In Most City, a small paranormal magazine is is published out of a coffee house. With a lack of shocking or deep stories, they struggle to sell issues. While young Jirou Tanaka struggles to keep it afloat, his partner Tarou Suzuki is busy looking to marry a career woman so he can retire to a new life as a house husband.
Things start to turn around when they meet the passionate Gorou Satou who is independently investigating the Mo Continent, a mysterious lost civilization. After meeting Gorou, they discover that the Mo Part he holds has the ability to transform Tarou into a Motarian, a race of beast people from the Mo Continent.
With their magazine sales now soaring, they continue to pursue the scattered Mo Parts, but they aren’t the only ones after them…
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen a pretty innovative attempt at anime for a younger audience that wasn’t for very, very small children. While it lacks depth, it has a good amount of fun and more furries than I was expecting. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Delusional Monthly Magazine, head on down below.
Anime Like Delusional Monthly Magazine
For Fans of Youthful Mystery Solvers
Pretty Boy Detective Club
Mayumi Doujima made a promise to her parents that if she couldn’t find a star she once saw long ago, she would give up on her dream of being an astronaut on her 14th birthday. With that day fast approaching, she accidentally enlists the help of eccentric Manabu Soutouin and the rest of Yubiwa Academy’s mysterious Pretty Boy Detective Club.
Agreeing to be helped and in turn help the Pretty Boy Detective Club, Mayumi uses her own special skill, the power of detailed observation, to find small clues and traps that would otherwise go unnoticed. However, while searching for her star, she finds herself entangled in something far beyond what she ever imagined.
Similarities Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Pretty Boys Detective Club
- Both series are about amateur mystery investigation clubs
- Both feature sometimes mundane mysteries, but grow nice and grand – or grand-seeming – in scale
- The people that solve these mysteries are eccentric
Differences Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Pretty Boys Detective Club
- Pretty Boys Detective Club is middle schoolers solving mysteries in a way that makes them seem older while Delusional Monthly Magazine is about older characters investigating phenomenon in a youthful way
- The mysteries are all normal things made to seem grand and serious in Pretty Boys Detective Club while there is actual supernatural at play in Delusional Monthly Magazine
Outburst Dreamer Boys
When Mizuki transferred to a new school, she wanted to live a normal school life and make a few friends. That gets completely derailed when she gets labeled Pink – like the Pink Ranger – by Noda, leader of the Hero Club, a school club that helps those in need.
This energetic boy obsessed with live action Super Sentai shows drags her to meet the members of his club who are all some form of chunibyou.
While she doesn’t get the normalcy she desires, the delusions of grandeur throughout the club certainly make for an exciting school life.
Similarities Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Outburst Dreamer Boys
- Both series feature eccentric characters getting involved in mysteries and other people’s problems
- Both feature a beleaguered character that doesn’t really want to be there surrounded by excited eccentrics
- Both series are fun comedies enjoyable by young and older audiences
Differences Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Outburst Dreamer Boys
- Outburst Dreamer Boys is about a chuunibyou club of middle schoolers, so no one has any actual powers
- While the supernatural exists in Delusional Monthly Magazine, it does not in Outburst Dreamer Boys
Gegege no Kintaro
In the 21st century, people no longer believe in yokai. However, unexplained issues plague people still. To get answers, Mana writes the Yokai Post when a boy named Kintaro appears before her.
Similarities Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Gegege no Kintaro
- Both series involve people investigating supernatural phenomenon
- At least one child is part of the investigation team
- Both series offer episodic storytelling
- Both are aimed at a younger audience
Differences Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Gegege no Kintaro
- Gegege no Kintaro investigates yokai from Japanese mythology while Delusional Monthly Magazine has broader inspirations
- While aimed at children, Gegege no Kintaro is legitimately a little creepy sometimes while Delusional Monthly Magazine keeps things lighter
- There are very few actual adults in Gegege no Kintaro
For Fans of Interesting Anime Aimed At a Younger Audience
Detective Conan
Despite his teenage age, Shinichi Kudou is one of the great detectives of the world. However, one day when he witnesses some illegal going-ons, criminals catch him and dose him with a mysterious drug.
Next thing he knows, he is waking up as a little boy again. Now Shinichi must try to solve his own mystery while stuck as seven-year-old.
