20 anime like LOOK BACK
These are the titles AniList users most often recommend to people who enjoyed LOOK BACK, ranked by how many recommended each one. 8 are short series of 13 episodes or fewer, and 11 are films you can watch in one sitting.
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Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
Movie · 2025 · 90/100
It shares its focus on coming of age, work, philosophy. Recommended by 187 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
- Romance
- 2
100 METERS
Movie · 2025 · 83/100
It shares its focus on rotoscoping, philosophy, coming of age. Recommended by 171 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Sports
- 3
Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26
Movie · 2025 · 79/100
It shares its focus on female protagonist, drawing. Recommended by 125 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Action
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
- 4
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
TV · 2020 · 12 eps · 80/100
It shares its focus on drawing, primarily female cast, female protagonist, and is a longer watch at 12 episodes. Recommended by 110 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Slice of Life
- 5
Blue Period
ONA · 2021 · 12 eps · 77/100
It shares its focus on drawing, coming of age, philosophy, and is a longer watch at 12 episodes. Recommended by 97 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Slice of Life
- 6
Journal with Witch
TV · 2026 · 13 eps · 87/100
It shares its focus on female protagonist, coming of age, primarily female cast, and is a longer watch at 13 episodes. Recommended by 82 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Slice of Life
- 7
Liz and the Blue Bird
Movie · 2018 · 83/100
It shares its focus on coming of age, female protagonist, primarily female cast. Recommended by 66 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Music
- Slice of Life
- 8
Pompo: The Cinéphile
Movie · 2021 · 81/100
It shares its focus on work, coming of age, female protagonist. Recommended by 50 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Comedy
- Drama
- 9
Bakuman.
TV · 2010 · 25 eps · 79/100
It shares its focus on work, drawing, coming of age, and is a longer watch at 25 episodes. Recommended by 46 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Comedy
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life
- 10
Whisper of the Heart
Movie · 1995 · 81/100
It shares its focus on coming of age, female protagonist. Recommended by 24 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Adventure
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life
- 11
Blue Giant
Movie · 2023 · 83/100
It is also drama. Recommended by 22 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Music
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Draw This, Then Die!
TV · 2026 · 12 eps · 81/100
It shares its focus on drawing, primarily female cast, female protagonist, and is a longer watch at 12 episodes. Recommended by 22 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Comedy
- Slice of Life
- 13
A Japanese Boy Who Draws
Movie · 2019 · 68/100
It shares its focus on drawing, autobiographical, meta. Recommended by 18 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- 14
A Silent Voice
Movie · 2016 · 88/100
It shares its focus on rehabilitation, coming of age, female protagonist. Recommended by 18 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life
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ZENSHU
TV · 2025 · 12 eps · 73/100
It shares its focus on female protagonist, drawing, meta, and is a longer watch at 12 episodes. Recommended by 16 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Action
- Fantasy
- Romance
- 16
The Case of Hana & Alice
Movie · 2015 · 71/100
It shares its focus on female protagonist, rotoscoping, coming of age. Recommended by 15 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Mystery
- Slice of Life
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Chainsaw Man
TV · 2022 · 12 eps · 83/100
It is also drama, and is a longer watch at 12 episodes. Recommended by 12 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Action
- Drama
- Horror
- Supernatural
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Ping Pong the Animation
TV · 2014 · 11 eps · 86/100
It shares its focus on coming of age, philosophy, rotoscoping, and is a longer watch at 11 episodes. Recommended by 11 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Psychological
- Sports
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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Movie · 2018 · 84/100
It shares its focus on coming of age, philosophy, female protagonist. Recommended by 10 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Drama
- Romance
- Slice of Life
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Aka no Kioku
Special · 1 eps · 62/100
It shares its focus on coming of age, female protagonist. Recommended by 10 AniList users who watched LOOK BACK.
- Slice of Life
Recommendation votes from AniList users. Highlighted genres are shared with LOOK BACK.