Natsuo is in love with his teacher Hina. In order to try and forget his feelings, he goes to a mixer and meets a girl named Rui. Oddly enough, she asks him to do her a favor – to have sex with her. He does so, but soon he is faced with a unique problem. His father has remarried and he now has two new stepsisters that he knows too well – Rui and Hina
Following in the footsteps of a lot of recent romance series, Domestic Girlfriend is a more realistic and darker look at romance. If you crave more, we got you some anime recommendations. <3
Anime Like Domestic Girlfriend
For Fans of Love Triangles
Scum’s Wish
To the outside world, Mugi and Hanabi look like the perfect couple, but the truth is that they are only dating each other because they can’t be with the people they actually want to be with. For Hanabi, it is her childhood friend-turned-homeroom-teacher and for Mugi it is his older tutor that has been teaching him since middle school. In order to stave off the loneliness, the pair find solace in each other’s arms.
Of all the other series, Scum’s Wish is the most similar to Domestic Girlfriend. It features a love triangle that isn’t your typical happy harem affair. Instead it features physical relationships, real feelings, and the darkness that everyone has inside them.
Love and Lies
In order to encourage successful marriages and to combat the low birthrate, the Japanese government now assigns marriage partners at the age of 16. Unwilling to face the severe repercussions that come with denial, Yukari Nejima goes along with it, despite confessing to his long-time crush. However, is his reciprocated love doomed to be crushed when he gets his marriage notice?
Like Domestic Girlfriend, Love and Lies explores a relationship where everyone loves someone different and a happy ending doesn’t seem like it is going to come easy. However, due to the government program as the sort of antagonist, it doesn’t have the same layer of realism.
School Days
In a stroke of fate, Makoto Itou noticed Kotonoha Katsura on the train ride to school. Too shy to ask her out, he finds himself encouraged by his classmates Sekai Saionji who also has a crush on Makoto. What should have been blissful school days soon turns sour as a love triangle forms and both women find themselves unable to live without Makoto.
Unlike Domestic Girlfriend, School Days becomes more of a dark parody of the whole love triangle trope popular in harem anime series. It turns the dial up to the extreme by the end that is either shocking or hilarious depending on the type of person you are.
For Fans of Sisters
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.
Both series are new this season, but they both feature relationships with sisters. However, in Quintessential Quintuplets, it is more of a comedy series where they heavily hint a romance will develop. However, you are just not sure which sister it will be with.
Kiss x Sis
After his father got remarried, Keita found himself with a new mother and two twin step-sisters. However, as the girls transitioned into teenagers, their brotherly love for Keita turned into something more.
Kiss x Sis has a similar plot to Domestic Girlfriend, but it is the type of show that wants to be more comedic and ecchi. Essentially, Domestic Girlfriend took this common trope and turned it into a more mature and emotional show.
Please Twins
Maiku Kamishiro has a past that is a mystery to him. His only clue on his family is a photograph of a boy and a girl playing in a pool as children. In an effort to learn more, he moves into his old house. One day, two girls show up, both with the same photo, claiming to be his twin. In an effort to find out who is the real twin, he lets both girls move in.
Both series are about a guy that is suddenly living with two girls. While Domestic Girlfriend explores feelings and the nature of their relationship, Please Twins remains a comedic show with a touch of mystery since one of these girls falling in love with him may be his sister.
For Fans of Physical Relationships
Nana
This is the story of two girls, both of which are named Nana. Nana Komatsu is a naive girl addicted to love who is moving to Tokyo to chase after her boyfriend going to school there. Nana Osaki is a proud punk rocker that is moving to Tokyo to become a rock star. By chance, they meet on the train. By even bigger chance, they end up wanting to rent the same apartment only to decide to rent it together.
Like Domestic Girlfriend, Nana explores many different kinds of relationships. Some of them are good, and some of them are not very healthy at all. However, both shows don’t just gloss over bad relationships, instead they fully explore them.
Citrus
After her mother remarries, fashionable Yuzu moves to a new city. However, with her all-girls school being strict and conservative, she immediately butts heads with the stoic student council president. Worse yet, later that night she discovers that the student council president is now her new stepsister.
Make no mistake, this is a yuri show, but it explores a similar sort of relationship that Domestic Girlfriend does. New stepsister, physical relationships, all sorts of confusing feelings – they both don’t shy away from these things.
Netsuzou Trap
Yuma and Hotaru are neighbors and childhood friends. Nervous about landing her first boyfriend, Yuma goes to seasoned Hotaru for advice, but it turns out that advice becomes more like practice. And yet, this passion slowly drifts into the foreground as their secret tryst turns into real feelings.
This is another yuri show, but it also focuses on netorare love triangles where there are sometimes multiple relationships going on. While Domestic Girlfriend doesn’t go as far, it does showcase the feelings between multiple people.
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