Shows Like Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway
If you liked Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway (2021), a animation and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Tsukigakirei (2017)
★ 8/10Also animation and dramaKotarou Azumi and Akane Mizuno became third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. These two, along with fellow classmates, Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers…
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SING "YESTERDAY" FOR ME (2020)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and dramaAfter college, Rikuo Uozumi, a boy without much ambition in life, takes on a job at a convenience store. The days pass by uneventfully for Rikuo until he meets his former girlfriend and classmate, but especially thanks…
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KOWLOON GENERIC ROMANCE (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and dramaReal estate agents Reiko Kujirai and Hajime Kudo work in the nostalgic Kowloon Walled City. As they spend more time together, Reiko’s feelings for Hajime grow. But when she finds a photo of him and his former fiancée…
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White Album 2 (2013)
★ 7/10Also animation and dramaOne evening in fall, with one month left before the school festival, the last member of the ruined light music club, Haruki Kitahara, looks out the window and plays his guitar in the direction of the festival stage set…
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Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky (2026)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and dramaKakeru Sorano, a quiet university freshman who avoids others, meets Koharu Fuyutsuki, a blind girl who faces the world with quiet brightness. When she says, “I want to see fireworks someday,” something in Kakeru…
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Yosuga no Sora (2010)
★ 7/10Also animation and dramaKasugano Haruka and his sister Sora have lost both their parents in an accident, and with them all their support. They decide to move out of the city to the rural town where they once spent summers with their late…
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What She Fell on Was the Tip of My Dick (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also animationSousuke Aikawa is a part-time worker who lives in a rundown apartment building where his only consolation is that the landlord is a beautiful woman and the girl who lives above him is cute. One day though, the ceiling…
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Happy Sugar Life (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and dramaSatou Matsuzaka, a girl who has never loved anyone before, falls in love with a girl named Shio Koube. The two girls are drawn to each other, and begin a happy life together. Satou won't let anyone endanger their new…
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The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also animationSei, a 20-year-old office worker, is whisked away to a whole new world. Unfortunately for Sei, the ritual that summoned her—meant to produce a "Saint" who would banish the dark magic—brought two people over instead of…
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Days with My Stepsister (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and dramaWhen his father remarries, Yuta Asamura winds up sharing a roof with his new stepsister, Saki Ayase, the hottest girl in his grade. Carrying the scars of their parents’ troubled divorces, they vow to maintain a…
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Tales of Wedding Rings (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and dramaSato is a high school boy in love with his best friend Hime, an unearthly beauty from another realm. So when she moves back to her home world to get married, Sato doesn’t think twice—he follows her and crashes the…
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Strawberry Panic (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and dramaNagisa Aoi is a new transfer student into one of the three prestigious all-girls Catholic high schools on Astraea Hill: a school called St. Miator (the other two are St. Spica and St. Lelim (known in the anime as Le…
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Araiya-san! Ore to Aitsu ga Onnayu de!? (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also animationMale student Souta Tsukishima begins working at his family's public bathhouse as a back washer. While concealing her true identity, Souta's classmate Aoi Yuzuki visits the bathhouse. A relationship between the two…
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LIAR GAME (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and dramaWhen Nao Kanzaki receives a strange letter and a suitcase containing 100 million yen, she learns that she has been selected to participate in the LIAR GAME. In this high-stakes psychological battle, lies, deception…
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School Days (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and dramaA rumor states that if you take a photo of someone you like with your cellphone and keep it hidden, they'll fall for you. Will Makoto win his love by taking a picture of Kotonoha without anyone knowing?
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Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and dramaOne hundred years ago, a grave tradition was born in a land where demons live among people: a human must be sacrificed to the King of Beasts. But when Sariphi, the 99th sacrifice, is offered to the King, she isn’t…
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The Ancient Magus' Bride (2017)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and dramaHatori Chise has lived a life full of neglect and abuse, devoid of anything resembling love. Far from the warmth of family, she has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fateful…
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Sugar Apple Fairy Tale (2023)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and dramaAnne Halford is on her way to fulfill her dream of becoming a confectionary artisan, a Silver Sugar Master—however, the road to her destination is filled with a world of danger. To protect herself, she reluctantly buys…
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The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and dramaMihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has…
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Scum's Wish (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and dramaSeventeen-year-old Mugi Awaya and Hanabi Yasuraoka appear to be the ideal couple. They are both pretty popular, and they seem to suit each other well. However, outsiders don't know of the secret they share. Both Mugi…