Shows Like My Dress-Up Darling

If you liked My Dress-Up Darling (2022), a animation and comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Horimiya (2021)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and comedy
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…
2
More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedy
The story centers on third-year high school student Jiro Yakuin, who gets saddled with his gyaru classmate Akari Watanabe for the class's "marriage training" project about practicing to be a married couple. Jiro is the…
3
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (2020)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and comedy
Shinichi Sakurai’s one wish is for a little peace and quiet. But Hana Uzaki — his boisterous, well-endowed underclassman — has other plans. All she wants is to hang out and poke fun at him. With the help of her chipper…
4
Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedy
Socially awkward Aharen-san has personal boundary issues, either getting too close or too far from her classmates. When fellow student Raido picks up an eraser she drops, Aharen-san decides they’re now best friends…
5
DON'T TOY WITH ME, MISS NAGATORO (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and comedy
"A girl in a lower grade just made me cry!" One day, Senpai visits the library after school and becomes the target of a super sadistic junior! The name of the girl who teases, torments, and tantalizes Senpai is…
6
Ai Yori Aoshi (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and comedy
Kaoru is a college boy with everything going for him. He lives in a mansion with his beautiful fiancé, Aoi, all his roommates are babes, and they all have the hots for him. There’s just one hitch: due to family…
7
Rent-a-Girlfriend (2020)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and comedy
Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their…
8
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019)
★ 8.5/10Also comedy and animation
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…
9
Love Flops (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedy
Asahi Kashiwagi lives the typical life of an average high school student — until the day a TV fortune teller’s predictions come true one after another, culminating in a series of risqué encounters! Destiny seemingly…
10
Tada Never Falls in Love (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedy
Mitsuyoshi Tada, a boy who has never known love, is taking pictures of the cherry blossoms in full bloom when he meets Teresa Wagner, a transfer student from Luxembourg. Upon arriving in Japan, she got lost, separated…
11
Chio's School Road (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedy
Miyamo Chio, a first-year at the completely ordinary high school Samejima Academy. Chio just wants to get through her school life without standing out too much, but for some reason, all kinds of obstacles await her…
12
My Love Story!! (2015)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedy
Takeo Goda is a giant guy with a giant heart. Too bad the girls don't want him! (They always go for his good-looking best friend, Makoto Sunakawa.) Used to being on the sidelines, Takeo simply stands tall and accepts…
13
Watari-kun's ****** Is About to Collapse (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and comedy
Naoto Watari lives solely for his little sister, Suzushiro, until his chaotic childhood friend, Satsuki, storms back into his life. Without uttering a single word, her very presence ignites buried memories and unravels…
14
Mob Psycho 100 (2016)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and comedy
Shigeo Kageyama, a.k.a. "Mob," is a boy who has trouble expressing himself, but who happens to be a powerful esper. Mob is determined to live a normal life and keeps his ESP suppressed, but when his emotions surge to a…
15
Yuri Is My Job! (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and comedy
Worried about her reputation, Hime covers shifts for a cafe manager she accidentally injures to maintain her picture-perfect princess image. But this cafe has a peculiar theme—private school. To put on her best barista…
16
Tsuredure Children (2017)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedy
A series depicting various scenarios of young love. These stories range from a boy, crippled by his absolute lack of confidence in himself, cannot even accept the fact that the girl of his dreams actually asked him out…
17
Please Twins! (2003)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedy
Maiku Kamishiro grew up in an orphanage with no history of his family or of his past. Left with only a childhood picture of himself and another person in front of a house, he believes that the other person in the…
18
Scum's Wish (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and drama
Seventeen-year-old Mugi Awaya and Hanabi Yasuraoka appear to be the ideal couple. They are both pretty popular, and they seem to suit each other well. However, outsiders don't know of the secret they share. Both Mugi…
19
Sasaki and Miyano (2022)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and comedy
When bashful Miyano meets brash Sasaki, it feels like a teen romance manga come to life — but for these boys, real-world love is messier than fiction.
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Tawawa on Monday (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and comedy
The anime follows a salaryman who has a chance meeting with a girl named Ai on the train. They begin to meet every Monday on the train, with the man serving as her bodyguard on the crowded commute while they chat.