Since he was a child, Kazuhiro Kitase had been having dreams of going on adventures in another world. Strangely enough, he can always pick up the dream where he left off by sleeping again the next night.
For years, he has been going on adventures with a beautiful elf named Mariabelle. When the pair of them quickly get killed after waking up a sleeping dragon, Kazuhiro wakes up in his bed, and is shocked to find Mariabelle sleeping next to him.
Now, Mariabelle adjusts to life living in modern Japan while the pair of them continue to go on adventures in her home world when they sleep.
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Anime Like Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf
For Fans of Fantasy Being in OUR World

Otaku Elf
Koito Koganei is a teenager who serves as a shrine maiden to the Takamimi Shrine as her family has always has. Alongside normal shrine maiden duties, she is also charged with taking care of the deity enshrined there.
Elda, an immortal elf summoned by Tokugawa Ieyasu, has lived in the shrine for 400 years. However, over that time, she has grown afraid of going outside and fallen deeply in love with games, anime, and other otaku hobbies.
Similarities Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Otaku Elf
- Elf women are living in our world, enjoying our niceties in a cute way
- Their companion helps them navigate modern life
Differences Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Otaku Elf
- The elf is enshrined as a living god and lives as a shut-in otaku in Otaku Elf, so there is no going to another world for light adventure in her dreams.
- Otaku Elf focuses on a coming of age story for the teenage caretaker of the shrine that the elf helps with. There is no romantic element in Otaku Elf like in Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf.

Gabriel Dropout
After graduating high school in Heaven, angels are sent down to Earth to guide humans down a righteous path. Heaven had high hopes for Gabriel, the top of her class. However, when she descended, she ended up skipping her duties and getting addicted to online games.
Similarities Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Gabriel Dropout
- Fantasy beings are living in our world among humans
- Fantasy girls cutely enjoying modern world niceties
Differences Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Gabriel Dropout
- Gabriel Dropout is a very much a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things comedy, which means no action or adventure as well as no men.
- Gabriel Dropout has no real romantic element to it
- Gabriel Dropout, as it features an angel that got addicted to MMO games, features more NEET/otaku-type comedy.

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
Miss Kobayashi is a programmer that lives alone in her apartment. However, one day a giant green dragon ends up on her doorstep and transforms into a women in a maid outfit.
Apparently, Kobayashi had gotten drunk one night and ended up saving this dragon. Now, dragon Tooru intends to repay her debt through housework.
Similarities Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- A fantasy being comes to live in our modern world
- The fantasy being lives with a normal human
- Romantic elements or at least romantic baiting
- Cute slice of life adventures is often the plot
Differences Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
- Miss Kobayashi is about a dragon coming to live with an office lady who saved her life
- Miss Kobayashi sets up a romance between two women, so it is incredibly coy about romantic development.
- Miss Kobayashi doesn’t have much action to it. The show is really more of a wholesome slice of life comedy.
For Fans of Isekai’d, but They Can Come Back

Gate – Thus The JSDF Fought There
Japanese Self-Defense Force solider and otaku Youji Itami is in the Ginza district of Tokyo feeding his hobby one afternoon when a gate to another world opens and medieval soldiers flood modern day Japan.
While Itami, in conjunction with the local police, manage to save many civilian lives, his hero status forces him to go beyond the gate with his fellow soldiers to explore a mysterious new world filled with swords, magic, elves, and dragons.
Similarities Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Gate
- A normal middle-aged male main character can go back and forth between a fantasy world
- He befriends at least one fantasy girl with a romantic interest in him
- Fantasy action adventure combined with cute slice of life in our modern world
Differences Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Gate
- The main character in Gate is in the military, so he is on a military operation when in the fantasy world
- Gate has a compact harem rather than just a single love interest
- The “other world to modern world” ratio is skewed the opposite. Gate spends most of its time in another world and is far more action and plot focused.

