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Just Because! (2017)
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Just Because! (2017)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Just Because! is a Japanese original anime television series by Hajime Kamoshida, the author of The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, and Kiseki Himura, the author of Getsuyōbi no Tawawa. Pine Jam produced the animation.
Style: anime, psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, super sentai
Plot: slice of life, school, japanese teenager, student, love and romance, love, teenager, teenage love, relationships, youth, love triangle, teenage girl, fall in love, couples, high school life, love affair, teenage life, escapades, teenage boy, relationship problems, adolescence, japanese schoolgirl, teenage protagonist, lifestyle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan

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Most similar movies to Just Because!

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, romantic and semi serious films and TV series with plots about slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, teenage life, love and romance, couple relations and relationships mostly in Animation, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Just Because!: Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (2020), Real Girl (2018), Horimiya (2021), My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (2013), Komi Can't Communicate (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Shinichi Sakurai’s one wish is for a little peace and quiet. But Hana Uzaki — his boisterous, well-endowed underclassman — has other plans. All she wants is to hang out and poke fun at him. With the help of her chipper charm and peppy ...
Style: anime, ecchi, feel good, touching, captivating ...
Plot: slice of life, couple relations, student, introvert, college student, love interest, romantic friendship, college life, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teen romance, relationships ...
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100%
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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 ⇓
100%
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Horimiya (2021)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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, captivating, entertaining, light, romantic comedy ...
Plot: teenage life, relationships, love, love affair, slice of life, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, friendship, high school life, friends, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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Komi Can't Communicate (2021)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: At a high school full of unique characters, Tadano helps his shy and unsociable classmate Komi reach her goal of making friends with 100 people.
Style: anime, humorous, sincere, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: shyness, school, teenage girl, love, friends, teenager, self doubt, teenage life, slice of life, schoolgirl, relationships, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Dangers in My Heart (2023)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates' peaceful ...
Style: anime, light, witty, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: classmate, asian school, japanese teenager, japanese school, teenager, teenage life, teenage protagonist, schoolboy, teenage boy, schoolgirl, classmate classmate relationship, slice of life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
First Love Monster (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: When fifteen-year-old Kaho Nikaidou leaves her sheltered home to start life anew in a Tokyo high school dormitory, the last thing she expects is to nearly get hit by a truck! Saved in the nick of time by a handsome stranger, Kaho falls head over ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love affair, first love, love interest, couple relations, schoolgirl, teenage love, relationship problems, love triangle, school, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A youth romantic drama with themes of growing up, the story focuses on college student Tsuneo and dreamer Josee, who lives her life stuck in a wheelchair. Josee—named after the heroine in Françoise Sagan’s Wonderful Clouds—spends most of her ...
Style: anime, sincere, captivating
Plot: relationships, lifestyle change, woman in a wheelchair, love, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, teenager, slice of life, wheelchair bound, disabled child, disability ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bokura ga ita (2006)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Nanami Takahashi is a high school student entering her first year. Immediately on her first day however, she becomes the victim of a practical joke by the school's most popular guy, Motoharu Yano, who coincidentally also ends up in her class. ...
Style: anime, shoujo, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot: slice of life, teenage protagonist, teen romance, sister sister relationship, love and romance, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, schoolgirl, love interest, confronting the past, secret past, romantic relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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I"s Pure (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Seto Ichitaka has a crush on Yoshizuki Iori, a girl in his class who has become so popular she now has her own fan club at school. But only a miracle could make him be with her, since the day he first saw Iori-chan, Ichitaka has been too shy to even ...
Style: anime, captivating, psychological, ecchi
Plot: teen romance, girlfriend, boyfriend, love triangle, teenage life, teenager, teenage girl, adolescence, love story, high school life, love interest, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Love and Lies (2017)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In a futuristic society, Japan has implemented a complex system referred to as "The Red Threads of Science" to encourage successful marriages and combat increasingly low birthrates. Based on a compatibility calculation, young people at the ...
