Anime like St. Luminous Mission High School

I My Me! Strawberry Eggs

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , TNK , Pioneer LDC
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Amawa Hibiki is a young man just out of college, with an education to be an athletics teacher. He's been having a hard time finding a job since he graduated, so all his money has gone towards living expenses. When his landlady demands his first payment to live in her living establishment upfront, he heads to the local middle school to get hired as a teacher. However, the principal refuses to hire him without hesitation. She will not hire men as teachers and makes it clear that she hates all men, saying they put no love into their passions and work. Amawa does not give up and with the help of his landlady, he crossdresses as a woman without a second thought, and gets hired, so he can earn money and also prove the principal wrong. Now, he has to keep his real gender a secret, and avoid strange situations, including the affections of his students (from both genders).



Tags: Crossdressing , School , Age Gap , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Femboy

Dual! Parallel Lunlun Monogatari

Also known as Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure.

Studio: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , AIC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Kazuki Yotsuga is your regular average nerd in high-school, except he isn't smart. He has this website which relates to his visions that only he can see. His vision's are about robots who keep fighting each other battle after battle. One day he is sent to a, "parallel world" where these visions exist and he joins a company to fight back against the devious RaRa, who want to take over the world.



Tags: Female Harem , Isekai , Alternate Universe , Primarily Female Cast , Robots , Real Robot , Super Robot , Urban , Parody , Shounen , Crossdressing , Male Protagonist

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Aniplex of America , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/6. Contains the arcs Hitagi Crab, Mayoi Snail, Suruga Monkey, Nadeko Snake, and Tsubasa Cat from the Bakemonogatari light novels.

Thanks to Meme Oshino, Koyomi Araragi, a high school student, is able to remain a human after coming across a female vampire... However, since the incident, Koyomi seems to meet girls who have an apparition-related issue. Hitagi Senjougahara doesn’t weigh anything, Suruga Kanbaru’s right arm becomes like that of a monkey’s, and a young girl, Mayoi, cannot find her way home no matter how many times she tries. Koyomi, a Mr. Nice Guy, ends up helping each and every girl solve her problem with the help of Meme Oshino.



Tags: Ensemble Cast , Youkai , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Philosophy , Vampire , Ghost , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Satire , Primarily Teen Cast , Meta , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Curses , Monster Girl , Psychosexual , Love Triangle , Yandere , Tomboy , Parody , Gore , Rotoscoping , Female Harem , Nekomimi , Gods , LGBTQ+ Themes , Tsundere , CGI , School , Amnesia , Rehabilitation , Aliens

Love Hina

Also known as Love Hina.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Xebec , Funimation , Yomiko Advertising
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

Keitaro Urashima promised a girl when he was young that they would meet up again at Tokyo University in the future. Sadly, in the National Practice Exam, Keitaro ranked 27th from the bottom. Knowing his grandmother owned a hotel, Keitaro intended to stay there while continuing his studies for Tokyo U, only to find out the hotel had long been transformed into an all-girls dormitory. Through an odd twist of fate, Keitaro eventually became the manager of the dorm, beginning his life of living with 5 other girls.

Tags: Female Harem , Heterosexual , College , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Tsundere , Primarily Female Cast , Slapstick

Mahou Sensei Negima!

Also known as Negima!.

Studio: Xebec , Starchild Records , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Fantasy , Romance

10-year old Negi Springfield is a wizard-in-training, and needs only to pass one more test in order to become a Master Wizard. Unfortunately, his final task is a bizarre one- to become a English teacher at an all-females boarding school. As soon as he arrives, he completely embarasses one of his students, Asuna Kagurazaka, and replaces the teacher she loves, which garners her hatred. To make matters worse, Asuna learns that Negi is a wizard,and promises to tell unless he helps her out. But, unfortunately, circumstances force them to work together to do many things, from fighting evil wizards to helping the class pass their final exam, with a lot of humor, magic, and romances thrown in.



Tags: Magic , School , Teacher , Female Harem , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Age Gap , Vampire , Kuudere , Nudity

Mai-HiME

Also known as My-HiME.

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo Music , Funimation , Bandai Visual
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mecha , Romance

Mai Tokiha thought she had enough trouble in life between taking care of her ailing brother and transferring to a new school. But when she saves a mysterious girl wielding a sword, everything changes. A power awakens within her and she becomes a HiME, a battle princess! But she’s not alone with this power—eleven other girls share her fate, and the burden is a heavy one.



