Anime Like Beyond the Boundary -I'LL BE HERE-: Past

20 anime similar to Beyond the Boundary -I'LL BE HERE-: Past based on genre, format, studio, and popularity

Anime Like Beyond the Boundary -I'LL BE HERE-: Past

Looking for anime similar to Beyond the Boundary -I'LL BE HERE-: Past? Here are 10 anime recommendations that share similar themes, genres, or storytelling styles.

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We selected these anime based on shared genres (Drama, Fantasy, Slice of Life), similar narrative structures, comparable art styles, and positive fan overlap. If you enjoyed Beyond the Boundary -I'LL BE HERE-: Past, these series should appeal to your taste.

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A Silent Voice

1 eps⭐ 8.82016Score: 52.8

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)Same studio: Kyoto AnimationSimilar era (2016)

DramaRomanceSlice of Life

After transferring into a new school, a deaf girl, Shouko Nishimiya, is bullied by the popular Shouya Ishida. As Shouya continues to bully Shouko, the class turns its back on him. Shouko transfers and Shouya grows up as an outcast. Alone and depressed, the regretful Shouya finds Shouko to make amends. (Source: Eleven Arts)

2/4 genres match

Violet Evergarden

13 eps⭐ 8.52018Score: 49.7

3 shared genres: Drama, Fantasy, Slice of LifeSame studio: Kyoto AnimationSimilar era (2018)

DramaFantasySlice of Life

A certain point in time, in the continent of Telesis. The great war which divided the continent into North and South has ended after four years, and the people are welcoming a new generation. Violet Evergarden, a young girl formerly known as “the weapon”, has left the battlefield to start a new life at CH Postal Service. There, she is deeply moved by the work of “Auto Memories Dolls”, who carry people's thoughts and convert them into words. Violet begins her journey as an Auto Memories Doll, and comes face to face with various people's emotions and differing shapes of love. There are words Violet heard on the battlefield, which she cannot forget. These words were given to her by someone she holds dear, more than anyone else. She does not yet know their meaning but she searches to find it. (Source: Anime News Network)

3/4 genres match

Beyond the Boundary

12 eps⭐ 7.42013Score: 49.7

4 shared genres: Drama, Fantasy, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSame studio: Kyoto AnimationSimilar era (2013)

ActionDramaFantasySlice of Life

They should never have met. They shouldn't even exist. But when they come together, the entire world will change. The last surviving member of her clan, Mirai Kuriyama is cursed with the terrifying ability to control and manipulate blood, a power so heretical that she is shunned even by those with the ability to understand her "gift". Akihito Kanbara is only half human, but while the monstrous other half of his lineage seems to have doomed him to a life alone, it has also given him near invulnerability in the form of rapid healing. Alone, their futures seem bleak, but when a chance encounter brings them together, it becomes clear that they share more than just an unexpected bond. Together they share a destiny and a mission that only the two of them together may be strong enough to survive. (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

4/4 genres match

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

13 eps⭐ 7.72017Score: 38.2

2 shared genres: Fantasy, Slice of LifeSame studio: Kyoto AnimationSimilar era (2017)

ComedyFantasySlice of Life

What happens when a drunken promise leads to living with a dragon? That’s Miss Kobayashi’s new reality when Tohru appears in her life. With a maid-slash-dragon in her home, she’s experiencing a whole new level of domestic bliss! But the dragons don’t stop there. On a mission to find Tohru appears Kanna, a little dragon with a big attitude. Before she knows it, Kobayashi’s got a house full of dragons—one serving tail and the other serving serious moe! Together, they live side by side with only the occasional disaster…well, maybe. But nothing beats coming home to the warm welcome of a dragon maid! (Source: Funimation)

2/4 genres match

Your Name.

1 eps⭐ 8.62016Score: 37.8

2 shared genres: Drama, SupernaturalSame format (MOVIE)Similar era (2016)

DramaRomanceSupernatural

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl, yearns to live the life of a boy in the bustling city of Tokyo—a dream that stands in stark contrast to her present life in the countryside. Meanwhile in the city, Taki Tachibana lives a busy life as a high school student while juggling his part-time job and hopes for a future in architecture. One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another. Kimi no Na wa. revolves around Mitsuha and Taki's actions, which begin to have a dramatic impact on each other's lives, weaving them into a fabric held together by fate and circumstance. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

