Masaki was once a member of the famous NewTube group, the Harikiri Sisters, which she helped found back in high school. However, after losing her temper and punching one of the members during a livestream, she faced backlash online that ultimately led to the group kicking her out.
At her lowest point, she meets Live, a vampire who finds Masaki’s blood to smell absolutely delectable. Masaki offers to give up every last drop of her blood to Live if she agrees to form a NewTube team and they reach one million followers.
I always knew YouTubers were vampires. Just not, you know, these kinds of vampires. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Mayonaka Punch, head on down below.
Anime Like Mayonaka Punch
For Fans of Modern Vampires
Call of the Night
After rejecting a confession from a girl at school because he doesn’t understand love, Kou stops going to school and starts wandering the night with insomnia.
One night, he encounters a mysterious girl who believes people that stay awake at night are dissatisfied with the way they spent their days.
Following her into the night, she brings him back to her place and suddenly starts to suck his blood. Discovering her true nature, Kou now seeks to be a vampire, but to become one, you need to make a vampire fall in love with you.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Call of the Night
- Vampires hang out in Tokyo at night
- Adrift human main character has a clandestine meeting with a vampire who has various feelings for them.
- Both Call of the Night and Mayonaka Punch depict vampires who have adapted with the times and are now modern and fashionable.
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Call of the Night
- Call of the Night is a romance with some occasional comedy.
- Call of the Night has moments where it depicts a vampire’s need for blood as sinister. Mayonaka Punch keeps their desire for blood pretty comedic.
- Mayonaka Punch has moments of drama while Call of the Night has moments of melancholy.
Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood
In Akari’s neighborhood, there are rumors of an ageless girl that only comes out at night and lives in a mansion in the forest.
While seeking out this girl, Akari grows lost in the woods and is saved by the girl of rumor.
It turns out the girl is a vampire named Sophie. She orders to blood online and avoids attacking humans.
Akari, a connoisseur of dolls, is instantly charmed by her doll-like appearance and moves in.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood
- Vampire shut-ins
- A human has a clandestine meeting with a vampire, then moves into their home.
- Yuri bait early and often.
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood
- Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood is a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things series and is about nothing else. Mayonaka Punch has plot going on.
- It is the human who is obsessively interested in the vampire in Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood. She is Live-levels of into her, though. So they share that same energy.
Vlad Love
Mitsugu is a high school girl who finds meaning in her life donating her rare, but mostly worthless blood.
One day while visiting a blood bank she encounters a beautiful foreign girl. While this girl looks like she is about to faint, she ends up destroying the blood bank, causing Mitsugu to lose consciousness.
The next thing she knows, she is in the home of a vampire.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Vlad Love
- Vampires living in the modern day
- A human and a vampire live together because of the human’s unique blood
- Both Vlad Love and Mayonaka Punch embrace absurd, chaotic comedy
- Quirky characters for comedy
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Vlad Love
- Vlad Love doesn’t have much plot, just absurd comedy. Mayonaka Punch at least frames the randomness as content creation and trend chasing.
- The human main character in Vlad Love is more into the vampire while Mayonaka Punch has a reverse relationship.
- Mayonaka Punch has moments of seriousness, Vlad Love does not.
The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess
While she has long been a shut-in, vampire Terakomari Gandesblood is dismayed to learn that her father bragged about her to the vampire queen, and she has somehow now been appointed as a commander in the Mulnite Imperial Army.
While Komari isn’t actually that powerful due to finding blood repulsive, she needs to project strength or risk being killed by her subordinates in a power-grab. Her weakness and mediocrity is often hidden through bravado and the help of her trusty maid, Villhaze, but can she bluff her way to success?
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and The Vexations of a Shunt-In Vampire Princess
- Vampires are forced to do a thing that they don’t, at first, want to do.
- Yuri bait relationships
- Vampires have personal drama too, and they start to work through it
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and The Vexations of a Shunt-In Vampire Princess
- The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess has an action-focused plot.
- The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess takes place in a fantasy world where vampires aren’t particularly special or uncommon.
- The yuri bait is much stronger in The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess.
For Fans of The Content Creation Hustle
Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night
Mahiru Kouzuki had a gift for art from a young age, but after her classmates ridiculed a jellyfish mural she worked so hard on, she gave it up. In front of that aging mural years later, she meets an unexpected fan of it, Kano Yamanouchi, a former idol who has a troubled past in the industry.
Kano enlists Mahiru’s help creating a mascot for her new music project, JELEE, a V-Tube idol. Recruiting a reclusive V-Tuber and a gifted musician, the four girls set out to make JELEE a global sensation while working through their own troubles.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night
- Both series follow girls who start a YtouTube channel for fun and profit
- The plot is their hustle to grow their brand and all the problems that come with it.
- Occasional moments of personal character drama
- Light, but notable yuri bait
- Likable group of women who interact comically and cutely with each other
- Both series capture a very modern atmosphere.
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night
- Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night has no supernatural. It is very modern and grounded drama.
- Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night is about making a Vtuber musician avatar. So they don’t need to create such diverse content like they do on Mayonaka Punch.
- The personal drama is far more intense in Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night. It also doesn’t fall back on comedy as much as Mayonaka Punch does.
Viral Hit
Bullied by classmate and popular NewTube streamer Pakgo, Yoo Hobin’s high school life is an endless string of humiliation. Furthermore, he has to spend his time outside of school working jobs just to pay his mother’s hospital bills.
One night, while being bullied by Pakgo’s cameraman Jiksae in his own home, Hobin finally has enough and fights him. However, while they thought the livestream was over, it actually caught their embarrassing fight live and the video goes viral overnight. Earning a huge sum from the viral video, the pair decide to start a channel together.
