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Anime Like Tamon’s B-Side

The idol group F/ACE has skyrocketed in popularity due to its’ front man, the handsome, talented Tamon Fukuhara. For Utage Kinoshita, she worships Tamon above all others and even works at a housecleaning company to earn more money to support him.

When a co-worker gets sick, Utage is sent to a new client who turns out to be Tamon himself. However, instead of the vibrant confident man she sees on stage, she finds Tamon is actually a gloomy guy with minimal self-confidence off the stage.

Support that oshi, rehabilitate that oshi. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Tamon’s B-Side, head on down below.

Anime Like Tamon’s B-Side

For Fans of Beautiful Boys With Problems

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Heroines Run The Show

In order to continue pursuing track and field, Hiyori left her small hometown and moved to Tokyo. After her father gets injured, she takes a part-time job to support herself.

The job, as it turns out, is to be a manager-in-training for two male idols who just happen to be her two irritable classmates as well.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and Heroines Run The Show

  • A gremlin of a girl gets a part-time job.
  • That part-time job forces her into close proximity with male idols
  • The male idols have personalities that differ from their stage personas
  • Plucky heroine helps beautiful boys with their problems

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and Heroines Run The Show

  • You could imagine some feelings in there, but Heroines Run the Show isn’t really a romance.
  • The female main character is the manager of a male idol duo
  • The heroine is also classmates with the duo, which adds a whole extra layer.
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Hana Kimi

After seeing Izumi Sano high jump while visiting her grandmother in Japan, Mizuki Ashiya falls in love at first sight. She becomes so enamored with him that she even uproots her whole life, moving from America to Japan so she can attend the same high school as him.

There is just one problem with the plan—Sano attends an all-boy’s school. Disguising herself as a boy, Mizuki’s bright personality allows her to quickly make friends, but she is shocked to find out that she is not just Sano’s classmate, but also his roommate.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and Hana Kimi

  • A girl falls in love with a beautiful famous man that she meets in real life
  • Beautiful boy has problems that makes him want to quit doing the thing he loves
  • Female main character rehabilitates him while carrying on a romance
  • Love triangle that tries hard, but need not bother.

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and Hana Kimi

  • Hana-Kimi is set in an all-boys school where the heroine is cross-dressing as a boy to meet the guy she fell in love with.
  • Hana-Kimi has a heroine very open to romance, not resistant to it like Utage.
  • The roadblock that forced the male love interest to quit his sport in Hana Kimi isn’t social anxiety.
  • The male love interest in Hana-Kimi is suave like A-side Tamon, but more of a stoic.
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Ouran High School Host Club

In Ouran High School, the typical student is a member of the wealthy elite, but not Haruhi Fujioka. Accepted on a scholarship, Haruhi wants to avoid all the glitz and glamour in order to study hard and become a lawyer.

While looking for a rare quiet place to do so, Haruhi stumbles upon a host club. Frantic to get away from these weird boys, Haruhi breaks a valuable vase.

In order to pay back the debt, the club demands that Haruhi becomes a host. There is only one problem, contrary to what the boys believe, Haruhi is actually a girl.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and Ouran High School Hist Club

  • A whole slew of beautiful boys are beloved, and all have their own individual problems.
  • Heroine helps solve boy problems with her down-to-earth wisdom.
  • Romance-resistant heroine is slowly romanced.

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and Ouran High School Hist Club

  • Ouran High School Host Club is about a poor girl going to a school for the wealthy elite. So the boys are beautiful and rich, but not idols.
  • Ouran High School Host Club is very much a school series, but made ridiculous by wealth.
  • The heroine in Ouran High School Host Club is often mistaken for a boy.
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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 Tamon’s B-Side and My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun

  • Somewhat hot mess of a girl meets beautiful boy
  • Gremlin girl helps the beautiful boy with his emotional problems
  • Romance builds

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun

  • My Lv999 Love is gamer-themed, the beautiful boy is an esports star.
  • My Lv999 Love features a college girl with bad luck with boyfriends meeting a stoic gamer at a guild meetup for the game she plays.
  • My Lv999 Love has a “fake dating” element at first.
  • The only real problems the male love interest has is he is bit quiet and bad at showing his feelings.
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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 Tamon’s B-Side and Romantic Killer

  • Beautiful boys have problems
  • Plucky gremlin girl is passionate enough to tell these boys how it is right to their face, helping them fix their problems.
  • Romance blooms as beautiful boys fall for her sincerity

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and Romantic Killer

  • Romantic Killer is about a gamer girl forced to play a dating sim in real life and experience romance by a fairy that took away her ability to play dating sims.
  • Romantic Killer is more about solving boy problems, the heroine is pretty swoon-resistant, even compared to Utage.
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Idolish7

On her first day working for her father’s production agency, Tsumugi was certainly not expecting to become the manager of the agency’s new idol group.

