After his mother’s death, Uryuu Kamihate decided that he would dedicate his life to becoming a doctor. Aging out of his orphanage, he finds lodging at a shrine where he intends to devote himself to studying for medical school exams.
However, the head priest has informed him that he was not invited there simply to live, but asks him to choose one of his three granddaughters working as shrine maidens to become his wife.
Shocked by the idea, Uryuu becomes increasingly involved in shrine matters as the three girls struggle to keep their shrine afloat amid financial trouble.
Hey, I’ve seen this one before, bit not with shrine maidens! If you have more anime recommendations like Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister, head on down below.
Anime Like Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister
For Fans of Shrine Maiden Harem
Temple – No One Can Live on Loneliness
After his father abandoned him to chase his lustful urges all around the world, Akemitsu Akegami is determined to control his overwhelming urges so as to not be a creep.
However, after a chance encounter with a mysterious girl leaves him filled with impure thoughts, he decides to become a Buddhist monk in order to tame his worldly desires.
Unfortunately for him, the temple he decides to become a monk at has since become a nunnery full of women. What’s more, the woman he had that chance encounter with is there training to become the head priestess in order to save the temple from shutting down.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Temple
- Both Temple and Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister are harem anime set fully at a religious shrine.
- Main character slowly falls in love with one of the whole harem of beautiful shrine maidens who live there
- The shrine is on the verge of being shut down, and marriage is a viable way to save it.
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Temple
- Temple is a far more blatant and provocative ecchi anime
- Temple is far more extreme and sexual with its comedy. The comedy is also more frequent.
- The main character in Temple is a bit of a lovable idiot, which is quite different from Uryuu.
- The harem in Temple is not made up of entirely sisters.
Ah My Buddha
As the grandson of a Saienji Priestess, Satonaka Ikkou is sent to the Saienji Buddhist Temple when he is 16 to begins his first year as a trainee.
While he is there to hone his spiritual powers, the fact that he is surrounded by beautiful priestesses-in-training proves all too distracting.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Ah My Buddha
- Both Ah My Buddha and Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister are harem anime set inside a shrine.
- Main character is sent to live at a shrine filled with women
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Ah My Buddha
- The main character in Ah My Buddha is a monk unlike Uryuu who doesn’t want to be affiliated with a shrine.
- Ah My Buddha is filled with far more ecchi comedy as well as does have some actual supernatural action.
- Ah My Buddha is more “solve the supernatural problem of the week” and less linear in its plot.
- The shrine maidens in Ah My Buddha are not all sisters.
For Fans of Cohabitation Harem
The Terrace Cafe and Its Goddesses
After his grandmother passed away, Hayato returned to the seaside cafe she had ran since he was a child, intent to sell it. However, after leaving for university, he didn’t realized that his grandmother had let five young women live on the property and work at the cafe as well.
In their desperation to keep their home, they convince Hayato to keep and re-open the cafe. However, between running a business and dealing with five unruly women, he is in for a difficult time.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and The Terrace Cafe and Its Goddesses
- An adult man moves into a house full of women
- The man intended to pursue another profession during his time at college, but instead starts getting involved in the business that the women who live with him do.
- Harem anime where he helps each girl deal with her personal problem
- Fairly unclear main girl
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and The Terrace Cafe and Its Goddesses
- Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister is about a struggling shrine, The Cafe Terrace and Its Goddesses is about a struggling seaside cafe.
- The Cafe Terrace and Its Goddesses has a large harem, and the girls aren’t sisters.
- The main character in The Cafe Terrace and Its Goddesses is a little more cool and collected. Uryuu was presented as such, but he gets frazzled early and often.
Love Hina
After making a childhood promise with a girl who moved away, Keitaro is dedicated to getting into the prestigious Tokyo University. Unfortunately, he is hopelessly stuck failing his entrance exams.
In order to continue trying, he moves out of his parent’s house into his grandmother’s inn to work as a manager.
However, what he doesn’t know is that her hot springs inn is also an all-girls dorm.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Love Hina
- Adult college-aged man moves into a home/business where only girls live in order to study
- His presence will help the struggling business remain open so the girls can stay there
- Harem anime where the main character helps each girl with their personal problems
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Love Hina
- Love Hina follows a man in a hot springs inn-turned-girls-dorm rather than a shrine
- The harem is larger in Love Hina, but it does have a pretty obvious main girl to it.
