Anime like Saki

Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume

Also known as Scorching Ping Pong Girls.

Studio: Kinema Citrus
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ever since their champion was defeated, the world of girls' junior high ping pong has been in turmoil. Koyori is the new smirking transfer student at her junior high and she's ready to shake up girls' ping pong.



Tags: Table Tennis , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , School Club , Yuri , School , Tsundere , Tomboy , Kuudere , Chuunibyou , Shounen

Girls und Panzer

Also known as Girls und Panzer.

Studio: Actas , Lantis , Movic , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

You may have heard of kung fu, but the girls at Oarai High School practice gun-fu—really, really BIG 75mm gun-fu, in fact. It's called Sensha-do, and it's the martial art of operating armored tanks! They take it seriously too, and since winning the national Sensha-do championship is such a huge deal at Oarai, they sometimes go to extreme ends in order to get the best students from Panzer class to sign up. Which is how Miho Nishizumi, who HATES operating tanks, gets drafted to join doomsday-driven driver Mako, even-triggered gunner Hana, highly receptive radio operator Saori and combustible tank-fangirl and loader Yukari as the incomparable Anko Team. They may not be on the half-track to fame and fortune, and maybe a few of them would rather shop for tank tops than become tops in tanks, but once their focus is locked and loaded, they're absolutely driven.



Tags: Tanks , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Military , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Ensemble Cast , Historical , Parody , CGI , Ships , Volleyball

Pon no Michi

Also known as Pon no Michi.

Studio: OLM , Kodansha , DMM.com , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Good Smile Company , Myrica Music , SUPA LOVE , OLM , SANKYO , Yostar , AQUA ARIS , Bit Grooove Promotion
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The anime is set in Hiroshima Prefecture's Onomichi City, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha was kicked out of her house. Without a place to play with her friends, she learns that the mahjong parlor that her father used to run is now vacant. She fixes the mahjong parlor and turns it into a place where she and her friends can have fun, cook, have tea, and sometimes play mahjong.



Tags: Primarily Female Cast , Mahjong , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Food , Primarily Teen Cast , Advertisement , CGI , Board Game

High School Fleet

Also known as High School Fleet.

Studio: Production IMS , Half H.P Studio , Aniplex , Asmik Ace , Contents Seed , Nippon BS Broadcasting , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Slice of Life

A hundred years after catastrophic shifts in tectonic plates caused most of its area to submerge, Japan now thrives as a maritime nation. High functioning cities line the coasts of Japan, and well developed sea routes are defended by specialized naval ships. The marine industry is flourishing, and young girls are eager to join the Blue Mermaids—highly skilled women who devote their lives to protecting the seas.

After some time apart, childhood friends Akeno Misaki and Moeka China are reunited at Yokosuka Girls' Marine High School. Here they are joined by others who share their dream of becoming Blue Mermaids. Soon, training exercises commence, with Akeno and Moeka being put in charge of their own ships and crew. Everything is progressing smoothly for Akeno as she settles into her role as captain and builds camaraderie between her fellow crew members aboard the Harekaze, a destroyer ship. However, unexpected engine and navigation failures soon leave their ship stranded and the crew in danger.

High School Fleet follows the Harekaze's valiant crew as they navigate treacherous waters and other obstacles on their quest to become fully-fledged Blue Mermaids.



Tags: Ships , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Ensemble Cast , CGI , Primarily Teen Cast , Coastal , Post-Apocalyptic

Chihayafuru

Also known as Chihayafuru.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Sports

Chihaya Ayase is a girl who has spent most of her life simply supporting her sister in her model career. That changes when she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, a talented karuta player who recognizes Chihaya's potential to become a great player herself. As Chihaya takes on a new dream of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends, Taichi Mashima and Arata Wataya, as they grow up. Now in high school, Chihaya still continues to play karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.



Tags: Karuta , Female Protagonist , School Club , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , School , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Josei , Athletics , Bullying , Slapstick , Tomboy , CGI

Strike Witches

Also known as Strike Witches.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , KLOCKWORX , NTT Docomo , 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

The year is 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called Neuroi. With the old-boy old guard unable to thwart this deadly menace, humanity turns its desperate eyes to an aerial attack force with much nicer legs. Meet the girls of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, better known as the Strike Witches. These darlings of the great blue yonder may not have standard issue uniforms, but they do have all the right stuff. Where the average flyboy falters, these dolls blast aliens to bits in the bat of an eyelash. With a little magic and a whole lot of leg, the girls of the 501st are winning the war on pants, and aliens!



Tags: Nudity , Kemonomimi , Aviation , Female Protagonist , Magic , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , War , Yuri , Tsundere , Kuudere , CGI

BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls' Story Season 2

Also known as BIRDIE WING -Golf Girls’ Story- Season 2.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures , TV Tokyo , HTC , Bandai , Bandai Namco Music Live , BANDAI SPIRITS , ADK Marketing Solutions , Q-Tec
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

The second season of BIRDIE WING: Golf Girls' Story.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Golf , Primarily Teen Cast , Amnesia , Mafia , School , Super Power , Adoption , Tragedy

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 , Shounen , Survival , Time Skip , Drugs , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast

Hidan no Aria AA

Also known as Aria the Scarlet Ammo AA.

Studio: Doga Kobo , flying DOG , Madman Entertainment , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

A young girl idolizes the world-renowned S-ranked butei Kanzaki H. Aria and plans to follow in her footsteps. However, her test grades her out as only an E-rank! All is not lost, however, as Aria agrees to give her some pointers. Can Aria help this newcomer become a first-rate butei?

Tags: Guns , School , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Kuudere , Yandere , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast

Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon

Also known as Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere.

Studio: Sunrise , Lantis , Sentai Filmworks , ASCII Media Works
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Sci-Fi

In the far future, humans abandon a devastated Earth and traveled to outer space. However, due to unknown phenomenon that prevents them from traveling into space, humanity returns to Earth only to find it inhospitable except for Japan.

To accomodate the entire human population, pocket dimensions are created around Japan to house in the populace. In order to find a way to return to outer space, the humans began reenacting human history according to the Holy book Testament. But in the year 1413 of the Testament Era, the nations of the pocket dimensions invade and conquer Japan, dividing the territory into feudal fiefdoms and forcing the original inhabitants of Japan to leave.

It is now the year 1648 of the Testament Era, the refugees of Japan now live in the city ship Musashi, where it constantly travels around Japan while being watched by the Testament Union, the authority that runs the re-enactment of history. However, rumors of an apocalypse and war begins to spread when the Testament stops revealing what happens next after 1648.

Taking advantage of this situation, Toori Aoi, head of Musashi Ariadust Academy's Supreme Federation and President of the student council, leads his fellow classmates to use this opportunity to regain their homeland.



Tags: Female Harem , Politics , Ensemble Cast , Anachronism , Super Robot , Dystopian , Historical , Kuudere