Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (frequently abbreviated as CGDCT) is a genre of anime and manga that focuses on a cast of cute, moe-inducing girls doing (often mundane) activities in a cute way. It doesn't even necessarily have to be a "cute thing", so long as you're running on Rule of Cute. Almost always involves an Improbably Female Cast, and a rounded and soft art style. Particularly popular in the Seinen demographic.
Though it has predecessors in the late 90s and early 2000s through the Schoolgirl Series and the Bishoujo Series (and many of those can retroactively be considered CGDCT), the genre is generally understood to have emerged in the late 2000s; the Genre Popularizer is 2009's K-On!, which is basically just cute girls playing in a band (and little else). It's closely related to both Slice of Life and Iyashikei, though not inherently part of either genre; it occasionally overlaps with Gag Series as well. May also overlap with Yuri Genre, though even when it doesn't, it tends to involve a lot of Homoerotic Subtext and/or Pseudo-Romantic Friendships. Often involves Magical Girl or Idol Singer setups (sometimes both!). The Opening Credits will almost always have a "YEAH!" Shot.
Super-Trope to Military Moe, when the "cute thing" in question is actually military warfare (and see also its sister trope, Girls with Guns).
See also Moe Anthropomorphism, Moe Couplet, Super-Deformed, and What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?. Contrast Harem Genre.
CGDCT Works:
- A Channel
- Action Heroine Cheer Fruits
- The Adventures of Mini-Goddess
- Afterschool Dice Club
- Aikatsu!
- Ai Mai Mi
- Aiura
- AKB0048
- Akebi's Sailor Uniform
- Akiba Chan
- Alice Or Alice
- Ameiro Cocoa Side G
- Anima Yell!
- Anime De Training EX
- Anne Happy
- Are You Lost?
- Aru Asa Dummy Head Mike Ni Natte Ita Ore Kun No Jinsei
- ARIA
- Asobi Asobase
- Asteroid in Love
- Azumanga Daioh
- Azur Lane: Slow Ahead!
- Bakuon!!
- Bamboo Blade
- BanG Dream!
- Bermuda Triangle Colorful Pastorale
- Binchou-tan
- Bloom Into You
- Bocchi the Rock!
- Bodacious Space Pirates
- Bottle Fairy
- Candy♡Candy
- Cat God
- Cells at Work: Platelets!
- A Centaur's Life
- Chronicles of the Going Home Club
- Comic Girls
- Cue
- D4DJ
- The Demon Girl Next Door
- Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
- Di Gi Charat
- Dropkick on My Devil
- Dropout Idol Fruit Tart
- Do It Yourself!!
- Encouragement of Climb
- Endro~!
- Gabriel DropOut
- GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
- Gekidol
- Girl Friend Beta
- Girls' Last Tour
- Girls und Panzer
- GJ-bu
- Gourmet Girl Graffiti
- Haitai Nanafa
- Hanayamata
- Harukana Receive
- Healer Girl
- Hidamari Sketch
- High School Fleet
- Hinako Note
- Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls
- Hitoribocchi No Marumaru Seikatsu
- hololive - Holo no Graffiti
- How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
- Hyakko
- Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko
- Idol Incidents
- The Idolmaster
- Idol Memories
- Idoly Pride
- In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki
- Inugami San To Nekoyama San
- Irodorimidori
- Is the Order a Rabbit?
- I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level
- JK Meshi
- Joshi Kausei
- Joshiraku
- Kaiju Girls
- Kanamemo
- Kemono Friends
- Kill Me Baby
- Kiniro Mosaic
- K-On!
- Konohana Kitan
- Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
- Laid-Back Camp
- Let's Make a Mug Too
- Long Riders!
- Love Lab
- Love Live!
- Lucky Star
- Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow
- Maesetsu
- Magical Pokaan
- Magic of Stella
- Manabi Straight!
- Mangirl
- Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club
- Minami-ke
- Mischievous Twins: The Tales of St. Clare's
- Miss Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles
- Mitsuboshi Colors
- Ms. Vampire Who Lives in My Neighborhood
- Nanabun no nijyuuni
- Natsuiro Kiseki
- Nekopara (anime)
- New Game!
- Nichijou
- Non Non Biyori
- Nyanko Days
- Onee-chan Biyori
- One Off
- ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister!
- Pan de Peace!
- Petit iDOLM@STER
- A Place Further than the Universe
- Plastic Neesan
- Pretty Series
- Rifle Is Beautiful
- Rolling Girls
- RPG Real Estate
- Sabagebu!
- Saki
- Sakura Trick
- Scorching Ping Pong Girls
- Seiyu's Life!
- Shiawase Tori-mingu
- Shimeji Simulation
- Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight
- Sketchbook
- Slow Loop
- Slow Start
- Softenni
- Sound! Euphonium
- Sound of the Sky
- Stardust Telepath
- Strawberry Marshmallow
- Super Cub
- Sweet Magic Syndrome
- Taishō Baseball Girls
- Takunomi
- Tamayomi
- Tamayura
- Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
- Three Leaves, Three Colors
- Uma Musume
- Upotte!!
- Urara Meirocho
- Usakame
- Wakaba Girl
- Wake Up, Girls!
- Wasteful Days of High School Girls
- WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me
- YuruYuri
- Yuyushiki