Best movies like Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day
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Plot Summary:
Kumiko is now a second year and one of the senior players of the euphonium section. With new underclassmen joining the concert band, Kumiko will have to learn new things in order to deal with awkward and difficult underclassmen. She and third-year trumpeter Tomoe Kabe have been chosen to lead the new underclassmen members. Among the new members to Kumiko's bass section are euphonist Kanade Hisaishi, whose appearances are deceiving; tuba player Mirei Suzuki, who cannot adapt to her new environment; tuba player Satsuki Suzuki, who wants to get along with Mirei; and double bassist Motomu Tsukinaga, who cannot talk about himself. Between the Sunrise Festival, chair placement auditions, and the competition, a number of problems quickly begin to arise.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, yaoi, yuri
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Recap film focusing primarily on the match against Aoba Jouhsai from the second season.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, anime, shounen
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Blue Orchestra (2023)
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In the fall of his third and final year of middle school, Hajime Aono, a violin prodigy, stopped playing violin for his own personal reasons. But it was also that year when he got to know a girl who told him about a high school with a prestigious school orchestra. Suddenly, the gears in the clock of Aono's life began to turn again. This is the story of a youth drama that brings forth the harmony between music and the heart!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Love Live! The School Idol Movie (2015)
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Although μ's, the defending champions of the school idol tournament, plans to dissolve their group after the graduation of their senior members, they receive news that leads them to holding a concert event! The 9 girls continue to learn and grow in this new and unfamiliar world. What is the last thing that these girls can do as school idols? With the clock ticking, what kind of meaning will the μ's members find in performing the most exciting live performance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, sweet, captivating, tsundere
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Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, Japan. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. Faced with having absolutely no one to represent, agency president Tange thinks up a plan to produce an idol group, forming the seven-girl group known as the "Wake Up, Girls".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, super sentai
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After a successful audition, high school student Kotono Nagase and her best friend move into a dorm with eight other aspiring idols. They quickly realize it takes more than cute choreography and cute outfits to reach the top—it will take blood, sweat, and tears to advance in the idol-ranking VENUS program, where the top spot is held by superstar Mana Nagase... who happens to be Kotono’s older sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating
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One day, Miu Takigawa suddenly receives a letter notifying her that she has been chosen as a member of a brand-new project. Half in disbelief, she heads over to the location stated on the letter. There, she finds seven other girls summoned there in the same fashion. The girls behold a giant, top-secret facility. They stand in bewilderment as they are told: "You are going to debut for a major record label as an idol group." A new kind of idol, never-before-seen, is about to be born here.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, 2d animation
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Sound! Euphonium: The Movie - Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band (2016)
Plot Summary:
Recap of Season 1. After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional brass band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people with an interest in the high school brass band. Kumiko finds the motivation she needs to make music once more with the help of her bandmates, some of whom are new like novice tubist Hazuki Katou; veteran contrabassist Sapphire Kawashima; and band vice president and fellow euphonist Asuka Tanaka. Others are old friends, like Kumiko's childhood friend and hornist-turned-trombonist Shuuichi Tsukamoto, and trumpeter and bandmate from middle school, Reina Kousaka. However, in the band itself, chaos reigns supreme. Despite their intention to qualify for the national band competition, as they currently are, just competing in the local festival will be a challenge—unless the new band advisor Noboru Taki does something about it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime, compilation film
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Sawamura Matsugorou is a shamisen player of legendary talent. Upon his death, his grandson, Sawamura Yuki, lost his ability to play. Having lost his beloved sound, Yuki finds himself in Tokyo in search of a new sound to love. Tachimura Yuna, who works at a club, hooks him up with a gig to play there as a warm up act. Yuki imbues the sound of his shamisen with his many thoughts and feelings he has of others, still searching for his own sound and his own feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, sincere, captivating
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Blue Period (2021)
Plot Summary:
Bored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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Cinderella Nine (2019)
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When Arihara Tsubasa enters Rigahama Municipal High School and learns that it has no baseball club, she starts up the Girls' Baseball Club on her own. Drawn to the club are girls who have never played baseball before, girls who once played it but quit, and girls who are constantly tackling great challenges. The Rigahama Girls' Baseball Club races through the trials of youth, periodically clashing and quarreling, but supporting each other all the way! And so begins the hottest summer the world has ever known.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, super sentai
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Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club (2017)
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Maiharu Hiromi has moved to Kamakura Nagasaki, and rides a bicycle to school everyday. Then she meets Akizuki Tomoe, the leader of the girls cycling club. She therefore joins the club and her life gradually begins to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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After School Dice Club (2019)
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A story about girls playing board games after school! Kyoto in Spring. Aya is a high school girl who's just moved to a new town. Miki is her shy classmate, and her first friend. One day after school Aya and Miki follow the committee president Midori to a speciality board games store. The Dice Club!! Without thinking they try out a German board game together. These girls, who are searching for fun, soon fall into the exciting world of games!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Satomi is fine being alone until an AI named Shion joins her class with a song and a promise to make her happy. While Shion’s musical numbers and princess gowns don’t quite pass as human, her antics bring Satomi closer to four other classmates. Together, they make memories worth saving, but even our most precious data can be erased.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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The story of the anime revolves around Ichigo, who was just a normal middle school student until she suddenly got involved in the world of idols. The film will center on Aikatsu!'s greatest "Super Live" concert yet, the Dai Star Miya Ichigo Matsuri. Ichigo prepares for the concert with press conferences, last-minute lessons, and more.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, shoujo