Making her job even more difficult, deeming the group too big, she is asked by her father to cut four boys from it. However, after hearing them perform, she declares she won’t cut anyone from the group and dedicates herself to making them stars.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and Idolish7

  • A girl gets a job, and that job puts her in close proximity with male idols
  • Male idols have heaps of problems
  • Plucky heroine solves male idol problems

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and Idolish7

  • Idolish7 is a proper idol anime, not an idol-themed romance
  • The heroine in Idolish7 is, as it is an anime based off a game, a self-insert for the audience.
  • The heroine in Idolish7 is the manager for the idol group, not a housekeeper.
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Class President is a Maid!

Being the first female class president isn’t easy, especially when a school is still transitioning from being an all-boys school to a co-ed one. However, Misaki Ayuzawa is up to the task.

While she keeps rowdy boys in line with her martial arts, she has an embarrassing secret – she works part-time at a maid cafe to help her family.

She managed to keep her job a secret until one day the popular student Takumi Usui sees her at work. He could undo her reputation, or use her secret to get closer to her.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and Class President is a Maid

  • Beautiful, popular boy has problems
  • He meets the heroine, a girl with a part-time job, which allows them to be in close proximity
  • Plucky heroine’s authenticity helps him deal with his own problems.

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and Class President is a Maid

  • Think of the male love interest in Class President is a Maid as a wealthy A-side Tamon, who is also kind of cocky.
  • The heroine in Class President is a Maid is a tsundere-type. Expect rage and threats of violence.
  • Class President is a Maid is about a wealthy boy discovering the harsh class president works at a maid cafe, finding that cute, and hanging out there all the time to annoy her.
  • Class President is a Maid is very much a school romance

For Fans of Supporting That Oshi

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan anime

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

After receiving a flyer from idol Maina Ichii and seeing her perform live at a concert, Eripiyo dove hardcore into being a ‘wota’ for this shy rising idol star.

With her pink jumpsuit and endless passion for Maina, Eripiyo is soon recognized as Maina’s most dedicated fan and she does everything to support her despite Maina’s seemingly cold attitude towards her. It is her dream that, with enough support, Maina can perform at the world-famous Budokan arena.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

  • A girl goes to comical lengths to support her oshi
  • Idol-themed comedy

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

  • If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan is very much an idol comedy and not a romance.
  • The main character in If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan is a stan for a female idol group.

For Fans of Anxiety Keep on Tryin’ Me

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The Wallflower

Four boys are offered to live in a fantastic mansion free of rent, but on one condition. They must make the girl of the house into a fine young lady.

Enter Nakahara Sunako. She loves horror movies, death, and all things gloomy, stemming from a junior high school trauma.

Blinded by all things beautiful, these four handsome men have their work cut out for them.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and The Wallflower

  • Social anxiety so crippling its comical
  • Social anxious character wants to be better
  • Characters help the anxious character improve, whether they want to or not.
  • Gremlin heroine gets a romance with a beautiful man.

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and The Wallflower

  • The Wallflower is reversed. The gremlin girl is the socially anxious one while a stable of beautiful boys are trying to rehabilitate her.
  • The boys are just trying to get free rent by rehabilitating the heroine at first, but come to be friends.
  • The Wallflower is more goth-themed.
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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.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and Bocchi the Rock

  • Social anxiety so crippling its comical.
  • Social anxious character wants to, of all things, perform on stage
  • Characters trying to help that character overcome the anxiety so their tremendous talent can shine.
  • There’s an “A-Side” when the character performs.

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and Bocchi the Rock

  • Bocchi the Rock attracts the yuri shippers, but its not a romance.
  • Bocchi the Rock is about a shy high school girl joining a band to make friends, but her social anxiety gets in the way of life.
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Skip and Loafer

In order to pursue a career in politics to make a positive change for Japan, Mitsumi leaves her rural town to go to high school in Tokyo. While she has a clear life plan for herself, she is still a country girl in a big city and ends up late and lost on her first day.

Luckily, Mitsumi is noticed by a fellow new student, Sousuke Shima, and he guides her to school. This laid-back guy is charmed by her motivated personality and strikes up a friendship with her, supporting her as she tries to make meaningful friendships with her classmates.

Similarities Between Tamon’s B-Side and Skip and Loafer

  • Beautiful boy has problems
  • Fame has given a beautiful boy anxiety issues
  • Plucky, unflappable gremlin-like heroine appears in his life.
  • Her good attitude helps him address his own problems

Differences Between Tamon’s B-Side and Skip and Loafer

  • Skip and Loafer is very much a high school-set coming of age drama with romance elements.
  • Skip and Loafer focuses on the entire friend group and their various young people problems.

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