Movies and TV shows like Ranma ½

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Ranma ½ (1989)
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Ranma ½ (1989)
Original name: らんま½
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Saotome Ranma, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings of the Chinese guard, they fall into the cursed springs. From now on, whenever Ranma is doused in cold water, he turns in to a girl, and a cute, well-built red-head at that. Hot water changes him back into a man again, but only until the next time. To make matters worse, his father engages him to Tendo Akane, a girl who hates boys.
Style: anime, manga, adult cartoon, humorous, semi serious, fast, slapstick comedy, slapstick, romantic comedy, shounen ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, family friendly, teens
Plot: arranged marriage, martial arts, magic, gender, gender bending, superhero, magical, body swapping, childhood, teenager, unrequited love, dirty old man, mixed martial arts, supernatural, youth, friends, destiny, love and romance, teenage life, young lovers, couple relations, curses spells and rituals, love, school, fight ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: chinese, challenge, change, rose, attack

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, humorous, semi serious and exciting films and TV series with plots about youth, magic, school, friendship, supernatural, love and teenage life mostly in Animation, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Ranma ½: InuYasha (2000), Urusei Yatsura (1981), Toradora! (2008), InuYasha: The Final Act (2009), Jungle de Ikou (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ranma 1/2: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China (1991)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: When Prince Kirin of the 7 Lucky Gods shows up at the Tendo dojo looking for his bride-to-be, guess who's accidentally holding the scroll that signifies his future mate? Why, Akane, of course, and the rest of the Ranma crew is forced to take a ...
Style: anime, semi serious, exciting, feel good, stylized ...
Plot: chase, transgender, pig, pervert, love, kidnapping, gender bending, dojo, unrequited love, marriage, heroes, danger ...
Place: china, asia, japan
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100%
Ranma ½: The Movie 2, Battle at Togenkyo! Get Back the Brides! (1992)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story: With the Tendos, the Saotomes, Ryoga, Shampoo and Ukyo misinterpreting Tatewake Kuno's invitation to his two loves, Akane and "The Pig Tailed Girl", to try his new yacht, a whole new episode of chaos begins in the already unstable ...
Style: anime, slapstick, shounen, slapstick comedy, teen comedy
Plot: kidnapping, amazon, unrequited love, teenage girl, elderly man, abduction, kidnapped, beach, missing child, chinese woman, food, falling from height ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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InuYasha (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kagome 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 jewel). One ill-fated ...
Style: exciting, anime, stylized, semi serious, adult cartoon ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, time travel, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, parallel world, imaginary, heroic mission, mission, isekai, demon, youkai ...
Time: middle ages, 90s, 16th century, 15th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Urusei Yatsura (1981)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The series begins when aliens from the planet Oniboshi invade Earth. They agree to leave only if Earth's champion can defeat the Oni champion in a game of tag within a ten-day time limit. Earth's champion, randomly selected by the aliens, ...
Style: anime, slapstick, humorous, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: superhero, alien, high school, female alien, disorder, teenage life, high school life, interracial relations, alien encounter, benign alien, odd couple, love and romance ...
Time: 80s
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 ⇓
100%
InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Inuyasha and his brother, Sesshomaru, each inherited a sword from their father after his death. However, their father had a third sword, named Sounga, that he sealed away. Seven hundreds years after his death, Sounga awakens and threatens ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, exciting, stylized
Audience: pre-teens, kids
Plot: supernatural, good versus evil, heroic mission, young heroes, danger, master warrior, youth, escapades, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, clairvoyant, haunting ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
InuYasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyday lives. But their peace is fleeting as another adversary emerges: Kaguya, the self-proclaimed princess from the Moon of Legend, hatches a plot to ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: supernatural, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, heroic mission, young heroes, supernatural ability, master villain, escapades, parallel world, danger, youth, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
InuYasha: The Final Act (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: InuYasha's story draws to a close but not before finding Naraku and the Sacred Jewel, and facing new enemies and new dangers.
Style: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, heroic mission, heroes, young heroes, master warrior, battles, escapades, master villain, danger, imaginary, ghost, uninhibited rivalry ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Jungle de Ikou (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
TV show
Story: Natsumi Rokudou, a spunky 10 year old girl from Japan receives a strange statue from her dad who's an archaeologist. Little does Natsumi know that the statue houses Ongo, a terrible monster bent on world conquest. In a dream, a strange old man ...
Style: anime
Plot: big breasts, jungle, sword and sorcery, sorcery, giantess, goddess, giant, airplane, whale, magic, pervert, schoolgirl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kamisama Kiss (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Nanami was just a normal high school girl down on her luck until a stranger’s lips marked her as the new Land God and turned her world upside down. Now, she’s figuring out the duties of a deity with the help of Tomoe, a reformed fox demon who ...
Style: anime, shoujo, exciting, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, magic, spirit, master and servant, love and romance, japanese mythology, life turned upside down, supernatural romance, school, demon, friendship, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Sailor Moon (1995)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The story centers around an air-headed crybaby, named Usagi, and her friends Ami, Rei, Makato, and Minako. Using special powers, they can transform into Sailor Solders. They become Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor ...
Style: anime, exciting, touching, adult anime, children's program ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: princess, save the world, good versus evil, love and romance, superhero, cat, magical girl, girl power, lgbt, teenager, supernatural, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Sailor Moon Crystal (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Usagi Tsukino is chosen to be a guardian of justice and is sent on a quest to locate a Silver Crystal before the Dark Kingdom invades the Earth.
