After his family died in a car crash when he was young, Taiyo Asano became increasingly socially inept. Now in high school, the only person he is able to really connect with is his childhood friend, Mutsumi Yozakura. However, one day he discovers that Mutsumi is actually the future head of a family of the world’s strongest spies, despite having no special spy abilities herself.
With her eldest brother ultra-protective of his little sister ever since she got injured as a child, he has marked Taiyo for execution. The only way to survive his lethal spy skills is for Mutsumi to marry Taiyo, thus making him part of the family.
While Taiyo resists at first, he eventually agrees to marry Mutsumi as well as to train to become a world-class spy himself to ensure her protection.
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Anime Like Mission: Yozakura Family
For Fans of Spies
Spy X Family
There is no order too big for master spy Twilight.
He uses his numerous skills as a spy to keep the peace between his country and aggressive neighbors, but his recent mission demands he investigate a reclusive politician that only attends school events for his child.
Dictating that he must now have a child and wife of his own to pull off the mission, Twilight manages to recruit a small orphan girl and an office lady to play the roles.
However, what he doesn’t know is that his new daughter is an esper capable of reading minds and his new wife is actually an assassin using him as a cover to maintain a guise of normalcy.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Spy X Family
- Both series are about spies
- Both series are about families
- There a number of secrets in the family and outside of it waiting to be unraveled.
- Mostly light-hearted and comedic, but with occasional bouts of energetic action
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Spy X Family
- The characters in Spy X Family have darker back stories, but they often stay in the past. Mission Yozakura Family has the darkness of its characters play a larger part in the story.
- Spy X Family has more pleasant family life moments while Mission Yozakura Family is more action-focused more frequently in its arcs.
Love of Kill
Although a novice bounty hunter, Chateau Dankworth is confident in her skills. However, one day she is overpowered by a man who wasn’t even her target, and worse yet, he takes an immediate romantic interest in her.
She soon learns that the man who continues to pester her is Song Ryang-ha – a former assassin and wanted by the Asian underworld organization he turned against. This leads them to constant run-ins with members from both of their pasts.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Love of Kill
- Both series follow spies or assassins
- Both are action tales, but also have a larger focus on romance than your usual spy thriller
- Dark plots are unraveling outside of the romance
- The characters have pasts that intertwine as a mystery that they are slowly revealing
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Love of Kill
- Love of Kill is a lot more sinister and it is pleasant and/or comedic like Mission Yozakura Family much less often.
- Love of Kill is an actual action romance anime, unlike Mission Yozakura Family that is mostly about becoming part of the family and learning how to do spy things.
Spy Classroom
After a brutal war, nations turned instead to a more elusive, less public form of warfare – one waged through espionage.
Lily is one girl of many who attended one of the various spy schools throughout her nation. However, despite a small handful of talents, she is considered a washout due to failures on her practical exams.
One day, she is given the opportunity to join a special team of spies, put together by a master spy and consisting of other washouts from other spy schools. While not the team they imagined, they do their best in their hopeless situation.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Spy Classroom
- Both series are about spies
- You get to see spy missions, but also nicer slice of life moments and character drama
- Eccentric and/or creatively designed character abilities
- The master spies of the family are difficult to work with
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Spy Classroom
- You could say Mission Yozakura Family is a shounen action anime, and Spy Classroom, by comparison, would be more of a traditional spy-themed thriller.
- Spy Classroom, because it has a lot more characters, has a lot more character drama since each girl gets her arc.
- Spy Classroom has a lot more “waifus/cute anime girls” than Mission Yozakura Family that doesn’t stick to that same moe aesthetic.
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For Fans of Eccentric Professionals
Assassination Classroom
After the moon is mysteriously turned into a permanent crescent by an unknown calamity, the students of class 3-E at Kunogigaoka Middle School are presented with a daunting task – Assassinate the creature that blew up half the moon before the year’s end or die when the world is destroyed.
The creature in question, dubbed Koro-sensei by his class, is super fast, super strong, and by all respects, indestructible. However, while the students try and learn how to destroy him, they also learn that he is the best teacher that they have ever had.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Assassination Classroom
- Both series follow “the very best spies/assassins” who are also wildly eccentric as characters
- The actual main characters are boys with personal trauma that are learning the trade.
- Both series follow very shounen sensibilities when it comes to energetic action and comedy, but can also have very dark moments and a decent bit of character drama.
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Assassination Classroom
- Assassination Classroom actually gives most characters in the class their own character arc. This means it tells a lot more character stories than the more compact Mission Yozakura Family.
- Assassination Classroom is about the world’s best assassin telling a class of rejects to succeed in killing him before the time limit. Essentially, it is one big training arc like the beginning of Mission Yozakura Family where Taiyo learned the trade.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Clumsy and talentless, Tsunayoshi Sawada, dubbed “Loser Tsuna” by his class, is the personification of failure. However, this loser’s boring life takes a new turn when he encounters Reborn, a baby and a hitman from the strongest Mafia family in Italy.
Reborn has been sent to whip this middle school loser into shape because he is the heir to the Vongola Mafia Family. However, as heir, he now faces a constant onslaught of rivals that Reborn needs to help him learn to take down.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Katekyo Hitman Reborn
- Both series feature a normal main character becoming deeply ingrained in a criminal organization suddenly one day.
- The main character becomes surrounded by eccentric characters from that underworld
- Comedy interspersed with moments of energetic shounen action
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Katekyo Hitman Reborn
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn is about a normal teen being told he is actually heir to a Mafia family in Italy, then becoming a target due to that.
