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If you liked Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan (2023) add

...then you might like Meiji Gekken: 1874 add

Fictionalised depictions of 1870s Japan in the aftermath of the Boshin War and Meiji period. Moreso in Rurouni Kenshin which mixes loosely inspired characters (Himura Kenshin from Kawakami Gensai, gor example). Both feature important historical figures from the period like Fujita Gorō and Ōkubo Toshimichi, Meiji 1874 additionally features foreigners like John Henry Schnell and Max Brandt.

If you liked Trigun Stampede add

...then you might like Metallic Rouge add

Both are sci-fi set on post-cataclysmic planets (Noman's Land and Mars) with deserts and cities where various factions and bandits run wild. Each has a non-human protagonist (Vash, a plant and Rouge, a Nean) who teams up with humans in journalism/investigation professions (Naomi and Meryl).

If you liked Kakumeiki Valvrave add

...then you might like Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo add

Okouchi's back for another attempt at mecha at Sunrise, this time, they've given his divisive and controversial writing the blessing of their prestigious brand name. G-Witch shares its traits with plenty of his previous shows, but if I had to mention one, it would be Valvrave. Their shared premise is mecha harming pilots, not just enemies. With this horrific premise both shows, parallels to beings from folklore; Valvraves has vampires and G-Witch has witches. The plot involves a school of students facing the adult world at large, and Okouchi reuses the two-main-characters dynamic that Haruto and L-Elf have in Suletta and Miorine. Additionally, Suletta bears great physical resemblance and similar personality traits (e.g. anxiety) to the supporting character in Valvrave, Akira.

If you liked SSSS.Gridman add

...then you might like Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers add

An Otaku is given the opportunity to craft their own world, their perfect world. But it comes at the costs of other's lives/freedom. Both stories are heavily filled with references to the objects of Otakus' obsessions.

If you liked Vinland Saga Season 2 add

...then you might like Kidou Senshi Gundam: Cucuruz Doan no Shima add

Hatred, strife, death, destruction, despair, regret, and sadness. What can a soldier do to make up for the guilt and shame buried inside himself? What is a warrior to do when he is taken out of his life knowing only war? Can he still hold up when the fighting comes back to him? The Farm Arc of Vinland Saga and Cucuruz Doan's Island answer these questions for you. In VS, deuteragonist Einar wounds up a slave on a farm where he meets protagonist and former warrior Thorfinn. Having killed many he is tortured by his dreams every night. Though he manages to adapt to life on the farm, his past is not kept away as King Canute, whom he once served comes to take the farm by force. In CDI, protagonist Amuro goes AWOL during a mop-up operation on Alegranza and his captor, the titular Doan, is a deserter raising war orphans, living and farming crops on the island. With memories of the sins he committed with his unit haunting him, Doan makes it an obligation to prevent further conflict as the island holds a dark secret that could turn the tide of the war.

If you liked RahXephon add

...then you might like Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo Season 2 add

Both are mecha anime involving manipulative mothers using their children for their agendas. However, the protagonists have different reactions to their mothers' manipulativeness that nicely contrast with each other. In G-Witch, Suletta has been conditioned to believe and do everything her mother Prospera says and has yet to display any hesitation or rebellion. In RahXephon, Ayato becomes very mistrusting of his mother Maya after a major incident.

If you liked Shinseiki Evangelion add

...then you might like Kidou Senshi Gundam: Suisei no Majo Season 2 add

What if Gendo Ikari used positive instead of negative pressure to get his offspring to pilot a giant mecha? The Witch from Mercury complements and contrasts with Evangelion in some ways and is very similar to it in others. Aerial and Eva-01 both have very noticeable personality in their movements and mannerisms.

