24 Anime Like Ao Haru Ride

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Fruits Basket 1st Season

TV25 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Tooru Honda has always been fascinated by the story of the Chinese zodiac that her beloved mother told her as a child. However, a sudden family tragedy changes her life, and subsequent circumstances leave her all alone. Tooru is now forced to live in a tent, b

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Orange

TV13 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Naho Takamiya's first day of her sophomore year of high school is off to an uneasy start. After waking up late, she receives a strange letter addressed to her. However, the letter is from herself—10 years in the future! At first, Naho is skeptical of the note;

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Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare

Movie2020Drama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

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 s

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Fukumenkei Noise

TV12 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Every day, a young girl wearing a mask stands by the beach and sings a nostalgic melody. After experiencing two sudden heart-wrenching partings when she was only a child, Nino Arisugawa has been singing her songs to the ocean, bound by a promise made with her

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Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

TV12 epRomance

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

To most people around Mizuki Ashiya, her sudden choice to move to Japan from the United States comes as a shock. Her sole reason for the transfer is to attend the same high school as her idol Izumi Sano, who stole her heart after she saw him compete in a high

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Chihayafuru 3

TV24 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Winning the high school team tournament was a great accomplishment for the Mizusawa members. Each of them has made great strides in improving themselves, and the victory symbolizes how far they have come. But after accomplishing one goal, their individual aims

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Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan

TV12 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Resolved to become a more independent person, Yukino Yukinoshita decides to smoothen things out with her parents, and the first step toward achieving that goal is to prove herself. As graduation draws closer for the third-year students, Iroha Isshiki—the presi

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Ao no Hako Season 2

TV12 epRomance

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Second season of Ao no Hako.

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Ao no Hako

TV25 epRomance

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Every morning, incoming first-year Taiki Inomata hurries to his high school gym in order to further refine his badminton skills. However, his true motivation stems from sharing the otherwise empty gym with second-year Chinatsu Kano, Taiki's crush and the star

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Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku OVA

OVA1 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

After accepting a weekend invitation, Hachiman Hikigaya accompanies Isshiki Iroha around the Chiba Prefecture to brainstorm ideas suitable for an ideal date with Hayato Hayama. As the duo wanders from place to place without a plan, they seemingly enjoy each ot

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High Score Girl: Extra Stage

OVA3 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Four years after they first met, Haruo Yaguchi , Akira Oono, and Koharu Hidaka remain the best of friends. Tensions start to build up as Akira's teacher, Gouda Moemi, becomes stricter than ever before, and Hidaka develops feelings for Haruo. Though he may not

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High Score Girl II

TV9 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

The year is 1996, and second-year high school students Haruo Yaguchi, Akira Oono, and Koharu Hidaka live their lives as passionately about video games as they were five years ago. Brought together by arcade games, what began as a healthy rivalry and friendship

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Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan: Dakara, Shishunki wa Owarazu ni, Seishun wa Tsuzuiteiku.

OVA1 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan: Dakara, Shishunki wa Owarazu ni, Seishun wa Tsuzuiteiku. adapts selected events from the Shin bonus novels that were released with the Season 3 BDs.

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High Score Girl

TV12 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

The year is 1991, and arcade video games are the latest craze. Becoming a professional gamer is a far-fetched dream in an industry that has yet to spread its influence. Yet, that is the path sixth-grader Haruo Yaguchi wants to pursue. His aptitude for video ga

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Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman.

TV12 ep

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Third-year high school student Jirou Yakuin is in love with his childhood friend and classmate, Shiori Sakurazaka. Thus, he hopes to be paired with her for the marriage practical: their school's practice of randomly selecting boy-girl pairs to live as pretend

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Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara

TV13 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Despite the kaleidoscopic magic ingrained in everyday life, Hitomi Tsukishiro's monochrome world is deprived of emotion and feeling. On a night as black and white as any other, amidst the fireworks spreading across the sky, Hitomi's grandmother Kohaku conjures

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Senpai wa Otokonoko

TV12 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Much like the other students at her school, first-year student Saki Aoi finds herself captivated by the beauty of her senior on the school board, Makoto Hanaoka. While she worries that Hanaoka would be uncomfortable receiving a confession from another girl, Ao

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Senpai wa Otokonoko Movie: Ame Nochi Hare

Movie2025Drama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Movie sequel to Senpai wa Otokonoko.

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Just Because!

TV12 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

As another school year begins drawing to a close, the third-year high school students move steadily toward the next milestone of their lives: graduation. Among them are Mio Natsume, a girl burdened with lingering feelings; Hazuki Morikawa, a member of the conc

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Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsurasugiru

TV12 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Moving from Tokyo to Okinawa island, Teruaki "Teru" Nakamura unexpectedly falls in love with his outgoing classmate Hina Kyan, who readily ensures he feels included at his new high school. However, due to her strong local dialect, Teru often has a hard time un

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Kuzu no Honkai

TV12 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

To the outside world, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are the perfect couple. But in reality, they just share the same secret pain: they are both in love with other people they cannot be with. Hanabi has loved her childhood friend and neighbor Narumi Kanai for

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Chihayafuru 3: Ima Hitotabi no

TV Special1 epDrama

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Recap of first fifteen episodes of Chihayafuru 3.

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Gamers!

TV12 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

Keita Amano is a typical high school gamer living out an average student's life. One day, however, he has an unexpected meeting with the cutest girl in school that makes him want to disappear without a trace! This girl, Karen Tendou, is an exemplary student wh

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Watari-kun no xx ga Houkai Sunzen

TV26 epComedy

Shared themes: Love Polygon · School.

The daily life of high school student Naoto Watari revolves around his little sister Suzushiro. As their parents passed away two years prior, the siblings have been passed from one relative to another, resulting in Naoto taking the most responsibility for her.