Anime like The Marshmallow Times

Di Gi Charat

Also known as Di Gi Charat.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Broccoli , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Di Gi Charat is a series of shorts created as advertisements for "Digital Gamers", a store in Akihabara. The series follows Dejiko, princess of Di Gi Charat planet, and her companions, Puchiko and Gema, as well as Dejiko's rival, Rabi~en~Rose through daily ordeals they encounter while working at Gamers.
Princess Di Gi Charat came from the planet Di Gi Charat given only a cat cap and an outfit to disguise herself. Unfortunately she came with no money, only her guardian Gema and friend Petite Charat. Luckily the three stumbled upon a manager of the store Gamers, who offered them a home if they worked at the store. However Di Gi Charat is a selfish young girl who wishes of becoming a star.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Chibi , Aliens , Work , Nekomimi , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Urban , Kemonomimi , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Henshin , American Football , Kaiju , Kuudere

Super Milk-Chan

Also known as Super Milk-Chan.

Studio: Genco , ADV Films , Tokyo Kids
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Milk-chan is a girl who lives in a house stuck on the side of a building with her two sidekicks: Tetsu-ko, a paranoid robot that looks like a bottle and Hanage, a green blob with a moustache.

Milk is poor and she can`t pay the rent, especially after her attempt to extort a local ant family fails. However, she is saved because the president himself offers her a job (some sort of a secret mission). Milk-chan answers the phone to receive missions from The President by saying something like "Hello, Bank of Hokkaido. Just kidding!".

After getting her mission, Milk-chan and her sidekicks take off aboard the "Milk-6" helicopter to go on her mission. Did I tell you this is a spoof of 1970s spy thrillers or some sort of Bond movies? :)



Tags: Parody , Robots , Female Protagonist , Drugs , Superhero , Nudity

Fushigi Mahou Fun Fun Pharmacy

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life , Supernatural

In a small town, there is a small pharmacy called Fun Fun Pharmacy. Popuri, a girl who recently moved in downtown, discovers this pharmacy and meets Miss Fukiko, who is actually a witch. Miss Fukiko gives Popuri a mysterious bottle that can create magic spirits.

Tags: Kids , Magic , Witch , Primarily Child Cast , Medicine , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Rural , Time Manipulation , Dragons , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Mermaid , Aliens

Ojamajo Doremi

Also known as Magical DoReMi.

Studio: Toei Animation , 4Kids Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Slice of Life

Doremi Harukaze, 3rd grade student at Misora Elementary School, claims to be the world's unluckiest pretty girl. Fascinated by witchcraft, she is drawn into a mysterious shop where she meets Majo Rika and is able to deduce that this lady is in fact a real witch. Being exposed by a human triggers a curse that transforms witches into magical frogs. To regain her original body, Rika must turn Doremi into a witch by teaching her how to use magic. Thrilled by this odd development, Harukaze becomes a witch apprentice. Unfortunately, her two best friends, Hazuki Fujiwara and Aiko Senoo, discover that Doremi has become a magic user. Afraid that Harukaze might become a magical frog too, Majo Rika recruits both Hazuki and Aiko and makes them witch apprentices too. The trio has lots of adventures as they try to triumph the necessary trials to become real witches.



Tags: Witch , Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Henshin , Kids , Coming of Age , Chibi , Episodic , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Family Life , Football , Ojou-sama , Fairy , Idol , Acting , Urban Fantasy

Di Gi Charat Nyo

Also known as Di Gi Charat Nyo.

Studio: MADHOUSE , TV Osaka , Broccoli , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Di Gi Charat (a.k.a. Dejiko) - along with Petit Charat (a.k.a. Puchiko) and Gema - travels to Earth as part of her training to become a full-fledged princess. They crash on a small town in Japan, where they meet the Omocha brothers (who spend most of their time thinking how cute Puchiko is) and Mr. & Mrs. Ankoro (an elderly couple that makes Japanese sweets).



Tags: Female Protagonist , Aliens , Kemonomimi , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Female Cast , Chibi , Isekai , Nekomimi , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Mermaid , Space Opera , Kuudere , Crossover , Ghost , Fishing

Mahou Yuugi: Tobidasu!! Hanamaru Daibouken

Also known as Magical Play.

Studio: Starchild Records , ADV Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Padudu is a 12-year-old apprentice witch, chosen to represent her town in the coliseum. Donning her magical fish costume, which keeps her warm and fed, she sets off on her journey. But on the way she's swept away by a river to Dance Valley. Mayor Koffy captures her and throws her into the dungeon, hoping to eliminate the competition for Dance Valley's own coliseum candidate. Luckily for Padudu, this dungeon holds the mysterious witch Nonononn. They join together in a magical fight for survival. At the end of Blue Gender Trailer, the Magical witchland word came out!

This is the online version of Mahou Yugi...



Tags: Magic , Parody , Surreal Comedy , CGI , Tanned Skin , Villainess

Petit Eva: Evangelion@School

Studio: Bandai Visual , Xebec , Kanaban Graphics
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

"The Bandai Channel website announced that Petit Eva ~Evangelion@School~, the "first official super-deformed series" based on Neon Genesis Evangelion, will be adapted for video. The official announcement will be made in the September issue (on sale August 10) of Newtype magazine in Japan. The Gainax/Khara franchise spinoff spoofs the psychological science fiction drama by reimagining the characters as classmates in Tokyo-3's Nerv School, headed by Principal Gendō Ikari and Misato-sensei. The student body includes three different Rei "sisters," the EVA-01 mobile weapon reimagined as the school bully Evanchō, and the ill-fated Jet Alone robot as JA-ko, a "hidden character" in the form of a shy android girl.

Ryuusuke Hamamoto created the character designs which has inspired four-panel gag manga serializations in four different magazines: Monthly Shōnen Ace, Newtype, Dengeki Hobby Magazine, and Figure Oh. The Petit Eva project has also developed merchandising from super-deformed figurines to limited edition Doritos corn chips."



Tags: Full CGI , No Dialogue , Parody , Chibi , Episodic , School , Primarily Teen Cast , CGI , Surreal Comedy , Urban , Angels , Ensemble Cast , Robots , Aliens , Tsundere