Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo, ReLIFE - Anime Recommendations

both main girl characters are very similar in terms of lacking in social skills but is very talented and lonely. Both are dead pan but also funny and lovable, delievering some very good dry humour. Both deals with themes of being talented viewed from the perspective of the genius and the untalented. Both has a good balance of romance, comedy and drama

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Both are kinda RomCom like, and are about highschoolers dealing with life. Gives you that fuzzy feeling deep down.

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They're really great and deep shows. Both hits the viewer with the difficulty of being part of a society, which wait the right moment to eat you. Sometimes we're not enough, other times we can make it. Sakurasou and ReLife are like a train of emotions, positive and negative, that hits you in the face: they make you laugh, cry and think. If you enjoyed Sakurasou, try Re:Life!

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Central theme/focus of both anime is normal people going through normal life dealing with normal people problems. They are both extremely realistic in their depiction of high school students, to the point that it may frustrate some viewers. Frequently, characters will face set backs or problems, they won't know how to fix it, and will make it even worse for themselves. Often, problems will not be solved in one or two episodes, and some underlying tensions can linger or build up for over half a season. These issues are never dismissed, and always explored fully, meaning that not every solution will be successful, and no problem they face ever just goes away. These are real people problems, and the characters have to confront them completely and fix it for themselves. Another theme both share is learning to live and deal with friends who are exceptionally talented and successful, while they themselves face the failures and inadequacies that regular people have. Characters from both series have to confront their own feelings of jealousy, inferiority, and worthlessness in order to grow as young adults and strengthen their bonds of friendship. The main difference between the two shows is perspective. Sakurasou's main protagonist a normal teen surrounded by extraordinary people. It it shown directly from the perspective of someone who has to deal with his own shortcomings and inabilities, while living in a place full of geniuses. ReLife's main protagonist is physically 17, but mentally 27 years old. He is a character who has 10 more years of life experience than everyone else around him. ReLife's story revolves around the naivety and feelings of everyone around him. Thus it is told from the perspective of someone who is not only indirectly involved, but also detached emotionally. Thus, Relife's main character is able to navigate through these issues calmly and rationally, while serving as a guiding/senior figure to all his classmates. As a result of the different perspectives, Sakurasou is probably more painful or hard to watch at times than ReLife. In Sakurasou, the emotional pain is dealt directly to the main character, and we watch directly as he implodes. In ReLife, this detachment allows the viewer to have a more sage perspective like the main character. Thus, the issues the other characters deal with feel less serious, more juvenile, and ultimately quite ridiculous. And in reality, both anime are about teens in high school. When you are the student, high school means everything. Every decision is as important as your life. But after walking away from it for a while, one comes to the realization that most of the things that happened back then were pretty silly and completely irrelevant to real life. read more

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-Both are centered around a high school group of friends -Characters are extremely similar, especially with their relationships -Both are very involved with the future of the students

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Both are school life anime about a young man with no particularly outstanding skills who gets thrust into an environment of wacky people due to certain circumstances. Sorata and Arata have similar sounding names and serve as the straight man to the rest of the cast, while Mashiro and Chizuru are very smart but also socially awkward and borderline emotionless, as well as having the same seiyu (Ai Kayano). In both cases, the two main characters fall in love with each other overtime. Jin and Ryo act as an advisor to the main character but have a couple of traits that get on their nerves (Jin's read more

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Both shows have a Kuudere heroine in a high school setting and both have similar drama and comedy elements.

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Outsider. ReLife and Sakurasou both follow individuals who have been kicked out of the normal way of life and now are in the dumps of life thus far. The two Kaizaki and Sorata then find themselves partnered with a rather calm and quiet outlier to the band of schoolmates, being Mashiro and Hishiro. Both anime are about the things different people go through, with Sakurasou doing this via issues one as within their lifetime, ReLife doing this through the younger ones school problems that arise from time to time. Good rom-com all around, with ReLife having some elements of sci-fi and s.o.l compared to Sakurasou's pure s.o.l

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