After 30 years of life passed him by, Kiyoshi Adachi discovers that the old saying that if you remain a virgin until you are 30 you will gain magic powers is actually true!
However, instead of anything magnificent, the only power that Adachi has is to read the thoughts of anyone he is touching. Thinking his skill is pretty lame and now wanting to avoid overly crowded places, he trudges on with his newfound burden.
One day, while in a crowded elevator at work, he discovered that his handsome and well-liked co-worker Yuuichi Kurosawa has a major crush on someone in office. Curious and probing further, he discovers that the person Kurosawa has a huge attraction to is none other than him.
Uncomfortable at first, the more time Adachi spends with Kurosawa, the more he begins to appreciate his feelings.
A fun premise and one that is done in the new era of boy’s love where the characters are people and not just fetish bait, Cherry Magic really does create a captivating boy’s love experience. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard, head on down below.
Anime Like Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!
For Fans of Not Sexually Aggressive Shounen Ai
Sasaki and Miyano
Much of his life at his all-boy’s school for Miyano is worrying about how girly his face looks and hiding his secret love of boy’s love manga.
However, after witnessing a fight, he has a clandestine meeting with an older delinquent student named Sasaki. Afterwards, Sasaki seems to jump at every opportunity to be around Miyano.
Both Cherry Magic and Sasaki and Miyano are part of the new school of shounen ai anime where the characters act like normal, albeit wholesomely cute people instead of the horny, rape-y animals that long-time yaoi fans will be familiar with.
However, while Cherry Magic tells the story of a blossoming romance in the workplace between adults, Sasaki and Miyano explores a blossoming romance in an all-boys school between teens. While both take a slow burn approach to romance, they fill the lack of romantic progression with ample cute moments between the characters as well as side pairings.
While both series definitely feature a similar wholesome and cute atmosphere, they also share a romance between one eagerly affectionate man and a man who is still slowly warming up to the idea of romance between two men.
Given
On one particular day, Ritsuka Uenoyama decided that two things he loved – playing guitar and playing baseball – had become boring to him.
However, when he encountered Mafuyu Sato holding a broken guitar, he fixes it. Upon fixing it and hearing him sing, it leaves a huge impression.
Like Cherry Magic, Given tells a boy’s love story between two men, one of which is more aware of his feelings towards another who is less aware, but warming up to the idea.
However, while Cherry Magic is a workplace romance between two adults, Given is set in high school with a music-focused plot.
That said, the relationships found in both series can be defined by how supportive the main couple is to each other.
Yuri on Ice
After a crushing defeat at the Grand Prix finale, Yuuri Katsuki returns home no longer as Japan’s most promising figure skater. With his window for skating success closing, he assesses his options.
After a video of Yuuri performing a routine by five-time world champion Victor Nikiforov goes viral, he suddenly finds the champion on his doorstep, offering to be Yuuri’s mentor.
While Yuri on Ice is distinctly different from Cherry Magic in that it is a sports anime about figure skating – and people still, strangely, to this day debate its status as an actual boy’s love story – it also follows the relationship between two adult men in a professional realm.
Both Cherry Magic and Yuri on Ice follow adult men in their professional careers who slowly grow closer romantically while also supporting each other in their professional and private lives. While Cherry Magic thrives on rather wholesome interactions, Yuri on Ice has the intensity of competition driving most of the plot though not without a similarly strong focus on the relationship.
For Fans of Workplace Relationships
My New Boss is Goofy
After finally getting out of an exploitative company with an abusive boss that gave him ulcers, Kentaro Momose starts a new job at an advertising firm that had inspired him to quit with one of their works.
He is put under the wing on his new boss, Yuusei Shirosaki, a man who looks so cold and serious that Momose starts to worry that Shirosaki is just as demanding as his old boss. However, he is immediately relieved to find that this serious-looking man is actually quite kind and surprisingly air-headed.
While anime enjoys many varieties of “yuri bait” anime, or stories baiting a potential relationship between two women without ever going the distance, My New Boss is Goofy is a rare and modern example of “yaoi bait” by baiting the same potential romantic relationship between two men.
