Anime like Wansa-kun

Wan Wan Chuushingura

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

The homeless dog Rock swears to take to revenge on a tiger named Killer in the zoo, who had killed his mother. The dogs in town, troubled by the atrocities of Killer, join forces to support Rock. Changing the target of revenge to the murderer of the main character's mother made it easier for kids to empathize with the character.



Tags: Revenge , Animals , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Urban , Primarily Animal Cast , Kids , Rural , Coming of Age , POV

Unico

Also known as Fantastic Adventures of Unico.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Sanrio , Tezuka Productions , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

Unico the Unicorn has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. Whether it's because of his personality or the powers of his horn, no one knows. However, the gods become jealous of Unico, thinking that only gods should be able to decide or let people be happy or not. Unico is banished to the Hill of Oblivion, and the West Wind is ordered to take him there. She can't stand giving this fate to an innocent like Unico, so Unico's adventures begin, as the West Wind takes him from one place and time to the next, in a neverending journey to escape the wrath of the gods. In this adventure, Unico meets Beezel a devil child and then Katy (Chao), a cat who wants to be a witch! Can he become friends with them?



Tags: Shapeshifting , Super Power , Henshin , Tsundere , Kids , Animals , Tragedy , Magic , Male Protagonist , Swordplay , Cosmic Horror , Demons , Musical Theater , Cannibalism

Chirin no Suzu

Also known as Ringing Bell.

Studio: Sanrio , Discotek , Sunrise
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

A little lamb's life is turned upside down by the wolf that killed his mother. He seeks to avenge his mother, but in order to defeat the wolf, he must become one.



Tags: Revenge , Animals , Time Skip , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Rural , Snowscape , Orphan , Cultivation

Arashi no Yoru ni

Also known as One Stormy Night.

Studio: Group TAC , TBS
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

A story about a goat and a wolf who become friends in a stormy night, and how they overcome differences and hardships.



Tags: Animals , Travel , Male Protagonist , Rural , Boys' Love , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Animal Cast , Amnesia , Memory Manipulation , Snowscape , Fairy Tale , Kids

Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko

Also known as Pom Poko.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Studio Ghibli , Daiei , Walt Disney Studios , GKids
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy

Faced with the destruction of their habitat due to the growth of Tokyo, a group of tanuki try to defend their homes. They decide to use their transforming talents to try to hold back the new development. Two of them, especially skilled at transforming, are sent to Shikoku to enlist the help of three sages. Meanwhile, the rest of them do their best to disrupt the construction site, at first causing accidents, and then actually haunting the site. However, the humans are very persistent, and soon the tanuki are forced to use more and more extreme measures to save their home.



Tags: Environmental , Mythology , Ensemble Cast , Animals , Rural , Primarily Animal Cast , Anthropomorphism , Shapeshifting , Henshin , Revenge , Primarily Male Cast , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Youkai , Kids , Travel , Transgender

Tonde Mon Pe

Status: Finished
Genres:

Fifteen-year-old country girl Mon-Mon dreams of being a fashion designer and gets a job as an au pair to a rising star designer, Mrs. Kano, her baby girl PePe, and her silly writer husband.

But PePe can make toys and animals do very odd things. Mon's employers don't seem to notice anything odd is going on, and she finds her dream job turning into a chaotically cute trial of wits she has no chance of winning. She's a sweet girl, hardworking and kind, but very unsophisticated and simply not used to walking teddy bears and talking stuffed animals.

She eventually decides to leave her job and go home, but psychic baby PePe, who has come to love her, finds a way to make sure she stays.

Tags: Kids