Movies and TV shows like Love Hina

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Love Hina (2000)
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Love Hina (2000)
Original name: ラブひな
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 544 min.
TV show
Story: Keitaro and his childhood sweetheart make a promise to be accepted at and to meet each other at the prestigous Toudai University before she moved out of his life. About a decade later, Keitaro has become an artist and a daydreamer, having ranked 27th from the last in the national practice exam. When his grandmother leaves the all-girls dormitory, he becomes the residential manager and soon meets up with two Todai applicants who may have been that sweetheart, since he`s forgotten her name. Then there the other tenants like young Shinobu who was in despair until Keitaro helped her, Motoko the swordsmaster who sees men as evil distractions, Su Kaolo the genius child inventor and the sneaky Kitsune.
Style: anime, sentimental, humorous, ecchi, cult classic, shounen, semi serious, black comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: friendship, teenage love, love triangle, opposites attract, youth, couples, teenage life, battle of the sexes, wooing, unlikely couple, adolescence vs adulthood, high school, self discovery, college, magical, university, childhood friend, school, friends, family relations, love and romance, high school life, rivalry, strong female presence, unfulfilled love ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, kyoto japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, humorous, semi serious and realistic films and TV series with plots about youth, love and romance, high school life, high school, teenage life, friendship and teenage love mostly in Animation, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Love Hina: His and Her Circumstances (1998), Step Up Love Story (2002), Maid Sama! (2010), Skip Beat! (2008), Video Girl Ai (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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His and Her Circumstances (1998)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In His and Her Circumstances, like a drug, Yukino Miyazawa was addicted to admiration and praise from those around her. She worked hard to become the perfect student, the perfect girl. But that was before… him. Souichirou Arima. The instant she ...
Style: anime, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, friendship, young lovers, teenage life, power of love, loneliness, teen angst, family problems, hopes, youth, against the odds, popularity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan
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Step Up Love Story (2002)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Makoto and Yura Onoda are happy newlyweds but neither of them has sexual experience before. Desperately willing to improve their sex life, they look for help from their relatives, friends and "the media". While their sexual knowledge is ...
Style: ecchi, sexy, anime, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: newlywed, sister in law, first sexual experience, sex, sexual fantasy, virginity, slice of life, marriage, husband wife relationship, sexual humor, shyness, newlyweds ...
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Maid Sama! (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president at a once all-boys school turned co-ed. She rules the school with strict discipline demeanor. But she has a secret—she works at a maid cafe due to her families circumstances. One day the ...
Style: anime, humorous, touching, shoujo, romantic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: school, teenage life, teenage love, fall in love, love and romance, high school, maid, youth, rich and poor, cafe, student, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Skip Beat! (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The girl Kyoko Mogami lives alone in an apartment with her big love the childhood friend Sho Fuwa. He is a big music star and has many fans. One day he breaks up with her telling her she is a plain woman, and the only reason he stayed with her all ...
Style: feel good, anime, captivating, shoujo, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: rising to stardom, breakup, rivalry, artists and showbiz, relationship vs career, teenage love, betrayal, showbiz, love and romance, couple relations, couples, teenage life ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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100%
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Yamada's First Time: B Gata H Kei (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: OMG! There’s this girl at school, Yamada, who wants to make like a hundred sex friends. She totally thinks she can devirginize one hundred different boys! Can you believe that? That’s like every boy in the school. Who does she think she is? I ...
Style: anime, touching, semi serious, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: looking for sex, teenage love, loss of virginity, love and romance, youth, obsession, social relations, best friend, horny, wooing, fall in love, harem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Video Girl Ai (1992)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: High-school student Yota Moteuchi is so unpopular that his classmates have given him the nickname "Dateless." So it's no surprise when the love of his life, Moemi, is not interested in Yota but instead is in love with Yota's best ...
