Anime Like Sanda

With the birth rate plummeting, children have become the world’s most important assets. At the Daikoku Welfare Academy, children are educated, protected, and strictly monitored.

For Shiori Fuyumura, a student of the academy, she is determined to find her missing friend Ichie Ono who has been missing for six months and declared dead. One morning, she summons her classmate Kazushige Sanda—and stabs him!

Shiori believes Sanda to be a descendant of the legendary Santa Claus and is convinced he will make her wish to find Ono come true.

Sulking after breaking up with her boyfriend, Momo Ayase stumbles upon a bullied boy and sticks up for him. After her random act of kindness, the alien-obsessed boy tries to talk to her about the extraterrestrial interest that he thinks they share. However, while Momo says she doesn’t believe in aliens, she does believe in ghosts thanks to her grandmother who works as a psychic.

In a bet to determine which is actually real, they agree to visit different locations – one known for extraterrestrial sightings and one known to be haunted. As it turns out, neither was wrong as their life gets thrown into chaos by alien abductions and ghost possession.

After his father’s death left him with a pile of debt, Denji and his pet devil Pochita struggle to pay it off. However, after the yakuza kills him, Pochita fuses himself with Denji’s corpse and he awakens as a Chainsaw Devil.

Found by government devil hunters, Denji is brought in to hunt other devils on an experimental squad where he is finally able to pursue his simple teenage dreams of eating good food and spending time with a cute girl.

All Fuko wanted was a passionate romance like in her shoujo manga. However, she has the unpleasant ability of Unluck that causes anyone she touches to suffer an accident – its severity based on her affection for them. After accidentally causing her parents to die in a plane crash, Fuko has been paralyzed by fear that she might accidentally touch someone all through her school years spent as a shut-in.

With her favorite manga now ended, Fuko was about to end her own life when a man claim to be unable to die swoops in and saves her. Delighted that her ability might finally be able to kill him for good, this man that she nicknamed Andy declares that he will make her fall in love with him so she will give him the most fatal stroke of unluck possible.

Teaming up and entering the organization that hunts people like them with dangerous abilities, the pair tackle a number of unique enemies.

Ryuuko Matoi is on the hunt for her father’s killer, and her only lead is the missing half of his invention, the Scissor Blade.

On her quest, she arrives at the prestigious Honnouji Academy, a school that is ruled over by the super powerful Satsuki Kiryuuin and her Elite Four. Believing Satsuki knows who killed her father, Ryuuko challenges one of the elite, but gets beaten due to their special uniforms.

After receiving a special uniform of her own, Ryuuko sets plans into motion to dominate the school and find out what happened to her father.

This is a world of anthropomorphic animals where carnivores and herbivores live side by side with each other.

At Cherryton Academy, young wolf Legoshi is a member of the drama club. While he is often called menacing due to his appearance, he wouldn’t hurt a fly.

However, when one herbivore classmate is killed and devoured, Legoshi finds himself as the primary suspect.

Kageyama Shigeo, otherwise known as Mob, is a young psychic with a wide range of blossoming abilities. Despite having this incredible power, he just wants to become friends with Tsubomi, a girl in his class.

Due to negative reactions to his psychic abilities in the past, he now tries to keep them in check. In an effort to learn to better control his abilities, Mob becomes the apprentice to Reigen Arataka, who claims to be a psychic, but is actually a con artist that exploits Mob’s very real powers for money.

Kasuga Takao is a bookish normal student, but when he goes back to look for his book in the classroom one day, he instead finds the gym uniform of his school crush. Without thinking, he takes it.

Now, all his classmates are on the lookout for a pervert, and he is being confronted by a friendless girl in class that saw him do it.

Grace Fields House is a home for orphans. However, even though they have no blood families, they are all one big family. That is, until the age of twelve when they are adopted out.

The kids also know that they are not allowed outside the fenced yard, but one day, two children break that rule. They then discover that the children who are “adopted” are actually subjected to something much darker.

After a disaster fifteen years ago caused society to collapse, the survivors struggle to eek out an existence. Alongside trying to scrounge together food, clean water, and electricity, these survivors are also plagued by the appearance of man-eating monsters.

Two young survivors, Maru and Kiruko, wander the wasteland and make money off Maru’s ability to kill these man-eaters with a touch. Together, they are searching for a place called Heaven that they both hope will hold the answers to the tragic burdens that they hold in their heart.