If you have ever been to Japan, you might have seen some cafes where girls are dressed very differently than in any normal restaurant or café. These cafes are known as maid cafes, and the girls here are dressed like maids to serve a customer and treat them as their masters.
An anime by the name Akiba Meido Sensou also tells us something about the maids’ life. The protagonist of the show wants to work at maid cafes to fulfill her dream, and she moves to a different location to work at the maid café Ton Tokoton.
But as they say, things always don’t always seem to be the way that people are presenting them. After her first day, she soon was able to realize the harsh reality of how the people here work and how tough the competition is among different cafes, and that her life isn’t going to be an easy one here. Now if you love to watch series of this genre and want to explore more, we are here to help you.
We have provided you with a list of 15 Anime like Akiba Meido Sensou:
1. Zombieland Saga
The year is 2008, and a high school student Sakura Minamoto has a dream of becoming an idol one day. But unfortunately, before she could even get a chance, she got hit by a truck and died in an accident. Ten years later, Sakura wakes and finds herself in an unknown place with six other girls, and they all are zombies now.
A man named Koutarou Tatsumi, who has resurrected them, explains to them everything that he has revived six girls from a different era of Japan’s history and wants them to help Saga Prefecture in their economic rise by making an idol group.
The series tells us the story of their idol group called Franchouchou and the struggles and hardships they have to face in their journey while hiding their zombie identities.
- Studio: MAPPA
- Date of Release: October 4, 2018
- Genre: Comedy Horror
- Episodes: 12
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation, Netflix
2. Lycoris Recoil
The number of terrorist attacks has drastically reduced in Japan, thanks to the efforts of Direct Attack (DA), an undercover organization that raises and trains orphaned girls to become assassins and carry out orders under the name ‘Lycoris.’ Takina Inoue is an exceptional member for having a taste for perfection and a strong sense of purpose.
Unfortunately, while on a mission, one of his subordinates got captured and taken hostage. Without thinking for a second, she started firing indiscriminately, putting the lives of other Lycoris at risk. Because of her carelessness, she got dismissed from DA.
After that, she is transferred to work in a café called “LycoReco,” which is a branch of the agency in disguise, and she has to work with an elite Lycoris agent Chisato Nishikigi. We will be seeing her journey in working at this new place with some new people.
- Studio: A-1 Pictures
- Date of Release: July 2, 2022
- Genre: Action (girls with guns)
- Episodes: 13
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
3. Black Lagoon
The theme of the series is set around the mid-1900s. A 25-year-old Japanese salaryman named Rokuro “Rock” Okajima works for Asahi Industries in Tokyo. One day, when a deal goes wrong, he is taken hostage by the members of the Lagoon Company. This group of pirate mercenaries smuggles goods in and around Southeast Asia.
After his department abandons him by declaring him dead, Rock then decides to join their crew. After joining the gang, he now has to live in Roanapur, where their main base exists, and that place is home to many dangerous crime syndicates. Rokuro now has to adjust to his new life and must learn to make tough decisions in stressful situations while keeping his humanity intact.
- Studio: Madhouse
- Date of Release: April 9, 2006
- Genre: Crime, Girls with guns, Thriller
- Episodes: 24
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation, Netflix, Hulu
4. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
The story is about a programmer named Kobayashi, who is about to leave for work, and surprisingly, she gets greeted by a large dragon outside her door, who immediately transforms into a cute girl in a maid outfit and introduces herself as Tohru.
It turns out that the other day during a drunken excursion into the mountains, Kobayashi found the dragon, and as she helped remove a holy sword from Tohru’s back, she decided to let her live as her personal maid in the house.
Now even though Tohru is very good and efficient at household work, she still is a challenging character as she brings more harm than good to Kobayashi’s life. Her presence is enough to attract dragons and other mystical creatures to her new home.
- Studio: Kyoto Animation
- Date of Release: January 12, 2017
- Genre: Slice of Life, Fantasy Comedy, Yuri
- Episodes: 25
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
5. Riddle Story of Devil
In a private girls’ boarding school named Myojou Academy, Tokaku Azuma has just transferred here. But there is a surprise, all of her 11 classmates and herself from Class Black are actually assassins that are a part of the challenge where they have to eliminate their sweet and quiet classmate, Haru Ichinose.
