Shows Like Ping Pong the Animation
If you liked Ping Pong the Animation (2014), 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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Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (2024)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and dramaAfter learning heretical teachings about the Earth and the Sun, a child prodigy searches for his master's hidden research while evading the Inquisition.
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Chihayafuru (2011)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and dramaChihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming…
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The Piano Forest (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and dramaA tranquil tale about two boys from very different upbringings. On one hand you have Kai, born as the son of a prostitute, who's been playing the abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young. And…
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Run with the Wind (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and dramaKakeru, a former elite runner at high school, is chased for stealing food. He is saved by Kansei University student Haiji, who is also a runner. Haiji persuades Kakeru to live in the old apartment "Chikuseisou" where…
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HANEBADO! (2018)
★ 7/10Also animation and dramaAyano Hanesaki, a first-year student at Kanagawa Prefectural Kitakomachi High School, has a badminton ability able to surpass others effortlessly yet avoids playing the sport. She meets Nagisa Aragaki, a third-year…
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Ahiru no Sora (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and dramaSora joins the high school basketball club, but his unmotivated teammates don't care about the game. To get anywhere, he has to change their minds.
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LIAR GAME (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and dramaWhen 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…
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Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky (2026)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and dramaKakeru Sorano, a quiet university freshman who avoids others, meets Koharu Fuyutsuki, a blind girl who faces the world with quiet brightness. When she says, “I want to see fireworks someday,” something in Kakeru…
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Tsurune (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and dramaAfter target panic drives him from archery in middle school, Minato decides to return to the sport when his friends join the high school kyudo club.
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Salaryman's Club (2022)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaShiratori Mikoto utilizes his keen observation skills as a badminton player. However, a traumatic incident at the Interhigh leaves him unable to play the way he wants. He's cut from Mitsuboshi Bank's powerhouse amateur…
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Yosuga no Sora (2010)
★ 7/10Also animation and dramaKasugano Haruka and his sister Sora have lost both their parents in an accident, and with them all their support. They decide to move out of the city to the rural town where they once spent summers with their late…
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The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and dramaMihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has…
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Kiznaiver (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and dramaThe anime's setting is a fictional Japanese city named Sugomori City. One day, Noriko Sonosaki tells her classmate Katsuhira Agata, "You have been selected to be a Kiznaiver." The Kizuna System, which allows Katsuhira…
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Tsukigakirei (2017)
★ 8/10Also animation and dramaKotarou Azumi and Akane Mizuno became third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. These two, along with fellow classmates, Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers…
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THE iDOLM@STER (2011)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and dramaTHE IDOLM@STER follows 13 girls from the 765 Production Studio, whose sole goals is to become the top idols in the Japanese entertainment industry. Along with the laughs, struggles and tears that are inherently part of…
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Classroom of the Elite (2017)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and dramaKiyotaka Ayanokouji enrolls at the prestigious Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Academy, but is assigned to Class 1-D, where students with behavioral problems are housed. The school awards points equivalent to 100,000 yen per month…
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Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (2021)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and dramaHis past life and current life are intersecting--a boy with memories of two lives faces his destiny! After his mother was killed at an early age, the orphaned Rio fought his hardest to survive in the slums. One day, he…
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Stars Align (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and dramaToma Shinjo has one mission: save his school’s tennis team. And his only hope rests on the talent of Maki Katsuragi, who’s reluctant to part from his studies. This will be the team’s last summer together unless they…
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BLUE LOCK (2022)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and dramaHigh school soccer players from across Japan gather for a controversial project designed to create the best — and most egoistic — striker in the world.
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Tomodachi Game (2022)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and dramaAfter his class' school trip fund is stolen, Yuichi and his best friends are abducted to play a debt repayment game; there is more than money on the line, as their bonds are tested with dark secrets and a lingering…