Anime like Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen

SPY×FAMILY

Also known as SPY x FAMILY.

Studio: CloverWorks , WIT STUDIO , Toho , Shueisha , TV Tokyo , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Everyone has a part of themselves they cannot show to anyone else.

At a time when all nations of the world were involved in a fierce war of information happening behind closed doors, Ostania and Westalis had been in a state of cold war against one another for decades. The Westalis Intelligence Services' Eastern-Focused Division (WISE) sends their most talented spy, "Twilight," on a top-secret mission to investigate the movements of Donovan Desmond, the chairman of Ostania's National Unity Party, who is threatening peace efforts between the two nations.

This mission is known as "Operation Strix." It consists of "putting together a family in one week in order to infiltrate social gatherings organized by the elite school that Desmond's son attends."

"Twilight" takes on the identity of psychiatrist Loid Forger and starts looking for family members. But Anya, the daughter he adopts, turns out to have the ability to read people's minds, while his wife, Yor, is an assassin! With it being in each of their own interests to keep these facts hidden, they start living together while concealing their true identities from one another.
World peace is now in the hands of this brand-new family as they embark on an adventure full of surprises.



Tags: Espionage , Family Life , Found Family , Fake Relationship , Assassins , Conspiracy , Shounen , Adoption , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Crime , Foreign , Urban , Slapstick , Super Power , Parenthood , School , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Episodic , Politics , Cohabitation , Guns , Urban Fantasy , Orphan , Martial Arts , Bullying , Tsundere , Unrequited Love

Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

Also known as Assassination Classroom.

Studio: Lerche , Funimation , Kansai TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Supernatural

The students of class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any of them have ever had?

Tags: Assassins , School , Teacher , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Tentacles , Aliens , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Crime , Guns , Male Protagonist , Bullying , Found Family , Episodic , Artificial Intelligence , Baseball , Femboy , School Club , Tragedy , Suicide

Katekyou Hitman REBORN!

Also known as REBORN!.

Studio: Artland , Dentsu , Marvelous Entertainment , Pony Canyon , d-rights , Discotek , TV Tokyo Music , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

Nowadays, the mafia world is ruled by Italy's strongest family, the Vongola. Vongola's current head, ninth in the row, is an old man ready for retirement. But before he can hand down his position, he needs help from a professional Hitman to prepare the next generation Boss for ruling over Vongola and the mafia world itself.

Sawada Tsunayoshi is just your ordinary teenage boy who attends Junior High and sucks at it. He is unpopular, has no friends, and is desperately in love with a girl from his class. But his life takes an extraordinary turn when Tsunayoshi meets Reborn, an infamous hitman, who the ninth boss of Vongola has sent to train Tsunayoshi for his upcoming title.



Tags: Mafia , Shounen , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Age Regression , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Urban Fantasy , Alternate Universe , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Slapstick , Chibi , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , School , Anti-Hero , Ghost , Chuunibyou

SAKAMOTO DAYS

Also known as SAKAMOTO DAYS.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , TMS Entertainment , Shueisha , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

When Sakamoto meets Aoi, the convenience store clerk, it’s love at first sight — and just like that, he retires.

Sakamoto gets married, has a daughter, opens a mom-and-pop store in a quiet town, and completely transforms … into a plus-size man. To ensure a peaceful life with his beloved family, the legendary ex–hit man bands together with comrades to face off against the looming threat of assassins.



Note: The series streamed a week in advance on Netflix Japan starting with episode 2 released alongside episode 1.

Tags: Urban , Assassins , Found Family , Crime , Konbini , Primarily Adult Cast , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Gangs , Gore , Super Power , Guns , Shounen , Espionage , Yakuza , Triads , Urban Fantasy

SAKAMOTO DAYS Part 2

Also known as SAKAMOTO DAYS Part 2.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

The second part of SAKAMOTO DAYS.

