Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to The Animation

Series Similar to Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to The Animation

If you enjoyed Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to The Animation, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Tejina-senpai

   2019 · Comedy, Anime · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem, also on Tokyo MX.

   Our MC finds out that his school requires him to join a club and during his reluctant search he stumbles upon Tejina-senpai attempting magic tricks in her clubroom. Tejina-senpai has massive stage fright however and so now that she has an audience her attempts are simply comedic.

2. Love is Like a Cocktail

   2017 · Comedy, Anime · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem, also on Tokyo MX.

   Chisato Mizusawa is a reserved but excellent and pretty assistant manager in her company. She has a secret that only her husband Sora knows, which is that she likes drinking alcohol, and she can become very cute when she is drunk!

3. Soul Eater

   2008 · Comedy, Action, Adventure, Anime · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   At the Death Weapon Meister Academy (DWMA) students are either humans with the ability to turn into weapons or humans with the ability to wield those weapons, known as meisters. These students train with the purpose of gaining the souls of 99 bad humans and one witch in order to gain the power to turn the weapon into a death scythe.

4. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

   2017 · Comedy, Anime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem, also on Tokyo MX.

   Kobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tooru appeared and they ended up living together. Tooru looks down on humans as inferior and foolish, but having been saved by Kobayashi-san, she does everything she can to repay the debt and help her with various things, although not everything goes according to plan.A mythical everyday life comedy about a hard working office lady living with a dragon girl.

5. Nisekoi

   2014 · Comedy, Anime, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem, also on Tokyo MX.

   Raku Ichijo is an average high school student. He also happens to be the sole heir to the head of a Yakuza Family called the Shuei-gumi. 10 years ago, Raku made a promise… a secret promise with a girl he met. They promised one another that they will "get married when they reunite". Since then, Raku never let go of the pendant the girl gave him.

6. Toradora!

   2008 · Drama, Comedy, Anime, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   Despite Ryuji Takasu's gentle personality, his eyes make him look like an intimidating delinquent so he is utterly hopeless about his chances of getting a girlfriend anytime soon, and does not have many close friends either. After being greeted by his hungover mother in the morning, Ryuji goes to school and is happy to find that he gets to be in the same class as his best friend Yusaku Kitamura and crush Minori Kushieda. However, it is then that he unexpectedly knocks into "the school's most dangerous animal of the highest risk level" — Taiga Aisaka — who just happens to also be in his class, and is a good friend of Minori.

7. Barakamon

   2014 · Comedy, Adventure, Anime · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   As a punishment for punching a famous Calligrapher, young handsome Calligrapher Handa Seishu is exiled on a small island. As someone who has never lived outside of a city, Handa has to adapt to his new wacky neighbors, like people traveling on a tractor, unwanted visitors who never use the front door, annoying kids using his home as a playground, etc. Can this city guy handle all the crazy hardships? Find out in this wacky island comedy full of innocence and laughter!

8. Fruits Basket

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Anime, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   Hundreds of years ago, the Chinese Zodiac spirits and their gods swore to stay together eternally. United by this promise, the possessed members of the Souma shall always return to each other under any circumstances. Yet, when these bonds shackle them from their freedom, it becomes an undesirable burden - a curse. As head of the clan, Akito is convinced that he shares a special connection with the other Soumas. While he desperately clings to this fantasy, the rest of the family remains isolated and suppressed by the fear of punishment. Tooru Honda, who as grown attached to the Soumas, is determined to break the chains that bind them. The companionship with her family and her friends encourages her to move forward with lifting the curse. However, due to confounding revelations, she struggles to find the tenacity to continue with her endeavours. With time slowly withering away, Tooru contends with an uncertain furture in hopes of reaching tranquility that may lie beyond all this commotion.There is also Fruits Basket: Prologue, a theatrical release movie that provides a prologue story and an epilogue after the TV anime.

9. Is This a Zombie?

   2011 · Comedy, Action, Anime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem, also on Tokyo MX.

   The story centers around a lazy high school boy named Aikawa Ayumu who gets killed during a spate of mysterious serial killings. However, Ayumu is resurrected as a zombie by a necromancer girl named Yuu, who Ayumu had just met before dying. Ayumu reawakens in a world surrounded by masou shoujo (magically equipped girls) and vampire ninja. Ayumu is assigned the duties of a masou shoujo by a magical warrior girl named Haruna.

10. Sekirei

    2008 · Comedy, Action, Anime · ended

    Recommended for similar Anime profile, also on Tokyo MX.

    Minato Sahashi is extremely intelligent, yet due to his inability to cope under pressure has failed the college entrance exam twice. As a result he has been branded an idiot and loser by many. One day after talking to his yet again disappointed mother he comes into contact with a girl named Musubi who was under attack. The girl runs but takes him with her and soon finds that Minato, while unknown to him, is an Ashikabi, one of the mysterious set of masters that have the genetic trait that can become partners with some of the 108 cute girls, buxom women, and bishōnen called "Sekirei." The reason for the partnership allows the Sekirei to use all their power to win in the competition held by the mysterious MBI corporation.