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Why you loved it

Anime like Saikano

Not everyone loves Saikano for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Saikano

Read them all. One will sound more like you than the others.

  1. You like a love story that breaks your heart.

  2. You can take an ending with very little hope.

  3. You like a clumsy teenage couple trying to stay together.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

Tick them here or with “That’s me” above. The picks re-sort by how many of your reasons they share.

  • Orange2016

    • a love story that breaks your heart
    • a clumsy teenage couple trying to stay together

    Good for you if you like being moved to tears by a story about regret.

  • Orange: Future2016

    • a love story that breaks your heart
    • a clumsy teenage couple trying to stay together

    Good for you if you're ready to cry with friends who lost Kakeru.

  • Barefoot Gen1983

    • a love story that breaks your heart

    Good for you if you want to be moved by a child who keeps going after losing almost everything.

  • The Day I Became a God2020

    • a love story that breaks your heart
    • a clumsy teenage couple trying to stay together

    Good for you if you like a light story that ends up making you cry.

  • X2001

    • an ending with very little hope

    Good for you if you can take a dark story where childhood friends end up on opposite sides of the apocalypse.

  • NANA2006

    • a love story that breaks your heart

    Good for you if you like a story about dreams and love that hurts.

  • Grave of the Fireflies1988

    • a love story that breaks your heart

    Good for you if you want a film that leaves you crying.

  • 5 Centimeters per Second2007

    • an ending with very little hope

    Good for you if you can take a love story about distance and time pulling people apart.

  • Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK2024

    • an ending with very little hope

    Good for you if you can take an ending where nobody wins cleanly.

  • I Want to Eat Your Pancreas2018

    • a love story that breaks your heart
    • a clumsy teenage couple trying to stay together

    Good for you if you want to cry over a shy boy and a girl living her last months to the full.

  • No Game No Life: Zero2017

    • a love story that breaks your heart
    • a clumsy teenage couple trying to stay together

    Good for you if you like being moved to tears by a love story in the middle of a war.

Reasons taken from Saikano's card. Picks from the Ipsomap catalogue. This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

That's one anime.

Ipsomap does this with everything you watch. Write a few honest lines after each one, and it works out which reasons are yours, then finds picks that share them.

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