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Love Live! Superstar!! (2021)
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Yuigaoka Girls High School is a newly established school that lies between the Omotesando, Harajuku, and Aoyama neighborhoods of Tokyo. The story centers on its first batch of students. With no history, no upperclassmen or alumni, and no reputation, it is a school full of unknowns. Five girls, among them Kanon Shibuya, have a fateful encounter with school idols. Kanon decides, "I love singing. I want to make something come true with song!" Many feelings converge upon a star that has only started to grow. The future is blank and full of possibility for these girls, and their story that everyone will make possible has only just begun. Soar with your wings, our Love Live!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, tsundere, super sentai, 3d animation
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (2004)
Plot Summary:
Koyuki Tanaka was feeling the rut, though he’s only a teenager. Between the sheltered and stifling grind of school and the girls that spend their time not noticing him… Every day was just another day of being a total nobody. Enter Ryusuke: a local rock n’ roller haunted by a shady reputation. Together they form Beck, a dynamic band that just might be the salvation of the stagnant music scene. Sure, it’s going to take hard work and obsession to make it, but there’s something special in the sound. If the guys can stay true to their vision, the world awaits. Music can change your life, sometimes against your will. Just remember… When it’s live, anything can happen.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, semi serious, captivating, inspirational, stylized, relaxing, serious, realistic, campy
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D4DJ (2020)
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Rinku Aimoto, who has a habit of saying "Happy Around!", has returned to Japan from abroad and enrolls at Yoba Academy where DJing is popular. She is deeply moved by a DJ concert she sees there and decides to form a unit of her own with DJ Maho Akashi, VJ Muni Ohnaruto and keyboardist Rei Togetsu. While interacting with other DJ units like Peaky P-key and Photon Maiden, Rinku and her friends aim for the high stage!.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, 3d animation
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Within the old school building of a certain high school, is the clubroom of the GJ (Good Job) Club, into which Shinomiya Kyouya finds himself forcibly conscripted. The other members are: Mao, the short and egotistical president; Megumi, Mao's sister who's as generous as an angel; Shion, a genius lacking in common sense; and Kirara, who is perpetually hungry.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
A special sequel anime for Free! to screen in Fall 2017.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
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Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, sentimental, sincere, humorous, touching, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, shounen
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Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are two close friends who are part of the Kitauji High School music club. Quiet and reserved Yoroizuka plays the oboe while lively and popular Kasaki plays the flute. The group has decided to play Liz and the Blue Bird, a song inspired on a fairy tale about the relationship between a girl and a bird. The musical piece puts both Mizore and Nozomi on the spotlight due to a solo part by Yoroizuka and forces the two girls to reexamine their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, sentimental, light, captivating, fairy tale, yuri
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Sound! Euphonium (2015)
Plot Summary:
After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional brass band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people with an interest in the high school brass band. Kumiko finds the motivation she needs to make music once more with the help of her bandmates, some of whom are new like novice tubist Hazuki Katou; veteran contrabassist Sapphire Kawashima; and band vice president and fellow euphonist Asuka Tanaka. Others are old friends, like Kumiko's childhood friend and hornist-turned-trombonist Shuuichi Tsukamoto, and trumpeter and bandmate from middle school, Reina Kousaka. However, in the band itself, chaos reigns supreme. Despite their intention to qualify for the national band competition, as they currently are, just competing in the local festival will be a challenge—unless the new band advisor Noboru Taki does something about it. From the studio that animated Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, Kyoto Animation's Hibike! Euphonium is a fresh and musical take on the slice-of-life staple that is the high school student's struggle to deal with their past, find romance, and realize their dreams and aspirations. [Written by MAL Rewrite].
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, humorous, touching, captivating, yuri, crying, tension, suspense
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Nijigasaki High School is located in Odaiba, Tokyo. The school is popular due to its free school style and diverse majors. The story centers on the members of school idol club in Nijigasaki, and their attempt to prevent the club from being abolished.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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At the Mercy of the Sky (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sakura Ooyagi returns to his old hometown in order to start school at Sōei High School. On the first day, he runs into an old childhood friend: a junior named Mihoshi Akeno. As children, the two used to play together, with Mihoshi, or Mii-chan, being extremely fond of astronomy. After convincing Sakura to join the school's astronomy club, another girl, Hime Makita, joins the club in hopes of winning over Sakura. The anime tells the story of the 6 club members as they soar through their lives, each maturing and changing their outlooks on life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, entertaining
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Tooru and Run have been best friends forever, so when Tooru learns that she's managed to get into the same high school as Run, she runs to tell her... only to find Run in a compromising position with yet another girl, Yuko. Needless to say, that makes things a bit awkward at school, with Tooru fending off those who might be interested in Run while Yuko and their other girlfriend, Nagi, have to deal with Run's own penchant for drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, seinen, yuri, iyashikei
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Saki tells the story of a girl's mental and emotional growth as she and her fellow teammates battle fearsome rivals, all gunning for the national high school mahjong tournament, and is a cross between sports action and high school drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, yuri, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Determined to climb up the social ladder, Mary Saotome invests everything she has into what her elite high school values most: high stakes gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing
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O Maidens In Your Savage Season (2019)
Plot Summary:
The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, sexy, humorous, feel good, entertaining, shounen, ecchi, sex comedy, super sentai, 2d animation