After being utterly taken with a senpai, Satsuki Amamiya joins the photography club. However, the next year when her senpai graduates, she finds the club left in her care in danger of shutting down due to a lack of members.
After discovering the Cinema Club is in the same situation, the members decide to combine the two clubs where they are then asked by a manga artist to become the main characters in her work-in-progress manga that leads them all over Japan.
I’ve never seen a series about action cameras be so without cameras. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Mono, head on down below.
Anime Like Mono
For Fans of Tourism Anime

Laid-Back Camp
After moving, Nadeshiko decides to go see Mount Fuji. She manages to bike pretty far, but has to turn back because of the weather and ends up fainting.
When she wakes up, she finds herself somewhere she has never been and no way to find her way back. It is in this wilderness where she is saved by Rin, a girl who was out camping by herself.
Similarities Between Mono and Laid-Back Camp
- These two series share the same author, and it shows.
- Tourism anime
- Cute girls doing a specific thing that just so happens to be a catalyst to travel all over Japan
- Girls go to a place, see some things, eat some food!
Differences Between Mono and Laid-Back Camp
- Laid-back Camp does at least have some focus on its topic of camping. Mono seems to forget it has action cameras as a topic at any given time.
- Laid-Back Camp is more about natural sights, Mono is more about tourist destinations

Zatsu Tabi – That’s Journey
Chika Suzugamori is a rookie manga artist that, after winning a new artist award for her debut, has had every draft she brought to her editor rejected.
On the verge of giving up, she decides to use some of her prize money to take a trip. On that trip, she finds the natural scenery healing and is inspired to continue working—as well as start planning her next journey.
Similarities Between Mono and That’s Journey
- Tourism anime
- Girls traveling around to different culturally significant sights, looking around, and eating
- At least one character is a struggling manga artist looking for inspiration
Differences Between Mono and That’s Journey
- That’s Journey features more solo traveling, only sometimes having it be with friends
- That’s Journey can have a few more wistful, melancholy moments of whimsy.
- That’s Journey follows all adult women.

Food for the Soul
Maiko Kawai is a first year university student who is afraid to try new things. While she enjoys cooking and wants to try the food around her, she is often thwarted by shyness and hesitation.
Unexpectedly, she runs into her elementary school friend, Shinon Ogawa, at her college. Shinon manages to convince her to start a new club on campus themed around food research, though mostly as an excuse to eat.
Similarities Between Mono and Food for the Soul
- Tourism anime
- Girls in a club for a specific thing, and also not really doing that specific thing
- Girls travel to a place, take in the sights, and eat a thing
Differences Between Mono and Food for the Soul
- As Food For The Soul is about food, it does actually stick more truly to its purpose than Mono, which forgets its about action cameras.
- Food For The Soul technically follows college girls, but they are just as moe as high schoolers anyway.
For Fans of Cute Girls Doing Slice of Life Things

Asteroid in Love
As a child, Mira met a boy named Ao at a campsite. While they were gazing at the sky, Mira learned there was a star with her name, but none with Ao’s name. She made a promise that one day they would name an asteroid after him.
Years later, Mira is reunited with Ao at their school’s Earth Science Club. This is also when she discovers that Ao is actually a girl.
Similarities Between Mono and Asteroid in Love
- Two clubs without enough members combine and become one club
- Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
- Plotless slice of life about girls enjoying their passions
Differences Between Mono and Asteroid in Love
- Asteroid in Love does actually have the girls doing the activities of both the clubs that were combined into one club, which is Astronomy and Earth Science.
- Asteroid in Love is more school-focused with far less travel
- There is a whole bunch of yuri bait in Asteroid in Love, more so than the usual amount in CGDCT anime.

Encouragement of Climb
Aoi Yukimura has loved mountains since she was a kid, but a playground accident left her afraid of heights. Now a timid first year high school student, she is practically friendless until she reconnects with the lively Hinata.
As an old friend from her climbing days, Hinata fosters a change in Aoi’s world that leads her back to the mountains she loves.
Similarities Between Mono and Encouragement of Climb
- Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
- Plotless slice of life about girls enjoying life and maybe doing a specific thing
Differences Between Mono and Encouragement of Climb
- Encouragement of Climb is about mountain climbing, and they do engage in a significant amount of it.
- Encouragement of Climb is a short-form anime, so it only have three minute episodes, which condenses all those CGDCT moments down.
- Encouragement of Climb is about overcoming a fear of climbing, so it does have some more serious poignant moments.

