One day, an impoverished private detective named Sousuke Kaburaya meets a girl named Sara who turns out to be a magical princess from another world.
While they start living together as Sara learns and adjusts to modern Japan, a number of other strange girls turn out to be living their lives in Gifu City.
I was waiting for a plot to manifest, but it turns out “eccentric girls in Gifu” was the plot all along. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, then head on down below.
Anime Like A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
For Fans of Otherworlders In A Modern Japanese City
Sasaki and Peeps
Unfulfilled and lonely by the corporate grind, middle-aged salaryman Sasaki decides to get a pet for some companionship. He settles on a buying a small bird who, much to his surprise, reveals itself to be a reborn sage from another world who still has his memories – and magic – intact.
Transporting Sasaki to his home world and bestowing some of his magic to him, Sasaki hopes to use his magic and the ability to travel back and forth between worlds to start a new life of peace and comfort.
However, after getting involved economically and politically with the fantasy kingdom and his new magic powers attracting the attention of the government in modern Japan, Sasaki escaped his dull corporate life and now faces endless excitement no matter where he goes.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Sasaki and Peeps
- Both series take place in modern cities that have a lot of supernatural women living their lives there.
- Magic exists, but outside the limelight and out of human notice
- A male character finds himself entangled in the various stories of a number of supernatural women.
- A lot of moe and lolis – and a male main characters with the good sense to not be lewd with them.
- Multiple different stories all happening at the same time
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Sasaki and Peeps
- Sasaki and Peeps is half isekai adventures and half fighting psychics for the government in modern Japan. A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics is just a reverse isekai alone, for the most part.
- While both series have a lot going on in them, Sasaki and Peeps just has a lot going on around the main character rather than the more individual character plots in A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics.
Hinamatsuri
One night, an object falls through space and time into the living room of dignified yakuza member Nitta. The object turns out to be a strange girl with psychic powers, but Nitta is reluctant to both take her in and to accept her offer to make use of those powers.
Respecting his decision to not use her as a tool, this girl, named Hina, decides to help him anyway as they begin their life together.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Hinamatsuri
- Both series feature guys who work in the underworld suddenly taking care of a supernatural little girl
- Solid comedic slice of life anime
- Both series feature worlds that are increasingly saturated with supernatural beings
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Hinamatsuri
- Hinamatsuri follows a yakuza main character rather than a private detective like A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics.
- Hinamatsuri is a lot more focused on comedy.
- The supernatural in Hinamatsuri is limited to psychic small girls.
The Devil is a Part-Timer
Right on the verge of taking over the world, evil Demon Lord Satan was foiled by the hero Emilia and was forced to retreat through a dimensional portal.
He ends up in our modern world where he is without powers and without money. In order to pay his way, he gets a part-timer job slinging fast food.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and The Devil is a Part-Timer
- Both series feature beings from another world coming to our world.
- Those otherworlders often end up doing the most monotonous/terrible human things, like being homeless or working part-time jobs.
- The comedy comes from otherworlders doing normal human things
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and The Devil is a Part-Timer
- While The Devil is a Part-Timer starts off more slice of life comedy like A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, it moves onto romance and even moments of action as the series goes on.
Drop Kick on My Devil
The demon Jashin was summoned to Earth by an occult dabbler named Yurine. However, although Yurine successfully summoned her, she doesn’t know how to send her back.
Now, Jashin ends up living with Yurine as her familiar. She knows the only way to go back now is to kill Yurine, but Jashin, incompetent as she is, can’t seem have any schemes go right.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Drop Kick On My Devil
- Fantasy beings are brought over to our modern world
- Moe girls, moe girls everywhere.
- Both series are fantasy slice of life comedies
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Drop Kick on My Devil
- Dropkick on My Devil is more violent and shocking with its comedy. This is pretty jarring compared to the more subdued, normal comedy in A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics.
- Dropkick on My Devil is more slice of life skits then multiple character plot threads that A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics offers.
Interviews With Monster Girls
Although not completely common, Ajin, or demi-humans, have become a part of society. High school biology teacher Tetsuo Takahashi is increasingly interested in Ajin for research, but having never met one himself, he let it be.
He was going to give up until he found out that not only are three students in his school demi-humans, but a fellow teacher as well.
As he sets up interviews with them, Tetsuo finds out that they have both human and demi problems to overcome.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Interviews With Monster Girls
- Both series feature humans and supernatural people living side by side like everything is perfectly normal.
- Both series explore the lightly comedic slice of life stories of its cast of characters
- The likable cast keeps you watching
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Interviews With Monster Girls
- Interviews With Monster Girls is a school life series told through a singular main character.
- The supernatural in Interviews With Monster Girls is more obviously supernatural whereas Salad Bowl of Eccentrics has otherworlders that look perfectly human in every way.
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
Miss Kobayashi is a programmer that lives alone in her apartment. However, one day a giant green dragon ends up on her doorstep and transforms into a women in a maid outfit.
Apparently, Kobayashi had gotten drunk one night and ended up saving this dragon. Now, dragon Tooru intends to repay her debt through housework.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- Both series take place in a perfectly normal neighborhood that now has a lot of supernatural residents living within it
- Large ensemble casts who all have their various stories explored
- A normal person finds themselves living with a rambunctious girl from another world.
- Slice of life fantasy comedies
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid goes bigger with its characters and their eccentricities for comedy. A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics is more grounded and subtle.
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid limits otherworlders to just dragons
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is, occasionally, a touching family life-type anime.
Re:Creators
Sota Mizushino is a high schooler and avid anime fan that dreams of writing his own light novel. While watching a new anime for inspiration, he is dragged into the world of that series.
