Ever since the end of Domestic Girlfriend, many fans have been wondering about watching anime series similar to the plot of this one. Well, you asked, and here we are.
For those who don’t know, Domesutikku na Kanojo, also known as Domestic Girlfriend, is a Japanese manga series that aired from January to March 2019. It was written and illustrated by Kei Sasuga. The plot focuses on Natsuo Fuiji, who falls in love with his Hina. Hina just happens to be his teacher at the same time. In order to not pursue his feelings and move on from her, he goes to a mixer and meets Rui Tachibana.
Rui and Natsuo end up in a one-night stand where he says goodbye to his virginity. To make the situation worse and to bring the most exciting part to the anime- we learn that Natsuo’s dad wants to remarry, and the woman he wishes to marry just so happens to be the mother of both Hina and Rui. Yes, you guessed it right- Hina and Rui are sisters.
If the plot is somewhat your type of anime or you’re looking for other animes with plots like this, so we have got you covered. For sure forbidden love is somewhat our comfort in anime, and to explore anime plots with stories similar to Natsuo will be a wild ride. From forbidden love to complex love triangle situations – you have come to the right place.
Kuzu No Honkai
Ever heard of a couple happily committed in a relationship but actually being emotionally vulnerable and sad about it? Kuzu No Honkai follows the story of Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya who look like the perfect couple. But the only thing common between them is the pain of not being with the person they actually love. Both of them have fallen for someone they can’t have.
To save themselves from the empty void of loneliness, Mugi and Hanabi spend time together while the people they love actually end up together. In order to fend off the jealousy and sadness and to feel physical intimacy- the former couple ends up in a relationship. The anime was aired in 2017 with a 12-episode series and had a similar plot theme as that of Domestic Girlfriend with the sadness of unrequited love.
My First Girlfriend is a Gal
As a new term in high school begins, Junichi Hashiba regrets not having a girlfriend as he watches all of his friends pairing up with him in class. To fulfill his long desire to be in a relationship, his friends force him to ask out Yukana Yame, “a beautiful gal”. Yukana somehow agrees to date him, and that’s when the trouble begins. Most of the girls in his school suddenly start noticing Junichi, and so do Ranko Honjō- Yukana’s friend, and Nene Fujinoki- Junichi’s neighbor.
The anime was aired in 2017 with ten episodes and has a similar plot involving love triangles and loving someone from afar without having them. Weebs who love such plots should definitely give this anime a watch on Crunchyroll!
Gotoubun no Hanayome
The 2019 winter anime has a slight twist than other plots of the animes recommended to you. Fuutarou Uesugi, who is your typical top high school student, has a difficult life at home. With his “polite” personality and reclusive nature, he doesn’t have any friends, and with his father in debt- he faces even a worse life by barely making it through. However, life brings him a chance to earn wage five times the price of the market by tutoring a high school student.
Unfortunately for him, the person he has to teach is a female transfer student who he had a disliking argument with, and now he not only has to teach her but also her other 4 sisters- Miku, Nino, Ichika, and Yotsuba. It would seem an easy task for anyone, but the students are actually adamant about not studying and rather flunk, which puts Uesugi’s need for money in line. Thus, he must get the sisters to study and lead them to graduation so as to ease his father’s economical condition. The 12-episode anime brings a lot of twists and turns for the fans to watch for sure.
Toradora!
This anime must be on your watch list if you are extremely attracted to love triangles. The plot revolves around Ryuji Takasu, a high-school student with a gentle and compassionate personality but looks that make him look like a ruthless evil person, which makes people avoid him. In a falling house as that of him comes Taiga Aisaka.
Taiga is the opposite of Ryuji- with a small stature but a loud personality and violent temper. Both of them are neighbors, with Ryuji having to take care of the innocent girl who is always ready to fight. What brings them together to help each other with their love life is their crush on each other’s best friends.
The anime is 25 episodes long and is compared to be very honest and innocent as compared to Domestic Girlfriend. But the pure innocence in expressing love and wholesome friendships will definitely lighten your mood.
Yosuga no Sora
This anime yet again has twins as the main characters. Haruka Kasugano and his twin sister Sora are coming home to the rural town where they had spent time with their late grandfather. After losing their parents in a car accident, they plan to start their life again and move out of the city. There they meet their childhood friends Nao Yorihime and Akira Amatsume, with other characters also making an entrance.
