Movies and TV shows like Loveless

If you like "Loveless" you are looking for anime, yaoi and serious movies or TV shows about / with supernatural, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, friendship, supernatural ability, teenage life and vengeance themes of Animation, Drama and Romance 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.
Loveless (2005)
 6.8
 803
Loveless (2005)
Original name: ラブレス
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Twelve year old Aoyagi Ritsuka is left with his insane mother as his only family when his brother, Seimei, is killed suddenly. After moving to a new school, he meets Agatsuma Soubi, who claims to have known his brother. Ritsuka discovers that Soubi and Seimei used to be a fighting pair, whereby Soubi was the "Fighter" and Seimei was the "Sacrifice". Now that Seimei is gone, Ritsuka has inherited Soubi, who will become his "Fighter". After learning that Seimei was killed by an organization known as the "Seven Moons", Ritsuka decides to investigate into his brother's death, with the sometimes useless help of Soubi, along the way.
Style: anime, yaoi, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy, shoujo, 2d animation, josei
Plot: supernatural, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, friendship, supernatural ability, teenage life, vengeance, danger, death in the family, bdsm, boys love, lgbt, unrequited love, gay, gay interest, superhero, magic, comic hero, lgbtq, asexual, bullying, child abuse, high school life, dysfunctional family, elementary school ...
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: music video

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Loveless

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, serious and yaoi films and TV series with plots about youth, supernatural, high school life, high school, friendship, gay and love and romance mostly in Animation, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Loveless: No. 6 (2011), Papa datte, Shitai (2019), Toradora! (2008), Gravitation (1999), Vampire Knight (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 7.4
 2K
No. 6 (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: In the near future, most of mankind now lives in a handful of city states. There, for the privileged elite, life should be perfect. But for young Sion, life has become a nightmare since letting a strange boy spend the night in his apartment. ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, yaoi, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: uncover truth, life turned upside down, social differences, secret organization, conspiracy, fugitives, boys love, lgbt, teenage life, life is a bitch, lgbtq, love ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Papa datte, Shitai (2019)
Genre: Animation, Short, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story: "There are Times I Cannot Hold It, Even If I'm a Father" University student Asumi came to Naruse household to be a housekeeper for his part-time job. The family consists of a single-father and a son Ichika. Among them, the father ...
Style: yaoi, anime, erotic, touching, suspense ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, student, gay lead character, love, father son relationship, gay teenager, homosexual, gay relationship, family relations, love and romance, homosexual love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 19K
Toradora! (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: It’s Ryuji’s first day as a junior in high school and it seems as if things are looking up. He gets to sit in between his only friend, Yusaku, and, more importantly, the girl he’s secretly crushing on, Minori Kushieda. But just when he thinks ...
Style: anime, shoujo, realistic, semi serious, tsundere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, high school, school, teenage love, love and romance, high school life, friends, teenage life, slice of life, looking for love, youth, unrequited love ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 974
Gravitation (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Gravitation follows goofy, wannabe pop star Shuichi Shindo, on his journey to fame with his best friend Hiroshi Nakano and their band, Bad Luck.  Along the way, Shuichi meets famous (male) author, playboy Eiri Yuki, and falls in love.  Bad Luck is ...
Style: anime, yaoi, shoujo, fast, realistic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, musician, music band, true love, gay interest, lgbtq, occupation, homosexual, friends, stranger, singer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
vengeance movies
11795
stylized movies
8695
japan movies
3136
Vampire Knight (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Cross Academy is an elite boarding school with two separate, isolated classes: the Day Class and the Night Class. On the surface, Yuuki Cross and Zero Kiryuu are prefects of the academy, and attempt to keep order between the students as classes ...
Style: anime, shoujo, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: vampire, supernatural, rivalry, love, school, forbidden love, memory, supernatural power, memory loss, imaginary, friendship, night ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.1
 172
Sukisho (2005)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Hashiba has an accident and has lost all of his memories. When Fujimori comes to his school as his new roommate, He tells Hashiba that he is called Ran. He and Hashiba both have a split personality which they developed in their youth.
Style: anime, yaoi, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: memory loss, lgbt, youth, high school life, social relations, gender, young lovers, teenage life, young love, fall in love, friendship, everyday life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Inu x Boku Secret Service (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Protected by the highest security, the Maison de Ayakashi is rumored to be haunted, where only eccentrics could live. In reality, it is a place for humans with non-human ancestors to live. The socially-inept Ririchiyo has come here to improve ...
Style: anime, humorous, stylized, semi serious, romantic comedy ...
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, spirit, master and servant, demon, social misfits, estate, danger, socially awkward, curses spells and rituals, bodyguard, bondage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Mirage of Blaze (2002)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 325 min.
