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Taishou Yakyuu Musume.
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Girls & Panzer
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These might seem different - but they are more similar than you'd think. In truth, Girls und Panzer is actually just a sports series with an all-female cast and a rather unique sport. The music, overall feeling, characters, their personalities, and just about everything else feel almost the exact same. Both also focus on an underdog team (in both cases they start out not having a clue what they are doing) overcoming big odds, getting to know each other, and working against social standing. They also both lack much of any fanservice or pandering, surprisingly.
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Mitsudomoe
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Recorder to Randoseru Do♪
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Kind of specific - but if you liked the jokes surrounding mostly the father of the triplets, you'll definitely enjoy this. It's a series of very short episodes but it's a great comedy - and one of the characters (the child who has the body of an adult) is constantly getting arrested by the cops or chased by the neighborhood watch because of being around his big (albeit loli-bodied) sister and his little kid friends.
If you liked
Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou
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Tentai Senshi Sunred
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Both are half-episode based series with the same type of quick witted humor as one another for a quick yet very good laugh.
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Nodame Cantabile
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Inubaka
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Just from looking this seems like a bit of a stretch, but they are actually very alike in many ways. While the story is obviously very different - one focused very much on music, the other focused on dogs - the deeper point of each is where they are alike - that is the characters, their interactions, their lives, and the way they change each other. Inubaka and Nodame Cantabile both have the same basics if you take out the music and dogs. The stories both have a chance meeting between a bit of a dimwitted girl and a very talented guy and the events following that, as well as the 'dimwitted girl' in both being actually an amazingly talented person at what they do that entraps the male lead's interest. They follow events that are basically the exact equivalent of each other, their characters progress the same, every character introduced in both are very alike in personalities, the romance unfolds the same way, etc. While they do have a lot of big differences, it's mostly just in the music and dog areas, while everything aside from that is very alike. That might sound stupid, but the focal points of both these series is NOT the music or the dogs (sorry if you thought it was), but the development and relationships of characters.
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Yotsuba to!
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Ichigo Mashimaro
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Both have a lot of the same type of for-the-older-audience type of humor, where nostalgia of the reader is a big part in it. Ichigo Mashimaro has a bit more of a focus on this, and because of that more often has jokes that will possibly go over the head of the younger audience, but this doesn't really have a detrimental effect on the overall quality as its usually small stuff or things you wouldn't notice if you wouldn't get it. The two series also have a large focus on typical slice of life day-to-day going ons, basically both are about cute girls doing cute things in cute ways Both of these series can also be greatly, and easily, enjoyed by anyone of any age and even people who aren't into these types of series.
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Fruits Basket
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Oniichan to Issho
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Both share the same type of story - a girl being brought in by a group of guys due to family complications - and the life that ensues from that turn of events. In the case of Me & My Brothers, the protagonist is taken in by her step-brothers (that she only knew as a very young toddler) who all have their own quirks, while in Fruits Basket there is a deeper background to the family (and they are unrelated to her) she gets taken in by. Both have the same feel, the main female in both is practically the same person personality wise, and both have a lot of slice-of-life in the same style as one another. A large part of both is also the quirks of each of the characters involved in the story, learning about the characters, and simple day-by-day happenings. Actually, the characters in both are so similar it is very easy to mix them up, not only their personalities are very alike but even the looks of some are extremely close.
If you liked
Initial D First Stage
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Over Drive
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While they seem very different from the synopsis or just looking at pictures, Over Drive is very literally Initial D - but on bicycles. The music (especially the opening), the drama, the story, the characters, the feel of the show - everything is extremely alike to that of Initial D. Beyond even just the basic things, the more detailed things like character development, personalities, the things the characters go through - it's all like watching a redone version where someone took out the cars and threw in bikes instead.
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Mushishi
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Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World
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Both of these shows focus on a traveler and the people they meet along the way. In Kino's case, she's simply a traveler with no set destination. For Ginko in Mushishi, he goes around to many different places and helps those who have been effected by 'mushi', which is also his job. They also both share the same thinking-based mature atmosphere as well, sometimes even delving deep into the way the mind works and peoples own effects on the things around them. These two rather slow, yet extremely interesting, shows are very alike and if you liked one of them you should definitely check out the other.
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Hanazakari no Kimitachi e
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Power!!
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Same story just with different characters and a few other small changes that don't really matter. It's not AS good as Hana-Kimi, but its still really good and worth reading if you liked that, and while its the same stuff it manages to make it so you dont feel like your just re-reading HK or something.