If you liked Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shoujo add

...then you might like Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers add

Similar plot setup and characters: Denchi Shoujo Rumble Garanndoll involves a victorious Imperial Japan from a parallel timeline invading the Japan of our timeline where Otaku culture thrives. A group of rebels that love all things Otaku, anime, manga, tokusatsu, mecha, idols and games come together to revolt with the hero using a mecha powered by the various girls he encounters, the lead one is a redhead voiced by Ai Fairouz. In Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers, an authoritarian government emerges in Japan during the 2008 financial crisis, confiscating all anime/manga related merchandise and putting Otaku into protection zones. A group of revolutionaries led by "Otaku Hero" and magical girls Anarchy (redhead, also voiced by Ai Fairouz) and Blue fight back against the government.

If you liked Kidou Senshi Gundam: Dai 08 MS Shoutai add

...then you might like Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer add

Both series feature characters from opposite sides of a conflict with opposing beliefs coming to terms with each other to survive. In the 08th MS Team, Federation pilot Shiro, a survivor of a Zeon gas attack, works together with Zeon test pilot Aina after they find themselves losing oxygen and without mobile suits after a space battle. In SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer, Natural pilot Sven, who was indoctrinated with anti-coordinator propaganda as a child, is saved by coordinator astronaut Selene McGriff after their mobile suits end up between Earth and Venus during the course of a battle.

If you liked Devilman: Tanjou-hen add

...then you might like Chainsaw Man add

A kind-hearted human merges with a devil. From the point of view of other demons, he is fighting against his own kind. But he is neither fully human nor fully devil.

If you liked Full Metal Panic! add

...then you might like Spy x Family add

Characters with extraordinary abilities trying to keep their cover in series combining slice-of-life, thriller and action. FMP is set in a timeline where the cold war didn't end. It follows mercenary and former child soldier Sousuke in his mission to guard telepathic schoolgirl Kaname. Military-minded Sousuke often struggles with blending into normal school life, interacting with characters in a very soldier-like manner. Spy x Family has a cold war-inspired setting. It follows top spy Loid who has been given his toughest mission yet; pretend to raise a family in order to infiltrate a school. Along with his psychic daughter Yor and assassin wife Yor, all three often come close to revealing their identities through the actions they take given their abnormal backgrounds.

If you liked SK∞ add

...then you might like Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story add

Taking grounded sports (skateboarding in SK8, golf in Birdie Wing) and exaggerating them to extremes. Both in the athletic feats the characters accomplish and the background surrounding the sport; illegal underground (as in exclusive) courses, tournaments at night, gambling and general seediness.

If you liked Tokumu Sentai Shinesman add

...then you might like Koi wa Sekai Seifuku no Ato de add

Red ranger of a Sentai team falls in love with a woman from the villain's side but each take different approaches: Shinesman has Shinesman Red fall in love with Shiina, the villain's cousin, while both are in civilian clothes, not knowing that the other is the enemy. Koiseka has a Red Gelato fall for the villain's top fighter, Desumi, on the battlefield. Both maintain a relationship while pretending to be enemies in front of their comrades.

If you liked Tokumu Sentai Shinesman add

...then you might like Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san add

Anime parodies of Tokusatsu mixed with office comedy with some corporate politics. Shinesman is about a Sentai team who work as salarymen as a cover. All their weapons and attacks follow the motif of the mundane everyday office worker. The villains similarly use a corporation as a cover. Conversely, Miss Kuroitsu is about a woman that develops monsters that fights heroes, a nuanced perspective flip. How it portrays the development of monsters is very similar to doing software/product development in real life, so it's very relatable to audience members who are in those businesses. It contains a lot of tributes to established Tokusatsu series (mainly Kamen Rider) and regional local heroes in Japan.

If you liked Kidou Senshi Gundam: Gyakushuu no Char add

...then you might like Chikyuugai Shounen Shoujo add

Movies with heavy environmentalist and political themes about stopping a celestial body impacting the Earth. In Char's Counterattack, Char Aznable leads the disenfranchised people living in the space colonies to another war of independence from Earth. He promotes his idea that humans will evolve if they migrate to space and uses it as justification for dropping asteroids onto the Earth as it will force mass migration. Standing in his way is the protagonist Amuro Ray who isn't as impatient as Char is. In The Orbital Children, Touya is a child living in space who is heavily discriminated against online, considered a parasite by vocal Earthers. He regurgitates the beliefs of the terrorist group John Doe who believe that in order to save Earths environment and humanity as a whole, a percentage of Earth's population must be culled. Along comes an AI controlled comet that does exactly that. Touya must work together with children from Earth in order to stop the comet.

