Anime like Maria†Holic

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Aniplex of America , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/6. Contains the arcs Hitagi Crab, Mayoi Snail, Suruga Monkey, Nadeko Snake, and Tsubasa Cat from the Bakemonogatari light novels.

Thanks to Meme Oshino, Koyomi Araragi, a high school student, is able to remain a human after coming across a female vampire... However, since the incident, Koyomi seems to meet girls who have an apparition-related issue. Hitagi Senjougahara doesn’t weigh anything, Suruga Kanbaru’s right arm becomes like that of a monkey’s, and a young girl, Mayoi, cannot find her way home no matter how many times she tries. Koyomi, a Mr. Nice Guy, ends up helping each and every girl solve her problem with the help of Meme Oshino.



Note: Only the first 12 episodes were broadcast on television; the remaining three episodes were distributed on the anime's website between November 3, 2009, and June 25, 2010.

Tags: Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Vampire , Ghost , Satire , Primarily Female Cast , Meta , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Psychosexual , Curses , Exorcism , Monster Girl , Gore , Rotoscoping , Gods , Yandere , Love Triangle , Mixed Media , Parody , Tomboy , Nekomimi , Female Harem , Nudity , Tsundere , CGI , School , Amnesia , Rehabilitation

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Also known as Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.

Studio: Shaft , Starchild Records , Omnibus Japan , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Itoshiki Nozomu is always in despair! Even simple things like paying for the toll on the subway can send him to a despair so deep only attempted suicide is the answer. How Strange is it then, that he should be the teacher of a High School Class filled with students with even more emotional problems than his. This great Comedy will leave you in anything but 'Despair' as you meet each of his students and watch their wacky adventures.

Tags: Satire , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Teacher , Suicide , Parody , School , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Masochism , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Nudity , Female Harem , Dissociative Identities , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Hikikomori , Kuudere , Shounen , Yandere , Ghost

Kuragehime

Also known as Princess Jellyfish.

Studio: Funimation , Brain's Base , Asmik Ace , Sony Music Entertainment , Sakura Create , Fujipacific Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Plain, timid and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete with roommates who harbor diehard hobbies that solidify their status as hopeless social rejects. These wallflowers run a tight, nun-like ship, but their no-men-allowed-not-no-one-not-no-how bubble is unwittingly burst after Tsukimi brings home a rescued sea jelly and a beauty queen... who's actually a guy.

When the threat of losing their cozy convent inspires this glamour boy to turn the neurotic entourage into a portrait of success, will Tsukimi take her chance to bloom, or will she end up a hot mess?



Tags: Josei , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Primarily Adult Cast , Otaku Culture , Makeup , Found Family , Gender Bending , Primarily Female Cast , Femboy , Fashion , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Love Triangle , Urban , LGBTQ+ Themes , Politics , Drawing

Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru

Also known as Otoboku: Maidens are Falling for Me.

Studio: feel. , Starchild Records , Dream Force , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Mizuho can't believe his ears when Grandpa's will is read out. Grandpa's final wish is for Mizuho to attend the same academy as Mizuho's mother. The catch is it's an all-girls school. With the help of friend Mariya however, he gets a makeover good enough to fool everyone at the academy.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Ojou-sama , Crossdressing , School , Ghost , Parody , Femboy , Female Harem , Kuudere , Yuri

Mayo Chiki!

Also known as Mayo Chiki!.

Studio: feel. , TBS , Sentai Filmworks , PRA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

When you've got acute gynophobia, even a pretty girl can be a malady, and as the sparring partner for his family of female wrestlers, Sakamachi Kinjiro has the worst case EVER! Just one touch makes his nose bleed, so school's a bloody nightmare even before Kanade, the Principal's twisted daughter, deduces both Kinjiro's "feminine issue" AND that his name contains the sounds "Chi" and "Kin" back to back. But Chi-Kin's female troubles don't totally redline until a wrong turn in the men's room exposes the secret Subaru, Kanade's manservant, has been hiding in the water closet. (Well, to be fair, we should say WOmanservant.) And if Subaru's cross reactions concerning her cross-dressing aren't enough of a drag, Kinjiro's girl problems also include a haunted martial artist (with ghosts); a cat-eared fetishist (meow!); AND his own sister, whose interest in "wrestling" a certain incorrectly packaged butler may result in an unexpected ending! And that's JUST the set up!



