Shouzou Saitou and Ine Saitou have been married for 60 years and blessed with children and grandchildren. However, as rural farmers they had to live their life quite frugally, but their marriage helped them through the hard times.
While tending to the apple tree that they planted as newlyweds which had been damaged in a recent storm, they discover a golden apple. Sharing it, the next morning they wake up to find out that they have turned young again.
Realizing that they can turn young and old again in their sleep, but that their lives are still finite, the pair enjoy the time with their family and do all the things that they could not do when they were young the first time.
While it accurately relays older sensibilities, this series is “Relationship Goals the Anime.” If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again, then head on down below.
Anime Like Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again
For Fans of Older People in Love
Troublesome Old Man
Although Jii-san and Baa-san are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, they still find new ways to build love each day. Jii-san in particular is a bit troublesome, but enjoys acting like a fool if it means making his wife’s heart flutter.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Troublesome Old Man
- Old people flirting with each other
- Old men are devoted to their long-time wives
- Cute and wholesome, but also occasionally comedic
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Troublesome Old Man
- Troublesome Old Man lacks any supernatural element. So no one turns young again. It really is just an old guy flirting cutely with his elderly wife.
- Troublesome Old Man is a short-form anime, so episodes are only 2 minutes long.
- Troublesome Old Man lacks the variety of side characters that flesh out the rest of Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again.
Ristorante Paradiso
Nicoletta is on her first trip to Rome with a mission – to ruin her mother’s life after she walked out on her 15 years ago. She tracks her mother down to a restaurant, but as soon as she enters, everything changes.
She becomes enamored by the place, and one waiter in particular. Suddenly, her urge for vengeance fades and her desire to cook starts to grow.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Ristorante Paradiso
- Old people? Capable of feeling romantic love? The very idea! But both of these series are about it.
- Both series deal with regrets, but also feature characters with the wisdom of age to work through them.
- Both offer some drama outside of the otherwise slice of life plots.
- A bevy of interesting side characters to keep things fresh.
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Ristorante Paradiso
- Ristorante Paradiseo is an age-gap romance for the one young adult female main character in a sea of refined older men.
- Ristorante Paradiso is set in a restaurant in Italy rather than a farm in rural Japan like Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again.
- Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again is often more cheerful slice of life and grandchildren romance-shipping, while Ristorante Paradiso is most focused on working through regrets and past issues. One is wholesome fluff, the other is thoughtful, not melodramatic drama.
For Fans of Being Young Again
ReLife
Arata Kaizaki is an unemployed 27-year-old that has thus far been living with the financial support of his parents and part-time jobs. After leaving his first job after only three months, he has not been able to find proper work.
However, after a night of drinking with his friends, he meets a mysterious man that offers a drunk Arata a pill that will turn him 17 again so that he can redo a year of his youth, all expenses paid.
Will Arata find what he needs to live a happy life after one year in high school again?
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and ReLife
- “What would you do if you could be young again and do things over?” Both series work with that question.
- Main characters regress in age, turning younger physically, but not mentally.
- Primarily slice of life and comedy, but with some drama over various personal issues.
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and ReLife
- Relife is about a 28-year-old NEET given a chance to rehabilitate his social skills with a pill that turns him into a high schooler and a program that enrolls him in high school.
- Relife is exploring a romantic connection, but has resistance due to the ages involved. So no happy marriage like Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again, but also not “adult man preying on high school girls” either.
Remake Our Life
As an adult, Kyouya Hashiba left his office job to pursue a career in the video game industry. Although he tried every role, nothing has worked out. Even with the bright potential of a popular game he got a job on after giving up, the division closes down abruptly.
Now moving back in with his parents, he wishes he had gone to the arts university he had gotten into instead of the safer business university he chose so that perhaps he could have trained with the similarly-aged Platinum Generation of hit game-makers.
Upon falling asleep one night, he wakes up as a high school graduate again getting ready to make his choice on which university to attend.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Remake Our Life
- “What would you do if you could be young again and do things over?” Both series work with that question.
- The main characters are young again, but retain their older minds.
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Remake Our Life
- Remake Our Life is a literal time travel series, unlike Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again where their bodies just get young again.
- Remake Our Life is about forming a romantic connection rather than already being married like Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again.
- Remake Our Life is a lot heavier with the drama and a lot more focused on the career aspect of its plot.
For Fans of Farmers
Silver Spoon
Yuugo Hachiken is a hard-working, studious student, but he is tired of trying to live up to the academic expectations that are placed on him. So when it comes time to go to high school, he enrolls in the Ooezo Agricultural High School in Hokkaido.
Being so clever, he thinks he will excel in the institution, but soon learns that farming is much harder work, both physically and emotionally, more so than he expected.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Silver Spoon
- The farm life is tough, but it has its perks.
- Both offer a glimpse at the lesser-seen rural farming communities in Japan.
- Both explore more rural worries of its aging residents.
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Silver Spoon
- Silver Spoon is about a city boy moving to the country to attend farm school because he thinks it will be easier. It is not.
- Silver Spoon has a budding romance, not a happy marriage like Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again.