If you liked Freedom add

...then you might like Chikyuugai Shounen Shoujo add

Both are very short hard-science fiction anime about adolescents, conspiracies, and government secrets. They all feature a very realistic depiction of space travel and its effects. Freedom is more of a dirtied spacepunk post-apocalyptic future where two rebellious streetracers on the Moon end up on Earth and need to make they way back. Along the way they try to figure out what the mysterious "Freedom" the people on Earth talk about. The Orbital Children presents a clean and luxurious future in space juxtaposed with a government that would commit infanticide, an a conspiracy involving an AI uprising of apocalyptic proportions.

If you liked Eve no Jikan (Movie) add

...then you might like Ai no Utagoe wo Kikasete add

Movies about AI from the same director. Both Time of Eve and Sing a Bit of Harmony feature characters having past regrets, discussions on the ethics of wiping an AI's memory, and humans treating AIs like their fellow humans.

If you liked Initial D First Stage add

...then you might like Wangan Midnight add

Two of the best anime series about cars you can find! Similar characters and hardcore realism. Both main characters are highschoolers and drive a car which unexpectedly defeats newer models in races (Fairlady Z in Wangan Midnight, AE86 Trueno in Initial D). There's a lot of real life models showcased accurately in both series (particularly the Nissan Skyline GT-R). Wangan Midnight was animated by A.C.G.T (the studio behind Initial D Fourth Stage) and based on a manga by Michiharu Kusunoki that was serialised in Weekly Young Magazine (the same magazine as Initial D, but debuting three years earlier). While Initial D's story involves drifting on the mountain pass, Wangan Midnight's story involves speed on the Wangan, part of the Shuto Expressway in Greater Tokyo. Unlike Initial D, there's more emphasis on mechanics tuning the cars rather than a racer's driving style.

If you liked Initial D First Stage add

...then you might like SK∞ add

Take Initial D, swap the sport from mountain pass car racing (touge) to skateboarding and add plenty of flamboyance! Both feature a stoic main character who appears to be a beginner not knowing the technical details of the sport (Takumi in Initial D, Langa in Sk8) but once they are pitted against well-regarded opponents they make unexpected victories. With the sports they do, the characters use intricacies of their racecourse to gain advantages (guardrails, gutters etc. in initial D, handrails, even trees in Sk8), there are very specific moments in Sk8 that feel like direct references to Initial D, particularly Langa's dangerous technique the first episode of Sk8). Inertia drifting is featured a couple of times in Sk8 as well. Furthermore, when Takumi and Langa aren't racing, they have friends obsessed with their sport to teach them (and us, the audience) about tuning their vehicles and many real world details about the sport. Oh, and Ryosuke Takahashi's VA, Takehito Koyasu, plays a big role in Sk8 as well!

If you liked Kidou Senkan Nadesico add

...then you might like Gyakuten Sekai no Denchi Shoujo add

The power of Otaku! Both series are self-ware parodies of anime, particularly the mecha genre, with hilarious over-the-top and energetic characters. Akito Tenkawa partakes in the "civilian falls into cockpit" trope, being reluctant as a pilot as he was severely traumatized by war, only wanting to be a cook, but at the same time he is a huge fan of an old Super Robot series, Gekiganger. He has fellow mecha Otaku Gai Daigoji as a pilot (who is way more enthusiatic about it) and his ditzy love interest/captain Yurika Misumaru is keen on keeping him on her ship as her knight in shining armor. Hosomichi is a host who just wants to make a living in heavily censored Japan. He similarly ends up piloting Shark One out of circumstance and meets its battery girl Akagi Rin, an avid fan of a the superhero/mecha show Zaburn (which Hosomichi liked as a child). The antagonists of Nadesico and Rumble Garanndoll can be compared and contrasted as the Shinkoku Nippon of Rumble Garanndoll revile anime, games, manga, idols etc. heavily censoring them but behave in a very old-fashioned militaristic manner; they are extremists against Otaku. The Jovian Lizards of Nadesico, on the other hand, also hold old-fashioned militaristic views, but that's because they have built their entire culture on Gekiganger; they take being an Otaku to its extreme.

