Movies and TV shows like Kids on the Slope

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Kids on the Slope (2012)
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Kids on the Slope (2012)
Original name: 坂道のアポロン
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 Kanno, reuniting the two who previously worked together on Macross Plus and Cowboy Bebop. The anime has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.
Style: anime, touching, emotional, realistic, serious, melancholic, adult animation, sincere, crying, josei
Audience: teens
Plot: jazz, high school, friendship, coming of age, unrequited love, music band, free spirited, social relations, first love, love triangle, youth, mature, countryside, teen angst, slice of life, young adult, bromance, school, tragedy, christianity, classical music, angst, music, student, friends ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: loud

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Most similar movies to Kids on the Slope

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, realistic, touching and humorous films and TV series with plots about youth, friendship, high school life, high school, slice of life, love and romance and coming of age mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Kids on the Slope: Nodame Cantabile (2007), Given (2019), Honey and Clover (2005), Junjou Romantica (2008), Your Lie in April (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Place: japan, paris france, europe
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100%
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Given (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The played chord made the rusty air and both our eardrums vibrate smoothly. From that moment... our music was born.
Style: anime, yaoi, captivating, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, art, friendship, school, boys love, music band, high school, talented, rock music, gay, music, singing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: When Yadomi Jinta was a child, he was a central piece in a group of close friends. In time, however, these childhood friends drifted apart, and when they became high school students, they had long ceased to think of each other as friends. One of ...
Style: anime, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot: ghost, unrequited love, friendship, supernatural, death of friend, haunted by the past, tragedy, friends, teenage life, hopes, imaginary, slice of life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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.
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%
Junjou Romantica (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Junjou Romantica: Pure Romance, stylized as Junjou Romantica ~Pure Romance~, is a yaoi series by Shungiku Nakamura. It focuses on three storylines; the main couple, which comprises the bulk of the books, and two other male couples that provide ...
Style: anime, yaoi, sexy, touching, emotional ...
Audience: kids
Plot: boys love, gay, couples, couple relations, gender, gay relationship, love and romance, love affair, love triangle, angst, slice of life, art ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Your Lie in April (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kousei Arima was a genius pianist until his mother's sudden death took away his ability to play. Each day was dull for Kousei. But, then he meets a violinist named Kaori Miyazono who has an eccentric playing style. Can the heartfelt sounds of ...
Style: anime, touching, stylized, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, pianist, piano, classical music, death of mother, violinist, contests and competitions, music, love and romance, depression, school, trauma ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
43%
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Clannad: After Story (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A sequel to the anime based on the Key Clannad franchise. After Story is a path that opens in the original visual novel after all the other paths have been opened. Life continues on for Tomoya. A few months have passed since he confessed his love to ...
Style: anime, touching, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: slice of life, dream come true, love and romance, youth, terminal illness, teenage love, life is a bitch, coming of age, parenthood, mature, zen, tragedy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Chico & Rita (2010)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
Style: captivating, serious, stylized, sexual, anime ...
Audience: adult
Plot: jazz, pianist, love affair, lovers apart, music, musician's life, ambition, lifestyle, young lovers, follow your dream, deportation, youth ...
Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1958 ...
Place: cuba, paris france, usa, las vegas, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Garden of Words (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and ...
Style: anime, touching, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: shoemaker, rain, age difference, youth, grownups, unlikely couple, overcoming, older woman younger man relationship, shyness, teenage life, teen angst, love and romance ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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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50%
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Tari Tari (2012)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: At Shirahamazaka High School, a special recital is held every year in which music students are able to showcase their talents in front of professionals and prestigious guests. A student, Konatsu Miyamoto desperately wants to sing in her last year of ...
Style: anime, semi serious, touching, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, follow your dream, best friend, adolescence vs adulthood, music band, youth, hopes, high school, social relations, high school life, slice of life, choir ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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 ⇓
33%
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Clannad (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student resentful of his life. His mother passed away from a car accident when he was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and cigarettes. This results in fights between the two until ...
Style: anime, realistic, sincere, touching, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: high school, fall in love, friendship, high school life, ambition, teenage life, loner, dream come true, wish come true, slice of life, basketball, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Waiting in the Summer (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kaito Kirishima is testing out his new camera, when something comes crashing from the sky, injuring him. The next morning he wakes up fine though, believing it was a dream, however during the day he experiences flashes from what happened and also ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, anime, stylized, shoujo ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, social relations, high school life, young lovers, friends, small town, slice of life, teenager, summer, true love, high school, last day of school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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K-On! (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Rock n' Roll may never die, but the Sakuragoaka Girl's High School Light Music Club might not be here to stay unless would-be drummer Ritsu Tainaka can find three more members to replace the graduated seniors. Determined to see that the ...
Style: anime, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music band, high school, friendship, friends, music, youth, student life, teachers and students, teenage life, shyness, social relations, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Cross Game (2009)
Genre: Animation, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kō Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, ...
Style: anime, realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: baseball, high school life, coming of age, contests and competitions, friendship, rivalry, teenage life, family relations, friends, champion, school, hate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.9
 9K
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 ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Heaven's Memo Notepad (2011)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Narumi Fujishima is an ordinary high school boy who remains isolated from his fellow classmates. One afternoon fellow classmate Ayaka Shinozaki invites Narumi to join the gardening club and introduces him to a reclusive detective named Alice. Alice ...
Style: anime, seinen, captivating, entertaining, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: conspiracy, investigation, computer genius, youth, hacker, amateur detective, mafia, high school life, society, computers and web, police, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Paradise Kiss (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
La Corda d'Oro: Primo Passo (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Hino goes to a school that specialises in music and has two streams: the normal stream and the music stream, where the music students are regarded as the more elite. She was running late for her class one day when she saw a tiny fairy, who seemed ...
Style: anime, serious, captivating, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, musician's life, youth, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, friendship, underdog, high school, music, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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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%
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 ⇓
28%
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