Shows Like Blue Period

If you liked Blue Period (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.

1
Wandering Son (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and drama
Shuichi Nitori transfers to a new elementary school, and there, meets Yoshino Takatsuki. The two children discover they share a similar secret.
2
Honey Lemon Soda (2025)
★ 8/10Also animation and drama
After middle school, with its bullying and nicknames, Uka Ishimori is excited for a fresh start at Hachimitsu High School. Kai Miura, a cool and uninhibited boy, sits next to her in class. Uka remembers she met Kai in…
3
Golden Time (2013)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and drama
Banri Tada is a freshman at a Tokyo law school. After an accident, he suffers severe memory loss. Despite the incident, he befriends fellow freshman, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, which leads him to the beautiful, yet obsessive…
4
Senpai Is an Otokonoko (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
For Makoto Hanaoka, life’s about to get more complicated. Saki Aoi, a lively girl with loads of confidence, confesses her love for Makoto one day. When he fails to reciprocate, Saki declares she will be his first love!…
5
Arte (2020)
★ 7/10Also animation and drama
Born into an aristocratic family in Florence, Italy, during the 16th century Renaissance era, Arte has dreams of becoming an artist. In an age of social classes, Arte is willing to cast aside her aristocratic lifestyle…
6
Bokura ga ita (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
Nanami Takahashi is a high school student entering her first year. Immediately on her first day however, she becomes the victim of a practical joke by the school's most popular guy, Motoharu Yano, who coincidentally…
7
Miru Tights (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also animation
Inspired by mangaka Yomu’s fascination with women’s legwear presented in his art book “Yomu Tights”, “Miru Tights” takes us into a world of sheer tights and beautiful women’s legs. The bright Homi Moemi, the serious…
8
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (2004)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and drama
Koyuki Tanaka's boring life is changed after meeting Ryusuke Minami, a local musician with a bad attitude, who introduces him to foreign music.
9
Just Because! (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and drama
At the end of the second semester of third year of high school, four students are prepared for graduation and feel the ending to their high school life. But that changes a little with the arrival of a transfer student.
10
Dance Dance Danseur (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and drama
This young student will do whatever it takes to become the world's best ballet dancer: the Danseur noble!
11
Bloom Into You (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and drama
Yuu has always dreamt of receiving a love letter but feels numb when a boy gives her one. Confused, she starts high school and meets Touko. Will Yuu's heart finally skip a beat?
12
The Summer Hikaru Died (2025)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and drama
Six months ago, Hikaru vanished for a week. Now, as his best friend Yoshiki senses something amiss and confronts him, the harrowing truth emerges.
13
Agents of the Four Seasons Dance of Spring (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
When the Agent of Spring, Hinagiku Kayo, is abducted, spring itself vanishes—plunging the world into unending winter. Refusing to give up, her devoted guard, Sakura Himedaka, searches for her for years. When Hinagiku…
14
SCHOOL-LIVE! (2015)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and drama
Yuki Takeya, Kurumi Ebisuzawa, Yuri Wakasa, and Miki Naoki decide to stay over at school. Along with the school adviser Megumi Sakura, they suddenly find themselves to be the final survivors of a zombie attack, and…
15
The Villager of Level 999 (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also animation
In Earthclear, everyone is born into a fixed role, and villagers are the weakest of all. Most never rise above Level 5—except Koji Kagami, who is Level...999?! On a monster hunt, he meets Alice, the Demon King's…
16
KAKEGURUI TWIN (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animation
Determined to climb up the social ladder, Mary Saotome invests everything she has into what her elite high school values most: high stakes gambling.
17
March Comes In Like a Lion (2016)
★ 8/10Also animation and drama
This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened…
18
Maria Watches Over Us (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and drama
When Yumi Fukuzawa entered the Lillian Girls' Academy, a prestigious all-girls Catholic school in Tokyo, she never imagined she would catch the eye of beautiful and demure Sachiko Ogasawara, one of the school's most…
19
Love and Lies (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and drama
In a futuristic society, Japan has implemented a complex system referred to as "The Red Threads of Science" to encourage successful marriages and combat increasingly low birthrates. Based on a compatibility…
20
True Tears (2008)
★ 6/10Also animation and drama
Shinichiro is a student living in what would be a dream come true for most high school boys, but for him is mostly a frustration. A well liked girl in school named Hiromi has lived in his house for a year along with…