Best tv shows like Welcome to the Ballroom
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Plot Summary:
Tatara is an average middle school student with no particular dreams until an unexpected incident draws him into the fascinating world of ballroom dancing. “If I can just find one thing to be passionate about...” He dives into the world of dance, believing it's his opportunity to change. “Dance is a passion!”.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Animation, Music, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, funny, romantic, intense, manga
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Blue Orchestra (2023)
Plot Summary:
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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Prince of Stride: Alternative (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Stride," is an extreme sport that involves six people on one team who run relay races through towns. Hōnan Academy and other schools compete to win eastern Japan's top Stride competition, "End of Summer." However, Hōnan's team has shut down. First-year high school students Takeru Fujiwara and Nana Sakurai attempt to restart the club, but they must recruit six members for the team. They ask Riku Yagami to join, but he turns them down by saying that Stride is the one thing he doesn't want to do.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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The New Prince of Tennis (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Seigaku tennis club has been invited to train at the U-17 (Under 17) camp. Seigaku is one of the 50 middle schools invited and must compete with high school players to prove they are just as good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining
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Fanfare of Adolescence (2022)
Plot Summary:
The jockey curriculum at the Horse Racing School... A school with incredibly difficult entrance requirements, where only one out of every ten to twenty applicants is accepted, and students need not just book smarts, but also physical and athletic abilities. There, a boy who is a popular idol meets his real dream for the first time. A boy who grew up on an island dreams of spending his days racing with horses. A boy from England is unsure of the path his parents have chosen for him, but still chooses to follow his dreams. This is a story about boys who pursue their dream of becoming a jockey.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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I★Chu: Halfway Through the Idol (2021)
Plot Summary:
Youths aiming to become full-fledged idols enroll in the Étoile Vio School where the students are called IChu. But soon after they begin, Kuma Kocho gets them off to a rocky start with a single phrase...?! As they each work toward their individual goals, their activities as idols make the IChu begin to wonder... "What is an idol?" In their struggle to find an answer, the springtime of the IChu's lives is whittled out in glittering moments and flashes of brilliance. Their story begins now!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, inspirational, sweet
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Heroines Run the Show (2022)
Plot Summary:
What would you do to pursue your passion? For Hiyori Suzumi, it’s leaving her simple rural hometown for the bustling city of Tokyo to join Sakuragaoka High School’s track team. Between being a manager-in-training for two cutthroat schoolboy idols, track, and friends, Hiyori shows no signs of slowing down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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White Album 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
One evening in fall, with one month left before the school festival, the last member of the ruined light music club, Haruki Kitahara, looks out the window and plays his guitar in the direction of the festival stage set up outside. This was the simple little adventure that the conscientious honor student had hoped for two and a half years to achieve before his graduation in half a year. But then, when a flowing piano melody and a bell-like singing voice joined the clumsy sound of his guitar.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Animation, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, romantic, humorous, disturbing
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TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
In her Junior High years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and eventually regretted not being able to use it. After Junior High, she decided to stop playing baseball and went to Shin Koshigaya High School, a school without a baseball club. There, she found her long lost childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, who used to play catchball with her when they were kids. Tamaki also played baseball during her Junior High years as a catcher, and could even catch Yomi's "Magic Throw!" Their promise with each other during their childhood could now be fulfilled! Walking together on the road of baseball once again... The story of the girls who love baseball will begin!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, adult anime
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Baby Steps (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eiichirō Maruo (nicknamed "Ei-chan" for his grades being straight "A") is an honor student, bookworm, and is not interested in anything other than studying. In order to solve his problem of lacking physical strength, he enrolled a tennis school and soon found the fascinating side of tennis. Being a tennis newbie lacking physical strength, he supplement his shortcomings with his excellent observing and analyzing skills.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, light, sincere, uplifting, feel good, captivating
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Ahiru no Sora (2019)
Plot Summary:
