Anime like Maria-sama ga Miteru

Strawberry Panic

Also known as Strawberry Panic.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Lantis , Media Blasters , Dwango
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Aoi Nagisa transfers to one of the three affiliated all-girl Catholic schools on Astraea Hill, St. Miator's Girls' Academy. There, she discovers a community of fellow students entwined in an intricate hierarchy, in which two Etoiles represent the three schools. In order to fit in, Nagisa must go to class, join clubs, and make new friends. Meanwhile, Shizuma Hanazono, the sole Etoile of Astraea Hill, finds herself drawn to this new, exciting transfer student. As Shizuma and Nagisa get to know each other, Shizuma finally decides it is time to face her troubled past.

Tags: Yuri , Love Triangle , School , Boarding School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Archery , Amnesia , Nudity

Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!

Also known as Yuri Is My Job!.

Studio: Passione , Happinet Phantom Studios , Asmik Ace , Ichijinsha , Nippon Columbia , arma bianca , Sotsu , Frontier Works , BS Fuji , AT-X , TOKYO MX , KLOCKWORX , BS Nittele , Studio Lings
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Worried about her reputation, Hime covers shifts for a cafe manager she accidentally injures to maintain her picture-perfect princess image. But this cafe has a peculiar theme—private school. To put on her best barista schoolgirl act, she’ll be trained by the most graceful girl there, Mitsuki. Under her guidance, Hime’s feelings start to brew, but there’s just one problem—Mitsuki can’t stand her!



Tags: Work , Primarily Female Cast , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Acting , Love Triangle , Meta , Ojou-sama , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Gyaru , Tsundere , Yandere , Parody , Ensemble Cast , Aromantic

Yagate Kimi ni Naru

Also known as Bloom Into You.

Studio: TROYCA , AT-X , Sony Music Entertainment , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Yuu Koito thought love would be something amazing and magical, but when a male friend asks her to date, she feels nothing. She doesn't even know how to respond until she overhears the student council president of her new high school, Touko Nanami, turning down a similar request. With Touko's help, Yuu manages to let her friend down gracefully, but then Touko confesses that she, herself, is starting to have feelings for Yuu, leaving Yuu in a quandary. Yuu doesn't think that she's in love with Touko, but she does feel something. As Yuu joins the Student Council, and she and Touko become closer, her confusion about her feelings only continues to grow. Because you can't control who you love, or who falls in love with you.



Tags: Yuri , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Coming of Age , School , School Club , Asexual , Aromantic , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Philosophy , Bisexual , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , POV , Acting , Meta , Trains , Writing , Athletics

Onii-sama e...

Also known as Dear Brother.

Studio: NHK , NHK Enterprises , Tezuka Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Before leaving her cram school, Nanako Misonō asks one of the teachers if they can become pen-pals. The teacher, Takehiko Henmi, is reluctant at first, but eventually accepts the offer. The story is narrated through the letters sent from Nanako as she enters Seiran, a renowned private high school for girls only. There she encounters many difficulties as an ordinary middle-class girl invited to the prestigious Sorority, the most traditional and sophisticated club on campus..



Tags: Shoujo , Boarding School , Tragedy , School , Ojou-sama , Coming of Age , Bullying , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Tomboy , Suicide , Drugs , Heterosexual , Villainess , Trains , Basketball

Aoi Hana

Also known as Sweet Blue Flowers.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , The Right Stuf International , Fujipacific Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Fumi and Akira were close childhood friends until Fumi had to move away. Ten years after losing touch with each other, the two girls meet again as high school freshmen. The two struggle to reconnect after so much has changed, and both deal with the trials and tribulations of high school — sometimes independently and sometimes with each other’s help.



Tags: Primarily Teen Cast , Yuri , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Love Triangle , Bisexual , Tomboy , Josei , Basketball , Acting , Rural

Asagao to Kase-san.

Also known as Kase-san and Morning Glories.

Studio: ZEXCS
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

A relationship is like a garden. It's hard, really hard, to plant the initial seeds. Once you've gone through the agonizing process of wondering if the other person even likes you, fought the fear that telling her could destroy everything, and made your confession, the most difficult part begins. Because you have to keep nurturing this wonderful new feeling to keep it growing. Not just in your own heart, but in hers. And since even the most beautiful rose can cut you to the bone with its thorns, who can you talk to for advice? Especially when you're both girls in high school? For shy Yamada and boyish Kase, time is running out.



Tags: Yuri , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Coming of Age , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Horticulture , Agriculture , Rural

Maria†Holic

Also known as Maria†Holic.

