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Anime Like Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You

Mizuho Nishino is having the worst birthday of her life in 2020 when she turned seventeen. Her parents forgot her birthday, she missed her chance to grow closer with a senpai she admires, and a mysterious disease has seen all her club activities and school events canceled.

However, at least she got to spend it with her four childhood friends. Yet, when one of those friends confesses his love for her, she brushes it off, but he declares that he intends to win her heart. No longer hiding his affections, Mizuho worries about how it will affect their relationship and the relationships with her three other male childhood friends.

Alright, tug of war. Whomever rips off the biggest piece of Mizuho get to keep her. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You, head on down below.

Anime Like Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You

For Fans of Boy Harems

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Fruits Basket

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.

Similarities Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Fruits Basket

  • Boys. Beautiful boys everywhere. And many of them are experiencing feelings.
  • Love triangle/polygon
  • Standard issue shoujo heroine protagonist that does not distract from the beautiful boys and their problems, but also does have problems of her own.
  • Character relationships, beyond just romance, is often the plot.

Differences Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Fruits Basket

  • Despite the large cast of men, Fruits Basket limits itself to a love triangle rather than the reverse harem that Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You has going on.
  • Fruits Baskets has far deeper characterization to its characters who are not strictly just eye candy and stereotypes.
  • Fruits Basket has a supernatural element to it in that some boys will turn into animals if hugged by a woman.
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Ouran High School Host Club

In Ouran High School, the typical student is a member of the wealthy elite, but not Haruhi Fujioka. Accepted on a scholarship, Haruhi wants to avoid all the glitz and glamour in order to study hard and become a lawyer.

While looking for a rare quiet place to do so, Haruhi stumbles upon a host club. Frantic to get away from these weird boys, Haruhi breaks a valuable vase.

In order to pay back the debt, the club demands that Haruhi becomes a host. There is only one problem, contrary to what the boys believe, Haruhi is actually a girl.

Similarities Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Ouran High School Host Club

  • An often passive heroine gets romanced
  • Reverse harem situation full of boys with varying types of affection for the heroine
  • Love triangle/polygon
  • Every boy is some sort of beautiful stereotype with some sort of problem to work through

Differences Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Ouran High School Host Club

  • Ouran High School Host Club is as much a parody of reverse harems as it is an actual one. So expect far more comedy and far less melancholy.
  • Not everyone in the harem in Ouran High School Host Club is in romanctic love with the heroine.
  • Ouran High School Host Club has a main romance that progresses.
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Kiss Him, Not Me

Chubby Kae Serinuma is an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her male classmates. However, after her favorite anime character dies, she becomes so stressed that she loses weight rapidly.

Upon returning to school, her classmates, including the attractive men she ships, realize how attractive she really is.

There’s only one problem, while the boys vie for her affections, she just wants them to turn those affections towards each other.

Similarities Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Kiss Him, Not Me

  • The heroine has a lot of male friends
  • One day, all those male friends just start confessing their feelings/falling in love with her
  • The heroine isn’t really into being romanced, but is slowly wooed

Differences Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Kiss Him, Not Me

  • Kiss Him, Not Me is about a fujoshi (a female boy’s love enjoyer) who ships her male friends together, but ends up getting depressed, losing weight, and becoming a hottie. Then suddenly all her male friends start falling for her. So, it is a bit less wholesome and a lot more comedy-focused.
  • Kiss Him, Not Me isn’t especially melancholy like Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You often is.

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For Fans of Past Events, Present Regrets

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Orange

On the first day of a new semester, Naho Takimiya oversleeps. On her way out after being late for school, she finds a letter waiting for her that says it is from herself ten years in the future.

The letter ardently states her regrets that she has surrounding a new transfer student Kakeru Naruse. Thinking it is a prank at first, Naho ignores it, but when the events described within begin to come true, Naho decides that she will try to help her future self.

Similarities Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Orange

  • The plot is the various relationships forming in a pretty close friend group
  • Both series use brief moments in the future/present day of the series to make you wonder what happened in the past to draw you in.
  • Regrets—everyone has a few. And they are the focus here.
  • Romancing a boy who is mysteriously not in the future segments for reasons they want you to stay and find out.
  • Love triangles/polygons

Differences Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Orange

  • Orange is a bit more clear about what is going to happen to one of these characters, and that it is indeed a tragic-leaning romance.
  • Orange is about trying to fix regrets while Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You is simply taking you through what happened. This means there is a more obvious supernatural element in Orange.
  • Not everyone is in love with the heroine in the friend group in Orange.
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Anohana

One hot summer day, recluse and truant Jinta Yadomi is approached by his childhood friend Menma that comes to pester him about a wish he had long forgotten. However, Menma has been dead for some time.

Thinking he is hallucinating at first, eventually Jinta accepts her as a ghost and begins to work towards fulfilling her wish with his friends that had long drifted away from each other.

Similarities Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Anohana

  • Both series explore the various relationships that are happening between a close group of friends.
  • Both series tell the story using past and present events.
  • Friend group drama, occasionally fueled by romance
  • Love triangle/polygon

Differences Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Anohana

  • Anohana, as it follows the ghost of a dead friend coming back, has a supernatural element to it.
  • Anohana is an emotional series trying very hard to make you cry with its story. It is less focused on being a romance.
  • Anohana has a male main character and is not a reverse harem
  • Anohana jumps from when they were little kids to when they are teenagers, so they are not high schoolers/adults like in Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You.

For Fans of Passive Female Leads That Get Romanced

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Honey Lemon Soda

After being bullied in middle school for her shyness being misinterpreted as coldness, Uka Ishimori hopes that she can get a fresh start in high school.

After accidentally being sprayed with lemon soda by the cool and popular Kai Miura, she finds herself constantly crossing paths with Kai whose small acts of kindness and encouragement help her break out of her shell.

Similarities Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Honey Lemon Soda

  • Relatively meek/passive heroine is being romanced by a handsome boy
  • Romance moves slowly because she’s not really into the idea and/or not brave enough to make the jump.
  • Handsome boys being dashing and sometimes a bit abrasive

Differences Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and Honey Lemon Soda

  • Honey Lemon Soda is a standard shoujo romance, meaning only one main male love interest.
  • Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You features the heroine already having these friends, Honey Lemon Soda is about a shy girl slowly making friends thanks to a boy.
  • Honey Lemon Soda is more about the shy/meek heroine finding her backbone while Mizuho in Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You is pretty passive when it comes to romance, but does know how to stand up for herself.
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A Sign of Affection

Born with a hearing impairment, Yuki Itose is college student who rarely interacts with others because of her disability. However, when she has an awkward interaction with a foreigner on her daily commute to school, the multilingual Itsuomi Nagi steps in to intervene.

Learning of her impairment and having an interest in travel and learning various languages, soon Yuki and Itsuomi bond over his new interest in learning sign language to better communicate with her. As they spend more time together, their relationship continues to grow even deeper.

Similarities Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and A Sign of Affection

  • Meek, if normal girl gets romanced by at least one ridiculously handsome guy
  • Love triangle/polygon
  • Modern-feeling shoujo romance

Differences Between Anyway, I’m Falling in Love With You and A Sign of Affection

  • A Sign of Affection features a deaf heroine, which justified her more reserved and passive nature and provides a bit more character depth.
  • Romance does progress at a steady pace in A Sign of Affection
  • There is a decently gender balanced cast in A Sign of Affection, so no reverse harems

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