Anime like Shiunji-ke no Kodomotachi

Go-toubun no Hanayome

Also known as The Quintessential Quintuplets.

Studio: Tezuka Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Uesugi Fuutarou, a high school second-year from a poor family, receives a highly appealing offer to work part-time as a tutor... but his students turn out to be girls from his own class! What's more, they're quintuplets... and all five are beautiful, but happen to be problem students who have borderline grades and hate studying! Looks like his first assignment will be to win all the sisters' trust?! Every day is a wild party in this rom-com centering around the quintuplet sisters of the Nakano household!



Tags: Twins , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Ensemble Cast , Teacher , Tsundere , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Shounen , Ojou-sama , Love Triangle , School Club , Work , Time Skip , Acting , Cohabitation

Amagami-san Chi no Enmusubi

Also known as Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister.

Studio: Drive , King Records , Kodansha , Crunchyroll , Drive , KLOCKWORX , BS Nittele
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance , Supernatural

Uryuu Kamihate is a high school student striving to enter Kyoto University’s medical school. After being raised at an orphanage, Uryuu is taken in by the chief priest at Amagami Shrine, where he begins to live as a freeloader—and to cohabit with Yae, Yuna, and Asahi, the three beautiful shrine maiden sisters! What’s more, the condition he must meet in order to live at the shrine for free is to marry into the family and inherit the shrine! How will Uryuu overcome his marriage meetings with the three sisters as well as the many challenges that Amagami Shrine faces? So begins a miraculous rom-com about living under the same roof with three shrine maidens!



Tags: Heterosexual , Shrine Maiden , Female Harem , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Orphan , Family Life , Tsundere , Found Family , Slapstick , Urban Fantasy , Memory Manipulation , Shounen , Body Swapping , Time Loop , Adoption , Religion , Cohabitation , Time Manipulation , Tomboy , Chibi , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Nudity , Age Gap , Ojou-sama , Alternate Universe , School , Isekai , Yandere , Crossdressing

Mikadono Sanshimai wa Angai, Choroi.

Also known as Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze.

Studio: Aniplex , P.A.WORKS , Mainichi Broadcasting System , SANKYO , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Shogakukan , arma bianca , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Movic
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Yuu Ayase, son of a late legendary actress, is overwhelmingly mediocre. When he’s invited to stay with his mother’s friend, Yuu is shocked to find out that he’ll be living with three prodigy sisters who possess both beauty and talent…and who rule his new school as the Three Emperors. Can Yuu manage to melt the sisters’ cold hearts and fulfill his mother’s last wish for him to build a happy family?



Tags: Cohabitation , Male Protagonist , Female Harem , Shounen , Heterosexual , Tomboy , Found Family , School , Female Protagonist , Tsundere , Coming of Age , Primarily Female Cast , Love Triangle , Martial Arts , Shogi , Acting , Food

Kakkou no Iinazuke

Also known as A Couple of Cuckoos.

Studio: Shin-Ei Animation , SynergySP , KADOKAWA , Kodansha , TV Asahi , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Mixed up with another family's child as a baby, high school student Umino Nagi is finally meeting his biological parents. On the day of their meeting, he happens to encounter Amano Erika, a high school student at a prestigious and wealthy girls school. At her request, he's half-forced into pretending to be her boyfriend so she can avoid marrying her fiance....However, not only were they the babies who had been mixed up, they're also engaged to each other! The loving parents of both families officially recognize their engagement, and the couple begins living together. Nagi is in love with his classmate Segawa Hiro, and Erika is determined to rebel against her father, so the couple agree not to get involved with each other. The mixed-up and chaotic romantic comedy starts now!



Note: The final two episodes were broadcast together as a one hour special

Tags: Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Arranged Marriage , Heterosexual , School , Female Harem , Inseki , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Cohabitation , Shrine Maiden , Cosplay , Alternate Universe

Kanojo, Okarishimasu

Also known as Rent-a-Girlfriend.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , DMM pictures , Kodansha , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. "Ugh... Damn it. I never want to go through that again."

Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and suddenly hears, "You're Kazuya-kun, right?" A beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin!



Tags: Love Triangle , Male Protagonist , Female Harem , Fake Relationship , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Slapstick , Masturbation , Shounen , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Tsundere , Work , Surreal Comedy , College , Acting , Urban , Anti-Hero , Feet , Female Protagonist

Megami no Café Terrace

Also known as The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses.

Studio: Tezuka Productions , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Marvelous , Kodansha , Tezuka Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance

After inheriting his late grandmother’s failing café, Hayato sees it as a bother and plans to sell it for a quick buck. Until he discovers five beautiful girls staying there! When they beg him to keep the café open, Hayato reluctantly gives in. Can he manage the seaside shop while learning to live with these unruly women?



Tags: Work , Primarily Female Cast , Male Protagonist , Female Harem , Maids , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Nudity , Shounen , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coastal , Food , Orphan , Cohabitation , Band , Twins , Restaurant , Found Family

Watari-kun no xx ga Houkai Sunzen

Also known as Watari-kun's ****** Is about to Collapse.

Studio: Staple Entertainment , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Naoto Watari lives solely for his little sister, Suzushiro, until his chaotic childhood friend, Satsuki, storms back into his life. Without uttering a single word, her very presence ignites buried memories and unravels his rigid routine. As tensions rise and secrets surface, Naoto’s devotion to Suzushiro clashes with unresolved pain, threatening to collapse his fragile world.



Tags: Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Yandere , Family Life , Seinen , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Agriculture , Adoption , Estranged Family , Female Harem , Nudity , Time Skip

Kanojo, Okarishimasu 4th Season

Also known as Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 4.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , DMM.com , Kodansha , Mainichi Broadcasting System
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

The fourth season of Kanojo, Okarishimasu.

Kazuya’s ready to confess with the lush paradise of Hawaii as a backdrop. But renting Chizuru for the dream trip turns into a war zone of love due to Ruka’s aggressive advances and Mami’s scheming. Despite the chaos, this is Kazuya’s moment to bare his heart. Will his words reach Chizuru? And if they do, what will she even say?



Note: Kanojo, Okarishimasu 4th Season was streamed 4 days in advance of the TV broadcast on DMM TV, dAnimestore, and Crunchyroll beginning July 1, 2025. Regular broadcasting began on July 5, 2025.

Tags: Fake Relationship , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Masturbation , Urban , Philosophy

Go-toubun no Hanayome∽

Also known as The Quintessential Quintuplets Specials.

Studio: TBS , Shaft
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Fuutarou, a part-time tutor, has taken on the task of guiding the Nakano sisters—quintessential beauties who are on the brink of flunking out of school and despise studying—until their graduation. With only six months left of their high school lives and the final summer vacation about to commence, he decides to take a break from his tutoring job during the summer break to focus on exam preparation.

While the quintuplets are disheartened by their inability to see Fuutarou, an unexpected phone call from him turns everything around! A 500% adorable romantic comedy, the summer vacation edition!



Note: The anime was pre-screened in Japan theatrically for 3 weeks on July 14, 2023 before being aired as a two-part special on September 2 & September 9, 2023.

Tags: Twins , Female Harem , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Shounen , Tsundere , Kuudere , Ojou-sama , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast

Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Also known as Oreimo.

Studio: Aniplex , Movic , AIC Build , Aniplex of America , ASCII Media Works , Jumondou
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Kousaka Kyousuke, a normal 17-year-old high school student living in Chiba, has not gotten along with his younger sister Kirino in years. For longer than he can remember, Kirino has ignored his comings and goings and looked at him with spurning eyes. It seemed as if the relationship between Kyousuke and his sister, now fourteen, would continue this way forever. One day however, Kyousuke finds a DVD case of a magical girl anime which had fallen in his house's entrance way.



Tags: Otaku Culture , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Incest , Urban , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Writing , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Cosplay , Coming of Age , Female Harem , Family Life , Chuunibyou , Love Triangle , Parody , School , Badminton