Based on visual novel movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant based on visual novel movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out anime, captivating, exciting, serious, seinen and touching films and TV shows about / with supernatural, female nudity, teenage life, love and romance, danger, harem, school, youth, supernatural ability and superpower plots mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres shot in Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as based on visual novel: Mischief of the Gods (2014), Yosuga no Sora (2010), Norn9 (2016), Rewrite (2016), Dies Irae (2017), Dramatical Murder (2014), The Fruit of Grisaia (2014), Ace Attorney (2016), Clannad: The Motion Picture (2007), Air: The Motion Picture (2005).

List of based on visual novel movies

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A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kyōtarō Kakei has always had an affinity towards books in hopes to find answers to his life. With a mentor's promise, he continues to search for a book with his absolute hope. However, this changes when he receives a foretelling message ...
Style: anime, seinen, humorous, touching, sentimental
Plot: school, high school life, school club, love and romance, teenage love, first love, love, fate, library, magic, high school, female nudity ...
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Mischief of the Gods (2014)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Yui Kusanagi is ordered by Zeus, a god and the headmaster of a school he created, to teach the meaning of love to young and handsome gods. The reason he has for doing this is to cancel the negative effects of the weakening bond between the world of ...
Style: shoujo, anime, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Plot: friendship, supernatural power, high school life, mythology, parallel world, deity, superpower, supernatural, love, boy girl friendship, supernatural ability, young love ...
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Yosuga no Sora (2010)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of their parents, Haru and his twin sister Sora move to the country.
Style: anime, sexy, ecchi, erotic, adult anime ...
Plot: brother sister incest, incestuous relationship, incest, sex, sex scene, teenage protagonist, brother sister relationship, twins, teenager, female nudity, forbidden love, high school life ...
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 5.8
 167
Norn9 (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Guided by a strange, haunting song, elementary-schooler Sorata Suzuhara from the Heisei Era is warped back in time to 1919, in a high-tech ship called Norn9. This ship, flying above towns resembling that of the Meiji or Taishō period, harbours The ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, super sentai, josei
Plot: superpower, time travel, obsessive quest, secret mission, supernatural ability, friendship, high school hunk, interdimensional travel, parallel world, mysterious character, supernatural power, wizard ...
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YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Arima Takuya is a young student whose father, a historian who has conducted various researches, disappeared recently. During a summer vacation Takuya receives a peculiar package from his missing father, along with a letter containing information ...
Style: anime, surprise ending, thought provoking, sentimental, mind bending ...
Plot: parallel world, inventions and discoveries, dystopian future, family relations, time travel, danger, imaginary, scientist, harem, nudity, female nudity, isekai ...
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 6.0
 193
Rewrite (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Green City Kazamatsuri is a city built on the ideal of a harmonious relationship between civilization and environment.. However, the peaceful Kazamatsuri will soon be faced with its annual commotion, the Harvest Festa at the turn of the year. ...
Style: anime, intense, bad ending, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: school, sadness, self discovery, team, friendship, good versus evil, society, supernatural power, danger, sad ending, monster, supernatural ability ...
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 4.4
 172
Dies Irae (2017)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: On May 1, 1945 in Berlin, as the Red Army raises the Soviet flag over the Reichskanzlei, a group of Nazi officers conduct a ritual. For them, the slaughter in the city is nothing but the perfect ritual sacrifice in order to bring back the Order of ...
Style: anime, exciting, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: magic, supernatural, demon, violence, teenager, friendship, chase, supernatural power, peril, supernatural ability, paranormal, paranormal phenomena ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006, year 1945
Place: japan, tokyo, berlin germany
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Dramatical Murder (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Nothing on Midorijima has been the same since the powerful Tour Konzern forced the original population into the old residential district and converted the rest of the island into the exclusive resort platinum jail. Despite that, Aoba Seragaki has ...
Style: anime, captivating, exciting, psychological, tense ...
Plot: class differences, virtual reality, island, game, tournament, brainwashing, corporation, team, murder, fighting the system, danger, rivalry ...
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The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Mihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. ...
