In the midst of an apocalypse, the remnants of humanity fled earth. For the owner of the Gingarou Hotel in Ginza, he told his robot staff that humanity would return someday and they should be ready to serve guests when they did.
Hundreds of years have passed since then, and Yachiyo, the hotel clerk at the front desk, has kept the hotel running despite no guests and the dwindling functionality of the other staff members.
As they await humanity’s return, a small miracle occurs—they receive their first guest.
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Anime Like Apocalypse Hotel
For Fans of Hospitality Service in a Weird World

Tasokare Hotel
Forever in twilight in a space between life and death, the Tasogare Hotel welcomes customers who are unaware of who they are or even if they are living or dead. Given rooms filled with items that may help them remember who they are and what happened to them that caused them to be stuck in this limbo, most guests unravel their mystery and move on after a few days.
However, on occasion, there are some guests of the Tasogare Hotel who remember who they are, but do not move on. Neko Tsukahara is one such woman. Too invested in the plights of other guests, Neko decides to stay on at the hotel as a maid.
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Tasokare Hotel
- Follows the eccentric staff of a hotel in a world that is not normal
- Many episodes follows the staff stories or the guest stories rather than any linear plot
- Occasionally bizarrely weird, but sometimes surprisingly emotional.
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Tasokare Hotel
- Tasokare Hotel isn’t quite as frequently silly. It is more focused on emotional stories for the guests.
- Tasokare Hotel is more of a “in between life and the after life” sort of place.
- The hotel staff in Tasokare Hotel are shamefully not devoted to their jobs.

Kakuriyo – Bed and Breakfast for Spirits
Since she was a child, Aoi could see spirits. One day, while feeding a hungry spirit, she is whisked off to the hidden realm of spirits where an ogre states she will be his bride.
It seems her grandfather sold her off to marry him in order to satisfy his debt that he accrued at his inn in the spirit world. Instead, Aoi refuses and works off the debt owed in the bed and breakfast as an employee.
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Kakuriyo
- Hotels ran by non-humans for non-humans
- Often episodic stories about the characters and the service provided to them
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Kakuriyo
- Kakuriyo is structured very much like a shoujo romance.
- Kakuriyo is about a hotel in the spirit world for spirits.
- Kakuriyo follows a human character as a “stranger in a strange land” sort of affair.
- Kakuriyo features more beautiful, less eccentric characters.

Aria
Mars has now become known as Aqua, a planet of water. On this planet is the peaceful city of drift upon the sea called Neo Venezia.
A replica of Earth’s Venice, gondolas are the primary mode of transportation in Neo Venezia. Join a novice tour guide as she shows the wonders of her city.
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Aria
- Characters doing a job in a lonely-seeming sci-fi setting
- Character stories about the staff and the patrons is the plot
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Aria
- Aria is an iyashikei anime, so it is soothing and peaceful rather than energetically eccentric like Apocalypse Hotel.
- Aria is about women who operate gondolas on a water planet
- The stories in Aria are more poignant and sometimes melancholy.

Amagi Brilliant Park
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?
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Amagi Brilliant Park
- The plot is working in a customer service industry and trying to provide the best visitor experience.
- Relatively normal main character is surrounded by eccentrics for comedy and chaos
- Floundering business is constantly on the hunt for customers.
- Episodic stories that are often comedic, but do have some poignant bits.
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Amagi Brilliant Park
- Amagi Brilliant Park is about a human who gets roped into managing an amusement part that is secretly staffed by creatures from another world who feed on human happiness. So less sci-fi, but still similar.
- Amagi Brilliant Park does have an overall goal for its series (reaching a set amount of customers to keep the park open)
- Amagi Brilliant Park has some romantic comedy elements to it.
For Fans of Living in The Apocalypse

