Anime like Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi

also known as The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

What is The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes about?

Studio: CLAP
Status: Finished

Urashima Tunnel - Once you enter that tunnel, you can get whatever you want, but at a price. Kaoru Tohno, who seems to have an elusive personality and traumatic past, and Anzu Hanashiro, who is struggling to reconcile her ideal image and true-to-heart attitude, team up to investigate the Urashima Tunnel and get what they want. This is an unforgettable summer story of nostalgia and sprinting in a remote countryside.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Rural , Coming of Age , Heterosexual , Time Skip , Male Protagonist , Kuudere , Tragedy , School , Age Gap , Female Protagonist , Mythology , Drawing , Bullying
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Here is a list of Anime similar to Natsu e no Tunnel, Sayonara no Deguchi

Suzume

Suzume no Tojimari

Also known as Suzume.

Studio: CoMix Wave , STORY Inc. , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Mystery , Supernatural

The story follows Suzume, a 17-year-old girl from a quiet Kyushu town who meets a young man looking for a door. They find a door within ruins in the mountain, and Suzume opens it. Soon, more doors begin to open around Japan, bringing disasters from the other side. The film depicts Suzume's liberation and growth, as she closes the doors that are causing disaster.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Female Protagonist , Travel , Coming of Age , Magic , Shapeshifting , Orphan , Family Life , Gods , Kaiju , Natural Disaster , Animals , Found Family , Age Gap , Environmental , Time Manipulation , Tragedy , Parenthood , Heterosexual , CGI
Your Name.

Kimi no Na wa.

Also known as Your Name..

Studio: CoMix Wave , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , Funimation , NYAV Post , Toho , Madman Entertainment , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl, yearns to live the life of a boy in the bustling city of Tokyo—a dream that stands in stark contrast to her present life in the countryside. Meanwhile in the city, Taki Tachibana lives a busy life as a high school student while juggling his part-time job and hopes for a future in architecture.

One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another.

Kimi no Na wa. revolves around Mitsuha and Taki's actions, which begin to have a dramatic impact on each other's lives, weaving them into a fabric held together by fate and circumstance.



Tags: Body Swapping , Time Manipulation , Urban Fantasy , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Urban , Rural , Gender Bending , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Time Skip , Environmental , Mythology , Alternate Universe , Trains , Shrine Maiden , School , Yuri
To Me, The One Who Loved You

Kimi wo Aishita Hitori no Boku e

Also known as To Me, The One Who Loved You.

Studio: TMS Entertainment , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sci-Fi

Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Sato meet at his father’s research center and begin to fall in love, but so do their parents, who eventually marry. To avoid becoming stepsiblings, they decide to run away to a parallel universe. Traveling between dimensions is common in their world, but not without repercussions. Does a universe exist for the young couple, and what will it cost them to find it?



Tags: Alternate Universe , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Coming of Age , Time Manipulation , Ghost , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Time Skip
Summer Ghost

Summer Ghost

Also known as Summer Ghost.

Studio: FLAT STUDIO , FLAGSHIP LINE , Avex Pictures , GKIDS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryou are high school students who met online. An urban legend speaks of a "summer ghost," a spirit girl who appears when fireworks are set off.

Tomoya cannot live the life he envisioned for himself. Aoi cannot find her place in the world. Ryou has his once shining future suddenly pulled away. Each has their own reason for needing to meet the summer ghost. On a summer night when life and death cross paths, where will each of their emotions take them?

Tags: Ghost , Coming of Age , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Teen Cast , Afterlife , Found Family , Bullying , Suicide , Denpa , Heterosexual
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To Every You I’ve Loved Before

Boku ga Aishita Subete no Kimi e

Also known as To Every You I’ve Loved Before.

Studio: BAKKEN RECORD , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Sci-Fi

While struggling to make friends after his parents’ divorce, Koyomi Takasaki meets Kazune Takigawa, but apparently, they already have. Kazune reveals that she’s from World Line 85, an alternate universe in which she and Koyomi are lovers. But in a reality where moving between dimensions is natural, could Koyomi be the one from another world?