Style: anime, touching, suspenseful, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love triangle, unrequited love, adolescence, relationships, couple relations, teenage life, teenage love, new love, romantic friendship, friendship between teens, young love, love at first sight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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True Tears (2008)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: True Tears is a Japanese anime television series produced by P.A. Works and directed by Junji Nishimura. The anime aired in Japan on the TV Kanagawa television network between January 6, 2008 and March 30, 2008, containing thirteen episodes. The ...
Style: anime, captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot: unrequited love, love story, schoolboy, relationship problems, schoolgirl, love, relationships, love affair, couple relations, family problems, tragic love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (2023)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Amane lives alone in an apartment, and the most beautiful girl in school, Mahiru, lives just next door. They've almost never spoken—until the day he sees her in distress on a rainy day and lends her his umbrella. To return the favour, she ...
Style: anime, captivating, semi serious, iyashikei, 2d animation
Plot: school, high school life, slice of life, love interest, in love, adolescence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, male female relationship, love story, love and romance, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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, ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Tomo-chan Is a Girl! (2023)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Tomboy Tomo couldn't have picked a more awkward high school crush 'cause it’s on her childhood friend, Junichiro, but he only sees her as one of the guys. Despite her pretty looks and signals, nothing gets through to this meathead! Will ...
Style: anime, captivating, semi serious, romantic, psychological ...
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Domestic Girlfriend (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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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 ...
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Horimiya: The Missing Pieces (2023)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Story: When the popular Hori and the gloomy Miyamura meet, they reveal another side of themselves. Could this be the start of something new?
Style: anime, romantic comedy, thrilling, satirical, psychological ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible (2023)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: First year high schooler Junta Shiraishi is a mob character who goes unnoticed even when he's standing right next to you. But his classmate, "heroine-level beauty" Kubo, always notices him and is there to tease him. Anyone can become ...
Style: anime, feel good, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot: slice of life, classmate, couple relations, teenager, adolescence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, japanese schoolgirl, teenage life, relationships, love interest, teenage boy, teenage protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The story centers on third-year high school student Jiro Yakuin, who gets saddled with his gyaru classmate Akari Watanabe for the class's "marriage training" project about practicing to be a married couple. Jiro is the complete ...
Style: anime, ecchi, romantic, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot: slice of life, couples, high school life, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, romantic friendship, satire, teen romance, teenage love, schoolboy, teamwork ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that’s reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had, in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang. The day after ...
Style: anime, tense, suspenseful, suspense, shounen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: salvation, time travel, friendship between teens, school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, revenge, violence, friendship, teenage life, friendship between men, mad love ...
Time: 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kuro Gal ni Natta kara Shinyuu to shitemita. (2021)
Genre: Animation, Short, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min.
TV show
Story: Shion and Rui are the dream team when it comes to hitting on women. Tonight was going to be another night of hooking up with girls for Shion, but he ended up taking a strange drug. When he woke up... he'd turned into a girl?! Rui came looking ...
Style: anime, sex comedy, romantic, captivating, humorous ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Asahi Kashiwagi lives the typical life of an average high school student — until the day a TV fortune teller’s predictions come true one after another, culminating in a series of risqué encounters! Destiny seemingly draws five beautiful girls ...
Style: anime, semi serious, captivating, romantic, satirical ...
Plot: harem, slice of life, love triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, love and romance, romantic relationship, love interest, love story, teen romance, relationships, romantic triangle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
30%
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
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
⇓ 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 ⇓
29%
Looking Up at the Half-Moon (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Even though Yuuichi Ezaki is in the hospital recovering from an illness, he's constantly sneaking out. One day he's caught by the head nurse, who makes a deal with him: she'll overlook his future excursions if he's willing to ...
Style: anime, disturbing, sincere, captivating, seinen
Plot: angst, hospital, teenage love, love story, romantic friendship, teen romance, relationships, sick child, teenager, teenage life, love interest, fall in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki (2021)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Tomozaki is one of the best gamers in Japan, and in his opinion, the game of real life is one of the worst. No clear-cut rules for success, horribly balanced, and nothing makes sense. But then he meets a gamer who’s just as good as him, and she ...
Style: anime, thought provoking, captivating, romantic, psychological ...
Plot: relationships, love and romance, lifestyle, slice of life, schoolboy, romantic friendship, couple relations, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, video game, school, gamer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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