Tags: Butler , Crossdressing , School , Primarily Female Cast , Ojou-sama , Male Protagonist , Tsundere , Female Harem , Meta , Episodic , Tomboy , Nudity , Heterosexual , Otaku Culture , Yandere , Wrestling

Maria-sama ga Miteru

Also known as Maria Watches Over Us.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Rondo Robe , TV Tokyo Music , Maiden Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

At Lillian Girls’ Academy, a renowned all-girls Catholic school, pairs of girls become soeurs, or “sisters”, in order to support and guide each other during their time at school. The shy Yumi Fukuzawa thought she was far too ordinary to attract a soeur as popular and beautiful as Sachiko Ogasawara, but for some reason, Sachiko has set her sights on Yumi — but why does she want to become Yumi’s soeur, anyway, and just what will become Sachiko’s soeur entail?



Tags: School , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Boarding School , LGBTQ+ Themes , Ojou-sama , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Shoujo

Inu x Boku SS

Also known as Inu X Boku Secret Service.

Studio: Aniplex , Square Enix , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Movic , david production , Sentai Filmworks , Inu x Boku SS Production Partners
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Supernatural

The Shirakiin house's daughter, Shirakiin Ririchiyo, who has a complex about being unable to live independently and unprotected, feels the need to move out and live on her own under the condition of residing in the mansion named "Ayakashi Kan." In this mansion, only those who have cleared a very strict examination could reside in it, and for each resident, they are accompanied with one agent of the Secret Service (S.S.). Although Riricho has rejected the company of the S.S., while residing in the mansion she finds out that the agent dedicated to protecting her is actually the Fox Spirit.

Tags: Youkai , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Reincarnation , Urban Fantasy , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Ojou-sama , School , Shounen , Coming of Age , Tanned Skin , Primarily Female Cast , Amnesia , Henshin , Kemonomimi , Delinquents , Yandere , Kuudere , Skeleton , Chibi , Bullying , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Maids , Surreal Comedy , Afterlife , Transgender , Time Manipulation

Paniponi Dash!

Also known as Pani Poni Dash!.

Studio: Shaft , Square Enix , Starchild Records , Funimation , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The 11 year old Miyamoto Rebecca becomes the new teacher of a classroom which is full of weirdos. Despite her cute looks she's a little beast and can be pretty sarcastic and offensive. The school is not safe anymore now that she's in charge of a class and her students, Himeko, Ichijou, Rei and a white rabbit who took a liking to Rebecca help her to rough up the school and the neighbour-class with its teacher "ojii-chan".



Tags: School , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Teacher , Meta , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Aliens , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Shounen , Anachronism , Robots , Gods , Twins , Kuudere , Card Battle

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 , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Amnesia , Archery , Nudity , Ensemble Cast , Unrequited Love

Jashin-chan Dropkick

Also known as Dropkick on My Devil!.

Studio: Nomad
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The demon Jashin-chan has been summoned to Earth by Yurine Hanazono, a girl with a knack for the occult. Unfortunately, Yurine does not actually know how to send Jashin-chan back to Hell. Now stuck on Earth, she must live at Yurine's apartment as her familiar.

The only way for Jashin-chan to return would be to kill her summoner, but this is easier said than done for the incompetent demon. Since Jashin-chan is immortal and can regenerate her body, Yurine does not hold back in attacking her with a range of weapons, punishing her in gruesome manners for her evil schemes. Jashin-chan is also often visited by her demon friends: the kindhearted Gorgon Medusa and the energetic minotaur Minosu, who seem much more well-behaved in contrast, and disapprove of her plans to kill Yurine.



Tags: Monster Girl , Slapstick , Demons , Primarily Female Cast , Urban Fantasy , Torture , Urban , Reverse Isekai , Female Protagonist , Meta , Bullying , Surreal Comedy , Gore , Mythology , Satire , Seinen , Angels , Gods , Kuudere , Nudity , Police , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Food , Chuunibyou , Tomboy , Episodic , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Homeless , Isekai , Idol , Time Loop , Gambling , Yandere , Crossover , Yuri