Movies and TV shows like Monogatari Series: Second Season

If you like "Monogatari Series: Second Season" you are looking for anime, psychological and surreal movies or TV shows about / with mature, supernatural, vampire, ghost, friendship, high school and urban themes of Animation, Adventure and Comedy genre shot in Japan.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Monogatari Series: Second Season (2013)
 8.6
 4K
Monogatari Series: Second Season (2013)
Original name: duplicated物語
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Apparitions, oddities, and gods continue to manifest around Koyomi Araragi and his close-knit group of friends: Tsubasa Hanekawa, the group's modest genius; Shinobu Oshino, the resident doughnut-loving vampire; athletic deviant Suruga Kanbaru; bite-happy spirit Mayoi Hachikuji; Koyomi's cutesy stalker Nadeko Sengoku; and Hitagi Senjogahara, the poignant tsundere. Monogatari Series: Second Season revolves around these individuals and their struggle to overcome the darkness that is rapidly approaching.
Style: anime, psychological, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, existential, psychological horror, tense, ecchi, adult animation ...
Plot: mature, supernatural, vampire, ghost, friendship, high school, urban, coming of age, symbolism, mythology, high school life, identity crisis, obsession, family drama, pun, slow burn, apparition, folk horror, psychological drama, ghosts, school life
Place: monogatari

Movie in categories

anime movies
6683
mature movies
2561
supernatural movies
12896
vampire movies
1688
surreal movies
6671
ghost movies
5860

Most similar movies to Monogatari Series: Second Season

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, ecchi and psychological films and TV series with plots about supernatural, coming of age, friendship, high school life, school, high school and slice of life mostly in Animation, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Monogatari Series: Second Season: Tsukimonogatari (2014), Owarimonogatari (2015), Hanamonogatari (2014), Nekomonogatari (Kuro) (2012), Bakemonogatari (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Tsukimonogatari (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The arc opens with Koyomi Araragi and Shinobu Oshino musing about the true nature of Shikigami doll Yotsugi Ononoki. Koyomi supposes that as an apparition, Yotsugi isn't well suited to life among humans, in spite of her attempts at being ...
Style: anime, psychological, philosophical, existential, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, vampire, immortality, identity crisis, character study, transformation, relationships, investigation, occult, moral ambiguity, apparition, urban ...
Place: monogatari
Similarity:
95%
Owarimonogatari (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: As Araragi Koyomi approaches the end of his high school journey, a mysterious chain of events begins to unravel the secrets of his past. With ties to the people he cherishes, Araragi must face the truths that will shape his future—and decide the ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, psychological, twist ending, sinister ...
Plot: supernatural, memory, character study, investigation, apparition, darkness, identity, high school, symbolism, locked room, ghost, monologue ...
Place: monogatari
Similarity:
94%
Hanamonogatari (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: After Araragi Koyomi graduated from high school, Kanbaru Suruga feels lonely because there's no one to talk about Oddities anymore. One day, she heard a rumor about Mr. Devil, who can realize people's wishes. She comes to meet that person, ...
Style: anime, semi serious, captivating, emotional, surreal ...
Plot: desire, loneliness, female protagonist, basketball, supernatural power, making a wish, wish fulfillment, supernatural ability, wish come true, female friendship, monologue, supernatural ...
Place: monogatari
Similarity:
65%
Nekomonogatari (Kuro) (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: After surviving a vampire attack, Koyomi Araragi notices that his friend and savior, Tsubasa Hanekawa, has been acting strange. When he happens to cross paths with her on his way to a bookstore and sees she has a bandage on her face, he knows ...
Style: anime, captivating, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, vampire, possession, creature, teenager, supernatural power, vampire bite, friends, teenage life, fight, apparition, character study ...
Place: monogatari
Similarity:
62%
Movie in collections
friendship movies
28179
urban movies
14273
Bakemonogatari (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The Monogatari Series revolves around on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survived a vampire attack, and finds himself helping some girls involved with all kinds of apparitions, deities, ghosts, mythological beasts, and spirits.
