Shows Like Spirited Away

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, and hiding somethi…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same magical and adventurous energy throughout.

Prince Bojji is deaf, tiny, and considered the weakest prince in a world that ranks kingdoms by military strength. When he befriends Kage, a shadow creature and the sole survivor o…

Like Spirited Away, it leans hard into coming of age. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

The demon king is dead. The hero's party won. The story is over — except for Frieren, an elf mage who lived a thousand years before the quest and will live a thousand more after. S…

Like Spirited Away, it leans hard into coming of age. The emotional territory — memory — is the same. Same beautiful and bittersweet energy throughout.

Ashitaka is cursed by a demon boar and travels west to find the source of the corruption — discovering a war between industrializing humans and the ancient spirits of a forest. On …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same beautiful energy throughout.

Two brothers use forbidden alchemy to try to resurrect their dead mother. It goes catastrophically wrong — one loses his body entirely, the other loses limbs. Now they search for t…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Monkey D. Luffy wants to become King of the Pirates. It sounds absurd — and it is, gloriously so. Across over a thousand episodes, One Piece builds a world of unmatched scope: isla…

If you loved Spirited Away's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, One Piece delivers exactly that. Same adventurous and emotional energy throughout.

Netflix's live-action adaptation of the world's best-selling manga. Monkey D. Luffy, a rubber-bodied optimist, assembles a pirate crew to find the legendary treasure One Piece. Wha…

If you loved Spirited Away's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, One Piece (Live Action) delivers exactly that. Same adventurous and emotional energy throughout.

Violet Evergarden was raised as a weapon — a child soldier with no knowledge of herself outside of orders and combat. When the war ends, she survives with mechanical arms and a sin…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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 Clarines, where she meets P…

Same beautiful and hopeful energy throughout.

Gon Freecss, a 12-year-old who grew up on an island, takes the notoriously dangerous Hunter Exam to find his absent father. What starts as a shonen adventure about a boy with a big…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same adventurous and emotional energy throughout.