Whoever is able to get the job done first will be able to fulfill their deepest desire, no matter the cost or difficulty. However, each person is only going to get a single chance, and if they fail, they will be expelled.
Despite the unbelievable prize, Tokaku soon finds herself attracted to the same girl she is supposed to kill. Now, Tokaku decides to take a very different route to this challenge, where she is now protecting her friend from all the other assassins at all costs.
- Studio: Diomedéa
- Date of Release: April 4, 2014
- Genre: Action, Girls Love
- Episodes: 12
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Funimation
6. Back Street Girls: Gokudols
The three members of the yakuza- Kentarou, Ryou, and Kazuhiko have failed their boss, and he is fed up with them. Now they have only two choices to choose from: either their organs will be removed and sold, or they take a trip to Thailand for gender reassignment surgery and become pop idols.
After a harsh yearlong training given to them, they all three are reborn as Airi, Chika, and Mari. They debut as the idol group The Goku Dolls, and three of them strive towards becoming very famous and top idols.
However, despite the fact that they were forced to go through feminizing brainwashing, those three have able to keep their yakuza spirit alive. In order to overcome this shortcoming, their boss hires a manager who has experience in this field, Mandarin Kinoshita, to help them make their boss proud.
- Studio: J.C. Staff
- Date of Release: July 4, 2018
- Genre: Organized Crime, Workplace
- Episodes: 10
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Netflix
7. Keijo!!!
In Japan, the latest sport has been introduced, Keijo, where the set of rules are very simple: participants will be female only, and they must stand on circular platforms floating above a pool, and their goal is not to knock off their opponent using only their breasts and butts.
Despite the fact that this game is so absurd and childish, it became a huge success as it attracts millions of viewers from across the country, and a very high amount of money is kept in the prize pool. Many players take part in it in hopes of becoming the next champion.
Nozomi Kaminashi is a 17-year-old girl who has just graduated from high school. Nozomi also participates in Keijo and proves to be a tough competitor as she is already really good at gymnasts.
- Studio: Xebec
- Date of Release: October 6, 2016
- Genre: Sports, Ecchi
- Episodes: 12
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
8. Princess Principal
In a fictional empire called Albion in the 20th century, their was a discovery of a very unbelievable and mysterious material called “Cavorite”, which helped them to use it in the production of advanced airships and weapons to strengthen their military forces.
However, at the same time, a rebellion against the kingdom’s ruling class started spreading among the citizens, which resulted in a very big revolution and it literally divided the whole country into two individual kingdoms: the Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
Both of them now only indulge in silent war, where they seek to steal some important pieces of information from each other, because that’s the best way to weaken a kingdom.
A group of girls that disguise themselves as high school students work as spies for the Commonwealth. Their group consists of a variety of people that have unique skills useful for their profession, which also helps them to survive in this dark and gloomy world.
- Studio: 3Hz, Actas
- Date of Release: July 9, 2017
- Genre: Action, Mystery
- Episodes: 12
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
9. Ramen Fighter Miki
The protagonist of the story, Miki Onimaru, is a teenage girl who helps her mother in running her Chinese ramen restaurant. She works in multiple ways like a delivery girl, a waitress and a cleaner. But she is not like all other girls of her age.
She has a very short temper and is constantly looking for an excuse to start a fight with someone. She always fights with her mother and acquaintances on a daily basis, which has made their otherwise normal life full of chaos and troublesome.
We have also been sometimes shown that even though she is a stubborn and problematic girl, she still has a soft corner in her heart and is often found to rescue lost kittens, which sometimes surprises people also.
- Studio: Telecom Animation Film
- Date of Release: July 5, 2006
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Workplace
- Episodes: 12
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Vudu
10. Great Pretender
Due to a series of unfortunate events, Makoto Edamura has to adopt the life of a criminal— stealing, pickpocketing, and scamming others to earn a living. However, one day after dealing with a lost tourist, he realizes that he was the one who got tricked this time, and, to make things worse, the police are also now searching for him.
After making his escape, he once again bumps into the same tourist again, who turns out to be a conman named Laurent Thierry and follows him all the way to Los Angeles. Makoto challenges this rival to prove who is a better scammer. After accepting his offer, Laurent takes him to show him a huge mansion and explains to him their target will be none other than the biggest mafia boss on the West Coast.
