After his grandmother passed away, Hayato returned to the seaside cafe she had ran since he was a child, intent to sell it. However, after leaving for university, he didn’t realized that his grandmother had let five young women live on the property and work at the cafe as well.
In their desperation to keep their home, they convince Hayato to keep and re-open the cafe. However, between running a business and dealing with five unruly women, he is in for a difficult time.
I’ve seen a fair bit of ecchi harem anime, and this is indeed another one. However, to its credit, this series has some unexpectedly good comedy and lets the quirkiness of some of the girls be really fun without turning into pure absurd comedy. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses, head on down below.
Anime Like The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses
For Fans of Living With Your Harem
Love Hina
After making a childhood promise with a girl who moved away, Keitaro is dedicated to getting into the prestigious Tokyo University. Unfortunately, he is hopelessly stuck failing his entrance exams.
In order to continue trying, he moves out of his parent’s house into his grandmother’s inn to work as a manager.
However, what he doesn’t know is that her hot springs inn is also an all-girls dorm.
Of all the anime recommendations on this list, Love Hina is easily the most similar anime to The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses. Although, Love Hina is older. This means not just lower quality animation, but it enjoys older harem tropes as well.
Both series follow college-aged main characters who move into a dorm that was owned by their grandmother. This dorm just happens to be home to all women who initially are mistrustful of him, but as he helps them sort through their various problems, they all come to love him.
As well as both being harem anime, they also both happen to be ecchi harem anime.
Love Flops
One normal day, high school student Asahi Kashiwagi wakes up and watches a fortune teller’s predictions on TV. On his way to school, as according to the predictions, he has a variety of accidentally lewd encounters with five different people.
After these five clandestine meetings, he discovers that all five of them are new members of his class. What’s more, their encounters have all sparked the embers of love between him and each one of them.
Now he needs to follow his own heart else his love life flop and fizzle out.
While both The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses and Love Flops focus on main characters that end up living with a bunch of diverse girls, they actually have a similar feel to them in the way that situation is explored.
Both series follow rather serious main characters that aren’t looking for or even excited to have a harem. They serve as the straight man for the weird comedic situations that the girls spawn around them. Both series are actually quite masterful in serving up unexpected comedy to those that just came for the ecchi harem set up.
Girlfriend, Girlfriend
After loving her for years, Naoya Mukai finally confesses his love to his childhood friend, Saki. However, just as he settles into dating her, a girl named Nagisa comes out of the woodwork and confesses her secret love for him.
Instead of shooting her down, he is charmed by her feelings, and suggests to both her and Saki that he date both of them.
While Girlfriend, Girlfriend is more degenerate with its main character living with his girlfriend and his other girlfriend, both series are indeed about main characters living with a quirky harem. They both particularly enjoy leaning into comedy by making the girls a little quirkier than the standard harem and putting them into ecchi situations.
While Hayato is a bit harsher with his unmanageable harem, both series feature main characters with some confidence who are not immediately walked all over by the strong personalities of their live-in ladies.
Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory
After their home burns down and he is abandoned by his father, Koushi Nagumo wanders homeless until he collapses on the street. He is found by a woman named Mineru and taken to a female dormitory.
Koushi discovers that Mineru is the temporary manager there, and she invites him to be the permanent dorm mother to the problematic female residents.
Like The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses, Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory follows a male main character moving into a dorm full of college-aged quirky women. Unlike The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses, Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory has that main character aged down to being a 12-year-old.
Having a middle schooler as a main character didn’t stop Mother of the Goddess’ Dormitory from being a pretty aggressive ecchi anime, though. It’s more ecchi than The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses at times, though it is pretty innocent about it since the main character is a nice young kid.
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Yuragi-sou was once a hot springs inn, but is now a boarding house that only has a few residents.
Rumor has it that the boarding house is haunted, and this rumor has attracted a homeless psychic that is hoping to exorcise the ghost in order for an affordable place to stay.
However, he discovers that it is not a malicious ghost, but a ghost named Yuuna that all the other residents can see as well.
Both series focus on a guy that moves into a house full of girls for various reasons. While The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses is pretty obvious that is it a harem, Yuuna and The Haunted Hot Springs works up to that as you discover that a good chunk of the others that live there are also female residents.
While both series enjoy their ecchi, Yunna and the Haunted Hot Springs is a supernatural anime.
For Fans of Cafe Jobs
Blend S
Maika is a person with naturally bad luck, although much of that comes from her mean-looking eyes. These eyes have since prevented her from gaining part-time employment in order to fund her dreams of studying abroad.
However, one day she meets a man named Dino who runs a very special café. Inside, the waitresses all adopt very specific personas for the customers, and Dino wants Maika to be his sadistic-type girl.
However, despite having the eyes for it, Maika isn’t a sadist.
The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses and Blend S are both cafe anime that focus on its female staff members. Whereas The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses hooks you in with harem story lines and the occasional ecchi, Blend S focuses on comedy through its waitresses who all adopt certain personas while working.
