Shows Like Free!
If you liked Free! (2013), 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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Haikyu!! (2014)
★ 8.6/10Also animation and comedyInspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama’s team in…
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RE-MAIN (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedyMinato is a boy who stopped playing water polo due to a certain incident in the winter of his third middle school year. He picks the sport back up again with a new team when he starts in high school, but the fledgling…
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Yowamushi Pedal (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and animationA timid, anime-loving teen gets drawn into a school cycling club, where his new friends help him face tough challenges to develop his racing talent.
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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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Burning Kabaddi (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyYoigoshi Tatsuya was a star soccer player known as "Yoigoshi the Unstoppable," but when he entered high school, he severed all involvement with sports. Now, he has been invited to a certain sports team. In these…
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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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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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Love Live! School Idol Project (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedyOtonokizaka High School is planning to close within three years. However, nine female students come together with one thing in mind—form a pop idol group to revive the school’s popularity and keep it from shutting…
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The aquatope on white sand (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and dramaKukuru Misakino, an 18-year-old high school girl working in an aquarium, meets Fuuka Miyazawa, a former idol who lost her place in Tokyo and escaped. Fuuka will spend her days in the aquarium with her own thoughts in…
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Sound! Euphonium (2015)
★ 8/10Also animation and dramaSpring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire. There, she comes across Reina, her former…
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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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YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily (2011)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyOn her first day attending the all-girls Nanamori Middle School in Takaoka, Toyama Akaza Akari oversleeps, to be awakened by her one-year-senior childhood friends: the level-headed Funami Yui and the often…
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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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Minami-ke (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedyThere are three of the Minami sisters: Haruka, Kana and Chiaki, who have an average life. The girls only have each other to depend on and help each other get through everything from love confessions to cooking.
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Akebi's Sailor Uniform (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyIt’s Komichi Akebi’s first year of junior high and she has her heart set on one thing: Robai Private Academy’s sailor uniform. As the next chapter of her life gets closer, she dreams of all the exciting new experiences…
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Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends (2011)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and comedyKodaka Hasegawa has just transferred to St. Chronica's Academy and he's having a hard time making friends. With his naturally blond hair and fierce looking eyes, people constantly mistake him for a delinquent. One day…
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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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Backflip!! (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaThe final summer of middle school, Shotaro Futaba discovers boys gymnastics and is completely enamored by it. Shotaro ends up going to Soshukan Private High School (aka Ao High) and decides to visit the boys gymnastics…
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Skip and Loafer (2023)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and dramaIwakura Mitsumi, a tenacious country girl, prepares for high school in the big city. She meets the handsome Shima Sousuke, whose easygoing ways help her adapt in the real world.