- The most eccentric characters in Katekyo are often the chibi/baby characters
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn has the main character be kind of useless without his mentor whereas Taiyo in Mission Yozakura Family can stand on his own sooner.
My Bride is a Mermaid
Michishio Nagasumi is living a normal life when he almost drowns on summer vacation. He is rescued by, of all things, a beautiful mermaid.
Unfortunately, she is from a yakuza family that states if a human sees a mermaid, either the human or the mermaid must die.
To save her life, Michishio agrees to marry the mermaid and become part of this crazy family.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and My Bride is a Mermaid
- Both series feature male main characters who are suddenly married
- The family they married into is large, criminal, and eccentric
- Both series mix comedy and action in an easy to like way
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and My Bride is a Mermaid
- As the newly married couple in My Bride is a Mermaid were strangers, My Bride is a Mermaid has a bigger focus on actual romance between the couple than Mission Yozakura Family.
- My Bride is a Mermaid is most often a comedy. It lacks as much action as Mission Yozakura Family, but it does do comedy very well.
Kenichi – The Mightiest Disciple
After years of reading self-improvement books, “weak legs” Kenichi finally works up the courage to join the karate club. Unfortunately, his school bully challenges him, intent on literally kicking him out.
While all hope seemed lost, new classmate Miu invites him to her dojo for training. While he was able to defeat the bully, his new strength attracted the attention of a powerful group of students, and in order to overcome them, he must train in many martial arts styles.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Kenichi
- Both series follow normal, weak main characters and their female childhood friends
- They are taken in by a whole crew of extremely powerful, but extremely eccentric people
- They learn the skills from those people as mentors, using them outside the house on others
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Kenichi
- Kenichi is a martial arts anime about learning a variety of real-world martial arts. It still presents that in a shounen action anime package, however
- The stakes in Kenichi are much lower, since the main character is just often fighting bullies or other martial artists. Death is a more real possibility in Mission Yozakura Family.
For Fans of Protect The Girl
Ayakashi Triangle
The spiritual creatures of Ayakashi are invisible to most people, but as children both Suzu Kanade and Matsuri Kazamaki discover they can see them. For Kazamaki, he comes from a long line of exorcists that destroy powerful Ayakashi. For Kanade, she is an Ayakashi medium, a rare individual whose vitality attracts Ayakashi.
After discovering Kanade’s power, Kazamaki decides to take up his grandfather’s role as exorcist to keep her safe. However, after one encounter with the King of Ayakashi, Kurogane, who had targeted her, Kazamaki finds that he has been turned into a girl!
Still following his mission, Kazamaki and Kanade try to find a way to turn Kazamaki back into a boy again.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Ayakashi Triangle
- Both series feature a guy who is roped into protecting his childhood friend
- The girl is under constant threat by enemies
- Solid mix of energetic action and light-hearted comedy
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Ayakashi Triangle
- Ayakashi Triangle has a gender-bender element
- Ayakashi Triangle is quite a bit more ecchi with its comedy than the practically wholesome Mission Yozakura Family
- Ayakashi Triangle is a supernatural action anime rather than spy action
Twin Star Exorcists
Parallel to our world is Magano where the Kegare dwell. Exorcists are sent in to deal with these monsters and cleanse impurities.
One day, a talented young exorcist named Benio is returning to Tokyo in order to meet with the Exorcists Union. On the road, she meets a young exorcist named Rokuro. After seeing some kids being plagued by Kegare, Benio rushes in and drags Rokuro with her. There, she discovers he has skill to rival her own, but refuses to fight.
Being paired up by the head exorcist, they are lauded as the Twin Star Exorcists and prophesied as the future parents of the reincarnation of the Abe no Seimei, who will cleanse the world of Kegare.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Twin Star Exorcists
- Both series feature school children who are suddenly engaged for reasons
- Scrappy boy protecting a girl who has her own defenses
- Solid mix of action, light-hearted comedy, and drama
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Twin Star Exorcists
- Both the boy and the girl in the couple are adept fighting in Twin Star Exorcists.
- Twin Star Exorcists is about exorcists and the supernatural rather than spies like Mission Yozakura Family.
Malevolent Spirits – Mononogatari
Tsukumogami are objects that have gained self-awareness and are able to take human form, but manifest powers based on the object they once were. For many tsukumogami, they exist secretly and without problem. However, when they do begin to cause problems, the order of Saenome are tasked with neutralizing them
Hyouma Kunato is a young Saenome working under his grandfather, but after a tsukumogami killed his brother and sister, it causes him to choose violence in every encounter rather than explore more peaceful means of neutralizing tsukumogami.
Finding this unacceptable for the future heir of their clan, his grandfather sends him to live Botan Nagatsuki, a college girl who is protected by a series of tsukumogami who also solve problems caused by their own kind in Kyoto. However, while his encounter with Botan and her tsukumogami have a softening effect, his presence within her life begins to stir the boundaries set in place long ago.
Similarities Between Mission Yozakura Family and Mononogatari
- Both series are about families – and a new guy – who protect a special girl
- The girl everyone is protecting is the most normal character in a sea of super-powered people.
- There’s a new guy in the family as a romantic prospect for the girl, and not everyone in the family is happy about it.
- The family slowly warms up to the male main character
Differences Between Mission Yozakura Family and Mononogatari
- Mission Yozakura Family is about spies, Mononogatari is about yokai, or tsukumogami, more specifically.
- Mononogatari has the more visually beautiful animation
- Mononogatari is the darker series, both visually and tonally.
- Romance has a normal progression in Mononogatari. It is not a “friends to married in the first episode” affair like Mission Yozakura Family.
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