Sasaki and Peeps
Unfulfilled and lonely by the corporate grind, middle-aged salaryman Sasaki decides to get a pet for some companionship. He settles on a buying a small bird who, much to his surprise, reveals itself to be a reborn sage from another world who still has his memories – and magic – intact.
Transporting Sasaki to his home world and bestowing some of his magic to him, Sasaki hopes to use his magic and the ability to travel back and forth between worlds to start a new life of peace and comfort.
However, after getting involved economically and politically with the fantasy kingdom and his new magic powers attracting the attention of the government in modern Japan, Sasaki escaped his dull corporate life and now faces endless excitement no matter where he goes.
Similarities Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Sasaki and Peeps
- A normal middle aged male main character can go back and forth between our modern world and another world.
- Both series feature action, but are far less focused on it than the standard isekai adventure
- A girl comes back from the otherworld with him
Differences Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Sasaki and Peeps
- Sasaki and Peeps lays the groundwork for potential romance, but never really establishes one.
- A girl coming back with the main character from another world is just a small piece of Sasaki and Peeps and does not happen right away.
- Unlike Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf, which often has no plot but the relationship, Sasaki and Peeps has two plots. The isekai plot about starting a business and handling politics in another world and the “fighting psychic ability users for the government using magic that they mistook for psychic abilities” plot.

Uncle From Another World
Takafumi’s uncle has been in a coma for 17 years after being hit by a truck when he was 17. However, after all this time, he has woken up.
As Takafumi discovers, while his uncle was in a coma in his world, he was transported to a fantasy land and became a great hero despite constantly being confused for an orc due to his appearance.
Now, Takafumi has to room with this man who needs to catch up on 20 years of gaming and anime culture while still possessing literal magical powers.
Similarities Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Uncle From Another World
- A man goes to another world and then comes back to ours
- He has a slow-moving romantic relationship with an elf girl
- Occasional action, but often more focused on slice of life
Differences Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Uncle From Another World
- Uncle From Another World is often reminiscing about a man’s time in another world while he was in a coma, so the elf didn’t come back with him.
- The elf is a big tsundere in Uncle From Another World. This, combined with the uncle’s density, is the roadblock to any meaningful romance.
- Uncle From Another World is very much a comedy isekai, and not always as wholesome as Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf
For Fans of Living With Fantasy Beings

A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
One day, an impoverished private detective named Sousuke Kaburaya meets a girl named Sara who turns out to be a magical princess from another world.
While they start living together as Sara learns and adjusts to modern Japan, a number of other strange girls turn out to be living their lives in Gifu City.
Similarities Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
- At least one girl comes from a fantasy world to our modern one.
- She ends up living with a man who takes care of her and helps her navigate the world
- Various slice of life adventures is the plot with character bonds growing
Differences Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
- A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics features multiple women from another world, showcasing the various individual character stories and overlapping interactions that go on in one town.
- A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics doesn’t have a strong romantic element. It does, however, feature a teen princess who develops a crush on the adult man that takes care of her, but appropriate boundaries are maintained.
- As the series is just about a series of wacky adventures that fantasy girls get into in our world, there is no action in A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics.

Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
Shintarou Tokumitsu is a high school student who just started living by himself in a studio apartment. However, his living arrangement changes drastically when he discovers an actual angel sleeping on his balcony.
The innocent and kind angel named Towa was sent to Earth to learn more about humanity by interacting with them. Not having anywhere else to go and afraid her naivety might get taken advantage of, Shintarou invites her to stay with him. However, hiding her status as an angel becomes increasingly more difficult as he has clandestine run-ins with a variety of eccentric girls.
Similarities Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
- A fantasy being shows up in our modern world without any knowledge of how to live in it
- She ends up living in the same apartment as the nice male main character
- Slow building romance between them while other fantasy girls continue to show up
- Wholesome slice of life and romance plot
Differences Between Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf and Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
- Studio Apartment, while it has a pretty clear main romance, is also a harem affair as every other girl he meets falls for him.
- Studio Apartment lacks an action element
- Studio Apartment follows a high school aged main character and not an adult man with a job.
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