Anime like Porfy no Nagai Tabi

Yuki no Joou

Also known as The Snow Queen.

Studio: NHK Enterprises , TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

Based on the children's story by Hans Christian Andersen.

Gerda and Kai have been neighbors and best friends since childhood. Gerda is eleven, Kai twelve. They were happy children who worked and played as they should. All that changed when the Snow Queen's mirror broke. The shards spread all through the world, each containing evil. If a shard went inside your eye, it would turn your heart to ice. A shard went into Kai's eye. After that, he grew cold to those he loved.

One night, the Snow Queen came in her carriage and took Kai back to her ice castle at the farthest north point of the world. Everyone in Kai and Gerda's village didn't know where he went and believed he died from drowning in the frozen-over lake. Gerda doesn't believe this, for she dreamed of seeing Kai enter the carriage. When a drunk man admits that he also saw this, Gerda starts realizing that maybe what she saw wasn't a dream. She packs her things and goes on a journey to save Kai and bring him back home.



Tags: Classic Literature , Travel , Fairy Tale , Snowscape , Animals , Female Protagonist

Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Based on the famous classic novel Les Miserables.

Being a single mother is hard in early 19th Century France. When young Cosette was traveling with her mother trying to find a job and a place to live, they were always shunned away because very few employers hire single mothers. When she is promised with the prosperity of working in the big city, Cosette is separated from her mother in the hopes a caretaker will watch over her while her mother earns some money. Unfortunately this was a trick and the caretaker is a corrupt man who makes Cosette his indentured servant. Then the kind mayor of the town that Cosette makes her new home in sees how winds of change are so detrimental for children and families, and decides to do something about it.



Tags: Historical , Classic Literature , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Bullying , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Foreign , Time Skip , Inn , Male Protagonist , Fugitive , Love Triangle , Guns , Police , Animals , Marriage , Religion

Trapp Ikka Monogatari

Also known as The Trapp Family Story.

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

Based on the same story that produced the classic musical 'The Sound of Music', this is the story of Maria, who leaves her life in a convent to take up the responsibility of taking care of Captain Trapp's children.



Tags: Historical , Classic Literature , Foreign , Family Life , Female Protagonist

Sanzoku no Musume Ronja

Also known as Ronja, the Robber's Daughter.

Studio: POLYGON PICTURES , Studio Ghibli , NHK , Dwango , GKids
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Slice of Life

The story is about a girl named Ronja who is the daughter of a chief of a tribe of bandits and lives in a huge castle in the forest with the bandits. The story follows Ronja as she encounters mystical creatures, makes friends with another young child like herself, and experiences life in the forest.

Tags: Full CGI , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Kids , Crime , Rural , CGI , Classic Literature , Historical , Mythology , Foreign , Travel , Gangs , Medieval

Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World

Also known as Kino's Journey.

Studio: WOWOW , Genco , A.C.G.T. , Sentai Filmworks , Studio Wombat
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Slice of Life

Based on a hit light novel series by Keiichi Sigsawa, the philosophical Kino's Journey employs the time-honored motif of the road trip as a vehicle for self-discovery and universal truth. Deeply meditative and cooler than zero, the series follows the existential adventures of the apt marksman Kino along with talking motorcycle Hermes as they travel the world and learn much about themselves in the process. Imaginative, thought-provoking, and sometimes disturbing, Kino's journey is documented in an episodic style with an emphasis on atmosphere rather than action or plot, though still prevalent.

Tags: Philosophy , Episodic , Travel , Foreign , Tragedy , Meta , Motorcycles , Female Protagonist , Achronological Order , Dystopian , Agender , Guns , Rural , Steampunk , Snowscape , Mopeds , Politics , Cannibalism , Robots , Kuudere , Battle Royale , Aviation , War , Tanks

Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World - Tou no Kuni: Free Lance

Studio: Genco , A.C.G.T.
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Psychological

Kino sets off to yet another country: Tower Country. Here all citizens work on the construction of a massive tower, without knowing what purpose it serves. The rather odd encounter with a young boy adds yet another twist to the story.

Tags: Philosophy , Urban , Foreign , Female Protagonist , Motorcycles , Kuudere , Agender

Somali to Mori no Kamisama

Also known as Somali and the Forest Spirit.

Studio: Satelight , HORNETS , Mixer , North Stars Pictures , JY Animation , Crunchyroll , CA-Cygames Anime Fund , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Slice of Life

The world is ruled by a diversity of inhuman beings, who persecuted humans and drove them to near-extinction. One day, the forest guardian Golem meets a human girl. This is a chronicle of a journey that would bind a member of the dying "human" clan to the forest guardian Golem, as father and daughter.



The first episode received an advance web distribution on January 3. The regular TV broadcast started on January 10.

Tags: Adoption , Found Family , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Travel , Iyashikei , Lost Civilization , Elderly Protagonist , Parenthood , Survival , Male Protagonist , Demons , Youkai , Seinen , Orphan , Witch , CGI , Elf , Disability , Slavery

Kaze no Shoujo Emily

Studio: TMS Entertainment , NHK , NHK Enterprises
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Based on the Emily of New Moon novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Emily is an orphan who gets sent to live with her relatives on Prince Edward Island, after her father dies. In New Moon she lives with her Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Laura, and Cousin Jimmy, and learns to adapt with the help of her imagination and new friends.




Tags: Historical , Female Protagonist , Rural , Classic Literature , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Primarily Child Cast , Family Life , Writing , Tomboy , Foreign , Bullying , School , Time Skip , Primarily Female Cast , Love Triangle , Animals , Ojou-sama , Heterosexual , Orphan