Maid-in-training Suzume Tachibana is all ready to return to her master’s mansion and return to work after staying in Japan for some time, but she is shocked to be told that the mansion… burnt down!
With a year slated to rebuild it, her master tells Suzume to stay in Japan for awhile and enjoy herself. So, what’s a maid to do? Find a tasty snack, of course!
Oh, to just be able to roam the town and not be a vagrant… She has the life. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Food Diary of Miss Maid, head on down below.
Anime Like The Food Diary of Miss Maid
For fans of GIRLS. EATING.
Food for the Soul
Maiko Kawai is a first year university student who is afraid to try new things. While she enjoys cooking and wants to try the food around her, she is often thwarted by shyness and hesitation.
Unexpectedly, she runs into her elementary school friend, Shinon Ogawa, at her college. Shinon manages to convince her to start a new club on campus themed around food research, though mostly as an excuse to eat.
Similarities Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Food For The Soul
- Girls, eating food
- Girls wandering around town (and other places) and always finding food
- Cheerful slice of life about food
Differences Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Food For The Soul
- Food For The Soul is about a group of college girls enjoying food in a club-type affair.
- They travel a fair bit in Food for the Soul, which means there is no neighborhood vibe. It’s more Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
Gourmet Girl Graffiti
Ryou Makiko lives alone while attending art school in the city. Unfortunately, while Ryou loves to cook, all of her dishes have been tasting horrible to her lately.
Depressed, her aunt calls one day and tells her that her cousin will be staying with her sometimes on the weekend. When Ryou cooks for her cousin, suddenly she realizes that her cooking wasn’t bad, it was just meant to be eaten with others.
Similarities Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Gourmet Girl Graffiti
- Girls, eating food.
- Cheerful slice of life about food
Differences Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Gourmet Girl Graffiti
- Gourmet Girl Graffiti is usually about cooking and eating food in an apartment. It emphasizes how food tastes better when eaten with others.
- Gourmet Girl Graffiti works with two main characters, and neither are adults.
- Gourmet Girl Graffiti likes to do that Food Wars thing where eating looks orgasmic. It’s not ecchi, but it can be suggestive.
For Fans of Neighborhood-Focused Stories
Wash It All Away
Despite missing her memory, for two years Wakana Kinme has lived in a beautiful seaside town running a small laundry service. While she has no memory of her own past, she takes pride in helping the locals safeguard their own by dry cleaning their precious items.
Similarities Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Wash it All Away
- Slice of life about adult women living their lives
- Female main character wanders around her neighborhood, making friends everywhere she goes
- Re-occurring neighborhood characters, including a younger boy with a crush
- Highlights the small joys in particular things (eating, clothing/items)
- Meandering, unclear, but strongly slice of life plot.
Differences Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Wash It All Away
- Wash It All Away is about a dry cleaner doing her job. She also has amnesia, but the story far more focuses on the dry cleaning of items precious to other people.
- The “point” of each The Food Diary of Miss Maid episode is that she will find food. Wash it All Away doesn’t have that. Sometimes she is working on some dry cleaning, sometimes she is just hanging out.
And Yet The Town Moves
Hastily jumping on the new trend, Seaside Cafe transformed itself into a maid cafe, but offers no classic maid cafe staples and only really gets customers from the nearby shopping district.
Despite the fumbling, this is where Hotori Arashiyama works after school where she, too, stumbles through life.
Similarities Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and And Yet The Town Moves
- Women, dressed as maids
- Neighborhood stories where re-occurring characters are local folk.
- Main character is a sweet, silly girl, if a bit dim.
- Light slice of life story
Differences Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and And Yet The Town Moves
- And Yet The Town Moves is a slice of life story, but its also an absurd comedy. So expect wacky stuff to happen.
- And Yet The Town Moves is about a cafe, but also has less emphasis on enjoying food
- And Yet The Town Moves follows a high school girl.
Kiyo in Kyoto – From the Maiko House
Kiyo Nozuki and Sumire Herai are childhood friends that both want to become maikos, apprentice geishas in Kyoto. When they both join a maiko house, Kiyo is rejected to be a maiko, but hired to be the live-in cook while Sumire is invited to begin maiko training.
While disheartened, Kiyo dives head first into cooking, and becomes happy to nourish them in their endeavors.
Similarities Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Kiyo in Kyoto
- Girl wanted to do a job, couldn’t do it, does other stuff anyway
- Slice of life, food-enjoying story
- Neighborhood story where the main character wanders the neighborhood and often meets others
Differences Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Kiyo in Kyoto
- The Food Diary of Miss Maid is cute and cheerful, Kiyo in Kyoto is more poignant and sometimes a bit melancholy.
- The main character in Kiyo in Kyoto wanted to become a geisha, couldn’t, and cooks for a dorm of geisha instead.
For Fans of Wandering Women
Laid-Back Camp
After moving, Nadeshiko decides to go see Mount Fuji. She manages to bike pretty far, but has to turn back because of the weather and ends up fainting.
When she wakes up, she finds herself somewhere she has never been and no way to find her way back. It is in this wilderness where she is saved by Rin, a girl who was out camping by herself.
Similarities Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Laid-Back Camp
- Girls eating happily
- Aimless girl wanders into friendships
- Highlights the small pleasures in life in its slice of life story
Differences Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and Laid-Back Camp
- Laid Back Camp is far more about camping than food, but it also features a lot of food.
- Laid-Back Camp is about high school girls, not a singular working woman.
- Laid-Back Camp is more a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things show. Also, possibly hyping up tourist destinations.
Zatsu Tabi – That’s Journey
Chika Suzugamori is a rookie manga artist that, after winning a new artist award for her debut, has had every draft she brought to her editor rejected.
On the verge of giving up, she decides to use some of her prize money to take a trip. On that trip, she finds the natural scenery healing and is inspired to continue working—as well as start planning her next journey.
Similarities Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid X and That’s Journey
- A woman can’t do her job, for one reason or another, and decides to wander
- Woman wanders and ends up eating
- Long periods of the woman wandering alone, but also time spent with others as she goes about her day
Differences Between The Food Diary of Miss Maid and That’s Journey
- That’s Journey is more about traveling new places and eating the food there
- The other characters in That’s Journey are her friends, not just random neighborhood folk like you see in The Food Diary of Miss Maid.
- That’s Journey is about a manga artist traveling and finding inspiration in it.
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