Shows Like The Summer Hikaru Died

If you liked The Summer Hikaru Died (2025), 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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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…
2
Summer Pockets (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and drama
Hairi Takahara never expected summer to feel like a dream. Sent to Torishirojima to sort through his late grandmother's belongings, he's met with endless sea, quiet nostalgia, and mysterious girls, each chasing…
3
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…
4
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…
5
Uzumaki (2024)
★ 7/10Also mystery and drama
Kirie tries to escape from her town Kurouzu-cho, where the residents get obsessed with spirals due to an unexplained curse.
6
The Villager of Level 999 (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
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…
7
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…
8
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…
9
Devils' Line (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and drama
Tsukasa, a college student, is rescued from an attack by a devil, one of many vampires that can blend in among the human population. Anzai, her savior, is a half-devil who exploits his supernatural gifts as a member of…
10
The Witch and the Beast (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Guideau is a young woman who was cursed by a witch, forced to carry a dark secret. Ashaf is a tall, soft-spoken man with a coffin strapped to his back and secrets yet untold. Together they venture across the land on…
11
Magical Girl Site (2018)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and drama
Aya Asagiri is a middle school girl who has problems both at school with bullying and at home from physical abuse by her brother. While browsing online, a website pops up on her computer featuring a creepy looking…
12
Occultic;Nine (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
The "paranormal science" story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Choujou Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Yuuta Gamon. Little…
13
xxxHOLiC (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student plagued by ayakashi spirits, both of which are invisible to everyone else but him. The series begins when Watanuki stumbles, seemingly by chance, into a shop that grants…
14
Talentless Nana (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
It is the year 20XX. Earth was assaulted by monsters that would come to be known as "the Enemy of Humanity." In order to deal with this threat, special schools composed of teenagers with extraordinary abilities were…
15
Kekkaishi (2006)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Yoshimori Sumimura is a 14-year-old student at Karasumori School. Following in the tradition that's come down through the generations, he is the twenty-second Kekkaishi of the Sumimura clan. But he’s constantly…
16
Vampire Knight (2008)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and drama
At Cross Academy, two student disciplinary committee members are tasked with keeping the peace between a human class and a night class of vampires.
17
Rozen Maiden (2004)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasy
Jun is a total recluse who won't take a step outside his house and only loves online shopping. When Jun winds up a doll that suddenly appears in his room because of his mail-orders tendencies, he has no idea what he's…
18
The Holy Grail of Eris (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and mystery
Betrayed by her fiancé's lover and sentenced to public execution, Constance Grail, a plain viscount's daughter known for her honesty, faces death—until a mysterious voice offers salvation. Scarlett Castiel, a…
19
GetBackers (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and mystery
Ban Mido and Ginji Amano run a freelance business of recovering anything lost or stolen. They call themselves the GetBackers, and they're a super powered duo.
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With You, Our Love Will Make It Through (2025)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and drama
When high schooler Mari runs late for school, she never expects to fall for Tsunagu—a gentle, sensitive, beastfolk! In a world where beastfolk are segregated behind walls, Mari and Tsunagu show their differences are…