Anime like Hal

Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai

Also known as I Want to Eat Your Pancreas.

Studio: Studio VOLN , Half H.P Studio , Futabasha , ABC Animation , Asahi Shimbun , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Tohan , Aniplex
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular and genuinely cheerful classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a pancreatic illness and only has a limited time left. It is at this moment that she gains just one more person to share her secret.

Trying to maintain a normal life as much as possible, Sakura is determined to live her life to the fullest until the very last day. As her free spirit and unpredictable actions throw him for a loop, his heart begins to gradually change.



Tags: Tragedy , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Classic Literature , Rehabilitation , Achronological Order , Unrequited Love , School

Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara

Also known as Ride Your Wave.

Studio: Science SARU , Lawson Entertainment , Toho , Shogakukan , Fuji TV , KDDI , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Upon entering university, Hinako moves to a coastal town. She loves surfing, and when she's on the waves she's fearless, but still feels uncertain about her future. When a fire wreaks havoc in the town, Hinako encounters young firefighter Minato. As they surf and spend more time together, Hinako feels drawn to someone like Minato who devotes himself to helping other people. Hinako also holds a special place in Minato's heart.


Tags: Tragedy , Surfing , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Ghost , Afterlife , Coastal , Heterosexual , Swimming , Urban Fantasy , Firefighters , Primarily Adult Cast , Tsundere , Urban , Male Protagonist , Work , CGI , College

Eve no Jikan Movie

Also known as Time of Eve: The Movie.

Studio: Studio Rikka , Directions , Code
Status: Finished
Genres: Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

The movie version is the complete version of the story. It includes all the OVAs and completely new scenes giving details on the background story of some characters.

Sometime in future Japan, androids have been involved in every aspect of peoples lives. One day, upon checking his android's behavioral log, Rikuo, a student, noticed his android's returning times have been odd recently. With his friend Masaki, they found out the place where his android, Sammy, have been visiting: a small cafe called Eve no Jikan where androids and human are not seen as different. Upon talking with the "people" in the cafe and discovering more of Sammy's behavior, Rikuo changed his view about androids and treat them as friends rather than tools. At the same time, elsewhere in Japan, the Ethics committee is trying to impose policies to reduce the involvement and use of androids in society.



Tags: Robots , Artificial Intelligence , Bar , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Cyberpunk , Heterosexual , Software Development , Anthropomorphism , Found Family , Memory Manipulation , CGI

Colorful

Also known as Colorful ~ The Motion Picture.

Studio: Sunrise , Aniplex , Sentai Filmworks , Ascension , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

"I" died and was kicked out of the cycle of reincarnation because of the sin "I" committed. An angel told me that "I" won a lottery and he gave me a chance to remember the sin. My spirit possessed the body of the 14-year-old boy Makoto, who committed suicide and "I" tried to recollect my memory. "I" felt distressed by the terrible circumstances of Makoto and the fact that "I" was borrowing his body. "I" have started to realize that people are hurting each other because the world is too colorful to distinguish the true color of themselves from others.

Based on an award-winning first person narrative novel by Mori Eto. The movie won several awards in Japan.

Tags: Male Protagonist , Suicide , Philosophy , Reincarnation , Rehabilitation , Family Life , Primarily Teen Cast , Urban , School , Afterlife , Bullying , Drawing

Ao Haru Ride

Also known as Blue Spring Ride.

Studio: Production I.G , Sony Music Entertainment , Toho , BS11 , Animatic , Shueisha , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Movic , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Sony PCL
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Yoshioka Futaba has a few reasons why she wants to "reset" her image & life as a new high school student. Because she's cute, she was ostracized by her female friends in junior high, and because of a misunderstanding, she couldn't get her feeling across to the one boy she has ever liked, Tanaka-kun. Now in high school, she is determined to be as unladylike as possible so that her friends won't be jealous of her. While living her life this way contentedly, she meets Tanaka-kun again, but he now goes under the name of Mabuchi Kou. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but now things can never be the same again. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?

