 If you liked
Aoi Hana
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 ...then you might like
Hourou Musuko
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Slow pacing, bittersweet emotions and light, pleasant animation. If you liked one, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy the other as well.
Both are beautiful slice of life dramas that involve peculiar romance. Aoi Hana's about 2 girls that fall in love and Hourou Musuko's about a boy that wants to be a girl and a girl that wants to be a boy that fall in love.
They're both adapted from manga which have been written and drawn by the same mangaka, Takako Shimura.
If you like one of these anime, you will like the other.
Besides the fact that they have the same manga author, they have an incredibly similar feel. Both Hourou Musuko and Aoi Hana are slow-paced dramas dealing with different characters as they grow up and issues with their sexuality, although they touch on different topics and the characters in Aoi Hana are a little older. Each of them have great, relaxing BGM to go along with their stories. I'd say they're about the same in quality.
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Recommended by supersloth
Both are written by the same author hence the similar style and feeling of the series.
The art is also similar in both titles that deals with growing up and falling in love.
Both series also has a slice of life feeling that has a relative pace that combines the mixture of comedy, drama, and overall a good feeling in life at a school setting involving kids growing up.
Aoi Hana and Hourou Musuko are both slow-paced, slice-of-life animes that deal with topics not often in animes - sexual orientation and finding out who you are. Aoi Hana is not your typical yuri; it's much deeper than that. Both animes give you characters that you will grow to love as you learn about their pasts, flaws, fears, and personalities. Each character has such different backgrounds and different problems compared to the others; you couldn't possibly ignore even one of them. Even the side characters have very detailed pasts. Both Aoi Hana and Hourou Musuko have light art, which makes watching them really calming.
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Recommended by Unfulfilled
Refreshing LGBT-themed animes whose focus is very unlike the traditional yaoi/yuri type of shows.
In Aoi Hana we see both explicitly lesbian and bisexual characters, while we in Hourou Musuko see multiple trans characters represented, one of whom is even a lesbian!
Both are feel-good shows with a light touch, giving you a nice feeling while watching, and you will start to sympathize with the characters and their emotions.