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If you liked Venus wa Kataomoi add

...then you might like Good Morning Call add

"Venus wa kataomoi" and "Good Morning Call" both tell us "warm-enough-but-never-too-cheesy" stories about the budding love and coming-of-age of a clumsy but kind-hearted heroine and her (first ignorant or clueless) "next-door" neighbour. Both works are light-hearted, easy and fun to read – with lots and lost of humour! Here are some of the features the two have in common: being long-running series, they both introduce multiple characters (including some hilarious supporting roles) and storylines (meaning that most of the supporting figures get their own side-stories where they can, finally, act as heroes and heroines, be them comical or tragic); school setting (with all its shoujo manga-ish cliché’s, such as rivalry in love, jealousy, and plans for – and anxieties about – the future); love sprouting partly because of certain living circumstances/arrangement; coming-of-age stories, covering a longer (educational) period of the characters’ lives; similar visual style, what could be associated with the mainstream shoujo trends of late 1990s and the Millennium. Personally, I found „Venus wa kataomoi” emotionally more mature and detailed, therefore overall more engaging and inspiring than „Good Morning Call”. Still, I would encourage You to check out both of them – moreover, I would also add „W-Juliet” and „Itazura na Kiss” to my list of recommendations of „rite of passage” shoujo opuses (for the New Year 2014). :)

If you liked W-Juliet add

...then you might like Venus wa Kataomoi add

Both "Venus wa kataomoi" and "W-Juliet" are long-running romantic shoujo series, with multiple supporting charachters and subplots, encapsulating a longer (educational) period of their heroes and heroeines' lives. They are centered around the coming-of-age of a young heroine with a clumsy but very much loving nature -- and the parallel and consequent maturing of her boyfriend and that of their love. If You like one, You will love the other, for sure! :)

If you liked Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku add

...then you might like Toshokan Sensou add

After watching "Toshokan sensou", I had the feeling that it was somehow in some way similar to "Now and Then, Here and There".. Although these two series are thinking in two completely differenty ways (Toshokan.. has strong comedy in which the drama of the "battlefields" sneaks in, on the other hand, however, Now and Then.. is not the least a happy story, but rather has a very tense atmosphere), see the world from two different viewpoints (Toshokan.. features adult or teenage characters, while Now and Then.. has children as its heroes, resulting in the fact that there cannot be balance between the two parties fighting, the mad dictator and the rebelling children-soldiers; also, Now and Then.. gives its characters more personal an unique traits, details them more), in spite of all these crucial differencies, both series think about (among other issues, of course) the same thing: WAR (actually, Now and Then.. is rather about the soldiers forced to fight by their commander, than an actual and particular war, though they do invide a village; here the "war" is rather the suffering and enduring of the children in hope of survival and, of course, the Lala Lu-hunting in search of water - which makes the dictator's end pretty ironical, by the way, not to spoil Your fun..). Anyways, wathing either of them, you are bound to think "Why?", why the whole war, "Is it worth it?", especially in Toshokan.., since it brings up the dilemma of the possibility or impossibility/propriety or impropriety of measuring human life and books (also knowledge and cultural inheritence, the "life" of humanity as a whole) as equal; Now and Then.. presents the dictator's obsession with water as such a problem, though it might not be the centre issue in the story. Both make you think further.. As for my recommendation, for those who liked Now and Then.., I can gladly recommend to watch Toshokan sensou, as the latter is a more light-hearted one; however, -although I think You would like them vica versa, too- those who liked the mentioned light-heartedness (not in the last few episodes, though) of Toshokan.. should prepare for a more "serious" tone in Now and Then..; still, I am not saying "gloomy" because the hero is optimistic and trying to change his fellow little soldiers, however, it is another question whether his efforts are welcomed by the others or they think that he has no right to interfere, but they should rather hold on to the status quo, in favour of sheer survival..

If you liked Koukaku no Regios add

...then you might like Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu add

Both in "Chrome Shelled Regios" and in "Densetsu no yuusha no densetsu", the hero is a boy, who, in the beginning, is trying to hide his past and exceptional abilities (tenken-user, alpha stigma) playing the dumb, pretending to be unintrested, slow and unskilled. Other similarities seem to be the fantastic setting, the presence of the fantastic itself (the mysterious regious and their spirits and monsters the student-soldiers are fighting against, magic), organizations of selected fighters (tenken-users, orphanage training soldier-magicians) and smaller groups of friends of the hero who are operating together, and finally (there might be more, but I will just leave it at that for now), a strong leader among the student of the academy themselves (Loss, Shion). The latter series has aired only 2 episodes yet, so I cannot really tell, but I suppose that if you like one, you might like (or at least check out) the other. ^^