A stout, weak, yet highly passionate Sora Kurumatani enters Kuzuryuu High School with hopes that he’ll fulfill his mother’s wishes to dominate his first high school tournament. However, the basketball club—turned den for delinquents—does anything but play basketball! Its club members, Momoharu Hanazono, a skilled blocker who can do power jumps but is horrible at shooting, and his twin brother Chiaki, a talented point guard, has also lost interest in the sport. With just one game overwhelmed with adrenaline rush and excitement, and Sora’s pure love for the game, the youth’s burning out spirit for basketball rekindles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, uplifting, funny, inspirational, sentimental, touching, shounen
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Super Seisyun Brothers (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story involves two pairs of teenage elder sister and younger brother, the Shinmoto's who are a bit narcissistic and the Saitou's who look a bit mysterious. It follows their everyday life in school and at home.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, shoujo
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Blue Lock (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's missing? An absolute Ace Striker, who can guide them to the win. The Japan Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, and who can be the decisive instrument in turning around a losing match...and to do so, they've gathered 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players. Who will emerge to lead the team...and will they be able to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in their way?.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Sport, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime
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Slow Loop (2022)
Plot Summary:
Nervous to meet her new stepdad, Hiyori heads to the place she always feels at home—the ocean. When a curious girl named Koharu shows up, Hiyori decides to teach her how to fish, just like her father did before he died. But after Koharu reveals she’s also meeting her new family that night, the girls come to a startling realization. Their friendship is about to reach a whole new level!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Those Snow White Notes (2021)
Plot Summary:
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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Long Riders! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ami Kurata, a first-year university student who has no athletic ability, suddenly falls in love with a folding bicycle after seeing it in front of a train station. Inspired by her newfound love, she starts saving up to buy a bicycle and to learn cycling.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, super sentai
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Major (2004)
Plot Summary:
Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become the best pitcher in the world despite all the hardships he had to endure he keeps on running towards his goal at full speed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, entertaining, shounen
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Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
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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Battery (2016)
Plot Summary:
Meet Harada Takumi – not even in junior high and he’s the best pitcher in the region, although he’s frustrated and ready to give up, because he can’t find a catcher who is good enough to keep up with how he pitches in this backwater town his family has just moved to. Then along comes a kid named Nagakura Gou….
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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It's Too Sick to Call this Love, Koikimo (2021)
Plot Summary:
One rainy day, salaryman Amakusa Ryo is saved by a high school girl he doesn't know at the station. He later finds out that the girl is Arima Ichika. Ryo is somewhat of a womanizer and to repay her for saving him, he suggests giving her a kiss or going out on a date with her, in which Ichika tells him he's creepy. This, however, opens a new door for Ryo and he falls madly in love with her. Ever since then, Ryo tries to overly express his feelings to Ichika. Ichika just keeps insulting him and says he's being creepy, but he just seems to take it as her way of showing affection towards him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, romantic, funny, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining
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Servant x Service (2013)
Plot Summary:
Imagine if three people suddenly found themselves as civil servants of the city Mitsuba. What sort of personalities and drives would they have to push them to seek out such careers? Lucy Yamagami, a serious young woman assigned to the Welfare Administrative Section, intends to use the job as a means of settling a vendetta against another civil servant. Yutaka Hasebe, a flirtatious young man assigned to the First Section of the Welfare Department, intends to slack off whenever he can and have a good time. And Saya Miyoshi, a college graduate assigned to the Second Section of the Welfare Department, intends to simply get through the first job she's had in her life as best she can. Servant x Service follows these three newcomers starting their jobs as government employees under their supervisor, Taishi Ichimiya, who is utterly clueless about how to direct them—despite having worked there for the last eight years. Nevertheless, he welcomes them as fellow civil servants and encourages them to work themselves like dogs for the sake of the citizens. We follow their day-to-day lives as they experience the rigors of government employment, including dealing with regulations, office romances, paperwork, and being the nearest punching bags when citizens need something to complain about.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, parody, seinen
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Engaged to the Unidentified (2014)
Plot Summary:
