Shows Like Wandering Son
If you liked Wandering Son (2011), 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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Senpai Is an Otokonoko (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and dramaFor Makoto Hanaoka, life’s about to get more complicated. Saki Aoi, a lively girl with loads of confidence, confesses her love for Makoto one day. When he fails to reciprocate, Saki declares she will be his first love!…
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Blue Period (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and dramaBored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.
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Honey Lemon Soda (2025)
★ 8/10Also animation and dramaAfter 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…
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Golden Time (2013)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and dramaBanri 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…
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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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Bokura ga ita (2006)
★ 7/10Also animation and dramaNanami 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…
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Just Because! (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and dramaAt the end of the second semester of third year of high school, four students are prepared for graduation and feel the ending to their high school life. But that changes a little with the arrival of a transfer student.
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Bloom Into You (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and dramaYuu has always dreamt of receiving a love letter but feels numb when a boy gives her one. Confused, she starts high school and meets Touko. Will Yuu's heart finally skip a beat?
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The Villager of Level 999 (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also animationIn 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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Love and Lies (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and dramaIn a futuristic society, Japan has implemented a complex system referred to as "The Red Threads of Science" to encourage successful marriages and combat increasingly low birthrates. Based on a compatibility…
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Maria Watches Over Us (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also animation and dramaWhen Yumi Fukuzawa entered the Lillian Girls' Academy, a prestigious all-girls Catholic school in Tokyo, she never imagined she would catch the eye of beautiful and demure Sachiko Ogasawara, one of the school's most…
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Dance Dance Danseur (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaThis young student will do whatever it takes to become the world's best ballet dancer: the Danseur noble!
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Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and drama"Never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up." When Utena was just a child and in the depths of sorrow, she found salvation in those words. They were the words of a prince, who bestowed upon her both a…
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True Tears (2008)
★ 6/10Also animation and dramaShinichiro is a student living in what would be a dream come true for most high school boys, but for him is mostly a frustration. A well liked girl in school named Hiromi has lived in his house for a year along with…
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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.
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Charlotte (2015)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and dramaAll thanks to the special ability that he developed, Yuu was able to cheat his way into a very prestigious high school. With his power, he thought nothing was going to stand in his way, until he met a mysterious girl…
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Bibliophile Princess (2022)
★ 7/10Also animation and dramaWhen book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher—her betrothed in name only—consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the…
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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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Heartstopper (2022)
★ 8.6/10Also dramaTeens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love.
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KAKEGURUI TWIN (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animationDetermined to climb up the social ladder, Mary Saotome invests everything she has into what her elite high school values most: high stakes gambling.