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Pretty Boy Detective Club (2021)
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Pretty Boy Detective Club (2021)
Original name: 美少年探偵団
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Mayumi Dojima, a second-year student at the exclusive Yubiwa Academy middle school, has lost something—a star she glimpsed just once, ten long years ago. But help is on the way, in the form of the unofficial, secretive, and thoroughly mysterious Pretty Boy Detective Club! Rumored to solve problems within the school (most of which they themselves might as well created) for reasons aesthetic rather than financial, these five gorgeous boys sweep Mayumi into their world of excitement, danger, and overwhelming beauty.
Style: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Plot: school, high school life, investigation, schoolboy, schoolgirl, teamwork, private detective, private investigation, amateur sleuth, amateur detective, crime solving, school club, boy, detective agency, cross dressing, crossdressing, romance

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, anime, entertaining and semi serious films and TV series with plots about school, high school life, schoolgirl, friendship, schoolboy, slice of life and friends mostly in Animation, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Pretty Boy Detective Club: Neuro: Supernatural Detective (2007), Outburst Dreamer Boys (2019), Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (2016), Girl Beats Boys (2017), This Art Club Has a Problem! (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Neuro: Supernatural Detective (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Yako Katsuragi is an acclaimed high school detective, who, despite her young age, has solved many cases. In fact, there seems to be no case that she can't solve, or any culprit that escapes justice. But within the walls of her detective agency ...
Style: captivating, anime, disturbing, humorous, enigmatic
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100%
Outburst Dreamer Boys (2019)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
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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 ...
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Girl Beats Boys (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 8 min.
TV show
Story: Hinako Nakayama is a high school girl, that by the request of her twin brother Hikaro to switch places with him in his school, she enters an all-boys school which is filled with delinquents.
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100%
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TV show
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This Art Club Has a Problem! (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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Style: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot: slice of life, school club, schoolgirl, high school life, relationships, painter, school, satire, art, club
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Petit Eva: Evangelion@School (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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TV show
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Country: Japan
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TV show
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Country: Japan
TV show
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