Anime Like Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era

20 anime similar to Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era based on genre, format, studio, and popularity

Anime Like Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era

Looking for anime similar to Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era? Here are 10 anime recommendations that share similar themes, genres, or storytelling styles.

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We selected these anime based on shared genres (Drama, Psychological, Slice of Life), similar narrative structures, comparable art styles, and positive fan overlap. If you enjoyed Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era, these series should appeal to your taste.

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A Silent Voice

1 eps⭐ 8.82016Score: 30.8

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)

DramaRomanceSlice of Life

After transferring into a new school, a deaf girl, Shouko Nishimiya, is bullied by the popular Shouya Ishida. As Shouya continues to bully Shouko, the class turns its back on him. Shouko transfers and Shouya grows up as an outcast. Alone and depressed, the regretful Shouya finds Shouko to make amends. (Source: Eleven Arts)

2/4 genres match

The Garden of Words

1 eps⭐ 7.52013Score: 30.4

3 shared genres: Drama, Psychological, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)

DramaPsychologicalRomanceSlice of Life

Some people revel and play in the rain; others dread it and hide at the first drop. For high school student Takao, a summer shower is a source of artistic inspiration… but when he skips school in order to sketch in a rainy garden, Takao finds an even greater muse in Yukino, an older woman who seems adrift in the world. Despite the difference in their ages and lives, they strike up a comfortable relationship that slowly evolves as they randomly meet in the same garden whenever it rains. But with the rainy season coming to a close, Takao wonders if there's enough time left to put his feelings into actions and words. (Source: Sentai Filmworks)

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Violet Evergarden: the Movie

1 eps⭐ 8.72020Score: 29.9

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)Similar era (2020)

DramaFantasySlice of Life

While writing other people’s emotions, she may have neglected her own. Violet Evergarden, the child soldier turned Auto Memory Doll, writes letters that evoke the words her clients can’t. But when a terminally ill boy requests her services for his family, her own feelings about love and loss resurface. Now she must confront her past and the death of the Major. (Source: Funimation)

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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas

1 eps⭐ 8.42018Score: 29.5

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)

DramaRomanceSlice of Life

Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a book in a hospital waiting room. Handwritten on the cover are the words: "Living with Dying." He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular and genuinely cheerful classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, who reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a pancreatic illness and only has a limited time left. It is at this moment that she gains just one more person to share her secret. Trying to maintain a normal life as much as possible, Sakura is determined to live her life to the fullest until the very last day. As her free spirit and unpredictable actions throw him for a loop, his heart begins to gradually change. (Source: Aniplex USA)

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Weathering With You

1 eps⭐ 8.12019Score: 28.4

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)

DramaRomanceSlice of LifeSupernatural

High school student Hodaka leaves his home on an isolated island and moves to Tokyo, but he immediately becomes broke. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds a job as a writer for a shady occult magazine. After he starts his job, the weather has been rainy day after day. In a corner of the crowded and busy city, Hodaka meets a young woman named Hina. Due to certain circumstances, Hina and her younger brother live together, but have a cheerful and sturdy life. Hina also has a certain power: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky. (Source: Anime News Network)

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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl

1 eps⭐ 8.42019Score: 27.5

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSame format (MOVIE)

DramaPsychologicalRomanceSupernatural

In Fujisawa, where the skies are bright and the seas glisten, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. His blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted with the appearance of his first crush, Shouko Makinohara. For reasons unknown, he encounters two Shouko's: one in middle school and another who has become an adult. As Sakuta finds himself helplessly living with the Shouko's, the adult Shouko leads him around by the nose, causing a huge rift in his relationship with Mai. In the midst of all of this, he discovers that the middle school Shouko is suffering from a grave illness and his scar begins to throb... (Source: Aniplex USA)

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Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

1 eps⭐ 9.02025Score: 24.8

1 shared genre: DramaSame format (MOVIE)Similar era (2025)

ActionDramaHorrorRomance

Theatrical follow-up to Chainsaw Man. Denji became “Chainsaw Man”, a boy with a devil’s heart, and is now part of Special Division 4’s devil hunters. After a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, Denji takes shelter from the rain. There he meets Reze, a girl who works in a café. (Source: MAPPA CHANNEL)

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5 Centimeters per Second

3 eps⭐ 7.22007Score: 24.4

2 shared genres: Drama, Slice of LifeSame format (MOVIE)

DramaRomanceSlice of Life

Tohno Takaki and Shinohara Akari, two very close friends and classmates, are torn apart when Akari's family is transferred to another region of Japan due to her family's job. Despite separation, they continue to keep in touch through mail. When Takaki finds out that his family is also moving, he decides to meet with Akari one last time. As years pass by, they continue down their own paths, their distance slowly growing wider and their contact with one another fades. Yet, they keep remembering one another and the times they have shared together, wondering if they will have the chance to meet once again.

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Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

1 eps⭐ 8.42020Score: 24.2

1 shared genre: DramaSame format (MOVIE)Similar era (2020)

ActionAdventureDramaFantasy

This Demon Slayer movie sees Tanjiro Kamado and friends from the Demon Slayer corps board the Infinity Train on a new mission to investigate a mysterious series of disappearances, perpetrated by a demon who has been tormenting people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it.

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Your Name.