Like Cherry Magic, My New Boss is Goofy follows the relationship between several men in an office workplace. Instead of being competitive and bogged down by work, the characters support each other and build strong, wholesome, and even downright adorable relationships.
The big difference is that Cherry Magic lets you know that it is a boy’s love romance early and often. My New Boss is Goofy never acknowledges any romantic feelings, but the potential is right there in front of your eyes.
The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague
Himuro and his family are descended from a snow yokai which resulted in his family having a strange power. Whenever he is excited or deep in concentration, it produces a Arctic winds and snow around him.
Finally starting a new job, he meets his cool co-worker Fuyutsuki. She is a calm woman with a stoic personality that always provides him simple solutions to the problems his powers create.
Himuro finds her absolutely adorable and vows to do whatever it takes to win her affections.
Both Cherry Magic and The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague follow the slow-burning romance between two characters in a modern office workplace with just a small dash of the supernatural for flavor. However, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague is not a boy’s love romance.
Regardless, both series create a similar sort of atmosphere where romance is being pursued, but it puts just as much focus on the characters being friendly and supportive to each other in a wholesome and soothing way.
Wotakoi – Love is Hard for an Otaku
After discovering they work at the same company, a gaming otaku and a fujoshi rekindle for the first time since middle school.
After some good old-fashioned after work drinks, they decide to start dating, but dating an otaku as an otaku is more difficult that one would think.
Both Cherry Magic and Wotakoi are romance anime that follow adults that work in the same office. However, Wotakoi is about romance between various forms of otaku – including a boy’s love-enjoying fujoshi – but is not a boy’s love romance itself.
While Wotakoi does style itself as more of a comedy with the occasional moments of more adult drama, both series keep things from relying too heavily on drama by showcasing multiple different couples and making plenty of time to just enjoy these couples in their slice of life environments.
For Fans of Men Being Cute and Supportive
Play It Cool, Guys
Despite having different personalities, four boys in various stages of young adulthood all have one thing absolutely in common – clumsiness.
All four boys are naturally clumsy, but often cover their small slip-ups with a smooth recovery to keep the cool air they have cultivated around themselves in front of others.
Unfortunately, the sort of wholesome, cute, and supportive romance that Cherry Magic portrays is found few and far in between when it comes to boy’s love anime. However, if you are willing to settle for a series about cute boys simply acting adorably clumsy as they go throughout their daily lives, then Play It Cool, Guys can help fill the void left by Cherry Magic.
Play It Cool, Guys isn’t a boy’s love romance. In fact, it isn’t even a romance. This series is very much just a slice of life anime about several different characters leading separate lives and navigating those awkward moments we all have in an adorable way. Though it lacks romance, it still captures the wholesome slice of life feel that Cherry Magic often engaged in when they were outside of the office.
The Four Yuzuki Brothers
The Yuzuki family is a family of four brothers. After their parents died, the oldest brother, Hayato, put himself through college and became a teacher, all while raising his brothers.
Mikoto, the second son, is calm and collected, assisting his older brother. The third son, Minato, is energetic and troublesome, often clashing with Mikoto who is only just 11 months older and in the same grade as him. The fourth son, Gakuto, is studious and mature for his age.
While it is difficult to live without parents, the Yuzuki brothers do their best and are supported further by the people in their lives around them.
While The Four Yuzuki Brothers isn’t a romance anime, like Cherry Magic, it tells a story of wholesome men supporting each other inside their relationship and through the help of their various friends.
What The Four Yuzuki Brothers and Cherry Magic share is that they display men not acting overbearingly masculine. Instead, they are showing not just positive aspects like empathy and kindness but also having traits like jealousy and insecurity that motivate the characters to grow in their interactions.
In essence, both series make male characters that feel like dynamic and fleshed-out characters that aren’t defined by more traditional male character stereotypes.
Gakuen Babysitters
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.
While Gakuen Babysitters isn’t a romance anime, if you enjoyed how Cherry Magic displayed the “softer” side of adult men in its relationships, Gakuen Babysitters is also a similarly soft, male-focused anime.
Instead of exploring a boy’s love romance, Gakuen Babysitters puts teen boys in a childcare role. The ample presence of cute children helps keep the series feeling cute and wholesome while also not shying away from a bit of drama.
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