Anime like Zettai Karen Children

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 , Maids , Female Harem , Crossdressing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Memory Manipulation , Age Gap , Tsundere , Tomboy , Kuudere , Orphan

Toaru Kagaku no Railgun

Also known as A Certain Scientific Railgun.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Funimation , Movic , AT-X , ASCII Media Works , Project Railgun
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Academy City is a highly developed place in terms of technology. It is said to be 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of the world, and 80% of its 2.3 million residents are students. The focus of studies here is directed towards esper powers. Misaka Mikoto, one of the top level espers in town, shares a room with Kuroko Shirai, another high level esper who is a member of Judgement, a law enforcing agency composed of students. Both attend Tokiwadai, a private school reserved for the high-leveled and the rich. Kuroko's partner at Judgement, Kazari Uiharu, is a low level esper who studies at Sakugawa middle school. Her best friend and classmate there is Ruiko Saten, a level zero, one who has no esper powers. Together, the four encounter several adventures in the exciting scientific town.



Tags: Super Power , Urban , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Robots , Tomboy , School , Bisexual , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Superhero , Orphan , Gyaru , Tsundere , Shounen , Artificial Intelligence , Ojou-sama , Boarding School , Gangs , Yuri , Kaiju , Police , Slapstick , Super Robot , Maids , Crossdressing

Toaru Majutsu no Index

Also known as A Certain Magical Index.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Square Enix , Funimation , AT-X , ASCII Media Works , Kadokawa Contents Gate
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Set in a city of scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Touma Kamijou’s right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, but not his own bad luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on his balcony railing. She turns out to be a nun from the Church of England, and her mind has been implanted with the Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum - all the magical texts the Church has removed from circulation.

Tags: Magic , Super Power , Urban Fantasy , Urban , Tsundere , Male Protagonist , Nun , Amnesia , Female Harem , Kuudere , Slapstick , Artificial Intelligence , Gore

Mob Psycho 100

Also known as Mob Psycho 100.

Studio: bones , BS Fuji , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , Warner Bros. Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The story revolves around "Mob," a boy who will explode if his emotional capacity reaches 100%. This boy with psychic powers earned his nickname "Mob" because he does not stand out among other people. He keeps his psychic powers bottled up so he can live normally, but if his emotional level reaches 100, something will overwhelm his entire body.



Tags: Super Power , Coming of Age , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Ghost , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Satire , Parody , Urban , Surreal Comedy , Shounen , Exorcism , Disability , Primarily Male Cast , Conspiracy , School , Slapstick , Demons , Delinquents , School Club , Bullying , Fitness , Gangs , Cult , Family Life , Dissociative Identities , Unrequited Love , Curses

Gintama

Also known as Gintama.

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo , Aniplex , Dentsu , Trinity Sound , Audio Highs , Miracle Robo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured!



Tags: Parody , Ensemble Cast , Samurai , Found Family , Meta , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Anachronism , Aliens , Episodic , Swordplay , Shounen , Police , Satire , Terrorism , Historical , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism , Space , Ninja , Mopeds , Sadism , Crime , Masochism , LGBTQ+ Themes , Homeless , Robots , Oiran , Gore , Mafia , Crossdressing , Ghost , Philosophy , Nekomimi , Fishing , Boxing , Yakuza , Pirates , Educational , Dissociative Identities , CGI , Kuudere , Body Swapping , Unrequited Love , Death Game , Mixed Gender Harem , Female Harem

Final Fantasy: Unlimited

Studio: GONZO , TV Tokyo , Dentsu , TV Tokyo Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Ai and Yu, after reading their parent's research and after their parents' disappearance, they decided to go on search for them. They ride a strange train to the Inner World in search of their parents and meets up with Lisa in the train and together they begin their journey within the Inner World.



Tags: Isekai

Hinamatsuri

Also known as HINAMATSURI.

Studio: feel. , Funimation , Media Factory , Magic Capsule , Nippon Columbia , AT-X , Kadokawa Media House
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The comedy manga centers around a super-powered girl named Hina and Nitta, a young member of the yakuza. Hina suddenly appears in Nitta's room and threatens him with her extraordinary powers. However, they end up living together.



Tags: Family Life , Found Family , Adoption , Ensemble Cast , Parenthood , Satire , Surreal Comedy , Seinen , Slapstick , Super Power , Kuudere , Yakuza , Urban , Female Protagonist , Homeless , Nudity , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Coming of Age , Time Skip , Bar , Episodic , School , Isekai , Foreign , Reverse Isekai

Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z

Also known as Powerpuff Girls Z.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Aniplex , Toei Animation , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mahou Shoujo , Sci-Fi

Based on the American cartoon, "The Powerpuff Girls."

Professor Utonium and his son Ken are studying the strange Chemical X. When a mochi cake falls into the formula, it changes into Chemical Z. Ken fires a ray of Chemical Z at a glacier in Tokyo Bay, however that causes strange black and white lights to scatter. The black lights turn its victims into monsters, with emphasis on a black light hitting a zoo monkey and transforming him into Mojo Jojo.

The white lights, however, aim at three normal girls, Momoko, Miyako, and Kaoru. This gives them the power to transform into superheroes, the Powerpuff Girls Z!

Tags: Female Protagonist , Henshin , Super Power , Tomboy , Primarily Female Cast , Magic , Family Life , Urban , Animals , Urban Fantasy , Super Robot , Robots , Ojou-sama , Makeup , Werewolf , Shapeshifting , Gangs , Football , Maids , Kaiju , Coastal , Space , Clone , Gender Bending , Tokusatsu , Aliens , Fashion , Demons , Acting , Heterosexual , Body Swapping , Crossdressing , Ninja , Wrestling , Age Regression , Unrequited Love , Episodic , School , Superhero , Kids , Primarily Child Cast , Parody , Time Manipulation , Motorcycles , Ghost , Language Barrier , Alternate Universe , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Villainess

Boku no Hero Academia

Also known as My Hero Academia.

Studio: bones , Dentsu , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Toho , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested extraordinary superpowers called “Quirks” at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Becoming a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? U.A. High's Hero Program of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?

Middle school student Izuku Midoriya wants to be a hero more than anything, but he hasn't got an ounce of power in him. With no chance of ever getting into the prestigious U.A. High School for budding heroes, his life is looking more and more like a dead end. Then an encounter with All Might, the greatest hero of them all gives him a chance to change his destiny…



Tags: Super Power , Superhero , Shounen , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School , Urban Fantasy , Crime , Ensemble Cast , Rescue , Bullying , Primarily Male Cast , Cultivation , Prison

Brigadoon: Marin to Melan

Also known as Brigadoon.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Visual , TOKYOPOP
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Marin is a typical junior high school girl with a sunny disposition and a loving adoptive family. Her life takes a drastic change when a mysterious mirage is seen in the sky above the entire earth. Killer androids called Monomakia descend to earth from the formation in the sky called Brigadoon and begin to hunt down little Marin. She discovers a blue bottle in a shrine as she seeks escape and from the bottle comes a protector, a sword carrying gun slinging alien called Melan Blue, together they must save the earth and deal with family crisis, school prejudice and the police and come to an understanding of Marins past and Melans unexplained mission, as well as learn to trust each other. Set in 1969 Japan with a colorful cast of friends and enemies.



Tags: Super Robot , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Historical , Robots , Aliens , Conspiracy , Slapstick , Time Manipulation , School , Bullying , Adoption , Disability , Post-Apocalyptic , Orphan , Isekai , Guns , Twins , Fugitive , Age Gap , Nudity , Primarily Child Cast , Delinquents , Food , Revenge