Aimi Miyoshi and Nami Sometani are classmates and friends who have developed a crush on their classmate, Ken Kirio. They hang out and talk about the boy from afar, maintaining the status quo and seething with jealousy over those who can approach him more closely.
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Anime Like Kirio Fanclub
For Fans of Girls Be Comedic Gremlins
See You Tomorrow at the Food Court
Yamamoto intimidates people with her gyaru looks and Wada looks like the unapproachable studious type.
Though they attend different high schools, both girls are good friends and meet up with each other after school at the food court of the local shopping center everyday.
Similarities Between Kirio Fanclub and See You Tomorrow at the Food Court
- Two girls are best friends
- They have random, sometimes bizarre conversations with each other
- Array of re-occurring silly side characters
- Profoundly silly, but with the occasional sprinkle of seriousness
Differences Between Kirio Fanclub and See You Tomorrow at the Food Court
- See You Tomorrow at the Food Court is just two girls meeting at the food court each day after school to hang out because they are long-time friends and were put in different classes.
- See You Tomorrow at the Food Court doesn’t have them crushing on anyone that isn’t a video game character.
O Maidens in Your Savage Season
The girls of the literature club have recently been reading sexually charged pieces of literature. This combined with a newfound interest in adult relationships sends each member spiraling off into the world of sex and intimate relations.
Similarities Between Kirio Fanclub and O Maidens in Your Savage Season
- A group of girls have various crushes
- Watch as girls pursue their crushes in occasionally weird, funny, and unhinged ways
- Impassioned unhinged rants
- Girls can be just as comically horned up for their crushes as boys
Differences Between Kirio Fanclub and O Maidens in Your Savage Season
- While O Maidens has its silly moments, it is mostly a serious drama about sexuality and coming-of-age. It has more drama moments to it.
- O Maidens is working with a whole literature club worth of girls. They also aren’t all as close of friends as Aimi and Nami are.
- O Maidens focuses on each girl and their crush, though some feelings do overlap, but O Maidens focuses more on each girl and her story with her crush.
Asobi Asobase
One day, Olivia – blonde-haired, foreign-looking transfer student – lies to air-headed Hanako about her English skills. Despite her looks, she has actually lived in Japan almost all her life and can’t speak English very well, but succeeded in tricking Hanako.
This bit of mischief sparked a series of small games in the classroom between them, annoying the nearby deadpan Kasumi who hates games after being teased mercilessly by her older sister for always losing.
However, the mischief eventually draws all three of them into the Pastime Club, a club Hanako created just to goof off.
Similarities Between Kirio Fanclub and Asobi Asobase
- A compact friend group of girls are weird little gremlins
- Unhinged conversations and situations for comedy
Differences Between Kirio Fanclub and Asobi Asobase
- Asobi Asobase is fully a comedy anime about three weird girls who are contentious friends messing around all day. No romance, no hint of an actual plot, no drama.
- Asobi Assobase goes way further with its weird comedy, expanding weird conversations into weird situations.
Wasteful Days of High School Girls
On her way to her entrance ceremony at her all-girls school, Akane Kikuchi mulls over how little progress she has made on her dream to become a manga artist as well as gain a boyfriend.
Realizing the more attainable goal of getting a boyfriend at an all-girls school will be difficult, she ends up asking her classmates to introduce her to boys. Unfortunately for her, her classmates, like her best friends, are rather strange.
Similarities Between Kirio Fanclub and Wasteful Days of High School Girls
- Girls being friends and having unhinged conversations.
- Girls trying to land themselves a boyfriend, and failing
- Unhinged slice of life comedy
Differences Between Kirio Fanclub and Wasteful Days of High School Girls
- Wasteful Days of High School Girls works with a far larger cast of weirdos.
- They can’t get a boyfriend in Wasteful Days of High School Girls because they neither know any boys nor know how to talk to them.
- Wasteful Days of High School Girls is fully a comedy, so no drama and only talks of romance.
And Yet The Town Moves
Hastily jumping on the new trend, Seaside Cafe transformed itself into a maid cafe, but offers no classic maid cafe staples and only really gets customers from the nearby shopping district.
Despite the fumbling, this is where Hotori Arashiyama works after school where she, too, stumbles through life.
Similarities Between Kirio Fanclub and And Yet The Town Moves
- Unhinged girl has weird conversations with others
- Crushes and unrequited love
- Slice of life comedy with ample randomness
Differences Between Kirio Fanclub and And Yet The Town Moves
- And Yet The Town Moves is a surreal comedy, so there is occasional bizarre events within.
- And Yet The Town Moves follows the staff at a terrible seaside maid cafe. So it is not a school life comedy.
- While And Yet The Town Moves has romance elements, it is still mostly an absurd comedy anime.
For Fans of Crushing From Afar
Go For It, Nakamura
Okuto Nakamura is a timid student who, after spotting him from a distance at his entrance ceremony, fell in love with his jovial classmate Aiki Hirose.
Unfortunately, due to Nakamura’s awkward social skills, his many attempts to befriend his crush have failed spectacularly. Yet, while friendship sometimes seems like a distant dream, Nakamura’s determined attempts make slow progress.
Similarities Between Kirio Fanclub and Go For It, Nakamura-kun
- A person has a crush on someone who may not be able to return their feelings
- You watch the main character try to approach their crush and, for the most part, comically fail at it.
- Ample fun side characters
- Comedy anime, but not without some serious emotional drama
Differences Between Kirio Fanclub and Go For It, Nakamura-kun
- Go For It Nakamura is the opposite situation. A boy has a crush on a boy, and his crush seems to be straight.
- Go For It Nakamura is more dedicated to romance, and it does lean in harder to the “maybe there is actually a chance this romance could work” vibes.
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 Kirio Fanclub and Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
- A girl is trying to attract the attention of her crush
- Her crush is oblivious to her efforts, but they slowly become closer friends anyway
- Array of interesting side characters
- Ample comedy with a dash of serious drama
Differences Between Kirio Fanclub and Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
- Monthly Girls Nozaki is about confessing to her crush and him mistaking her for a fan of his secret shoujo manga work, then recruiting her as a manga assistant. So he is dense, but not disinterested.
- Monthly Girls Nozaki, while still heavy on the comedy, is formatted more like your standard shoujo romance. Romantic progression is just very slow.
- Monthly Girls Nozaki is less weird with its comedy, sadly. It is just normal school slice of life comedy shenanigans.
Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days
Kiyoko Yoshida is the class representative and her overanxious nature makes her worry about one student in particular in class—Tsuyoshi Yano. Yano sits next to her in class and has the unnatural ability to get hurt. He always arrives in class injured and gets hurt in small, clumsy incidents throughout the day.
Ever diligent, Yoshida takes it upon herself to try to mitigate Yano’s injuries, but her interest soon becomes more than just the diligence of a class representative.
Similarities Between Kirio Fanclub and Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days
- A girl develops a crush on a boy
- Girl slowly creeps into his orbit, and he is slow to notice her feelings
- High strung spaz girl, quiet, reserved boy
- Silly comedy with spare moment of seriousness
- Side character to play off of with romantic feelings of their own.
Differences Between Kirio Fanclub and Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days
- Yano-kun’s Ordinary Days is a traditional romance with progression.
- The male part of this romance is like a magnet for clumsy injuries, which serves as the lion’s share of the comedy.
- The female main character is not quite the same kind of degenerate that Aimi is. She is just very high strung.
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