Anime like Na-Nare Hana-Nare

Anima Yell!

Studio: Doga Kobo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sports

The story follows Kohane Hatoya, a 1st year high school student who is a bit clumsy and scared of heights but who has a very bubbly and outgoing personality. Kohane decides to join the cheerleading club to try to make friends and overcome her weaknesses.



Tags: Cheerleading , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Dancing , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Fitness , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Twins , Tomboy

Do It Yourself!!

Also known as Do It Yourself!!.

Studio: PINE JAM , Avex Pictures , TV Tokyo , Yostar , MAGNET , Asmik Ace , AT-X , BS11 , Niigata Sogo Television
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Building furniture and friendships have a lot in common. Intention, effort, and hard work are needed for both crafts. This is a story of girls in a DIY club building both as they carve out their futures. None of it comes easy, but that doesn’t stop any of ’em. Furniture, friendships, and the future—they’re building it all with their own hands!



Tags: School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Tsundere , Educational , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Slapstick

Sora yori mo Tooi Basho

Also known as A Place Further Than the Universe.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Media Factory , AT-X , Movic , Sony Music Communications , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama

Mari Tamaki is in her second year of high school and wants to start something. It's then that she meets Shirase, a girl with few friends who's considered weirdo by the rest of the class and nicknamed "Antarctic" since it's all she ever talks about. Unlike her peers, Mari is moved by Shirase's dedication and decides that even though it's unlikely that high school girls will ever go to Antarctica, she's going to try to go with Shirase.



Tags: Travel , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Foreign , Snowscape , Orphan , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Iyashikei , Work , Konbini , Wilderness , Educational , Ships , School , Mahjong

Hanayamata

Also known as HaNaYaMaTa.

Studio: MADHOUSE , DIVE II Entertainment , Sentai Filmworks , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Normal appearance, normal intelligence, normal in arts and sports... just normal. This is the entirely normal 14-year-old, Naru Sekiya. While she admires "Heroines" she continues to live a normal life until one moonlit night she meets a fairy. This foreign girl then guides her into the extraordinary world of the yosakoi dance.


Tags: Dancing , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , School , Iyashikei , Seinen , Tsundere , Band , Idol

HUGtto! Precure

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

Nono Hana is an 8th grade student who wants to be a stylish and mature big sister like figure. She always puts on a lovely smile and loves to search for exciting things. One day, Hana meets a baby named Hug-tan and her guardian fairy named Harry who had fallen from the sky. At that exact moment, an evil organization called Dark Tomorrow suddenly appeared! They're trying to forcefully take Hug-tan's Mirai Crystal! In order to protect Hug-tan, Hana wishes to do something to help her, and her wish is granted, as she gains a Mirai Crystal and transforms into Cure Yell. The world is overflowed with Tomorrow Powerer, which is the power to create a brilliant tomorrow, which is crystallized into the Mirai Crystals. If it's stolen, everyone's future will not exist. To protect Hug-tan and everyone's future, Cure Yell will do her best!



Tags: Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Superhero , Coming of Age , Time Manipulation , Tokusatsu , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Isekai , Super Robot , Fairy , Parenthood , Super Power , Family Life , Memory Manipulation , Cheerleading , Urban Fantasy , Artificial Intelligence , Urban , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Child Cast , Bullying , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Acting , Episodic , Kids , Robots , Animals , Adoption , Anthropomorphism , CGI , Kemonomimi , Nekomimi , Swordplay , Archery , Idol , School , Ice Skating , Kuudere , Age Regression , Educational , Crossover , Mermaid , Tragedy

Bocchi the Rock!

Also known as BOCCHI THE ROCK!.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Houbunsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Hitori Gotou, “Bocchi-chan,” is a girl who’s so introverted and shy around people that she’d always start her conversations with “Ah...”

During her middle school years, she started playing the guitar, wanting to join a band because she thought it could be an opportunity for even someone shy like her to also shine. But because she had no friends, she ended up practicing guitar for six hours every day all by herself. After becoming a skilled guitar player, she uploaded videos of herself playing the guitar to the internet under the name “Guitar Hero” and fantasized about performing at her school’s cultural festival concert. But not only could she not find any bandmates, before she knew it, she was in high school and still wasn’t able to make a single friend!

She was really close to becoming a shut-in, but one day, Nijika Ijichi, the drummer in Kessoku Band, reached out to her. And because of that, her everyday life started to change little by little...



Tags: Band , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Rock Music , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , Hikikomori , Rehabilitation , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Mixed Media , Yuri , Slapstick , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Work , School , Rotoscoping , Chibi

Maebashi Witches

Also known as Maebashi Witches.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Bandai Namco Music Live , Asmik Ace , BS11 , KADOKAWA , Tohan , Koshidaka Holdings , Bushiroad Move
Status: Releasing
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life

Welcome to Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture. For first-year high school student Yuina Akagi, her middling life takes a wild turn the moment a mysterious frog named Keroppe shows up and asks her, “Why don’t you become a witch?” Alongside Azu Niisato, Kyouka Kitahara, Choco Mitsumata, and Mai Kamiizumi, Yuina and her friends are excited to make people’s dreams come true as the Maebashi Witches.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Urban , Urban Fantasy , Animals , Henshin , Witch , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , CGI , Idol , Coming of Age , Dancing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Healer Girl

Also known as Healer Girl.

Studio: Studio 3Hz , Bandai Namco Arts , Live Viewing Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The world can be healed through music, and these three girls want to make it happen. Meet Kana Fujii, Reimi Itsushiro, and Hibiki Morishima—three healers-in-training at the Karasuma Phoniatric Clinic learning the art of healing patients’ illnesses and injuries by singing. Join them on this musical adventure of kindhearted, powerful miracles sung to heal the world.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Musical Theater , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Magic , Iyashikei , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Rural , Foreign , Band , Maids

Zombie Land Saga

Also known as ZOMBIE LAND SAGA.

Studio: MAPPA , Cygames , Avex Pictures , dugout , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Supernatural

A typical morning. The usual music. Their normal lives. The peace these seven girls experience will suddenly be destroyed. By the living dead... zombies. A reality that they never wanted a part of, an amazing and terrifying zombie world. They all share one wish: "We want to live." These girls will struggle through this saga, in order to achieve a miracle. MAPPA, Avex Pictures, and Cygames team up to bring you a juicy, 100% original anime. A timeless shocker for all audiences, a brand new style of zombie anime, will soon rise.



Tags: Zombie , Idol , Monster Girl , Primarily Female Cast , Surreal Comedy , Female Protagonist , Satire , Necromancy , Parody , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , Dancing , CGI , Time Skip , Rural , Transgender , Oiran , LGBTQ+ Themes , Episodic , Motorcycles , Gangs , Hip-hop Music

TARI TARI

Also known as Tari Tari.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Dentsu , Sotsu , Lantis , P.A.WORKS , Pony Canyon , Sentai Filmworks , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

The last year of high school is always a time of both looking forward and looking back. Before you lives the future, alternately bright and scary. Behind you lie memories, both happy and sad. And somehow, in the course of one year, you have to reconcile those two and decide where your life is going to go.

For Wakana Sakai, who had started studying music, it's time to face the tragedy that made her abandon that path. For Sawa Okita, it's about her dreams of riding professionally. And for Konatsu Miyamoto, it's about bringing her friends together through the magic of a song. Can something as simple as the formation of a choir club really help solve the hurts and pangs that come with growing up? Can music bring people together despite their differences?



Tags: Ensemble Cast , Coastal , Coming of Age , School Club , Band , School , Animals , Family Life , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things