After years of tension, the Osaka’s Somei and Tokyo’s Miyama yakuza families have called a truce, one built on the engagement between the grandchildren of their leaders. For 17-year-old Yoshino Somei, she is forced to move to Tokyo to live with Kirishima Miyama where she will attend school with her new fiance.
While Kirishima is handsome and polite, he eventually reveals his true nature to Yoshino. Not only can he hurt people without thinking twice, this masochistic maniac wants an arrogant and spoiled fiancee who will ruin his life.
When Yoshino fails to meet his expectations, he insults her. However, Yoshino, not one to back down, decides to make him fall for her so she can ruthlessly break his heart.
If you want toxic, sexy relationships, the yakuza seem like a good place to look. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Yakuza Fiance, head on down below.
Anime Like Yakuza Fiancé
For Fans of Romance in The Criminal Underworld
A Girl and Her Guard Dog
After the death of her parents, Isaku is sent to the only family she had left – her grandfather. However, as a yakuza boss, suddenly she became “the boss’ granddaughter,” painting a target on her back.
As a young child, Isaku was introduced to Keiya, a man who took care of and protected her. Due to her family’s reputation and Keiya’s frequent diligent care-taking, Isaku has not been able to form meaningful friendships at school, but she hopes to change that as she makes her high school debut.
Although she went to a school far from home, she is shocked to find that 26-year-old Keiya is also enrolled in her class in order to continue to protect her.
Similarities Between Yakuza Fiance and A Girl and Her Guard Dog
- Both Yakuza Fiance and A Girl and Her Guard Dog are yakuza romance between the granddaughter of a clan boss and a handsome, dangerous yakuza member
- Problematic relationship dynamics for spiciness
- The male love interest is yandere-levels of devoted to the heroine
- Yakuza intrigue
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and A Girl and Her Guard Dog
- A Girl and Her Guard Dog is an age-gap romance between a now-high school girl and the older, handsome underling of her grandfather who raised her since she was a child. It can be an ick-inducing dynamic nodded at frequently.
- The heroine in A Girl and Her Guard Dog is naive and too innocent, she lacks every ounce of fire you see in Yoshino.
- The male lead in Yakuza Fiance is menacing at times, but also friendly. The male lead in A Girl and Her Guard Dog is the strong, silent, emotionally muted type.
- A Girl and Her Guard Dog is more shoujo romance focused while Yakuza Fiance spends a decent chunk on clan dynamics and the yakuza intrigue that is going on.
Love of Kill
Although a novice bounty hunter, Chateau Dankworth is confident in her skills. However, one day she is overpowered by a man who wasn’t even her target, and worse yet, he takes an immediate romantic interest in her.
She soon learns that the man who continues to pester her is Song Ryang-ha – a former assassin and wanted by the Asian underworld organization he turned against. This leads them to constant run-ins with members from both of their pasts.
Similarities Between Yakuza Fiance and Love of Kill
- Romance between two people that live deep in the criminal underworld
- Obsessive, devoted, yandere male love interest
- A strong heroine who, at first, resists the attentions of the male love interest and finds him obnoxious
- Problematic relationship dynamics for spiciness
- Underworld intrigue
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and Love of Kill
- Love of Kill is a romance between two adult professional assassins. So no high school, but also no yakuza.
- The intrigue in Love of Kill is more why the male love interest had sudden laser-targeted affection towards the heroine, exploring both of their pasts.
- The heroine in Love of Kill isn’t quite as fiery in personality, she is more a strong, silent, emotionally damaged type.
- Love of Kill does offer some action, since both characters have jobs (as assassins) to do.
Phantom – Requiem for the Phantom
America is rife with assassinations, with a mysterious company called Inferno behind many of them.
One day, a Japanese tourist witnesses one of these killings, and is chased down. They are captured and brainwashed into a puppet with no memories that now works as an assassin with Inferno’s human weapon, Phantom.
Similarities Between Yakuza Fiance and Phantom
- The dangerous entanglement of a man and women who grow closer in the criminal underworld
- Underworld intrigue
- Characters with mysterious dark pasts that color their current personalities
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and Phantom
- Phantom has romance elements, but is not specifically a romance anime like Yakuza Fiance. It also might not have the satisfaction that romance fans might be looking for since it leans more serious and melancholy.
- Phantom follows two assassins in the underworld, one of which was kidnapped and forced into it through brainwashing.
- Phantom focuses far more on its unraveling intrigue plot as well as has a decent amount of action.
- Phantom features a starkly different relationship dynamic between its emotional muted female love interest and its “brainwashed and unsure of who he is but has been forced to kill” male main character.
Banana Fish
During the Iraq War, a soldier named Griff goes insane and starts killing his own platoon. After being subdued, all he kept speaking was the words “banana fish”.
Years later, Griff is taken care of by his brother Ash, a boy who ran away from home and was taken in by mob boss Papa Dino who abused him.
Now, Ash seeks to unravel the mystery of this banana fish, a phrase that keeps mysteriously popping up in his life.
Similarities Between Yakuza Fiance and Banana Fish
- Blooming romance in the criminal underworld
- Underworld intrigue
- Brutal men shaped by the terrible things that happened to them over their lives.
- Morally gray array of characters
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and Banana Fish
- Banana Fish is a boy’s love romance, which means the romance is between two men.
- Banana Fish has far more action and intrigue since it is, essentially, a guy dismantling a mafia family for bloody revenge.
