Teruaki Nakamura has recently moved to Okinawa. On his first day of school, he runs into the energetic Kyan. However, he quickly realizes that she can only speak the Okinawan dialect, and he can’t understand a word of what she is saying.
Thankfully, Higa steps into to translate what Kyan is saying, helping Teruaki grow closer to her. However, what he doesn’t know is that Higa has her eyes on winning his heart.
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Anime Like Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She’s Saying
For Fans of Tourism Invitation Through Cute Anime Girls
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Hokkaido Gals are Super Adorable
Upon moving with his family from Tokyo to Kitami City in Hokkaido, Tsubasa Shiki is captivated by the rural serenity of the Hokkaido winter. He was so captivated that he ended up getting out of his taxi way earlier than he needed to, leaving him to trek an unfamiliar city in the middle of winter.
Stopping to ask directions from someone waiting at a bus stop, he has his first encounter with Minami Fuyuki, a fashionable gyaru who has an elevated interest in this new boy from Tokyo.
After learning that Fuyuki is also in his class, the pair grow closer as he learns that girls in Hokkaido are all super adorable.
Similarities Between Okitsura and Hokkaido Gals are Super Adorable
- Boy moves to one of the “not Tokyo” areas of Japan
- He is besieged by cute girls who help him learn about local culture
- Boy falls in love with culture and at least one girl
- Love triangle elements
Differences Between Okitsura and Hokkaido Gals are Super Adorable
- Okitsura is summery beaches and Okinawa, Hokkaido Gals is snowy winter and Hokkaido
- Hokkaido Gals is more harem with a pretty clear main girl than just a love triangle
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Yatogame-chan Observation Diary
Jin Kaito has recently moved from Tokyo to Nagoya where he meets Yatogame Monaka, a classmate who puts Nagoya’s regional dialect on full display.
While he finds her and her cat-like appearance cute, she won’t open up to him at all. However, while observing her, he learns a whole bunch about Nagoya’s many charms.
Similarities Between Okitsura and Yatogame-chan Observation Diary
- Boy moves to one of the “not Tokyo” areas of Japan
- The girl he meets uses regional dialect and is sometimes hard to understand
- Several girls show boy the local culture and charms of the area.
Differences Between Okitsura and Yatogame-chan Observation Diary
- Okinawa is pretty different from the rest of Japan, Nagoya in Okitsura is just more of a rural area. So Yatogame-chan is more focused on landmarks, food, and other areas of interest rather than cultural aspects.
- Yatogame-chan Observation Diary is a slice of life comedy with almost no romance.
- Yatogame-chan Observation Diary only has short-form, 4-minute episodes.
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You Don’t Know Gunma Yet
Nori Kamisuki has recently moved to Gunma prefecture from Chiba in effort to follow Otoya Todoroki, a friend who moved there in elementary school. However, while in the process of moving, he receives a text from Todoroki that tells him to turn back because once someone enters Gunma, they never return.
Ignoring that message, Kamitsuki is determined to prove that Gunma, Japan’s least popular province, isn’t any different from the rest of Japan.
Similarities Between Okitsura and You Don’t Know Gunma Yet
- Boy moves to one of the “not Tokyo” areas of Japan
- People teach him about the local area and culture
Differences Between Okitsura and You Don’t Know Gunma Yet
- You Don’t Know Gunma Yet is very much just a comedy series with no love triangle or romance
- The Gunma Prefecture in You Don’t Know Gunma Yet is a fictionalized version of Gunma that combines both truth and lies for comedy.
- You Don’t Know Gunma Yet has a predominantly male cast
- You Don’t Know Gunma Yet has short-form, 4-minute episodes
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My Little Sister’s an “Osaka Momma”
Kyousuke Ishihara is a normal student who lives in Tokyo. However, after ten years of living away in Osaka, his little sister Namika is moving back. Now reunited, Kyousuke struggles to understand his sister’s strange behavior and dialect.
Similarities Between Okitsura and My Little Sister’s an Osaka Momma
- Girls speaking in regional dialects that are hard to understand
- Male main character learns about a region’s culture
Differences Between Okitsura and My Little Sister’s an Osaka Momma
- Osaka Momma is about a guy’s little sister coming from Osaka to live with him. So he is not actually in the region like in Okitsura.
- Osaka Momma is a comedy and is in no way a romance
- Osaka Momma is a short-form series with 3-minute episodes
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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 Okitsura and Laid Back Camp
- Cute girls explain local landmarks, culture, and other regional charms
- Episodic slice of life stories about characters just living their lives
Differences Between Okitsura and Laid Back Camp
- Laid Back Camp is a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things slice of life series, and not a romance.
- Laid Back Camp is about camping, so it is showing off lovely natural scenery more so than much of the local prefectural culture.
For Fans of Love Triangles
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More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers
Jirou Yakuin, third-year high school student and otaku, has had a crush on his childhood friend, Shiori. He hopes to be paired with her for their school’s upcoming marriage practical – an exam where two people are paired to live together in order to practice married life as they are observed and scored.
For popular Akari Watanabe, she hopes to be paired with the handsome Minami. Much to each other’s dismay, Jirou and Akari and paired together while Minami and Shiori are paired together.
Luckily, if both couples rank in the top, they can change partners, thus do Akari and Jirou venture to pretend to have a perfect married life.