2/4 genres match

Weathering With You

1 eps⭐ 8.12019Score: 37.4

3 shared genres: Drama, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSame format (MOVIE)Similar era (2019)

DramaRomanceSlice of LifeSupernatural

High school student Hodaka leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but he immediately becomes broke. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds a job as a writer for a shady occult magazine. After he starts his job, the weather has been rainy day after day. In a corner of the crowded and busy city, Hodaka meets a young woman named Hina. Due to certain circumstances, Hina and her younger brother live together, but have a cheerful and sturdy life. Hina also has a certain power: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky. (Source: Anime News Network)

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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

12 eps⭐ 7.62012Score: 35.4

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame studio: Kyoto AnimationSimilar era (2012)

ComedyDramaRomanceSlice of Life

Everybody has had that stage in their life where they have thought themselves to be special, different from the masses of ordinary humans. They might go as far as seeing themselves capable of wielding mystical powers, or maybe even believe themselves to have descended from a fantasy realm. This "disease" is known as "chuunibyou" and is often the source of some of the most embarrassing moments of a person's life. For Yuuta Togashi, the scars that his chuunibyou has left behind are still fresh. Having posed as the "Dark Flame Master" during his middle school years, he looks back at those times with extreme embarrassment, so much so that he decides to attend a high school far away where nobody will recognize him. Putting his dark history behind him, he longs to live a normal high school life. Unfortunately, he hasn't escaped his past yet: enter Rikka Takanashi, Yuuta's new classmate and self-declared vessel of the "Wicked Eye." As this eccentric young girl crashes into Yuuta's life, his dream of an ordinary, chuunibyou-free life quickly crumbles away. In this hilarious and heartwarming story of a boy who just wants to leave his embarrassing memories behind, the delusions of old are far from a thing of the past. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

2/4 genres match

Clannad

23 eps⭐ 7.72007Score: 34.9

3 shared genres: Drama, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSame studio: Kyoto Animation

ComedyDramaRomanceSlice of Life

Tomoya is a bitter, third year high school student. His mother passed away, causing his father to resort to alcohol and gambling. Tomoya is distant with his father and has become a delinquent in the years since his mother's death. Walking to school, he meets Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older but is repeating the grade due to illness. She is alone, as most of her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out, and as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life shifting in a new direction. (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

3/4 genres match

The Ancient Magus' Bride

24 eps⭐ 7.82017Score: 34.4

4 shared genres: Drama, Fantasy, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSimilar era (2017)

DramaFantasyRomanceSlice of Life

Chise Hatori has lived a life full of neglect and abuse, devoid of anything resembling love. Far from the warmth of family, she has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fateful encounter awaits her. When a man with the head of a beast, wielding strange powers, obtains her through a slave auction, Chise's life will never be the same again. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

4/4 genres match

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

1 eps⭐ 8.42020Score: 32.7

3 shared genres: Drama, Fantasy, SupernaturalSame format (MOVIE)

ActionAdventureDramaFantasy

This Demon Slayer movie sees Tanjiro Kamado and friends from the Demon Slayer corps board the Infinity Train on a new mission to investigate a mysterious series of disappearances, perpetrated by a demon who has been tormenting people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it.

3/4 genres match

Spirited Away

1 eps⭐ 8.62001Score: 32.6

3 shared genres: Drama, Fantasy, SupernaturalSame format (MOVIE)

AdventureDramaFantasySupernatural

On the way to their new home, 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino's family stumbles upon a deserted theme park. Intrigued, the family investigates the park, though unbeknownst to them, it is secretly inhabited by spirits who sleep by day and appear at night. When Chihiro's mother and father eat food from a restaurant in the street, angry spirits turn them into pigs. Furthermore, a wide sea has appeared between the spirit world and the human one, trapping Chihiro, the sole human, in a land of spirits. Luckily for her though, a mysterious boy named Haku appears, claiming to know her from the past. Under his instructions, Chihiro secures a job in the bathhouse where Haku works. With only her courage and some new found friends to aid her, Chihiro embarks on a journey to turn her parents back to their original forms and return home.

