As a child, Masamune Makabe confessed his love to the wealthy and beautiful Aki Adagaki. However, she brutally rejected him and nicknamed him “Piggy” due to his chubby appearance.
Fleeing to his grandfather’s home in the country, Masamune toiled endlessly to become fit. Once he became skinny and handsome, he returns to his old neighborhood in order to carry out revenge against the girl that wronged him.
With the help of Aki’s maid, Masamune sets out to make her fall in love with him so that he can be the one to break her heart.
You knew at first proclamation that his revenge would fail completely. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Masamune-kun’s Revenge, head on down below.
Anime Like Masamune-kun’s Revenge
For Fans of Chubby Zero to Fit Hero
Lookism
As he is short, fat, and unattractive, Park Hyung Suk has been constantly bullied by his classmates and discriminated against based on his looks. In order to escape his bullies, he decides to transfer to a vocational preparatory school for a new start.
However, after moving into an apartment by himself near his new school, he wakes up in a different body – one that is tall, handsome, and strong. However, his old body is still asleep on the floor next to him. Hyung Suk soon discovers that he can switch between bodies by going to sleep.
Now he must learn to navigate the popularity that his hot new body has brought as well as unravel why and how he started body switching in the first place.
Both Masamune-kun’s Revenge and Lookism are anime about a main character that was bullied and hurt for being chubby, but they either magically get fit or get fit through hard work.
Regardless, they start their new lives as hotties in high school. However, while Masamune-kun’s Revenge is based on getting revenge, Lookism is more about having a happy school life, even if the main character in Lookism should have got to taste the sweet taste of vengeance. What they did to him, he deserved some justice.
If you also, for whatever reason, enjoyed how getting fit make Masamune quite vain, Lookism is an uncomfortable glimpse into the wild levels of Korean vanity. (Lookism is based on a Korean manhwa, thus it is based in Korea.)
Kiss Him, Not Me
Chubby Kae Serinuma is an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her male classmates. However, after her favorite anime character dies, she becomes so stressed that she loses weight rapidly.
Upon returning to school, her classmates, including the attractive men she ships, realize how attractive she really is.
There’s only one problem, while the boys vie for her affections, she just wants them to turn those affections towards each other.
Both shows are about chubby kids that make a shocking transformation. While Masamune’s Revenge has a transformation that was the product of hard work, the initial transformation in Kiss Him, Not Me is unrealistically quick.
While Masamune-kun’s Revenge and Kiss Him, Not Me have main characters of different genders, they are both harem anime. The main character gets hot, and they have a number of interested people of the opposite gender interested in them.
While both series are also romantic comedies, Kiss Him, Not Me isn’t revenge-based. In fact, it is rather wholesome since the main character wasn’t traumatized when she was chubby.
I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too
As he was ugly, fat, and disappointing, Yuuya has been the constant target for bullies. Even his parents and siblings treated him like an outcast. However, Yuuya’s grandfather was the only source of affection in his life, but he eventually passed away.
Being left his grandfather’s home, Yuuya discovers a strange door that opens to another world. Inside, he finds himself in the home of a sage and discovers a number of powerful weapons. Using these to defeat dangerous creatures in the surrounding forest, Yuuya discovers that he can level up, gain equipment, and even sell items upon leaving the world for real life currency.
After a day of adventure, Yuuya wakes up to discover that leveling up in the other world has leveled up his body in the real world too.
While both Masamune-kun’s Revenge and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World are about chubby main characters that get hot just in time for their high school debut, the big, noticeable difference is that I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World is an isekai anime.
This means that I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World occasionally has him going to a fantasy world, killing monsters, saving maidens, and leveling up. However, outside of that element of occasional action, it is still a similar school life harem anime like Masamune-kun’s Revenge.
While Masamune-kun’s Revenge is a harem anime with a very obvious main girl, I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World is more coy.
For Fans of I Loved You in the Past
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.
Some of the biggest similarities between these Masamune-kun’s Revenge and Nisekoi come from their characters, but that’s kind of all harem anime.
However, Masamune-kun’s Revenge and Nisekoi tell a story about two people that don’t really like each other at first being forced together because of a secret. Overall, both start off as tales solely motivated by childhood incidents, but then become something more than.
Just like Masamune-kun’s Revenge has Aki loving Masamune in the past, there is also that sort of set up in Nisekoi, but with memory loss instead of misunderstanding.
Oresuki – Are you the only one who loves me?
Jouro is your average high school boy that dreams of a love story. He is thrilled when he lines up two dates, but unfortunately, both girls confess their love for his best friend.
Of course, his friendly face is just a facade. Schemer that he is, he decides to make his friend fall for one of the girls so he can swipe the other.
Unfortunately, his efforts are threatened by Pansy, a gloomy girl who knows of his secret personality.