If you liked Kidou Senshi Gundam 00 add

...then you might like Eureka Seven AO add

Both anime are about an armed organization in a politically fractured world. Gundam 00 was the first Gundam series set in the Anno Domini era instead of a non-descript future timeline, only a mere 300 years on. While humans have gotten closer to uniting, they haven't got there yet. The series even namedrops a couple of real life terrorist organizations. Eureka Seven AO, in contrast to its predecessor's alien setting, is a work of alternate history. Instead of the wonderous and fantastic world building Eureka Seven was known for, AO's world is like our own; divided, not united. Some countries that exist in its world do not exist in ours and vice-versa (this is discussed in the show). This gives it a similar sense of familiarity to Gundam 00.

If you liked Gyakusatsu Kikan add

...then you might like Kidou Senshi Gundam: Senkou no Hathaway add

When it was announced that Shukou Murase would be directing the Hathaway movie, my first thoughts were "he's the right person for the job". Both are sci-fi political thrillers based on critically-acclaimed novels full of espionage, deception and graphic displays of how terrorism and combat destroy human lives and the surrounding environment. If you want to see more of the Hathaway director's style, Genocidal Organ is the first movie you should check out; or vice-versa. Genocidal Organ follows the agent Clavis Shepherd's mission to track down John Paul. Wherever John Paul goes, genocide follows. Gundam Hathaway's main character Hathaway secretly "leads" a terrorist group but forms a fateful bond with Kenneth, who is unknowingly, the Federation commander tasked with taking his terrorist alter ego down. Both protagonists interact with and explore the very realistically detailed cities that make up the settings pf the movies (Davao in Gundam Hathaway, Eastern Europe and other places in Genocidal Organ). Furthermore, the combat scenes in both movies show extreme collateral damage and graphic displays of blood.

If you liked RahXephon: Tagen Hensoukyoku add

...then you might like Shin Evangelion Movie:|| add

Both movies deal with love, parenthood and the reshaping of worlds The protagonists, Shinji and Ayato, become averse to piloting due to the devastating consequences of their actions and have parents that want them to use their ability for just that (Shinji's father Gendoh and Ayato's mother Maya). Both are are caught between allegiances (Shinji between NERV and Wille, Ayato between the Mulians and TERRA).

If you liked Dragon Ball add

...then you might like Edens Zero add

Similar types of adventure story about seeking a a being (or objects that lead to a being) that can grant wishes. In Edens Zero, Shiki was raised by robots and meets female V-Cuber Rebecca, they go on an adventure to find "Mother", a goddess who can grant wishes. In the Pilaf Saga of Dragon Ball, Son Goku was raised by a human man and meats female adventurer Bulma, they go on an adventure to find the seven dragon balls that can unlock Shenlong, a dragon god who can grant wishes.

If you liked ReLIFE add

...then you might like Bokutachi no Remake add

Both shows: - are about a man who just lost his job but are given a chance to change their lives as they get to relive a school experience. - have some social commentary on so-called "black companies" in Japan. - have nostalgic music from the 90s/00s in their soundtracks In ReLIFE, the protagonist Arata turns into a teenager and attends a highschool to put his life back on track and help himself and others in the process. In Remake Our Life, the protagonist Kyouya mentally time travels 10 years into the past and makes the decision to enroll in art school for university instead of business school. He develops his own potential and interacts with the musicians/artists/writers/film-makers etc. that he idolized in his original timeline.