3/4 genres match

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

1 eps⭐ 8.42018Score: 32.5

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)Similar era (2018)

DramaRomanceSlice of Life

Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular and genuinely cheerful classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a pancreatic illness and only has a limited time left. It is at this moment that she gains just one more person to share her secret. Trying to maintain a normal life as much as possible, Sakura is determined to live her life to the fullest until the very last day. As her free spirit and unpredictable actions throw him for a loop, his heart begins to gradually change. (Source: Aniplex USA)

2/4 genres match

My Neighbor Totoro

1 eps⭐ 8.11988Score: 30.7

3 shared genres: Fantasy, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSame format (MOVIE)

AdventureFantasySlice of LifeSupernatural

Follow the adventures of Satsuki and her four-year-old sister Mei when they move into a new home in the countryside. To their delight they discover that their new neighbor is a mysterious forest spirit called Totoro who can be seen only through the eyes of a child. Totoro introduces them to extraordinary characters, including a cat that doubles as a bus, takes them on a journey through the wonders of nature. (Source: Disney)

3/4 genres match

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

26 eps⭐ 8.32019Score: 30.5

3 shared genres: Drama, Fantasy, SupernaturalSimilar era (2019)

ActionAdventureDramaFantasy

It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family. (Source: Crunchyroll)

3/4 genres match

The Garden of Words

1 eps⭐ 7.52013Score: 30.4

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)Similar era (2013)

DramaPsychologicalRomanceSlice of Life

Some people revel and play in the rain; others dread it and hide at the first drop. For high school student Takao, a summer shower is a source of artistic inspiration… but when he skips school in order to sketch in a rainy garden, Takao finds an even greater muse in Yukino, an older woman who seems adrift in the world. Despite the difference in their ages and lives, they strike up a comfortable relationship that slowly evolves as they randomly meet in the same garden whenever it rains. But with the rainy season coming to a close, Takao wonders if there's enough time left to put his feelings into actions and words. (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

2/4 genres match

Hyouka

22 eps⭐ 7.92012Score: 30.4

1 shared genre: Slice of LifeSame studio: Kyoto AnimationSimilar era (2012)

MysteryRomanceSlice of Life

Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he bargained for when he signs up for the Classic Literature Club at his sister's behest—especially when he realizes how deep-rooted the club's history really is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is dragged into an investigation concerning the 45-year-old mystery that surrounds the club room. Accompanied by his fellow club members, the knowledgeable Satoshi Fukube, the stern but benign Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must combat deadlines and lack of information with resourcefulness and hidden talent, in order to not only find the truth buried beneath the dust of works created years before them, but of other side cases as well. Based on the award-winning Koten-bu light novel series, and directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto of Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu, Hyouka shows that normal life can be full of small mysteries, be it family history, a student film, or even the withered flowers that make up a ghost story. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

1/4 genres match

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl

1 eps⭐ 8.42019Score: 28.5

2 shared genres: Drama, SupernaturalSame format (MOVIE)Similar era (2019)

DramaPsychologicalRomanceSupernatural

In Fujisawa, where the skies are bright and the seas glisten, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. His blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted with the appearance of his first crush, Shouko Makinohara. For reasons unknown, he encounters two Shouko's: one in middle school and another who has become an adult. As Sakuta finds himself helplessly living with the Shouko's, the adult Shouko leads him around by the nose, causing a huge rift in his relationship with Mai. In the midst of all of this, he discovers that the middle school Shouko is suffering from a grave illness and his scar begins to throb... (Source: Aniplex USA)

2/4 genres match

Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign

12 eps⭐ 7.32015Score: 28.1

3 shared genres: Drama, Fantasy, SupernaturalSimilar era (2015)

ActionDramaFantasyMystery

The story takes place in a world where an unknown virus has killed the entire human population except for children under 13. Those children were then enslaved by vampires. The manga centers on Yuichiro Hyakuya, a human who dreams of becoming strong enough to kill all vampires. (Source: Anime News Network)

3/4 genres match

Attack on Titan

25 eps⭐ 8.52013Score: 28.0

2 shared genres: Drama, FantasySimilar era (2013)

ActionDramaFantasyMystery

Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest of titans. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a colossal titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single titan and take revenge for all of mankind. (Source: MangaHelpers)

2/4 genres match

Mob Psycho 100

12 eps⭐ 8.42016Score: 27.8

3 shared genres: Drama, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSimilar era (2016)

ActionComedyDramaPsychological

The story revolves around "Mob," a boy who will explode if his emotional capacity reaches 100%. This boy with psychic powers earned his nickname "Mob" because he does not stand out among other people. He keeps his psychic powers bottled up so he can live normally, but if his emotional level reaches 100, something will overwhelm his entire body. (Source: Anime News Network)

3/4 genres match

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