Style: anime, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, crying ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: schoolgirl, fall in love, teenage love, tenderness, unrequited love, couples, friends, forbidden love, youth, battle of the sexes, underdog, crumbling marriage ...
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100%
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
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100%
Honey and Clover (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Yuuta Takemoto is a poor college student who lives in a dilapidated apartment building with his two friends, Shinobu Morita and Takumi Mayama. The series chronicles the students' story as they struggle through life and love.
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: slice of life, coming of age, friendship, unrequited love, fall in love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, struggle, everyday life, lifestyle, student life, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Maburaho (2003)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: High school student Kazuki Shikimori comes from a line of powerful magicians with extraordinary DNA and he attends the most prestigious school for wizards in all of Japan. It would seem that life is good for Kazuki. Unfortunately, that couldn’t be ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, ecchi
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: supernatural, teenage love, supernatural ability, chosen one, teenage life, danger, wizards and magicians, love triangle, curses spells and rituals, youth, high school, imaginary ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
60%
Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Kodaka 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, he runs into his ...
Style: anime, touching, stylized, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: social misfits, friendship, club, social relations, misfit, youth, society, harem, high school life, friends, mature, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Oh My Goddess! (1993)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
TV show
Story: When college student Keiichi Morisato dials the wrong number while ordering for some food at his dormitory, he accidentally gets connected to the Goddess Hotline and a beautiful goddess named Belldandy appears out of a mirror in front of him. After ...
Style: anime, romantic comedy, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: couple relations, goddess, magic, hopes, faith, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths, down on your luck, student life, friendship, college life, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Hachiman Hikigaya is an antisocial high school student with no friends or girlfriend and as a result has a distorted view on life. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about their adolescent lives, he mutters, "They're a bunch of ...
Style: anime, touching, realistic, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: youth, friendship, society, love and romance, school, high school, slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, love, teenage girl, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Agent Aika (1997)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story: From the creator of Project A-Ko! She's sexy, suave and sophisticated, but she's no bimbo. She's a martial arts expert and a jet fighter pilot with the body of a supermodel. Agent Aika, known in Japan as simply AIKa, is an adventure ...
Style: anime, ecchi, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: erotica, female protagonist, misogynist, white supremacy, female martial artist, post-apocalyptic future, treasure hunt, secret agent, small business, super villain, drunkenness, violence ...
Time: future
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ikki Tousen (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 325 min.
TV show
Story: Seven schools are constantly "at war" with each other, and the students have become skilled fighters and constantly battle with rival schools. Their lives and fates are guided by strange jewels that contain the spirits and destinies of ...
Style: anime, ecchi, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, female warrior, female nudity, against the odds, teenage life, fight for supremacy, martial arts, opponent, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, ambition, nude bathing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 5K
Golden Time (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Banri 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, Kouko Kaga.
Style: anime, sincere, touching, captivating, light ...
Plot: japanese girl, dream, love interest, hometown, university, love triangle, couples, society, flashback, law school, city, law student ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Sakura Dormitory is a dorm of the high school affiliated with Suimei University of the Arts (often shortened as Suiko), which hosts the strangest, most trouble-making students. After being kicked out of the normal dorm for keeping a stray cat, ...
Style: anime, touching, entertaining, stylized, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: couple relations, high school life, slice of life, friendship, everyday life, friends, teenage life, youth, teenage love, couples, love triangle, dormitory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Kimikiss: Pure Rouge (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Kouichi Sanada and Kazuki Aihara's childhood friend Mao Mizusawa has returned after living in France for a couple of years. Kouichi is surprised to learn that, since her parents are remaining overseas for the time being, his mother has agreed ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, anime, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, social relations, love and romance, family relations, couples, high school, teenage love, youth, hopes, friends, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Hatsukoi Limited. (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Ayumi and her friends are all just entering the eighth grade, as, one by one, they discover that love is infectious and you can catch it from anyone! Now Ayumi's torn between two brothers, Koyoi has an altogether different kind of brother issue ...
