupled with her own ineptness in magic, she's seen as little more than a rebel student. But when a chance finally presents itself to prove herself to her peers and teachers, she takes it, and now it's up to her to stop a rampaging dragon before it flattens the entire academy.

Little Witch Academia is one of the four anime works that each received 38 million yen (about US$480,000) from the "2012 Young Animator Training Project." Just like in 2010 and 2011, the animation labor group received 214.5 million yen (US$2.65 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributed most of those funds to studios who train young animators on-the-job.

Positive response to the movie led Studio Trigger to run a Kickstarter funding a sequel, which surpassed its funding goal.

Tags: Magic , Witch , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Dungeon , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ojou-sama , Urban Fantasy , Dragons , Gore

Witch Craft Works

Also known as Witch Craft Works.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Lantis
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Supernatural

Takamiya Honoka is a regular student whose only problem seems to be that he sits next to Kagari Ayaka, the school's #1 beauty. They have never spoken to each other before and any small interaction between them immediately results in her fanclub beating him. Yet when a falling part of the school's building is about to send him to the afterlife, it's Kagari that comes to his rescue. Only... she's dressed as a witch, carrying him in her arms and floating on a broom?! Kagari tells him it is her mission to protect him and that now she can finally protect him openly rather than undercover.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Surreal Comedy , Kuudere , Seinen , Incest , Heterosexual , Amnesia , School Club , Meta , Bullying

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 , Archery , Philosophy

Shigofumi

Also known as Shigofumi.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Bandai Visual , Genco , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

When someone dies, what should their final words be? Words that couldn't be said while still alive - of love, hate, hope, regret or perhaps words without any importance. These words are sent through letters called "shigofumi" from the recently deceased to the living. Mikawa Fumika is a mail carrier of these shigofumi, delivering them alongside staff and her partner Kanaka. However, there must be something more behind Fumika's silent exterior; shigofumi mail carriers are deceased humans with the same appearance they had just before death. Despite this, Fumika is still aging...

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Suicide , Denpa , Tomboy , Amnesia , Work , Tragedy , Tennis , Afterlife , Conspiracy , School , Magic , Episodic , Gods , Bullying , Kuudere , Disability , Writing , Coming of Age , Rehabilitation , Revenge , Crime , Heterosexual , Guns , Office Lady , Family Life , Police , Detective

Mahoutsukai ni Narenakatta Onnanoko no Hanashi.

Also known as The Stories of Girls Who Couldn't Be Magicians.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Asmik Ace , Fosun Entertainment Japan , Sotsu , NetEase Games , J.C.STAFF , Bunka Housou , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy

At Rettoran Magic Academy, two unlikely friends share one dream: to become magicians. Kurumi is an average girl who’s a bit naive, while Yuzu is the distinguished daughter of a noble magician family. They need to get into a special magician training class, but they fail the entrance exam! All hope seems lost until mysterious homeroom teacher Minami Suzuki arrives, and their luck takes a sudden turn.



Tags: Boarding School , Witch , Female Protagonist , Magic , School , Animals , Conspiracy , Ensemble Cast , School Club , Shapeshifting , Ojou-sama , Kids

Kore wa Zombie desu ka?

Also known as Is this a Zombie?.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , AT-X , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , KLOCKWORX , flying DOG
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Supernatural

Aikawa Ayumu is a normal high school boy. One day he is killed by a serial killer and revived as a zombie by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe. He starts to serve Eu as her guard but he happens to deprive the mahou shoujo Haruna of her magic power. Haruna orders Ayumu to fight against the anti-mahou shoujo system "Megalo" in her place.

Tags: Zombie , Female Harem , Henshin , Urban Fantasy , Magic , Crossdressing , Kuudere , Monster Girl , School , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Yandere , Vampire , Ninja , Reincarnation , Gore , Memory Manipulation , Nudity , Circus , Assassins , Yuri

Happiness!

Studio: Artland , Delfi Sound
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Kamizaka Haruhi having been rescued when she was young by a mage, longed to be a mage herself, so she enrolled into a special school that allows regular and magic classes into two different sections. Together with her rival/best friend, Hiiragi Anri, they study magic together while she is searching for the boy that saved her years ago, to give him a Valentines' chocolate.



Tags: Magic , School , Female Harem , Transgender

Witch Watch

Also known as WITCH WATCH.

Studio: Bibury Animation Studios , Mainichi Broadcasting System , AQUA ARIS , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Shueisha , Movic , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Shouchiku
Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Morihito Otogi, a high school student who comes from a lineage of ogres, enjoys a peaceful, ordinary life until his childhood friend, Nico, moves in with him. Nico is a witch-in-training, and chooses Morihito to be her familiar. While Nico is thrilled to reunite with her old friend and crush, Morihito is tasked with the perilous duty to protect her from a foretold calamity. Between the unpredictable chaos caused by Nico’s magic, and the awkwardness of sharing a home, their lives become a whirlwind of supernatural hijinks and threats.



Notes:
Worldwide premiere of Episodes 1-3 titled as WITCH WATCH: WATCH PARTY before the Japanese premiere was pre-screened in advance in theaters on March 16, 2025 in North America by GKIDS Films and March 22 and 23 in Europe by Animation Digital Network.
Episodes 1-2 + a selection of stories (Cat Scout, Kanshi's Part Time Job Diaries ~ The Side Job ~, and Kan & Nico's Channel) was pre-screened in advance in theaters on March 30, 2025 in Japan. The regular TV broadcast began April 6, 2025.

Tags: Magic , Witch , Female Protagonist , Slapstick , Found Family , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Cohabitation , Otaku Culture , Episodic , Shounen , Parody , Meta , Youkai , Werewolf , Vampire