Style: humorous, anime, semi serious, adult animation, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, classmate, love and romance, youkai, imaginary, high school, youth, vampire, supernatural, young heroes, high school life, ghost ...
Place: monogatari
Similarity:
60%
Nisemonogatari (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Surviving a vampire attack, meeting several girls plagued by supernatural entities, and just trying to get through life are some of the things high school student Koyomi Araragi has had to deal with lately. On top of all this, he wakes up one ...
Style: anime, light, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: supernatural, high school, kidnapping, harem, brother sister relationship, female nudity, japanese mythology, brother sister incest, con men, incantation, high school student, vampire ...
Place: monogatari
Similarity:
50%
Invaders of the Rokujyouma!? (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kōtarō Satomi decided to live on his own when he began high school, and chose Room 106 of Corona House because it was cheap. Unfortunately, Kōtarō soon discovers that numerous otherworldly and supernatural girls also want his room for various ...
Style: parody, anime, ecchi, not serious, entertaining ...
Audience: teen fantasy
Plot: school, ghost, magical girl, supernatural, unrequited love, high school life, friendship, supernatural power, anthropomorphism, first love, love, love and romance ...
Similarity:
42%
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: An art student named Jin Mikuriya carves a statue from the wood of the Kannagi tree only to have the statue come to life in the form of a goddess, who has now taken over the statue. He and "Nagi" work together to destroy the impurities ...
Style: anime, disturbing, psychological, captivating, mystical ...
Plot: goddess, supernatural, spirit, god, high school life, protector, magic, young girl, slice of life, friendship, mythology, art student ...
Similarity:
38%
Movie in collections
 5.7
 101
Vlad Love (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Mitsugu Bamba is a high school girl who is crazy about donating her blood, to the point that she feels compelled to visit a local blood bank despite the unfriendly nurse. One day, Mitsugu encounters a beautiful girl there who looks like she has come ...
Style: anime, funny, captivating, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: child vampire, supernatural, teenage girl, schoolgirl, school, relationships, friends, friendship, teenager, teenage life, silly humor, fantasy world ...
Similarity:
36%
Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus (2025)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A quirky first-year student majoring in statistical science at a university in Yokohama. Unconventionally, he navigates life without a smartphone in this modern digital age.
Style: anime, psychological, emotional, romantic comedy, philosophical ...
Plot: high school life, university, adolescence, youth, coming of age, slice of life, campus, friendship, bittersweet, urban, japanese culture, supernatural ...
Similarity:
35%
Mischief of the Gods (2014)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Yui Kusanagi is ordered by Zeus, a god and the headmaster of a school he created, to teach the meaning of love to young and handsome gods. The reason he has for doing this is to cancel the negative effects of the weakening bond between the world of ...
Style: shoujo, anime, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: supernatural power, friendship, mythology, supernatural, parallel world, supernatural ability, boy girl friendship, love, greek mythology, god, love and romance, young love ...
Similarity:
35%
Natsu no Arashi! (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Thirteen-year-old Yasaka is a boy staying at his grandfather's house during his summer vacation. One day he entered a store and met Arashi, a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl working there. After trying to protect her from a man who claims to ...
Style: anime, entertaining, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, teenager, supernatural, mysterious girl, summer, supernatural power, magic, youth, mysterious past, coming of age, slice of life, secrets ...
Time: 1950s, 60s
Similarity:
34%
Persona 4 The Golden Animation (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In the spring when the cherry blossom petals fall, Yū Narukami moves to Yaso Inaba to live with his uncle and cousin due to his family's circumstances. He transfers to Yasogami High School, where his event-filled school life begins. However, ...
Style: anime, suspense, detective, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, friendship, supernatural, high school, sleuth, teenage life, uncover truth, schoolboy, teenager, murder investigation, high school life ...
