Anime like Kami Kuzu☆Idol

Uramichi Oniisan

Also known as Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan.

Studio: Studio Blanc , Bit Grooove Promotion , King Records , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Being an adult is hard. For 31-year-old Uramichi Omota, that depressing truth weighs on him. While on TV, he’s an upbeat exercise instructor for a children’s show, but sometimes he can’t keep his sardonic comments to himself. Even his coworkers, a pair of mascots and a singing duo, keep revealing the plight of adulthood on air. Regardless, they’re working through it one a day at a time.



Tags: Work , Satire , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Acting , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Meta , Josei , Musical Theater , Primarily Male Cast , Acrobatics

Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu

Also known as If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die.

Studio: 8-bit , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Passionate music-lover Eripiyo only wants to see her favorite underground pop group, ChamJam, make it to the big stage at Budokan. Because they’ve enriched her life by their very existence, Eri is willing to dedicate everything she has to see this dream fulfilled – even her health. At their last performance she got a crazy nosebleed. Hey, no one said being a super-fan was easy!



Tags: Idol , Otaku Culture , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Seinen , Work

Paripi Koumei

Also known as Ya Boy Kongming!.

Studio: P.A. Works , DMM pictures , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Avex Pictures , Kodansha , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music , Supernatural

Fate and reincarnation deliver brilliant military strategist, Kongming, from warring, ancient China to Japan’s modern party hot spot in Shibuya City, Tokyo. After a lifetime of battles and military skirmishes, Kongming wished with his last breath to be reborn in a world of peace and prosperity. It’s nearly two millennia later and he’s finding his way in a very different world than that of his past life. When he meets Eiko, an amateur musician with big dreams, the unlikely duo strikes up an even unlikelier friendship. Eiko has street smarts to help Kongming navigate this strange new world, and Kongming will use his strategic mind to help Eiko achieve stardom!



An advanced online screening of the first episode was held on March 31, 2022, but the weekly TV release began on April 5, 2022.

Tags: Reincarnation , Urban , Band , Anachronism , Primarily Adult Cast , Idol , Historical , Hip-hop Music , Ensemble Cast , Work , Bar , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Military , Classic Literature , Time Manipulation , Dancing , Rock Music , Fugitive

Mahou Shoujo Ore

Also known as Magical Girl Ore.

Studio: Studio Signpost , AT-X , KLOCKWORX , Crunchyroll , Bandai Namco Arts , My Theater D.D. , Genco
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo

This story is about a 15-year-old girl who is a newbie idol in love with her best friend's brother who is also a popular idol. But she runs into a scary yakuza guy and finds out that her mother was an ex-magical girl, and the yakuza was her mascot. Her love interest gets kidnapped by demons that look like burly men with cute squirrel heads. So she contracts the yakuza to become a magical girl, which in this story means she turns into a handsome guy in a magical girl outfit. On top of that, her love interest shows an attraction toward her magical guy form. Her best friend turns out to be in love with her and also becomes a magical cross-dressing guy to save her life.
Thus, their manager, who is a magical girl geek, then decides to turn them into an idol unit.


Tags: Magic , Parody , Gender Bending , Slapstick , Henshin , Meta , Female Protagonist , Fairy , Crossdressing , Urban Fantasy , Idol , Gore , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yakuza

Eikyuu Shounen: Eternal Boys

Also known as Eternal Boys.

Studio: LIDENFILMS , Fuji TV , King Records , Aeon Entertainment , POLYGON PICTURES , Ultra Super Pictures , KLOCKWORX , coly , Movic , Animax Broadcast Japan , KADOKAWA , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

"The Mature Idol Project"

The latest project proposed by Manpuku Etertainment productions, in a bid to revive the company. Experienced in the successes and failures of the business world, 6 middle-aged men now face the many hurdles of age and physical ability, whilst pursuing their goal to become idols. In an effort to prove that old dogs can learn new tricks, and that you can still learn to shine no matter your age. These middle-aged men, and the end of their ropes, are taking a stand!



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Idol , Primarily Male Cast , Work , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Tanned Skin , Acting , Tsundere , Football

UniteUp!

Also known as UniteUp!.

Studio: Aniplex , CloverWorks , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Music

The anime's story centers on Akira Kiyose, who sings on a video streaming site under the singer name "KIKUNOYU." One day the talent agency sMiLea Production scouts him. sMiLea is an agency founded by the retired legendary idol pair AneLa to train new budding idols. Akira then forms an idol group with Banri Naoe and Chihiro Isuzugawa, who were also scouted. Their new group, Protostar, will have their debut alongside other new idol groups with sMiLea Production: Legit and Jaxx Jaxx.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Idol , Primarily Male Cast , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , CGI , Baseball

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

Fudanshi Koukou Seikatsu

Also known as The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi.

Studio: EMT Squared , Dream Creation , DAX Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The comedy depicts the daily life of Sakaguchi, a high school boy and also a "fudanshi" who loves boys-love stories. Fudanshi is a wordplay on fujoshi (literally, "rotten girls") — the slang for women who love boys-love/yaoi stories.



Tags: Otaku Culture , School , Josei , Male Protagonist , Boys' Love , Crossdressing

SHINE POST

Also known as SHINEPOST.

Studio: Studio KAI , ADK Emotions , Konami Digital Entertainment , Nippon Television Network , Straight Edge , Yoyogi Animation Gakuin , Contents Seed , Docomo Anime Store , Culture Entertainment , BS Nippon , Stray Cats , Avex Pictures , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Music

Although the idol group TiNgS is chasing after big dreams, so far their accomplishments have only been small — and now, suddenly, they're facing a potential break up! Hope seems lost, but when a new manager with a special skillset takes them under his wing, the members of TiNgS find themselves shooting for the stars all over again.



Note: The first episode had an advanced screening at Tokyo's Yamano Hall on May 14, 2022.

Tags: Idol , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Dancing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Male Protagonist , Super Power

Love Live! Superstar!! 2nd Season

Also known as Love Live! Superstar!! Season 2.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Bandai Namco Music Live , KADOKAWA , Bushiroad
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

The second season of Love Live! Superstar!!

Tags: Idol , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Dancing , Female Protagonist , School Club , School , Ensemble Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Surreal Comedy , CGI