Both Masamune-kun’s Revenge and Oresuki are harem anime where the main character has sort of scummy motivations for their actions. In Masamune-kun’s Revenge, he wants vengeance. In Oresuki, he plays two girls off the same guy in order to scoop up the rejected one for himself.
While Oresuki’s scummy initial premise comes to an end surprisingly quick, it then becomes more similar to Masamune-kun’s Revenge where there is a clear main girl in the building harem who loved the main character in the past, but doesn’t necessarily love them now. Furthermore, that girl, while once refined and lovely, has changed into something a little less refined.
While both are harem romantic comedy anime, Oresuki is a little less serious and a lot more comical because of the scumminess of the main character.
The Dreaming Boy is a Realist
Wataru Sajo has been deeply in love with his classmate Aika Natsukawa for years. He persistently pursued her with the hopes of mutual love until one day he realized that they just weren’t a good fit. Finally, her rejections stuck.
After suddenly calling it quits on her after so long, Aika begins to wonder if he started to hate her. So begins the difficult romance between two people that think their love is unrequited.
In their own ways, Masamune-kun’s Revenge and The Dreaming Boy is a Realist are actually the opposite of each other. Masamune-kun’s Revenge is about pursuing romance as revenge while The Dreaming Boy is a Realist is about giving up on a girl after constant rejection.
Of course, both series are about those difficult tsundere main girls actually being in love with the main character while he inadvertently gathers a harem around school.
My Stepmom’s Daughter Is My Ex
In middle school, two bookish kids met in the library, bonding over books, and eventually dating. However, as time went on, the small annoyances began to add up, and so Mizuto Irido and Yume Ayai ended up breaking their relationship off.
Getting ready to move onto high school and move on with their lives, a wrench was thrown in their new separate lives when it turns out that their parents had married and they are now step-siblings living in the same house and going to the same school.
As they try to regard each other as siblings, their feelings are proving hard to move past.
Both Masamune-kun’s Revenge and My Stepmom’s Daughter is My Ex are school life romantic comedies where the main characters were close when they were younger, but have a decidedly more difficult relationship in the present.
However, whereas Masamune-kun’s Revenge has elements of harem, My Stepmom’s Daughter is My Ex does not. It is more focused on the pair that treat each other coldly after breaking up, but obviously are still in love with each other – made even more complicated as they are now step-siblings.
For Fans of Romance as a Weapon
Osamake – Romcom Where The Childhood Friend Won’t Lose
Sueharu Maru, once a child actor and now just a normal high school boy, is considered lucky to have the constant company of his beautiful and popular childhood friend, Kuroha Shida. However, when Kuroha confesses to him, he immediately rejects her.
He still has his sights set on his first love – school idol and author, Shirokusa Kachi. Despite thinking he still has a chance, he finds out one day that she has a boyfriend which starts him on a complicated path of feelings.
Both Masamune-kun’s Revenge and Osamake use romance as a sort of weapon for revenge. However, unlike Masamune’s plan to woo and dump a girl for revenge, Osamake has him dating a girl he rejected to make a girl who got a boyfriend before he could confess jealous.
In truth, Osamake, as the plot unfolds further, becomes even more similar to Masamune-kun’s Revenge in a similar, yet gender-reversed sort of romance-as-revenge situation.
Both series are harem anime, but Osamake enjoys a more complicated love triangle.
Kaguya-sama – Love is War
Considered a genius, Miyuki Shirogane leads the student council in his prestigious school. Alongside his beautiful and wealthy vice president, Kaguya Shinomiya, the two are regarded as the perfect couple despite no romantic relationship.
The truth is, however, they both have feelings for each other, but neither can confess.
This is the battle of two people trying to get the other to confess first!
Both Masamune-kun’s Revenge and Kaguya-sama: Love is War have the same basic premise – make someone fall in love. While Masamune hopes to do this so he can dump her and crush her heart, the main characters in Kaguya-sama: Love is War believe love is a weakness and they are trying to prove they are better than their crushes by getting them to confess first.
The big difference here is that, while both series are romantic comedies, Masamune-kun’s Revenge is a harem anime whereas Kaguya-sama: Love is War is not. Kaguya-sama: Love is War does lean harder on the comedy, but it also enjoys some drama as well.
Oreshura
After being abandoned by his love-addled parents, Eita Kidou is a bit put off by romance. It also causes him to see through the love confession of one, Masuzu Natsukawa.
As it turns out, she just wanted a boyfriend to stop the daily love confessions. While he initially declines, she takes to blackmailing him to be her fake boyfriend.
Due to an event in the past, both main males are a bit put off love while the female leads aren’t really interested either. However, through circumstance both shows force the characters together and explore relationships that are motivated by something more than looks.
Both Masamune-kun’s Revenge and Oreshura use romance as a means to an end, but also end up being pretty good romantic comedies in their own right. They also have some harem elements.
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