Movies and TV shows like Bakuman

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Bakuman (2010)
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Bakuman (2010)
Original name: バクマン
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high school student, content to live out a relatively normal life as any other does, is persuaded by his classmate, Akito Takagi, to become an aspiring mangaka when the latter realizes his natural talent as an artist. However, Moritaka is reluctant to pursue his dream as his uncle, once a mangaka with his own serializations, died from overwork trying to regain his lost status. With Akito's help, Takagi gets another classmate and his school crush, Azuki Miho, who is an aspiring voice actress, to voice in the anime adaptation of their future manga once it is completed. However, Mashiro also proposes to Azuki, who surprisingly accepts only on the condition she will marry him when both of them have achieved their dreams. With a goal set before him, Mashiro begins a long and struggling path to become a famous mangaka. Source: AnimeNewsNetwork
Style: anime, exciting, manga, captivating, light, uplifting, semi serious, inspirational, shounen
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, painter, youth, career, couples, partner, heroes, shared dream, rivalry, slice of life, artist, voice recording
Time: contemporary
Place: japan
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, humorous, captivating and light films and TV series with plots about friendship, high school life, high school, youth, slice of life, school and love and romance mostly in Animation, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Bakuman: Barakamon (2014), Real Girl (2018), Nodame Cantabile (2007), Yowamushi Pedal (2013), Uta no Prince-sama (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Barakamon (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: After punching a famous curator in the face for criticizing his work as "textbook and lifeless," Handa Seishuu is sent to Gotō Island to calm his nerves and find new inspiration for his calligraphy. Growing up in the city all his life, ...
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Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Tomoya Aki is an otaku who has a dream. His dream is to create the best visual novel game ever. The main heroine for this game and the inspiration for this dream is a background character named Megumi Kato who somehow stumbles into main ...
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Real Girl (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Tsutsui Hikari (a.k.a "Tsuttsun") is a high school student who is content with his virtual life of anime and video games. One day, he gets stuck cleaning the pool with Iroha, a real live girl who is stylish, sassy and known to be easy with ...
Style: anime, captivating, romantic, exciting, light ...
Plot: couples, high school, lifestyle, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, love affair, bullying, relationships, love, couple relations, schoolgirl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nodame Cantabile (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Shinichi Chiaki is a first class musician whose dream is to play among the elites in Europe. Coming from a distinguished family, he is an infamous perfectionist; not only is he highly critical of himself, but of others as well. The only thing ...
Style: anime, feel good, captivating, light, humorous ...
Plot: music, orchestra conductor, musician, classical music, university, slice of life, coming of age, pianist, love, rivalry, fall in love, friendship ...
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Duration: 25 min.
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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 ...
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Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Yowamushi Pedal (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Sakamichi Onada is a wimpy high school freshman who loves anime. He initially wants to enter the anime club, but winds up joining the cycling club after meeting two classmates who are already famous cyclists. He undertakes the grueling training to ...
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Audience: teens
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Place: japan
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50%
Uta no Prince-sama (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: With dreams of becoming a composer and someday writing a song for her favorite idol, Haruka enters the Saotome Academy, a prestigious performing arts school. If successful there, she’ll be able to join the Shining Agency after graduation. However, ...
Style: shoujo, anime, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, music, school, couples, rivalry, society, friendship, singing, hotshot hero
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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School Rumble (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: While there is a decided lack of rumble in School Rumble, there’s more hilarious humdingers than any single dinger can hum… Look that one up! And while there is a truck full of pigs, a giraffe, flying saucers and crazy dream sequences, none of ...
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Hi Score Girl (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One ...
Style: anime, light, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: school, friendship, game, couples, family relations, youth, escapades, video game, slice of life, teenager, coming of age
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Style: shoujo, anime, sincere, captivating, sweet ...
Plot: couples, everyday life, school, friendship, youth, dating, coming of age, love, high school, high school life
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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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
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Duration: 24 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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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 ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Country: Japan
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Bamboo Blade (2007)
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Story: A school kendo club is in need of talent and participation when the petite and talented Tamaki is drafted. With her understated sense of justice and ample strength, Tamaki becomes an inspiration for her team-mates, school and even the deadbeat ...
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Duration: 23 min.
TV show
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
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TV show
Story: In response to the worsening crime rate, Japan creates Tokyo Butei High, an elite academy where "Butei" or armed detectives hone their deadly skills in hopes of becoming mercenary-like agents of justice. One particular Butei is Kinji ...
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Kimikiss: Pure Rouge (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, anime, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Quintessential Quintuplets (2019)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Fuutarou Uesugi is a poor, antisocial ace student who one day meets the rich transfer student Itsuki Nakano. They argue but when Uesugi realizes he is to be her tutor, he tries to get on better terms. While trying to do so he meets four other girls.
Style: anime, romantic, sweet, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
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Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: This unconventional, surrealist comedy follows an exhausted high school boy who, despite multiple attempts from his friends, still manages to spectacularly... sleep. Much to the chagrin of the energetic (at times bossy) Oota, Tanaka is often found ...
Style: anime, feel good, light, captivating, visually appealing ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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.
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Linebarrels of Iron (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Linebarrels of Iron is a Japanese manga series created by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi. The series was first serialized in Akita Shoten's monthly shōnen manga magazine, Champion Red, in 2005. It has since been compiled into eleven ...
Style: anime, humorous, exciting, entertaining, captivating ...
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Hanasaku Iroha: Blossoms for Tomorrow (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Ohana is sent off to live with her grandmother, who owns the hot spring inn. Upon arriving, she is put to work at the inn. Thrust into a life where the customers always come first, she struggles to find her place and fit in with her fellow coworkers.
Style: anime, seinen, captivating, funny, dramatic ...
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