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Anime Like Marriagetoxin

Among the underground, various families have worked in a specialized area of assassination for centuries, leading to their skills becoming so powerful that they are now Masters. Gero is the son of the Poison Masters Clan and skilled in the techniques. However, with his grandmother aging, it is time to think of the future of the clan. Either Gero or his sister must get married and produce an heir.

To save his sister from dissolving her lesbian relationship, Gero endeavors to find someone to spend his life with. Due to his awkwardness with women, he enlists the help of Mei Kinosaki, a marriage swindler, to help him find a wife.

Something, something… Toxic relationship? If you have more anime recommendations like Marriagetoxin, head on down below.

Anime Like Marriagetoxin

For Fans of Assassins

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Sakamoto Days

Tarou Sakamoto was a legendary assassin with unmatched prowess. However, five years ago, Tarou Sakamoto disappeared from the criminal underworld.

It turns out that he decided to retire after he fell in love and got married. Now with a wife and young daughter, Sakamoto put on a little weight, works with his wife at a convenience store, and has given up killing under their family rule—absolutely no killing.

However, his peaceful life is threatened when Sakamoto’s old partner, Shin Asakura, comes after him. While he is able to peacefully work things out with Shin, the large bounty that was placed on Sakamoto’s head means that Shin won’t be the only one coming to upend Sakamoto’s peaceful life.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Sakamoto Days

  • Professional assassins are helpless in the face of love
  • Action anime where the main character gets frequently attacked and defends themselves with their top skills
  • Assassins all have various quirks and specializations
  • Increasingly serious plot as it goes on

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Sakamoto Days

  • Marriagetoxin is about trying to find a wife. Sakamoto Days is about a retired assassin trying to not piss off his wife
  • Strictly speaking, Marriagetoxin is about Gero defending potential wives as work. Sakamoto Days is more about an assassin who retired, but now has other assassins hunting him.
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Mission – Yozakura Family

After his family died in a car crash when he was young, Taiyo Asano became increasingly socially inept. Now in high school, the only person he is able to really connect with is his childhood friend, Mutsumi Yozakura. However, one day he discovers that Mutsumi is actually the future head of a family of the world’s strongest spies, despite having no special spy abilities herself.

With her eldest brother ultra-protective of his little sister ever since she got injured as a child, he has marked Taiyo for execution. The only way to survive his lethal spy skills is for Mutsumi to marry Taiyo, thus making him part of the family.

While Taiyo resists at first, he eventually agrees to marry Mutsumi as well as to train to become a world-class spy himself to ensure her protection.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Mission Yozakura Family

  • Assassins with unique specializations and quirks
  • Assassin action, but also awkward silly romance
  • Fairly episodic with an overall plot

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Mission Yozakura Family

  • The main character in Yozakura Family isn’t an assassin, but he marries into an assassin family and becomes one
  • Yozakura Family is more about the main character becoming an assassin and focuses less on his romance/relationship. If anything, it is more focused on the main character trying to fit in with the family of oddballs.
  • The main character in Yozakura Family is a pretty standard shounen main character, not an awkward guy like Gero.
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Love of Kill

Although a novice bounty hunter, Chateau Dankworth is confident in her skills. However, one day she is overpowered by a man who wasn’t even her target, and worse yet, he takes an immediate romantic interest in her.

She soon learns that the man who continues to pester her is Song Ryang-ha – a former assassin and wanted by the Asian underworld organization he turned against. This leads them to constant run-ins with members from both of their pasts.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Love of Kill

  • Assassins, in love… and kind of awkward about it.
  • Assassin tries to start a romance to varying degrees of success
  • Action and intrigue

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Love of Kill

  • Love of Kill is more of a dark romance. It’s not very silly and the story is very serious. The romance is also basically stalking.
  • The assassins are more realistic style assassins in Love of Kill. Bullets, knives, virtually no unique skills.
  • Love of Kill has a linear plot that is unfolding. None of Marriagetoxin’s “new week, new girl, new guy to fight” business.
  • The love interest/main character in Love of Kill isn’t really into the the assassin, at first.
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Buddy Daddies

Kazuki and Rei are roommates that also work as professional mercenaries while they each flee from their grim memories through the dangerous work.

However, while carrying out an assassination on Christmas Eve, their paths cross with four-year-old Miri who traveled to Tokyo by herself, told by her mother who abandoned her to go find her father. Unfortunately for everyone involved, her father was their mark whom they successfully took out.

