Anime Like Plus-sized Misadventures in Love

Yumeko was overwhelmed with complexes about her looks. After a terrible accident, Yumeko somehow wakes up a completely different person. Now, instead of being an abhorrent uggo, she is now a beautiful cutie.

With her new looks, her personality appears do completely positive reverse as well as she returns to her job with amnesia only to discovers that her accident might not have been so accidental. With unflappable confidence and kindness, she tries to navigate a life she can’t remember and finds herself developing a crush on the handsome young executive at her office.

Chubby Kae Serinuma is an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her male classmates. However, after her favorite anime character dies, she becomes so stressed that she loses weight rapidly.

Upon returning to school, her classmates, including the attractive men she ships, realize how attractive she really is.

There’s only one problem, while the boys vie for her affections, she just wants them to turn those affections towards each other.

In middle school, Lim Jugyeong transformed herself from unattractive to a beauty with the power of makeup. Now, she is no longer bullied for being ugly, but surrounded by people who praise her goddess-like beauty.

That all changes when Lee Suho transfers to her school. He becomes quickly popular, but he accidentally sees Jugyeong’s face without makeup. She manages to make Suho not tell everyone, but the more time she spends with him, the more she questions what true beauty is.

Average-looking and unsuccessful at making friends in high school, Hana Tabata has all but left behind the idea of experiencing a heart-throbbing romance like in her shojo manga.

After joining the beautification committee and her flowers catching the attention of warm and friendly classmate, Yousuke Ueno, her high school life begins to open up. Grappling with her unexpected new friendship and the feelings swirling within, Tabata has failed to realize that her high school romance has already started.

All high schooler Anzu Hoshino loves is video games, chocolate, and her cat, Momohiko. She has shunned everything else, especially a romantic life.

However, one day a magical creature alters her reality where she can’t have any of those three things that she adores and is told that in order to return to her normal life, she must indulge in the dating sim situations that have been set up around her involving the new troubled transfer student Tsukasa Kazuki, her childhood friend Junta Hayami, and a wealthy sheltered student named Hijiri Koganei.

In order to pursue a career in politics to make a positive change for Japan, Mitsumi leaves her rural town to go to high school in Tokyo. While she has a clear life plan for herself, she is still a country girl in a big city and ends up late and lost on her first day.

Luckily, Mitsumi is noticed by a fellow new student, Sousuke Shima, and he guides her to school. This laid-back guy is charmed by her motivated personality and strikes up a friendship with her, supporting her as she tries to make meaningful friendships with her classmates.

The Second Kowloon Walled City is a lawless city of squalor that was cobbled together over the ruins of its previously demolished predecessor. However, for its residents that live there, they find the squalor and the nostalgia that it brings endearing.

Amidst the flickering streetlights and moldy alleys is Reiko Kujirai, a 32-year-old real estate agent who has fallen in love with her co-worker, Hajime Kudo. While they get along, Kudo keeps her at an arm’s length. One day, when Kudo sleepily wakes up and kisses her, she is thrilled, only to be told that he mistook her for someone else.