College student Tokiwa was invited to a mixer by his female classmate, Suo. Easily convincing his two best friends, Asagi and Hagi, they show up to the mixer where they are greeted by three dazzlingly handsome men.
As it turns out, Suo and her friends, Fuji and Kohaku, all work at the same bar, a cross-dressing bar where women dress up as handsome men.
Three distinct couples, one unique hook, too much uniquely cute fluffy moments! If you are looking for more anime recommendations like How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer, head on down below.
Anime Like How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer
For Fans of Cross-dressing Romance
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 How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Ouran High School Host Club
- At least one woman who is perfectly at fine dressing like a man
- She starts a romance with a man who enjoys when she dresses like a woman, but also doesn’t mind when she dresses like a man either.
- Mostly cute slice of life moments and romance as the characters live their lives
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Ouran High School Host Club
- Ouran High School Host Club only has one romantic couple and some reverse harem elements
- Ouran High School Host Club is comedy and slice of life alongside the romance, but does have some more serious moments of drama as it goes on.
- Ouran High School Host Club is set in high school. It does not follow adults like How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer
Vampire Dormitory
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.
Similarities Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Vampire Dormitory
- At least one girl is dressing like a boy for reasons and works in a cafe/bar
- The cross-dressing girl starts a romance with a man
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Vampire Dormitory
- Vampire Dormitory is a supernatural vampire romance with a fair bit of drama
- The male love interest in Vampire Dormitory doesn’t know the heroine is a girl, he just thinks he is having gay thoughts.
- Vampire Dormitory is about high school students
- How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer is pretty down-to-earth, reasonably mature slice of life and romance. Vampire Dormitory is prone to more melodrama and well-worn shoujo romance tropes.
For Fans of Dashing, Suave Women
Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie
Izumi is a normal guy, albeit with a predilection for attracting misfortune.
However, the one piece of shining fortune in his life is his girlfriend, Shikimori. She is beautiful, popular, and absolutely in love with him.
Everyone around them is often surprised by how cool and dashing Shikimori is rather than cute and girly.
Similarities Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie
- Cute girls that act knightly/princely/cool
- Boys that accept and adore those girls rather than feel emasculated.
- Both How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie aren’t afraid to let their men act sensitive and vulnerable.
- Fluffy and cute slice of life and romance moments without much actual plot
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie
- Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie follows a couple in high school, so they are not adults like in How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer.
- As they are already dating when the series starts, Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie doesn’t have as much romantic yearning.
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
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.
Similarities Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
- Romantic comedies with a similar balance of slice of life and romance
- Multiple romantic couples set up
- Many characters that challenge gender norms in how they act or dress
- Has at least one manga artist.
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
- Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun has a main couple and side couples whereas How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer gives equal focus to all three couples.
- Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun is more focused on creating manga, since that is what the main love interest does and what the heroine ends up helping him do.
- Romance moves sluggishly in Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun. It is often more focused on comedy and slice of life.
- Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun follows high school students
- It is the side couples in Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun who often eschew gender norms. The main couple is rather normal, but also a bit like a gender-reversed Fuji/Asagi in a number of ways.
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.
Similarities Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Wotakoi
- Romantic comedies about adults with a specific theme (cross-dressing, otaku)
- Multiple couples, but also gives balanced focus to each couple as well.
- Characters that challenge gender norms with their attitudes, how they dress, or what they like
- Female manga artist who draws BL, and her love interest who occasionally helps.
- Cute romance with strongly slice of life plots
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Wotakoi
- The multi-couple focus in Wotakoi is skewed as the secondary and tertiary couple are introduced over time. How I Attended An All-Guys’ Mixer gives you all the couples all at once.
- How I Attended An All-Guys’ Mixer is very mired in the “do they like me” phase while Wotakoi features some couples (not all) that are more secure in their relationship and with their feelings.
For Fans of Following The Everyday Lives of Multiple Men
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.
Similarities Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Play It Cool, Guys
- Series that follow the various lives of young adult modern men
- Not afraid to show men acting sensitive, vulnerable, or awkward
- Very slice of life plots about the characters just living life
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Play It Cool, Guys
- Play It Cool, Guys doesn’t have much romance, it really is just slice of life. However, the male characters are presented similarly.
- Play It Cool, Guys builds its whole plot around guys navigating awkward daily situations in varying degrees of smoothness.
- The various men in Play It Cool, Guys don’t always know each other, unlike the three male character in How I Attended an All-Guys Mixer where they started as friends.
Rainbow Days
When Natsuki’s girlfriend spontaneously dumps him on Christmas Eve, he breaks down into tears in the middle of the street.
However, when a girl in a Santa suit offers him tissues, he instantly falls for her. As he tries to pursue this girl, his friends also try to help, but their meddling makes their relationship much more difficult.
Similarities Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Rainbow Days
- Multi-couple romance anime following the love lives of a male friend group
- Gives each couple a balanced amount of focus in its slice of life romance plot
- Not afraid to show men being sensitive and vulnerable
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Rainbow Days
- Rainbow Days is set in high school, and follows four boys instead of three.
- How I Attended an All-Guys’ Mixer often feels more slice of life than romance, Rainbow Days is the reverse.
- The boys in Rainbow Days are often more traditionally masculine. They aren’t quite as sensitive all the time as the trio in How I Attended an All-Guys’ Mixer
Convenience Store Boyfriends
Since childhood, Haruki Mishima has been pining for Miharu Mashiki, but his busy high school life has limited the amount of time they spend together. After a clandestine meeting at the convenience store, his old feelings begin to rekindle.
For Towa Honda, his playful attitude and good looks gets him a lot of attention. However, none of that is coming from Mami Mihashi, the seemingly uptight class representative that caught his eye. As she resists his affections, he persists.
Similarities Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Convenience Store Boyfriends
- Multiple characters that are all friends, and who are all exploring new romance with someone.
- Multi-couple romance told through slice of life events
- Diverse perosnalitied cast so no couple feels like the same dynamic
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Convenience Store Boyfriends
- Convenience Store Boyfriends is not set fully at, but distinctly revolves around these couples meeting and bonding in or near the convenience store.
- Convenience Store Boyfriends follows high schoolers
You and Me
To four high school boys, school life is nothing but repetitive classes, arguments, and orientations that are constantly preparing them for careers too distant in the future. However, after realizing the right group of friends can help brighten things up, they seek to bring excitement to their dull school days.
Similarities Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and You and Me
- Both series follow a male friend group
- Both series offer more sensitive and vulnerable modern men rather than the well-worn male stereotypes you usually see in anime.
- Cute, funny slice of life plots
Differences Between How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and You and Me
- You and Me has some small bits of romance, but it definitely is not the focus of the series
- You and Me takes place in high school
- While slice of life and fairly comedic, You and Me is often poignant and wistful about youth and how precious those friendships are.
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