Train to the End of the World
The innovative upgrade to a 7G network promised technological advancements beyond belief. However, the aftermath of its official launch has turned Japan upside down. With people now suffering from a wide range of bizarre mutations and the landscape itself transformed, society has crumbled.
In the rural town of Agano where everyone over the age of majority has turned into an animal, high schooler Shizuru Chikura is desperate to find out what happened to her friend, Youka Nakatomi. Youka had gone to Ikebukuro on the day of the official 7G launch, and hasn’t been heard from since. However, with the world dangerous and all transportation shut down, she struggles to find a way to search for her.
However, hope comes in the form of an abandoned country train and a senile conductor that teachers Shizuru how to drive it. With three classmates that decide to tag along at the last minute, Shizuru sets out on a long, strange trip to Ikebukuro to find her friend.
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Train to the End of the World
- The apocalypse is weird
- The post-apocalypse Earth is filled with a diverse amount of weird beings and strange things happening.
- Episodic stories
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Train to the End of the World
- The apocalypse isn’t so permanent in Train to the End of the World.
- Train to the End of the World is structured as four girls on a journey to go find their friend on a train. So there is a goal to the episodic madness.

Girls’ Last Tour
With all civilization dead, only Chito and Yuuri remain. Together they decide to hop on their motorbike and wander aimlessly looking for their next meal and fuel.
Despite a bleak existence, they remain each other’s light in this dead world.
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Girls’ Last Tour
- The apocalypse has happened and most, if not all, of humanity is gone
- Episodic slice of life
- Occasionally eccentric and/or dark moments
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Girls’ Last Tour
- Girls’ Last Tour is structured as a slow journey through the apocalypse.
- Girls’ Last Tour, as it is about scraping together resources needed to live in a dead world, is a more melancholy and often a more serious show.

Planetarian
After the Space Colonization Program, Earth has been abandoned and humanity is near extinction. A deadly rain permanently falls on Earth and the only people alive, known as “Junkers,” continuously scavenge the ruins.
One Junker sneaks alone into a dangerous part of Sarcophagus City where he meets Yumeni, a robot companion. She mistakes him for a customer in her planetarium and tries to show him the stars, but the projector is broken.
Pitying her, he tries to fix it.
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Planetarian
- The apocalypse has happened
- Robots in the apocalypse, still dutifully doing their job despite environmental wear.
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Planetarian
- There are still humans alive in Planetarian.
- Planetarian is a more melancholy, poignant story. There is very little comedy and eccentricity.

NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
After an alien invasion, Earth was overrun by the machine lifeforms they created as weapons of war. With humanity making their last stand, they retreated to the moon and dispatched a series of combat androids from a space station to eventually reclaim the Earth for humanity.
Brutal conflict and harsh realities play out before the eyes of 2B, an all-purpose battle class android who starts to waver as she questions her very existence and what she must sacrifice for the sake of humanity.
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Nier Automata
- Set in the apocalypse where humanity has disappeared and robots/aliens continue on
- What do robots do at the end of the world when all the humans have gone? Sometimes weird human stuff.
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Nier Automata
- Nier is, by far and wide, the more serious show.
- Nier features a “mission from HQ” structure that drives forward a more linear and often less episodic narrative.
- Nier enjoys its philosophical musings
- Nier is very much an action-focused anime.

Humanity Has Declined
After constantly declining birth rates, human civilization is almost extinct. The few humans left now coexist with fairies who have extremely advanced technology and very little regard for humans safety.
The story follows a mediator between humans and fairies that tries to make it so both races can live peacefully.
Similarities Between Apocalypse Hotel and Humanity Has Declined
- The apocalypse is slow—and weird.
- The Earth is now overrun by eccentric, weird beings that are not human.
- Beleaguered main character is often the viewpoint for the episodic stories
- Comedy, but with sometimes poignant messages
Differences Between Apocalypse Hotel and Humanity Has Declined
- Humanity Has Declined is about humanity slowly dying out and the earth being inherited by weird little elves.
- Humanity Has Declined tells its episodes non-linearly, which makes the progression hard to follow and the story seem more insane.
- The main character in Humanity Has Declined is a mediator between elves and humans who deals with weird events. She isn’t running a hotel.
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