Anime Like Anne Shirley

Being sent from her orphanage, Anne Shirley arrives on Prince Edward Island to live with the aging, childless Cuthbert siblings, Matthew and Marilla, on a quiet farm.

However, everyone gets a shock when they learn that Anne was supposed to be a boy child meant to help Matthew around the farm.

Despite their original hesitation to keep her, Anne manages to win them and everyone around town over with her imagination and flair for the dramatic.

After her father dies, Emily is sent to live with her aunts on Prince Edward island.

While she has troubles adjusting to her new family, Emily does make several friends around town who, alongside her imaginative writing, manage to keep her spirits up.

Sara, a girl born into a rich British family in India, is treated like a princess, even when she moves to a boarding school in London.

However, when she learns of he father’s death and her family’s bankruptcy, Sara is devastated. However, the cruel headmistress agrees to allow Sara to continue staying at the school as a maid. Even though times are tough, Sara gets through it with kindness and imagination.

After her parents die, Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Instead of a loving caretaker, she finds her grandfather bitter and unhappy that he had to take her in.

However, Heidi’s kindness might just be enough to melt his heart as she endears herself to everyone around town.

Romeo is a young boy from the Alps who signs a shady contract with a man to help pay for a doctor for his sick father.

Romeo soon discovers that he had been sold to become a chimney sweeper’s assistant in Milan, but what he finds in the city isn’t just brutal work. It a gritty life for a child full or violence, but Romeo quickly forms deep bonds with a fraternity of young child chimney sweeps to help each other in times of need.

In order to pursue a career in politics to make a positive change for Japan, Mitsumi leaves her rural town to go to high school in Tokyo. While she has a clear life plan for herself, she is still a country girl in a big city and ends up late and lost on her first day.

Luckily, Mitsumi is noticed by a fellow new student, Sousuke Shima, and he guides her to school. This laid-back guy is charmed by her motivated personality and strikes up a friendship with her, supporting her as she tries to make meaningful friendships with her classmates.

In a nation that is threatened by civil war, Erin lives with her mother who tends to the Grand Duke’s powerful war-lizards as a doctor. However, after an incident with the Grand Duke’s favorite war-lizard, Erin’s mother is held responsible.

While trying to save her mother, Erin falls in a river and is swept away to a neighboring region. On her quest to get home, she encounters many different people and learns the harsh truths of her world.

When Tooru Honda finds herself homeless, she decides to live in a tent in the wilderness. However, one day she is discovered by a classmate, Yuki Souma, and invited to come live in his house.

From there, she gets to know many members of the Souma family, not realizing that they all are inflicted by a curse. When they hug the opposite gender, they turn into an animal from the Chinese zodiac.

Motosu Urano loves books. She recently got her librarian certification and was about to enter her dream job when an earthquake caused her to be crushed by her collection of books.

She is reincarnated into a new world as the five year old daughter of a soldier. Unfortunately, in this world, books are reserved for the elite nobility.

What do you do when your station in life does not afford you access to books? Make your own.

Asahigaoka is rural village in the middle of nowhere, and for the five students who go to school there, their days are all about keeping the boredom at bay.

All of different ages, the ways they entertain themselves never border on normal.

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.

Unsuccessful manga artist Shin Karino has his daily routine interrupted one day with the introduction to his new neighbor – a four-year-old boy who moved in next door, lives by himself, and talks like a samurai.

While this boy is more put together than most of his neighbors, living alone has its difficulties at any age.

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 is their daily adventures in the Kagawa Prefecture, the Udon Kingdom.

Daikichi Kawachi is a 30-year-old bachelor that works long hours at a respectable job. However, upon hearing the news of his grandfather’s death, he returns home for the funeral only to find out that his grandfather had an illegitimate daughter named Rin.

Shy and unapproachable, this young child is shunned by the other members of the family.

In his anger that no one will take her in, Daikichi steps up himself and begins his days anew as a single father with no prior childcare experience.