Mienai Kao - Recommendations

• OVA (3 eps)
• 1990 - 1991

Yuuko, a teenage girl, wishes for nicer clothes to impress the boy she likes. Kaori is faced with family problems while feeling lonely. Michiyo's crush transferred schools without ever noticing her, leading her to question her tomboyish looks. These girls seemingly have nothing in common, until all three come into possession of a beautiful one-piece dress. But is the dress just an innocent gift, or is there something more sinister at play?

• Web (16 eps)
• 2023

Enter the XY escape room, where more mysteries appear after exiting than when you enter.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1990

Seiko (with her cat Gonbei) is on the trip to Nagasaki by train, where she met young guitarist, who was supposed to be dead according to newspaper. Things get complicated when Seiko discovered hanged woman in woods near Nagasaki – and it seems that it wasn't suicide, but murder.

• TV

"This is the punishment for a fat, ugly girl like me falling in love with someone as beautiful as you..." Yumeko had a mountain of complexes about herself. Then, a terrible accident befalls her. Though somehow saved from the brink of death, Yumeko wakes up a completely different person. "This is...me...?! I'm SO cute!!" Those around her can't hide their surprise and wonderment at this 180°change... But, Yumeko's new hyper-positive attitude starts to change her surroundings, too. Worries and complexes can affect anyone, and Yumeko will chop right through those of her various supporting characters!! In love, work, friendship... And an attempted murder case?!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2016

The movie retells the main story from Suwa's point of view. It will also tell the story after the original manga and the television anime, and therefore a story not told anywhere until now.

• Web (8+ eps)
• 2021 - ?

The "urban legend horror" manga centers on a mysterious all-black waste collection truck that appears out of nowhere. However, instead of collectIng garbage or discarded appliances for disposal, it pick up "useless" people.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2007

After their punishment game backfires, Keiichi, Mion, Rena, Satoko and Rika are forced to parade around the village in embarrassing costumes. Once they reach a fork in the road the club decide to visit the nearby abandoned village of Yagouchi, partly to show Keiichi and Rena around and partly to escape the stares of the villagers! When they arrive in Yagouchi, after hearing about the abandoned quarry over the hill Keiichi and Rena decide it would be fun to investigate. But Rika and Mion try to talk them out of it, as two people died there of unknown causes seven years previously. What happened at the quarry back then, and what exactly is 'the pit' that Rika keeps referring to?

• Web (1 ep)
• 2012

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2012 - 2013

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1993