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Anime Like Bad Girl

Yuu Yuurani has always been a good girl—helping out around the house, getting good grades, and following all the rules. However, the good girl life has seen her go widely unnoticed by her crush, Atori Mizutori.

As Atori is the Public Decency Officer at their school, Yuu formulates a daring plan—to become a bad girl to get her attention.

When them good girls go bad. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Bad Girl, then head on down below.

Anime Like Bad Girl

For Fans of Good Girls Trying to Be Tough

ninja and assassin anime

A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof

Satoko Kusagakura is a female ninja who ran away from her ninja village with her comrades for no especially good reason. Having split up to avoid detection, Satoko finds herself alone in the city until she meets Konoha, an assassin who was caught on the job.

Konoha initially hopes to use Satoko’s ninja skills to her advantage. However, the only useful thing Satoko can do is turn bodies into leaves. Deeming that good enough, Konoha invites Satoko to live in her house in exchange for cooking and doing clean up after assassin jobs.

Similarities Between Bad Girl and A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof

  • Precious dorky cinnamon roll main character that is acting tough and failing
  • A more stoic girl that enjoys her who is actually a bad girl has feeling for her
  • Yuri, but also more comedy than any romance

Differences Between Bad Girl and A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof

  • Ninja and Assassin is about a too-innocent ninja running away from her clan and who ends up living like a housewife to an assassin, helping her hide the bodies with ninja magic.
  • Ninja and Assassin does have slightly more action to it, but you can’t rightly call it an action anime either.
  • There is no love triangle in Ninja and Assassin
demon girl next door anime

The Demon Girl Next Door

After a strange dream, Yuuko wakes up to discover that she has grown demon horns. Her mother informs her that they are descendants of a demon that was banished to live powerless by the magical girls of the Light Clan.

Apparently, the only way to break the curse is to find a magical girl and murder her. While she happens upon a magical girl, her power is vastly superior to hers. The magical girl in question, Momo, takes pity on her and decides to train her in order to unlock her latent powers.

Similarities Between Bad Girl and Demon Girl Next Door

  • A too-innocent dorky main character suddenly finds the need to become a bad girl
  • Other women come to appreciate their cute efforts
  • Moe slice of life comedy

Differences Between Bad Girl and Demon Girl Next Door

  • Demon Girl Next Door sticks firmly to light yuri baiting, it’s not as clearly yuri as Bad Girl.
  • Demon Girl Next Door, obviously, has a bit of a supernatural element.
gabriel dropout anime

Gabriel Dropout

After graduating high school in Heaven, angels are sent down to Earth to guide humans down a righteous path. Heaven had high hopes for Gabriel, the top of her class. However, when she descended, she ended up skipping her duties and getting addicted to online games.

Similarities Between Bad Girl and Gabriel Dropout

  • A good girl becomes a bad girl
  • Core cast of four girls with various relationships to each other all brought together by the main character
  • Moe slice of life comedy

Differences Between Bad Girl and Gabriel Dropout

  • Gabriel Dropout sticks firmly to light yuri baiting, it’s not as clearly yuri as Bad Girl.
  • The main character in Gabriel Dropout is more the stoic type, but it does have the same sort of Yuu-type girl as a side character.
  • Gabriel Dropout is about angels and demons, so it has a supernatural element.
acro trip anime

Acro Trip

Chizuko Date has moved around her whole life. However, after visiting her grandfather in Niigata, she becomes enamored with magical girl berry Blossom who defends the town from the evil organization Fossa Magna, and decides to stay.

However, with Fossa Magna and its leader Chroma being so inept, no one really pays much attention to their not-so-epic battles anymore. After accidentally befriending Chroma, Chizuko finds herself pulled into Fossa Magna and vows to use the organization to make Berry Blossom shine even brighter!

Similarities Between Bad Girl and Acro Trip

  • A normal girl decides to be bad for the girl she has a big crush on
  • The normal girl is not adept at being bad, but continues to try
  • Silly comedy

Differences Between Bad Girl and Acro Trip

  • Acro Trip is yuri bait, at best.
  • Acro Trip, as its about becoming a villain so her favorite magical girl has someone to fight, is a bit more eccentric with its comedy and characters. It also has more supernatural/magic elements to it.
  • Acro Trip features more action, but it’s not really an action anime either

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For Fans of Yuri Tug of War

There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover anime

There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…

Renako Amaori is determined to make her high school debut and leave her lonely, awkward middle school life behind. When she meets the confident and glamorous Mai Ouzuka on her first day and they have an immediate connection, she begins to think her life has finally begun.