After witnessing a battle between two characters, he returns home and is shocked when one of the characters comes back with him.
He soon discovers that other characters from other media have been brought over and aligned with a mysterious military uniform-clad princess.
Sota aims to gather these characters and send them back home.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Re:Creators
- One once-normal city, now overrun with people from another world
- A normal human guy gets pulled into the otherworld chaos
- Multiple character stories going on
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Re:Creators
- Re:Creators is more “fiction come to life” than reverse isekai like A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics.
- Re:Creators has more action and plot, less slice of life.
- There is actually a linear plot going on in Re:Creators
Amagi Brilliant Park
Kanie Seiya is a smart, but narcissistic high school student who believes that the reserved and beautiful Sento Isuzu has invited him out on a date to a local amusement park. However, the park turns out to not only to be run down, but his date was more of a job recruitment instead.
Recruited as the new manager, he discovers that the theme park is actually home to a princess and the fairies that serve her from another world. They depend on customer happiness to live in the human world, but with ticket sales plummeting and the park being threatened with closure in three months time, can Seiya’s brains turn their luck around?
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Amagi Brilliant Park
- One normal guys get pulled into the lives and stories of the otherworlders that have been secretly living in his city.
- Both series capture a “neighborhood” feel to the storytelling
- Large cast of eccentric, but still somewhat grounded characters
- Fantasy slice of life comedies
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Amagi Brilliant Park
- Amagi Brilliant Park has a linear plot it is exploring
- Whereas A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics follows multiple different character stories, Amagi Brilliant Park just has one main character that is constantly pulled into everyone’s drama.
- Amagi Brilliant Park baits romance
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For Fans of Cute, Eccentric Girls
A Sister’s All You Need
Itsuki Hashima is a light novel author who has an obsession with little sisters, making them the heroines of all his novels. Despite being prolific, he hasn’t quite celebrated the success of his peers.
Outside of writing, Itsuki often spends time with a tight group of friends, including the genius novelist Nayuta Kani who is constantly trying to win his heart with her perverted schemes. However, under each layer of perversion, there is some personal trauma that fuels their complicated feelings.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and A Sister’s All You Need
- Both series were made by the same author – and it shows in their love for moe, eccentric girls.
- Both series feature a male main character and the different girls in their lives in a non-harem way.
- Both series tell surprisingly detailed stories and build detailed characters despite being slice of life tales.
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and A Sister’s All You Need
- A Sister is All You Need has a lot more uncomfortable siscon stuff, but thankfully just used for comedy and not part of the romance.
- A Sister is All You Need is more of a romance than a slice of life series.
- A Sister is All You Need follows a more compact cast of characters rather than the larger cast of chaos that you get in A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics.
Haganai
Due to his blonde hair and bad boy face, Kodaka Hasegawa is often labeled a delinquent. When classmates shiver in your presence, it makes it difficult to make friends. Yet, when Kodaka meets Yozora, a girl that is perhaps a bigger outcast than him, the pair start the Neighbors’ Club.
In the Neighbors’ Club, those without any friends are invited to join, but not all personalities may mesh well.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Haganai
- Both series were made by the same author – and it shows in their love for moe, eccentric girls.
- Both series offer a diverse array of different female characters – and also that one singular male character who becomes mixed in with them.
- Slice of life plots mixed in with a bit of drama that it doesn’t always treat so seriously.
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and Haganai
- Haganai is unambiguously a harem anime
- Haganai is a school life series while A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics explores a large variety of slice of life stories
- Haganai frames most everything through its main character who is often “just there” to see the events unfolds. Salad Bowl of Eccentrics portrays the characters as often more independent of each other with a more unclear main character.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Kyon had long given up on his belief in the supernatural until he meets Haruhi Suzumiya. Haruhi, a strange girl in her own right, is interested in all things supernatural, but laments the lack of intriguing clubs on campus.
Kyon, however, inspires her to create her own club, and thus, the SOS Brigade is born. Unfortunately for Kyon, he is also roped into joining this new club dedicated to all things supernatural.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Both series start off as regular-seeming worlds before revealing that there is actually quite a bit of supernatural going on.
- Both series have excellent large casts of diversely eccentric characters
- Each episode is a new, sometimes very slice of life adventure
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Salad Bowl of Eccentrics has a lot of plot threads that all progress, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya embraces more random chaos in the plot.
- Haruhi is often more school life/romance than the more standard slice of life adventures in A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics.
The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall
Unable to resist taking in abandoned kittens, and amassing quite a collection of them, Sorata Kanda is forced to move to Suimei High School’s infamous Sakura Hall. This dorm is used to house all the misfit students that don’t quite fit in the regular housing.
There, Sorata meets an array of different oddballs that inspire him to work towards getting back into the regular dorms and away from them.
However, when a new transfer student moves in, he meets the incredible artist, Shiina Mashiro. While talented, she is completely incapable of taking care of herself, and so, Sorata brings her into his care and his strange days truly begin.
Similarities Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall
- A pretty normal guy gets wrapped up in the antics and stories of many eccentric people
- Large ensemble cast with a lot of different character stories going on at once.
- Both capture a nice “neighborhood” feel to them.
Differences Between A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics and The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall
- There is no supernatural in Pet Girl of Sakura Hall.
- Pet Girl of Sakura Hall follows the characters who all live in one dorm, rather than following characters in Gifu City like A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
- Pet Girl of Sakura Hall focuses more on romance, comedy, and drama rather than the more slice of life-focused Salad Bowl of Eccentrics.
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