Top 9 Anime Like Wave, Listen to Me! (Nami yo Kiitekure) [2025 List]

Nami yo Kiitekure

On a drunken night out to complain about an ex, Minare Koda absentmindedly shares too much information with a stranger from the radio station. The next morning, she’s shocked to hear her voice on the radio. Bursting into the station with intentions to justify her previous night’s rant quickly turns into an interview on-air and the offer to share her chaotic life with an unsuspecting audience!

Wave, Listen to Me! has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 波よ聞いてくれ, Born to Be On Air!

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Seinen , Working Life

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9. Bakuman.

Bakuman.

As a child, Moritaka Mashiro dreamt of becoming a mangaka, just like his childhood hero and uncle, Tarou Kawaguchi, creator of a popular gag manga. But when tragedy strikes, he gives up on his dream and spends his middle school days studying, aiming to become a salaryman instead.
One day, his classmate Akito Takagi, the school's top student and aspiring writer, notices the detailed drawings in Moritaka's notebook. Seeing the vast potential of his artistic talent, Akito approaches Moritaka, proposing that they become mangaka together. After much convincing, Moritaka realizes that if he is able to create a popular manga series, he may be able to get the girl he has a crush on, Miho Azuki, to take part in the anime adaptation as a voice actor. Thus the pair begins creating manga under the pen name Muto Ashirogi, hoping to become the greatest mangaka in Japan, the likes of which no one has ever seen.

Bakuman. has finished airing and it has 25 Episodes. It is also Known as: バクマン。, Bakuman Season 1

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8. Under Ninja

Under Ninja

Even in this day and age, Ninjas walk among us, hide within plain sight, still waiting for their mission orders. However, for some, it takes much longer to receive orders than others! Meet Kumogakure Kurō, a NEET and a Ninja. After being a long time without work, he finally receives orders from the higher-ups!

Under Ninja has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: アンダーニンジャ, Under Ninja

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7. Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!

Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!

First-year high schooler Midori Asakusa loves anime so much, she insists that "concept is everything" in animation. Though she draws a variety of ideas in her sketchbook, she hasn't taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she can't do it alone. The producer-type Sayaka Kanamori is the first to notice Asakusa's genius. Then, when it becomes clear that their classmate, charismatic fashion model Tsubame Mizusaki, really wants to be an animator, they create an animation club to realize the "ultimate world" that exists in their minds.

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 映像研には手を出すな!, Hands off the Motion Pictures Club!

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6. Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita.

Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita.

What happens when a science-inclined girl and boy who are deeply passionate about research fall in love? An intelligent woman named Himuro Ayame who is a science graduate student at Saitama University happens to ask fellow science grad student Yukimura Shinya out. Of course, there’s no logical reason for this love! But as a science and engineering major, not being able to logically prove love would mean that those feelings aren’t real, and they’d fail as a science student. With that in mind, the two drag everyone else in the lab into trying various experiments to prove love actually exists.

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove it has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 理系が恋に落ちたので証明してみた。, RikeKoi, Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It

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5. Arte

Arte

Firenze, early 16th century. The birthplace of the renaissance era, where art is thriving. In one small corner of this vast city, one sheltered girl's journey begins. She dreams of becoming an artist, an impossible career for a girl born into a noble family. In those days, art was an exclusively male profession, with woman facing strong discrimination. In spite of these challenges, Arte perseveres with hard work and a positive attitude!

Arte has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: アルテ, Arte

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4. Shirobako

Shirobako

After making an animated film together in high school, Aoi and her friends Shizuka, Ema, Misa, and Midori made a promise to each other: to all get jobs in the anime industry and someday work together again. Two years later, Aoi is learning that working as a production assistant at a small animation studio is far more demanding than she ever imagined, and Shizuka's aspiring career as a voice actor involves more time waiting tables than recording. Meanwhile, Ema's slowly making a name for herself as a key animator, Misa's moved from 2D to 3D and now works in computer graphics, and screenwriting hopeful Midori is lagging furthest behind, still looking for her first big break. But are they ready to give up on their dreams just yet? No way! Because while anime may come from inspiration, in the end it's the ones who're willing to put in the perspiration that make their dreams real in SHIROBAKO!

Shirobako has finished airing and it has 24 Episodes. It is also Known as: SHIROBAKO, White Box

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3. Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

Roaming the halls of the all-boys Sanada North High School are three close comrades: the eccentric ringleader with a hyperactive imagination Hidenori, the passionate Yoshitake, and the rational and prudent Tadakuni. Their lives are filled with giant robots, true love, and intense drama... in their colorful imaginations, at least. In reality, they are just an everyday trio of ordinary guys trying to pass the time, but who said everyday life couldn't be interesting? Whether it's an intricate RPG reenactment or an unexpected romantic encounter on the riverbank at sunset, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou is rife with bizarre yet hilariously relatable situations that are anything but mundane.

Daily Lives of High School Boys has finished airing and it has 12 Episodes. It is also Known as: 男子高校生の日常, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

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2. Fune wo Amu

Fune wo Amu

The publication of a new dictionary titled The Great Passage progresses. Mitsuya Majime, originally from publisher Genbu Shobo's sales department, has been recruited by Kouhei Araki, a veteran editor of the dictionary department who is looking to retire soon. The dictionary department is known internally as the "money-eating insect," but Mitsuya uses his perseverance and attachment to the words in order to become a great editor. Mitsuya, who has poor social skills, finds himself working with another man named Masashi Nishioka, who is able to express himself better.

The Great Passage has finished airing and it has 11 Episodes. It is also Known as: 舟を編む, Fune wo Amu

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1. Uramichi Oniisan

Uramichi Oniisan

"Hello, boys and girls! Do you like guys with more than one side to them?"

31 year old Omota Uramichi is the gymnastics coach in the children's educational TV program "Together with Mama." He might be sweet on the outside, but all boys and girls are inevitably scared off whenever they get a glimpse of the adult darkness that's the result of Uramichi-sensei's emotional instability. This is a tragic eulogy to all the "boys and girls" who are now adults!

Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan has finished airing and it has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: うらみちお兄さん, Uramichi Oniisan

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