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If you liked Hanasaku Iroha Movie: Home Sweet Home add

...then you might like Fruits Basket: Prelude add

Follow-up films featuring the mothers of the main characters, showing how they first found love, had their daughters, and struggled to become parents. Fairly short, yet sweet stories.

If you liked ef: A Tale of Memories. add

...then you might like Kuzu no Honkai add

Stories of school students seeking emotional connections with others through romance, but without an understanding of romance. They'll constantly hurt each other and themselves in trying to overcome past and present trauma. Both anime have stylized visualizations of their characters' emotional states, and both anime will have their characters go out of their way to make themselves suffer via short-sighted decisions intended to soothe their emotional wounds. These aren't fun to watch, but they're nonetheless interesting if just to see different ways trauma can be represented in a visual artform.

If you liked Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin add

...then you might like Shoukoku no Altair add

Fantasy historical fiction that focus on war and politics. Altair is more realistic/dramatic and has elements of economics and a greater emphasis on politics. Alderamin has fantasy and magic elements, as well as more comedic moments, but still maintains a level of realism and focuses more on the impacts of war. Alderamin's technological level is around the Age of Enlightenment (specifically late 19th century) while Altair occurs sometime around the 15th century. Both take place during transitional periods for new technologies and ways of thinking, particularly when applied to warfare, as well as the consequences of advancing war beyond swords and chivalry. Alderamin is vaguely middle eastern in setting while Altair is set in a fictional Ottoman Empire.

If you liked Versailles no Bara add

...then you might like Kemono no Souja Erin add

Stories of young girls compromising their own ambitions and the good of others, with circumstances outside their control forcing them to mature quickly. Lots of character conflicts with political turmoil. Kemono no Souja Erin takes a more optimistic approach while Rose of Versailles is significantly more dramatic.

If you liked Minami-ke add

...then you might like Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou add

A particular brand of straight-faced idiocy that descends into madness after long enough. Both have similarities in their styles of humor, serious-faced cut ins, and tone of "daily school life of a bunch of people one step removed from sanity."

If you liked Ranma ½ add

...then you might like Uchuu Kaizoku Mito no Daibouken: Futari no Joou-sama add

Wacky gender blender high school antics with a good amount of fantasy elements and fights. The main characters’ goals are to somehow go back to being an ordinary boy.

If you liked Mugen no Ryvius add

...then you might like Densetsu Kyojin Ideon add

Being chased across space with the crew being slowly broken down physically and mentally.

If you liked Ikoku Meiro no Croisée The Animation add

...then you might like Tamako Market add

Both are slice of life stories about close-nit communities in a small shopping gallery. Nothing special to them, but they do give the feeling of family between people with no actual family relations. Tamako Market's community is ridiculously kind, while Ikoku Meiro no Croisée is a little more cautious and distant. However, both feature friendly people who are just trying to get by in life.

If you liked Hanasaku Iroha add

...then you might like The iDOLM@STER add

Both Hanasaku Iroha and The iDOLM@STER are clumsy, humble, honest, and idealistic coming-of-age slice of life anime that do their jobs very well. They focus primarily on the characters themselves as individuals, rather than focusing strictly on their comedic mannerisms. While both have comedic moments, both actually excel at using atmosphere to accent its character-driven drama. Hanasaku Iroha does this through its visual splendor, whereas The iDOLM@STER - a show primarily about music - takes full advantage of silence during critical scenes. Due to their coming-of-age stories, both shows have strong elements of time, where it's used as a slow and melancholic way to highlight changes in plot, setting, and characters during key moments. Hanasaku Iroha has some of the prettiest and detailed settings for a slice of life television series, boasting a strong start that establishes its identity as a no-gimmick drama about growing up in an unfamiliar town. Immediately, it portrays itself as less of an anime and more like a live-action drama as it focuses on the stories of all its characters, particularly the adults, as opposed to any quirky mannerism common in slice of life shows. There's romance too, but it plays second to the growth of its characters, serving as a means to measure their maturity over the series. The iDOLM@STER is primarily a slice of life comedy, but it begins with quiet scenes of the characters going about their lives - echoing the more dramatic moments later in the series. Despite being an idol show with a male lead, there's very little fan service, there's even less romance, and while most of the characters are in school, there is not one single instance during any episode where a school is shown. The show instead follows the character to different locations, in different outfits, doing different activities as they grow into their roles as aspiring idols. To any fans of coming-of-age slice of life dramas, I cannot recommend these shows enough.

If you liked Umi Monogatari: Anata ga Ite Kureta Koto add

...then you might like Tsuritama add

Really nice and peaceful island life disrupted by an end-of-the-world plot. Both involve characters whom aren't exactly human coming in and learning how to live with humans. Both are heavily related to the sea, and both involve a conflict that come from the sea. Comparatively, Umi Monogatari's main cast is mostly female while Tsuritama's main cast is mostly male. Also, while Umi Monogatari is quiet and toned down, it involves more action. Tsuritama in comparison is more visually and comically exaggerated, and thus ends up being less dramatic overall. Both are still relatively calm stories by the sea, providing more slice-of-life comedy until the latter halves of their respective shows.

If you liked Mahou Sensei Negima! add

...then you might like Medaka Box add

Both start off as well-to-do school comedies before escalating into the realm of battle shounen. These were planned genre shifts by their respective authors, with Medaka Box pulling off more than one in its course. Both have powerful main leads and a colorful cast of characters, along with a variety of powers throughout both series. However, as Negima focuses more on world building and its detailed magic systems, Medaka Box focuses more on the characters and what they represent as literary devices. Still, both involve varying levels of 4th wall commentary and breaking. Negima pulls RPG references with a tongue-in-cheek self-awareness to its own ever increasing level of ridiculousness. Medaka Box references various Jump manga before escalating to the point where even the readers aren't safe.

If you liked Ou Dorobou Jing add

...then you might like Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World add

Kino travels from country to country and staying no longer than three days, which is just long enough to gain an understanding of the people living there. Jing travels from land to land in order to seek various treasures, staying only long enough to get what he wants, but not before becoming involved in the affairs of the people there. Both shows feature the titular characters traveling with a sidekick. Both main characters are tough and free spirited, and while they will help others in need, they'll only really do so out of self-interest. Both shows feature storybook-like settings that are fantastical in nature, but each story has some meaning or theme that they try to explore. Their effectiveness can vary, ranging from remarkably profound to being heavy-handed, but both shows make great attempts to give insight into many philosophical and literary ideas. In both shows, each story presents a scenario to the viewer, where they are invited to find the reason behind the story, the real-world implications they have, questions that arises the implications, and possible answers that could be extracted by both the execution of the story and one's own interpretation. These stories may not all have deeper meaning, but the way they're presented leaves them open for investigation and discussion. Kino's Journey is slow and passive while Jing: King of Bandits is an action/adventure/comedy that gets serious every now and then. Fine works both of them, but keep in mind that while they attempt to do the same thing, their presentation styles are different.

If you liked NHK ni Youkoso! add

...then you might like Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! add

Pathetic people in ridiculous situations played for laughs. They're both funny, but only so far until it becomes apparent that Satou and Tomoko are really, really sad and messed up people. Both shows attempt to hit close to home and poke fun at the various problems that surround social awkwardness and reclusiveness until it hurts.