Anime like Seihantai na Kimi to Boku

Koori no Jouheki

Also known as The Ramparts of Ice.

Studio: Studio KAI , TBS , Universal Music , ADK Emotions
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Socially inept, Higawa Koyuki maintains a wall between herself and other people. She spends her time in high school alone, until she meets Amamiya Minato, a boy who keeps trying to close the distance between them for some reason?! The loner Koyuki, the popular Miki, the boundary-less Minato, and the kind basketball player Youta. This is the story about four complicated and confused young people and their mixed up lives!

Tags: Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Kuudere , School , Shoujo , Urban , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Bullying , Chibi , School Club , Orphan , Yuri

Skip to Loafer

Also known as Skip and Loafer.

Studio: P.A.WORKS , DMM.com , Kodansha , Crunchyroll , NetEase Games , Kansai TV , BS Asahi , A-Sketch
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

This country girl is ready for the big city! Well, at least she thought she was. Mitsumi’s dream is to attend a prestigious school and make the world a better place. But when she finally gets to Tokyo, it turns out she isn’t exactly prepared for city life. Luckily, she runs into Shima, a sweet and handsome classmate who becomes her first friend! Can she make it in Tokyo with Shima by her side?



Tags: School , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Urban , Heterosexual , Seinen , Iyashikei , Acting , Transgender , Rural , LGBTQ+ Themes , Coastal

Horimiya

Also known as Horimiya.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Square Enix , Movic , My Theater D.D. , Global Solutions , Mirai Koujou , Kanetsuu Investment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

A secret life is the one thing they have in common. At school, Hori is a prim and perfect social butterfly, but the truth is she's a brash homebody. Meanwhile, under a gloomy facade, Miyamura hides a gentle heart, along with piercings and tattoos. In a chance meeting, they both reveal a side they've never shown. Could this blossom into something new?



Tags: School , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Episodic , Tsundere , Slapstick , Shounen , Love Triangle , Bullying , Sadism , Masochism , Chibi

Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

Also known as My Dress-Up Darling.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Square Enix , Movic , TOKYO MX , BS11 , Studio Mausu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Slice of Life

High schooler Wakana Gojou cares about one thing: making Hina dolls. With nobody to share his obsession, he has trouble finding friends—or even holding conversation. But after the school’s most popular girl, Marin Kitagawa, reveals a secret of her own, he discovers a new purpose for his sewing skills. Together, they’ll make her cosplay dreams come true!



Tags: Cosplay , Otaku Culture , Fashion , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Gyaru , Seinen , Modeling , Urban , Iyashikei , Photography , Slapstick , Makeup , Coming of Age , School , Nudity , Unrequited Love

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Also known as Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.

Studio: Doga Kobo , Sentai Filmworks , Sony Music Communications , AT-X , TV Tokyo , Frontier Works , Media Factory
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

You know how the story goes: girl crushes on guy, girl confesses feelings to guy, guy mistakes confession for a job application. Okay, maybe that's not how it usually goes, but that's what happens when Chiyo Sakura finally gets up the nerve to tell her classroom crush Nozaki how she feels. Since she doesn't know that he's secretly a manga artist who publishes under a female pen name, and he doesn't know that she doesn't know, he misunderstands and offers her a chance to work as his assistant instead of a date! But while it's not flowers and dancing, it is a chance to get closer to him, so Chiyo gamely accepts. And when Nozaki realizes how useful Chiyo can be in figuring out what girls find romantic, he'll be spending even more time with her "researching" while remaining completely clueless. Could Chiyo's romantic frustration possibly get any more drawn out of proportion?



Tags: Parody , Drawing , Slapstick , Ensemble Cast , School , Unrequited Love , Otaku Culture , Female Protagonist , Work , Gender Bending , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Tomboy , School Club , Shounen , Tsundere , Educational , Crossdressing

Class de 2-banme ni Kawaii Onnanoko to Tomodachi ni Natta

Also known as I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class.

Studio: CONNECT , Asmik Ace , Nippon Columbia , Kansai TV , KADOKAWA , BS Asahi , Bit grooove promotion , KLOCKWORX
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Maki Maehara, the class outcast, finally makes his first friend: Umi Asanagi, the second-prettiest girl in class and the center of everyone’s attention. He’s convinced she’s out of his league, but as their unlikely friendship grows, Maki starts to wonder…could there be more than just friendship between them?



Tags: Male Protagonist , School , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Estranged Family , Primarily Female Cast , Otaku Culture , Seinen , Coming of Age , Video Games , Chibi , Love Triangle

Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku

Also known as The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity.

Studio: Aniplex , CloverWorks , Kodansha , TOKYO MX , CloverWorks , BS11 , Movic , Marui Group
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Chidori High is a boys’ school that takes in the dregs of society with the lowest grades. Next door stands Kikyo Girls’ High, where the wealthy, high-class families send their precious daughters. Chidori second-year Rintarou, who has a fierce face but a gentle heart, is helping at his family’s patisserie when he meets a girl named Kaoruko. The two hit it off right away…but this blissful peace is quickly disturbed when Rintarou discovers that Kaoruko is actually a student at Kikyo. Worse, she doesn’t seem to realize what a huge problem this really is! Will these two be able to forge a path for themselves, and sidestep the traps (metaphorical and literal) laid by their classmates?



Tags: Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , Iyashikei , School , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Food , Urban , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Class Struggle , Delinquents , Philosophy

Ponkotsu Fuuki Iin to Skirt take ga Futekisetsu na JK no Hanashi

Also known as The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt.

Studio: Zero-G , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Kodansha , BS Asahi , ADK Marketing Solutions , Crunchyroll , Zero-G , TOKYO MX , Movic , KLOCKWORX , Saber Links , Yomiuri TV Enterprise
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Sakuradaimon is the school's prefect. A prefect is a student who is authorized to enforce discipline. As a prefect, he's supposed to be a role model to other students, but unfortunately he's not perfect. Kohinata is one of the people who Sakuradaimon has tried to discipline into wearing appropriate school attire, but she has thusfar been disobedient.

And so this is a story of the two interacting with one another.

Tags: School , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Gyaru , Urban , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Iyashikei , Surreal Comedy , Shounen , Coming of Age , Meta , Parody , Delinquents , Otaku Culture , Unrequited Love , Hip-hop Music

Tsurezure Children

Also known as Tsuredure Children.

Studio: Studio Gokumi , NAS , King Records
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

To those of you out there who never could say "I love you"— This story is about ordinary highschoolers and how love makes them fired up, shaken, laugh, cry, and hurt. Whether things go well or not, this story of adolescence and romance will show you how they spend their precious youth. Every character is the main character here, and you're sure to find one you can sympathize with.



Tags: Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , School , Episodic , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Shounen , Tsundere , Kuudere , Achronological Order , School Club , Love Triangle

Tamon-kun Ima Docchi!?

Also known as Tamon's B-Side.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Shouchiku , King Records , Hakusensha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Romance

Utage Kinoshita is a high school girl who works part-time as a housekeeper. She has devoted her life to her favorite idol, Tamon Fukuhara, from the group F/ACE. Then one day, Utage ends up being assigned to Tamon’s house! There she discovers that off-stage, he is nothing like his wild idol persona. A gloomy, introverted boy with no self-confidence, Utage still finds herself falling for him anyway.



Tags: Otaku Culture , Female Protagonist , Shoujo , Idol , Heterosexual , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Work , Slapstick , Urban , Love Triangle , Yandere , Hikikomori , Kuudere , Tsundere , CGI , Coming of Age , Acting , Dancing , Teacher , Found Family