Then Mai confesses her love for her and it sends Renako into a tailspin as Mai is determined that, instead of best friends, they should become girlfriends.

Similarities Between Bad Girl and There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover

  • One innocent spaz gets tangled up in romantic feelings for girls
  • The dorky main character becomes the target for affection from a whole harem’s worth of girls
  • Yuri love triangles
  • Yuri slice of life comedy

Differences Between Bad Girl and There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover

  • No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover is very much a yuri harem romance. Bad Girl is just a yuri comedy with very little romantic development.
  • The main character in No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover doesn’t start out with a crush on a girl, and is fully aware of the romantic feelings that the girls have for her, for the most part anyway.
  • No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover can be more dramatic.
yuri is my job anime

Yuri is My Job

With a cute face, good grades, and a flawless friendly facade, Hime Shiraki hopes to land herself a rich husband by being the picture of perfection.

However, after she takes a tumble down some stairs, she lands on Mai Mikoshiba, injuring the girl’s arm. It turns out that Mai is the manager of a cafe, and she uses her injury to make Hime help out there.

This is how Hime ended up at Cafe Liebe, an all-girls academy-themed cafe where she stumbles through the work and one of the other waitresses seems to hate her for no apparent reason.

Similarities Between Bad Girl and Yuri is My Job

  • The main character is pretending to be a type of girl she is not
  • The main character is the secret target of affection from other girls leading to love triangle elements
  • Unambiguously yuri

Differences Between Bad Girl and Yuri is My Job

  • Yuri is My Job is a yuri romance, and a pretty dramatic one at that. It has some comedy, but it is not a comedy affair like Bad Girl is.
  • The love triangle in Yuri is My Job gets unraveled pretty quickly as side couples develop.
  • Yuri is My Job features the main character that is pretending to be a perfect girl to catch herself a man, she is actually a somewhat spoiled bratty princess type on the inside.
sakura trick anime

Sakura Trick

Haruka and Yuu have been best friends since middle school. However, now that they are in high school together, they are both growing apart. To cement their friendship, they decide to do something that have never done with anyone else – kiss.

However, this awakens a whole slew of new feelings for them both.

Similarities Between Bad Girl and Sakura Trick

  • Yuri love triangles
  • Yuri slice of life and comedy

Differences Between Bad Girl and Sakura Trick

  • As Sakura Trick is about a secret yuri relationship, it does have more elements of romance and a little drama as well.
  • No one is actively trying to change in SakuraTrick, but growing up changes us all.
  • The girls in Sakura Trick are a little “softer” and less energetic with their personalities.

For Fans of Yuri Comedy

Yuru Yuri anime

Yuru Yuri

After being reunited with her childhood friends in middle school, Akari is enticed to join the Amusement Club that Yui and Kyoko created in their own first year of middle school.

They convince Akari to join, only for her to discover that the club’s only function is to amuse its members.

Similarities Between Bad Girl and Yuru Yuri

  • Yuri slice of life comedies
  • Four eccentric lesbians all in love with each other, but the relationships never go anywhere

Differences Between Bad Girl and Yuru Yuri

  • Bad Girl has a specific theme (becoming a bad girl to get attention from her crush) while Yuru Yuri is a more standard “Joins a school club, but they just goof off” Cute Girls Doing Cute Things affair.
  • You could say Yuru Yuri is more of a parody of the latent yuri bait present throughout the Cute Girls Doing Cute Things genre.
  • All the girls develop affection for Yuu in Bad Girl while the main character is often ignored in Yuru Yuri as one of its many re-occurring jokes.
ms vampire who lives in my neighborhood anime

Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood

In Akari’s neighborhood, there are rumors of an ageless girl that only comes out at night and lives in a mansion in the forest.

While seeking out this girl, Akari grows lost in the woods and is saved by the girl of rumor.

It turns out the girl is a vampire named Sophie. She orders to blood online and avoids attacking humans.

Akari, a connoisseur of dolls, is instantly charmed by her doll-like appearance and moves in.

Similarities Between Bad Girl and Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood

  • An eccentric girl is pining so very hard for another girl who doesn’t notice her affection
  • Yuri slice of life comedy where the relationships never go anywhere.
  • Bad girls are not actually all that bad
  • Yuri love triangles

Differences Between Bad Girl and Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood

  • Ms Vampire Who Lives in my Neighborhood is indeed about a vampire who lives in the main character’s neighborhood. What the title doesn’t tell you is that she moves in with her. So it’s cohabitation instead of school-set as well.
  • The main character in Ms Vampire Who Lives in my Neighborhood is slightly more obsessed while the object of her affections is oblivious.

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