- Studio: Wit Studio
- Date of Release: July 9, 2020
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery
- Episodes: 23
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Netflix
11. Noir
One day on a nice sunny afternoon, Mirelle Bouquet receives an email from a person named Kirika Yuumura, who is a student from Japan, inviting her over to “make a pilgrimage to the past.” At first, she thinks this is some sort of a joke or prank but changes her mind when it starts playing a song that she recognizes from her past.
After Mirelle and Kirika’s first meeting, they are attacked by some men with guns. While Mirelle was already skilled with killing and fighting, she saw that Kirika was also quite adaptive in combat situations as she took down a number of gunmen on her own.
But Kirika apparently has no memory of his past and how she is able to acquire these amazing skills and abilities. They both then embark on the journey together to find answers about their past lives and the reason why they lost their memories.
- Studio: Bee Train
- Date of Release: April 6, 2001
- Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
- Episodes: 26
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
12. Spy x Family
A Westalian agent by the code name “Twilight” has been assigned to maintain the peace between Westalis and Ostania. He is tasked to spy on Donovan Desmond, who is the leader of the National Unity Party with Ostania. However, as Desmond is very hard to reach out to, the only way to get close to him is to become a parent a enroll your children in the same school as Desmond’s son.
To overcome this obstacle, he creates the alias of Loid Forger and then adopts an orphan girl named Anya. He was even able to find a woman named Yor Briar, with whom he talked out things, and they married each other, and now they are a complete family.
However, what is interesting here is that the girl, Anya is a psychic and can read people’s minds, and the wife, Yor is a professional assassin. All three of them, nobody know about each other’s real identity, and they are living as a family.
- Studio: Wit Studio, CloverWorks
- Date of Release: April 9, 2022
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Award Winning
- Episodes: 25
- Status: Ongoing
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu
13. Blend S
Maika Sakuranomiya is a 16-year-old girl who wishes to study abroad, but she is not able to get a fine part-time job. But her application always gets rejected because of the menacing look whenever she smiles. Otherwise, she has a very cheerful personality.
After struggling for a while, a coffee shop owner named Dino actually agreed to give her a job as he was attracted by Maika’s cuteness. He gave her a job as a waitress with a sadistic nature. Combined with her inherent clumsiness, she successfully serves a pair of masochistic customers in accordance with her new dark and ruthless persona or aura.
Along with Kaho Hinata as tsundere and Mafuyu Hoshikawa as the younger sister, Maiko decides to give her all for this job and use her unique trait to serve her customers well.
- Studio: A-1 PIctures
- Date of Release: October 8, 2017
- Genre: Comedy, Workplace
- Episodes: 12
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
14. The Way of the House Husband
Tatsu is an infamous and most feared yakuza gangster who got the nickname “The Immortal Dragon.” He has now retired from his life of crime and is now living a peaceful life, staying at an apartment and working as a househusband with his wife Miku, who is a working woman. He now just wants to live a peaceful life, but it is not so easy for him to just forget about everything and run away from his past and pretend nothing happened.
His new life is still full of mishaps, and he sometimes encounters some of the members of his gang and some of his enemies too. He has learned a lot of important skills to become a perfect husband and help his wife.
- Studio: J.C. Staff
- Date of Release: April 8, 2021
- Genre: Slice of Life, Action, Comedy
- Episodes: 15
- Status: Ongoing
- Where to Watch: Netflix
15. And Yet the Town Moves
The protagonist, Hotori Arashiyama, is a high school girl who is working a part-time job as a waitress at a Seaside coffee shop located in the Maruko shopping district. The owner of the shop, Uki Isobata, one day approaches her with a secret plan to make the restaurant more popular. He planned to turn Seaside into a popular maid café.
He must have seen this trend of a lot of maid cafes opening recently and some even performing really well, which made him decide to do the same thing with our shop too. Even after rebranding his shop, the café still doesn’t have any tea, their way of service is very poor, and the only customers coming are from the local shopping district.
Hotori needs to balance her school life and work life while also spending some time with her friends and family.
- Studio: Shaft
- Date of Release: October 8, 2010
- Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
- Episodes: 12
- Status: Finished
- Where to Watch: No legal site to watch it
