47 Shows Like Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (2020) to Watch When You're Done
To be united with her crush, a hopeless romantic summons the ghost in the girls' bathroom at her school. But she's shocked when the ghost is a boy!
Updated June 2026
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This stylish anime pairs a lovestruck schoolgirl with the mischievous ghost haunting her school's bathroom, in a supernatural tale of urban legends, yokai and slow-building feeling. Visually striking and tonally nimble — funny, eerie and tender by turns — it's a fresh take on school-set fantasy. If its quirky charm and ghostly romance hooked you, seek out supernatural anime that blend comedy, mystery and the bittersweet.
If you loved Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun (2020) by Yohei Fukui, here are 47 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 Blue Exorcist, Tower of God, Death Note. 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.
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