Tags: Shoujo , School , Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Estranged Family , Family Life , Bullying , School Club

Violet Evergarden

Also known as Violet Evergarden.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Pony Canyon , Rakuonsha , Madman Entertainment , ABC Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Slice of Life

A certain point in time, in the continent of Telesis. The great war which divided the continent into North and South has ended after four years, and the people are welcoming a new generation. Violet Evergarden, a young girl formerly known as “the weapon”, has left the battlefield to start a new life at CH Postal Service. There, she is deeply moved by the work of “Auto Memories Dolls”, who carry people's thoughts and convert them into words. Violet begins her journey as an Auto Memories Doll, and comes face to face with various people's emotions and differing shapes of love. There are words Violet heard on the battlefield, which she cannot forget. These words were given to her by someone she holds dear, more than anyone else. She does not yet know their meaning but she searches to find it.



Tags: Rehabilitation , Writing , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Work , War , Disability , Military , Episodic , Orphan , Travel , Philosophy , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Steampunk , Heterosexual , Foreign , Age Gap , Trains , Guns , Assassins

Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare

Studio: A-1 Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Yuna Ichihara's spring break is far from pleasant, especially after she sends off her best friend Sacchan, who is moving away. But while heading home, the timid girl brightens up when she encounters a boy who looks exactly like her first love—a prince from a shoujo manga. Subsequently, she finds herself in a peculiar situation with the mature Akari Yamamoto, a new neighbor who immediately befriends her.

Now attending the same high school together, Yuna shows interest in Akari's brother Rio—the same mysterious and handsome boy she met during spring break. Likewise, Akari is falling for Yuna's carefree childhood friend, Kazuomi Inui. However, love is not at anyone's fingertips, as the relationship between these four contrasting friends faces complications, preventing them from moving forward. To discover the truth between them, they will need to confront their own struggles and uncover secrets hidden among themselves.



Tags: Shoujo , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , School , Ensemble Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Rotoscoping , Cosplay

Plastic Memories

Also known as Plastic Memories.

Studio: Doga Kobo , MAGES. , Hanabee Entertainment , Aniplex of America , Aniplex , Asahi Broadcasting Corporation , ASCII Media Works , AT-X , Bushiroad
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they... Well, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but...



Tags: Robots , Tragedy , Artificial Intelligence , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Kuudere , Urban , Work , Amnesia , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Slapstick , Coming of Age , Female Harem

orange

Also known as Orange.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Telecom Animation Film , Toho , ABC Animation , AT-X , Dai Nippon Printing , Futabasha , Lawson , TV Aichi
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Everyone has regrets in life. So who wouldn't take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter tells her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on him. But why? Naho must decide what to make of the letter and its cryptic warning, and what it means not only for her future, but for Kakeru's as well.



Note: The last episode aired with a runtime of ~40 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

Tags: School , Tragedy , Shoujo , Time Manipulation , Suicide , Alternate Universe , Unrequited Love , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Coming of Age , Bullying , Tsundere

Douse, Koishite Shimaunda.

Also known as Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You..

Studio: TBS , TYPHOON GRAPHICS , Kodansha , Crunchyroll , Universal Music , BS11 , arma bianca , TYPHOON GRAPHICS , Pia , Nichion , Happinet Media Marketing
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

It's July 1, 2020. Mizuha, a high school second-year, is having the worst seventeenth birthday ever. She's missing her chance to get close to the older student she admires, and her parents didn't even remember that it's her birthday. Worst of all, there's a new and unknown infectious disease making the rounds, so all her club tournaments and school trips have been canceled.

She's convinced that she'll never have the dazzling youth that she's always dreamed of... but then her childhood friend, Mizuki, suddenly declares himself a candidate to be her boyfriend.

This is a school youth story about four childhood friends who grew up like family, one being the heroine, Nishino Mizuha, and the four boys she grew up with whom she sees as family.



Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Male Harem , Heterosexual , Primarily Male Cast , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Swimming , Coastal , Drawing