Omoide Poroporo

Both are realistic heartfelt dramas with a female lead character and beautiful animation. 

Nostalgia at its best! A look at women who think back upon their lives and the effects the experiences had upon them. 

Some same feelings you can get in this two movies is about "How you can not live alone." and "You should choose yourself your life path." ... Both the story have main character(s) that leave city's life to make a country's life. And about the pasts that make them to choose their life paths ... 

Both Anime provide a nice look at Japanese culture through slice of life moments, yet utilize warm colors. The main character also comes to terms regarding their families lifestyle. 

Both main characters reminisce about their pasts 

Both movies involve the Japanese countryside and growing up, yet the colors are soft and warm helping personify the warm feeling created by both movies. 

-Office worker in mid twenties/thirties copes with life's stresses, impermanence, and possibility of growing old alone -Relaxing atmosphere with pastel colors and mellow soundtrack -Main character realizes there is still a kid in all of us no matter how old we are -Relatable and underrated slice of life shows 

Oh my! Talk about two Anime series which are seemingly so different beyond the Slice of Life genre both happen to be of, right? Not quite, given the fact both Anime, while fundamentally different, involve two individuals delving into childhood dreams and coming to terms with certain things from their childhood that they'd put out of mind until there is a major change of event regarding a change in their jobs that will change their lives going forward. 

The art is strikingly similar. Young Okajima Taeko's face of Only Yesterday looks a lot like Aoki Shinko's (of Mai Mai Miracle) face. 

• Both are coming of age drama series/movie with little bit of romance in it. • Both have similar vibes and is very reliable to your own life. • In "Skip to Loafer" a country girl movies to a big city for studies while in "Omoide Poroporo" it's kinda vise versa. • Both of our protagonist learns new things and tried to adapt there new life style. 

Both movies bring up the working adult main characters' nostalgia for their carefree childhoods, bittersweet first loves, and heartwarming families. 

adult protagonist moving back home and reminiscing about their childhood 

The landscape and lifestyle of countryside are well depicted in both. 

Although the main synopsis may seem very different, both works focus on an adult protagonist from a detached family environment who tries to discover her place in the world and finds it by accident when leaving her comfort zone. Both animes deal with the routine of adulthood with an excellent complicity with a range of characters full of diferent insecurities and strengthness. 

The music video Mundeug reminded me of the movie Omoide Poroporo. They're both about women looking back at their past life experiences and coming to terms with each moment. For the character in Mundeug, the thoughts came to her while taking a stroll whereas in Omoide Poroporo, the character recalled her childhood while she was on vacation in the countryside. 

Both involve older Japanese women, often reminiscing on their pasts and their dissatisfactions in life; they often recount specific childhood memories, and trace these memories back to the person they'd become, abandoning the life they thought they should have been living for a new way of life that brings them true happiness. (they also both operate under a romantic slant!) 

Slow-paced, sentimental slice-of-life about a city girl living on a rural Japanese farm. Figure 17 adds a subplot involving space cops hunting xenomorphs, but that doesn't do much to change the tone or pacing of the story. If you want a relaxing, nostalgic trip through the countryside and have the patience for a sometimes lethargic narrative, you'll probably like both of these. 

• Both the anime MC recall the past events when he/she was still a high school students. Remembers all the good and bad things and the things which he/she regrets the most. • Both have similar pattern of storytelling telling. • Both the anime give same feeling at the end. 

Both take place in the Japanese countryside and feature beautiful scenery and relaxing music. 

Some of the flashback scenes in Only Yesterday happen almost exactly like scenes in Naisho no Tsubomi. Both involve young girls learning more about crushes, relationships and even their own bodies and of course endless teasing from their male classmates about these issues. 

• The way of storytelling is very simple in both the anime. • Both feels more like a slice of life anime focuses more on drama and less on comedy. • Both have similar kind of ending.  

Both the Ghibli movies focus mainly on adult audiance and Despite being 90s anime both have very good animation. Both have character driving and very realistic plot and event takes place in countryside ,  

Though Only Yesterday lacks the fantasy element in The Place Promised in Our Early Days, both main characters think about what happened in their pasts and how it is currently affecting them 

The Anime involve the theme of dealing with the movement from childhood to adulthood along with what should and shouldn't be left behind. Of course, "Asatte no Houkou" delves into this theme using a supernatural element of a wish, but both series delve with the main characters and what they wish for their futures. 

Both are Slow moving Love stories that don't really happen until near the end of the film. Both have brilliant scores to boot. 

Only Yesterday and Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju are adult drama anime that uses storytelling and reminiscing to show personal growth, catharsis, and the fluidity of truth. As a viewer, you can appreciate these anime as personal stories, but also as commentaries on life and truth. Storytelling and reminiscing are a reflection of the truth. What you believed to be true in the present can be obscured and reexamined in a new way (reminiscing). How you construct truth for audience can create different interpretations of the same event (storytelling). Neither is necessarily accurate, but they can be correct.  

Adult female main character works in the Japanese countryside while trying to figure out what to do going forward. Heartfelt and easygoing with very human characters. 

Lost young souls explore the world around them, and begin to discover their life paths. Both are also full of very expressive, artful visuals perfectly chosen to represent the emotional states of the protagonists. 

Protagonist leaves behind a more typical life in the city and moves to the countryside. While learning how to farm, they also learn more about themselves and what they want to do with their future. 

Some of the family slice-of-life drama in only yesterday reminded me a lot of yamadas. Family interactions are realistic and have been excellently handled. Some of the comedy in both is pretty good, although the style is somewhat different. They're both by Isao Takahata (grave of the fireflies), and they share some retro-sensibilities with each other. Takahata has done a wide variety of stuff, so no two works would be same. But You can feel some of the same creative energies behind these two movies. They're both slice-of-life movies about a family; while yamadas is more focused on comedy gags, only yesterday goes for more drama.  read more 

Both movies are somehow sentimental journey to the past Japan, Nijiiro Hotaru has a little bit of fantasy on it, Omeide Poroporo is pure nostalgic slice of life 

Both movies are about a woman looking back at events that happened when they were a child. 

In both movies, the protagonist returns to their old towns in the countryside from the city. They are dispassionate and apathetic as adults because their dreams and meaning in life have become dull. When they return to their small towns, a lot has changed. However, a lot has also remained, and as the protagonists reminisce about their past, they rediscover their passions and values. Aki no Kanade is about a professional Taiko drummer who comes back to help with the revival of a old festival and ties up the loose ends of her youth. In Omoide Poroporo, the protagonist rediscovers her feelings and enjoyment in simple country life. Both series are full of subtlety, nostalgia, and contain a touch of realism (more so in Omoide Poroporo). They are about adults who validate and reassure their decisions in life, their identity, and reignite their sense of self by revisiting their pasts. read more 

Both movies have plots that consist with interaction with characters of the past or future characters.  

They both have a similar vibe, showing the story which includes present and the past interleaved with a bit of sadness about things already gone. However Omoide Poroporo is a little bit more down to earth and realistic while Omoide no Marnie has more on dramatic and romantic sides. Also they share the first word in their name which means "memories" 

Memories of a young woman when she was a child and then a kid. 

It's the simplicity of each one of these that make them so delightful to watch. The Cat Returns might not be realistic, but that's not the point of this recommendation anyway. Just cheer up.