Shows Like Love and Lies
If you liked Love and Lies (2017), 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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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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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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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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Bokura ga ita (2006)
★ 7.2/10Also 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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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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InuYasha (2000)
★ 8.6/10Also animationKagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and posseses the "Jewel of Four Souls" (the Shikon…
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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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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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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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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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Wandering Son (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and dramaShuichi Nitori transfers to a new elementary school, and there, meets Yoshino Takatsuki. The two children discover they share a similar secret.
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7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! (2024)
★ 7.9/10Also animation and dramaRishe, the duke’s daughter, is no stranger to reincarnation—it’s her seventh life, after all. Each life restarts at her broken engagement. Having been a merchant, a maid, and a knight, she now desires leisure. But her…
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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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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.
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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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NANA (2006)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and dramaNana Osaki and Nana Komatsu meet while traveling to Tokyo in pursuit of their respective dreams, and decide to be roommates. Although drastically different people, the two become very close and together they find out…
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Nina the Starry Bride (2024)
★ 8.5/10Also animation and dramaNina never imagined she would be at the center of a royal deception. She’s had a rough start in life as an orphan in the castle town of Fortna. But when Prince Azure notices that her deep blue eyes look the same as the…
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Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also animationDuring the Sengoku period, there are many factions constantly at war. One of these is led by a one-eyed man named Date Masamune and another by the imposing Takeda Shingen. The latter has a fiercely loyal subordinate…
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Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (2004)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and dramaKoyuki Tanaka's boring life is changed after meeting Ryusuke Minami, a local musician with a bad attitude, who introduces him to foreign music.