Similarities Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Detective Conan
- Both series offer episodic mysteries
- A younger kid leads up the investigation team and is perhaps the most serious one about it
- Both series offer occasionally serious subject matter, but is usually quite light-hearted
- There is a shadowy organization working against the investigation team
Differences Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Detective Conan
- Detective Conan investigates murder mysteries, thus is often much darker
- While it has some sci-fi elements, Detective Conan doesn’t have much in the way of supernatural mysteries like Delusional Monthly Magazine
- Adults are often helping the teenage/child detective in Detective Conan unknowingly while they they investigate as a team in Delusional Monthly Magazine
Digimon
When a group of kids head to summer camp, things don’t turn out exactly as planned. In the middle of July it begins to snow and they receive these strange devices that end up transporting them to the digital world.
Inside, the children each receive a digital monster as a companion, but not all monsters in the digital world are as nice as their new friends.
Similarities Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Digimon
- Both series are episodic adventures with a younger cast
- Both series feature people turning into animals or animals evolving into stronger forms
- There is an overall mystery in the world that both series are unraveling
- As Digimon goes on, it also becomes about collecting various artifacts
Differences Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Digimon
- Digimon is more focused on action, so the fights are often a bit grander than in Delusional Monthly Magazine
- Digimon does go about its plot more seriously and less ridiculously than Delusional Monthly Magazine
- Digimon features children sent to the digital world while Delusional Monthly Magazine takes place in a fictional, but pretty normal city
Yokai Watch
After freeing a mysterious creature named Whisper from its prison, the thankful Yokai decides to become young Keita Amano’s guardian against supernatural forces.
However, Whisper is not the only Yokai in the world. Yokai Watch follows Keita and Whisper as the encounter different Youkai and try to fix all the problems they cause.
Similarities Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Yokai Watch
- Both series are episodic adventures aimed at younger audiences
- Both series feature the main character investigating and dealing with the supernatural
- Both series involve fixing the problems caused by a supernatural being or object
- Both feature heaps of light-hearted comedy, but some good action
Differences Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and Yokai Watch
- Yokai Watch is definitely the “younger feeling” series since it has few adults
- There is no mysterious organization working against them in Yokai Watch like in Delusional Monthly Magazine
For Fans of Episodic Adventures
The Marginal Service
After his history of reckless behavior led to his partners’ death, Brian Nightraider is dismissed from the police force. In his self-pitying slump, he is invited to join the Marginal Service, a secret unit of the United Nations tasked with handing Borderlanders from another world in the human world.
While many Borderlanders live peacefully, a terrorist organization of Borderlanders has started a drug trafficking ring and it is up to the Marginal Service to take them down.
Similarities Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and The Marginal Service
- Both series are about new members being brought onto a dysfunctional, somewhat dispassionate team
- The series is about investigating supernatural phenomenon
- Both series manifest plots about building intrigue coming from a shadowy organization
- Both series enjoy reference humor for comedy
- Neither treats its plot too seriously
Differences Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and The Marginal Service
- Everyone is an adult in The Marginal Service and thus there is more adult humor
- Delusional Monthly Magazine is about investigating the supernatural to write about it while The Marginal Service is in charge of stopping it
- Delusional Monthly Magazine limits itself to people transforming into beastpeople while The Marginal Service runs a wider gamut of powers
High Card
In the Kingdom of Fourland, the royal family possessed a powerful deck of 52 cards. Each card has the ability to grant its wielder a special power, but after an attempted theft, the cards were scattered throughout the kingdom.
In order to get them back without a panic, the Kingdom developed a secret group of players armed with cards called High Card to retrieve these missing items of power.
Secretly ran out of the Pinochle luxury car maker’s sales office, High Card, including its newest member, Finn, are consistently thrust into a frenzy of super powered battles.
Similarities Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and High Card
- Both series are episodic stories about collecting powerful artifacts
- These artifacts give people powers
- Both series follow new members to an organization that collects these artifacts in secret
- Both series feature a mystery as to why these artifacts are spread all over
Differences Between Delusional Monthly Magazine and High Card
- High Card has a bigger focus on flashy action and less of a focus on comedy
- The main characters in High Card are government-sanctioned and work at a car company as a cover unlike Delusional Monthly Magazine that just sort of fell into collecting the MOParts
- Delusional Monthly Magazine is limited to the MOParts just transforming people into beastpeople while High Card has the cards give people a wide range of abilities
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