In a world where women govern, the creation and use of weapons is outlawed. Yet, conflict still exists. Now, instead of violence, fights are conducted via rap battles where words can cause real damage.
Although it made it difficult at times, I was able to look past the pretty clear sexism to the lol-worthy anime underneath it in which every single problem that might call for a fist is solved via rap. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Hypnosis Mic, then head on down below.
Anime Like Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle
For Fans as Music as a Weapon
Macross Frontier
Humanity has long waged war against a group of giants known as the Zentradi. Facing extinction in their losing war, they fled to the stars, heading towards the center of the galaxy. However, after a rather uneventful exodus, suddenly they find themselves fighting another foe, the biomechanical Vajra.
While Macross believe in the power of actual weapons, being a mecha series and all, it also is a long-standing proponent of song. It is believed that song can bring peace even across species in the universe, so, yes, it is more poignant than Hypnosis Mic, but still just as silly.
Symphogear
Under constant assault by an alien race called Noise, society doesn’t know that the idol duo Zwei Wing use their songs to charge powerful weapons known as Symphogear to fight back. After an attack at a concert, part of the duo sacrifices themselves to save a young girl, implanting a fragment of her symphogear in her. Years later, that same girl awakens the power to defend humanity.
While not rap and more action-heavy, Symphogear utilizes the power of song to power up their fighters. This takes itself more seriously than Hypnosis Mic and some of the songs are pretty good.
AKB0048
After interplanetary war, Earth is in ruins. As such, humanity has fled looking for new planets. Somewhere on this journey, it was deemed that music was the source of evil. This gave rise to those who gave secret performances, such as the AKB0048, an idol group based on the original AKB48 of old Earth.
Similarly as silly in plot, AKB is also used to hype an idol group. Instead of the music being seem as an outlet or to battle like in Hypnosis Mic, it is seen as something to be banned in AKB.
For Fans of Women Ruling Society
Queen’s Blade
In this world, the ruling Queen is decided by a tournament that happens every few years. This is the story of a young warrior who is traveling to the upcoming tournament.
Both series feature women in charge of society, but Queen’s Blade is very much an ecchi show that is literally all about fighting compared to Hypnosis Mic and it’s non-violence. Regardless, both shows steer full-on into the absurdity.
Prison School
The Hachimitsu Private Academy has always been a prestigious all-girls school that is prized for its high quality education and rigid discipline. However, they are now accepting boys as well as girls. With a mere five boys in the schools, these boys think they are the luckiest men in the world. That is, until they get caught peeping and have their personal freedoms taken away in the brutal prison below the school.
Both shows feature women in positions of power and paint them in a rather bad light. However, Prison School is, again, an ecchi show. Hypnosis Mic is not. For those that don’t watch it for the ecchi, it’s insane comedy is also something to treasure.
Vandread
Humanity has advanced so much that they have colonized the far reaches of the Milky Way. In one solar system, men and women live on seperate planets where a gender war rages. In one skirmish between the two nations, a wormhole opens up and sucks a ship from each the planets up. Now stuck far from home, they must learn to coexist to get back safely.
While Vandread is an sci-fi show, like Hypnosis Mic, it highlights specific gender differences in not so great ways. However, like Hypnosis Mic, there is some pretty solid comedy sprinkled throughout. Vandread is more of a grounded show, though.
For Fans of Equally Ridiculous Premises
Zombieland Saga
For Sakura Minamoto, she started her day off normally, right up until she skipped outside and got hit by a speeding truck. She died, of course, but 10 years later, she wakes up as… a zombie. However, her story is just beginning as a man wants her and several other undead girls from throughout Japan’s history to become a regional idol group to save Saga from becoming an obscure prefecture.
While both of these shows share a really silly sort of plot, they are also both music anime series as well. Zombieland Saga even has a rapping episode, but it explores many genres of music.
Shimoneta: A Boring World Where Dirty Jokes Don’t Exist
While Japan was once the pit of sexual depravity, new morality laws and the Peace-Making System used to monitor the populace have seen Japan rise to the peaks of public morality. With all lewdness censored to the point that children do not know how babies are made, an infamous erotic terrorist named Blue Snow has risen. One day, average high schooler and the son of another infamous erotic terrorist, Tanukichi Okuma, is saved by Blue Snow on his way to his new high morality high school, only to be drawn into her new erotic terrorist organization, SOX, instead.
Both shows are about worlds where specific actions are banned. This, in turn, is played up for comedy. While Hypnosis Mic kind of flounders a bit with the comedy, Shimoneta is constant with it.
Gonna Be the Twin Tail
Twin tails are the glory of mankind – at least according to Souji Mitsuka. Souji likes to spend his time rating the twin tails on girls, but when monsters from space attack to claim the twin tails for themselves, he is enlisted by a strange woman to fight them off. Suddenly, he transforms into the Twin Tail Warrior Tail-Red!
Silly. Ass. Plots. Twin tails focus on the twin tails hair style and makes it into a bit of a power rangers affair, this is a bit different from Hypnosis Mic, but they share a similar oddness.
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