Anime Like Astro Note

Takumi is a gifted, but newly unemployed chef. On his search for more long-term work, he takes a job cooking breakfast at a boarding house even though he is hesitant after learning that he must also live there full-time.

However, his hesitation is assuaged greatly when he meets the landlady, the beautiful and charming Mira. The two begin to happily work together, but Mira has a secret – she is a space alien looking for a way to get back home.

Kazunari Usa is starting high school and finally talked his parents into letting him live alone. Excited for his new life, he moves into the Kawai Complex boarding house, only to find his new roommate is a complete BDSM weirdo.

Being put off by the eccentricity of every resident he meets, he is on his way to leave when he runs into a beautiful upperclassman from his high school, Ritsu Kawai, who also lives there. The sheer presence of this cool beauty talks him into giving life in this new house a try.

Yusaku Godai is a college student that is just beginning to live on his own. However, when he first steps into the Ikkoku boarding house, he finds that it is inhabited by assertive weirdos that try to take advantage of him.

Just as he is leaving, he bumps into a beautiful girl. This girl, Kyoko Otonashi, as it turns out, is the recently widowed new manager of the boarding house. Falling for her at first sight, he decides to stay, doing his best to see the charm in his new home.

Kurashita Tsukimi loves jellyfish, to the point of obsession.

One day, when she sees a jellyfish being mistreated in a pet store, she tries to stick up for it, but her social awkwardness gets in the way. Thankfully, a sparklingly beautiful woman steps in and sparks the beginning of an unlikely friendship.

While Tsukimi’s new friend charms her and her roommates, what they don’t know is that this princess is also a man.

Unsuccessful manga artist Shin Karino has his daily routine interrupted one day with the introduction to his new neighbor – a four-year-old boy who moved in next door, lives by himself, and talks like a samurai.

While this boy is more put together than most of his neighbors, living alone has its difficulties at any age.

After the death of their father, Ichirou Kuga supported his two younger siblings on their inheritance and by taking up drawing manga. However, with tight deadlines, he finds himself in need of a new assistant to help him meet his schedule.

While growing dangerously near his breaking point, Shiori Goshiki takes the job. She is incredibly fast and also detailed, a real dream assistant.

However, one night while working late, Ichirou gets pricked by something on Goshiki’s body and suddenly finds out that now they can’t be too physically far apart without him suffering ill effects, but they are, according to the customs of her homeland, engaged to marry.

For skirt-chasing Ataru Moroboshi, the only notable thing about him is his extraordinary bad luck.

That luck kicks in when aliens suddenly invade Earth and he is chosen to represent humanity with their planet on the line. The duel for the fate of their planet ends up being a game of tag against the alien chief’s daughter, Lum.

While she is difficult to catch, eventually Ataru prevails by stealing her bikini top for the win.

However, his bad luck is at work again when Lum mistakes Ataru’s promise to marry his childhood friend as a proposal to her, which she has energetically accepted.

While testing out his filming camera one night, Kaito is blown off the bridge by a streak of blue light. As he is falling, the last thing he remembers is a hand, grabbing his own.

When he wakes up, he finds himself mysteriously back in his room, dazed but uninjured.

As Kaito proceeds with his summer break, deciding to make a movie with his friends, he takes an interest the new upperclassman wandering the town, Ichika Takatsuki, and she ends up invited to join them.

The Usagiyama Shopping District is full of eccentric business owners. Tamako Kitashirakawa is the daughter of the local mochi baker.

One day, she stumbles upon a talking bird that insists he is royalty from a distant land looking for a bride for his prince. Unfortunately, he develops an addiction to mochi and becomes too fat to return home.

Kanie Seiya is a smart, but narcissistic high school student who believes that the reserved and beautiful Sento Isuzu has invited him out on a date to a local amusement park. However, the park turns out to not only to be run down, but his date was more of a job recruitment instead.

Recruited as the new manager, he discovers that the theme park is actually home to a princess and the fairies that serve her from another world. They depend on customer happiness to live in the human world, but with ticket sales plummeting and the park being threatened with closure in three months time, can Seiya’s brains turn their luck around?