While The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses can have some good comedy, Blend S is all comedy. If you enjoy your cafe aesthetic, cute girls, and are ready to laugh, it is an excellent option.
Nekopara
Kashou Minazuki is the son of Japanese bakers who has recently started working at the patisserie La Soleil. At home, he and his sister Shigure enjoy the company of their six catgirls.
Two wily ones, Chocola and Vanilla, join Kashou helping at the bakery while the others stay home with Shigure.
One day while Chocola is out running errands, she happens across a little green-haired kitten that she brings home. Now, the Minazuki household has seven energetic catgirls!
While Nekopara technically takes place in a bakery, it is still very much a cafe experience.
While Nekopara isn’t an ecchi anime, it still follows, primarily, a male main character who – in this case – is surrounded by a slew of catgirls in a “not a harem, but is actually a harem” situation. Although, Nekopara is based on a series of games that do have adult versions. So getting into the fandom is a gateway for some more degeneracy if you look hard enough.
If you enjoy a variety of girls, Nekopara has a lot to offer, but they are just moe catgirls.
And Yet The Town Moves
Hastily jumping on the new trend, Seaside Cafe transformed itself into a maid cafe, but offers no classic maid cafe staples and only really gets customers from the nearby shopping district.
Despite the fumbling, this is where Hotori Arashiyama works after school where she, too, stumbles through life.
If you enjoyed The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses more for the quirkiness of its characters, And Yet The Town Moves offers up another cafe-based story that puts a lot of focus on its quirky cast of characters.
While And Yet the Town Moves isn’t a harem or even a romance, like The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses, it has a bit of a passion for strange and unexpected comedy. Yet, both series are rather subtle about it rather than firing that comedy off at a rapid pace, thus making it more effective.
Is The Order a Rabbit?
It’s the positive attitude and energy that Kokoa Hoto exudes which allows her to become friends with anyone in just a few seconds. This is her story as she moves away from home to attend school and ends up working in a café for room and board.
Of course, by very nature, she befriends everyone she comes in contact with, including the granddaughter of the cafe founder who is often seen with a talking rabbit.
While both The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses and Is The Order a Rabbit are both anime series following a group of girls working in a cafe, they differ very distinctly.
The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses is an ecchi-laced harem anime focusing on the harem king helping his girls solve their various problems while trying to keep the cafe afloat, but Is The Order a Rabbit is a moe blob of Cute Girls Doing Cute Things, in this case, cutely working in a cafe.
If you enjoyed the cafe aesthetic, Is The Order a Rabbit is great, but perhaps less recommended for those that wanted more ecchi or a more traditional harem set up.
Yuri is My Job
With a cute face, good grades, and a flawless friendly facade, Hime Shiraki hopes to land herself a rich husband by being the picture of perfection.
However, after she takes a tumble down some stairs, she lands on Mai Mikoshiba, injuring the girl’s arm. It turns out that Mai is the manager of a cafe, and she uses her injury to make Hime help out there.
This is how Hime ended up at Cafe Liebe, an all-girls academy-themed cafe where she stumbles through the work and one of the other waitresses seems to hate her for no apparent reason.
Both The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses and Yuri is My Job primarily focus on a group of girls who work in a cafe. While you enjoy seeing them do their jobs, the primary meat of the plot in both anime is exploring their various personal stories.
That said, Yuri is My Job is a girl’s love anime, so the romance is between two girls, although it spends a lot of time ship-baiting, not unlike harem anime.
Both series really balance the slice of life and cute moments out with a bit of serious drama to keep things interesting.
For Fans of Diversely Quirky Harem Girls
Bokuben – We Never Learn
In order to help his family out financially, Nariyuki Yuiga dedicated himself to becoming a high achiever in order to get a special nomination that covers future university fees.
While he is constantly overshadowed by two other classmates in math and literature, he manages to get the nomination anyway with the condition he tutor these two other students in other academic areas.
It turns out that these two girls that excel over him in those two subjects are mediocre at everything else.
Both of these series are harem anime that follow a normal studious guy that is plagued by a growing harem of quirky women who also develop a fondness for him.
However, as a high school anime, Bokuben is a little more light-hearted and focused on the comedy. It also doesn’t have much in the way of ecchi compared to The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses.
The Quintessential Quintuplets
As his family is in some serious debt, Fuutaro Uesugi is a serious penny pincher. However, his great grades have landed him a higher than normal paying tutor job.
The problem is that his five wards, all sisters, are dumb as door nails and think he is a complete idiot.
However, to get his pay, he has to think of a way to get these five unique girls to study and learn.
While The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses and The Quintessential Quintuplets are both harem anime, The Quintessential Quintuplets is a harem anime that still takes place in high school. However, it didn’t let that stop it from still focusing on the dramatic problems of the girls. It did stop it from injecting more graphic ecchi, however.
What The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses and The Quintessential Quintuplets most have in common is their main character. He is the straight man for the comedy of all the quirky girls around him to play off of. He is serious and diligent, but that often means the girls make him look rather silly.
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