Similarities Between Okitsura and More Than a Married Couple
- Love triangle romance
- The male main character has a crush on one girl who seems to maybe like him back, but the bustier, flashier other girl seems to be the main girl
- The male main character can be a bit awkward.
Differences Between Okitsura and More Than a Married Couple
- More Than a Married Couple is very focused on romance and romance drama, there isn’t as much fun slice of life and no cultural education like Okitsura
- More Than a Married Couple is based around “marriage practice” where the main character is paired up with a girl who is not the girl he has a crush on, and who, at first, doesn’t like him much.
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Nisekoi
Ten years ago, Raku Ichijou made a promise with a childhood friend to meet again and use the key she holds to open the locket he wears around his neck then be together forever. In the present day, this heir apparent to an intimidating yakuza family continues to wait for his friend’s return while trying to be as uninvolved in family matters as possible.
However, when a rival gang invades his family’s turf, the family leaders decide Raku should start a romantic relationship with the other chief’s daughter, Chitoge.
While they pretend to be dating to maintain the peace, Raku is almost positive his classmate Kosaki Onodera is the girl he made his promise with.
Similarities Between Okitsura and Nisekoi
- Love triangle romance
- Male main character has a crush on a girl, but the other girl is pretty clearly the main girl
- It’s clear who the main girl is, but sometimes also vague about it?
- Episodic slice of life and romance bait
Differences Between Okitsura and Nisekoi
- Nisekoi isn’t showing off any sort of cultural region of Japan, instead it is more a “faking a relationship” sort of set up.
- Nisekoi is far more focused on keeping you guessing who the main love interest is, flip-flopping its focus often.
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Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
Seirei Academy is renowned for on accepting the most prestigious students, and the student council members sit at the pinnacle of this elite group.
Alisa Mikhailovna “Alya” Kujou, the half-Russian and half-Japanese treasurer of the school’s student council, is idolized in the school for her intelligence and good looks, but isolated for her rigid, cold personality. This is in stark contrast to Masachika Kuze, her unmotivated and easy-going classmate.
While Alya was initially irritated with his laid-back attitude, she has become increasingly intrigued by Kuze and occasionally lets her true feelings seep out in Russian.
What Alya doesn’t know is that Kuze has been secretly studying Russian in hopes to reunite with a childhood friend who moved away, and understands the too-nice things she has been saying about him.
Similarities Between Okitsura and Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
- Girl speaks in different dialect/different language and is hard to understand
- Male main character gets involved in a love triangle
- It is clear who the main girl in the love triangle is
Differences Between Okitsura and Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian
- Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian is about a girl who hides her love for a boy by saying it in Russian, but doesn’t know he understands Russian.
- Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian is less cheerful, and is more focused on its character drama.
- The main character in Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian is more the serious brooding snarker type than the likable, awkward Teruaki.
- Despite featuring Russian, there is minimal Russian culture explored in Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian.
For Fans of Seaside/Summer/Rural Vibes
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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 Okitsura and Non Non Biyori
- Main character moves to a new place, befriends locals
- Episodic slice of life with cute anime girls
- Rural summer vibes in the bright, vibrant visuals
Differences Between Okitsura and Non Non Biyori
- Non Non Biyori would have been a great tourism anime given its dedication to great visuals, but it is set in a fictional rural village.
- Non Non Biyori is Cute Girls Doing Cute Things with minimal men and no romance
- Non Non Biyori is very random, very comedic slice of life.
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Waiting in Summer
While testing out his filming camera one night, Kaito is blown off the bridge by a streak of blue light. As he is falling, the last thing he remembers is a hand, grabbing his own.
When he wakes up, he finds himself mysteriously back in his room, dazed but uninjured.
As Kaito proceeds with his summer break, deciding to make a movie with his friends, he takes an interest the new upperclassman wandering the town, Ichika Takatsuki, and she ends up invited to join them.
Similarities Between Okitsura and Waiting in Summer
- Love triangle romance
- A new character moves to the rural areas and befriends the locals
- Rural-set story with big vibrant summer vibes
Differences Between Okitsura and Waiting in Summer
- Waiting in Summer is about an alien that crashes in the area who disguises herself as a school girl, so it is a sci-fi romance.
- The love triangle in Waiting in Summer is more “the childhood friend accepts that she lost” rather than portraying her as having any sort of shot at winning.
- Waiting in Summer is told from the male main character’s POV, but he is not the new guy in town like in Okitsura, he is just one of the locals.
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A Lull in the Sea
Long ago, all of humanity lived underwater. However, a portion of them soon left to live on the surface, losing the ability to breath underwater. With this gap between them, the two societies grew apart.
After their small school underwater closes down, Hikari Sakishima and his childhood friends are forced to attend school above the water where they come to terms with themselves and the discrimination against them.
Similarities Between Okitsura and A Lull in the Sea
- One or more love triangle romances
- Characters integrating into a new place, befriending locals, and learning about new cultures.
- Seaside-set stories where the ocean is a big part of life
Differences Between Okitsura and A Lull in the Sea
- Okitsura is cheerful and friendly, A Lull in the Sea is often serious if not just melancholy.
- A Lull in the Sea follows children, who belong to a species of humans who live underwater, having to attend school on land, so a bit more fictionalized than Okitsura.
- A Lull in the Seas is less “learning about new cultures in a fun way” and more about learning to face and deal with discrimination.
- Romance in A Lull in The Sea can be summed up as “everyone loves someone else.” It’s more of a love polygon affair.
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