- The romance plays a sizable role in Banana Fish, but it is not fully focused on it in the same way as Yakuza Fiance.
- Banana Fish wields sexual assault as a weapon, frequently.
Nisekoi
Ten years ago, Raku Ichijou made a promise with a childhood friend to meet again and use the key she holds to open the locket he wears around his neck then be together forever. In the present day, this heir apparent to an intimidating yakuza family continues to wait for his friend’s return while trying to be as uninvolved in family matters as possible.
However, when a rival gang invades his family’s turf, the family leaders decide Raku should start a romantic relationship with the other chief’s daughter, Chitoge.
While they pretend to be dating to maintain the peace, Raku is almost positive his classmate Kosaki Onodera is the girl he made his promise with.
Similarities Between Yakuza Fiance and Nisekoi
- Two crime families set up a romantic relationship between their grandchildren
- At least one side of the couple pressured into this romance is not into it, but endures it for the sake of their family.
- Real feelings start to bloom between them
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and Nisekoi
- Nisekoi is about two teens whose crime families are about to have a turf war who pretend to start dating in order to keep the peace. So it is a fake romance they are maintaining despite having no initial interest in each other.
- Nisekoi is a lighter, more comedic rom-com where even the crime families are comical goofballs most of the time. So expect no serious yakuza intrigue like Yakuza Fiance.
- Nisekoi is a love triangle romance that plays coy with which girl is the “main girl”
Gokusen
Kumiko Yamaguchi is smart, energetic,and starting her dream job as a teacher at Shirokiun Academy. Unfortunately, she soon learns that her class in this all-boys school is a cesspool of the worst delinquents in school.
However, young Kumiko has a secret weapon, she is the heir apparent of a yakuza clan and knows how to handle rough men.
Capable of both overpowering these thugs and getting them to listen, she is ready to change the lives of her students.
Similarities Between Yakuza Fiance and Gokusen
- Fiery yakuza heroine who can and does stand up for herself
- Thuggish man who takes a romantic interest
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and Gokusen
- Gokusen, while it has romantic elements hinted in the anime, is not a romance until far later in the story, which unfortunately not animated.
- Gokusen is about a yakuza heir becoming a teacher for delinquents, then helping them with their problems instead of writing them off like every other teacher had.
- The hinted love interest in Gokusen in one of her students, who is not yakuza related. So it is an age-gap and student/teacher sort of roadblock that may not be to everyone’s tastes.
- Gokusen has drama, but is often a comedy.
For Fans of Overly Attached, Wildly Possessive Men
A Condition Called Love
After an event in her childhood, Hotaru Hinase believes that she is just incapable of understanding the concept of romantic love, and believes that falling in love is something that just wasn’t meant to happen to her.
While out with a friend, she watches the messy break up between a girl and her schoolmate, the handsome and popular Saki Hananoi. Watching him sit sadly in the snow afterwards, she offers him her umbrella.
This seemingly small gesture comes back around when Hananoi confesses his feelings for her at school the next day. Although she initially rejects him since she has no romantic feelings for him, upon spending more time with him, she agrees to try dating and trying to understand this condition called love a little bit better.
Similarities Between Yakuza Fiance and A Condition Called Love
- High school romance between a girl and the boy who is increasingly obsessively in love with her.
- Male love interests embrace yandere vibes with their jealousy and possessiveness
- The male love interests’ behavior is explored through their backstory
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and A Condition Called Love
- A Condition Called Love is a normal shoujo high school romance. No sexy criminals.
- The heroine in A Condition Called Love is every ounce a normal, nice girl and not a firebrand like Yoshino.
Horimiya
Although lauded for being likable and intelligent, Kyouko Hori hides the fact that she has to take care of her brother and the housework because her parents are always working.
Izumi Miyamura, on the other hand, is seen as a brooding, bespectacled otaku. Outside of school, he sports tattoos and nine piercings.
By happenstance, the two outside school personalities of these two classmates meet and they get to know a side of each other they don’t show their peers.
Similarities Between Yakuza Fiance and Horimiya
- High school romance between a girl and a boy with a darker side that is increasingly attached to her.
- Fiery heroines who take no shit, but are vulnerable when alone
- The male love interests’ behavior is explored through their backstory
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and Horimiya
- Horimiya is a pretty wholesome, normal high school romance without much drama to it.
- Horimiya has the main romance progress quickly and far more side relationships are explored. Yakuza Fiance spends a good deal of time in the “heroine realizing she actually like that jerkass and doesn’t hate him” phase.
- The male love interest in Horimiya is not especially menacing, and more emotionally damaged from bullying.
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 Yakuza Fiance and Class President is a Maid
- High school romance between a girl and the boy obsessed with her
- Fiery heroine who takes no shit, but can be vulnerable in private
- Confident, persistent male love interest who never takes no for an answer.
- The heroine initially hates the male love interest, but it worn down into loving him over time.
Differences Between Yakuza Fiance and Class President is a Maid
- Class President is a Maid is a romance where the female class president is tough, but works an embarrassing part time job at a maid cafe for money. The popular boy in school finds out, and blackmails her with that secret. No criminals, but also not exactly the most wholesome start either.
- Class President is a Maid has a less linear story than Yakuza Fiance. It is more just slice of life events that have romance injected in them. Yakuza Fiance does have a story unfolding around the romance.
- Class President is a Maid is more frequent with the comedy and silliness.
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