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Bocchi the Rock!

Also known as BOCCHI THE ROCK!.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Houbunsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Hitori Gotou, “Bocchi-chan,” is a girl who’s so introverted and shy around people that she’d always start her conversations with “Ah...”

During her middle school years, she started playing the guitar, wanting to join a band because she thought it could be an opportunity for even someone shy like her to also shine. But because she had no friends, she ended up practicing guitar for six hours every day all by herself. After becoming a skilled guitar player, she uploaded videos of herself playing the guitar to the internet under the name “Guitar Hero” and fantasized about performing at her school’s cultural festival concert. But not only could she not find any bandmates, before she knew it, she was in high school and still wasn’t able to make a single friend!

She was really close to becoming a shut-in, but one day, Nijika Ijichi, the drummer in Kessoku Band, reached out to her. And because of that, her everyday life started to change little by little...



Tags: Band , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Rock Music , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Coming of Age , Hikikomori , Rehabilitation , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Mixed Media , Slapstick , Seinen , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Work , School , Rotoscoping , Chibi

NHK ni Youkoso!

Also known as Welcome to the N-H-K.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Satou’s life – or what’s left of it – is a paranoid mess of conspiracy theories and social anxieties. He’s terrified of the outside world; his apartment is overflowing with the remnants of cheap take-out food; and his retinas have been permanently scarred by a steady diet of internet porn. But maybe it’s not all his fault. After all, the nefarious N-H-K is out there, and they’re determined to turn society’s fringe-dwellers into a brainwashed lot of jobless, hopeless, futureless recluses.

Enter Misaki – a mysterious girl-next-door type who is Satou’s last chance to beat down his inner demons and venture out into the light of day. She’s ready to help him overcome his crippling phobias, but Satou would rather cower in his existential foxhole and pretend to work on the demo for his virtual sex game.

He’s afraid to face the world. She’s strangely desperate to fix a total stranger. Maybe together they can be normal.



Tags: Hikikomori , Rehabilitation , Otaku Culture , Male Protagonist , Denpa , Conspiracy , Philosophy , Suicide , Primarily Adult Cast , Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Tragedy , Disability , Video Games , Software Development , Heterosexual , Nudity , Politics , Trains , Drugs

Hitoribocchi no ○○ Seikatsu

Also known as Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu.

Studio: C2C
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Hitori Bocchi suffers from extreme social anxiety, she’s not good at talking to people, takes pretty extreme actions, is surprisingly adept at avoiding people, her legs cramp when she overexerts herself, gets full of herself when alone, will vomit when exposed to extreme tension and often comes up with plans. Now she is entering middle school and her only friend, Yawara Kai, is attending a different school. This leaves Bocchi alone, surrounded by new classmates with whom she must make friends before Kai will talk to her again.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , School , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tsundere , Ninja , Coming of Age , Tomboy , Shounen

Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu

Also known as The Dangers in My Heart.

Studio: Shin-Ei Animation , TV Asahi , Avex Pictures , Akita Shoten , TV Asahi Music , Movic , Dentsu , BS Asahi , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Fascinated by murder and all things macabre, Kyoutarou daydreams of acting out his twisted fantasies on his unsuspecting classmates — but an encounter with Anna Yamada, the gorgeous class idol, lights a spark in the darkness of his heart. It’s a classic tale of an antisocial boy falling for a popular girl, but neither are who they appear to be at first glance. Will Kyoutarou and Anna defy their expectations of each other — and of themselves?



Tags: Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , School , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Chuunibyou , Urban , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Slapstick , Food , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Shounen

Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun

Also known as Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki.

Studio: project No.9 , Dream Shift , Pony Canyon , APDREAM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Expert gamer Tomozaki Fumiya doesn’t exactly fit in, but he wishes he did. With no written rules for success and gameplay that doesn’t work in his favor, the real world seems impossible for someone like him. But, like any noob, all he really needs are some strategies and a seasoned player like Aoi Hinami to help him. Hopefully with her guidance, Tomozaki will gain the experience he needs.



