Anime Like Hana Kimi

After seeing Izumi Sano high jump while visiting her grandmother in Japan, Mizuki Ashiya falls in love at first sight. She becomes so enamored with him that she even uproots her whole life, moving from America to Japan so she can attend the same high school as him.

There is just one problem with the plan—Sano attends an all-boy’s school. Disguising herself as a boy, Mizuki’s bright personality allows her to quickly make friends, but she is shocked to find out that she is not just Sano’s classmate, but also his roommate.

Homeless and unable to keep a job because women clog up the businesses to gawk at his beauty, Mito Yamamoto is on the brink of despair. With luck dwindling further, Mito visits a strange cafe where a waiter named Ruka Saotome licks the blood from Mito’s wound and retches with disgust.

Hoping to just end this misery, Mito contemplates jumping off a bridge, but when they slip and fall, Ruka swoops in to save the day. Ruka reveals himself to be a vampire, and because he refuses to drink the blood of women for various reasons, he proposes that Mito become his thrall. He insists that the more loved a person is, the better their blood tastes, so he hopes to improve the flavor of Mito’s blood with affection.

While Mito is given a place to live, a job, and even gets to attend an all-boys school with Ruka, the main problem is that Mito is actually a girl.

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.

After growing up in an orphanage, Hinako is about to enter high school. On her way there, she is approached by a boy that claims to be her twin brother, Hikaru.

It turns out that Hinako and Hikaru are the children of a yakuza family who sent Hinako and her mother away for their safety only for tragedy to leave her in an orphanage.

Now her brother pleads with Hinako to switch places with him and attend the Shishiku Academy, a prestigious all-boys school overrun with delinquents, in his stead.

The idol group F/ACE has skyrocketed in popularity due to its’ front man, the handsome, talented Tamon Fukuhara. For Utage Kinoshita, she worships Tamon above all others and even works at a housecleaning company to earn more money to support him.

When a co-worker gets sick, Utage is sent to a new client who turns out to be Tamon himself. However, instead of the vibrant confident man she sees on stage, she finds Tamon is actually a gloomy guy with minimal self-confidence off the stage.

Chiyo Sakura has fallen head over heels for the handsome and oblivious Umetarou Nozaki. However, when she confesses her love, he gives her an autograph.

It turns out this stoic boy is actually a respected shoujo manga artist. After a series of misunderstandings, Chiyo winds up not as his girlfriend, but as his manga assistant.

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.

Yukino Miyazawa is the perfect student to her peers, but it is all just a front to get the praise and admiration she thrives on.

So naturally when Soichiro Arima takes her spot as number one in the class rankings, she goes a little batty.

Yet after Arima finds out her true personality, he begins to blackmail her with it.

Coming from a poor family, Makino Tsukushi is wildly out of place at the glamorous Eitoku Academy.

She wishes to finish her education quietly, but crossed the F4, the four most powerful and popular boys in school.

However, while they have declared war on her, she will not be beaten and it is this spirit that caught their leader’s eye.

Kotoko Aihara finally worked up the nerve to confess to her crush, Naoki Irie, only to be coldly shot down. Her bad luck continues when her newly built house is crumbling to the ground in an earthquake.

While her father gets an offer from a his old friend to come live with them while it is being rebuilt, her bad luck continues when that family turns out to be the home of Naoki Irie who just crushed her long-hidden love for him into the dirt.

When Miki Koishikawa’s parents come back from vacation in Hawaii, they gleefully announce to her that they are getting a divorce!

Her parents met another married couple on vacation and they decided to divorce each other so they can marry them instead. Now, Miki not only has new step-parents, but also a new step-brother, the handsome and popular Yuu Matsuura.

As the new blended family moves in together, Miki struggles with her new blooming feelings for Yuu.