Just an ordinary teenager, Kobeni Yonomori receives quite the surprise on her 16th birthday—a fiancé and a sister-in-law she never even knew she had. As a result of an arrangement that her late grandfather made, Hakuya Mitsumine and his younger sister Mashiro have moved from their countryside home to the Yonomori household in order to deepen their relationship with their new family members. This story follows Kobeni's "love life" with Hakuya as she tries her best to adjust to the abrupt changes forced upon her. However, as some extraordinary secrets regarding the siblings come to light, Kobeni will find her life changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, super sentai
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Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro (2021)
Plot Summary:
"A girl in a lower grade just made me cry!" One day, Senpai visits the library after school and becomes the target of a super sadistic junior! The name of the girl who teases, torments, and tantalizes Senpai is "Nagatoro!" She's annoying yet adorable. It's painful, but you still want to be by her side. This is a story about an extremely sadistic and temperamental girl and you'll feel something awaken inside of you.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, humorous, light, entertaining, manga, romantic comedy, feel good, slapstick, ecchi
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Our Love Has Always Been 10 Centimeters Apart. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Miou Aida and Haruki Serizawa might seem like polar opposites to those around them, but as the two third-years prepare to end their high school experience, they couldn't have been been closer. While Miou is a shy and reserved member of the school art club that prefers to stay out of the limelight, Haruki is the boisterous and confident ace of the movie club, already winning awards for his directing prowess. However, after a previous chance encounter during their school entrance ceremony, they quickly become friends despite their stark differences in personality. But although their closeness might be growing, they've never become anything more than just that, much to the bewilderment of their friends. As their time in high school draws to a close, Miou and Haruki, along with their friends in the art and movie clubs, have just one year left to face their hidden feelings and the daunting task of deciding their future careers. The two might always be only an arm's reach away, but as Haruki chases his dream of becoming a professional movie director and Miou struggles with choosing a path for herself, they'll learn just how hard it is to get past those last 10 centimeters.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (2020)
Plot Summary:
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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Because I Don't Like My Big Brother at All! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nao Takanashi loves her brother Shūsuke despite the incest taboo. Nao thinks that Shūsuke is her blood relative, but in fact she is an adopted daughter, whose parents have died. After Nao learns the fact, she wants to fall in love normally with Shūsuke because siblings by adoption can marry under the family law in Japan. However, she finds herself competing with Shūsuke's childhood friend, Iroha Tsuchiura, and his class president and yaoi lover, Mayuka Kondō.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, ecchi
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War (2019)
Plot Summary:
Considered a genius due to having the highest grades in the country, Miyuki Shirogane leads the prestigious Shuchiin Academy's student council as its president, working alongside the beautiful and wealthy vice president Kaguya Shinomiya. The two are often regarded as the perfect couple by students despite them not being in any sort of romantic relationship. However, the truth is that after spending so much time together, the two have developed feelings for one another; unfortunately, neither is willing to confess, as doing so would be a sign of weakness. With their pride as elite students on the line, Miyuki and Kaguya embark on a quest to do whatever is necessary to get a confession out of the other. Through their daily antics, the battle of love begins!.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, romantic, humorous, feel good, captivating, sweet, light, sitcom, seinen, romantic comedy
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Your Lie in April (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kousei Arima was a genius pianist until his mother's sudden death took away his ability to play. Each day was dull for Kousei. But, then he meets a violinist named Kaori Miyazono who has an eccentric playing style. Can the heartfelt sounds of the girl's violin lead the boy to play the piano again?.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, touching, stylized, semi serious, uplifting, adult animation, manga, smart, shounen, tear jerker
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Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of class at a certain school, Rumi Yokoi, a diligent student, has her in-class life turned upside down when her desk mate Toshinari Seki begins to play by himself at his desk in class. Although Rumi is irked by Toshinari's distracting yet intricate playtime, she finds herself being drawn into his interesting hobby. Never being able to focus, Rumi observes Seki's stunning ways of slacking off in class.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 8 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, seinen, super sentai
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Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (2016)
Plot Summary:
This unconventional, surrealist comedy follows an exhausted high school boy who, despite multiple attempts from his friends, still manages to spectacularly... sleep. Much to the chagrin of the energetic (at times bossy) Oota, Tanaka is often found in a blissful state of lethargy, possessing the ability to doze off in any situation, especially in mid-sentence!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, feel good, light, visually appealing, humorous, sincere, super sentai, iyashikei