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Mushishi and Miracle Girls both tell self-contained stories about supernatural events. The two shows are similar in the way they focus on the theme of perception, as the main characters have the abillity to see what other people don't. Therefore the act of seeing, and sometimes feeling (through the four other senses in Mushishi and the 6th sense/intuition in Miracle Girls) is a important element of the shows' mise en scène. They also share the same eerie atmosphere which is not, strictly speaking, horror, but which is not reassuring either. The mood is also set in both shows by the regular use of traditionnal Japanese instruments for the soundtrack. Be warned though that apart the supernatural elements Miracle Girls is more about school life and romance (as it is a magical girl type of show). But I believe that Takashi Anno's directing is worth a look anyway, especially in the first three episodes.

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...then you might like Beastars add

Although they seem different at first glance, Paranoia Agent and Beastars are very similar in the way they portray how, in modern society, our identity is defined by the look of others and our own opinion about ourselves at the same time. Both shows often bring the subjective perceptions of several characters into conflict with each others, which leads to either humourous situations or drastic behavior changes (especially in Beastars, where the power balance is often on the edge of reversal). Thus, the main focus of the two shows is the inner conflicts the protagonists are facing in their everyday life and the ways in which they can be solved : through the use of fiction in Paranoia Agent and through self-acceptance and seeing past other people's differences in Beastars. However, the path isn't easy and both shows take unexpected dark turns in their depiction of society, dealing with various issues such as toxic relationships, failure, latent violence, prostitution and of course social pressure in a very clever manner. Funnily enough, both shows also begin with a crime which kinda leads nowhere, because of the high frequency of these accidents in Beastars' society (the culprit will be discovered later in season 2 though) and because of... plot reasons in Paranoia Agent. Be warned though, that Beastars has a character-driven story centered around Legoshi, while Paranoia has a much more episodic structure with each segment being dedicated to one protagonist specifically.