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Anime Like Murai in Love

Tanaka Ayano is a teacher at Takebe Gakuen High School, and she has a problem. Her second-year student Murai, who is enrolled in her college preparatory course, has declared that his plan for the future is to marry her.

Tanaka firmly rejects him, stating that she could never be interested in a boy with long black hair. In truth, Tanaka-sensei is a secret otaku who only has eyes for her 2D love, Hitotose, a character from an otome game.

The next day, Tanaka is shocked to find that Murai has not only cut his hair and dyed it blonde, but that in doing so, he now looks exactly like her love Hitotose!

Let use grieve the 500 yen animation budget for this show, and say a prayer for everyone who was hoping for a a different comedy-to-romance ratio in the relationship. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Murai in Love, head on down below.

Anime Like Murai in Love

For Fans of 2D Lovers Falling in 3D Love

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Romantic Killer

All high schooler Anzu Hoshino loves is video games, chocolate, and her cat, Momohiko. She has shunned everything else, especially a romantic life.

However, one day a magical creature alters her reality where she can’t have any of those three things that she adores and is told that in order to return to her normal life, she must indulge in the dating sim situations that have been set up around her involving the new troubled transfer student Tsukasa Kazuki, her childhood friend Junta Hayami, and a wealthy sheltered student named Hijiri Koganei.

Similarities Between Murai in Love and Romantic Killer

  • Girl loves 2D boys, and has no interest in 3D love.
  • 3D romance is forced upon the heroine
  • Strong, independent heroine resists romance with snark and determination, making the small moments she does succumb a bit more rewarding.

Differences Between Murai in Love and Romantic Killer

  • Romantic Killer has a supernatural element in that a fairy takes away otome games, chocolate, and her cat from the heroine and tells her to go fall in love with a real guy if she wants them back.
  • Romantic Killer is, essentially, a girl forced to play an otome game in real life. So it has a reverse harem element to it.
  • Murai in Love is a gag comedy romance, Romantic Killer is a “girl helps three troubled boys with their personal problems, and they fall in love with her” sort of romance.
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2.5D Seduction

After a disastrous love confession, Masamune Okumura retreated into the loving arms of his 2D waifu Liliel. Now in his second year of high school and the sole remaining member of the Manga Research Club, he devotes his days to Liliel fandom despite her rapidly fading character popularity.

One normal day, Masamune’s solitary club life is turned upside down when a first year student named Ririsa Amano decides she wants to join the manga club. Hoping that his sexy Liliel figures and doujinshi will scare her off, he discovers that she is not just a passionate Liliel fan herself – but a Liliel cosplayer.

Masamune is eventually recruited to take photos of Ririsa’s Liliel cosplay and finds himself drawn deep into the world of cosplay and 3D love.

Similarities Between Murai in Love and 2.5D Seduction

  • Main character only has love for one specific 2D character
  • They meet a 3D person that catches their interest romantically because they look like that character, but deny their feelings.
  • The main character slowly realizes their feelings over time

Differences Between Murai in Love and 2.5D Seduction

  • 2.5D Seduction features a male main character that becomes interested in a classmate that cosplays his waifu.
  • 2.5D Seduction isn’t graphically ecchi, but it is definitely more provocative than Murai in Love
  • 2.5D Seduction is more drama-focused than the gag comedy presented in Murai in Love
  • Murai in Love is a one-sided romance becoming mutual over time. 2.5D Seduction is more two characters realizing their feelings slowly with a few harem members tossed in as love rivals.
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The World Only God Knows

Keima Katsuragi is known as the “God of Conquest,” a man that can conquer any girl’s heart, at least in his dating sim games.

However, when Keima arrogantly accepts an offer to prove his dating sim supremacy, he finds himself at the mercy of a demon that forces him to woo over real life girls.

Similarities Between Murai in Love and The World Only God Knows

  • Main character that only like 2D characters gets involved in 3D romance
  • Frequent otome game/dating sim references
  • Strong comedy with the occasional actually nice romantic moment

Differences Between Murai in Love and The World Only God Knows

  • The World Only God Knows features a male main character who is using dating sim techniques on a series of 3D women.
  • The World Only God Knows is about a guy that was challenged to woo 3D women by a deity, so it has a supernatural element.
  • The World Only God Knows features the main character romancing a girl to fix her, her memories of their romance being erased, and starting on another girl. So more romance, but less intimacy of feelings.
  • The World Only God Knows does have some more serious drama and storytelling to it at times. It isn’t all comedy and a dash of romance like Murai in Love.
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Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte

After having to quit baseball, Aota Endo ends up joining the broadcasting club and becoming increasingly closer with Shihono Kobayashi. One day, after listening to her gush about a game called MagiKoi, she convinces him to play it with her to work on his speaking skills for the broadcasting club.

However, when they boot up the game, they discover that Prince Siegwald can actually hear them as they are playing.

Thinking they are gods, Endo and Kobayashi use their commentary to help avoid the tragic ends for many characters through advising the prince on his dealings with the tsundere villainess Lieselotte.

