Anime Like Inari Kon Kon
This one gets you with the small stuff: the sound of a Kyoto neighborhood where the shrine is just where the local kids hang out, and a girl too flustered to say one honest sentence to Tanbabashi. Inari's wish gets granted and she immediately spends it wrong, taking Sumizome's face to get close to him, and the show is smart enough to make that feel awful instead of cute. Uka-sama is the real find, a deity who cares more about video games and Inari's brother Touka than about her own divinity, and Kon the fox pup trails behind the whole thing like a conscience with paws. Then the divine-power problem turns real, Amaterasu enters, and the stakes stop being about a crush. Ten episodes is not enough and every fan knows it, but that last stretch of torii gates earns the ache."}
SYNOPSIS
Inari is your typical anxious middle schooler stuck in Kyoto with a crush she can't bring herself to confess. Everything changes when she stumbles upon a fox pup in trouble and decides to help it, earning the gratitude of its owner: Ukanomitamanokami, a shapeshifting deity with a taste for fried tofu. As thanks, the goddess grants Inari a single, transformative power: the ability to change her appearance at will. What begins as a solution to her romantic problems quickly spirals into something far messier. Inari's newfound ability lets her walk into conversations, change how people perceive her, and chase the boy of her dreams. But each transformation comes with consequences she didn't anticipate, and her burgeoning friendship with Uka forces her to grapple with whether she's actually solving anything or just running from herself. It's a supernatural romance wrapped in comedy and self-discovery, where magic can't make you brave, and pretending to be someone else won't change who you are.
