Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Series Similar to Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

If you enjoyed Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Fruits Basket

   2001 · Drama, Comedy, Anime, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime / Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   Tohru Honda has been living in a tent since her mother dies in a car accident, but ends up living instead with Yuki Sohma, her school's "prince", along with his relatives Shigure and Kyo. However, the Sohma family shares a secret, and it isn't long before Tohru discovers that there's a reason why her classmates, Yuki and Kyo Sohma, never let girls get near them, and never talk about their lives before they lived with Shigure. Tohru promises to keep their secret and vows to somehow break the curse, and she may just end up healing the Sohma clan members in other ways as well...

2. Call of the Night

   2022 · Comedy, Anime, Fantasy, Romance · returning

   Recommended for similar Anime / Fantasy profile.

   Unable to sleep or find true satisfaction in his daily life, Ko Yamori stops going to school and begins wandering the streets at night. He encounters a girl named Nazuna Nanakusa who shows Ko the joys of being a night-walker by turning him into a vampire with a bite on the neck.

3. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War?

   2019 · Comedy, Anime, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, also on Tokyo MX.

   Considered a genius due to having the highest grades in the country, Miyuki Shirogane leads the prestigious Shuchiin Academy's student council as its president, working alongside the beautiful and wealthy vice president Kaguya Shinomiya. The two are often regarded as the perfect couple by students despite them not being in any sort of romantic relationship. However, the truth is that after spending so much time together, the two have developed feelings for one another; unfortunately, neither is willing to confess, as doing so would be a sign of weakness. With their pride as elite students on the line, Miyuki and Kaguya embark on a quest to do whatever is necessary to get a confession out of the other. Through their daily antics, the battle of love begins!

4. 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.

5. 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!

6. Azumanga Daioh

   2002 · Comedy, Anime · ended

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   Azumanga Daioh is about high school life through the eyes of six girls with unusual personalities: Chiyo (the 10-year-old genius), Osaka (the resident airhead), Sakaki (the shy one prone to cat bites), Tomo (the loose cannon), Yomi (the short-tempered one) and Kagura (the resident jock).

7. 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.

8. Teasing Master Takagi-san

   2018 · Comedy, Anime, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, also on Tokyo MX.

   "If you blush, you lose."Living by this principle, the middle schooler Nishikata gets constantly made fun of by his seat neighbor Takagi-san. With his pride shattered to pieces, he vows to turn the tables and get back at her some day. And so, he attempts to tease her day after day, only to find himself victim to Takagi-san's ridicule again sooner than later. Will he be able to make Takagi-san blush from embarrassment even once in the end?

9. Horimiya

   2021 · Comedy, Anime, Romance · ended

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

   At first glance, the ultra-popular Hori-san seems like a frivolous high school girl, but in reality, she's plain, pragmatic, and family-oriented. On the other hand, the bespectacled Miyamura-kun comes across as an average, gloomy high school fanboy, but he's actually an attractive young man who has a bad-boy streak and is covered in piercings and tattoos. When these two unexpectedly similar classmates have a random run-in outside of the classroom, a bubbly, sweet tale of school life begins!

10. 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.