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Mezzo Forte
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A Kite
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Adult 18+ anime (hentai) with strong female protagonist. Both shows have similar theme of the eerie aesthetics of blood-sputtering violence. Oh and back in the days these shows do have a coherent plot.
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Prison School
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Grand Blue
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Both shows are pure comedy, capable of making viewers rolling with laughter. The main casts are students living on campus. Grand Blue is more of an episodic, slice of life show, while Prison School is a thriller with a more continuous plot line. Oh did I forget to mention that both shows have a lot of fan service?
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Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
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Grand Blue
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Both shows are pure comedy, making viewers rolling with laughter. The main casts are students living on campus. Both shows are episodic in nature and focuses on characters and comedy rather than on story. Full of youth spirit!
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Psycho-Pass
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
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Both shows belong to the "Cyberpunk" category, featuring futuristic technology and a grim, dystopian society. The overall theme revolve around characters (protagonist or not) fighting back against such cyberpunk society. Note that Cyberpunk: Edgerunner has some 18+ contents not suitable for all viewers.
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Ookami to Koushinryou
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Sousou no Frieren
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Both are characters-focused episodic shows that are set in a fantasy world. Moreover, the main heroines in both have nigh immortal lifespan while her companions are mortals.
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Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
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Isekai Ojisan
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Both shows are parody on isekai genre, though with different approach. Konosuba is more about comedy, while Ojisan is more about "realism" of an otaku thrown into the cruel isekai world.
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K-On!
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Bocchi the Rock!
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Slice-of-life anime shows that talk about cute high-school girls forming band together. The two shows differ slightly in that K-on focuses more on cuteness of moe characters while Bocchi is more about comedy in an abstract way.
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True Tears
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KimiKiss Pure Rouge
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The two titles are similar in that they are about teenagers' love stories told in perspectives from multiple main characters, and their relationships tend to develop into complicated love triangles.
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KimiKiss Pure Rouge
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Amagami SS
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Both titles originate from dating games made by the same company. The main plot revolves around high school students' love affairs with beautiful heroines. The main difference is that Amagami narrates the story in omnibus format while KimiKiss is not.
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Kara no Kyoukai Movie 1: Fukan Fuukei
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Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
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Kara no Kyoukai and Heaven's Feel are the start of its respective series of movies that take place in Nasuverse (& animated by ufotable). They are very true "Type-Moon" stories, involving atypical characters and magic duels mixed with philosophical clashes.
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Nezha Zhi Mo Tong Jiang Shi
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Jiang Ziya
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Both anime movies are set on the same (Chinese mystical) world, loosely set in classic Chinese literature novels "Fengshen Yanyi" and "Journey to the West". Beside similar background, both works portray a protagonist who struggle against mystic higher powers throughout the story.
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Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai
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Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata
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On the outside, they are just comedic light novel series that revolves around typical high school plot and involve harem elements. However, both series do not just stop at playing ACG "memes", and sometimes do a realistic portrayal of a typical otaku's life. While their atmosphere is light-hearted, they sometimes ask more serious questions such as "how should an otaku connect with rest of the world?"
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"Bungaku Shoujo" Series
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Tatakau Shisho Series
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Both novel series revolves around a similar central concept: the plot of the storybook (within the story) featured in each volume are highly similar to the reality in the story and can predict how the story turns out. Other than that, the two series couldn't be more different. Bungaku Shoujo is a high school normal series where the protagonist are often embroiled in weird situations, while Tatakau Shisho is a action, war series taken place in a fantasy world.
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Hanged Doll
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Bastard
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Both manhwa delves into the inner mind of (several) psychopaths with plot that revolves around murder and figuring out the truth. However, I will say that I don't consider them to be serious works that actually meticulously portray psychopathic mind. I consider them to be thrillers with fast-paced action and a story one never knows what comes next.
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Sora no Otoshimono
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Prison School
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Sora no Otoshimono and Prison School are both slap-stick comedy manga that are so fun because their style portray mundane everyday scenes with exaggerated effects, using over-the-top reactions and inner thoughts, etc. These manga also belong to soft harem category. While it is clear that multiple girls have feelings for the protagonist, the romantic subplot is never taken seriously and used more for, again, comedic effect.
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Shinsekai yori
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Sakurada Reset
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Both shows feature a group of young people living in a seemingly peaceful society. Eventually, they discover some secrets about their society, and the main characters are involved in a major conspiracy movement that may or may not change their lives forever.
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Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai
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Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata
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While Saekano is a novel series and KamiNomi is a manga, both works are heavily involved with the concept of galgame, in some ways or other. In Saekano, MC and his friends formed a doujin group with the goal of making a legitimate visual novel that fans will enjoy. In KamiNomi, MC is tasked by a supernatural entity to capture the hearts of various girls just like in galgame. In both works, MCs are also avid gamers.
