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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 , Primarily Teen Cast , Parody , Ensemble Cast , Otaku Culture , School , Meta , Episodic , Coming of Age , Twins , Video Games , Philosophy , Tsundere , Kuudere , Cheerleading , Ojou-sama , Shounen , Shrine Maiden , Baseball , Mixed Media

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

Yuru Yuri

Also known as YuruYuri.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Daume , Doga Kobo , Pony Canyon , DAX Production , NIS America Inc. , Studio Gram , PRA , Jumondou
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Right after starting middle school, Akari Akaza joins the Amusement Club which is composed solely by her two childhood friends, Kyouko Toshinou and Yui Funami. Chinatsu Yoshikawa, Akaza's classmate, becomes a member after finding out about the dissolution of the Tea Club.

The Amusement Club, situated at the tea room facility since the Tea Club disbanded, has no clear purpose, being free for the girls to do whatever they want.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Love Triangle , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Yuri , School , Slapstick , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Kuudere , Twins

Ichigo Mashimaro

Also known as Strawberry Marshmallow.

Studio: Daume , TBS , Movic , Ashi Productions , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

"Cute girls doing cute things in cute ways."

Everyday things make up the fabric of life, whether it's making friends, going to school, trying to make money, or celebrating a holiday. Ichigo Mashimaro is a heartwarming series that follows the daily lives of Itou Chika, her sister Nobue, and her friends Miu, Matsuri, and Ana.

Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , School , Surreal Comedy , Language Barrier , Shounen

Hayate no Gotoku!

Also known as Hayate the Combat Butler.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , SynergySP , Studio Tulip , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance

Hayate Ayasaki's life wasn't great, but when he loses the job he used to support his good-for-nothing family, and his deadbeat parents sell him to the Yakuza for cash, it really hits rock bottom! Faced with having to pay off the huge debt before he's converted into black market organ parts, a desperate Hayate decides to kidnap oddball heiress Nagi Sanzenin for ransom... but when even that goes wrong and he accidentally ends up rescuing Nagi from other kidnappers, it turns out that Hayate is the bodyguard that Nagi has been looking for! So now he's the Sanzenin family's butler, and… maybe… it might be the start of a potential romantic relationship… assuming Hayate can survive the on-the-job training, of course.



Tags: Parody , Meta , Butler , Shounen , Otaku Culture , Male Protagonist , Female Harem , Maids , Crossdressing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Memory Manipulation , Age Gap , Tsundere , Tomboy , Kuudere , Orphan

Shinryaku! Ika Musume

Also known as Squid Girl.

Studio: TV Tokyo , diomedéa , Lantis , Pony Canyon , Media Blasters , TYO Animations , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Foolish land-born air breathers! Behold the terror from the depths, the tentacled conqueror of humanity: Squid Girl! With your pollution and stuff you really deserve it, so prepare for menacing, inky doom!

Squid Girl has come from the depths of the sea to conquer humanity for its pollution of the ocean. Within moments of arriving on the surface world, our easily distracted, little invertebrate is promptly bullied into working for the Aizawa sisters as a waitress, supplying their restaurant with squid ink. If poor Squid Girl can't handle two pushy Japanese girls, how will she ever subjugate the human race?



Tags: Monster Girl , Episodic , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Coastal , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Chuunibyou , Work , Found Family , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban Fantasy , Chibi , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Tomboy , Tanned Skin

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

HIGH SCORE

Studio: DLE , feel. , Shueisha , Sound Team Don Juan
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

A school comedy with violent and blue jokes. Fujiwara Megumi is a beautiful high school girl but has a selfish and violent character. She has a boyfriend named Matsumoto Masamune, but she often goes around with other boys, who end up as victims due to her selfish behavior.

Tags: Shoujo , Flash , Slapstick , School , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Bullying

Koihime†Musou

Studio: Doga Kobo , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Ecchi , Fantasy

This anime is based on an eroge game by Baseson, which was loosely based on the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Having lost her family to bandits during night raid, Kanu swears she will not let others share the same pain. She quickly becomes a well-known and feared by villains bandit hunter. During her journey she comes across others who wish to join her cause. One of them is a girl RinRin, who had similar experience with bandits in the past.

Tags: Historical , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Nudity , Slapstick , Episodic , Ojou-sama , Rural , Female Harem , LGBTQ+ Themes