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If you liked Ristorante Paradiso add

...then you might like Hanasaku Iroha add

Both series are quite relaxing. Both female leads are basically abandoned by their mothers at a young age. Therefore, both female leads initially hate their mothers. However, they realize that their mothers can be great sources of moral support and they don't have the worst intentions for their daughters. Both female leads also are thrown into an environment where they have to immediately figure out what they want to do. Both are thrown into a job that they're not really familiar with, but they do it anyway, and learn a lot from the process. I'd say Hanasaku Iroha has many more dramatic events than Ristorante Paradiso, but either one is pretty relaxing.

If you liked Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita add

...then you might like Kyousou Giga (TV) add

They both have the "all-over-the-place" feel, so they both will require viewers to watch them several times before making sense of anything. They are also random, but in a good way, They both have eye-popping visuals, just in different styles.

If you liked Sakura-sou no Pet na Kanojo add

...then you might like Gin no Saji add

Both anime have protagonists that are confused about what they really want to do in life. Around them are all these people that are pursuing what they want to do (and excelling at them), while the protagonists feel frustrated about not even having a true goal. Both protagonists also live in an environment they don't really belong to, and as a result are surrounded by a weird and rowdy group of people. Ganbare Hachiken and Sorata!

If you liked Clannad add

...then you might like Hyouka add

The main characters in both series are quite similar in terms of personality and behavior. Okazaki Tomoya, the lead male protagonist in Clannad, is a lazy bum that never tries too hard at anything and always fools around with his one buddy, Sunohara Youhei. Oreki Houtarou, the lead male protagonist in Hyouka, is a lazy student that believes in conserving energy and leads a dull and passive lifestyle. Like Tomoya, he has only one friend: Satoshi Fukube. Furukawa Nagisa, the lead female protagonist in Clannad, is a shy, unassertive, and airheaded girl that doesn't have much presence in school. Chitanda Eru, the lead female protagonist in Hyouka, is an intelligent but airheaded girl that gets easily distracted by her compulsive curiosity. The similarity between Nagisa and Chitanda is not as apparent, but they both elicit out the best side of the male protagonists. Nagisa inadvertently gives Tomoya a sense of purpose in high school and eventually in life, while Chitanda makes Houtarou go against his motto and do things he never would have had he kept on with his passive lifestyle. Not only that, the concepts of the anime are more or less similar to one another. Clannad is about solving mysteries or other social problems that arise within the school, and Hyouka is all about mystery solving. The only main difference is that Clannad tends to be more fantastical while Hyouka is more realistic.