Studio: Shaft , Frontier Works , Genco , Media Factory , AT-X , Omnibus Japan , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

It’s not easy to find the perfect girl, even when you’re the same sex! Kanako thought attending an all girls school would be the perfect way to meet the girl of her dreams, but after her hot new roommate turns out to be a guy in drag, and catching the eye of the most popular girl in school only brings down the wrath of all the OTHER similarly obsessed girls, she’s not so sure! Complicate things with a cat-eared dorm leader, her roommate’s rude-mannered maid and identical twin sister (who attends an all boys school, of course,) and WAY too many attractive girls of questionable persuasions and the question becomes whether Kanako can die from frustrated nosebleeds! (Life would be SO much easier if guys didn’t literally give her the hives!) Will Kanako ever find a non-polar opposite of a compatible non-opposing polarity?



Tags: Parody , School , Crossdressing , Femboy , Female Protagonist , Maids , Ojou-sama , Bullying , Twins , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Tsundere , Nekomimi , Religion , Seinen , Boarding School , Archery , Kuudere , Bisexual

citrus

Also known as Citrus.

Studio: Passione , Lantis , Infinite , Crunchyroll , Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Fashionable and friendly Yuzu Aihara is ready to face her brand-new school and find her first love. The only problem? It's an all-girls' school. Determined to make a good impression and lots of friends, Yuzu puts on her best looks—only to wind up in trouble on day-one! After a close encounter by the beautiful yet harsh student council president Mei and having her phone confiscated, Yuzu is losing hope that this will be a perfect high school story. But nothing compares to the shock when she gets home to find out Mei is her brand-new stepsister—who suddenly kisses her! With her heart beating wildly and her emotions a complete mess, Yuzu wonders something: Is she falling for Mei?

Torn between being a good stepsister and dealing with her feelings, Yuzu does everything she can to become close to Mei. But can she melt the ice around Mei's heart and heal the pain she hides?



Tags: Yuri , Inseki , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Female Cast , Psychosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Cohabitation , School , Love Triangle , Gyaru , Unrequited Love , Family Life , Bisexual , Nudity , Teacher , Age Gap

Go! Princess Precure

Also known as Go! Princess Precure.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

The story is set in Noble Academy, the first boarding junior high school in the Precure franchise. The anime depicts the excitement of dorm life, coming of age while living with friends, and the anticipation and anxiety of a new life among roommates, separated from family.

The heroine Haruka Haruno is a first-year student at Noble Academy. Even now, she has cherished a dream of becoming a princess, like those from her precious picture books. Long ago, she made a promise with a boy named Kanata to never give up the dream.

One day, the "Princess Precures" were revived by the Princess Perfume (and Kanata's dress-shaped "Dress-Up Key" that unlocks the Princess Perfume's power), and Haruka transforms into the flower princess Cure Flora. When unleashing their special signature moves, the Princess Precures' outfits turn into magnificent princess-like Mode Elegant long dresses.

Haruka also meets two new companions. Minami Kaidou is a second-year student and the student council president nicknamed the "school princess." She also happens to transform into the sea princess Cure Mermaid.
Haruka's classmate and popular model Kirara Amanogawa is also the star princess Cure Twinkle. The three princesses join forces in battle to protect people's dreams from the dreadful dark witch Dispia's plot to turn them into despair.
Pafu and her older brother Aroma are fairies who came from Hope Kingdom in search of the Princess Precures.
Haruka's childhood acquaintance Kanata happens to be Prince Hope Grand Kanata from the Hope Kingdom.



Tags: Magic , Henshin , Primarily Female Cast , School , Female Protagonist , Kids , Primarily Child Cast , Superhero , Fairy , Urban Fantasy , Tsundere , Boarding School , Amnesia , Coming of Age , Episodic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , CGI , Isekai , Ojou-sama , Tokusatsu , Urban , Mermaid , Tennis , Dancing

Sakura Trick

Also known as Sakura Trick.

Studio: Studio DEEN , TBS , Sentai Filmworks , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Haruka and Yuu have been best friends forever and they've always sat next to each other in class since… well, since they were just girls in junior high anyway. But on their first day of high school, they're stunned to learn that the new seating plan has them on opposite sides of the classroom! So, since everyone knows that long distance relationships won't work unless the parties involved put extra effort into it, they decide they need to do something extra special to permanently seal their friendship. However, deciding to kiss each other awakens a whole new level of feelings, and it doesn't help that some of their classmates seem to be 'involved" in similar circumstances. So what's a girl to do when her best girl friend suddenly seems more like a girlfriend? It's a life lesson that the school curriculum isn't normally prepared to teach, except maybe in French class, and our two young heroines are about to get a private education you'll never forget!



Tags: Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Love Triangle , Seinen , Kuudere , Coming of Age