However, all doesn’t end well as Haruka starts remembering things to haunt him from his youth. A dark secret that only the twins know starts breaking them in this peaceful silence.
This anime will not only leave you with feelings of pure love connections but also keep you on the edge of your seats with dark emotions, social acceptance, morality, and most importantly, the true bond of love.
Nisekoi: False Love
Want to see some daily life struggles of a couple who are definitely not made for each other? We have Raku ichijou and Chitoge Kirisaki.
Raku Ichijou, a first-year student at Bonyari High School, is the sole heir to an intimidating yakuza family. A long-stored pendant with a lock is what Raku carries every day in search of the girl who has the key to that lock. This duo parted ten years ago, and now Raku has to live up to his promise to a childhood friend. The typical teenager has a crush on Kosaki Onodera.
With wanting nothing with his family background, he wishes to live a normal life. But when the American Bee Hive Gang invades his family’s turf, Raku’s romantic dreams are sacrificed to pretend instead to be in a romantic relationship with Chitoge Kirisaki, the daughter of the Bee Hive’s chief.
The start of the relationship is just like ice and water, for both of them fall in hate at first sight. But in order to maintain the city’s peace, he has to fall for the enemy and not get involved with any girls of his past. His search for the girl who holds the key to his heart and the lock must not continue, but will he be able to succeed? Well, this is easier said than done.
Love And Lies
The anime has a unique and mature context of romance. It looks forward to the idea of forbidden love as the plot revolves around finding and receiving a compatible marriage partner from the government based on a compatibility calculation. The main characters, Yukari Nejima and Misaki Takasaki, are both young and in love, but if someone fails to obey the partners assigned by the government, then they face repercussions. Both the characters are in love, but then destiny fails them as Ririna Sanada is assigned to Yukari.
What makes the anime even more exciting is that Ririna Sanada becomes infatuated with the idea of the illicit affair with Yukari. The complicated mix of lies and love is the perfect romance anime for you if you like Domestic Girlfriend.
A Town Where You Live
A Town Where You Live is the perfect anime for you if you’re into storytelling. Released in 2013, the anime deals with the long-distance Haruto Kirishima and Yuzuki Eba’s relationship and finding comfort in other people. The story is set to show the vast differences between the calm life setting of the countryside and the chaos of the city- of Tokyo. The time that the couple spends together and then apart makes them question love affairs, heartbreaking moments, passing feelings, and more.
The 2007 anime is based on a dating simulation game for PlayStation 2. Mao Mizusawa returned home after living in France for a couple of years, and she reunited with her childhood friend, Kouichi Sanada. What surprises Mao is that she can stay in the same house as that Kouichi. And so these experience the challenges they face in their school life with spices of young love. For a surprise for weebs, there is also a love polygon for you to enjoy and swoon over! Domestic Girlfriend fans will feel very lighthearted while watching this anime which has a good amount of bingeable episodes (24).
Rent-A-Girlfriend
With relationships often taking a toll on people, Kazuya Kinoshita, a 20-year-old college student, believes that he is lucky that his wonderful girlfriend: Mami Nanami is still with him. But then, without warning, she breaks up with him, and he is left miserable. To get over this sadness and loneliness, he “rents” a girl- Chizuru Mizuhara, through an online app.
But after reading about similar experiences other customers had had with Chizuru, Kazuya believes her personality to just be a fake demeanor to play with his heart, and so he rates her poorly. Chizuru reveals her hot-tempered self and starts to hate him. But when they find out that Kazuya’s grandmother is ill, they pretend to be lovers just to keep her healthy and satisfied.
But with Kazuya still hung up on his feelings for Mami Nanami and the new revelation of his fakeness with the rental girlfriend- will Kazuya keep up with it all?
Kiss×sis
Keita Suminoe is introduced to his two step-sisters: twins Ako and Riko. But after their encounter, it is no doubt that the two twins are willing to overcome their family links to rather win his heart. Now with the end of his middle school, Keita studies so that he can attend Ako and Riko’s high school. But what caught up with him are his conflicting feelings and temptation to pursue others women who swoon over him.
The Spring anime would look good on your watchlist if you are a fan of forbidden love stories.
Marmalade Boy
Marmalade Boy follows the story of Miki Koishikawa, who falls in love with her stepbrother. What confuses her are the complicated feelings of a divorce that her parents went through. The romantic comedy series was really popular in the 90s that brought a lot of joy to many fans during the 90s. The story of living together with the forbidden stepbrother is similar to Domestic Girlfriend and will surely keep you entertained.
