Anime like Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou - My Ordinary Life.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Kadokawa Shoten , Movic , Rakuonsha , Bandai Entertainment , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , KLOCKWORX , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Slapstick , School , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Achronological Order , Robots , Camping , Shounen , Body Horror , Drawing , Tsundere , Love Triangle , Football , Guns

Azumanga Daiou THE ANIMATION

Also known as Azumanga Daioh.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Genco , Lantis , Imagica , TV Tokyo Music , Cosmic Ray , Sentai Filmworks , J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Ten year old child prodigy, Chiyo Mihama, is finding it tough fitting in at high school with the girls five years her elder: Osaka (dimwitted with a weird take on the world), Tomo (a powder keg that goes off at a moment’s notice), Kagura (the competitive athlete of the bunch), Yomi (the hothead), and Sakaki (timid and obsessed with a love of animals that isn’t reciprocated). Together with their teacher, they navigate the rough waters and fun times of high school.



Tags: Episodic , School , Primarily Female Cast , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Teacher , Tomboy , Shounen , Kuudere , Yuri , Unrequited Love , Survival

Lucky☆Star

Also known as Lucky☆Star.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Rakuonsha , Lucky Paradise , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

What’s the best way to eat dessert? Do twins really have a psychic connection? What kind of guys are into moe girls? These are the kinds of questions that float through the inquisitive mind of anime super-fan Konata Izumi. When she’s not lost in her favorite manga or logging hours in one of her online games, she’s debating the mysteries of the universe with the best friends a girl could ask for.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Otaku Culture , Parody , School , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Meta , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Video Games , Twins , Tsundere , Kuudere , Ojou-sama , Cheerleading , Shounen , Shrine Maiden , Baseball , Mixed Media

Poputepipikku

Also known as Pop Team Epic.

Studio: Kamikaze Douga , King Records , Glovision , Sentai Filmworks , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Poputepipikku turns absurdist comedy up to eleven with its pop culture references and surreal hilarity. With two bonafide high school girl protagonists—the short and exceptionally quick to anger Popuko, and the tall and unshakably calm Pipimi—they throw genres against the wall and don't wait to see what sticks. Parody is interlaced with drama, action, crudeness, and the show's overarching goal—to become a real anime.


Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Parody , Meta , Satire , Female Protagonist , Mixed Media , Seinen , Musical Theater

Asobi Asobase

Also known as Asobi Asobase - workshop of fun -.

Studio: Lerche
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Olivia is a blonde-haired beauty who was born and raised in Japan, but can’t speak any English. Despite always acting serious and as an intellectual, Kasumi is a bespectacled girl with short hair, who also can’t speak English. Finally, there’s the pig-tailed Hanako, who’s cheerful but can’t seem to become a normie. The three middle schoolers end up making a “Players’ Club”?! The ultimately cute, ultimately fun and hilarious teenage girls’ comedy is about to begin!



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Episodic , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parody , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Ojou-sama , Gyaru , Makeup

Kill Me Baby

Also known as Kill Me Baby.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Pony Canyon , TBS , Magic Capsule , Sentai Filmworks , Pony Canyon Enterprise
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Kill Me Baby is the touching story of Yasuna, a normal (?) high school girl, and Sonya, her best friend who happens to be an assassin. Unfortunately, little Sonya's trained assassin instincts often work against her and others in her daily high school life, as Yasuna's often-broken wrist can attest to. She just wanted a hug, but she ended up with a broken neck. Isn't it sad? No, it's hilarious.

Not even Yasuna's intense ninja training can prepare her for the exciting adventures in this explosive 4-panel manga adaptation.

Tags: Assassins , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Ninja , Chibi , Slapstick , Surreal Comedy , Seinen

Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan

Also known as Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Hal Film Maker , Nomad , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Supernatural

In the future, a junior high student, Kusakabe Sakura, will offend God by inventing immortality so that women will stop aging after they turn twelve. Dokuro-chan is an angel from the future sent to kill him. However, Dokuro-chan thinks that Sakura can be spared, so her idea is to constantly occupy Sakura so that he will never be able to invent the technology. Sometimes the angel will go crazy and kill him with her bat, Excalibolg, but she can revive him easily. "Pi-piru-piru-piru-pi-piru-pi!"

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Gore , Parody , Slapstick , Assassins , Angels , Magic , Bullying , Urban Fantasy , Anti-Hero , Kuudere , School , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Denpa

Yani Neko

Also known as Chainsmoker Cat.

Studio: Bibury Animation Studios , Kodansha , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , TOKYO MX
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Slice of Life

Yani is a catgirl with a seriously bad smoking habit. She smokes so much that her apartment smells like ash and is littered with cigarette butts—and plenty of other trash! Every time she tries to quit, she becomes weak to the cravings and gives in almost instantly. Will she ever get her life together, or is she doomed to live as a chainsmoking slob forever?

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Drugs , Nekomimi , Female Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Primarily Female Cast , Episodic , Class Struggle , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Seinen , Rehabilitation , Nudity , Satire , Survival , Delinquents , Hikikomori , Centaur , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Heterosexual , Yuri , LGBTQ+ Themes , Time Loop , Femboy , Mahjong

Gabriel Dropout

Also known as Gabriel DropOut.

Studio: Doga Kobo , Kadokawa Media House , AT-X , Sony Music Communications , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

An angel at the top of an angel school has descended to the human world! However, she has already acclimated to the life of the human world so much that she ends up leading a self-indulgent life, skipping school all the time and being absorbed in online games. Gabriel soon forgets about her original goal to make human beings happy and has turned into a lazy and hopeless angel, or a “sloppy angel” in short. Amazingly, she swears to continue to fully enjoy the pleasure of various entertainments of the human world.



Tags: Angels , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Urban , School , Gods , Episodic , Chibi , Hikikomori , Magic , Tsundere , Chuunibyou , Parody , Video Games , Shounen , Work

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