Haikyuu!!

Series Similar to Haikyuu!!

If you enjoyed Haikyuu!!, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Prince of Tennis

   2001 · Comedy, Anime, Sports · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile, hidden gem.

   Echizen Ryoma is a young tennis prodigy who has won 4 consecutive tennis championships but who constantly lies in the shadow of his father, a former pro tennis player. He joins the Seishun Gakuen junior highschool, one of the best tennis schools in Japan, and there along with his teamates he learns to find his own type of tennis in an attempt to defeat his biggest obstacle of all: his father as well as himself.

2. Shingeki! Kyojin Chuugakkou

   2015 · Comedy, Anime · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem, also on MBS.

   The school comedy story is set in a junior high school and centers on the original manga's characters such as Eren and Mikasa as they battle with Titans. The spin-off incorporates gags while using Shingeki no Kyojin's story and notable scenes as its basis.

3. Tejina-senpai

   2019 · Comedy, Anime · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile.

   Our MC finds out that his school requires him to join a club and during his reluctant search he stumbles upon Tejina-senpai attempting magic tricks in her clubroom. Tejina-senpai has massive stage fright however and so now that she has an audience her attempts are simply comedic.

4. Love is Like a Cocktail

   2017 · Comedy, Anime · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   Chisato Mizusawa is a reserved but excellent and pretty assistant manager in her company. She has a secret that only her husband Sora knows, which is that she likes drinking alcohol, and she can become very cute when she is drunk!

5. Hajime no Ippo

   2000 · Comedy, Action, Anime, Sports · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile.

   Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...

6. Hinomaru Sumo

   2018 · Anime, Sports · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Anime / Sports profile, hidden gem.

   A "small" new student, Ushio Hinomaru, appears before the weak little sumo club of Oodachi High School. The words "big" and "heavy" are the rules to this sport, which does not fit this newbie one bit, but Ushio surprises everyone. Ushio and the small sumo club climbs its way to the top with a goal to reach the highest rank, Hinoshita Kaisan.

7. Barakamon

   2014 · Comedy, Adventure, Anime · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   As a punishment for punching a famous Calligrapher, young handsome Calligrapher Handa Seishu is exiled on a small island. As someone who has never lived outside of a city, Handa has to adapt to his new wacky neighbors, like people traveling on a tractor, unwanted visitors who never use the front door, annoying kids using his home as a playground, etc. Can this city guy handle all the crazy hardships? Find out in this wacky island comedy full of innocence and laughter!

8. Blue Mountain State

   2010 · Comedy, Sports · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Sports profile, highly rated (8).

   Blue Mountain State follows the on and off-field antics of college football powerhouse, Blue Mountain State. Former NFL running back and veteran actor, Ed Marinaro (Hill Street Blues), stars as no-nonsense Coach Daniels. In season 3, Coach Daniels will have his authority challenged when the boosters force him to hire a hotshot offensive coordinator/head coach-in-waiting. Alex, played by Emmy Award(R)-winner Darin Brooks (Blue Crush), will have to step up from being a fun-loving second-string to the starting quarterback.

9. Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

   2013 · Comedy, Anime, Horror · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Anime profile, hidden gem.

   The students of class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any of them have ever had?

10. Azumanga Daioh

    2002 · Comedy, Anime · ended93% match

    Recommended for similar Anime profile.

    Azumanga Daioh is about high school life through the eyes of six girls with unusual personalities: Chiyo (the 10-year-old genius), Osaka (the resident airhead), Sakaki (the shy one prone to cat bites), Tomo (the loose cannon), Yomi (the short-tempered one) and Kagura (the resident jock).