Shows Like The Piano Forest
If you liked The Piano Forest (2018), 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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Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also animation and dramaSince the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to…
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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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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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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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Ping Pong the Animation (2014)
★ 8.2/10Also animation and dramaMakoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino have been playing table tennis together since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game, and how they see it, has changed…
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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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Those Snow White Notes (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and dramaMatsugorou Sawamura is a shamisen player of legendary talent. Upon his death, his grandson, Setsu Sawamura, lost his ability to play. Having lost his beloved sound, Setsu finds himself in Tokyo in search of a new sound…
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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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White Album 2 (2013)
★ 7/10Also animation and dramaOne evening in fall, with one month left before the school festival, the last member of the ruined light music club, Haruki Kitahara, looks out the window and plays his guitar in the direction of the festival stage set…
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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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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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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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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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Yu Yu Hakusho (1992)
★ 8.5/10Also animationAfter dying to save a boy, delinquent tough guy Yusuke Urameshi is granted another chance at life by redeeming himself as a "Spirit Detective."
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Fuuka (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and dramaYuu Haruna, a loner and an avid Twitter user, has just transferred to a new school in Tokyo. He ends up befriending a unique high school girl named Fuuka Akitsuki, despite some initial conflict, and the two wind up…
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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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BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! (2023)
★ 8/10Also animation and dramaThe best way to fit in at a new school? Start a band! Anon has just transferred to Haneoka Girls’ Academy where girl bands are all the rage. But she started school late, so there aren’t many girls left to recruit. Then…
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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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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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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.