50 Shows Like Dan Da Dan (2024) to Watch When You're Done
In a bet to prove whether ghosts or aliens exist, two high schoolers face terrifying paranormal threats, gain superpowers and maybe even fall in love?!
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This frenetic 2024 anime throws two teens — one who believes in ghosts, one in aliens — into a whirlwind of both, gaining strange powers and stranger feelings. Wildly animated, funny and unexpectedly romantic, it became an instant sensation. If its chaotic energy and heart hooked you, seek out supernatural action anime that blend horror, comedy and a tender love story at full speed.
If you loved Dan Da Dan (2024) by Toshihiro Maeda, here are 50 TV series that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Assassination Classroom, High School DxD. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Shows Similar to Dan Da Dan
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Assassination Classroom
2015
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2012
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2022
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Sailor Moon
1992
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2020
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2009
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2020
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2015
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2006
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1995
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2014
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2015 · Kazuya Tasaki
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2010
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2019
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2019
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2020
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2018
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