- While both have a farming aspect, Silver Spoon is actually quite educational on the topic.
Farming Life in Another World
After dying of an illness, Machio Hiraku is given the opportunity to reincarnate into another world.
The god grants him a healthy body and his wish to live peacefully. Machio also asks if he can have a talent for agriculture in hopes that he can live a more fulfilling life.
The god grants him all this as well as the ability to summon a farming tool that can turn into any agricultural tool he needs, including one that makes any seeds he can think of.
Machio is sent in the middle of a forest full of dangerous creatures. Without any civilization in sight, he makes his own small farm that slowly accumulates residents that wander the woods.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Farming Life in Another World
- If Shouzou was isekai’d, he’d be Machio in Farming Life in Another World.
- Both series follow nice, physically strong farmers that are regarded as quite handsome.
- Everyone enjoys the simple charms of farm life in their comedic, pleasant, slice of life plots.
- The male main characters are, if not already married, then quickly married.
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Farming Life in Another World
- Farming Life in Another World is an isekai anime.
- Farming Life in Another World is about building a home that turns into a farm that turns into a village.
- While Farming Life in Another World has the main character married quickly, it is an unashamed harem anime. So he gets multiple wives and most, if not all, the women in the village love him.
For Fans of Happy Marriages
Taisho Maiden Fairy Tale
After losing his mother and the loss of his dominant hand in a car crash, Tamahiko Shima was exiled by his strict father to an estate in the mountains of Chiba.
Becoming a pessimist and determined to waste away in his uselessness, Tamahiko gets a surprise one night when his father bought a young girl from those who owed him a debt and sent her to live with him as his new bride.
Although he laments her having to marry someone like him, his new betrothed Yuzuki and her wealth of kindness become rehabilitating.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Taisho Maiden Fairy Tale
- Both series follow married couples
- Both married couples were married around the same time period and have different sensibilities from more modern relationships.
- Both main couples are displayed as being a little uneasy with each other in their younger romance, but grow to love each other deeply.
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Taisho Maiden Fairy Tale
- Taisho Maiden Fairy Tale is a historical romance whereas Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again only details that aspect in brief flashbacks.
- There is no supernatural at work in Taisho Maiden Fairy Tale
- Grandma and Grandpa fought to be together, whereas the main character in Taisho Maiden Fairy Tale was sent a wife that his father bought him.
- While both have moments of drama, Taisho Maiden Fairy Tale is a lot more focused on it.
Tonikawa – Over the Moon For You
After being ridiculed for his strange name, Nasa, like the space agency, decides he will become a man even greater than the starry sky. However, one night, that all changes when he sees a beautiful girl.
She ends up saving him from being fatally hit by a truck while crossing the street to talk to her. Having chased her down despite his serious injuries, he asks her out. She says she will go out with him if they marry. He agrees, and passes out.
Waking up to find her gone, he abandons his ambitions until one day when she shows up with their marriage registration.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Tonikawa
- Both series feature happily married couples
- There is a slight supernatural element that is, if not obvious, then hinted.
- Fluffy, wholesome, and low drama slice of life romance series
- The main couple interacts with a series of likable side characters
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and Tonikawa
- Tonikaku Kawaii has the main couple get married within the first episode, so they are, essentially, strangers.
I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying
Although he is an otaku and she is a casual-smoking, social-drinking office lady, Hajime and Kaoru fell in love and got married. Now they must learn how to cohabitate together despite a few odd habits on both ends.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying
- Married couple romance anime
- Both series focus on slice of life comedy in the plot with minimal drama
- Pretty wholesome, but realistic married relationship
- The array of side characters keep things interesting
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying
- I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying is more about the funny situations that arise when a normal office lady is married to an otaku
- I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying is much more of a comedy than anything else
- There is no supernatural in I Can’t Understand What My Husband is Saying
My Happy Marriage
Despite being the firstborn daughter of a noble family known for its supernatural abilities, Miyo is treated little different than a servant by her father, stepmother, and stepsister after not manifesting any supernatural abilities.
After years of abuse and neglect, Miyo is told that she will be married off into the Kudo household. Kiyoka Kudo has built a reputation as a cruel man, having chased off several fiancees already. Knowing that she can’t return home and will be left homeless if the marriage fails, Miyo is ready to bow and scrape.
However, she finds Kiyoka Kudo to be a quiet, but kind man. Unfortunately, not everyone takes her marriage into the Kudo family so well.
Similarities Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and My Happy Marriage
- Both follow married couples with older style sensibilities
- The female main character came from a strict, restrictive family
- Their relationship repairs the female main character’s low self esteem
- They are, or at least become, a happy couple
- Supernatural elements
Differences Between Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again and My Happy Marriage
- My Happy Marriage follows a newly married couple in a fictional Taisho period Japan, so it is around the same time period Shouzou and Ine were married, but set in that peroid.
- The male lead in My Happy Marriage is a little bit more reserved with his emotions than Shouzou
- My Happy Marriage has supernatural powers, which fuels more action and intrigue than the strictly slice of life Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again.
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