Anime like Shounen Maid

Barakamon

Also known as Barakamon.

Studio: Kinema Citrus , VAP , Nippon Television Network
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Seishuu Handa is an up-and-coming calligrapher: young, handsome, talented, and unfortunately, a narcissist to boot. When a veteran labels his award-winning piece as "unoriginal," Seishuu quickly loses his cool with severe repercussions.

As punishment, and also in order to aid him in self-reflection, Seishuu's father exiles him to the Goto Islands, far from the comfortable Tokyo lifestyle the temperamental artist is used to. Now thrown into a rural setting, Seishuu must attempt to find new inspiration and develop his own unique art style—that is, if boisterous children (headed by the frisky Naru Kotoishi), fujoshi middle schoolers, and energetic old men stop barging into his house! The newest addition to the intimate and quirky Goto community only wants to get some work done, but the islands are far from the peaceful countryside he signed up for. Thanks to his wacky neighbors who are entirely incapable of minding their own business, the arrogant calligrapher learns so much more than he ever hoped to.



Tags: Calligraphy , Rural , Found Family , Iyashikei , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Family Life , Seinen , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Teacher , Coastal , Slapstick , Tsundere , Fishing

Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari

Also known as Poco's Udon World.

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

Souta Tawara is a web designer working in Tokyo. When he visits his family's Udon place in his hometown Kagawa Prefecture, he discovers a young boy. Upon confronting the boy, Souta soon learns his secret and decides to quit his job in order to take care of the boy, Poko. The daily adventures of the two slowly enfold as Poco energetically navigates his way through Kagawa, the "Udon Kingdom," along with Souta.

Tags: Family Life , Seinen , Kemonomimi , Male Protagonist , Rural , Shapeshifting , Found Family , Primarily Adult Cast , Food

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

Megami-ryou no Ryoubo-kun.

Also known as Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory.

Studio: Asread , KADOKAWA , Rakuonsha , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

Down-on-his-luck Koushi Nagumo wanders the streets unemployed, homeless, and in search of his next meal. His fortunes improve after a chance meeting with a vivacious young woman whose proposition seemingly solves nearly all his problems. Thanks to her, Koushi enters the welcoming halls of a dormitory at a women’s college… only this particular assignment is no stuffy, sleepy affair. The Goddess’ Dormitory is known for housing the college’s most unruly students! If he wants to keep a roof over his head, Koushi must become the “Dormitory Mother” charged with maintaining order and good discipline. But doing his job and keeping his sanity are no small feat with characters as endearingly eccentric and untamable as these!



Tags: Nudity , Female Harem , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Shounen , Heterosexual , College , Male Protagonist , Adoption , Love Triangle , Tsundere , Educational , Kuudere , Cosplay , Crossdressing , School , Chibi

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

Himegoto

Studio: Asahi Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Slice of Life

The story follows Hime Arikawa, a boy who is being chased down by scary people. However, he is rescued from danger by the girls in his school's student council — 18-Kin-san, President Unko, and Beru-senpai. The student council will assume Arikawa's debt under one condition: "As the student council's dog, you will spend your high school life in women's clothes."

Tags: Crossdressing , Episodic , Male Protagonist , Femboy , Gender Bending , School , Parody , Heterosexual , Seinen , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things

Kotarou wa Hitorigurashi

Also known as Kotaro Lives Alone.

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

A lonely little boy moves into a ramshackle apartment building all on his own and makes friends with the broke manga artist who lives next door.



Tags: Found Family , Family Life , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Iyashikei , School , Estranged Family , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Delinquents , Detective

Mahoromatic

Also known as Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden.

Studio: Gainax , Shaft , TBS , Pioneer LDC , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

Vesper is a secret agency fighting an army of alien invaders by using super-powerful battle androids. Mahoro is Vesper's most powerful battle android and has won many battles, but she has little operating time left and soon will cease to function. However, if she lays down her arms and conserves her remaining power, the time she has left can be prolonged to just over a year. Mahoro is given an opportunity to live the remaining time she has as a normal human. She chooses to live as a maid for Suguru, a phenomenally messy high school student who lives by himself after his family passed away.



Tags: Maids , Robots , Heterosexual , Military , Aliens , Nudity , Found Family , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Teacher , School

Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru

Also known as And Yet The Town Moves.

Studio: Shaft , Pony Canyon , TBS , Movic , Sentai Filmworks , flying DOG , Memory-Tech
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hotori Arashiyama loves mysteries, but there's one she just can't solve: why does the solution to one problem inevitably seem to lead to another? Like how when Hotori has to start working at the Seaside Maid Cafe after school to pay off a debt and her friend Toshiko fortunately knows exactly how a Maid Cafe should be run. Which is fortunate since Hotori has no clue. Except that, unfortunately, Toshiko has no interest in working at the cafe - until she discovers that Hotori's childhood friend Hiroyuki is a regular. Which SEEMS fortunate. Except that Hotori doesn't know that, while Toshiko likes Hiroyuki, Hiroyuki secretly likes Hotori, while Hotori secretly has a crush on... No, no more spoilers!

But if that's not enough drama, there's work, angst with a certain math teacher, table tennis between her classmates, her younger brother versus the school's bad girl... And yet, even though everything seems like it's going to crash at any moment, somehow Hotori's life keeps going hilariously forward.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Achronological Order , Heterosexual , Seinen , Slapstick , Maids , Love Triangle , Episodic , Ghost , Afterlife , Primarily Teen Cast , Teacher , Time Manipulation , Aliens , Magic

Kore ga Watashi no Goshujin-sama

Also known as He is My Master.

Studio: Gainax , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Shaft , TBS , DAX Production , Sentai Filmworks , Memory-Tech
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Slice of Life

Izumi Sawatari and her younger sister, Mitsuki Sawatari, have run away from home and are in need of employment. The only jobs available are as maids in the mansion of 14-year-old millionaire, Yoshitaka Nakabayashi. What seems like simple work is soon revealed to be far more than the girls bargained for when they find Yoshitaka to be an authoritative employer who demands they call him "Master".



Tags: Maids , Female Harem , Animals , Idol , Nudity , Crossdressing