Note: The series is streaming a week in advance on Netflix Japan starting with episode 2 released alongside episode 1.

Tags: Assassins , Crime , Criminal Organization , Gangs , Urban , Male Protagonist , Guns , Found Family , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Konbini , Super Power , Yakuza , Family Life , Gore , Urban Fantasy

Sousei no Onmyouji

Also known as Twin Star Exorcists.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

Rokuro Enmado is a young boy who used to be a powerful aspiring exorcist, before a tragic incident left his friend dead and made him abandon the profession. One day, he has a fateful encounter with Benio Adashino, a girl around his age and a well known exorcist from the east. According to prophecy, Rokuro and Benio are the "Twin Star Exorcists", and are destined to marry and have a child which will be the ultimate exorcist, capable of cleansing all evil spirits, or Kegare, from the world.
When Rokuro's best friend Ryogo goes missing, Rokuro is forced to ask Benio for help to enter Magano, the realm of the evil Kegare, to rescue him!



Tags: Shounen , Exorcism , Revenge , Magic , Demons , Tragedy , Yandere , Swordplay , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Ghost , Twins , Time Skip

Mononogatari

Also known as Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , GREE Entertainment , Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment , Bandai Namco Music Live , BS11 , Quaras , Happinet Phantom Studios
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Supernatural

Filled with rage against spirits known as tsukumogami, Kunato Hyoma is sent to live with Nagatsuki Botan to help him see a different side. Though both are part of a clan that return the spirits back to their world with divine powers, their experiences with the otherworldly vessels are vastly different. Kunato, robbed of a loved one, and Nagatsuki, saved by them. Can she get through to him?



Tags: Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Found Family , Martial Arts , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Shapeshifting , Urban , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Super Power , Swordplay , Amnesia , Battle Royale , Karuta , Exorcism , Love Triangle

Joukamachi no Dandelion

Also known as Castle Town Dandelion.

Studio: Production IMS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

In the story, the everyday lives of the nine super-powered siblings of the royal family are monitored by more than 200 surveillance cameras and broadcast nationwide. The people of the nation who are watching the broadcast will have the ability to elect the next monarch. The story focuses on Akane, the third-oldest sister who can manipulate gravity. She is shy and desperately does not want to be caught on camera.



Tags: Super Power , Ensemble Cast , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Chuunibyou , Seinen , Idol , Age Regression , Royal Affairs , Heterosexual

Full Metal Panic!

Also known as Full Metal Panic!.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Sousuke Sagara, a seventeen year old military specialist working for the secret organization MITHRIL, has been assigned to protect the latest "Whispered" candidate Kaname Chidori. To complete this task Sousuke will have to deal with enemies from his past as well as the occasional panty thief. Unfortunately for Sousuke, the toughest part of his mission isn't only protecting Miss Chidori but also getting used to living an average High School students life, no easy task for someone raised on the battlefield.



Tags: Military , Guns , Real Robot , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , School , Super Power , War , Male Protagonist , Slapstick , Terrorism , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Work , Ships , Artificial Intelligence , Surreal Comedy , Alternate Universe

Seto no Hanayome

Also known as My Bride is a Mermaid.

Studio: GONZO , AIC , Square Enix , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Michishio Nagasumi's life couldn't be any more normal. In an odd twist of events, during his summer vacation he ends up almost drowning in the sea. Luckily, the cute mermaid Seto San appears to save him. However, San is from a yakuza mermaid family and according to their law, if a human is to catch sight of a mermaid, either he or the mermaid must die. The only other way is for Nagasumi to be taken in as a family member, marrying San. In attempts to save both of their lives, Nagasumi asks for San's hand in marriage. Nagasumi's summer vacation reaped more then what he would expect, as he must now protect San from others finding her secret out.

Tags: Parody , Mermaid , Male Protagonist , School , Gangs , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Chibi , Slapstick , Idol , Female Harem , Shounen , Ensemble Cast