At a trading company, junior salesperson Futaba Igarashi has flourished under the guidance of her senpai, Harumi Takeda. However, while he teases her about her short stature, Igarashi has come to admire Takeda for his reliability in the workplace as their relationship continues to develop.
Ah shit, it’s cute. Like, really cute. “I’m going to watch this all and ravenously gorge on the manga” type of cute. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like My Senpai is Annoying, then head on down below.
Anime Like My Senpai is Annoying
For Fans of Office Comedies
Wotakoi – Love is Difficult for an Otaku
After discovering they work at the same company, a gaming otaku and a fujoshi rekindle for the first time since middle school. After some good old fashioned after work drinks, they decide to start dating, but dating an otaku as an otaku is more difficult that one would think.
Despite the otaku twist to Wotakoi, both series are workplace romance series between two people that work in the same office. However, the romance in Wotakoi is more immediate and it plays things less coy.
Servant x Service
Servant x Service follows three new civil servants in the city of Mitsuba. Each character is driven by their own personal motivations, but never-the-less they are encouraged to work hard for the city even if it is a thankless job.
Both series do well to highlight the comedy in the workplace as well as the interaction between co-workers. However, there really isn’t the same romance angle in Servant x Service unless you start reading into things.
Working
Due to his love of cute things, Souta Takanashi ends up taking a job at the Wagnaria family restaurant in Hokkaido at the behest of the small and cute Popura Taneshima. However, while he enjoys doting on Popura, he must stay on his toes while working with his more eccentric colleagues.
While Working is about a restaurant, it still has that same type of workplace comedy as well as romance. Furthermore, they both feature small and cute female characters, though with different personalities.
For Fans Big Guys and Small Women
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
Chiyo Sakura has fallen head over heels for the handsome and oblivious Umetarou Nozaki. However, when she confesses her love, he gives her an autograph. It turns out this stoic boy is actually a respected shoujo manga artist. After a series of misunderstandings, Chiyo winds up not as his girlfriend, but as his manga assistant.
If you enjoy your rom-com anime with more comedy than romance, then that is pretty much both series. They feature large, dense male leads and cute small girls trying to get their attention. It is just that Chiyo isn’t a tsundere type.
My Love Story
With his tall stature, bulky muscles, and mean face, Takeo Gouda is not exactly a hit with the ladies. Men and women alike find him terrifying, but he still tries to do the right thing. One day he saves a cute girl from a molester on the train. When she reaches out to him again, he thinks she likes his handsome friend, but he is shocked to discover she actually likes him!
Both shows are romance anime about a large man and his extra tiny female love interest. However, while My Senpai is Annoying is more just light rom-com moments and characters not addressing their feelings honestly, My Love Story is more the straightforward romance show.
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out
Sakurai Shinichi just wants a little peace and quiet, but after he meets a kouhai, Uzaki Hana, from his old high school swim club at university, she wants to hang out. This peppy, loud, and well endowed woman just wants to spend time together and tease him. Will Shinichi get the peace and quiet he desires? No..
Both are rom-com series about a couple with height differences and a male lead that is pretty oblivious to the clear feelings of the female lead, who also doesn’t realize her own feelings. The major difference between the two is that Uzaki is more a teasing-type rom-com.
For Fans of Oblivious Romance
Engaged to the Unidentified
On Kobeni Yonomori’s 16th birthday, it is discovered that her grandfather arranged for her to marry the mysterious Hakuya Mitsumine. Shocked, she now finds herself living with her future husband, his deceptive little sister, and her own perverted older sister. However, Kobeni takes it in stride, adjusting to her new life and trying to learn more about the new additions.
Both series are more comedy shows than they are romance shows, but still end up being quite entertaining to watch. The jokes in Engaged to the Unidentified hit well and there are a few good romantic moments, but the male lead in it does tend to blend into the background because he is a strong, silent type.
Blend S
Maika is a person with naturally bad luck, although much of that comes from her mean-looking eyes. These eyes have since prevented her from gaining part-time employment in order to fund her dreams of studying abroad. However, one day she meets a man named Dino who runs a very special café. Inside, the waitresses all adopt very specific personas for the customers, and Dino wants Maika to be his sadistic-type girl. However, despite having the eyes for it, Maika isn’t a sadist.
Both series are workplace-type comedies, and have a similar sort of romantic element in which one person is clearly into a more oblivious person. However, since that relationship happens between a high school girl and her adult boss, it isn’t explored. Instead, you just get a really solid work comedy.
Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It
One day, beautiful female scientist Ayame told her co-worker Shinya that she loved him. Both being rational people, they expressed their lack of experience with romance and decided to use science as a way to concretely conclude if they did indeed love each other.
If you need more of that heady mix of cute flirting between people who won’t admit their feelings, then Science Fell in Love is so much more of that. It is a setup like a workplace comedy, though it technically mostly happens in a lab at a college. Still, both series feature adult relationships told in a comically, but still very cute way.
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No Toradora!? I would think that it would be on the list.