Anime like Sabagebu!

Akiba Meido Sensou

Also known as Akiba Maid War.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , Cygames , Tencent , Happinet Media Marketing , Movic , TOKYO MX , Shouchiku , Fields
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

Akihabara is the center of the universe for the coolest hobbies and quirkiest amusements. In the spring of 1999, bright-eyed Nagomi Wahira moves there with dreams of joining a maid café. She quickly dons an apron at café Ton Tokoton, AKA the Pig Hut. But adjusting to life in bustling Akihabara isn’t as easy as serving tea and delighting customers. Paired with the dour Ranko who never seems to smile, Nagomi must do her best to elevate the Pig Hut over all other maid cafés vying for top ranking. Along the way she’ll slice out a place for herself amid the frills and thrills of life at the Pig Hut. Just when Nagomi’s dreams are within her grasp, she discovers not everything is as it seems amid the maid cafés of Akihabara.



Tags: Yakuza , Maids , Primarily Female Cast , Crime , Gangs , Female Protagonist , Work , Guns , Parody , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Restaurant , Surreal Comedy , Tragedy , Otaku Culture , Found Family , Gore , Revenge , Slapstick , Kemonomimi , Anti-Hero , Anachronism , War , Ensemble Cast , Gyaru , Orphan , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Homeless , Conspiracy , Time Skip , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Gambling , Tanned Skin , Food , Disability , Boxing , Ninja , Baseball , Nudity , Poker , Fishing

Binbougami ga!

Also known as Good Luck Girl!.

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo , Dentsu , Funimation , Kodansha , Trinity Sound , Sony Music Entertainment , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Supernatural

At the expense of the people and things around her, Sakura has absorbed so much "happiness energy" that she has caused an energy imbalance in the world. In order to return balance to the world, the Poverty God, Momiji, sets out to take away Sakura's ability to absorb this energy. Will Momiji be able to put a stop to Sakura's absorbing abilities, or will the God succumb to her happiness?



Tags: Parody , Meta , Gods , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Shounen , School , Body Swapping , Dissociative Identities , Tomboy

Asobi Asobase

Also known as Asobi Asobase - workshop of fun -.

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

Olivia is a blonde-haired beauty who was born and raised in Japan, but can’t speak any English. Despite always acting serious and as an intellectual, Kasumi is a bespectacled girl with short hair, who also can’t speak English. Finally, there’s the pig-tailed Hanako, who’s cheerful but can’t seem to become a normie. The three middle schoolers end up making a “Players’ Club”?! The ultimately cute, ultimately fun and hilarious teenage girls’ comedy is about to begin!



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Episodic , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Parody , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Meta , Ojou-sama , Gyaru , Makeup

D-Frag!

Studio: Brain's Base
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Kazama Kenji likes to believe he is something of a delinquent. Moreover, others seem to like to agree that he is. Of course, Kenji's gang finds their way to a group of four not-so-normal girls—Chitose, Sakura, Minami and Roka—and all at once, whatever reputation he may have is nothing compared to the outrageous behavior of the girls. Shanghaied into joining their club, what will happen to his everyday life from that point on?

Tags: School , Slapstick , Parody , Satire , Primarily Female Cast , Chuunibyou , School Club , Male Protagonist , Meta , Chibi , Yandere , Delinquents , Female Harem , Tsundere , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen

Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu

Also known as Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3.

Studio: Gainax , Pony Canyon , TBS , Sentai Filmworks , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Sports

Yura Yamato has just arrived at the high school division of Stella Women's Academy, when Sonora Kashima invites her to join a club called "C³". Sonora is the third-year student who became the new head of this club for military survival games. The other members include two second-year students (part-Japanese Karila Hatsuse and G36K-wielding Honoka Mutsu) and two other new students (Rento Kirishima whose family runs a Japanese sweets shop and the really short Yachiyo Hinata).



Tags: Airsoft , School Club , Tomboy , School , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Outdoor Activities , Coming of Age , Military , Seinen , Slapstick , Guns

Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

Also known as Daily Lives of High School Boys.

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo , Square Enix , NIS America Inc. , Trinity Sound
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Tadakuni, Hidenori, and Yoshitake are students at the all-boys academy, Sanada North High School. This is a tale about just that—their daily lives as students. Winning the basketball tournament? Finding true love? You won't find any of that here. Whether it's sparking random arguments while hanging out with friends, meeting that one weird co-worker at a part-time job, or even letting imaginations run wild on a windy afternoon, we've all experienced the show's ordinary but true-to-life themes at one point or another.



Tags: School , Episodic , Primarily Male Cast , Slapstick , Satire , Meta , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , Tomboy , Crossdressing , Tanned Skin

4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku

Also known as The Little Lies We All Tell.

Studio: Studio Flad , ABC Animation , Studio Pierrot , Bandai Namco Music Live , MediBang
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The school comedy story follows four friends at a girls' school. They may seem like ordinary second-year junior high school students at first glance, but they are a space pilot, a ninja without a clan, a girl with supernatural powers, and a boy in girls' clothes.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Ninja , Super Power , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Crossdressing , Primarily Female Cast , Memory Manipulation , Shounen , School , Male Protagonist , Gender Bending , Time Manipulation , Urban , LGBTQ+ Themes , Swimming , Food , Urban Fantasy , Femboy

Aoharu x Kikanjuu

Also known as Aoharu x Machinegun.

Studio: Brain's Base , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

When Hotaru Tachibana storms into a host club to avenge the honor of a wronged female student, the last thing Hotaru expects is to duel the club’s most popular host with airsoft guns instead of fists. When Masamune Matsuoka’s experience wins out over Tachibana’s brawn, he realizes that he can use his victory (and the large bill for damaging the club) to make Tachibana join his struggling Survival Gaming team. However, what ladies’ man Masamune totally misses is that his unwilling new guy… isn’t a guy at all! Under the boy’s clothing and strong need to defend justice, Tachibana is all-girl, but, for a number of complicated reasons, she absolutely CAN’T expose that fact to Masamune or his teammate, the erotic manga artist Tooru Yukimura.



Tags: Guns , Airsoft , Crossdressing , Female Protagonist , Gender Bending , Primarily Male Cast , Tomboy , Shounen , Tsundere , Tragedy

Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku

Also known as Chronicles of the Going Home Club.

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

When a friend asks Natsuki what high school club she's going to join, she cheerfully responds "the go-home club" (meaning, she's not going to join any of them). However, she soon realizes that this club actually exists at her high school, and she's just expressed interest in joining it! Before she knows it, she ends up as one of the two new members of "the go-home club," which is a small group of eccentric school girls. One of the girls likes fighting bears, while another is ridiculously rich. But what exactly constitutes the activities of "the go-home club"?



Tags: Meta , Parody , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Surreal Comedy , School Club , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Seinen , Card Battle

Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

Also known as Detective Opera Milky Holmes.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Sotsu , Lantis , Pony Canyon , Dwango , Bushiroad
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mystery

"Sheryl, Nero, Elly, and Cordelia are the most popular students at Holmes Detective Academy, because of the many cases they've solved with their Toys and teamwork. The students and the people of the Detective City Yokohama all look up to the members of "Milky Holmes", as they're called. But on a dark and stormy night, during a battle with their rivals "The Gentlemen Thief Empire", they lose their toys, and their fate undergoes a dramatic change..."



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Detective , Super Power , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Primarily Female Cast , Kuudere , Crime , Henshin , Gangs