For Konohoshi Umika, her social anxiety makes her feel like an alien trapped on Earth. Due to feeling so much like an outcast, she dreams of building a rocket to take her into space so she can meet aliens who might finally understand her.
One day, she meets the energetic and friendly Akeuchi Yuu, a girl who also claims to be an alien that crashed on Earth and can’t get home. In fact, she can’t even remember which planet she even calls home or how she got to Earth.
Bonding with Akeuchi, the pair decide to start building rockets so that she can go back home.
CGDCT and social anxiety are such a popular mix these days, so it is nice to see aliens getting some love in there. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Stardust Telepath, head on down below.
Anime Like Stardust Telepath
For Fans of Cute Girls Doing Cute STEM 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.
Both Stardust Telepath and Asteroid in Love are Cute Girls Doing Cute Things anime where the “thing” they are doing is space-focused. Stardust Telepath is about making rockets while Asteroid in Love is more about astronomy (and occasionally geology).
Regardless, both series are about very moe girls with an interest in the stars and a whole lot of yuri baiting.
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.
While Stardust Telepath is about making rockets in the most casual way possible, Do It Yourself is about cute girls doing relatively physical handyman skills. Woodworking, fixing things, re-purposing junk – that sort of thing.
Both series are school club-focused CGDCT anime about a club full of various personalities doing scientific and mechanical work while also dealing with their various interpersonal issues. Both series are usually quite cute, but do embrace character drama at times too.
A Place Further Than The Universe
Upon discovering an old list she made in the last year of middle school, Mari Tamaki, who is now in her second year of high school, realizes she is not making the most of her youth. Whenever she tries to do something new, she is paralyzed with inaction.
Then one day she meets Shirase, a girl who’s mother went missing when she was in middle school on an expedition to Antarctica.
Knowing full well it is close to impossible, she works hard in order to go to search for her mother and invites Mari along for the ride.
Unlike Stardust Telepath that focuses on a specific science topic – making rockets – A Place Further Than The Universe is more focused on a journey than the topic. A group of girls want to go to Antarctica, and the journey to get there is steeped in scientific reality in that are using a science expedition to get there.
While both series are focused on a group of female friends in a science activity, A Place Further Than The Universe is focused on the drama and stories of the characters. It looks like a CGDCT anime, but definitely is not.
For Fans of Alien Girls
A Galaxy Next Door
After the death of their father, Ichirou Kuga supported his two younger siblings on their inheritance and by taking up drawing manga. However, with tight deadlines, he finds himself in need of a new assistant to help him meet his schedule.
While growing dangerously near his breaking point, Shiori Goshiki takes the job. She is incredibly fast and also detailed, a real dream assistant.
However, one night while working late, Ichirou gets pricked by something on Goshiki’s body and suddenly finds out that now they can’t be too physically far apart without him suffering ill effects, but they are, according to the customs of her homeland, engaged to marry.
Aliens are among us, but they just want to be friends, I guess. Like Stardust Telepath, A Galaxy Next Door is about the main character meeting an alien girl. However, instead of becoming friends, they are immediately forced into dating.
While Stardust Telepath is a CGDCT school club anime, A Galaxy Next Door is a sweet and slow slice of life-focused romance. Their relationship starts suddenly, but moves in a slow and tender way. It may be a romance anime, but it keeps the same cute and fluffy slice of life vibe that Stardust Telepath enjoys.
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.
Both Stardust Telepath and Waiting in Summer are about an alien crashing into a town and changing the melancholy life of the main character. While Stardust Telepath is about helping a girl come out of her shell, Waiting in Summer is a romance.
While not CGDCT, Waiting in Summer also has that alien girl integrating with a group of friends and they enjoy a lot of fun slice of life moments together, though it does have some romantic drama as well. However, while Stardust Telepath often leaves you wondering if Akeuchi is actually an alien, it is not so ambiguous in Waiting in Summer.
Celestial Method
In her hometown, Nonoka Komiya and her friends once tried to summon a flying saucer to grant their wishes. However, soon after, Nonoka had to move away, but none of them realized that a flying saucer had been called – hanging in the sky over their heads waiting to grant their wish.
