Anime Like Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku?

Takuya Seo is an otaku who sits behind two popular girls, Ijichi and Amane. Seo expects that he wouldn’t have much in common with them, but one day, after a borrowed eraser strikes up a conversation, Seo finds himself talking about his favorite anime only to be corrected by Amane just a little too quickly and accurately.

While Amane denies being a fan, the door has been opened and Amane and Ijichi both find themselves becoming good friends with Seo.

Upon moving with his family from Tokyo to Kitami City in Hokkaido, Tsubasa Shiki is captivated by the rural serenity of the Hokkaido winter. He was so captivated that he ended up getting out of his taxi way earlier than he needed to, leaving him to trek an unfamiliar city in the middle of winter.

Stopping to ask directions from someone waiting at a bus stop, he has his first encounter with Minami Fuyuki, a fashionable gyaru who has an elevated interest in this new boy from Tokyo.

After learning that Fuyuki is also in his class, the pair grow closer as he learns that girls in Hokkaido are all super adorable.

After fumbling his self-introduction, Maehara Maki settles into what will probably be a lonely, uneventful high school life. Yet, as the class social circles start to take shape, a popular girl named Asanagi Umi enters his life. Dubbed the “second cutest girl in class” thanks to her radiate best friend Amami, Asanagi ends up befriending Maki, even going so far as to spend every Friday at his house playing games, snacking, and watching movies.

While they cherish this private time together as they become closer and closer friends, there are others who begin to notice Asanagi’s interest in Maki.

Living with his grandfather who makes beautiful Hina Dolls, Wakana Gojo has loved them since he was a child. He aspires to one day make Hina Dolls as good as his grandfather, but his dedication has made him a bit of a loner in school after a girl in his childhood said that boys shouldn’t like dolls.

After a run in with the beautiful and popular Marin Kitagawa, he discovers that she wants to cosplay a character from an eroge game.

However, her sewing skills leave something to be desired, and after seeing her passion, Gojo agrees to help her make her costume.

Ryuuto Kashima is a normal high school boy, ignored by most girls and with only a handful of close friends. One day, as a punishment from his friends, he is forced to ask out Runa Shirakawa, a gyaru and the most popular girl in his class.

Much to his surprise, when he asks Runa out, she agrees. The date progresses to her bringing him back to her room where he learns that she might be more experienced in the bedroom due to her previous boyfriends sleeping with her and then leaving her, but she is just as inexperienced with love as him.

Turning down a chance to sleep with her, Ryuuto and Runa decide to take it slow where they both slowly learn what it really means to fall in love.

Miyu Suzuki is a bubbly, fashionable high school girl who sits next to the quiet and frank Yuusuke Tani. While their interactions are brief and they couldn’t seem like more different people, Miyu has a secret—she has a huge crush on Tani!

Concerned about what people would think, Miyu keeps her crush a secret until a slight misunderstanding forces her hand. Miyu blurts out that she likes him, runs off, and confesses her feelings. To her delight, he feels the same, and so, with frenetic excitement, the relationship between these two opposites formed.

Teruaki Nakamura has recently moved to Okinawa. On his first day of school, he runs into the energetic Kyan. However, he quickly realizes that she can only speak the Okinawan dialect, and he can’t understand a word of what she is saying.

Thankfully, Higa steps into to translate what Kyan is saying, helping Teruaki grow closer to her. However, what he doesn’t know is that Higa has her eyes on winning his heart.

Jirou Yakuin, third-year high school student and otaku, has had a crush on his childhood friend, Shiori. He hopes to be paired with her for their school’s upcoming marriage practical – an exam where two people are paired to live together in order to practice married life as they are observed and scored.

For popular Akari Watanabe, she hopes to be paired with the handsome Minami. Much to each other’s dismay, Jirou and Akari and paired together while Minami and Shiori are paired together.

Luckily, if both couples rank in the top, they can change partners, thus do Akari and Jirou venture to pretend to have a perfect married life.

Although he has reached the spring of his youth, Junichi is finding it harder than expected to get a girlfriend, but that is due in no small part to his friends brazen habit of reading dirty magazines in class.

In order to “help” him, his virgin friends submitted a love letter in his name to the resident gyaru of his class, Yame Yukana. However, while she may dress like a gal, this tough-looking girl is actually as pure as the snow.

After a disastrous love confession, Masamune Okumura retreated into the loving arms of his 2D waifu Liliel. Now in his second year of high school and the sole remaining member of the Manga Research Club, he devotes his days to Liliel fandom despite her rapidly fading character popularity.

One normal day, Masamune’s solitary club life is turned upside down when a first year student named Ririsa Amano decides she wants to join the manga club. Hoping that his sexy Liliel figures and doujinshi will scare her off, he discovers that she is not just a passionate Liliel fan herself – but a Liliel cosplayer.

Masamune is eventually recruited to take photos of Ririsa’s Liliel cosplay and finds himself drawn deep into the world of cosplay and 3D love.

Tsusui Hikari is an otaku that mostly avoids social life. He only really has one friend at school and is otherwise mocked by his classmates.

One day, he ends up having to clean the pool with Igarashi Iroha. She is blunt, truant, and a troublemaker, but she stands up for Hikari when people make fun of him.

While he is harsh with her, she never dismisses him. Could real 3D love be in the air?