Similarity:
34%
Our Home's Fox Deity (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Our Home's Fox Deity. is a Japanese light novel series by Jin Shibamura, with illustrations by Eizō Hōden. The first novel was released in February 2004, and as of October 2007, seven volumes have been published by ASCII Media Works under ...
Style: anime, lighthearted, shounen, romantic comedy, urban fantasy
Audience: family friendly
Plot: supernatural, slice of life, mythology, everyday life, young adult, friendship, heartwarming, magic realism, high school life, coming of age, heroine, adaptation ...
Place: japan
Similarity:
33%
Sasami-san@Ganbaranai (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The Japanese call them hikikomori-people who've become so withdrawn socially that they refuse to leave their homes for weeks and even months at a time. For Sasami Tsukuyomi, who's attempting to pass her first year of high school despite ...
Style: anime, surreal, semi serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: brother sister relationship, satire, family problems, antisocial behavior, social problems, teenage life, lifestyle, surrealism, socially awkward, supernatural, school, high school ...
Similarity:
32%
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The Mystic Archives of Dantalian is a Japanese light novel series written by Gakuto Mikumo and illustrated by G-Yuusuke. The series started serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's light novel magazine The Sneaker on February 29, 2008. A manga ...
Style: anime, gothic, seinen, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: magic, supernatural, demon, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power, ghost, paranormal, curses spells and rituals, exorcism, characters in danger, fear, violence ...
Time: 1920s, post world war one
Place: england
Similarity:
32%
Chibi Goddess Karin (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Karin Hanazono is an orphan, living with her relatives. Her life has never been easy, her studies are not well, she is not the best in sports and technically she is miserable. Left with only a ring as a memento from her departed mother, she suddenly ...
Style: anime, shoujo, entertaining, captivating, cute ...
Audience: kids
Plot: magical girl, goddess, orphan, supernatural, transformation, changing lives, adventure hero, magic, secret, wizards and magicians, wizard, secret identity ...
Similarity:
32%
Gabriel DropOut (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Gabriel White graduated at the top of the class at angel school and attends a human school on earth in pursuit of knowledge, but then gets engrossed in a web game and decides its too much trouble to go anywhere. (from manga)
Style: anime, humorous, entertaining, captivating, parody ...
Plot: angel, slacker, friendship, high school life, demon, magic, school, supernatural, teenager, clumsy, rescue, society ...
Place: japan
Similarity:
32%
Movie in collections
Abnormal Physiology Seminar (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story: Nanako Matsutaka is a normal university student, who happens to enroll in the Abnormal Physiology Seminar. She tries to keep her mental state sound, but other abnormal classmates start to influence her personality...
Style: anime, ecchi, satirical, seinen, semi serious ...
Plot: high school life, school, college, campus, relationships, male female relationship, teenage life, love affair, couple relations, teen romance, adolescence, teenage love ...
Similarity:
30%
Zoku Owarimonogatari (2018)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story: The morning after his high school graduation ceremony, Araragi goes to the bathroom to wash his face but is struck by the sensation that his reflection is watching him. Touching the mirror, Araragi’s hand passes straight through and he is sucked ...
Style: colorful, light, atmospheric, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: mirror, parallel world, child in peril, alternate reality, supernatural, parallel universe, alone in the world, good versus evil, young heroes, magic realism, friendship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, monogatari
Similarity:
30%
Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (2022)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Everything about college student Amamiya Yuuhi is average: grades, looks and his blasé outlook on life. So what happens when he awakens one day to a talking lizard, who informs him that there is a gigantic hammer in outer space, poised to split the ...
Style: anime, psychological, tense, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: power, boy, supernatural, reluctant hero, rescue, disorder, escapades, fight, youth, heroes, moral ambiguity, quest ...
Similarity:
30%
Interviews with Monster Girls (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The story takes place in an age where "Ajin" (demi-human), more casually known as "Demi," have slowly started to become accepted into human society. Tetsuo Takahashi is a biology teacher who ends up teaching three such Demi, ...
