Movies and TV shows like Hyouka
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Hyouka (2012)
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Original name: 氷菓
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Oreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into an embodiment of curiosity once she says, "I'm curious." Fukube is a smiling boy with a fantastic memory who calls himself a database. Ibara is a short girl and is strict with others and herself. They begin to investigate a case that occurred 45 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Classics Club. The collection is titled "Hyouka."
Style:
anime, captivating, detective, romantic, touching, light, teen comedy
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
slice of life, school club, high school, amateur detective, art, investigation, schoolgirl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, conversation, uncover truth, literature, escapades, private investigation, japanese schoolgirl, daily life, police, high school life, japanese high school, student, teenage girl, high school student, teen romance, secret identity, schoolboy, everyday life ...
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Most similar movies to Hyouka
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, entertaining and feel good films and TV series with plots about slice of life, high school, friendship, high school life, school, school club and japanese high school mostly in Animation, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Hyouka: Case File N° 221: Kabukicho (2019), Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (2016), Blue Period (2021), Horimiya (2021), GAMERS! (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Style:
anime, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Style:
anime, feel good, light, captivating, lighthearted ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Bored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
painter, school club, slice of life, art, coming of age, painting, student, friend, teenage life, artwork, direction and purpose, high school life ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
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anime, humorous, sincere, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
schoolgirl, slice of life, high school life, female protagonist, high school, school, friendship, best friend, grownups, absurd humor, high school friend, youth ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
A secret life is the one thing they have in common. At school, Hori is a prim and perfect social butterfly, but the truth is she’s a brash homebody. Meanwhile, under a gloomy facade, Miyamura hides a gentle heart, along with piercings and tattoos. ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
slice of life, teenage life, relationships, couple relations, love, love affair, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, friends, high school life, high school ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Keita Amano is a perfectly mediocre loner with no particular distinguishing features other than his love for games. One day, his school's prettiest girl and Gamer Club President Karen Tendo suddenly calls out to him. That moment changes ...
Style:
anime, light, sweet, entertaining, romantic ...
Plot:
video game, hobby, fan culture, high school life, game, computer game, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, high school, everyday life, relationships, couple relations, romantic friendship ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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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, realistic, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
music band, music, friendship, friends, high school, student life, high school life, youth, social relations, teenage life, coming of age, shyness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
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Together with her father, who had quit his salaryman job, Toyokawa Himeno moves to Gifu prefecture's Tajimi city. That's the city where her mother is from, whom she had lost when she was still young. Himeno is now attending her ...
Style:
anime, sincere, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
school club, friendship, slice of life, teenage girl, ambition, teenager, mother daughter relationship, teenage life, school, family life, female protagonist, daily life ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
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203
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Tooru and Run have been best friends forever, so when Tooru learns that she's managed to get into the same high school as Run, she runs to tell her... only to find Run in a compromising position with yet another girl, Yuko. Needless to say, ...
Style:
anime, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
school, high school life, friendship, slice of life, friends, teenage life, teenager, japanese schoolgirl, everyday life, group of friends, women, asexual ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Eiji Kitahama joins the drama club with dreams of having a harem like the ones from his favorite manga. Rin Nanakura, an underclassman, finds herself crushing hard on Eiji, and tries on different personas in his presence to win him over. No matter ...
Style:
romantic, anime, romantic comedy, captivating, shounen ...
Plot:
slice of life, female protagonist, high school life, school club, schoolgirl, friendship, school, adolescence, couples, teenage protagonist, lifestyle, teenage love ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Story:
Sakura Ooyagi returns to his old hometown in order to start school at Sōei High School. On the first day, he runs into an old childhood friend: a junior named Mihoshi Akeno. As children, the two used to play together, with Mihoshi, or Mii-chan, ...
Style:
anime, psychological, entertaining, captivating, lighthearted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school club, slice of life, high school life, friendship, high school, teenage life, schoolgirl, relationships, school, teenager, lifestyle, socially awkward ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
Nodoka Haramura's appearance on television playing in a high school mahjong tournament inspires her old Jr. high school friends to reform their schools club so they can meet and play her in the National High School Mahjong Tournament.
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mahjong, school club, high school life, slice of life, school, tournament, friendship, schoolgirl, japanese schoolgirl, satire, japanese girl, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
TV show
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:
shoujo, anime, romantic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
high school life, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, school, teenager, everyday life, male female relationship, high school, teenage life, love and romance, love ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Join Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake as they undergo the trials and tribulations of life in high school. Each episode presents the boys and their classmates in unique situations that you may or may not have faced in high school yourself.
Style:
anime, captivating, stylized, humorous, ecchi ...
Plot:
slice of life, everyday life, high school, dating show, high school life, high school student, classmate classmate relationship, teenage angst, male objectification, teachers and students, fraternity, boys' school ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
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The five members of the Cultural Study group that meets in class 401 have spent a lot of time wondering what it would be like to be in someone else's shoes. But they're about to learn that there's a huge difference between thinking ...
