Shows Like Waiting in the Summer
If you liked Waiting in the Summer (2012), 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.
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (2013)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and comedySo exactly what’s going to happen when Hachiman Hikigaya, an isolated high school student with no friends, no interest in making any and a belief that everyone else’s supposedly great high school experiences are either…
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Urusei Yatsura (1981)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedyThe invasion of an alien race known as the Oni begins a new life for Ataru Moroboshi, a lecherous trouble-making tenth grader in the small town of Tomobiki. After unwittingly proposing to the Oni princess Lum Invader…
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Maison Ikkoku (1986)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyGodai is a ronin (someone who has failed university entrance exams) living in a run down apartment house called Maison Ikkoku. Among the other residents are the nosy Ichinose, the sexy Akemi Roppongi, and the…
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The Dangers in My Heart (2023)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and comedyKyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his…
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His and Her Circumstances (1998)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and dramaIn His and Her Circumstances, like a drug, Yukino Miyazawa was addicted to admiration and praise from those around her. She worked hard to become the perfect student, the perfect girl. But that was before… him…
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Summer Pockets (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and dramaHairi 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…
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Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyShikimori seems like the perfect girlfriend: cute, fun to be around, sweet when she wants to be… but she has a cool dark side that comes out under the right circumstances. And her boyfriend Izumi loves to be around…
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Agents of the Four Seasons Dance of Spring (2026)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and dramaWhen 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…
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The Villager of Level 999 (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyIn 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…
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The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyAmane lives alone in an apartment, and the most beautiful girl in school, Mahiru, lives just next door. They've almost never spoken—until the day he sees her in distress on a rainy day and lends her his umbrella. To…
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Real Girl (2018)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and comedyTsutsui Hikari (a.k.a "Tsuttsun") is a high school student who is content with his virtual life of anime and video games. One day, he gets stuck cleaning the pool with Iroha, a real live girl who is stylish, sassy and…
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Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl (2011)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyThe story revolves around a highschool boy named Niwa Makoto. He lives with his aunt's family since his parents are away on business. It is there where he meets his mysterious cousin of the same age Touwa Erio — who…
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Call of the Night (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyKo's new companion, Nazuna, could offer him dark gifts and a vampire's immortality. But there are conditions that Ko must meet before he can sink his teeth into vampirism, and he'll discover just how far he's willing…
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The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedyKazunari Usa finally has a place of his own at the Kawai housing complex. Unfortunately, his roommate is a total weirdo and a massive pervert! But life at the Kawai Complex isn’t all that bad with his dream-girl Ritsu…
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Bakuman (2010)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and comedyMoritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi are pretty much foils of each other. Mashiro, an average 9th grade student but talented artist, and Takagi, an overall advanced 9th grader and aspiring writer. After great convincing…
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Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and comedyAlya is a transfer student enjoying popularity at her new high school, often sporting a cold shoulder while earning high marks in class. She ignores her nerdy classmate, Kuze Masachika, except for when she blurts out a…
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Kokoro Connect (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedyFive members of the school culture club—Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki—encounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch personalities without warning. The…
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Blue Spring Ride (2014)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedyAt the end of her first year of high school, Futaba Yoshioka suddenly has a chance encounter with her first love, Kou Tanaka. Three years ago, he transferred schools before she was able to say how she felt about him…
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The Morose Mononokean (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedyAshiya has spent the first seven days of high school stuck in the infirmary because of a youkai attaching itself to him. He ends up asking the owner of a small tea room called the "Mononokean" for help. This is a tale…
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The Summer Hikaru Died (2025)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and dramaSix months ago, Hikaru vanished for a week. Now, as his best friend Yoshiki senses something amiss and confronts him, the harrowing truth emerges.