TV show
Story: Takaya, an ordinary high school boy, gets drawn into an ancient war of darkness and tragedy when he discovers that he is the reincarnation of a feudal lord from Japan's Warring States Period.
Style: anime, serious, exciting, emotional, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: reincarnation, good versus evil, supernatural power, unrequited love, supernatural, rivalry, youth, supernatural ability, sent to the past, imaginary, betrayal, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
 5.9
 314
Gakuen Heaven (2006)
Genre: Animation, Romance
Country: Japan, Germany
TV show
Story: Gakuen Heaven is a media franchise originating from the PC game Gakuen Heaven: Boy's Love Scramble, originally released by the company SPRAY. The franchise gradually expanded to include more games, drama CDs, manga, and anime.
Style: anime, yaoi, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: boarding school, teenage life, teenage love, friendship, buddies, youth, gay athlete, childhood friend, school, gay interest, occupation, lgbtq ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.1
 148
Ai no Kusabi (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: This futuristic tale is set in a world where men are assigned various social classes based on their hair color. Iason Mink, a high-class Blondie, runs into Riki, a black-haired Mongrel, and makes him his "Pet." As Riki learns of the ...
Style: yaoi, anime, futuristic, erotic, josei
Plot: homosexual subtext, gay, exploitation, racism, bondage, homosexual history, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay love, power relations, romantic relationship, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The World's Greatest First Love (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi: Onodera Ritsu no Baai is a Japanese boys-love manga series written and illustrated by Shungiku Nakamura. In 2011, the manga was adapted into an anime television series under the title Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi. Produced by Studio DEEN ...
Style: yaoi, anime, erotic, realistic, touching ...
Plot: couples, gay, boys love, first love, boss and employee, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, gay relationship, gay interest, relationship vs career, publishing house ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: When Yadomi Jinta was a child, he was a central piece in a group of close friends. In time, however, these childhood friends drifted apart, and when they became high school students, they had long ceased to think of each other as friends. One of ...
Style: anime, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot: ghost, unrequited love, friendship, supernatural, death of friend, haunted by the past, tragedy, friends, teenage life, hopes, imaginary, slice of life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Aishiteruze Baby (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Aishiteruze Baby is a shōjo romance manga by Yoko Maki. It was serialized by Shueisha in Ribon from April 2002 and January 2005 and collected in seven bound volumes. It was adapted as a 26-episode anime television series produced by TMS ...
Style: anime, stylized, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, opposites attract, teenage love, parenting, social relations, family relations, teenage life, family life, youth, love and romance, eccentric family, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Destiny of the Shrine Maiden (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The highborn Himemiya Chikane is cool and aloof, the perfect young lady of good breeding. Kurusegawa Himeko is devoted to her, and secretly her friend. Their lives are undisturbed in their school, until an ancient evil suddenly rears its head. To ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, yaoi, romantic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love affair, supernatural, friendship, rivalry, youth, destiny, lgbt, love triangle, magical girl, high school life, lesbian, young adult ...
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Lunar Legend Tsukihime (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Shiki Tohno is a boy who, after an accident as a child, is able to see strange lines coming from objects and people. He has to wear special glasses to stop seeing them. If he cuts some of these lines, he destroys people connected to them. One day he ...
Style: anime, gothic, suspenseful, stylized, offbeat ...
Plot: supernatural, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, danger, haunted by the past, imaginary, vampire, heroes, rivalry, superpower, immortality, amnesia ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.1
 125
Asura Cryin' (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Tomoharu is a normal high school student... except for the fact that he is never alone. Haunted by the ghost of his dead childhood friend, he moves into a new residence at the beginning of the school year. Life turns out to be a little more ...
Style: anime, exciting, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, friendship, good versus evil, teenage life, young heroes, friends, supernatural, danger, high school life, heroic mission, save the world, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Dakaichi: I'm being harassed by the sexiest man of the year (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: "I'll make it so your body's unable to forget mine." Saijou Takato's 5 year reign as the 'Most Huggable No. 1' has been snatched. Stealing his thunder is the newbie actor with a 3-year debut, Azumaya! Towards the ...
Style: yaoi, anime, erotic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, boys love, blackmail, gay, lgbtq, blackmailer, actor, sexual blackmail, slice of life, showbiz, gay interest, job
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Natsuyuki Rendezvous (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Natsuyuki Rendezvous is a Japanese manga series by Haruka Kawachi which serialized in Shodensha's Feel Young magazine between July 2009 and January 2012. An anime television adaptation by Dogakobo aired in Fuji TV's Noitamina block between ...