Style: anime, captivating, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: mythical creature, vampire, supernatural, bullying, coming of age, school, friendship, everyday life, friends, youth, teenager, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
Similarity:
30%
Girls Beyond the Wasteland (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Buntarou doesn't know what he wants to do in the future. He does not have any kind of dream that he wants to pursue, so currently he just spends his days hanging around with his friends. One day, his classmate Sayuki asks him if he wants to ...
Style: anime, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: high school life, slice of life, school club, friendship, game, high school, coming of age, female protagonist, women, teamwork, friends, youth ...
Time: 2010s
Similarity:
29%
Movie in collections
tense movies
25919
obsession movies
10538
family drama movies
10468
pun movies
Pun
236
 6.7
 2K
Campione! (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Godo Kusanagi, a high school student that kills a god, claiming its power and title of Campione, to slay other gods.
Style: anime, ecchi, exciting, adult anime, captivating ...
Audience: teen fantasy
Plot: battles, magic, god, harem, heroes, school, mature, manipulation, superhuman powers, power, female nudity, maid ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, athens greece, italy
Similarity:
28%
There Was a Cute Girl in the Hero's Party, So I Tried Confessing to Her (2026)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Yoki was once a human but reincarnated into a demon. He now holds a middling position serving the Demon King tasked with taking down the hero party. But when he finally faces them, Yoki thinks... ""No way… she's perfect."" ...
Style: anime, romantic comedy, lighthearted, warmhearted
Plot: forbidden love, opposites attract, moral dilemma, supernatural, moral ambiguity, switching roles, slice of life, isekai, coming of age, reincarnation, magic, demon ...
Similarity:
27%
Cackling Kitarou (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Kitarou, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills by thwarting the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity.
Style: anime, captivating, funny, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: supernatural, spirit, ghost, youkai, mysticism, good versus evil, evil spirit, showdown, humour, supernatural power, ghost story, assistant ...
Similarity:
27%
 4.9
 83
Re-Kan! (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Amami Hibiki is a girl who can see ghosts and other supernatural phenomena in her surroundings. The stories follow her daily life with both her friends and the otherworldly.
Style: anime, captivating, semi serious, lighthearted, mystical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, female protagonist, ghost, supernatural, school, adolescence, teenage life, teenage girl, supernatural power, satire, schoolgirl, teenager ...
Place: japan
Similarity:
26%
Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 (2025)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: An animated anthology of 8 short films adapted from Tatsuki Fujimoto’s early works, created from ages 17 to 26. Based on the manga collections 17-21 and 22-26, and brought to life by 6 different studios, the project explores the raw beginnings of ...
Style: anthology, anime, surreal, manga, dark comedy ...
Plot: mature, adaptation, visceral, supernatural, coming of age, violent, female nudity, dark humor, gore, female full frontal nudity
Similarity:
26%
I'm Gonna Be An Angel! (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: I'm Gonna Be An Angel! is an anime produced by Studio Pierrot. A manga was also released in Japan in 1999. The anime was licensed for release in the United States by Synch-Point, but its domestic distribution license has since expired. The ...
Style: anime, lighthearted, slapstick, romantic comedy, parody ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: supernatural, vampire, eccentric family, young adult, witchcraft, high school, high school life, fish out of water, slice of life, coming of age, unrequited love, satire ...
Similarity:
26%
 6.3
 328
Omamori Himari (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The slapstick romantic comedy centers around an ordinary 16-year-old high school boy named Yūto Amakawa who is protected by a spirit—specifically, a beautiful, sword-wielding cat girl spirit named Himari. Yūto is descended from a family that ...
Style: anime, ecchi, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teen fantasy
Plot: demon, spirit, superpower, supernatural, love, anthropomorphism, unrequited love, friendship, transformation, childhood friend, teenage life, couples ...
Place: japan
Similarity:
25%