Style: anime, exciting, stylized, mahou shoujo, adult anime ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, magical girl, good versus evil, heroic mission, imaginary, save the world, young heroes, magic, danger, curses spells and rituals, girl, supernatural power ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Kaze no Stigma (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Four years ago, Kazuma Kannagi was defeated by his cousin Ayano Kannagi for the right to be the successor of Enraiha, a sword passed down in the Kannagi family. His defeat, along with his lack of talent for En-Jutsu, the fire arts, the ...
Style: anime, stylized, exciting, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: fire, magic, society, magical, heroes, wind, environmentalism, heir, superpower, rejection, rivalry, female nudity ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
67%
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 ⇓
100%
High School DxD (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The story follows Issei Hyōdō, a dim-witted, lecherous second-year high school student who is killed by a girl on his first date ever. Issei is reincarnated as a devil, and from that day forward, he serves as an underling of Riasu, a high-level ...
Style: anime, ecchi, exciting, adult anime, captivating ...
Plot: high school, erotica, harem, demon, supernatural, angel, magic, curses spells and rituals, school, pervert, danger, god ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Flame of Recca (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Recca is a boy living in the modern world, only he seems drawn to following the ways of the ninja. On the day he befriends a girl named Yanagi who has a mysterious power of healing, he is confronted and challenged by a Dark Priestess. This battle ...
Style: anime, shounen, epic
Audience: kids
Plot: female nudity, talking animal, superpower, male protagonist, enemy, opponent, violence, love, kung fu, arena, power, love interest ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Romantic Killer (2022)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Living her best single life, romance is the last thing on Anzu's mind — until a tiny match-making wizard suddenly turns her life into a clichéd romcom.
Style: anime, entertaining, romantic, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, male female friendship, schoolgirl, group of friends, gamer, teenager, wizard, fall in love, love story, in love, romantic relationship, love affair ...
Time: 2020s
Place: japan
⇓ 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 ...
Plot: couples, friendship, wrestling, youth, power relations, friends, master and servant, society, school, butler, teenage life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Naruto (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Many years ago, in the hidden village of Konoha, lived a great demon fox. When it swung one of it's nine tails, a tsunami occurred. The fourth hokage sealed this demon fox inside a boy in exchange for his own life. Naruto was that boy, and he ...
Style: anime, exciting, manga, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, manly
Plot: determination, friends, danger, ninja, rivalry, friendship, master warrior, training, good versus evil, teenage life, youth, naruto ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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 ⇓
26%
Actually, I Am... (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: One day after school, Asahi Kuromine stumbles upon the truth that Youko Shiragami, the girl he has a crush on, is actually a vampire. According to her father's rules, Youko must now quit school in order to keep her family safe. However, Asahi ...
Style: ecchi, anime, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, high school, school, supernatural, demon, alien, teenager, young love, boy girl friendship, secret, friendship between teens, adolescence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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
Plot: teenage life, teenage love, school, youth, high school life, coming of age, slice of life, social relations, young adult, school club, student life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Sekirei (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Sekirei is a Japanese manga series by Sakurako Gokurakuin. The manga began serialization in the seinen magazine Young Gangan published by Square Enix in December 2004. An anime adaptation produced by Seven Arcs and directed by Keizō Kusakawa aired ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, manga, ecchi ...
Plot: grownups, college, warrior, sword fight, battles, mature, studying, alien, harem, female nudity, fight, female fighter ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Testament of Sister New Devil (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Basara Toujou met his two cute little sisters, Mio Naruse and Maria Naruse. The two sisters revealed themselves as a member of the demon clan and Basara as a member of hero clan, demon clan's enemy, and is not related by family. Mio is the ...
Style: anime, ecchi, exciting, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heroes, master servant relationship, harem, magical, demon, love triangle, fight scenes, school, love, good versus evil, supernatural, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
My Bride is a Mermaid (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Nagasumi's in hot water after a beautiful, young mermaid named Sun saves him from drowning. The deep-sea sweetheart's dad is a merman yakuza prone to executing anyone who learns his family's scaly secret! Luckily, there's a catch ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mermaid, supernatural, unlikely couple, love and romance, couples, youth, ocean, imaginary, clairvoyant, psychic, mature, magic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Cheeky Angel (2002)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Cheeky Angel is a comedy romance action manga series by Hiroyuki Nishimori. The story revolves around the adventures of 15-year-old schoolgirl Megumi Amatsuka, a popular and beautiful tomboy that always get into fights with a secret: she used to be ...
Style: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, shounen ...
Plot: gender bending, magic, morphing, desire, teenage girl, gender, teenage boy, disorder, teenager, wish fulfillment, secret, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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This End Up! (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Tenchi Masaki is a normal high school student in Japan, who spends the summers doing chores around his grandfather's family shrine. One day, Tenchi manages to steal the key to a mysterious cave where an oni (Japanese demon) is said to have been ...
Style: anime, funny, humorous, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: space adventure, cave, friendship, rivalry, silly humor, heroic mission, unfulfilled love, imaginary kingdom, tragic love, curses spells and rituals, friends, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Medaka Box (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kurokami Medaka is an exceptional first year student at Hanokiwa Academy who got elected as president of the student council with a smashing 98% of the votes. Extremely intelligent, strong, and rich; she wants to help anyone in need. To do that, she ...
Style: anime, humorous, exciting, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, friends, teenage life, student life, youth, social relations, friendship, love, high school life, escapades, assignment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Naruto SD: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Welcome to the Hidden Leaf Village. The village where Uzumaki Naruto, star of the TV show "Naruto" makes his home. Every day, countless powerful ninjas carry out missions and train to hone their skills. Our main character is one of these ...
Style: anime, light, humorous, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: pre-teens, teens, kids
Plot: ninja, naruto, teaching the ways of the world, super speed, young heroes, master warrior, direction and purpose, aspiration, team, supernatural power, danger, teenage life ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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