After the death of his parents, teenage Ryuuchi becomes the caretaker of his younger brother Kotarou. After meeting a chairman of an elite academy at his parent’s funeral, they are given room and board in exchange for him becoming the school’s babysitter – a role established to support the female teachers.
Ah, cute children being cute and not at all in a weird way that anime likes to do. If you are looking for more anime series like it, then head on down below.
Anime Like Gakuen Babysitters
For Fans of Small Children
Sweetness and Lightning
After the death of his wife, high school math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is left to care for his young daughter, Tsumugi. He does his best, but his busy schedule and poor culinary skills limit them to eating convenience store food separately. One day, his daughter expresses an interest to eat together after talking to one of his students in the park, Kotori, who deeply enjoys food. He rushes over to the restaurant owned by the student’s mother, but she is not there. While Kotori tries her best to cook for them, her skills are lacking. However, together, Inuzuka-sensei, Tsumugi, and Kotori learn to expand their cooking skills.
While Sweetness and Lightning is, for the most part, a show about cooking, food, and how it brings people together, they also do a masterful job at creating a small lovable child that feels unique and not just some dumb toddler. While the kids in Gakuen Babysitters are younger, they still have their personalities on display.
Hanamaru Kindergarten
This is the story of Anzu and her friends in kindergarten who constantly try to get the teacher’s attention. However, he tends to be more focused on the pretty teacher next door.
Unlike Gakuen Babysitters, this series has more of a perspective from the point of view of the young children. However, they both involve the cute shenanigans of children, but since they are babies in Gakuen Babysitters, their perspective is pretty moot.
Barakamon
After losing his temper on a critic, renowned calligraphy artist Sieshuu Handa is exiled to the Goto Islands by his father for a period of self-reflection. There he seeks to find new inspiration for his art, but finds that his neighbors and some neighborhood kids keep getting in his way.
There is quite a bit more substance in Barakamon in terms of plot and lessons to be learned. However, both shows focus on the joys of being a small child and what adults can learn from them. Both series feature a lot soothing comedy that stems from children.
For Fans of Care-Taking
How to Raise a Mummy
Sora’s father is an adventurers who, one day, sends him an odd package. Inside is the last thing he expected, a mummy so small it can fit in his hand.
So tiny mummies and children are not the same thing, but taking care of them is of a similar vein. In reality, what these series have in common is that they are really quite soothing. You watch someone take care of something and very little drama ensues.
My Roommate is a Cat
Subaru is a novelist, and not very good with people. He’s been alone since his parent’s death, but one day while praying at their grave, a cat comes and eats his offering. Deciding to take it home, he now is shouldered with a cat, and this stray is shouldered with caring for a human who can barely care for himself.
In Gakuen Babysitters, there are some parts where you see the caretaker vulnerable and the company of their younger brother sort of shows that they take care of each other in some ways. My Roommate is a Cat is a lot like that. The guy takes care of the cat, but the cat also takes care of him.
Listen to Me, Girls. I am Your Father
Segawa Yuta is now a freshman in university. Since a young age he was raised by his sister Yuri, but now she is married with a family of her own. One day, Yuri and her husband decide to go on a trip and ask Yuta to look after their three daughters. When Yuri’s plane goes missing, the three children are at risk of being divvied up among relatives. In order to prevent this, Yuta decides to step up and care for them on his own.
In pure essence, these two anime series are practically the same thing. Both tell the story of people who get saddled with younger children after the death of their parents. Take out the whole babysitting at school plot of Gakuen Babysitters and add some cute girls, and you have this series.
For Fans of Feelgood Delight
Poko’s Udon World
Souta Tawara is a web designer that has been working in Tokyo. However, when he returns to his small town to visit family, he discovers a young boy alone and with a supernatural secret. Upon the confrontation, Souta decides to quit his job and take care of this boy dubbed Poko. This anime follows their daily adventures in the Kagawa Prefecture, the Udon Kingdom.
While Poko’s Udon World has an element of supernatural to it, Poko is very much just a boy who needs taking care of. Like in Gakuen Babysitters, the young child ends up being taken care of by someone with no parental experience.
Sanrio Boys
Kouta Hasegawa is a completely normal high school student who likes his Pompompurin stuffed animal, a Sanrio character modeled after a Golden Retriever, which his grandmother gave him when he was young. However, after being made fun of, he became ashamed of them. That all changes when he starts meeting other boys that like Sanrio characters.
These series have little in common other than boys doing activities that you typically don’t see boys doing. However, they are soft, feelgood-heavy type series with little drama and lots of fluff.
Hakumei and Mikochi
At only a few inches tall, Hakumei and Mikochi live in the forest in a tiny house built into a tree. This is the tale of their ordinary and fantastic daily life in the woods.
In terms of plot, they have nothing to do with each other, except being about very smol people. However, you watch both of these series just to chill out and be reminded of times where you were younger and things were simper.
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