Tags: Coming of Age , Alternate Universe , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Philosophy , Time Skip
maboroshi

Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou

Also known as maboroshi.

Studio: MAPPA , Warner Bros. Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

Masamune, a third-year middle school student, lives in a town where all the exits have been sealed off due to a sudden explosion at a steel mill, causing time to stand still. Residents are forbidden from making any changes and spend their suffocating days in the hopes of returning to normalcy someday.

One day, Masamune's mysterious classmate Mutsumi guides him to the fifth furnace of the steel mill, where they encounter a girl who cannot speak and resembles a wild wolf. The meeting between the two girls and Masamune disrupts the balance of the world, and the unstoppable "impulse of love" from boys and girls tired of their daily lives begins to destroy the world.

Tags: Tragedy , Isekai , Time Manipulation , Coming of Age , Urban , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Trains , Incest , Gods , Parenthood , Time Skip , Urban Fantasy
Weathering With You

Tenki no Ko

Also known as Weathering With You.

Studio: CoMix Wave , JR Higashi Nihon Kikaku , Toho , Lawson Entertainment , Kadokawa Shoten , STORY Inc. , GKIDS , Madman Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life , Supernatural

High school student Hodaka leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but he immediately becomes broke. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds a job as a writer for a shady occult magazine. After he starts his job, the weather has been rainy day after day. In a corner of the crowded and busy city, Hodaka meets a young woman named Hina. Due to certain circumstances, Hina and her younger brother live together, but have a cheerful and sturdy life. Hina also has a certain power: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.



Tags: Urban Fantasy , Urban , Environmental , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Fugitive , Orphan , Family Life , Heterosexual , Magic , Work , Gods , Super Power , Guns , Found Family , Crossdressing , Time Skip , Estranged Family , Restaurant
Fireworks

Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka?

Also known as Fireworks.

Studio: Shaft
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

The film is set on one day during summer vacation, and follows a group of boys who try to view a fireworks display from the town lighthouse to see if they look round or flat when viewed from the side. Meanwhile, one of the boys, Norimichi, receives an invitation from his crush Nazuna to run away with her.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Alternate Universe , Heterosexual , Urban Fantasy , Philosophy , Rural , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , POV , Swimming , Love Triangle
Steins;Gate The Movie – Load Region of Déjà Vu

Steins;Gate: Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu

Also known as Steins;Gate The Movie – Load Region of Déjà Vu.

Studio: Frontier Works , Media Factory , Movic , AT-X , WHITE FOX , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , MAGES. , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Sci-Fi , Thriller

After a year in America, Kurisu Makise returns to Akihabara and reunites with Rintarou Okabe. However, their reunion is cut short when Okabe begins to experience recurring flashes of other timelines as the consequences of his time traveling start to manifest. These side effects eventually culminate in Okabe suddenly vanishing from the world, and only the startled Kurisu has any memory of his existence.

In the midst of despair, Kurisu is faced with a truly arduous choice that will test both her duty as a scientist and her loyalty as a friend: follow Okabe's advice and stay away from traveling through time to avoid the potential consequences it may have on the world lines, or ignore it to rescue the person that she cherishes most. Regardless of her decision, the path she chooses is one that will affect the past, the present, and the future.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Alternate Universe , Memory Manipulation , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Tsundere , Urban , Femboy , War , Chuunibyou , Male Protagonist , Maids , Gender Bending , Kuudere , Age Regression , Otaku Culture
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HELLO WORLD

HELLO WORLD

Studio: Graphinica
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi

In Kyoto in the year 2027, Naomi Katagaki, a male high school student encounters a person who is claiming to be Naomi from 10 years in the future. Together, they must change the future and save a classmate, Ruri, whom the younger Naomi starts to date in three months.

Tags: Time Manipulation , Virtual World , Alternate Universe , Full CGI , Heterosexual , Augmented Reality , Age Regression , Rehabilitation , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Coming of Age , School , Urban , Kuudere , Female Protagonist , Magic , Seinen

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