Anime Like Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary

Jougorou Kobato has a bad habit of inserting himself into other people’s problems, using excellent detective skills to unravel their small mysteries. However, after the revelation that his detective skills are neither wanted or appreciated, he makes a deal with his friend Yuki Osanai to become completely ordinary together.

Now entering high school, the pair spend their school days trying to be ordinary, but Jougorou cannot help but fall back into his old deductive ways when he finds himself faced with mundane everyday mysteries.

After his sister’s nagging, energy-conservative Oreki joins the Classic Literature Club. However, he gets more than he bargained for when he is dragged into a 45-year-old mystery that surrounds their club room by the endlessly curious and intriguingly cute Chitanda.

Alongside his club mates, he also finds himself dragged into a host of other cases by Chitanda’s curiosity, using his keen mind to come to logical solutions.

Mayumi Doujima made a promise to her parents that if she couldn’t find a star she once saw long ago, she would give up on her dream of being an astronaut on her 14^th birthday. With that day fast approaching, she accidentally enlists the help of eccentric Manabu Soutouin and the rest of Yubiwa Academy’s mysterious Pretty Boy Detective Club.

Agreeing to be helped and in turn help the Pretty Boy Detective Club, Mayumi uses her own special skill, the power of detailed observation, to find small clues and traps that would otherwise go unnoticed. However, while searching for her star, she finds herself entangled in something far beyond what she ever imagined.

After surviving a vampire attack, high school student Koyomi Araragi finds he has several supernatural side effects that remained after being cured including the ability to rapidly heal.

While trying to live a normal life after the event, he ends up catching a classmate, Hitagi Senjougahara, as she fell down some stairs. As he catches her, he discovers that she is near weightless after being inflicted with a curse.

After enlisting the help of the easy-going wandering Shinto priest that helped him with his vampirism, Araragi finds himself embroiled in not just Senjogahara’s issue but several different supernatural events afflicting those in his town.

Hachiman Hikigaya firmly believes that a joyful youth is something that people make up just to lie to themselves.

After writing an essay criticizing relationships, he is forced to join the Volunteer Service Club that is aimed at helping others solve their problems.

With the only other member being the icy Yukino Yukinoshita, they use their wits and cold views on society to help others.

On a day like any other, Sakuta is in the library, and there he spots a wild bunny girl. This wild bunny girl, or rather, Mai Sakurajima, a semi-retired actress dressed like a bunny girl, catches no one else’s eye.

In fact, Sakuta seems to be the only one that can see her on that day and on many other days.

This phenomenon, called Puberty Syndrome, is rumored on the internet. As Sakuta decides to solve the mystery, he grows closer to Mai and other girls that suffer the same malady.

Due to a mysterious disease, the genius Iria Akagami has been confined to a mansion on an isolated island by her family. With just a handful of maids, she entertains herself by inviting a series of fellow geniuses to stay at her home.

These visits continue for awhile until one guest is found violently murdered without a single clue as to why. With tensions running high, the assistant to computer savant Tomo Kunagisa takes it upon himself to solve the murder before anyone else meets a similar fate.

At a young age, Kotoko Iwanaga was abducted by yokai and asked to become their Goddess of Wisdom to act as a mediator between spiritual and human issues. She agreed and lost her right eye and left leg in the agreement.

Meanwhile, Kotoko meets Kuro Sakuragawa, a man who just broke up with his girlfriend after a kappa fled before him.

Kotoko makes her move to not only lock him down as a boyfriend, but to have him help her settle various disputes with spirits.

Kei lives in the seaside town of Sakurada, which is filled with people with various powers.

One day, he meets a girl named Haruki on the school roof. She has the ability to reset things to three days prior, but even she does not remember when she uses it or what happened. However, as Kei has the power of a photographic memory, he is able to remember.

The pair join the Service Club to start trying to help the people in town.