Anime like Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

Kill la Kill

Also known as Kill la Kill.

Studio: Aniplex , Trigger , Dentsu , Kadokawa Shoten , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Ultra Super Pictures , Movic , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi

After the murder of her father, Ryuuko Matoi has been wandering the land in search of his killer. Following her only lead—the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade—she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a high school unlike any other. The academy is ruled by the imposing and cold-hearted student council president Satsuki Kiryuuin alongside her powerful underlings, the Elite Four. In the school's brutally competitive hierarchy, Satsuki bestows upon those at the top special clothes called "Goku Uniforms," which grant the wearer unique superhuman abilities.

Tags: Henshin , Female Protagonist , Revenge , Nudity , Parody , Surreal Comedy , Class Struggle , Dystopian , Super Power , Tomboy , Aliens , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Military , Anti-Hero , Cult , Psychosexual , Villainess , Incest , Bullying , Philosophy , Ensemble Cast , School Club , Tokusatsu , Delinquents , CGI , Gore , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tragedy , Orphan , Tsundere , Meta , Cosplay , Yandere , Cheerleading

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Also known as Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.

Studio: Science SARU
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Romance , Supernatural

When girl meets boy, love takes off...

Scott Pilgrim meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers, but learns he must defeat her seven evil exes in order to date her. Then things get even more complicated. Based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O'Malley.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Detective , Meta , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Foreign , Surreal Comedy , Time Manipulation , Parody , Band , Super Power , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Heterosexual , Acting , Robots , Hikikomori , Otaku Culture , Boys' Love , Anti-Hero , Age Gap , Skateboarding , Twins , Swordplay , Ninja

FLCL

Also known as FLCL.

Studio: Gainax , Production I.G , Starchild Records , Funimation , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Naota is a detached sixth grader afflicted by the pangs of puberty. He's fooling around with his brother's ex-girlfriend when a crazed girl on a motor scooter runs him over, brains him with a bass guitar, and moves into his house. This pink-haired girl, Haruko - who claims she's an alien - hurls Naota into the middle of a mega-corporation's secret agenda. Oh, and now giant battling robots shoot from his skull. Mix in mind-bending animation and tunes that echo through your cerebellum to top off the trip that will have you falling hard for FLCL.



Tags: Coming of Age , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Age Gap , Psychosexual , Meta , Philosophy , Robots , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Denpa , Love Triangle , Aliens , Parody , Heterosexual , Mopeds , Vore , Amnesia , Guns , Female Protagonist , Kaiju , Urban , Gods , Episodic , Super Robot , Body Horror , Real Robot , Nudity , Baseball , CGI

Uchuu Patrol Luluco

Also known as Space Patrol Luluco.

Studio: Trigger , Good Smile Company , flying DOG , Crunchyroll , bilibili , AT-X , Ultra Super Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Romance , Sci-Fi

The show takes place in Ogikubo, which is the name of the specially designated area in space in the Milky Way where Earthlings and aliens can live together. Luluco is a female middle school student who lives with her father, and no matter where she is, Luluco is a common, "super normal" girl. As she is living her normal life, one day the mysterious transfer student ΑΩ Nova abruptly appears before her. That meeting will change Luluco's fate.



Tags: Space , Parody , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Crossover , Primarily Teen Cast , Henshin , Aliens , Meta , Police , Super Power , Autobiographical , Tokusatsu , Guns , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Work , Pirates , Monster Girl , Estranged Family , School , Philosophy

Dead Leaves

Also known as Dead Leaves.

Studio: Production I.G , Manga Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Pandy and Retro awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. They embark on a devastating crime spree in search of food, clothing and transportation, but are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous lunar penitentiary named Dead Leaves. While incarcerated, they quickly discover that Dead Leaves is also a top-secret cloning facility, occupied by villainous guards and deformed genetic experiments. Ultra-manic chaos and hyper-violent bedlam ensue as they organize a prison break with the aid of their fellow mutant inmates.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Anti-Hero , Delinquents , Amnesia , Fugitive , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Gore , Slapstick , Crime , Space , Nudity , Revenge , Espionage , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Also known as Gurren Lagann.

Studio: Gainax , Aniplex , Konami , Half H.P Studio , Bandai , Bandai Entertainment , Aniplex of America
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Romance , Sci-Fi

In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars.