Style: anime, ecchi, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, hardship, harem, teenage boy, tragedy, teenage girl, teenage crush, evil, juvenile delinquency, female nudity, student, academy ...
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 6.5
 516
Ace Attorney (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A rookie lawyer Ryuuichi Naruhodou stands up to save his defendants by proving their innocence from unusual cases! Is the defendant guilty or innocent...? Believing his client's innocence Naruhodou stands in court and battles his rival judges. ...
Style: anime, suspense, clever, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot: lawyer, judiciary, legal action, justice, danger, court case, society, love and romance, investigation, life philosophy, conspiracy, dedicated lawyer ...
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Clannad: The Motion Picture (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Clannad is set in a high-school located in some Japanese town. Okazaki Tomoya is a third-year student who doesn't take his studies seriously. Always late for class, he's seen as a delinquent by the rest of his classmates who are busy ...
Style: anime, touching, emotional, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenage life, youth, high school, love and romance, high school life, love, death of mother, student, father son relationship, death, death of wife ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan
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Air: The Motion Picture (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A long time ago, a winged maiden was held prisoner in a castle - cursed never to experience love, lest she die. Centuries later, in a sleepy coastal town, a young girl relives this agony.
Style: anime, sincere, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, magic, summer, imaginary, social relations, youth, impossible love, tragic love, teenage life, family relations, unfulfillment, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 5.9
 786
Chaos;Head (2008)
Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Takumi Nishijou, a high school student at the Private Suimei Academy, one day hears about the 'New Gen' murders that have been occurring around the city. Although dismissing the subject because it doesn't involve him, Takumi begins to ...
Style: anime, tense, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, teenage life, danger, wrong place wrong time, murder, youth, stalking, violence spree, gory, nosy, mysterious character, deadly
Place: asia, tokyo
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 6.9
 416
Robotics;Notes (2012)
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, disturbing, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: robot, school club, save the world, uncover truth, conspiracy, private investigation, investigation, piloted giant robot, giant robot, robotics
Time: near future
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Grisaia: Phantom Trigger The Animation (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Following the Heath Oslo incident, the existence of the US-Japanese anti-terror organization CIRS has become a matter of public knowledge. CIRS has been rebuilt from the ground up, and its most covert functions spun off to a new agency: SORD (Social ...
Style: anime, disturbing, exciting, captivating, entertaining
Plot: war on terror, special agent, agent, school, battles, fighting crime, mission, counter terrorism, female protagonist, secret mission, terrorism, fight ...
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Fate/stay night (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by the sorcerer Kiritsugu Emiya. Shirou is drawn into the Holy Grail War summons a female "Servant" known as Saber to protect him and obtain the Holy Grail.
Style: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural ability, healing power, supernatural, youth, self discovery, danger, good versus evil, imaginary, escapades, rivalry, back from the dead, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Girls Beyond the Wasteland (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Buntarou doesn't know what he wants to do in the future. He does not have any kind of dream that he wants to pursue, so currently he just spends his days hanging around with his friends. One day, his classmate Sayuki asks him if he wants to ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, disturbing, semi serious ...
Plot: high school life, school club, slice of life, female protagonist, friendship, game, teamwork, women, friends, high school, blackmail, female nudity ...
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Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The film adapts and expands the Planetarian visual novel by Key. The story is set in a dystopian future where biological and nuclear warfare has left a once prosperous civilization in complete ruin. The film tells the story of an old man travelling ...
Style: anime, futuristic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
Plot: dystopian future, vestiges of humanity, outer space, slice of life, children, humanity, robot, post-apocalyptic future, underground bunker, post apocalypse
Time: future
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Muv-Luv Alternative (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A story of the bonds between those who fight, in a world pushed to its limits. On one of the countless parallel worlds that exist throughout spacetime, humanity has fought a decades long war against the BETA, hostile extraterrestrial invaders, using ...
Style: mecha, anime, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: space battle, evil alien, alien, giant robot, struggle for survival, fight, parallel world, battles, humanity, alien technology, alien robot, fate of humanity ...
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Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW (2020)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: New kid Keiichi Maebara is settling into his new home of peaceful Hinamizawa village. Making quick friends with the girls from his school, he's arrived in time for the big festival of the year. But something about this isolated town seems ...