The NewTube channel Viral Hit is born where Hobin fights a number of bullies, including Pakgo and other marital artists. However, what the viewers don’t see is Hobin learning how to fight from a mysterious man in a Chicken mask whose instructional NewTube videos have minimal views, but deep knowledge.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Viral Hit
- Both series are about characters who start a YouTube channel for profit.
- The plot is their journey to grow their channel and chase those clicks.
- This antisocially means the characters have to put themselves in situations that can and do cause bodily harm.
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Viral Hit
- Viral Hit is about fighting bullies for YouTube money. So it has more action and the main characters get beaten up far more. Mayonaka Punch just occasionally chases dangerous trends.
- Viral Hit presents most people as vain or otherwise awful. Mayonaka Punch creates easier to like characters who are not all scumbags.
VTuber Legend – How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream
After making a successful debut and leaving her office job behind, Yuki Tanaka is a Vtuber at Live-On, one of the largest Vtuber companies in Japan. While her avatar, Awayuki Kokorone, is polite and serene, she only has a middling level of viewers.
However, one day, after her stream, Yuki forgets to end her livestream and her viewers get a peek at her real personality. Irreverent, lewd, and passionate for Strong Zero alcohol – the illusion of a being a proper maiden is swiftly broken as she drunkenly browses the internet with a hot mic.
However, her horror is swept away the next morning as she discovers that her viewer count multiplied and people have really taken to her new persona – which just so happens to be her real personality.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Vtuber Legend
- Both series are about people who make their money through Youtube/streaming
- Making content and doing so comically is the entire plot
- Likable characters chase trends for their videos and craft their channel brand
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Vtuber Legend
- Vtuber Legend is about a Vtuber.
- Vtuber Legend has no supernatural to it. It is just Vtuber collabs and comedy content.
- Vtuber Legend doesn’t have much drama to it.
For Fans of Chaotic Comedy and Yuri Bait
Bocchi the Rock
Having social anxiety but still wishing to make friends, Hitori Gotou started learning the guitar to help lure people into talking to her. Years later, she has amassed great guitar skills, but is in high school with still no friends.
One day, she happens to meet an outgoing girl who just so happens to need a guitarist for her band. Gaining the nickname Bocchi, Hitori is recruited in and puts her heart into improving her stage skills to make the band a success.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Bocchi the Rock
- A group of girls come together for their own desires to do a thing
- You follow the hustle as the characters try to grow their channel/band
- Light yuri baiting to the relationships
- Outside of the main plot, personal character stories are explored.
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Bocchi the Rock
- Bocchi’s social anxiety is the main joke in Bocchi the Rock, which it returns to often.
- Bocchi the Rock is a music anime, so they occasionally play music.
- The is no supernatural in Bocchi the Rock.
- As the characters are high schoolers, some of the professional hurdles in Bocchi the Rock is their sheer young age. Mayonaka Punch follows mostly adults.
Girls Band Cry
After growing up in a small rural town with strict parents, Nina Iseri leaves it all behind to start over in the city. With her time in the city off to a rough start, she ends up going to a street concert for Momoka Kawaragi, a small musician whose song inspired Nina to move to the city in the first place.
Getting to know Momoko, and discovering that both of them are at odds with the disappointing, dream-crushing nature of the world, she talks Nina into forming a band with her as a way to vent their frustrations.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Girls Band Cry
- Modern-feeling young adult characters
- A group of girls who get along mostly, but also cause chaos when together and have minor disagreements
- Slight yuri bait
- The girls are brought together to do a thing (make youtube content, be in a band) but personal character stories are often focused outside of that.
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Girls Band Cry
- Girls Band Cry is a music anime, so get ready for moments where they perform.
- There is no supernatural in Girls Band Cry
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
Miss Kobayashi is a programmer that lives alone in her apartment. However, one day a giant green dragon ends up on her doorstep and transforms into a women in a maid outfit.
Apparently, Kobayashi had gotten drunk one night and ended up saving this dragon. Now, dragon Tooru intends to repay her debt through housework.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- Adult woman is besieged by supernatural one day
- A group of supernatural beings that are friends start hanging out with humans
- The supernatural beings need to butt heads with a stronger being to keep remaining friends with their humans.
- Chaotic comedy is much of the plot
- Yuri bait relationship
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- Mayonaka Punch does have a plot, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid is usually just cute slice of life/family life stories.
- The dragons in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid all live with separate humans, not all together like the vampires in Mayonaka Punch.
- The yuri bait is so strong in Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid that they mind as well just finally acknowledge it as a romance because everyone else does.
Stardust Telepath
For Konohoshi Umika, her social anxiety makes her feel like an alien trapped on Earth. Due to feeling so much like an outcast, she dreams of building a rocket to take her into space so she can meet aliens who might finally understand her.
One day, she meets the energetic and friendly Akeuchi Yuu, a girl who also claims to be an alien that crashed on Earth and can’t get home. In fact, she can’t even remember which planet she even calls home or how she got to Earth.
Bonding with Akeuchi, the pair decide to start building rockets so that she can go back home.
Similarities Between Mayonaka Punch and Stardust Telepath
- Struggling human has a clandestine meeting with a supernatural/extraterrestrial entity
- Yuri bait relationships
- The main girls gathers other girls to do a thing (build a rocket, make Youtube content)
- The girls create cute chaos when together, but actually are making progress on what they are working on.
Differences Between Mayonaka Punch and Stardust Telepath
- Stardust Telepath leans more into the moe cuteness of the characters while Mayonaka Punch embraces more chaotic comedy.
- Stardust Telepath is about “maybe aliens,” as in, it keeps it vague as to whether the girl is an alien or just eccentric.
- Stardust Telepath follows students, which is a different dynamic than adult vampires and adult human problems.
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