Now saddled with a small child, this pair of grown men struggle to adjust to being new parents while also balancing it with their dangerous job.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Buddy Daddies

  • Men who work in the criminal underground are now working on soft skills like dealing with women or children.
  • Cold men, unraveled by cute, normal things

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Buddy Daddies

  • Buddy Daddies is about fixers who end up with a small child, try to return it, fail, and have to raise it. There is no romance between them or anyone else
  • Buddy Daddies has a linear, emotionally touching plot with a conclusive ending. None of Marriagetoxin’s “new week, new girl, new guy to fight” business.
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Kill Blue

Juuzou Ogami is a legendary hitman who has never failed an assignment. While on a job, he is stung by a wasp and wakes up as a middle schooler!

Before he can even adjust to the body, his boss gives him new orders—check out this middle school the boss wants to send his daughter to by infiltrating it! Juuzou does as he is told while he waits for his ex-wife to research a cure, but there is only one problem—Juuzou is really awkward around kids.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Kill Blue

  • A top-tier assassin needs to work on his soft skills, like interacting with normal women/children
  • They guard a person, that person is constantly under attack
  • Shounen action with silly aspects (romance, school life as an old man in a child’s body)

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Kill Blue

  • Kill Blue is about a 40 year old assassin who is bad with kids being turned into a middle schooler and forced to guard a kid if he wants to turn back.
  • The main character in Kill Blue has an ex-wife and a kid. He is bad with kids, not women.
  • The assassins in Kill Blue are the normal thug kind with knives and guns, no super powered skills.
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Lycoris Recoil

In order to cut down on crime and terrorism, an organization called Direct Attack was formed. They take orphaned girls and turn them into agents that protect the country in the Lycoris program.

Takina is one gifted agent, but after a hostage situation leads to insubordination, she is transferred out of the main unit to a lower key branch of Lycoris ran out of a cafe.

Despite being paired with a famed, but more easy-going Lycoris prodigy Chisato while there, Takina is determined to get back into DA, but her new partner is determined to prove that there is more to life than just taking lives.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Lycoris Recoil

  • Assassins working on their soft skills
  • There is more to life than just killing people, you know?
  • A good mix of fun and funny slice of life and legitimate action

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Lycoris Recoil

  • Lycoris Recoil is about a laid back anti-terrorism agent teaching a strictly serious one to be more chill. They are also both school girls.
  • Lycoris Recoil has a linear, unfolding intrigue plot going on.
  • Lycoris Recoil doesn’t technically have any romance, but its real easy to paint some yuri onto the relationship between the two female main characters.
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Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

The city of Fukuoka seems pretty normal, but it is awash in dangerous individuals. In the mix is Banba, a detective investigating hitman companies in the area, and Lin, a hitman that is fed up with his lack of jobs.

After being refused pay for a target that killed themselves, Lin is tasked with killing Banba, but instead asks him to team up.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

  • Assassins. Like, a lot of them. Is this city 70 percent assassin?
  • A man cross-dressing as a blonde girl for convenience.
  • Eccentric assassins

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

  • Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens isn’t a romance
  • Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens has a linear, unfolding intrigue plot that starts with a jilted assassin teaming up with a curious cop.
  • The assassins in Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens may be quirky, but they don’t have specialized super-powered skills. They do normal assassin stuff.

For Fans of Rehabilitating an Awkward Guy

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Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki-kun

Fumiya Tomozaki is the top player in Japan at a fighting game called TackFam. Despite holding such a title, he is a failure at everything else, blaming it on the unfair rules and mechanics of life.

One day, the second best TackFam player asks to meet up.

Tomozaki discovers that they are actually Aoi, one of the most popular girls at school. She, however, is disappointed that someone she respected is a failure at life.

Now, she aims to teach him how to succeed at the glorious game of life.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki-kun

  • Guy is kind of a loser, except for that specific thing he’s really, really good at, and definitely can’t get a girlfriend.
  • He has an encounter with a girl (or girl-shaped person) who agrees to help him work on his interpersonal skills.

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki-kun

  • Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki is an average school life show. No assassins, no action.
  • The girl helping the male main character in Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki is actually a girl. No ambiguity.
  • The male main character in Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki needs a lot more help. He doesn’t even have weird assassin friends. So it is a full rehab, not just about getting a girlfriend.
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Toradora

Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle student with a passion for housework, but his thuggish face causes his fellow students to think him a delinquent. Taiga Aisaka is small and cute, but with an attitude as fierce as a tiger.

Both of these misunderstood students also harbor feelings for their crushes, and after a series of misunderstandings of their own, they find themselves in an unlikely alliance to get their crushes to notice them.

Similarities Between Marriagetoxin and Toradora

  • A tough (or tough-looking) guy is very awkward, but wants a girlfriend, a girl (or girl-shaped person) agrees to help
  • Awkward failures at romance until one takes

Differences Between Marriagetoxin and Toradora

  • Toradora is just a normal school rom-com. No assassins, no action.
  • Toradora follows a boy who looks tough, but isn’t and a girl who looks cute, but is fierce as they try to help each other confess to their crushes. So they already have targets in mind.

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