 If you liked
Hourou Musuko
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 ...then you might like
Battery
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Elementary school kids (and very old people) are more or less given free reign to so whatever they please in society, but not so for others. Battery and Wandering Son are about the children who are facing that fact in a restrictive and largely socially conservative Japan, all whilst taking their first step into puberty and middle school life.
Despite the difference and the fact that Battery on the surface seems to be about baseball, both are actually keenly observant shows about kids learning about what society expects of them, developing their identities, and figuring how to fit that into what others expect of them.
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