After her gacha game shuts down service, Minami Aoba is left adrift without anything to do. Realizing she has wasted her high school years on mobile games, she decides to try out different clubs around school, only to quickly find out that she is unfit for pretty much all of them.
When Minami stumbles upon a driving range, she meets Haruka Akane who quickly decides to introduce Minami to the sport of golf. Unlike with other sports, Minami feels the genuine spark of excitement when she swings a golf club and decides to dive wholeheartedly into the sport of golf.
Like isekai, Cute Girls Doing Cute Things also comes from everything. Watch out, Golf! They see you. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Sorairo Utility, then head on down below.
Anime Like Sorairo Utility
For Fans of Golf
Hey! Tonbo
Once-professional golfer Kazuyoshi Igarashi is looking to get a fresh start by moving to Hinoshima Island. It is there on this rural island that he discovers a golf course made by the local residents who enjoy golf as a hobby.
To his surprise, he meet Tonbo Ooi, a girl that only plays golf with a 3-iron. As he witnesses Tonbo make seemingly impossible shots, he begins to rediscover how fun the sport can actually be.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Hey Tonbo
- Cheerful, a bit clumsy girl plays golf
- Highlights various challenges in the sport
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Hey Tonbo
- Sorairo Utility is just a slice of life sports show about girls enjoying golf, Tonbo is more aligned with traditional sports anime plots in which the main character is entering into golf competitively.
- Tonbo follows the female main character and the pro golfer that decides to mentor her, so it isn’t so focused on a group of girls enjoying golf.
- If you aren’t familiar with the rules of golf or many techniques in the sport, Tonbo explains it while Sorairo Utility often assumes the viewer already knows about golf.
Rising Impact
Gawain lives in a mountainous rural town and has a love of baseball. He particularly loves making the ball fly great distances.
One day, a visitor to his town introduces him to an even better way to make a ball fly—the sport of golf. With just one shot, Gawain is hooked on golf. So hooked that he travels to Tokyo with a mysterious woman to learn all he can about it.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Rising Impact
- Novice that starts playing golf
- Highlights the various challenges in the sport
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Rising Impact
- Sorairo Utility is just a slice of life sports show about girls enjoying golf, Rising Impact is more aligned with traditional sports anime plots in which the main character is entering into golf competitively.
- While both follow newbies, Rising Impact, since it is about playing the sport competitively, does actually teach you about golf as the main character learns about it.
Birdie Wing – Golf Girls’ Story
Known at the Rainbow Bullet, Eve is infamous among those that bet on underground golf. She has soundly beat every opponent with only just three clubs in her gold bag. However, when Eve catches the eye of professional golfer Aoi Amawashi and plays a clean game against her, she is both captivated and shaken by her defeat at the hands of this girl known as the “Innocent Tyrant” that soundly beats every opponent with a smile.
After this game-changing game, Eve starts to break free of the underworld’s hold on her and begins to take her golf game to the next level in aboveboard competitions with Aoi.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Birdie Wing
- Both series are fully dedicated to girls playing golf
- The series show off golf, but are none too concerned with teaching you much about it
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Birdie Wing
- Sorairo is taking golf seriously, Birdie Wing makes golf ridiculous—but entertaining to watch.
- Birdie Wing does have some plot and character drama to it
- Birdie Wing has characters with golf super powers.
For Fans of Cute Girls Doing Sports Things
Diary Of Our Days At The Breakwater
Hina Tsurugi has just moved to a quiet seaside town with her family.
While visiting the ocean, she stumbles upon a girl named Yuuki who invites her to join her while fishing. Hina manages to land an octopus, but being afraid of bugs and big creatures, she begs Yuuki to remove it when it lands on her.
Yuuki uses this as an opportunity to try to get her to join the Breakwater Club, a club where members catch and eat fish.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
- Girls going outside to have fun as friends while doing a thing
- The characters go to school together, but most of the time, they are just doing their hobby outside of school
- Both series show off the various neat gadgets one can buy for the hobby in a suspiciously advertisement-like way.
- No plot, no real character drama, just a slice of life show about friends doing a hobby
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
- Diary Of Our Days at the Breakwater is about fishing, and it highlights some of the less cute parts of that sport like gutting fish.
- The main character in Diary Of Our Days at the Breakwater is dragged into the sport, and is slowly warming to it during the series.
- Diary Of Our Days at the Breakwater is actually very educational about various types of fish, fishing, and everything in between.
Bakuon
Hane Sakura makes the difficult trip to school every day up a large hill on her bicycle. However, when she meets motorcycle enthusiast Onsa Amano, she is drawn into the motorcycle club and the wide world of motorbikes.
While Hane struggles to find her footing as she learns to ride, hoping to recreate an exhilarating moment from when she first learn to ride a bicycle, there are a number of girls in the club there to help her.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Bakuon
- Cute girl doing sports things, cutely.
