Movies and TV shows like Honey and Clover

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Honey and Clover (2005)
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Honey and Clover (2005)
Original name: ハチミツとクローバー
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, sentimental, humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic, shoujo, josei
Plot: slice of life, coming of age, friendship, unrequited love, love triangle, fall in love, youth, love and romance, student life, self discovery, everyday life, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, college life, struggle, graduation, university, college, art, high school life, artist, designer, friends, job seeking, professor ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: tokyo, japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, humorous, semi serious and touching films and TV series with plots about friendship, slice of life, high school life, school, youth, love and romance and high school mostly in Animation, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Honey and Clover: Nana (2006), Maison Ikkoku (1986), Toradora! (2008), ReLIFE (2016), Say "I love you" (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nana (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Nana is a 2006 anime series based upon the manga of the same name. It centers on two girls with the same name and of the same age, crossing paths and ending up living together in Tokyo.
Style: anime, emotional, touching, shoujo, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, looking for love, flatmate, friendship, musician, coming of age, punk rock, broken heart, twentysomething life, rock band, friendship between girls, group of friends ...
Time: 2000s
Place: tokyo, japan
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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
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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
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100%
Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members ...
Style: anime, humorous, sincere, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, competition, slice of life, school, music, love and romance, friends, school club, training, fall in love, musician, high school life ...
Place: japan
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100%
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ReLIFE (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Arata Kaizaki (27) quit the job he landed after graduation in only three months. His life did not go well after that. Now his parents are threatening to stop sending money, and want him to come back to the country. He has no friend or girlfriend to ...
Style: anime, humorous, touching, light, romantic ...
Plot: love, friendship, high school, high school life, pills, experiment, unemployment, starting over, school, love and romance, male female relationship, human experiment ...
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100%
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
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100%
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (2004)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Koyuki Tanaka was feeling the rut, though he’s only a teenager. Between the sheltered and stifling grind of school and the girls that spend their time not noticing him… Every day was just another day of being a total nobody. Enter Ryusuke: a ...
Style: anime, feel good, semi serious, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot: friends, ambition, self discovery, lifestyle, rock, school, follow your dream, love and romance, group of criminals, youth, high school life, rock band ...
Place: japan
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100%
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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 ...
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Love Hina (2000)
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 ...
Style: anime, humorous, sentimental, ecchi, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: friendship, teenage love, love triangle, opposites attract, couples, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, wooing, battle of the sexes, youth, unlikely couple, high school ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, kyoto japan
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Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Kuronuma Sawako is completely misunderstood by her classmates. Her timid and sweet demeanor is often mistaken for malicious behavior. This is due to her resemblance to the ghost girl from "The Ring," which has led her peers to give her the ...
Style: anime, shoujo, touching, sweet, romantic ...
Plot: school, slice of life, everyday life, outcast, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, high school, high school life, teenager, friends, boy, friendship, humble ...
Time: future
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Domestic Girlfriend (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Natsuo is a high school boy who is experiencing the crushing despair of unrequited love. To make matters worse, the person he is in love with is his teacher, Hina. In an attempt to lift his spirits, he attends a mixer where he meets a girl named ...
Style: anime, touching, sincere, yuri, tense ...
Plot: youth, school, half brother half sister relationship, couple relations, love triangle, sex, love, fall in love, teacher student relationship, rivalry, female nudity, love and romance ...
Place: japan
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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
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Paradise Kiss (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Top high-school student seeks some purpose in life. A group of fashion design students ask her to be the front model for their clothing label "Paradise Kiss". Although she finds them weird, she accepts and soon blossoms as a person.
Style: realistic, anime, shoujo, adult anime, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, fashion, youth, rise to the top, lifestyle, high school life, high school, fashion model, social climbing, fashion designer, designer, slice of life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Love Me, Love Me Not (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Yuna and Akari are two high school girls with very different views on love: Yuna dreams about romance through rose-coloured glasses, while Akari is down-to-earth and practical. Meanwhile, high school boys Kazuomi and Rio also have different views on ...
Style: anime, captivating, light, shoujo, romantic ...
Plot: in love, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, love story, schoolgirl, relationships, friendship, friends, teenage life, couple relations, schoolboy ...
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Genshiken (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Sasahara Kanji is a college freshman who decides to join a student society to share his hidden thoughts on manga, anime and gaming. As he participates in club activities such as visiting dojin shops and anime festivals he opens his mind and resolves ...
Style: anime, semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anti conformity, first love, student life, loser, social misfits, everyday life, youth, college life, lifestyle, friendship, boyfriend, shyness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (2012)
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
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
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35%
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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
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Blue Spring Ride (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
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Story: At the end of her first year of high school, Futaba Yoshioka suddenly has a chance encounter with her first love, Kou Tanaka. Three years ago, he transferred schools before she was able to say how she felt about him. After meeting each other again, ...
Style: anime, shoujo, romantic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: high school life, friendship, teenager, school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, in love, everyday life, male female relationship, high school, teenage life, love triangle ...
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Mischievous Kiss (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: When her newly-built home is razed to the ground by an earthquake, low-achieving, clumsy, and troublesome third-year high school student Kotoko Aihara is forced to share a roof with the school's—and possibly Japan's—smartest student, ...
Style: shoujo, anime, emotional, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: love, high school life, couples, relocation, society, friendship, fall in love, slice of life, university, school, rivalry, coming of age ...
Place: japan
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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
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Maid Sama! (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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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
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Wagnaria!! (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Sōta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who—despite being a year older than ...
Style: anime, seinen, feel good, captivating, light ...
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Tada Never Falls in Love (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Love has never really been a concern for Mitsuyoshi Tada, and as the aspiring photographer enters his second year of high school. However, things just might change after he meets a foreigner named Teresa Wagner. Nevertheless, after she asks him to ...
Style: anime, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: school, slice of life, love and romance, teenage love, friendship, popularity, workplace, teenage life, youth, fall in love, school club, love triangle ...
Place: japan
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Hidamari Sketch (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: For years, Yuno has dreamed of attending Yamabuki Arts High School, but now that she's been accepted, it means the scary prospect of moving away from her home and family for the first time! Fortunately, Yuno quickly learns that if her new ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, high school, follow your dream, teenage life, best friend, lifestyle, hopes, youth, high school life, slice of life, heartwarming, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Lovely Complex (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Risa and Otani are always being laughed at as the comedy duo. Risa, a girl, is taller than the average girl, and Otani, a boy, is shorter than the average boy. However, Risa have a feeling for Otani that make him shock.
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
Place: japan
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30%
One Week Friends (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: High school sophomore Yūki Hase noticed that Kaori Fujimiya, his classmate, was always alone. He tried to start a conversation with her but was turned down: "My memories of friendship can last only a week," she said. Despite of knowing ...
Style: anime, sincere, captivating, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: slice of life, friendship, high school life, coming of age, first love, love interest, mother daughter relationship, classmate, friend, everyday life, amnesia, high school ...
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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
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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
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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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Chobits (2002)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms – humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chi abandoned in the trash, she’s cuter than any current model he’s ...
Style: anime, touching, sexual, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, teaching the ways of the world, student life, fall in love, follow your dream, youth, friendship, robot, androids and robots, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids ...
Time: future
Place: tokyo, asia
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