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Both shows deal with the fantastical and extraordinary in our world, and both show feature a dynamic on teacher and student. In the sane sense the origin and way that these magical entities act is embedded deep into their self and the answers of his problems is rooted in psychology. Both shows embrace the episodic storytelling with inclusion of arcs. In the same sense, the emotional state and development of the main characters are similar, and steadily progresses with the show's runtime.

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Both show features a traveling duo that is tasked with handling a curse that's way beyond their comprehension and understanding. In both works the grey morality of one's personal happiness is put on a scale against the well being of the realm and country. Both works have a lot of lessons about humanity in them.

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Both shows has steady and calm pace, impressive world building, in which you can see a reflection of our own, but with it's own twist, and specific culture and traditions. In both stories the characters undergo a lot of development, and in the same way, their growth is evident in the end. Albeit being fantasy shows, they both remain very grounded into the boundaries of the created worlds, presenting it as plausible and comprehensible part of their everyday. Both series tackles themes of parenthood and the slowly developing feelings of realizing it's importance.

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Both characters starts off from a position, in which they don't have direction in their existence, or meaning in it. Their drive to understand themselves is the one that keeps them going, and along their ways, they learn to be more humane and empathetic with each encounter from someone in this life - be it pain, or happiness, everyone leaves impression in them.

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Both share similar color palette, and ambience - though in Todorov Roddle the conclusion is most of the times lighthearted and, in this short movie, it is not. There is a lot of surreal symbolism in both, and a sense of void, and loneliness.

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In both shows, through their simple presentation, are presented a lot of social parables and dilemmas. In a sense, this short movie could fit in Kino's setting quite well, so as long as one had enjoyed Kino's Journey, you'll enjoy the short movie too.

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The setting in both movies is almost identical, The Deer King is more focused on politics and the scientific approach of the featured plague, while Mononoke has more grand, and impactful impression.

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Both shows have distinct world building, featuring two factions. In both stories, the main characters are people who had suffered from the internal conflicts, and stoically tries to find the right solution for this conflicted predicament.

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Both series has a lot more emotional and contemplational value beneath their surfaces. In both shows, the main focus of the story is our protagonist, traveling in solitude with the sole company of their mechanical companions, and in their journeys, they do encounter various parables, which rarely can be resolved with force or violence. Also, in both shows, the existential themes and it's presentation are largely pondered upon, presenting us a journey of both the mind and heart.

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Both series felt simillar, on a lot of occasions - the subdued, soft-coloured palette of colours that was being used, the show's themes and the tonal shifts from light comedy to somber melancholia, as well as the fact that both series deals with love, even if artificial, and how we can aceept and grow with it as people. As well as that, the people's obsession with technology and their desire to connect through something fictional, even if for a bit.

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Both shows represents in an accurate, and painfully relatable the otaku fandom from the period they've been made. NHK feels much more personal and does delve on the mentally unstable psyche on it's cast, while in Otaku no Video we can see the semi-biographic story of the founding of studio Gainax. Both shows feels as a slight critique and serves as a way to expllore the otaku fandom, with both it's obsessiveness and delusions.

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Both stories features people with otaku tendencies, who feels lost and confused in their college/university years, so they all try to find place for themselves in this world, as well as trying to incorporate their hobbies into a profession. Both stories tackles the rise and fall of these ideas and how the cast copes with this.

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Both stories deal with children, experiencing and trying their best to survive in a world, waged by war. The point of both works is much more about the ups and down of the mental state of the cast, and their thoughts while they do their respective journeys, and both works have peculiar, somehow rough but very emotionally intense art-style.

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The settings in both works feels very similar, on conceptual level. Both stories are about cyborgs in dystopian cyberpunk worlds, which does fight for their freedom, survival and to preserve their humanity, although in Sirius the themes are mentioned and glossed over, in comparison with Gunnm.

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Both stories rely on interesting, and underdeveloped premises, has simple and poorly executed character arcs, and in both of them, the art and the fighting are the only real plus, while the plot itself is incoherent and meandering, being borderline pointless.

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Both works happen in rich, and well established fantasy world, filled with interesting concepts and straying from the cliches. In both you can see quite the emotional connection of the main characters, while one of them is with much bigger lifespan, compared with the other, being a normal human being, and in both shows a large part of their focus is dedicated to this.

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The theme of both shows feels quite close, even though their settings are different, in both shows the co-existence of humans and androids is featured, on a backdrop of quite the turbulent time. Still the idea that despite all the complexities and moral questions, in both shows the core concepts of androids, struggling and trying to find their own ways to help mankind is featured, as well as to try and understand their purpose of existence.

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Both shows features themes that are referencing the mahou shoujo genre, but with a twist, both shows has moments when the animation and topics often fluctuates from simple and sweet, to traumatic and dark.

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In Ef it feels more prominent, but it's important to note that in Irozuku the characters' artistic aspirations and love for the art are used as an vehicle by which the main cast finds ways to self-reflect and express their feelings for themselves and the others.

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Although both shows diffferentiates on many levels, they both have themes of self-realisation, and expression, and the inclusion of the storybooks, with alot of symbolic allegories into them, gave both shows simillar vibes in the said moments.

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Both shows and their character dynamics feels close, if you enjoyed one of them, there's high chance to appreciate the other.

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Rose of Versailles can be rightfully said that it inspired Utena on various levels, from the main character, being woman who doesn't take herself as such, down to the romantic and moral choices they do. The various metaphores about roses, and their implication in Utena are literal example of the show's influence on each other.

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Both shows deals with the romantic relationships between human and android, and both shows gives us very tangible and emotionally intense reasons to wholesomely root for the couple.

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Both series, at first glance are romances, but then again, both shows deals more with the psychological traumas and struggles in their life, displayed in a roundabout, metaphorical way. Both series are about love, but more so how one can be influenced to be a better human being from it, and as a way to explain their own drives and hopes, dreams and wishes.

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Both shows share the same creator, Masaaki Yuasa, and there are alot of simillarities, in it's themes and execution. The artstyle's the same, very out-there and specific, alothough don't expect too much from an actual plot, both shows feels like a collaboration of alot of conflicting ideas, strung by zero to no worldbuilding, and presenting to the viewers something unique.

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Kekkai Sensen and Trigun are shows from the same author, Yasuhiro Nightow, but there's more to that connection. The main character's stance on violence is reminsicent of Vash's, but the whole way the show handles it's blend of action, comedy and drama feels very simillar, the transition is fluid and the moods are not really meshed unappropriately. If you're enjoying one of these shows, there's very high chance you'll like the other as well.

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The premise in both shows feels simillar, though their story developments are much different. Both shows have their well defined teams of characters, fighting to uphold order in a large megapolis of a city. The major difference is that in Mobius, the people are in war with the demons, while in Kekkai they're trying to coexist.

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Both shows are about agents with supernatural powers, though the premise of both settings is quite different.

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The storytelling aspect in both shows is handled similarly, it's a mixture of action scenes filled with alot of subtle character specific tidbits, the fight choreographies and the slick style kind of feels close.Musically both shows feels very distinct, in their own way.

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Both shows have almost the same setting, but there's a major difference in the way the story is presented. Cop Craft is more focused on the whole crime aspect that can happen in setting like this, but Kekkai has alot of more focus on it's subtle and emotional storytelling elements, and the character synnergies and their banters.