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20 anime similar to Rewrite based on genre, format, studio, and popularity

Anime Like Rewrite

Looking for anime similar to Rewrite? Here are 10 anime recommendations that share similar themes, genres, or storytelling styles.

Why These Recommendations?

We selected these anime based on shared genres (Drama, Mystery, Romance), similar narrative structures, comparable art styles, and positive fan overlap. If you enjoyed Rewrite, these series should appeal to your taste.

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Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

11 eps8.02011Score: 42.8
4 shared genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSame format (TV)
DramaRomanceSlice of LifeSupernatural

Jinta Yadomi and his group of childhood friends have become estranged after a tragic accident split them apart. Now in their high school years, a sudden surprise forces each of them to confront their guilt over what happened that day and come to terms with the ghosts of their past. (Source: NIS America)

4/5 genres match
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The Ancient Magus' Bride

24 eps7.82017Score: 41.4
4 shared genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar 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)

4/5 genres match
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Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

13 eps8.12018Score: 40.6
4 shared genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar era (2018)
ComedyDramaMysteryPsychological

There's a rumor about a mysterious phenomenon called "puberty syndrome." For example, Sakuta Azusagawa is a high school student who suddenly sees a bunny girl appear in front of him. The girl is actually a girl named Mai Sakurajima, who is Sakuta's upperclassman who is also a famous actress who has gone on hiatus from the entertainment industry. For some reason, the people around Mai cannot see her bunny-girl figure. Sakuta sets out to solve this mystery, and as he spends time with Mai, he learns her secret feelings. Other heroines who have "puberty syndrome" start to appear in front of Sakuta. (Source: Anime News Network)

4/5 genres match
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Orange

13 eps7.52016Score: 40.3
3 shared genres: Drama, Romance, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar era (2016)
DramaRomanceSupernatural

Everyone has regrets in life. So who wouldn't take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter tells her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on him. But why? Naho must decide what to make of the letter and its cryptic warning, and what it means not only for her future, but for Kakeru's as well. (Source: Anime News Network) Note: The last episode aired with a runtime of ~40 minutes as opposed to the standard 24 minute long episode.

3/5 genres match
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Fruits Basket (2019)

25 eps8.22019Score: 40.0
4 shared genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar era (2019)
ComedyDramaRomanceSlice of Life

Tohru Honda thought her life was headed for misfortune when a family tragedy left her living in a tent. When her small home is discovered by the mysterious Soma clan, she suddenly finds herself living with Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure Soma. But she quickly learns their family has a bizarre secret of their own: when hugged by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Zodiac! (Source: Crunchyroll)

4/5 genres match
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BEASTARS

12 eps7.72019Score: 39.5
4 shared genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Slice of LifeSame format (TV)Similar era (2019)
DramaMysteryPsychologicalRomance

In a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, herbivores and carnivores coexist with each other. For the adolescents of Cherryton Academy, school life is filled with hope, romance, distrust, and uneasiness. The main character is Legoshi the wolf, a member of the drama club. Despite his menacing appearance, he has a very gentle heart. Throughout most of his life, he has always been an object of fear and hatred by other animals, and he’s been quite accustomed to that lifestyle. But soon, he finds himself becoming more involved with his fellow classmates who have their own share of insecurities and finds his life in school changing slowly. (Source: moetron)

4/5 genres match
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Your lie in April

22 eps8.42014Score: 38.8
3 shared genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of LifeSame format (TV)Similar era (2014)
DramaMusicRomanceSlice of Life

Piano prodigy Arima Kousei dominated the competition and all child musicians knew his name. But after his mother, who was also his instructor, passed away, he had a mental breakdown while performing at a recital. This resulted in him no longer being able to hear the sound of his piano playing. Two years later, Kousei hasn’t touched the piano and views the world without any flair or color. He was content at living out his life with his good friends Tsubaki and Watari until, one day, a girl changed everything. Miyazono Kaori is a pretty, free spirited violinist whose playing style reflects her personality. Kaori helps Kousei return to the music world and show that it should be free and mold breaking unlike the structured and rigid style Kousei was used to.

3/5 genres match
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ERASED

12 eps8.12016Score: 38.7
3 shared genres: Drama, Mystery, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar era (2016)
DramaMysteryPsychologicalSupernatural

Satoru Fujinuma is a 29 year old manga artist struggling to make a name for himself following his debut. But, that was not the only thing in his life that Satoru was feeling frustrated about… He has a unique supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.

3/5 genres match
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Blue Spring Ride

12 eps7.52014Score: 38.3
3 shared genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of LifeSame format (TV)Similar era (2014)
DramaRomanceSlice of Life

Yoshioka Futaba has a few reasons why she wants to "reset" her image & life as a new high school student. Because she's cute, she was ostracized by her female friends in junior high, and because of a misunderstanding, she couldn't get her feeling across to the one boy she has ever liked, Tanaka-kun. Now in high school, she is determined to be as unladylike as possible so that her friends won't be jealous of her. While living her life this way contentedly, she meets Tanaka-kun again, but he now goes under the name of Mabuchi Kou. He tells her that he felt the same way as she did when they were younger, but now things can never be the same again. Will Futaba be able to continue her love that never even started from three years ago?

