Movies and TV shows like Gakuen Alice

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Gakuen Alice (2004)
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Gakuen Alice (2004)
Original name: 学園アリス
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Best friends Mikan and Hotaru are separated when Hotaru is scouted by a special school called "Alice Academy." Mikan determines to enroll too but Alice Academy is a mysterious place.
Style: anime, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, shoujo, fairy tale, slapstick comedy
Audience: family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, best friend, heroes, supernatural, young heroes, school, youth, supernatural ability, danger, imaginary, magic, rescue, homesickness, mischievous children, alice in wonderland, friends, strong female presence, children, bear, escape, kidnapping, hypnosis, house, deception, magical girl ...
Place: japan

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Most similar movies to Gakuen Alice

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 imaginary, youth, danger, supernatural, escapades, friendship and friends mostly in Animation, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Gakuen Alice: Cardcaptor Sakura (1998), Winx Club (2004), Kamisama Kiss (2012), Princess Tutu (2002), My Guardian Characters (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cardcaptor Sakura (1998)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student who discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book they had been sealed in for years. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order ...
Style: anime, feel good, exciting, humorous, adult anime ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: magical girl, elementary school, friendship, magic, school, responsibility, coming of age, drastic change of life, imaginary, magical, girl power, young adult ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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Winx Club (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In a magical universe, witches, warriors begin fighting in the name of good .vs. evil! At a magic school, five teenage girls are selected to defend the universe with their magic.
Style: exciting, light, entertaining, semi serious, anime ...
Audience: family outing, kids, toddlers
Plot: fairy, friendship, friends, youth, supernatural ability, magical girl, school, teenage life, wizards and magicians, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, transformation ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 ⇓
67%
Princess Tutu (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ahiru (literally 'Duck' in Japanese), is a petite young girl in a junior high school's beginner ballet program. She's prone to stammering and clutziness. She has a huge crush on her sempai, Mute, a sad-seeming young man who ...
Style: anime, fairy tale, touching, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: ballet, healing power, school, princess, friendship, wish come true, supernatural ability, once in a lifetime opportunity, emotionless, love and romance, dancing, magic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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My Guardian Characters (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: My Guardian Characters (Shugo Chara) is a magical anime, revolving around "cool and spicy" teen Amu, a feminine but tomboyish schoolgirl, who yearns but appears unable to display her sensitive side. One day, three magical eggs appear in ...
Style: anime, humorous, uplifting, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, popularity, school, alienation, teenage life, coming of age, classmate, youth, dream come true, artifact, high school life, love ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Viva Piñata (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Viva Piñata is a Canadian-American animated television series seen around the world. It is based upon the Xbox 360 video game of the same name. It is produced by an American company, 4Kids Productions and a Canadian company Bardel Entertainment, a ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, surreal, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Familiar of Zero (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: When Saito, an ordinary teen living in Japan, is suddenly whisked away to the magical kingdom of Halkeginia, he becomes the familiar servant of Louise, a young girl enrolled in an academy for aristocrat magicians.
Style: anime, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, exciting ...
Plot: isekai, danger, youth, teenage life, escapades, society, disorder, fish out of water, social differences, curses spells and rituals, master and servant, harem ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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Sailor Moon (1992)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: One day, Usagi Tsukino, clumsy 2nd-year middle school student (8th grader), stumbles upon a talking cat named Luna. Luna tells her that she is destined to be Sailor Moon, "champion of love and justice", and she must search for the fabled ...
Style: anime, exciting, atmospheric, stylized, shoujo ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, superhero, heroic mission, young heroes, save the world, school, good versus evil, princess, supernatural, magical girl, supernatural ability, imaginary ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo
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Yozakura Quartet (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Story: Yozakura Quartet is a Japanese manga created by Suzuhito Yasuda that began publishing by Kodansha in 2006, and was then published in the US by Del Rey in 2008. The series was animated in Japan and aired from October 2 to December 18, 2008; it ...
Style: anime, exciting, stylized, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, young heroes, heroes, rivalry, good versus evil, supernatural ability, youth, supernatural, escapades, teenage life, superhuman powers, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Magic Knight Rayearth (1994)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Magic Knight Rayearth is a Japanese manga series created by Clamp, an all-female manga artist team consisting of Satsuki Igarashi, Ageha Ohkawa, Tsubaki Nekoi and Mokona. Appearing as a serial in the manga magazine Nakayoshi from the November 1993 ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: good versus evil, knight, kidnapping, supernatural, survival, friends, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, robot, female protagonist, magical, isekai ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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
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Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Beyblade: Metal Fusion (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Metal Fight Beyblade is a Japanese manga created by Takafumi Adachi. It is also an anime production based on the original. It is currently being serialized by the monthly CoroCoro Comic.
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41%