Similarities Between Murai in Love and Endo and Kobayashi Live

  • Girl that is passionate about 2D characters starts hanging out with a boy
  • Strongly otome game-themed romance anime
  • Multiple romantic couples
  • Romance is slowed by miscommunication and dishonest feelings

Differences Between Murai in Love and Endo and Kobayashi Live

  • Endo and Kobayashi Live is about two people playing an otome game, able to communicate with one of the characters, and being his wing man to hook him up with the villainess that is actually a tsundere.
  • Endo and Kobayahsi Live features an in-game romance that it focuses on most, but also does have an out-of-game romance developing too.
  • Endo and Kobayashi Live has less intense comedy, but also less roadblocks to romance

For Fans of Teacher/Student Romance

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Gokusen

Kumiko Yamaguchi is smart, energetic,and starting her dream job as a teacher at Shirokiun Academy. Unfortunately, she soon learns that her class in this all-boys school is a cesspool of the worst delinquents in school.

However, young Kumiko has a secret weapon, she is the heir apparent of a yakuza clan and knows how to handle rough men.

Capable of both overpowering these thugs and getting them to listen, she is ready to change the lives of her students.

Similarities Between Murai in Love and Gokusen

  • A quiet boy has fallen in love with his female teacher
  • His female teacher’s appropriate boundaries are slowly being eroded away by growing affection
  • The female teacher is hiding her secret hobby/secret life from her students
  • Murai in Love and Gokusen unfortunately both share simple art styles and simple animation.

Differences Between Murai in Love and Gokusen

  • Gokusen is about an heir to a yakuza family becoming a teacher and rehabilitating a class of delinquent students with her rough yakuza attitude while also helping solve their personal problems.
  • Romance isn’t the sole focus in Gokusen, and it is a bit slower building and subtle.

For Fans of Romancing Between Two Awkward Otaku

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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 Murai in Love and Wotakoi

  • Romance between otaku
  • Multiple couples at play
  • Low drama, but romance is often roadblocked by a lack of clear communication and being dishonest with their feelings.

Differences Between Murai in Love and Wotakoi

  • Wotakoi follows three couples, and all of them are adults.
  • Wotakoi is less about the couples “getting together” and more about them actually dating.
  • Murai in Love is very otome game focused, Wotakoi features a larger array of otaku interests including anime, cosplay, gaming, and fujoshi boy’s love fandom.
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Recovery of an MMO Junkie

Morioka Moriko has had enough of being an overworked corporate slave, so she decided to retire herself to the NEET lifestyle. While at home, yearning for the previous connections she once made in online gaming, she starts up a new MMO. There, she creates her character, the handsome Hayashi.

However, in her newbie struggles she meets a Lily, another character willing to help her and they begin to grow closer to each other. At the same time, in real life, Moriko also has a shocking encounter with a handsome corporate employee.

Similarities Between Murai in Love and Recovery of an MMO Junkie

  • Two awkward nerds awkwardly falling in love
  • Progress is slow due to a lack of communication and dishonest feelings
  • Female main characters would rather be gaming, but are slowly coming around to real life romance

Differences Between Murai in Love and Recovery of an MMO Junkie

  • Murai in Love is otome game-based, Recovery of an MMO Junkie is MMO game-based.
  • Recovery of an MMO Junkie features two adult main characters with no age-gap
  • Recovery of an MMO Junkie has its moments, but isn’t as frequently comedic as Murai in Love is.
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Kiss Him, Not Me

Chubby Kae Serinuma is an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her male classmates. However, after her favorite anime character dies, she becomes so stressed that she loses weight rapidly.

Upon returning to school, her classmates, including the attractive men she ships, realize how attractive she really is.

There’s only one problem, while the boys vie for her affections, she just wants them to turn those affections towards each other.

Similarities Between Murai in Love and Kiss Him, Not Me

  • At least one boy becomes romantically interested in a cute girl
  • The heroine obsesses over fictional boys
  • The girl doesn’t have any romantic interest in the boy (or boys), but slowly grows more open to the idea over time.
  • Mostly comedy that grows the romance slowly over time

Differences Between Murai in Love and Kiss Him, Not Me

  • Kiss Him, Not Me follows a fujoshi high school girl who, instead of falling for cute boys, likes to ship them romantically with each other.
  • Kiss Him, Not Me does have a bit more drama as it transforms into a proper romance.
  • Kiss Him, Not Me is a reverse harem romance.
  • The boys in Kiss Him, Not Me aren’t actually otaku like the heroine
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My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun

After her boyfriend cheats on her, Akane Kinoshita flees to her favorite MMO and vents her frustrations on some in-game mobs. While doing that, she happens across Akito Yamada who bluntly asks her to leave while he farms those mobs for a specific item.

While she initially finds him pretty rude, she meets Yamada again by chance in an offline meetup event for the game. It turns out she, like so many others, misinterpreted his poor social skills for antagonism.

From then on, Akane finds herself meeting Yamada more and more both in-game and offline as her feelings for him grow.

Similarities Between Murai in Love and My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun

  • Two gamers start a slow romance
  • Male love interest is quiet, but loyal and determined with his feelings
  • There is an age-gap element (Teacher and student in Murai in Love, soon-to-graduate high school boy and college girl in My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun)
  • The occasional love rival shows up
  • Sizable cast of friends that support the main couple

Differences Between Murai in Love and My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun

  • My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun features a heroine that quickly develops feelings while the male love interest is slow to realize he has feelings. So, a reverse situation to Murai in Love, in a way.
  • My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun is a proper progressing shoujo romance, not the mix of gag comedy and romance that Murai in Love offers.
  • The gamers in My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun are MMO gamers / e-sports gamers. It feels like a more “modern” gaming-based love story whereas otome game-based ones feels a bit dated.

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