Tags: Magic , School , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Battle Royale , Ensemble Cast , Robots , Super Power , Primarily Female Cast , Love Triangle , LGBTQ+ Themes , Kuudere , Yuri , Dragons , Shrine Maiden , Nun , Rural , Gods , Crossdressing , Motorcycles , Yandere , Conspiracy , Unrequited Love , Memory Manipulation , Artificial Intelligence , Time Skip

Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregotozukai

Also known as Kubikiri Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense User.

Studio: Shaft , Kodansha , Aniplex
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

It's the vacation of a lifetime, a trip to a remote island filled with geniuses–and murder.

On Wet Crow's Feather Island, a tiny speck in the Sea of Japan, lives Akagami Iria, the exiled daughter of a powerful family. Born into great wealth, she was a princess of the highest pedigree–until she was cut off by the leader of the Akagami Foundation. For the last five years, she's lived on Feather Island with her maids. But she hasn't been alone. She has invited the best minds Japan has to offer to come and stay with her.

And so nineteen-year-old college student Ii-chan and his best friend, computer genius Kunagisa Tomo, find themselves as Iria’s guests at her elaborate mansion. Surrounded by fascinating women – a chef, a fortune-teller, a scholar, and an artist, not to mention his own friend Tomo – Ii-chan is feeling a little overmatched intellectually. But the sudden discovery of a grisly murder sends the island into shock. And Ii-chan discovers that he does possess a bit of genius: the ability to discover what is real and what is fake, who is who they claim to be and who is a killer.



Tags: Detective , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Crime , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Maids , Conspiracy , Body Swapping , Tragedy , Hikikomori , Heterosexual , CGI , Female Protagonist , Ojou-sama , Gore , Kuudere , Super Power , Time Skip , Ships

Maria†Holic

Also known as Maria†Holic.

Studio: Shaft , Frontier Works , Genco , Media Factory , AT-X , Omnibus Japan , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

It’s not easy to find the perfect girl, even when you’re the same sex! Kanako thought attending an all girls school would be the perfect way to meet the girl of her dreams, but after her hot new roommate turns out to be a guy in drag, and catching the eye of the most popular girl in school only brings down the wrath of all the OTHER similarly obsessed girls, she’s not so sure! Complicate things with a cat-eared dorm leader, her roommate’s rude-mannered maid and identical twin sister (who attends an all boys school, of course,) and WAY too many attractive girls of questionable persuasions and the question becomes whether Kanako can die from frustrated nosebleeds! (Life would be SO much easier if guys didn’t literally give her the hives!) Will Kanako ever find a non-polar opposite of a compatible non-opposing polarity?



Tags: Parody , School , Crossdressing , Femboy , Female Protagonist , Maids , Ojou-sama , Bullying , Twins , Meta , Primarily Female Cast , Tomboy , Tsundere , Nekomimi , Religion , Seinen , Boarding School , Archery , Kuudere , Bisexual

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

Also known as When They Cry.

Studio: Studio DEEN , Frontier Works , Sotsu , DAX Production , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem. Based on the amateur mystery game by 07th Expansion, the story is told in a series of different scenarios.

Tags: Time Loop , Denpa , Alternate Universe , Ensemble Cast , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Rural , Conspiracy , Achronological Order , Gore , Chibi , Body Horror , Bullying , Torture , Yandere , Twins , Urban Fantasy , Male Protagonist , Mythology , Pandemic , Cosmic Horror , Primarily Female Cast , School Club , Shrine Maiden , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Police , Historical , Board Game , Crossdressing

Shin Tenchi Muyou!

Also known as Tenchi in Tokyo.

Studio: AIC , Funimation , Pioneer LDC , TV Tokyo , Kadokawa Shoten
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Sci-Fi

Tenchi decides to move to Tokyo in order to lead a normal life in the big city. While in Tokyo, Tenchi meets a girl named Sakuya. They soon fall in love, but as it turns out, a dark sinister force has created Sakuya to get at Tenchi and rule the earth. Now Tenchi must balance love, friends, and life while defending the earth one last time.



Tags: Female Harem , Male Protagonist , Urban