K-On
Upon entering high school, Yui is immediately entranced by the Light Music Club. The problem is, she can’t play an instrument.
Deciding to join the club anyway, the other club members, despite disappointment in her lack of musical knowledge, allow her to join to prevent the club’s disbandment.
Today begins Yui’s musical education!
Similarities Between Mono and K-on
- Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
- Girls join a club about a specific thing, and occasionally do that specific thing
- Plotless slice of life about girls enjoying life
Differences Between Mono and K-on
- K-on is a music anime
- While K-on is a music anime, and they like to mess around a lot, it does actually have them spending more time on their club activity than Mono.
- K-on is very school focused
- K-on creates more distinctive characters who all have their own lovable quirks.

Do It Yourself
After the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cutting edge technologies have taken over and the old way of doing things is left in the dust. For childhood friends Serufu Yua and Miku Suride, they both applied to the elite Yuyu Girls’ Vocational High School that excels in teaching new technology.
However, due to her grades, care-free accident-magnet Yua could only get into the neighboring Gatagata Girls’ High School.
After getting into an bike accident, Yua has a run in with a passerby who fixes her bike effortlessly and later finds out that she is a member of the Do It Yourself Club. With the club in danger of shutting down due to a lack of members and becoming enchanted by the old way of fixing and building things, Yua hopes to gather new friendships and build new crafts by joining it.
Similarities Between Mono and Do it Yourself
- Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
- Girls in a club occasionally do a specific thing
- Plotless slice of life about girls enjoying life
Differences Between Mono and Do It Yourself
- Do It Yourself is set in a near-future and about a club that is all about fixing things rather than just buying new stuff
- Do It Yourself has more distinct characters with diverse personalities
- Do It Yourself does have some character growth sub-plots that can cause the show to be more serious and dramatic at times. It’s not all fluffy cute moments like Mono.

Yuru Yuri
After being reunited with her childhood friends in middle school, Akari is enticed to join the Amusement Club that Yui and Kyoko created in their own first year of middle school.
They convince Akari to join, only for her to discover that the club’s only function is to amuse its members.
Similarities Between Mono and Yuruyuri
- Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
- Girls join a club about doing a specific thing, then just goof off the whole time
- Plotless slice of life about girls enjoying life
Differences Between Mono and Yuruyuri
- Yuruyuri is about an “amusement club,” so them not actually doing anything other than goofing off is actually what the club is about anyway.
- Yuruyuri is subverting how yuri most CGDCT anime innately is by being over-the-top and silly with its yuri bait
- Yuruyuri is more a rib-ticking comedy than the more iyashikei, lightly comical Mono.

Non Non Biyori
Asahigaoka is rural village in the middle of nowhere, and for the five students who go to school there, their days are all about keeping the boredom at bay.
All of different ages, the ways they entertain themselves never border on normal.
Similarities Between Mono and Non Non Biyori
- Cute Girls Doing Cute Things
- Plotless slice of life about girls enjoying life
- A love of natural visuals and girls meandering around the country
Differences Between Mono and Non Non Biyori
- Non Non Biyori follows a group of girls in the countryside being bored.
- Non Non Biyori features less travel, though they do occasional go places. However, as Non Non Biyori is a rural-set anime, it still captures the same vibe as traveling does in Mono.
For Fans of Photography

Tamayura
Sawatari Fuu is an aspiring photographer. She spends her time by the Seto Inland Sea taking pictures of her friends.
She is especially pleased when she is able to capture tamayura, small orbs of light that appear when her subjects are especially content.
Similarities Between Mono and Tamayura
- Anime about photography
- Cute Girls Doing Photography Things, allegedly.
- Fluffy, cute slice of life moments
Differences Between Mono and Tamayura
- Tamayura actually has a huge focus on photography compared to Mono.
- Tamayura isn’t all fluffy moe moments. It can explore photography as a way to overcome grief and see yourself in a new way, which leads to a number of more serious, melancholy moments
- Tamayura is more about prowling around a singular town whereas Mono has a decent amount of travel.
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