Style: anime, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: murder, teenage life, small town, murder mystery, murderer, teenager, schoolboy, small town life, secret, uncover truth, murder investigation, investigation ...
Time: year 1983
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Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The Holy Grail War is a battle royale among seven magi who serve as Masters. Masters, through the use of the command seals they are given when they enter the war, command Heroic Spirits known as Servants to fight for them in battle. In the Fifth ...
Style: anime, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: school, mysterious girl, battles, wizards and magicians, fight, sword fight, magical power, fight for supremacy, orphan, teenage protagonist, heroes, magician ...
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Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II. lost butterfly (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Theatrical-release adaptation of the visual novel "Fate/stay night", following the third and final route. (Part 2 of a trilogy.)
Style: anime, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: erotica, supernatural, fight, danger, fight scenes, twists and turns, relationships, showdown, teenager, battles, brutality, transformation ...
Place: japan
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Lunar Legend Tsukihime (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Shiki Tohno is a boy who, after an accident as a child, is able to see strange lines coming from objects and people. He has to wear special glasses to stop seeing them. If he cuts some of these lines, he destroys people connected to them. One day he ...
Style: anime, gothic, suspenseful, stylized, offbeat ...
Plot: supernatural, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, danger, haunted by the past, imaginary, vampire, heroes, rivalry, superpower, immortality, amnesia ...
Place: japan
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 5.7
 429
11 Eyes (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Satsuki Kakeru lost his sister by suicide and has been living a dull life ever since then. One day, he is transported into a bizarre world "Red Night" along with his friend Minase Yuka. In order to survive and escape from Red Night, he ...
Style: anime, tense, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: on the run, supernatural, youth, good versus evil, danger, teenage life, escapades, chases and races, young heroes, heroes, imaginary, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: japan, asia
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 7.0
 1K
Air (2005)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Yukito Kunisaki is on a journey in search of the Winged Maiden who was bound to the sky centuries ago, after hearing an old childhood tale from his mother. As Yukito shows his puppet show to people in an attempt to make some money, he finds himself ...
Style: anime, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, teenage love, youth, supernatural ability, reincarnation, teenage life, impossible love, imaginary, social relations, curses spells and rituals, slice of life, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 8.4
 11K
Steins;Gate 0 (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The dark untold story of Steins;Gate that leads with the eccentric mad scientist Okabe, struggling to recover from a failed attempt at rescuing Kurisu. He decides to give up and abandons his lively scientist alter ego, in pursuit to forget the past. ...
Style: anime, mind bending, captivating, exciting, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, time loop, experiment, inventions and discoveries, hopes, escapades, research, peril, existence paradox, rivalry, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 7.8
 10K
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
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 8.8
 72K
Steins;Gate (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The self-proclaimed mad scientist Rintarou Okabe rents out a room in a rickety old building in Akihabara, where he indulges himself in his hobby of inventing prospective "future gadgets" with fellow lab members: Mayuri Shiina, his ...
Style: anime, touching, exciting, mind bending, manga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, time loop, changing the past or future, experiment, youth, student, memory loss, father daughter relationship, parallel world, scientist, sent to the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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Diabolik Lovers (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Based on a visual novel of the same name by Rejet and Otomate, for the female market. Komori Yui is a positive-thinking girl who nevertheless is troubled by seeing spirits and experiencing poltergeist phenomena. In her second year in high school, ...
Style: anime, shoujo, sexy, enigmatic, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, supernatural ability, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, supernatural power, school, old mansion, harem, radical, siblings relations, family relations, able to see the dead ...
Place: japan
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 7.5
 2K
Kanon (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Yuichi hasn’t seen his cousin Nayuki in years. Now that he’s back, all knowledge of ever visiting has vanished. He tries to adjust to the vaguely familiar surroundings, but the gaps in his memory haunt him as time grows short. The pieces of the ...
Style: anime, depressing, stylized, offbeat, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted by the past, memory loss, amnesia, dating, magical, snow, tragedy, love and romance, youth, teenager, winter ...
Place: japan
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