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Dantalian no Shoka
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Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou
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Both light novels revolve around the theme of novels, but execute this theme in slightly different ways. In Biblia, the storyline of each chapter correspond to a particular piece of literature that is mentioned in its chapter title; In Dantalion, the outcome of each sub-story usually correspond to the ending of the fairy tale internal to Dantalion's world. While Biblia's setting is in the modern world without out of ordinary event, Dantalion unfolds in a fantasy world full of magic and other oddities.
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Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou
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Danshou no Grimm
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Biblia and Danshou no Grimm are light novels that revolve around the theme of literature novels. Usually, the storyline of each chapter/volume correspond to a particular piece of literature that is mentioned in its chapter/volume title, and all of these "plots" from other novels are fitted together in a clever way. There is also a romance subplot going on between main characters.
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Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2
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Guilty Crown
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Guilty Crown (GC) and Code Geass (CG) are similar in that both shows' (male) protagonists received a mysterious power referred as the "power of the king" toward the start of the shows. These shows also have a lot of mecha action, as people fight each other by controlling robots in one way or another. There are strong distinctions, however. Whereas Code Geass is a show that features a protagonist who is confident, charismatic, and devious, Guilty Crown's is more mellow, indecisive. As a result, the moods of shows drastically differ as one is all about watching the protagonist owning his opponents, the other is full of turnouts that make viewers shout at the protagonist.
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Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
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Kuzu no Honkai
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Kiminozo and Kuzu no Honkai both explore love triangles (or love webs), or perhaps more accurately, how deeply flawed individuals go about establishing romantic relationships with others. There are certain twists in the relationships that make them more complicated than the usual. Both shows explore this in a very artistic way, and really brings out the inner thoughts and feelings of the important characters. These shows have intense emotional outbursts, and the mood is usually heavy and melancholy.
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White Album 2
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Kuzu no Honkai
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White Album 2 and Kuzu no Honkai are both about exploring love triangles (or love webs), or perhaps more accurately, how deeply flawed high school students go about establishing romantic relationships with others. Both shows do it in a very artistic way, and really brings out the inner thoughts and feelings of the important characters. These shows have intense emotional outbursts and the mood is not always (in fact, almost never) happy-go-around.
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Boku dake ga Inai Machi
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Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
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While BokuMachi is set in our modern world and Re:Zero is in a fantasy world, both anime have the basic premise where the protagonist has the ability to reset their experience to a certain point in order to avoid a dead end. Further similarities lie in the fact that both characters have very little control on this phenomenon. Note that the series focus on using this ability to avoid bad end, rather than getting the bottom of this mysterious phenomenon.
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Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
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Kimi no Na wa.
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Both movies have plot developments that are similar to each other in its sci-fi/mystical elements, to which I will not say more about in fear of spoiling the story. Due to the nature of short length of the movie, both works chose to focus more on the atmosphere and characters rather than making a seamless story.
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Hatsukoi Limited.
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Yasashii Sekai no Tsukurikata
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Both are medium length manga about romance, friendship, and kinship focusing mainly on characters in high school. Admittedly, Hatsukoi Limited has a much more dramatic story and involves a lot more love triangles, while Yasashii Sekai is more laid-back.
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Yasashii Sekai no Tsukurikata
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...then you might like
Sore wa Totsuzen, Unmei no Aite ga
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Medium length manga about high school romance, friendship, and bond between various characters. They both have crisp, elegant art, and a very calm and relaxing pace of story telling, even if the story-telling format is a little bit different.
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Outbreak Company
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Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
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Outbreak Company and Konosuba are two alternate dimension/fantasy shows with a parody spin on them. While both shows conform to many cliche surrounding the genre, the shows are aware of the cliche used and make fun of them now and then.
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No Game No Life
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Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
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Protagonists in both shows (and the main female lead too) are transported from our world to a world full of RPG elements. Coincidentally, both male leads were really good gamers to begin with, so they adapt themselves quickly in the new world. While Konosuba is a show more focused on satire and humor, NGNL makes dramatic plot twist a routine.
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Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka
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...then you might like
Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
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Konosuba and Dunmachi have similar settings, in which the protagonist is an adventurer in a world similar to RPG games. There are many elements of DND games incorporated in these shows, such as leveling up, guild, battle system, etc. Both protagonists must survive in the RPG world, form their own party, and try to be the best adventurers there are.
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Hikaru ga Chikyuu ni Ita Koro......
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Minamoto-kun Monogatari
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Both works are interpretive pieces of Genji Monogatari, one of the oldest Japanese tale. Similar to the original novel, these works feature a protagonist who interact with numerous romantic interests at the same time, in a way that works something like a harem, with each heroine corresponding to a girl in Genji monogatari.