- Love Hina is fairly ecchi
- The main character in Love Hina is more neurotic and a bit of wimp when compared to the capable and more composed Uryuu.
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Yuragi-sou was once a hot springs inn, but is now a boarding house that only has a few residents.
Rumor has it that the boarding house is haunted, and this rumor has attracted a homeless psychic that is hoping to exorcise the ghost in order for an affordable place to stay.
However, he discovers that it is not a malicious ghost, but a ghost named Yuuna that all the other residents can see as well.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
- Man moves into a home/business that is inhabited by all women
- Harem anime where he helps each girl solve their problem
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
- Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs is distinctly supernatural, but is also also features moments of action, ecchi, and more intense comedy. It is definitely less slice of life compared to Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister.
- Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs has a pretty clear main girl
- The main character in Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs is more lovable, comical scumbag than normal person.
Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory
After their home burns down and he is abandoned by his father, Koushi Nagumo wanders homeless until he collapses on the street. He is found by a woman named Mineru and taken to a female dormitory.
Koushi discovers that Mineru is the temporary manager there, and she invites him to be the permanent dorm mother to the problematic female residents.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory
- Man moves into a home/business that is inhabited by all girls
- Harem anime where he helps each girl with their personal problems
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory
- The Mother of the Goddess Dormitory is very ecchi.
- The Mother of the Goddess Dormitory follows a child protagonist rather than grown adult man.
- There is a very clear main girl in The Mother of the Goddess Dormitory.
For Fans of Marry One of These Girls
Quintessential Quintuplets
As his family is in some serious debt, Fuutaro Uesugi is a serious penny pincher. However, his great grades have landed him a higher than normal paying tutor job.
The problem is that his five wards, all sisters, are dumb as door nails and think he is a complete idiot.
However, to get his pay, he has to think of a way to get these five unique girls to study and learn.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Quintessential Quintuplets
- Main character meets a series of sisters, then has a precognitive vision of marrying one of them.
- Harem are made up of all sisters with diverse personalities
- The cool and intelligent main character helps the girls work through their various problems
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Quintessential Quintuplets
- They don’t live together in The Quintessential Quintuplets.
- The Quintessential Quintuplets is high school-based, not following adults or shrine maidens.
Love Flops
One normal day, high school student Asahi Kashiwagi wakes up and watches a fortune teller’s predictions on TV. On his way to school, as according to the predictions, he has a variety of accidentally lewd encounters with five different people.
After these five clandestine meetings, he discovers that all five of them are new members of his class. What’s more, their encounters have all sparked the embers of love between him and each one of them.
Now he needs to follow his own heart else his love life flop and fizzle out.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Love Flops
- Main character is suddenly forced to live with a collection of marriage candidates that were selected for him.
- Diverse group of boob sizes- I mean, girls.
- The male main character is really disinterested in getting married, but grows closer to the girls anyway while helping them with their personal issues.
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and Love Flops
- Love Flops follows a high school-aged main character.
- Love Flops is more brazenly ecchi, or rather, pushes its sexual comedy to more extremes.
- Love Flops has more energetic and random comedy.
More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers
Jirou Yakuin, third-year high school student and otaku, has had a crush on his childhood friend, Shiori. He hopes to be paired with her for their school’s upcoming marriage practical – an exam where two people are paired to live together in order to practice married life as they are observed and scored.
For popular Akari Watanabe, she hopes to be paired with the handsome Minami. Much to each other’s dismay, Jirou and Akari and paired together while Minami and Shiori are paired together.
Luckily, if both couples rank in the top, they can change partners, thus do Akari and Jirou venture to pretend to have a perfect married life.
Similarities Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and More Than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers
- Marriage-themed romance
- Provocative visuals, but not blatantly ecchi at all times
- The main character suddenly has marriage candidates forced upon him wherein real feelings start to bloom.
Differences Between Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister and More Than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers
- More than a Married Couple is about high school-sanctioned “marriage practice,” so they are just playing pretend for school credit.
- More than a Married Couple is distinctly a love triangle, and not a full-on harem.
- The male main character in More than a Married Couple is a story of a spastic, lightly indecisive otaku, not a cool and collected guy like Uryuu.
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