Shows Like Aoi Bungaku Series
If you liked Aoi Bungaku Series (2009), 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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7SEEDS (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and dramaShy Natsu awakens as part of a group chosen to ensure the survival of humanity. Together, they have to survive on a changed Earth.
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Ef: A Tale Of Memories & Melodies (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and dramaOn Christmas Eve, Hiro Hirono meets a girl named Miyako Miyamura as she chases a purse snatcher. Hiro later finds out that Miyako also goes to the same school as he does and they start hanging out together. This makes…
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Happy Sugar Life (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and dramaSatou Matsuzaka, a girl who has never loved anyone before, falls in love with a girl named Shio Koube. The two girls are drawn to each other, and begin a happy life together. Satou won't let anyone endanger their new…
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Wonder Egg Priority (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and dramaAi, a young girl with shut-in tendencies, who tries not to interact with others. She keeps one of her eyes hidden behind her hair. One day, she happens to stop by a deserted arcade, where she meets "Aka." Spinning the…
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Dark Gathering (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaThe story centers on Keitarou Gentouga, who has the ability to be a spirit medium. In junior high school, he got someone else wrapped up in a spirit possession incident, and he has been a shut-in for more than two…
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (2016)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and mysteryNatsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know…
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Diabolik Lovers (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and dramaBased on a visual novel of the same name by Rejet and Otomate, for the female market. Komori Yui is a positive-thinking girl who nevertheless is troubled by seeing spirits and experiencing poltergeist phenomena. In her…
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The Ancient Magus' Bride (2017)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and dramaHatori Chise has lived a life full of neglect and abuse, devoid of anything resembling love. Far from the warmth of family, she has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fateful…
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Devil Lady (1998)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaThe beautiful and successful supermodel Jun Fudou meets a woman named Lan Asuka, who confronts her with a werewolf monster, which she calls a devil beast. As a result, unimagined powers awaken in Jun, and she manages…
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Platinum End (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and dramaAs his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted…
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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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Orange (2016)
★ 8/10Also animation and dramaOne day, Naho Takamiya receives a letter written to herself from ten years in the future. As Naho reads on, the letter recites the exact events of the day, including the transfer of a new student into her class named…
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The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also 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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X (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and dramaIt's the year of destiny and 15 year old Kamui Shirō, a powerful psychic, has returned to Toyko after a 6 year absence. He returns to protect his childhood friends, Fūma, and Fūma's younger sister, Kotori. But destiny…
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Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and dramaOne hundred years ago, a grave tradition was born in a land where demons live among people: a human must be sacrificed to the King of Beasts. But when Sariphi, the 99th sacrifice, is offered to the King, she isn’t…
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Elfen Lied (2004)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and dramaThe Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic…
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Shiki (2010)
★ 8/10Also animation and mysterySotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced…
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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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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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YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaArima Takuya is a young student whose father, a historian who has conducted various researches, disappeared recently. During a summer vacation Takuya receives a peculiar package from his missing father, along with a…