Style: anime, emotional, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, fall in love, love triangle, wooing, tragedy, store, unfulfillment, supernatural ability, couple relations, love and romance, love
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Movie in collections
lgbt movies
5071
gay movies
gay
5673
The Stranger by the Beach (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min.
Story: On an island off the coast of Okinawa, two young men meet on a beach: Shun Hashimoto, a gay novelist and Mio Chibana, a somber high school student. Day by day, the two of them grow closer, but then, suddenly, Mio decides to leave the island. They ...
Style: anime, yaoi, romantic, touching, scenic ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, youth, encounter, boys love, love, love and romance, gay teenager, sex scene, homosexual, first love, teenager ...
Place: japan, okinawa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Angel's Feather (2006)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: When Shou transfers to the Yusei Gakuen school, he makes a remarkable discovery: his long-lost twin brother, Kai. But that's just the beginning, as Shou soon learns that his school is also a gateway to a magical world of mystery, intrigue and ...
Style: anime, captivating, thrilling, erotic
Plot: angel, high school life, schoolboy, teenage life, supernatural power, teenage protagonist, teenager, fantasy world, supernatural ability, lifestyle change, changing lives, adolescence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.3
 264
Kobato. (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kobato is a girl who came to earth to fulfill her wish, which is to go to a certain place. To fulfill that wish, she has to find a bottle and fill it with scarred hearts. Together with her "teacher", which is a stuffed animal, she search ...
Style: anime, humorous, stylized, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: friends, friendship, supernatural ability, love and romance, parallel world, youth, objects come to life, looking for love, hopes, magic, teaching the ways of the world, heartwarming ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.0
 923
D.N.Angel (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: D.N.Angel is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki. The ongoing manga premiered in Japan in the Kadokawa Shoten shōjo magazine Monthly Asuka in November 1997. The series went on an extended hiatus after the August 2005 ...
Style: anime, shoujo, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, secret identity, teenage life, supernatural ability, undercover, escapades, teenage love, youth, magic, birthday, master criminal, middle school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.0
 198
Glasslip (2014)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: What if you hold the power to hear the voices or see fragments of images from the future? Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Glasslip follows the life of Touko Fukami, an aspiring glass artist born from a glass artisan family. She enjoys her ...
Style: anime, sentimental, captivating, psychological, super sentai
Plot: friendship, high school life, supernatural, uncover truth, couples, love, new student, family relations, escapades, slice of life, unrequited love, coming of age ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Movie in collections
 7.5
 2K
Beelzebub (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Ishiyama High is a school populated entirely by delinquents, where nonstop violence and lawlessness are the norm. However, there is one universally acknowledged rule—don't cross first year student Tatsumi Oga, Ishiyama's most vicious ...
Style: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: parenting, youth, danger, master and servant, demon, imaginary, supernatural, school, juvenile delinquency, babies and infants, rivalry, supernatural power ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.2
 2K
Love Stage!! (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Izumi was born in a family of celebrities. His father is a singer, his mother an artist, his older brother the lead vocalist for the popular band Crashers. Izumi himself, however, is just a nerdy college student. He loves the manga "Magical ...
Style: yaoi, anime, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: gay, showbiz, cross dressing, art, lgbt, lifestyle, singer, love, escapades, couple relations, idol, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.4
 463
Koi Kaze (2004)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: After a 27 year old man has chance encounter with a fifteen year old girl, they discover that they are actually brother and sister. They were separated over a decade before due to their parents divorce, but now she is coming to move in with him and ...
Style: anime, emotional, touching, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: high school, forbidden love, high school life, family relations, moral dilemma, introspection, incest, couples, youth, brother sister relationship, wedding planner, true love ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Psychic Squad (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: children, friendship, supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, escapades, rivalry, danger, teleportation, teenage life, psychic, child protagonist ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Kids on the Slope (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kids on the Slope is a Japanese manga series by Yuki Kodama. An anime television series adaptation of the same name aired in 2012. It is directed by Shinichirō Watanabe at MAPPA and Tezuka Productions with music provided by acclaimed composer Yoko ...
Style: anime, touching, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jazz, high school, friendship, coming of age, unrequited love, music band, free spirited, social relations, first love, love triangle, youth, mature ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.6
 5K
Orange (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: One 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 Kakeru Naruse. The Naho from ten ...
Style: anime, shoujo, romantic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: school, friendship, time travel, unrequited love, changing the past or future, second chance, decision, supernatural, lifestyle change, teenage life, drastic change of life, changing lives ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to ...
Style: anime, touching, sentimental, semi serious, colorful ...
Plot: teenage life, unrequited love, slice of life, friendship, follow your dream, underground, love triangle, grownups, first love, supernatural, childhood friend, teenage boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie