2016
Toho / CoMix Wave Films
Romance Fantasy Drama
A Tokyo boy and a rural girl start swapping bodies — and through each other's lives, fall in love with someone they've never actually met. Then a comet appears.…
If you loved Weathering With You's love story the universe keeps trying to destroy, Your Name delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — love and sacrifice — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2004
Theatrical (Studio Ghibli)
Romance Fantasy Adventure
Sophie, a young hatter, is cursed by a witch and aged into an old woman. She stumbles into the mysterious, traveling castle of the wizard Howl — vain, brilliant…
If you loved Weathering With You's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Howl's Moving Castle delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — love — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2019
44 eps
Fuji TV / Crunchyroll
Action Fantasy Drama
Tanjiro Kamado returns home to find his family slaughtered by demons and his sister Nezuko turned into one. Rather than kill her, he joins the Demon Slayer Corp…
If you loved Weathering With You's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. Same beautiful and emotional energy throughout.
2015
24 eps
Bones / Crunchyroll
Romance Fantasy Drama
Shirayuki is an herbalist with rare red hair who refuses to become a prince's concubine and flees her country. She ends up in the neighboring kingdom of Clarine…
If you loved Weathering With You's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Snow White with the Red Hair delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — love — is the same. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2023
12 eps
TV Tokyo / Crunchyroll
Romance Drama Fantasy
Miyo Saimori, abused and stripped of her inheritance by her stepfamily, is married off to Kiyoka Kudou — a cold military commander rumored to be so cruel that e…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: love. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.