- Highlights the various ways you can enjoy the specific sport thing the series is aimed at
- Highlights all the various neat gadgets you can buy for the hobby
- Plotless slice of life about friends just enjoying their hobby
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Bakuon
- Bakuon is about motorbikes. This also means it highlights everything from hobby motorbiking to people who want to race competitively. As golf only has a few ways to enjoy golfing, it isn’t as varied.
- Bakuon, as they often ride motorcycles around, has more emphasis on enjoying natural scenery
Anima Yell
Kotone Hatoya’s most beloved trait is also her biggest flaw. Since she was a child, she has always loved to help others no matter how far she had to go in order to do it.
Naturally, when she discovers cheerleading, Kotone is captivated by it. However, while she ropes her best friend Uki Sawatari into helping her create a cheer squad, there is one major problem. Neither of them know what to do.
From uniforms to performances, the pair know nothing about cheerleading. In order to continue chasing her dream, Kotone drags in Hizume Arima, a former cheerleader who has hoped to leave the sport behind.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Anima Yell
- Cute girls doing sports things, cutely.
- Cheerful, klutzy main character has no idea what she is doing, but really wants to do it anyway
- Plotless slice of life about girls becoming friends and enjoying a thing
- Both series will not teach you much about their respective sports
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Anima Yell
- Anima Yell is about cheerleading
- Anima Yell does make attempts at fostering character growth through some light character drama.
Long Riders
After being enamored with a collapsible bicycle she saw, university student Ami Kurata empties her account and buys a bicycle.
Now with her friends, she enjoys weekend bicycle trips with that changes her view of the world completely.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Long Riders
- Cute girls doing sports things, cutely.
- Cheerful, klutzy main character becomes captivated by a thing and starts doing it despite not really knowing what she is doing.
- Highlights all the various things you can buy for the hobby it is showcasing
- Plotless slice of life about girls doing a thing and friendship
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Long Riders
- Long Riders is about cycling non-competitively.
- As Long Riders is about road cycling, it puts more emphasis on enjoying natural scenery
Slow Loop
As a young girl, Hiyori’s father taught her the joys of fly fishing. Even after he unexpectedly passed away, she still uses fishing as a way to feel connected to him.
One day while fishing, she meets and energetic new girl in town named Koharu who ends up fishing and eating said fish together. However, when she returns home, she discovers that Koharu is also her new step-sister.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Slow Loop
- Cute girls doing a sport, cutely
- A newbie is drawn into a new hobby, and forms bonds of friendship while exploring it
- Showcases the various small charms of the activity
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Slow Loop
- Slow Loop actually does have some character drama and development as it bonds two new stepsisters through fishing.
- Slow Loop features a more reserved, slow to open up main character
For Fans of Plotless Slice of Life About Hobbies
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 Sorairo Utility and Laid-Back Camp
- All-female cast spends a good deal of time outside doing a hobby
- Plotless slice of life about girls just enjoying the thing they are doing with minimal drama and minimal plot.
- Sometimes seems like an advertisement to go buy things that are necessary/nice to have while doing that hobby.
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Laid-Back Camp
- Laid-Back Camp, perhaps because it spans multiple seasons, does flesh out its characters and their relationships with each other a little more.
- Laid-Back Camp is about camping rather than golf. This means it is really more about enjoying the scenery than doing much of anything.
Super Cub
Koguma is a student who has nothing. She lives alone, has no hobbies, and no friends. However, one day she stops by a vehicle shop in hopes of getting a motor scooter for her commute.
Disheartened by price tags initially, she is sold on an old pre-owned Super Cub. However, what she didn’t know is the many different ways that the scooter would open up her world.
Similarities Between Sorairo Utility and Super Cub
- Girl starts getting interested in doing a new thing
- Girl makes friends while exploring that new thing
- Plotless slice of life about girls just living their life and doing a thing they enjoy
- Sometimes seems like an advertisement to go buy things that are necessary/nice to have while doing that hobby.
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Super Cub
- Super Cub, as the main character was a little lonely/depressed, does have a little more angst to it in the beginning.
- Super Cub is about riding mopeds rather than golf, so it is a lot of just riding to various places.
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 Sorairo Utility and Do It Yourself
- Girl becomes interested in a new thing
- Girl makes a group of new friends while doing the thing
- Plotless slice of life about exploring new aspects of the thing they are doing
- The main character is a similar sort of spacey, cheerful oddball
Differences Between Sorairo Utility and Do It Yourself
- Do It Yourself follows a club that is about fixing broken things rather than buying new things, and is set in a “slightly further along technologically than now” near-future.
- Do It Yourself does have more of a focus on character relationships and building friendships. As such, this does mean there can be moments of character drama outside of just being a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things anime.
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