1 eps⭐ 8.62016Score: 23.8

1 shared genre: DramaSame format (MOVIE)

DramaRomanceSupernatural

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl, yearns to live the life of a boy in the bustling city of Tokyo—a dream that stands in stark contrast to her present life in the countryside. Meanwhile in the city, Taki Tachibana lives a busy life as a high school student while juggling his part-time job and hopes for a future in architecture. One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another. Kimi no Na wa. revolves around Mitsuha and Taki's actions, which begin to have a dramatic impact on each other's lives, weaving them into a fabric held together by fate and circumstance. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

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Mob Psycho 100 III

12 eps⭐ 8.72022Score: 23.3

3 shared genres: Drama, Psychological, Slice of LifeSimilar era (2022)

ActionComedyDramaPsychological

The third season of Mob Psycho 100. The appearance of a divine tree and new religion turns Mob and Reigen's city upside down! (Source: Crunchyroll)

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BLUE LOCK

24 eps⭐ 8.02022Score: 23.0

2 shared genres: Drama, SportsSimilar era (2022)

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)

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BEASTARS

12 eps⭐ 7.72019Score: 22.5

3 shared genres: Drama, Psychological, Slice of Life

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)

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Classroom of the Elite Season 2

13 eps⭐ 7.92022Score: 22.4

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSimilar era (2022)

DramaMysteryPsychological

The second season of Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e. Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School seems like a paradise, but in reality, it is an extreme meritocracy. In the class of underachievers, Kiyotaka has begun working with Suzune, who seeks to ascend higher. After a survival test on an uninhabited island, they get to enjoy a luxury liner, but a new class-scrambling test will begin. (Source: Anime News Network)

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Perfect Blue

1 eps⭐ 8.51998Score: 22.3

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSame format (MOVIE)

DramaHorrorPsychologicalThriller

Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, but her fans aren’t ready to see her go... Encouraged by her managers, Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima’s reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia. As her stalker closes in, in person and online, the threat he poses is more real than even Mima knows, in this iconic psychological thriller that has frequently been hailed as one of the most important animated films of all time. (Source: Shout! Factory) Note: The film received an early premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival on August 5, 1997.

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Classroom of the Elite

12 eps⭐ 7.62017Score: 22.2

2 shared genres: Drama, Psychological

DramaPsychological

Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading school with state-of-the-art facilities. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is like a utopia, but the truth is that only the most superior students receive favorable treatment. Kiyotaka Ayanokouji is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its "inferior" students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Suzune Horikita and Kikyou Kushida, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka's situation begins to change. (Source: Anime News Network, edited)

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Mob Psycho 100 II

13 eps⭐ 8.72019Score: 22.2

3 shared genres: Drama, Psychological, Slice of Life

ActionComedyDramaPsychological

The second season of Mob Psycho 100. Kageyama is an ordinary 8th grader who just wants to live a normal life. Although he can disappear in the crowd in a flash, he was actually the most powerful psychic. The lives of those around Mob and his numerous feelings that softly piles up for the eventual explosion. The mysterious group "Claw" stands before him once again. In the midst of his youthful days, where will his roaring heart take him!? (Source: Crunchyroll)

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Oshi No Ko

11 eps⭐ 8.42023Score: 22.1

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSimilar era (2023)

DramaMysteryPsychologicalSupernatural

When a pregnant young starlet appears in Gorou Amemiya’s countryside medical clinic, the doctor takes it upon himself to safely (and secretly) deliver Ai Hoshino’s child so she can make a scandal-free return to the stage. But no good deed goes unpunished, and on the eve of her delivery, he finds himself slain at the hands of Ai’s deluded stalker — and subsequently reborn as Ai’s child, Aquamarine Hoshino! The glitz and glamor of showbiz hide the dark underbelly of the entertainment industry, threatening to dull the shine of his favorite star. Can he help his new mother rise to the top of the charts? And what will he do when unthinkable disaster strikes? (Source: HIDIVE) Note: Episode 1【推しの子】Mother and Children was pre-screened in advance in Japanese theaters on March 17, 2023. The regular TV broadcast began on April 12, 2023. The first episode has an extended runtime of ~82 minutes.

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

10 eps⭐ 8.52022Score: 21.5

2 shared genres: Drama, PsychologicalSimilar era (2022)

ActionDramaPsychologicalSci-Fi

An original anime series set in in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk. (Source: CD PROJEKT RED) Note: The first episode received a pre-screening at Anime Expo on July 2, 2022. The first 3 dubbed episodes were streamed on Twitch as part of a co-stream promotion on September 12, a day before the show’s premiere.

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SK8 the Infinity

12 eps⭐ 7.92021Score: 21.3

2 shared genres: Drama, SportsSimilar era (2021)

ActionDramaSports

Reki, a high school sophomore and skater, is addicted to “S,” a highly secret and dangerous downhill skateboarding race that takes place in an abandoned mine. The skaters are especially wild about the “beefs,” or heated battles that erupt in the races. Reki takes Langa, a transfer student returning to Japan after studying abroad, to the mine where the races are held. Langa, who has no skateboarding experience, finds himself pulled into the world of “S”... (Source: Aniplex of America) Note: On March 13, 2021 a recap episode (9.5) went on air, postponing the broadcast of the regular episodes by one week.

2/4 genres match

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