Please Twins
Please Twins is the mystery romance you must have always wished to see. Maiku Kamishiro has been unaware of his past, and the only clue he has about his family is an old photograph showing two young children, a boy, and a girl, playing in a small pool outside of a blue house. To find his family, Maiky decides to move into a blue house until one day 2 girls with the same photo show up and demand to live with him, claiming to be his other twin. The anime is a comedy and mystery mix of family relations and bonds. One would love the value of love and adoration the characters seem to have in their own ways from time to time.
True Tears
Staying in the same house as the prodigal kid is only something boys of his school dreamt of. But Shinichirou Nakagami was living the “Hiromi Yuasa”. But after Hiromi’s mother passed away, the bright being turned to grieve her and be cold to others. To steal her tears and make her the once cheerful girl she was, Shinichirou plans to join hands with Noe Isurugi- the girl who is known to curse classmates, which sooner than never becomes a reality. For Noe to cry again, she needs tears, and there is one girl who is the perfect candidate for this!
Golden Time
Stuck with amnesia, Banri Tada has no memories of his hometown and past. But when he comes friends with Mitsuo Yanagisawa, he finally decides to move on and begin a new life at law school in Tokyo. But lighting struck his life again just as he started to grow and began his life with a fresh start as Kouko Kaga entered his life with her own tales to tell. The anime might give a strong feeling of storytelling, but as compared to Domestic Girlfriend- it has a light-hearted theme, becoming mature in only a few scenes of transition.
Sing “Yesterday” For Me
Living a monotonous life and not knowing what the future has, Rikuo Uozumi works aimlessly at a convenience store in Tokyo. But when Haru Nonaka appears, he finds it odd why would she like to befriend him. Little does he know that even she is alone just like him and wishes to come out of her comfort zone to explore life. Just as he makes terms with his life, he tries to reconnect with his old college crush and friend, Shinako Morinome. Shinako carries her own bags of demons and secrets which aren’t letting her life peacefully with Rikuo.
Can the three characters make peace with their past and present and move towards a future? Or will the love triangle eat someone up? You should definitely put this show to find out.
Citrus
The forbidden love story cycle brings us to Citrus. While Yuzu Aihara loves making new friends when she transfers to this new district, she finds it more than weird to fit in with the ultrastrict all-girls school. Her hopes are to make friends, fall in love, and finally, experience her first kiss and be thrown out of the window until she meets Mei- her step-sister. Their first encounter leads to Mei kissing Yuzu despite her cold attitude towards her and then running away.
Will this be the start of a new forbidden secret for Yuzu, or is this cold shoulder for her hiding some secrets? Will Yuzu find love despite her dislike of the school? Tune in to the Winter anime of 2018 to find out.
Oreshura
Eita Kidou has given up on love and the idea of family as he doesn’t trust relations after watching his parent’s marriage fail. So he started focusing on his high school studies and gave up the romance of becoming a doctor. This disliking feeling makes the popular Masuzu Natsukawa ask out Eita. With a similar notion of living as that of him, she asks him to be his fake boyfriend as she has to give up on love after being the object of people’s affection.
The fake romance puts him in trouble as he has to deal with the new attention of being with the most desired girl at school, getting envied by his peers, and all the troubles that come along with it.
Girlfriend, Girlfriend
Naoya Mukai is on cloud nine after Saki Saki, his childhood friend, finally accepts one of his countless confessions. To make sure that their relationship will stay strong, he tries his best to show effort and showers her with affection to his new girlfriend. However, another girl-Nagisa Minase confesses to Naoya, and the hard-struck reality hits him as he cannot deny her charm and determination to be attracted to her.
So he plans to date both of the girls at the same time with both of them being aware of this situation! The comedic setting of them wanting to make their dating life work and spending time with each other makes the love circle a must-watch.
The Garden Of Words
The 2003 anime is the perfect anime to watch if it’s raining outside. Takao Akizuki, an aspiring shoemaker, decides to skip class to sketch designs in a beautiful garden on a rainy morning. There he meets Yukari Yukino, the mysterious woman who captures his attention and possibly heart as well.
Offering to make her new shoes, Takao finds ways to meet with her throughout the rainy season. The two of them create their own world with no things to sort each rainy morning. But their personal struggles will challenge this relationship as the rainy season is coming to an end, and there are so many more secrets that are yet to be discovered.
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