Anime like Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari

Barakamon

Also known as Barakamon.

Studio: Kinema Citrus , VAP , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Seishuu Handa is an up-and-coming calligrapher: young, handsome, talented, and unfortunately, a narcissist to boot. When a veteran labels his award-winning piece as "unoriginal," Seishuu quickly loses his cool with severe repercussions.

As punishment, and also in order to aid him in self-reflection, Seishuu's father exiles him to the Goto Islands, far from the comfortable Tokyo lifestyle the temperamental artist is used to. Now thrown into a rural setting, Seishuu must attempt to find new inspiration and develop his own unique art style—that is, if boisterous children (headed by the frisky Naru Kotoishi), fujoshi middle schoolers, and energetic old men stop barging into his house! The newest addition to the intimate and quirky Goto community only wants to get some work done, but the islands are far from the peaceful countryside he signed up for. Thanks to his wacky neighbors who are entirely incapable of minding their own business, the arrogant calligrapher learns so much more than he ever hoped to.



Tags: Calligraphy , Rural , Found Family , Iyashikei , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Family Life , Seinen , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Teacher , Coastal , Slapstick , Tsundere , Fishing

Amaama to Inazuma

Also known as Sweetness & Lightning.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Having lost his wife, math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his young daughter Tsumugi as a single father. He's pretty bad at cooking and doesn't have a huge appetite to begin with, but chance brings his little family and one of his students, Kotori Iida, together for homemade adventures. With those three cooks in the kitchen, it's no wonder this dinner table drama is so delicious.



Tags: Family Life , Food , Iyashikei , Found Family , Restaurant , Educational , Teacher , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Parenthood , Orphan , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , School , Chibi

Usagi Drop

Also known as Bunny Drop.

Studio: Production I.G , Fuji TV , NIS America Inc. , Sony Music Entertainment , Sakura Create , Fujipacific Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Going home from his grandfather's funeral, thirty-year-old Daikichi is floored to discover that the old man had an illegitimate child with a younger lover. The rest of his family is equally shocked and embarrassed by this surprise development, and not one of them wants anything to do with the silent little girl, Rin Kaga. In a fit of anger, Daikichi decides to take her in himself. As Daikichi nurtures Rin, he started to understand the struggle while at the same time the joy of parenting.



Tags: Iyashikei , Found Family , Family Life , Adoption , Orphan , Parenthood , Josei , Male Protagonist , Work

Gakuen Babysitters

Also known as School Babysitters.

Studio: Brain's Base
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The manga centers on the brothers Ryuuichi and Kotarou Kashima. Ryuuichi is in high school and Kotarou is still a toddler. After their parents are killed in a plane crash, the two brothers find themselves living with the chairwoman of the Morinomiya Academy, who herself lost her son and daughter-in-law in the same accident. The chairwoman, however, has one stipulation for the brothers in order to live with her: Ryuuichi has to work at the academy's daycare center as a babysitter.



Tags: School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Iyashikei , Chibi , School , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Family Life , Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Twins , Tragedy , Tsundere , Parenthood

Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue.

Also known as My Roommate is a Cat.

Studio: Zero-G , AT-X , TOKYO MX , Avex Pictures , ABC Animation , Q-Tec , BS11 , GYAO! , BookLive , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Mystery writer Mikazuki Subaru, who isn't good at dealing with people, finds them to be a disturbance when it comes to building his imaginary world. One day, he chances upon a stray cat and feels inspiration strike, so he brings the cat home as his muse.

Can watching the inexplicable behaviors of a cat form material for a novel?

Tags: Animals , Hikikomori , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Writing , Primarily Adult Cast , Iyashikei , Rehabilitation , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Tragedy , Primarily Male Cast , Found Family

Deaimon

Also known as Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness.

Studio: Encourage Films , KADOKAWA , flying DOG , AT-X , KLOCKWORX , Kadokawa Media House , KBS Kyoto , diomedéa
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Nagomu Irino returns to his Kyoto home for the first time in ten years when his father is hospitalized. Nagomu is eager to take over Ryokushou, the family's Japanese sweet shop, but he's instead asked to be a father figure to Itsuka Yukihira, the girl everyone calls the successor.

Tags: Found Family , Food , Iyashikei , Family Life , Seinen , Work , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Tsundere , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Crossdressing

Kakushigoto

Also known as Kakushigoto.

Studio: Ajiado , Funimation , A-Sketch , Studio Mausu , Dentsu , AT-X , TOKYO MX , Kodansha , GREE
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Single father Kakushi Gotou has a secret. He’s a top-selling artist of popular erotic manga, but his impressionable young daughter, Hime, can never find out! Now he’s having to bend over backwards just to keep her inquisitive little mind from discovering what he does for a living. A father-daughter tale of love and laughter.



Tags: Family Life , Work , Drawing , Coming of Age , Parenthood , Time Skip , Meta , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Amnesia , Male Protagonist , Achronological Order , Shounen

Kotarou wa Hitorigurashi

Also known as Kotaro Lives Alone.

Studio: Netflix , LIDENFILMS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

A lonely little boy moves into a ramshackle apartment building all on his own and makes friends with the broke manga artist who lives next door.



Tags: Found Family , Family Life , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Iyashikei , School , Estranged Family , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Delinquents , Detective

Gugure! Kokkuri-san

Also known as Gugure! Kokkuri-san.

Studio: TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

The original manga revolves around Kohina, a little girl who ends up summoning by a Kokkuri-san, a lower-ranking ghost in Japanese folklore. The Kokkuri-san she calls ends up being a white-haired handsome, young man. Although he had intended to merely haunt her at first, he becomes worried about her terrible eating habit of cup ramen for every meal, so he decides to haunt her in order to protect her.



Tags: Episodic , Chibi , Youkai , Meta , Female Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Ghost , Nekomimi , Gender Bending , Ensemble Cast , Amnesia , Iyashikei , Aliens , Guns , Tsundere , Kuudere , Age Regression , Crossdressing

Miira no Kaikata

Also known as How to Keep a Mummy.

Studio: 8-bit , ONE MUSIC , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

When high school student Sora Kashiwagi finds himself staring down a mysterious oversized package sent to him by his self-proclaimed "adventurer" father, the last thing he expects is for it to be opened from the inside... by a little mummy so small it can fit in the palm of his hand!



Tags: Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , School , Youkai , Animals , Dragons , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast