Shows Like My Girlfriend's Friend

If you liked My Girlfriend's Friend (2026), 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
Araiya-san! Ore to Aitsu ga Onnayu de!? (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also animation
Male 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…
2
Daemons of the Shadow Realm (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also animation
Yuru, a young hunter, lives in a small village deep in the mountains, hunting wild game and leading a humble life with Asa, his younger twin sister. Their peaceful lives are torn apart when a dragon’s roar echoes…
3
Buso Renkin (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also animation
The story begins when high school student Kazuki Muto is killed one night saving a mysterious girl from a monster, only to wake up in his school dorm, believing it to have been a dream; however, he soon finds out that…
4
LIAR GAME (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and drama
When 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…
5
Tales of Wedding Rings (2024)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and drama
Sato 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…
6
The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse (2023)
★ 8.1/10Also animation
As a prophecy of doom unfolds on the peaceful land of Britannia, a purehearted boy sets out on a journey of discovery — and revenge.
7
SWORD GAI: The Animation (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also animation
The swordsmith Amon accidentally comes across an infant and its dead mother in the forest. Although he is initially overwhelmed by the situation, he finally decides to take the boy with him and thus save him from…
8
Hundred (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also animation
A mysterious life form known as Savage is attacking the Earth, and there is only one weapon that can counter it: the Hundred. To become a Slayer, a master of military arts able to wield a Hundred, Kisaragi Hayato…
9
X (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and drama
It's the year of destiny and 15 year old Kamui Shirō, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence. He returns to protect his childhood friends, Fūma, and Fūma's younger sister, Kotori. But destiny…
10
Ninja Scroll: The Series (2003)
★ 7.6/10Also animation
Fourteen years after defeating the immortal warrior Himuro Genma and thwarting the Shogun of the Dark's evil plans, Kibagami Jubei continues to roam all over Japan as a masterless swordsman. During his journey, he…
11
Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre (2023)
★ 7/10Also animation and drama
From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales.
12
Devilman Crybaby (2018)
★ 7.7/10Also animation
With demons reawakened and humanity in turmoil, a sensitive demon-boy is led into a brutal, degenerate war against evil by his mysterious friend, Ryo.
13
Corpse Princess (2008)
★ 7.2/10Also animation
Armed with dual machine guns, an undead school girl, Makina Hoshimura, must hunt down 108 other undeads with the help of specially trained Buddhist monks in order to gain entry into Heaven. Based on manga written by…
14
Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play (1995)
★ 7.5/10Also animation
Miaka, a junior high school student in Tokyo, has normal problems: fights with her mom, entrance exams, and deciding where she's going to go eat with her friends. But when she finds a mysterious book in the library…
15
Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also animation
On the run from a past crime, Juzo Fujimaki is blackmailed into joining an illicit tournament and has to face top martial artists in deadly match-ups.
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Strawberry Panic (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
Nagisa 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…
17
Akame ga Kill! (2014)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and drama
Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child…
18
Redo of Healer (2021)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and drama
In a world of monsters, adventurers and magic, some of the most gifted healers are subjugated to brute force. Keyaru gains the ability to rewind time and turns the tables on those who’ve exploited him in this dark…
19
Alien Nine (2001)
★ 7.2/10Also animation
Yuri Otani, much to her disgust, has been elected by her class for alien fighting duty. Together with Kasumi Tonime, who joined the alien fighter simply for the sake of doing so, and Kumi Kawamura, who became and alien…
20
My-Otome (2005)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and drama
In the distant future on the planet Earl, colonized by immigrants from Earth centuries ago. "Old technology" has survived in the form of nanomachines that allow female virgins wield Highly-advanced Materializing…