Shows Like Heroines Run the Show

If you liked Heroines Run the Show (2022), a animation and comedy 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
LoveLive! Superstar!! (2021)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and comedy
Yuigaoka Girls High School is a newly established school that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The story centers on its first batch of students. With no history, no…
2
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (2020)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and comedy
Nijigasaki High School is located in Odaiba, Tokyo. The school is popular due to its free school style and diverse majors. The story centers on the members of school idol club in Nijigasaki, and their attempt to…
3
DON'T TOY WITH ME, MISS NAGATORO (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and comedy
"A girl in a lower grade just made me cry!" One day, Senpai visits the library after school and becomes the target of a super sadistic junior! The name of the girl who teases, torments, and tantalizes Senpai is…
4
More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedy
The story centers on third-year high school student Jiro Yakuin, who gets saddled with his gyaru classmate Akari Watanabe for the class's "marriage training" project about practicing to be a married couple. Jiro is the…
5
Kageki Shojo!! (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and drama
The curtain rises on Sarasa Watanabe, a starry-eyed 5'10" student who hopes to perform as a male lead role in the all-female Kouka Acting Troupe. She forms a friendship with her new roommate, a former idol. Together…
6
WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me (2019)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and comedy
Miyako is a shy college student who is also an otaku. One day she happens to meet some angelic grade school kids! When Miyako sees her little sister's new friend Hana-chan, Miyako's heart won't stop racing! Miyako…
7
Great Teacher Onizuka (1999)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedy
A former gang member wants to be Japan's best teacher. When he's hired to supervise a class of hopeless cases, it's his chance to prove himself.
8
Love Live! School Idol Project (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedy
Otonokizaka High School is planning to close within three years. However, nine female students come together with one thing in mind—form a pop idol group to revive the school’s popularity and keep it from shutting…
9
Anne Happy♪ (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedy
The story centers around class 1-7 of Tennomifune Academy, where all the students with "bad karma" or misfortune seem to have been gathered. Hibari, a student in this class, meets the unlucky Hanako and the perennially…
10
Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedy
Socially awkward Aharen-san has personal boundary issues, either getting too close or too far from her classmates. When fellow student Raido picks up an eraser she drops, Aharen-san decides they’re now best friends…
11
Tada Never Falls in Love (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedy
Mitsuyoshi Tada, a boy who has never known love, is taking pictures of the cherry blossoms in full bloom when he meets Teresa Wagner, a transfer student from Luxembourg. Upon arriving in Japan, she got lost, separated…
12
Minami-ke (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedy
There are three of the Minami sisters: Haruka, Kana and Chiaki, who have an average life. The girls only have each other to depend on and help each other get through everything from love confessions to cooking.
13
Skip and Loafer (2023)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and drama
Iwakura Mitsumi, a tenacious country girl, prepares for high school in the big city. She meets the handsome Shima Sousuke, whose easygoing ways help her adapt in the real world.
14
Hungry Heart: Wild Striker (2002)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and comedy
Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player.
15
Tsuredure Children (2017)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedy
A series depicting various scenarios of young love. These stories range from a boy, crippled by his absolute lack of confidence in himself, cannot even accept the fact that the girl of his dreams actually asked him out…
16
Rainbow Days (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and comedy
Nijiiro Days follows the colorful lives and romantic relationships of four high school boys—Natsuki Hashiba, a dreamer with delusions of love; Tomoya Matsunaga, a narcissistic playboy who has multiple girlfriends…
17
A Couple of Cuckoos (2022)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedy
16-year-old super-studier Nagi Umino, second-year student at the Megurogawa Academy high school, was switched at birth. On his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the brash, outspoken…
18
RE-MAIN (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedy
Minato is a boy who stopped playing water polo due to a certain incident in the winter of his third middle school year. He picks the sport back up again with a new team when he starts in high school, but the fledgling…
19
White Album 2 (2013)
★ 7/10Also animation and drama
One 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…
20
Love Live! Sunshine!! (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and comedy
Uranohoshi Girls’ High School, a private school in the seaside neighborhood of Uchiura at Numazu city, Shizuoka prefecture. A small high school in a corner of Suruga Bay, it is home to nine teens, led by second-year…