Shows Like Midori Days
If you liked Midori Days (2004), 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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Rent-a-Girlfriend (2020)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and comedyKinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their…
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Cromartie High School (2003)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedyFolks, meet Takashi Kamiyama. Enrolled at Cromartie High, where everybody is a delinquent, Kamiyama is apparently the only non-delinquent in the school. Logically, therefore, he must be the toughest in his class—by the…
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My Little Monster (2012)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and comedyMizutani Shizuku finds peace in her studies. Working hard to stay at the top of the class, alone but focused. When she is tasked with delivering class materials to Yoshida Haru, her world starts to rapidly expand. With…
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Masamune-kun's Revenge (2017)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedy"I've returned to this town for revenge!" Eight years ago, Makabe Masamune, a weak and chubby boy, was harshly rejected by the beautiful Adagaki Aki. Now, he's lost a ton of weight, changed his name, and returned as a…
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Tsuredure Children (2017)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedyA 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…
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We Never Learn: BOKUBEN (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedyNariyuki Yuiga is in his last and most painful year of high school. In order to gain the “special VIP recommendation” which would grant him a full scholarship to college, he must now tutor his classmates as they…
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Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and comedySocially 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…
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Love Flops (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedyAsahi Kashiwagi lives the typical life of an average high school student — until the day a TV fortune teller’s predictions come true one after another, culminating in a series of risqué encounters! Destiny seemingly…
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More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers (2022)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedyThe 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…
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You (2023)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and comedyRentaro Aijo was rejected 100 times in middle school. He visits a shrine and prays for better luck in high school. The God of Love appears and promises that he'll soon meet 100 people he's destined to date. But there's…
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Horimiya (2021)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and comedyA secret life is the one thing they have in common. At school, Hori is a prim and perfect social butterfly, but the truth is she's a brash homebody. Meanwhile, under a gloomy facade, Miyamura hides a gentle heart…
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (2019)
★ 8.5/10Also comedy and animationConsidered a genius due to having the highest grades in the country, Miyuki Shirogane leads the prestigious Shuchiin Academy's student council as its president, working alongside the beautiful and wealthy vice…
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Sasaki and Miyano (2022)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and comedyWhen bashful Miyano meets brash Sasaki, it feels like a teen romance manga come to life — but for these boys, real-world love is messier than fiction.
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Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (2020)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and comedyShinichi Sakurai’s one wish is for a little peace and quiet. But Hana Uzaki — his boisterous, well-endowed underclassman — has other plans. All she wants is to hang out and poke fun at him. With the help of her chipper…
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Girlfriend, Girlfriend (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedyNaoya Mukai has loved Saki Saki since grade school, and when she finally accepts his feelings, he's at his happiest. But one day, a cute girl named Nagisa Minase confesses to him! Not wishing to choose only one over…
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To Love Ru (2008)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and comedyRito Yuuki is unlucky when it comes to love — no matter how hard he tries to confess to his crush, his efforts end in failure. After another day’s confession goes down the drain, Rito spends his night sulking in his…
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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…
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Osamake: Romcom Where the Childhood Friend Won't Lose (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and comedyMy childhood friend Shida Kuroha seems to have feelings for me. She lives next door, and is small and cute. With an outgoing character, she's the caring Onee-san type, this being one of her greatest strengths. ...But…
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Trinity Seven (2014)
★ 7/10Also animation and comedyIn this "romantic comedy but sometime serious magical school story," life as Arata Kasuga knows it is wiped out by a bizarre incident known as "Collapse Phenomenon," which causes worldwide destruction and takes his…
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Ai Yori Aoshi (2002)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and comedyKaoru is a college boy with everything going for him. He lives in a mansion with his beautiful fiancé, Aoi, all his roommates are babes, and they all have the hots for him. There’s just one hitch: due to family…