Seven years later, Nonoka returns to her hometown, but after her mothers’ death, she had blocked out many of her past memories. When she is greeted by a girl named Noel, Nonoka has no memory of her like she does with her other friends, but she still tries to reforge her relationship with this girl who insists they met before.
Alien girls in anime tend to be used for romance plots, but Stardust Telepath isn’t the first CGDCT anime to wield them – Celestial Method enjoys alien girls non-romantically as well.
While Stardust Telepath is about overcoming crippling shyness through friendship, Celestial Method has a more emotional-oriented plot about a main character reforming friendships, overcoming amnesia, and solving an alien-related mystery.
Arakawa Under the Bridge
Kou Ichinomiya, as the son of a wealthy businessman, has vowed never to become indebted to anyone.
However,when he falls in the river under Arakawa Bridge, someone dives in to save him, thus he owes his life to this person. She is a homeless girl named Nino who wants only one thing – to fall in love.
In order to pay her back, he accepts her offer to be her boyfriend, thus moving out of his home and starting a new life under the bridge.
There is a big question that dangles over the head of Stardust Telepath – is Akeuchi actually an alien? While Arakawa Under the Bridge has a very different tone from Stardust Telepath as a more aggressive gag-based comedy, it still has that same question looming over Nino.
Both series are about main characters who have their whole world changed by a clandestine meeting with a girl who claims to be an alien. While Arakawa Under the Bridge loses itself in gag comedy early and often, it actually does have a meaningful plot underneath all that. That plot is, like Stardust Telepath, about encouraging the main character to express themselves.
For Fans of Introverts Coming Out of Their Shell
Bocchi the Rock
Having social anxiety but still wishing to make friends, Hitori Gotou started learning the guitar to help lure people into talking to her. Years later, she has amassed great guitar skills, but is in high school with still no friends.
One day, she happens to meet an outgoing girl who just so happens to need a guitarist for her band. Gaining the nickname Bocchi, Hitori is recruited in and puts her heart into improving her stage skills to make the band a success.
While the topics of rock music and rocket building differ greatly, both Bocchi the Rock and Stardust Telepath follow a social anxious wreck of a main character who finally makes the friends that she has been craving. Those friends then help her overcome her social anxiety to try and indulge her passion.
Both series are CGDCT anime about a group of girls focusing on a specific topic with plenty of slice of life friendship moments in between. However, while Stardust Telepath delights with its color palate and occasional visual moments, Bocchi the Rock delights with its rock music and the way it artistically showcases social anxiety in a physical form.
Adachi and Shimamura
One day while skipping class, Adachi Sakura and Shimamura Hougetsu meet in the second floor gym.
They talk, play ping pong, and eventually become friends. However, as they spend more time together, their feelings begin to shift.
Both Stardust Telepath and Adachi and Shimamura are about shy girls making their first friends. However, while Stardust Telepath enjoys a lot of yuri-bait moments, Adachi and Shimamura is an a legitimate shoujo ai love story about two girls that become friends and then slowly realizing that their friendship was something more.
Both series are very slice of life-focused, but Stardust Telepath with its rockets and aliens has a lot more to fill the time. Adachi and Shimamura is fully dedicated to the slow progression of their friendship through just spending time together.
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.
While the social anxiety in Stardust Telepath is a bit different from the reclusiveness in Slow Loop, both series do end up being about the same thing.
Both Slow Loop and Stardust Telepath are about girls with no friends being pulled out of their shell by a sudden new friend appearing in their life. While Stardust Telepath is about aliens, Slow Loop is about stepsisters.
Both series are also CGDCT anime. The thing in Stardust Telepath is making rockets while the thing in Slow Loop is fishing.
Hitori Bocchi’s Lifestyle
Suffering from extreme social anxiety, Hitori Bocchi has problems making friends. To make matters worse, she is going to middle school without her one and only friend.
Furthermore, her only friend will only talk to her if she makes new friends at this school. So begins her struggle.
If you took out the rockets and the aliens, Stardust Telepath would be a school life anime about a girl with social anxiety making her first friends. …And that is exactly what Hitori Bocchi’s Lifestyle is.
Both series are cute girls meeting other cute girls, and doing cute slice of life things as their friendships build and deepen.
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