If you liked The Sky Crawlers add

...then you might like 86 add

Both are about life on military front lines with themes of dehumanization and prolonged conflict. In 86, the plot focuses on ground forces piloting spider tanks called Juggernauts. The titular 86 are forced to fight off autonomous drones to defend a nation that racially discriminates against them. There is a major theme of dehumanization expressed in their nation not recognizing them as humans even though they are, thus the Juggernauts are considered drones. As the story goes on, more is revealed about why the 86 have to continue fighting. In The Sky Crawlers, the plot focuses on a private air force made up of pilots who can't age, this private air force are sent to fight in the sky while citizens live in the comfort of their own city. With fighting looking like it never stops, the protagonist unravels a deep mystery about the nature of him and his fellow pilots. The daily lives on front line barracks of the Spearhead Squadron of 86 and the Kildren of The Sky Crawlers are fairly similar.

If you liked Kidou Senshi Zeta Gundam add

...then you might like Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu add

Both Legend of the Galactic Heroes (LotGH) and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Zeta Gundam) are excellent 80s science fiction anime set in space with a lot of politics. From former democracies crumbling from coup d'état incidents, to royalists planning to re-instate monarch, to organisations playing both sides to come out on top, both LotGH and Zeta Gundam depict multi-faceted wars with defections, temporary alliances and betrayals. Yang Wen-Li is quite similar to the matured Amuro Ray and sometimes Kamille Bidan as all of them are heralded by allies for their extraordinary abilities but are reluctant to fight.

If you liked Steins;Gate add

...then you might like Godzilla: S.P add

Godzilla S.P is a very jargon-heavy kind of science fiction similar to Science Adventure series like Steins;Gate. Steins;Gate puts central focus on the idea of time travel with characters doing a lot of trial and error to get things right. Godzilla S.P, takes concepts from various fields, from mathematics, materials science, topology (some overlapping with the concepts discussed by Steins;Gate) all going towards the characters solving one problem.

If you liked Heroic Age add

...then you might like Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 add

Both are space opera anime by XEBEC about humanity resisting a larger empire, featuring grand/ancient civilisations, immense weapons/powers, and focusing on one spaceship. In Heroic Age, the imperialist Tribe of Silver are at war with a younger civilization, humans (the Tribe of Iron). They have conquered Earth and compete with the Tribe of Iron to be successors of the ancient Tribe of Gold. The anime focuses on the spaceship Argo (equipped with a large cannon) and humanity's saviour Age, who is able to transform into a powerful giant called Belcross. In Space Battleship Yamato 2199, the Gamilan Empire have bombed Earth, pushing humans to the brink of extinction. The ancient civilization of Iscandar has offered a way for humans to restore their planet but they must get it themselves. The anime focuses on the voyage to Iscandar made by the Yamato, equipped with the incredibly powerful Wave Motion Gun.

If you liked Tenkuu no Escaflowne add

...then you might like InuYasha add

Both are fantasy anime from the same studio, Sunrise, blending action and romance. In InuYasha, Kagome is a Japanese schoolgirl with some experience in archery, who travels back in time to feudal Japan where she meets the half-dog-demon Inuyasha. Inuyasha fights his half-brother Sesshomaru, Kagome is revealed to have the powers of a shrine maiden and being able to cancel/limit demonic powers helps Inuyasha many times in battle with other demons. Kagome's humanity and being the one Inuyasha must protect prevents his demon side from overwhelming him. In The Vision of Escaflowne, Hitomi is an athletic schoolgirl from Earth who meets Van Fanel, a half-Draconian Guymelef pilot, and travels with him to the planet Gaia. Van fights his estranged brother Folken. Hitomi is revealed to have divination powers and uses her powers to assist Van in battle. Van is later able to control his Guymelef, the Escaflowne, more directly, but at the cost of it overwhelming himself with bloodlust and risking his body. It is Hitomi and his friends that must pull him back from the darkness.