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Needless (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Needless is an action comedy science fiction manga and anime series by Kami Imai. Serialized in Shueisha's seinen magazine Ultra Jump beginning in 2004, an anime adaptation by Madhouse began airing on July 2, 2009.
Style: anime, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, bleak ...
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Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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El Hazard: The Magnificent World (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: Makoto is a high school student who one day found himself sent to a strange, magical world called El Hazard. He is then forced to impersonate a missing princess(an idea for which he does not care for). Other earthlings sent to this world include ...
Style: anime, adult anime, semi serious, exciting, humorous ...
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41%
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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 ...
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Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The World God Only Knows (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Keima is a dating sim champion. Cute girls are rendered powerless by his irresistible game playing techniques. Too bad things aren't that way in the real world. That is, until his tempting game playing causes a real live—and very ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good ...
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Fruits Basket (2001)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old Kyo and 27 year old Shigure. However, these young men and parts of the rest of their family ...
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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BeyWheelz (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
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Story: BeyWheelz: Powered by Beyblade, commonly referred to as BeyWheelz is a anime mini-series based on the, Hasbro toyline, BeyWheelz. It was commissioned by Nelvana and is produced by Synergy SP and d-rights.
Style: exciting, semi serious, anime, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: kids
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Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Neo Angelique Abyss (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Arcadia is plagued with evil, life-draining demons called Thanatos and a vast lack of Purifiers to exterminate them all. While attending school, Angelique attracts the eye of a man who intends to turn the tides to the people's favor. What ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Fate/stay night (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by the sorcerer Kiritsugu Emiya. Shirou is drawn into the Holy Grail War summons a female "Servant" known as Saber to protect him and obtain the Holy Grail.
Style: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
Yona Yona Penguin (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first "3D anime" that Madhouse has produced. Oh, and there are penguins.
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: save the day, good versus evil, friendship, youth, mischievous children, young heroes, rescue, danger, rivalry, escapades, travel, fantasy world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Persona 4: The Animation (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Persona 4: The Animation is a television anime series produced by AIC ASTA and directed by Seiji Kishi, based on the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 video game by Atlus. The story revolves around the protagonist, Yu Narukami, who acquires a mysterious ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, manga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: uncover truth, supernatural, riddles and clues, parallel world, friendship, teenage life, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, escapades, danger, youth, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Justin Time (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Looking for adventure? Then come along as Justin and his imaginary pals Olive and Squidgy star in the biggest stories of all time. Justin’s imagination catapults him into larger-than-life adventures all around the world!
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: friendship, adventurer, child, young heroes, imaginary character, imaginary, youth, escapades, friends, children, problem solving, teamwork ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Deltora Quest (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The evil Shadow Lord has taken control of the kingdom of Deltora and has driven the land and its people into misfortune and suffering. Lief, the son of a blacksmith, has just turned sixteen and is entrusted, along with his two companions Barda and ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, stylized
Audience: kids
Plot: rivalry, danger, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, youth, supernatural, friends, good versus evil, heroes, master villain, imaginary kingdom, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Leviathan: The Last Defense (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The fantasy world of Aquafall is abound with water and greenery, and populated by dragons and fairies. Meteorites of evil creatures threaten all living things on the planet. The fairy Syrup assembles the Aquafall Defense Force, with three girls of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, anime, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: good versus evil, wizards and magicians, heroes, supernatural, supernatural ability, rivalry, superhuman powers, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, escapades, save the world, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Shaman King (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Asakura Yoh is a shaman, a person who communicates with ghosts. He enters the Shaman Fight, for whoever wins the tournament gets to commune with the Great Spirit, God . . . that and his fiance Anna wants to be the wife of the Shaman King. Helping ...
Style: emotional, anime, exciting, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, good versus evil, friends, ghost, master warrior, youth, young heroes, supernatural, contests and competitions, shaman, ambition, supernatural ability ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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11 Eyes (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Satsuki Kakeru lost his sister by suicide and has been living a dull life ever since then. One day, he is transported into a bizarre world "Red Night" along with his friend Minase Yuka. In order to survive and escape from Red Night, he ...
Style: anime, tense, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: on the run, supernatural, youth, good versus evil, danger, teenage life, escapades, chases and races, young heroes, heroes, imaginary, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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 ⇓
39%
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