Tags: Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Video Games , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Educational , Ensemble Cast , Love Triangle , Slapstick , E-Sports , School Club , Hikikomori , LGBTQ+ Themes

Komi-san wa, Komyushou desu.

Also known as Komi Can’t Communicate.

Studio: OLM , Half H.P Studio , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof—she’s just super awkward. Now he’s made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!



Tags: School , Kuudere , Disability , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Shounen , Agender , Meta , Yandere , Gender Bending , Transgender , Femboy , Crossdressing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Chuunibyou , Maids , Unrequited Love , Gangs , Bullying

Net-juu no Susume

Also known as Recovery of an MMO Junkie.

Studio: Signal.MD , flying DOG , comico , Crunchyroll
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

Moriko Morioka is a 30-year-old single NEET woman. After dropping out from reality, she has taken off in search for a fulfilling life and ended up in a net game or "netoge." In the netoge world, she began her new life as a refreshing and handsome character named Hayashi. While starting out as a beginner, a pretty character named Lily reached out to help her. Meanwhile, in the real world, awaits a shocking encounter with a good-looking elite company employee, a mysterious blue-eyed blonde.



Tags: Video Games , Virtual World , Hikikomori , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast , Otaku Culture , Gender Bending , Josei , Parody , Konbini , Love Triangle

Onii-chan wa Oshimai!

Also known as ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister!.

Studio: Studio Bind , Toho , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Ichijinsha , AT-X , BS11 , Pia , Pony Canyon , Movic , TOKYO MX , Bit Grooove Promotion , EGG FIRM
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Slice of Life

Mahiro Oyama was just a normal erotic-game loving dude…until he woke up one morning as a woman! Turns out his mad-scientist little sister, Mihari, tried out one of her new experiments on him…with a disastrous outcome, as far as Mahiro’s concerned! But Mihari is as determined to study him as he is determined to go back to his shut-in, game-playing life, and one thing’s for sure…life is going to get a whole lot weirder from here on out!



Tags: Gender Bending , Rehabilitation , Age Regression , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Hikikomori , Transgender , Otaku Culture , Family Life , Found Family , Crossdressing , School , Gyaru , Tomboy , LGBTQ+ Themes , Chibi , Nudity , Chuunibyou

Kuragehime

Also known as Princess Jellyfish.

Studio: Funimation , Brain's Base , Asmik Ace , Sony Music Entertainment , Sakura Create , Fujipacific Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Plain, timid and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete with roommates who harbor diehard hobbies that solidify their status as hopeless social rejects. These wallflowers run a tight, nun-like ship, but their no-men-allowed-not-no-one-not-no-how bubble is unwittingly burst after Tsukimi brings home a rescued sea jelly and a beauty queen... who's actually a guy.

When the threat of losing their cozy convent inspires this glamour boy to turn the neurotic entourage into a portrait of success, will Tsukimi take her chance to bloom, or will she end up a hot mess?



Tags: Josei , Crossdressing , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Slapstick , Otaku Culture , Makeup , Primarily Female Cast , Found Family , Gender Bending , Femboy , Fashion , Ensemble Cast , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Urban , LGBTQ+ Themes , Politics , Drawing

Lucky☆Star

Also known as Lucky☆Star.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Rakuonsha , Lucky Paradise , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

What’s the best way to eat dessert? Do twins really have a psychic connection? What kind of guys are into moe girls? These are the kinds of questions that float through the inquisitive mind of anime super-fan Konata Izumi. When she’s not lost in her favorite manga or logging hours in one of her online games, she’s debating the mysteries of the universe with the best friends a girl could ask for.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Parody , Ensemble Cast , Otaku Culture , School , Meta , Episodic , Coming of Age , Twins , Video Games , Philosophy , Tsundere , Kuudere , Cheerleading , Shounen , Ojou-sama , Shrine Maiden , Baseball , Mixed Media