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2.5 Dimensional Seduction (2024) TV Show

8.0 68 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: When cosplayer Ririsa joins Okumura's manga club, the line between 2D and 3D blurs when she asks him to be her photographer.

Plot: harem, based on comic, based on manga, cosplay, school life, ecchi, shounen, anime, ...

Cast

Kana Hanazawa

Seiichiro Yamashita

Makoto Furukawa

Natsumi Takamori

Orange (2016) TV Show

8.0 473 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-PG

Story: One day, Naho Takamiya receives a letter written to herself from ten years in the future. As Naho reads on, the letter recites the exact events of the day, including the transfer of a new student into her class named Kakeru Naruse. The Naho from ten years later repeatedly states that she has many regrets, and she wants to fix these by making sure the Naho from the past can make the right decisions—especially regarding Kakeru. What's more shocking is that she discovers that ten years later, Kakeru will no longer be with them. Future Naho asks her to watch over him closely.

Plot: suicide, time travel, high school, romance, unrequited love, tragedy, fate, school, ...

Daily Lives of High School Boys (2012) TV Show

8.0 201 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Join Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake as they undergo the trials and tribulations of life in high school. Each episode presents the boys and their classmates in unique situations that you may or may not have faced in high school yourself.

Style: absurdist

Plot: high school, parody, slice of life, school, bromance, based on manga, high school student, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Campione! (2012) TV Show

8.0 106 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Godo Kusanagi, a high school student that kills a god, claiming its power and title of Campione, to slay other gods.

Plot: magic, harem, god, romance, school, ecchi, anime, based on light novel

March Comes In Like a Lion (2016) TV Show

8.0 141 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 44

Audience: TV-PG

Story: This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...

Plot: competition, depression, child prodigy, sports, high school, bullying, slice of life, dysfunctional family, ...

Cast

Cantinflas

Marga Lu00f3pez

Vu00edctor Alcocer

Rau00fal Martu00ednez

El profe (1971)

7.9 120 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: Mexico

Duration: 117 min.

Story: Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

Plot: teacher, rural area, school, chieftain, little town

Tsuredure Children (2017) TV Show

7.9 233 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: A series depicting various scenarios of young love. These stories range from a boy, crippled by his absolute lack of confidence in himself, cannot even accept the fact that the girl of his dreams actually asked him out on a date, to the near-psychotic girl that pours her own blood into her homemade chocolate in order to win his heart.

Plot: romcom, romance, slice of life, school, based on manga, high school friends, school life, shounen, ...

Dr. Slump (1981) TV Show

7.9 133 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 243

Audience: TV-G

Story: Senbei Norimaki, known by his nickname Dr. Slump, a genius yet under-respected inventor and roboticist, creates an android by the name of Arale, and poses her as his little sister. What starts as an experiment in robotics turns into an adventure every day for the residents of Penguin Village, a wacky rural community with several colorful characters interacting with Arale and her creator.

Plot: inventor, parody, surrealism, school, based on manga, robot, shounen, anime, ...

Blue Box (2024) TV Show

7.9 93 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Taiki Inomata loves badminton, but he has a long way to go before he can reach nationals. When Taiki sees upperclassman Chinatsu Kano practicing her heart out on the girls’ basketball team, he falls for her hard. After an unexpected turn of events brings the two closer together, sports might not be the first thing on their minds anymore!

Plot: adolescence, friendship, sports, high school, basketball, romance, slice of life, school, ...

Ace of the Diamond (2013) TV Show

7.9 75 votes

Genre: Animation

Country: Japan

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 191

Audience: TV-14

Story: Scouted for his potential, brash left-handed pitcher Eijun Sawamura joins baseball powerhouse Seido High to become the undisputed ace of the team.

Plot: competition, baseball, training, sports, high school sports, tournament, bromance, based on manga, ...

Cast

Mamoru Miyano

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Aya Suzaki

Daisuke Hirakawa

Ajin (2016) TV Show

7.9 350 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-MA

Story: 17 years ago, immortals first appeared on the battlefields of Africa. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.

Plot: immortality, supernatural, fugitive, terrorism, based on manga, high school student, seinen, anime, ...

Big Shot (2021) TV Show

7.9 344 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-PG

Story: After getting ousted from his job in the NCAA for throwing a chair at a referee, a hothead men’s basketball coach Marvyn Korn must take a job at Westbrook School for Girls, a private all-girls high school, in an effort to redeem what's left of his career and reputation.

Plot: sports, basketball, high school sports, teenage girl, redemption, basketball team, dramedy, basketball coach, ...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Rupert Grint

Emma Watson

Richard Harris

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

7.9 29.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 152 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

Plot: witch, school friend, friendship, london, england, based on novel or book, magic, boarding school, ...

Cast

Sakura Ando

Soya Kurokawa

Hinata Hiiragi

Eita Nagayama

Monster (2023)

7.9 910 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Style: witty

Plot: friendship, bullying, elementary school, coming of age, school, teacher student relationship, childhood, lgbt, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Hiroshi Kamiya

Harumi Sakurai

Kana Hanazawa

Ryohei Kimura

Angel Beats! (2010) TV Show

7.9 476 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Angel Beats takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront — an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.

Style: absurdist

Plot: angel, martial arts, amnesia, friendship, afterlife, high school, romance, tragedy, ...

Cast

Mirai Shida

Natsuki Hanae

Koichi Yamadera

Hiroaki Ogi

A Whisker Away (2020)

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

Plot: mask, secret love, magic, cat, shapeshifting, supernatural, bullying, anthropomorphism, ...

Cast

Yoko Honna

Issey Takahashi

Takashi Tachibana

Shigeru Muroi

Whisper of the Heart (1995)

7.9 2.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family

Country: Japan

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: G

Story: Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: "Seiji Amasawa."

Style: nostalgic, whimsical

Plot: dreams, library, violin, writing, education, love, train, based on manga, ...

Place: italy

Cast

Daiki Yamashita

Kenta Miyake

Mirai Shida

Katsuhisa Namase

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)

7.9 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: All Might and Deku accept an invitation to go abroad to a floating and mobile manmade city, called 'I-Island', where they research quirks as well as hero supplemental items at the special 'I-Expo' convention that is currently being held on the island. During that time, suddenly, despite an iron wall of security surrounding the island, the system is breached by a villain, and the only ones able to stop him are the students of Class 1-A.

Plot: hero, superhero, school, fighting, hostage situation, super power, shounen, anime

Place: japan

Cast

Viggo Mortensen

George MacKay

Samantha Isler

Annalise Basso

Captain Fantastic (2016)

7.9 6.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.

Plot: parent child relationship, new mexico, socialism, wilderness, road trip, family relationships, survivalist, homeschooling, ...

Cast

Song Byeong-geun

Lee Jae-in

Kim Woo-seok

Choi Ye-bin

Night Has Come (2023) TV Show

7.9 120 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: Trapped in a deadly cursed Mafia game, the students of Yoo-il High must play the game to survive while unraveling the mysteries behind the curse.

Plot: high school, game, high school student, mysterious death, night games, horror, deciding vote, mafia game, ...

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