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Real Girl (2018)

Tsutsui Hikari (a.k.a "Tsuttsun") is a high school student who is content with his virtual life of anime and video games. One day, he gets stuck cleaning the pool with Iroha, a real live girl who is stylish, sassy and known to be easy with boys ... and she aggressively approaches him! Tsuttsun, who has few friends and lives in his own world, finds himself smitten by the confident and wild Iroha ... and his whole world is turned upside down!! It's the awkward and pure love story of a boy who experiences relationship for the first time.

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  1. 01

    My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

    Strong story similarity

    2013 · 24 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama

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    So exactly what’s going to happen when Hachiman Hikigaya, an isolated high school student with no friends, no interest in making any and a belief that everyone else’s supposedly great high school experiences are either delusions or outright lies, is coerced by a well meaning faculty member into joining the one member “Volunteer Services Club” run by Yukino Yukinoshita, who’s smart, attractive and generally considers everyone in her school to be her complete inferior?

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and high school
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  2. 02

    Blue Spring Ride

    Strong story similarity

    2014 · 23 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama

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    At the end of her first year of high school, Futaba Yoshioka suddenly has a chance encounter with her first love, Kou Tanaka. Three years ago, he transferred schools before she was able to say how she felt about him. After meeting each other again, Futaba realizes that he has gone through many changes. He acts more cool and even had his last name changed to Mabuchi. Gradually the two rekindle their love while piecing together what had happened in the time that they were apart.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and based on manga
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  3. 03

    The Dangers in My Heart

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 23 min · Animation · Comedy

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    Kyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates' peaceful lives and pining after Anna Yamada, the class idol. But Kyotaro's not nearly the troubled teen he pretends to be…and it turns out Anna's a bit odd herself!

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and based on manga
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  4. 04

    ORESUKI Are you the only one who loves me?

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 24 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama

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    Kisaragi Amatsuyu is invited out alone by the cool beauty upperclassman Cosmos and his childhood friend Himawari. Expecting to hear their confessions, he triumphantly goes to meet each of them in turn. But Cosmos and Himawari both instead confess to Amatsuyu that they like his friend. Amatsuyu fights this lonely battle, but there is another girl who is looking at him. She is a gloomy girl with glasses and braids. Amatsuyu finds that he hates her, because she's always turning her sharp tongue only on him and finding enjoyment in his troubles. But it turns out that she's the only one who actually does like him.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and high school
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  5. 05

    Bakuman

    Strong story similarity

    2010 · 25 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama

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    Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi are pretty much foils of each other. Mashiro, an average 9th grade student but talented artist, and Takagi, an overall advanced 9th grader and aspiring writer. After great convincing, Takagi convinces Mashiro to join him in becoming the greatest mangakas Japan has ever seen. Takagi, with his gift of writing, hopes to become a successful mangaka, and Mashiro, with his gift of art, hopes to marry the girl of his dreams, Azuki Miho.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and based on manga
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  6. 06

    The Quintessential Quintuplets

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 24 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama

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    Fuutarou Uesugi is a poor, antisocial ace student who one day meets the rich transfer student Itsuki Nakano. They argue but when Uesugi realizes he is to be her tutor, he tries to get on better terms. While trying to do so he meets four other girls.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and based on manga
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  7. 07

    Horimiya

    Strong story similarity

    2021 · 24 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama

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    A secret life is the one thing they have in common. At school, Hori is a prim and perfect social butterfly, but the truth is she's a brash homebody. Meanwhile, under a gloomy facade, Miyamura hides a gentle heart, along with piercings and tattoos. In a chance meeting, they both reveal a side they've never shown. Could this blossom into something new?

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and based on manga
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  8. 08

    Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie

    Strong story similarity

    2022 · 23 min · Animation · Comedy

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    Shikimori seems like the perfect girlfriend: cute, fun to be around, sweet when she wants to be… but she has a cool dark side that comes out under the right circumstances. And her boyfriend Izumi loves to be around when that happens!

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and based on manga
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  9. 09

    You and I Are Polar Opposites

    Strong story similarity

    2026 · 24 min · Animation · Comedy

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    Suzuki's a high school girl in love, but the guy she's fallen for is nothing like her! While she's cheerful, outgoing, and always trying to fit in, her classmate Yusuke Tani is stoic, quiet, and doesn't seem to care what people think of him. Will Suzuki be able to overcome her anxieties and ask him out, or will she discover that opposites really don't attract?

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and based on manga
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  10. 10

    A Condition Called Love

    Strong story similarity

    2024 · 24 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama

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    High school freshman Hotaru Hinase has a vibrant life full of family and friendship, but not much luck in romance. That all changes when she makes a warm gesture to her handsome and heartbroken classmate, Hananoi, leading to him asking her out and her becoming flustered. Witness a girl who grapples with the enigma of love and a boy who is heavy handed with it.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: anime and based on manga
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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