Shows Like Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts
If you liked Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts (2010), 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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Blade Dance of Elementalers (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and comedyOnly a pure maiden can have the privilege to contract with a spirit. Priestesses, who can summon spirits from Astral Zero, the world of spirits, and have full command of their power, are called elementalists. Kamito…
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School Rumble (2004)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and comedyHigh school can be hard enough with just academics alone, but when love enters into the picture, it can unravel into a comedy of errors. Tenma has fallen for oblivious Karasama and class delinquent Harima has fallen…
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Witch Watch (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyA diligent teen winds up living with his spunky childhood friend, a trainee witch, to protect her from a dire prophecy. But can they survive high school?
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Hana-Kimi (2026)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedyMizuki Ashiya is on a mission: disguise herself as a boy and enroll in a male boarding school to meet her idol, high jump star Izumi Sano. But after successfully infiltrating the school, she discovers he’s suddenly…
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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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Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and comedyA teacher takes all aspects of life, word and culture in the most negative light possible.
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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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When Will Ayumu Make His Move? (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also animation and comedyAyumu just fell in love at first sight with Urushi and joined the illegitimate Shogi Club! But Ayumu has vowed not to confess his feelings until he can best Urushi, and he has a long way to go before he can stand up to…
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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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The Demon Girl Next Door (2019)
★ 8/10Also animation and comedyAwakening her dormant abilities as a devil one day, Yuuko Yoshida aka Shadow Mistress Yuuko, is entrusted with the mission to defeat the Light clan's shrine maiden, a magical girl, by her ancestor Lilith. Yuuko meets…
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Lovely★Complex (2007)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and comedyLove is unusual for Koizumi Risa and Ootani Atsushi, who are both striving to find their ideal partner in high school—172 cm tall Koizumi is much taller than the average girl, and Ootani is much shorter than the…
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My Deer Friend Nokotan (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyKoshi Torako has everyone fooled. Her classmates see her as the perfect honor student, unaware of her secret delinquent past. But her new picturesque school life is thrown into chaos when she bumps into Shikanoko Noko…
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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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Campione! (2012)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and comedyGodo Kusanagi, a high school student that kills a god, claiming its power and title of Campione, to slay other gods.
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The Familiar of Zero (2006)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedyLouise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière’s name is so long and her spell-casting skills are so poor that everyone at the Tristain Academy of Magic just calls her “Louise the Zero.” Louise’s humiliation only increases…
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Go! Go! Loser Ranger! (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and sci-fi & fantasyWith their old hideout and bosses wiped out, the surviving Dusters make a secret agreement with the Ranger Force to engage in the weekly Sunday Showdown - one where they will always be defeated. Tired of this charade…
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Majikoi - Oh! Samurai Girls (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also animation and comedyKawakami City is famous for its strong dedication to its samurai ancestors. A healthy fighting spirit is always valued and it's even an important factor for success at school. Yamato, a second year student from…
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The "Hentai" Prince and the Stony Cat (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedyYōto Yokodera is a schoolboy who is unable to express his true feelings freely. After hearing about the wish-granting Stony Cat, he decides to try and make an offering to lose his facade, only to meet Tsukiko who…
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Maid Sama! (2010)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedyMisaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president at a once all-boys school turned co-ed. She rules the school with strict discipline demeanor. But she has a secret, she works at a maid cafe due to her…
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The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch (2026)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and comedySpica Virgo dreams of joining a magical academy, but there’s one problem: She can’t use magic! With no mentor or connections, her chances seem slim—until a mysterious talking black cat appears. A powerful mage cursed…