Style: anime, feel good, uplifting, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wooing, teenage life, couple relations, teenage love, love and romance, love triangle, couples, high school, high school life, youth, swimming, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Bluer Than Indigo (2002)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Kaoru Hanabishi is a college student with a mysterious and painful past, involving his wealthy family whom he walked out on years ago. He encounters a young girl, newly arrived from the countryside, and takes her in to assist her in adjusting to ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot: true love, love and romance, youth, couples, family relations, college, college life, haunted by the past, love, kindness, childhood sweetheart, innocence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Say "I love you" (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Friends suck, and trusting someone is just setting yourself up. That's the lesson Mei Tachibana learned after her heart was ripped out and only a shell was left where a girl used to be. But unlike so many, she found an easy solution: ...
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school life, friendship, first love, teenage love, troubled past, friends, fall in love, school, teenage life, youth, haunted by the past, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Boarding School Juliet (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Grigio Academy Boarding School. Students who attend this school in two countries and reside in their own dormitories. Inazuka and Persia are rival dormitory leaders, but in secret they love each other. Now, they have to keep their relationship a ...
Style: anime, sentimental, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, school, couples, rivalry, social relations, youth, everyday life, love triangle, high school life, coming of age, teenage love, dormitory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Little Busters (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Anime film about a group of friends including a kid whose parents were killed
Style: anime, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: orphan, high school, friendship, teenage love, teenage life, rivalry, good versus evil, youth, couples, young heroes, friends, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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My Little Monster (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Mizutani Shizuku finds peace in her studies.  Working hard to stay at the top of the class, alone but focused.  When she is tasked with delivering class materials to Yoshida Haru, her world starts to rapidly expand.  With some new friends and ...
Style: anime, shoujo, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: couples, teenage girl, teenage life, friendship, schoolgirl, couple relations, relationships, wooing, youth, love story, teenage love, slice of life ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Place to Place (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Tsumiki Miniwa, a small girl who packs a punch, is in love with her best friend, tall and easygoing Io Otonashi. The only problem is that she can't bring herself to come out and say it. And, despite the fact that he can otherwise read her like ...
Style: anime, touching, realistic, tsundere, iyashikei ...
Plot: couples, youth, love and romance, friendship, fall in love, young lovers, high school, high school life, friends, cat, teenager, slice of life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Super GALS! (2001)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Sporting designer clothes, make-up, and nails, Ran Kotobuki is the very picture of a trendy, young Shibuya girl, but don't let that fool you. This girl comes from a family of cops, and she’s ready to lay you out flat if you even think about ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light ...
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Mayo Chiki! (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: When you've got acute gynophobia, even a pretty girl can be like a malady, and as the sparring partner for his family of female wrestlers, Sakamachi Kinjiro has the worst case ever! Just one touch makes his nose bleed, so school's a bloody ...
Style: anime, humorous, entertaining, ecchi, captivating ...
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Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Akasaka (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Junichi Nagase was a real delinquent in middle school, one nasty enough that he earned the nickame "Geno Killer," and it's by this less than flattering epithet that Yuuhi Katagiri first comes to know him when he rescues her from two ...
Style: anime, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: high school life, youth, teenage life, rebelliousness, family relations, friendship, engaged couple, new student, salvation, rivalry, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Yuta has a problem. As one of the thousands of Japanese students afflicted with "chunibyo," a state where they're so desperate to stand out that they've literally convinced themselves that they have secret knowledge and hidden ...
Style: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Maison Ikkoku (1986)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Godai is a ronin (someone who has failed university entrance exams) living in a run down apartment house called Maison Ikkoku. Among the other residents are the nosy Ichinose, the sexy Akemi Roppongi, and the mysterious Yotsuya. The others are given ...
Style: anime, manga, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: slice of life, dumped, boarding school, youth, hopes, love and romance, human nature, fall in love, college life, student life, unfulfilled love, campus ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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