Nico ga Santa - Recommendations

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2015 - 2016

Nanako and her friends celebrate Christmas together. They also celebrate Yukari's birthday since she was born on Christmas day.

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2006

Dejiko is now twenty years old and works part time in a bakery. On her way home on Christmas eve, she slips and drops her cake; but when a young man approaches and switches her spoiled cake for his, Dejiko is unsure how to respond. The young man is Senba Takuo, and their love develops over the next year. But when Dejiko receives a letter from her mother requesting her to come back to her far away home, and after she sees Takuo with another girl, what will become of their relationship?

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2011

Sae is unexpectedly visited by her younger sister who starts living with her. The little one notices that Sae is not the only one who lives a slothful life.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2009

Eighteen-year-old Aida Yurume has moved to Tokyo to prepare for her entrance exams. She slowly finds her way to Maison de Wish, her new home away from home; and there, she meets her new housemates Kumi, Sae and Matsukichi. Together, the quartet participates in a variety of slow-paced adventures, from shooting off a solitary firework to deciding who will clean out a moldy rice cooker. Whether it’s trying to escape the heat or hiding under a kotatsu, Aida will experience many things with her new friends at Maison de Wish.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2003

One year after the arrival of Chika, things become livelier than ever in the Sakuraba residence. With Chika’s embarrassing questions, Tina’s love for breast fondling, Mayu’s puppy-dog love of Hanabishi-sama, Taeko’s cute clumsiness, and Miyabi’s absolute totalitarian rule of the mansion, Kaoru has a lot to handle. Combining the wants and needs of his friends and his loyalty to Aoi, will Kaoru be able to survive the emotional pressure?

• TV (12 eps)
• 2014

Thanks to his parents' job transfer, high school freshman Kazunari Usa finally gets to enjoy living on his own in Kawai Complex, a boarding house that provides meals for its residents. Ritsu, the sempai he always admired, also lives in Kawai Complex, along with a few "unique" individuals e.g. his masochistic roommate, Kinosaki; beautiful, big-breasted Mayumi who has no luck in finding men; and sly, predatory college woman Ayaka. Surrounded by all these people, Usa never finds his daily life boring.

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2003

It’s Christmas time and having gotten into college and recently leaving the Hanabishi household, Kaoru is finding it difficult to make ends meet. And to top it all off a strange pendant fell out of the sky and hit him on the head! That evening after dozing off, Kaoru wakes up to find a pretty woman looming over his bed who introduces herself as Santa Claus. In order to thank him for returning her pendant, ‘Santa’ agrees to spend a fun Christmas with Kaoru...

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2012

• TV (13 eps)
• 2012

Yurume's everyday life living at the Maison du Wish continues. Her neighbour Sae's strict little sister comes to live with them, and she will not leave until her older sister finally unpacks all the boxes and cleans up the mess in her apartment. Life around Yurume becomes crazier, ever so slightly.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2012

The story follows Yurume, an 18-year-old high school graduate who has yet to be accepted into college. In an effort to study for exams, she moves to Maison du Wish, an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo which is full of other out-of-school "rōnin." Maybe that has something to do with the rumor about Maison du Wish: no one who lives there passes the entrance exam.