In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The enterprising Kamina, a young man with a pair of rakish sunglasses and the passion of a firey sun, befriends Simon and forms a small band of brothers, the Gurren Brigade, to escape the village and break through the ceiling of the cave to reach the surface, which few believe exist.

The village elder won't hear of such foolishness and punishes the Brigade. However, when disaster strikes from the world above and the entire village is in jeopardy, it's up to Simon, Kamina, a girl with a big gun named Yoko, and the small yet sturdy robot, Lagann, to save the day.

The new friends journey to the world above and find that the surface is a harsh battlefield, and it's up to them to fight back against the rampaging Beastmen to turn the tide in the humans' favor! Pierce the heavens, Gurren Lagann!

Tags: Super Robot , Coming of Age , Found Family , Dystopian , Male Protagonist , Post-Apocalyptic , Primarily Adult Cast , Space Opera , Tragedy , Travel , Space , Class Struggle , War , Time Skip , Aliens , Politics , Desert , Anthropomorphism , Heterosexual , Outdoor , Henshin , Military , Animals , Alternate Universe , Guns , Cosmic Horror , Shounen , Urban , Nudity , CGI , Love Triangle , Suicide , Swordplay , Boys' Love

Re: Cutie Honey

Studio: Gainax , Toei Animation , Toei Video , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Mahou Shoujo , Sci-Fi

A mysterious organization known as Panther Claw make their presence known by terrorizing Tokyo and giving the cops a run for their money. Police are further baffled by the appearance of a lone cosplaying vigilante who thwarts all of Panther Claw's evil schemes before disappearing. That cosplayer is Honey Kisaragi, the result of the late Professor Kisaragi's prize experiment. A master of disguise, Honey can magically alter her physical appearance and outfits. But with a push of the heart-shaped button on her choker, she transforms herself into Cutie Honey, the scantily-clad, sword-wielding warrior of love and justice.



Tags: Superhero , Super Power , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Nudity , Parody , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Tokusatsu , Tragedy , Seinen , Yuri , Police , Revenge , Primarily Adult Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Robots , Swordplay , Guns , Bondage

Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai

Also known as SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist.

Studio: J.C. Staff , Madman Entertainment , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

The novel's story is set 16 years after the "Law for Public Order and Morals in Healthy Child-Raising" banned coarse language in the country. Tanukichi Okuma enrolls in the country's leading elite public morals school and is soon invited into the Anti-Societal Organization (SOX) by its founder, Ayame Kajou. As a member blackmailed into joining by Ayame, Tanukichi ends up taking part in obscene acts of terrorism against the talented student council president Anna (for whom Tanukichi has a crush).



Tags: Politics , Satire , School , Dystopian , Hypersexuality , Terrorism , Parody , Crime , Male Protagonist , Yandere , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Nudity , Educational , Femdom , Crossdressing , Kuudere , Slapstick

Space☆Dandy 2

Also known as Space Dandy 2.

Studio: bones , BS Fuji , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Bandai Visual , flying DOG , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

The second season of Space☆Dandy.

Space Dandy is a dandy guy, in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it's first come, first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety of aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe!



Tags: Space , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Parody , Achronological Order , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Musical Theater , Philosophy , Robots , Gods , Afterlife , Dancing , Heterosexual , Meta , Band

Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z

Also known as Powerpuff Girls Z.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Aniplex , Toei Animation , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Sci-Fi

Based on the American cartoon, "The Powerpuff Girls."

Professor Utonium and his son Ken are studying the strange Chemical X. When a mochi cake falls into the formula, it changes into Chemical Z. Ken fires a ray of Chemical Z at a glacier in Tokyo Bay, however that causes strange black and white lights to scatter. The black lights turn its victims into monsters, with emphasis on a black light hitting a zoo monkey and transforming him into Mojo Jojo.

The white lights, however, aim at three normal girls, Momoko, Miyako, and Kaoru. This gives them the power to transform into superheroes, the Powerpuff Girls Z!

Tags: Henshin , Super Power , Magic , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Tomboy , Primarily Female Cast , Kids , Family Life , Episodic , Parody , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Child Cast , Superhero , Time Manipulation