3/5 genres match
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Hyouka

22 eps7.92012Score: 37.4
3 shared genres: Mystery, Romance, Slice of LifeSame format (TV)Similar 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)

3/5 genres match
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Mob Psycho 100

12 eps8.42016Score: 37.2
3 shared genres: Drama, Slice of Life, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar 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)

3/5 genres match
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!

13 eps8.12015Score: 36.6
3 shared genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of LifeSame format (TV)Similar era (2015)
ComedyDramaRomanceSlice of Life

The second season of Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku picks up immediately after the events of the first season, continuing the adventures of the Volunteer Service Club—the dispassionate Hachiman Hikigaya, the cheerful Yui Yuigahama, and the competitive Yukino Yukinoshita—as it dedicates itself to helping any student with issues that they may face. With the rift among his own group widening, Hachiman begins to realize that his knack for quickly getting to the root of other people's troubles is a double-edged sword: sometimes the best solution is not necessarily the most appropriate one. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

3/5 genres match
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Plastic Memories

13 eps7.72015Score: 36.5
3 shared genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of LifeSame format (TV)Similar era (2015)
DramaRomanceSci-FiSlice of Life

This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they... Well, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but... (Source: Anime News Network)

3/5 genres match
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Death Parade

12 eps8.02015Score: 36.4
3 shared genres: Drama, Mystery, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar era (2015)
DramaMysteryPsychologicalSupernatural

When two people die at the same time, they’re sent to a place that’s neither heaven nor hell—a lavish bar between worlds where the stakes are high and the rules are simple: if you win you live again, if you die… you’re gone for good. Decim is the bartender charged with serving the souls who enter Quindecim. He may make a mean cocktail, but his true profession is to play the role of arbiter—a judge who determines whether or not a soul is worthy of reincarnation. To aid in his judgment, the bar’s patrons are forced to play simple games laced with sadistic twists designed to bring their true natures to light. To Decim, judgment has always been black and white—that is—until he meets a mysterious young woman whose fate seems impossible to decide. His indecision shakes the very foundation of the games and raises the biggest question of all: Who is fit to judge the dead? (Source: Funimation)

3/5 genres match
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BLUE LOCK

24 eps8.02022Score: 36.3
1 shared genre: DramaSame format (TV)Same studio: 8-bit
ActionDramaSports

Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer? (Source: Crunchyroll)

1/5 genres match
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Tokyo Ghoul

12 eps7.62014Score: 36.3
3 shared genres: Drama, Mystery, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar era (2014)
ActionDramaHorrorMystery

The suspense horror/dark fantasy story is set in Tokyo, which is haunted by mysterious "ghouls" who are devouring humans. People are gripped by the fear of these ghouls whose identities are masked in mystery. An ordinary college student named Kaneki encounters Rize, a girl who is an avid reader like him, at the café he frequents. Little does he realize that his fate will change overnight. (Source: Anime News Network)

3/5 genres match
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Charlotte

13 eps7.52015Score: 36.0
3 shared genres: Drama, Romance, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar era (2015)
ComedyDramaRomanceSci-Fi

The story centers around the special abilities that occur among a small percentage of boys and girls in puberty. Yuu Otosaka uses his power without others knowing, and lives a fairly normal, average school life. Before him suddenly appears a girl, Nao Tomori. Due to his meeting with her, the fate of special power-users will be exposed. (Source: Anime News Network)

3/5 genres match
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

39 eps8.42016Score: 35.9
3 shared genres: Drama, Mystery, SupernaturalSame format (TV)Similar era (2016)
ActionAdventureDramaMystery

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Diamond wa Kudakenai adapts the fourth part of the JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken manga series. It's the year 1999, 11 years after Jotaro Kujo's desperate fight against DIO in Egypt. Jotaro meets with Josuke Higashikata, the illegitimate son of his grandfather Joseph Joestar. He discovers that Josuke also has the same "Stand" power and that a new threat is surfacing in Morioh City. (Source: Anime News Network)

3/5 genres match
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My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

13 eps7.82013Score: 35.6
3 shared genres: Drama, Romance, Slice of LifeSame format (TV)Similar era (2013)
ComedyDramaRomanceSlice of Life

This romantic comedy revolves around an antisocial high school student named Hikigaya Hachiman with a distorted view on life and no friends or girlfriend. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about living their adolescent lives, he mutters: "They're a bunch of liars." When he is asked about his future dreams, he responds: "Not working." A teacher gets Hachiman to join the 'Volunteer Service' club, which happens to have the school's prettiest girl: Yukinoshita Yukino. (Source: Anime News Network)

3/5 genres match
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Attack on Titan

25 eps8.52013Score: 35.6
2 shared genres: Drama, MysterySame format (TV)Similar 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)

2/5 genres match
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