Anime like Potemayo

Hanamaru Youchien

Also known as Hanamaru Kindergarten.

Studio: Gainax , Starchild Records , Omnibus Japan , TV Tokyo Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Anzu goes to a kindergarten with her friends, the shy Koume and the eccentric Hiiragi. Together they try to attract attention from their caretaker Tsuchida. However, he is clearly more interested in the pretty Yamamoto who supervises the class next door.

Tags: Age Gap , Female Harem , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Kuudere , Primarily Child Cast , Teacher , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Work

Chicchana Yukitsukai Sugar

Also known as A Little Snow Fairy Sugar.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Kadokawa Shoten , Broccoli , Pioneer LDC , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

The Season Fairies make the weather, each kind having its own specialty. Only full-fledged fairies have this ability. Sugar is an apprentice Snow Fairy. She and her friends have had all of the training and now need to find magical “Twinkles.” Unfortunately, none of these fairies know what a Twinkle is. However, they do find a human girl, Saga, who can see them when others can’t. Saga prefers a quiet and orderly life, becomes the rather unwilling helper to these noisy, lively, little fairies.



Tags: Fairy , Magic , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , Kids , Slapstick , Ojou-sama , Love Triangle , Band , Acting , Musical Theater , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Rural

Di Gi Charat

Also known as Di Gi Charat.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Broccoli , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Di Gi Charat is a series of shorts created as advertisements for "Digital Gamers", a store in Akihabara. The series follows Dejiko, princess of Di Gi Charat planet, and her companions, Puchiko and Gema, as well as Dejiko's rival, Rabi~en~Rose through daily ordeals they encounter while working at Gamers.
Princess Di Gi Charat came from the planet Di Gi Charat given only a cat cap and an outfit to disguise herself. Unfortunately she came with no money, only her guardian Gema and friend Petite Charat. Luckily the three stumbled upon a manager of the store Gamers, who offered them a home if they worked at the store. However Di Gi Charat is a selfish young girl who wishes of becoming a star.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Chibi , Aliens , Work , Nekomimi , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Urban , Kemonomimi , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Henshin , American Football , Kaiju , Kuudere

Chibi☆Devi!

Studio: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , SynergySP , Half H.P Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Sawada Honoka is a 14-year-old girl who is very timid. She easily gets bullied by other classmates. Honoka is a non-believer in God, Angels, and Devils. Though one day, a devil baby was dropped into her room while she was sleeping. What will Honoka believe in now?

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Demons , Chibi , Primarily Child Cast , Found Family , Magic , Parenthood , Episodic , Urban Fantasy

Nyanko Days

Also known as Nyanko Days.

Studio: EMT Squared
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The four-panel manga follows a shy girl named Tomoko who comes home from school and is greeted by her three (personified) cats.



Tags: Nekomimi , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Kemonomimi , Chibi , Animals , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou - My Ordinary Life.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Kadokawa Shoten , Movic , Rakuonsha , Bandai Entertainment , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , KLOCKWORX , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Slapstick , School , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Parody , Achronological Order , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Robots , Shounen , Drawing , Tsundere , Football , Guns , Love Triangle , Body Horror , Camping

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

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

Mahoraba: Heartful days

Also known as Mahoraba ~HeartfuL days~.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Starchild Records , TV Tokyo Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Shiratori Ryuushi is a young artist-in-training, about to start studying at a vocational school. Arriving at his new lodgings, Narutakisou, he finds himself the focus of attention for the collection of weirdos that inhabit the place. He also meets and falls for the landlady, Aoba Kozue, who seems to be both lovely and charming. However, Kozue is not what she seems to be... in fact, she's more.



Tags: Kuudere , Henshin , Heterosexual , Primarily Female Cast , Dissociative Identities , Crossdressing , Female Harem , Iyashikei , Male Protagonist , Shounen