Style:
anime, humorous, feel good, light, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
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Style:
anime, captivating, entertaining, feel good, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Country: Japan
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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:
captivating, anime, romantic, light, exciting ...
Plot:
couples, youth, lifestyle, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, high school, love and romance, relationships, bullying, couple relations, love, schoolgirl ...
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50%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Story:
A story about girls playing board games after school!
Kyoto in Spring. Aya is a high school girl who's just moved to a new town. Miki is her shy classmate, and her first friend. One day after school Aya and Miki follow the committee president ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Kensuke Hanazaki, meets the boy Yoshio Kobayashi. ...
Style:
anime, psychological, detective, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
crime solving, immortality, amateur detective, uncover truth, private detective, organized crime, detective agency, private investigation, good versus evil, sleuth, investigation, wanting to die ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Story:
When bespectacled Yuki Akamatsu joins his school’s 2nd Newspaper Club, he finds himself caught in the crossfire between three pretty panelists assigned to the Life Advice column. Rino Endo has a mind for science, Fumi Kujo loves literature, and ...
Style:
anime, light hearted, romantic, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
school club, school, high school life, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, slice of life, high school, everyday life, friendship, high school romance, romantic friendship, love and romance ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
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37%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
The story centers around class 1-7 of Tennomifune Academy, where all the students with "bad karma" or misfortune seem to have been gathered. Hibari, a student in this class, meets the unlucky Hanako and the perennially unhealthy Botan on ...
Style:
anime, satirical, captivating, disturbing, lighthearted ...
Plot:
slice of life, school, high school life, friendship, satire, group of friends, troubled teen, teenage life, teenager, escapades, friends, bad luck ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
In 2019, Kaito Yashio and Akiho Senomiya are the sole members of the Robotics Club at Central Tanegashima High School in Kyushu, Japan. Kaito is a laid back student and a skilled gamer who is just trying to help Akiho, his childhood friend. She is ...
Style:
anime, mecha, entertaining, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
robot, school club, conspiracy, giant robot, save the world, uncover truth, investigation, private investigation, piloted giant robot, high school, friendship, young adult ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Japan
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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 ...
Style:
anime, feel good, humorous, entertaining, inspirational ...
Plot:
kendo, slice of life, contests and competitions, youth, ambition, rivalry, instructor, club, friendship, high school, japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
The story follows a group of high school girls who are in the 'Going-Home Club'. Instead of doing regular club activities, the 'Going-Home Club' is dedicated to having as much fun as possible, by doing such things as playing ...
Style:
anime, feel good, entertaining, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
slice of life, high school life, high school, friends, teenage life, school, school club, schoolgirl, friendship, satire, teenage girl, teenager ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Ayumu just fell in love at first sight with Urushi and joined the illegitimate Shogi Club! But Ayumu has vowed not to confess his feelings until he can best Urushi, and he has a long way to go before he can stand up to her strategic brilliance.
Style:
anime, romantic, disturbing, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
love and romance, school, slice of life, school club, love story, contests and competitions, romantic relationship, japanese schoolgirl, fall in love, in love, schoolgirl, love interest ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Considered a genius due to having the highest grades in the country, Miyuki Shirogane leads the prestigious Shuchiin Academy's student council as its president, working alongside the beautiful and wealthy vice president Kaguya Shinomiya. The ...
Style:
humorous, anime, captivating, feel good, romantic ...
Plot:
high school life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, high school, relationships, love and romance, teenager, mind game, romantic relationship, parents and children, love affair, friendship between teens ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Following her graduation from middle school, Yuzuhara Konomi enters the same high school as Kouno Takaaki, her childhood friend. As the new school year begins, they meet their childhood friend Kousaka Tamaki, as well as many new acquaintances. ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
school, high school life, slice of life, lifestyle, female protagonist, japanese schoolgirl, group of friends, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, schoolgirl, satire, relationships ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 8 min.
TV show
Story:
In the middle of class at a certain school, Rumi Yokoi, a diligent student, has her in-class life turned upside down when her desk mate Toshinari Seki begins to play by himself at his desk in class. Although Rumi is irked by Toshinari's ...
Style:
anime, light hearted, humorous, semi serious, satirical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slice of life, high school life, friendship, friends, high school, satire, schoolgirl, schoolboy, student, improv, deadpan, families ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Everyday things make up the fabric of life—whether it's making friends, going to school, trying to make money, or celebrating a holiday. Ichigo Mashimaro is a heartwarming series that follows the daily lives of Itou Chika, her sister Nobue, ...
Style:
anime, iyashikei, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
surrealism, family relations, slice of life, sibling relationship, high school life, everyday life, lifestyle, family life, women, teenage life, young girl, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
Meet Wada, who gives off an unapproachable vibe, and Yamamoto, who strikes fear into those around her because of her looks. Though the two girls attend separate high schools, they meet up at a shopping center's food court almost every day. Take ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, realistic, anime, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
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