Anime like Pon no Michi

Saki

Also known as Saki.

Studio: GONZO , TV Tokyo , Square Enix , Sotsu , Picture Magic , Lantis , Pony Canyon , KLOCKWORX , TV Tokyo Music , Kiyosumi High School Mahjong Club
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

Miyanaga Saki is a first year high school girl whose family would get angry if she won the family mahjong games. But losing would also have its consequences. Because of this she develops a new way of playing that allows her to stay on the thin line between winning and losing, the plus/minus zero score, an almost impossible score. In a game that relies mainly on luck, the plus/minus zero score is harder than winning, but Saki can achieve this every time.

Having always hated the game, her friend from middle school, Suga Kyotoro, forces her to play in the schools mahjong club. Her developed skill and superhuman luck has made her a worthy mahjong opponent, even to the middle school's national mahjong champion.



Tags: Mahjong , Yuri , Seinen , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , School Club , Super Power , Kuudere , School , Ensemble Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , Ojou-sama , Food , CGI , Nudity , Ghost , Board Game , LGBTQ+ Themes

Touhai Densetsu Akagi: Yami ni Maiorita Tensai

Also known as Akagi.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , DR Movie
Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sports , Thriller

While mahjong is a game that is often played with family and friends, it is also a game that is played in the darkest corners of society. Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated a debt of over three million yen. In a last-ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death.

When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural-born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.



Tags: Gambling , Mahjong , Noir , Death Game , Seinen , Anti-Hero , Historical , Crime , Time Skip , Yakuza , Police , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Vampire , Body Horror

Houkago Saikoro Club

Also known as After School Dice Club.

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

During a beautiful spring day in Kyoto, Aya and Miki follow the student council president Midori to a board game shop. The three students end up discovering a German board game that causes them to realize their shared passion for games. In the coming days, many more board games will be found and played!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Board Game , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Educational , Card Battle , School , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Bullying , Software Development , Shounen , Poker , Otaku Culture , Work , Chibi , Shogi , Gambling , Delinquents , Maids , Foreign , Bar , Ojou-sama , Mahjong

Houkago Teibou Nisshi

Also known as Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater.

Studio: Doga Kobo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Introverted Hina Tsurugi is trying to adjust to her new school since moving from the countryside. And in spite of her unease around sea life, classmate Yuuki Kuroiwa somehow convinces her to join the Breakwater Fishing Club. She wants to be open to these new friends and experiences, but some of them are as strange as the fish they’re supposed to hook. Is she biting off more than she can chew?



Tags: Fishing , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Outdoor Activities , Primarily Teen Cast , Iyashikei , Food , Coastal , Educational , Rural , Seinen , Environmental , Cycling , Tomboy , Kuudere

Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya

Studio: Toei Video , TV Asahi , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahjong parlors where he is wiping the floor clean with his adversaries. However, when Tetsuya meets the intensely skilled Boushu-san, he realizes that his skills are still lacking.



Tags: Gambling , Mahjong , Historical , Survival , Time Skip , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Bar , Drugs , Primarily Male Cast , Karuta

Saki: Zenkoku-hen

Also known as Saki: The Nationals.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Square Enix , Lantis , Pony Canyon , Studio Gokumi
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

After their success in the regional tournament, the Kiyosumi High School mahjong team faces off against a whole new level of competition at the National Tournament in Tokyo.



Tags: Mahjong , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Seinen , Board Game , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Sora-iro Utility (TV)

Also known as Sorairo Utility (TV).

Studio: Yostar Pictures , Pony Canyon , Yostar Pictures , Sotsu , Shouchiku , TOKYO MX , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

"At this rate, I'll just graduate as a plain background character A!"

Minami Aoba was troubled. She had no particular strengths or things she wanted to do. Is it okay for her high school life to end as such an ordinary supporting character!?

Leaving school behind, Minami searches for her own "special uniqueness." She stumbles upon the nearby golf practice range by chance. Approached by part-time worker Haruka Akane, Minami grasps the golf club—the "utility."

And thus, it was the encounter between Minami and golf.

Winning is not the only thing in golf! Everything related to golf is enjoyable!

Together with the genius golfer Haruka and Ayaka Hoshimi, who aspires to be an influencer, they seek the moment when they can become the "protagonist"! As a super beginner, Minami swings her club once again today.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Golf , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Outdoor Activities , Primarily Female Cast , Iyashikei , Urban , Otaku Culture , Work , School , CGI , Shogi , Maids

Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor

Also known as Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Thriller

Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which Kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 300,000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji.

Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay off their debts. After some coercion Kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear his debt and make a bit of money as well...

Tags: Gambling , Survival , Primarily Adult Cast , Class Struggle , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Death Game , Philosophy , Tragedy , Crime , Card Battle , Revenge , Yakuza , Torture , Urban , Work , Anti-Hero , Body Horror , Ships , Athletics , Prison , Nudity

Yuru Camp△

Also known as Laid-Back Camp.

Studio: C-Station , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Rin likes to go camping by herself along the lakes that provide a scenic view of Mt. Fuji. Nadeshiko loves to take cycling trips by herself to places where she can see Mt. Fuji. After they meet, Rin and Nadeshiko take camping trips, eat cup ramen together, and enjoy the scenery.



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Camping , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Rural , Food , Primarily Teen Cast , Educational , Travel , School Club , Kuudere , Seinen , Episodic , Yuri , Mopeds , School , Animals , Cycling

Slow Loop

Also known as Slow Loop.

Studio: CONNECT , KADOKAWA , Houbunsha , flying DOG , Kadokawa Media House , eStream , AT-X
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

Nervous to meet her new stepdad, Hiyori heads to the place she always feels at home—the ocean. When a curious girl named Koharu shows up, Hiyori decides to teach her how to fish, just like her father did before he died. But after Koharu reveals she’s also meeting her new family that night, the girls come to a startling realization. Their friendship is about to reach a whole new level!



Tags: Fishing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Family Life , Outdoor Activities , Primarily Female Cast , Found Family , Urban , Food , Educational , Seinen , Episodic , Tanned Skin , School , Twins , Chibi , Tragedy