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If you liked Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai add

...then you might like Fruits Basket 1st Season add

Is 'wholesome harem' a genre? Anyways, where 'Bunny Girl Senpai' teases titillation, 'Fruits Baskets instead teases romance, but both are actually much more about the main character helping people dealing with their problems than they are about those particular elements. The key difference that makes them a nice complement to each other is the way that the protagonists are characterized; Rascal is an aloof and seemingly apathetic guy who springs into action the moment someone he cares about needs help, and in contrast, Tohru affects change in others through her endless energy and positivity. The problems in Fruits Baskets tend to be more literal and direct than the metaphorical Puberty Syndrome symptoms, but there still is the supernatural draw here and there, and ultimately the core appeal is remarkably similar between each show, despite superficially being aimed at different demographics.

If you liked Shirobako add

...then you might like Little Witch Academia (TV) add

At their core, both Little Witch Academia and Shirobako are stories about the value of art which seek to showcase the beautiful, self-perpetuating nature of inspiration. If you appreciate either show on a thematic level, you are likely to appreciate the other for similar reasons. However, it is their radically different approaches to this subject matter that truly makes them excellent complementary pieces. Shirobako uses direct, literal storytelling and information dumping to convey the passion of the real, actual people in the anime industry. Little Witch Academia prefers to instead speak its message through metaphor and to render itself with such vibrancy that said passion is conveyed immediately through nearly every frame. That is to say, they worth considering as being in communication with each other, because they provide grounds for inspiring two different appreciations of animation itself, each of which has the potential to illuminate why you love the medium in the first place.

If you liked Psycho-Pass add

...then you might like Gatchaman Crowds add

Despite the sharp aesthetic and tonal contrast between Psycho Pass and Gatchaman: Crowds, they make for excellent thematic complements. The former, with it's seedy earth tone color palette and pessimistic outlook, explores how artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms could enable and perpetuate right wing authoritarianism. Meanwhile, the latter and it's sequel use garish primary and secondary colors, as well as the boundless optimism of it's lead character to explore how social media can help build a co-operative, direct democracy, aka left wing libertarianism (as well as showing the potential problems that might come with both working toward that system and living in it). Thus, while the conclusions these two shows make, as well the route they use to get there, are wildly different, they are unified by the use of imaginative sci-fi to interrogate political ideology. If you know what a dialectic is, and if you enjoy explorations of that concept within creative fiction, both of these shows should suit you nicely.