15 [Similar Anime] Like Snow White with the Red Hair

What is most striking about the two is the very similar yet contrasting approaches of their adaptations. Akatsuki has a vibrant Korean period piece design, complete with an 'Ancient Asia' classical-style soundtrack. The world-building is also strong. Akagami has something of a medieval Europe design with a 'fairy-tale' bright colour palette and a 'magical' classical-style soundtrack. Both series absorb the viewer into the atmosphere created by the combination of period piece design and music.

The plots do differ considerably, though: Akatsuki is built around a princess being betrayed and is revenge-driven as a man/dragon-harem gathers to protect her. Akagami, meanwhile, is a more relaxing 'red-headed herbalist girl x prince' series, with some action but that not being the main focus.

Let's start from the main fact here that the stories are definitely different from one another: in AnY we see a princess who's been betrayed and her reign has been overthrown therefor she's temporarily on the run in order to gather her strenght and companions and come back to take her revenge and to bring back some order to her homecountry; on the other side in AnSH we've been introduced to a honest and bright girl who's been studying hard in order to become a proper herbalist (or healer if you prefer) and along her life, during the leave from her country, she encounters a prince who will bring her in a whole "brand new world" to her and so the story begins.. See? The stories have definitely nothing to do with eachother, but still i think these two series keep having some common grounds:

- having mentioned above a tip of the plots, despite the clearly different stories we could still say that the beginning for Yona and Shirayuki starts in the very same way, meaning with them escaping from their own country, for different reasons tho.
- if we want to go ahead already and speak by appearence, which is the very first thing that strikes out and come to mind, yes, both heroines have red hair, which is an element of a certain importance throughout the story, and ironically enough both get to cut their hair for a reason or another
- both have a royal scenery and royal characters among the main ones, and all that's brought with them; although AnY's kingdom's style reminds more of an ancient chinese-type while AnSH's kingdom recalls more the european type-style.
- being both series tagged as "Shojo" we can largely expect -or anyway some- pretty cool romance scenes and great love stories (or heartbreaks?)
- both girls, despite being phisically somewhat weak, are very strong-willed and determined to do whatever it takes in order to protect their loved ones and to do the right thing
- all of the characters in both titles are very likeable, with interesting personalities and well developed backgrounds
- both stories can get serious, however Yona is on a different level when it comes to that and can get "darker" as i slightly mentioned before, with serious situations and die-or-live decisions; as well, both series can also be "lighter" with comical gags or anyway funny scenes, on this instead AnSH can show more than AnY. That's why i first spoke about "Darkness and light", that's what i was refering to.
Being titled Shirayuki Hime (translated as Snow White) the story starts as a totally revisited version of the well known fairy tale, at least at first, so i think that's why AnSH can be a more cheerful than AnY, because it has a more "Fairy Tale"-like vibe.
- both series have a splendid art syle and bright colors, also let's not forget both of the amazing casts that give life to our characters, absolutly won't let you disappointed.

Ok, that's it. I hope i made my point clear and i hope you will enjoy them because i personally did! Quite a lot!
What else is left to say? If you liked one of them, despite keeping in mind that the stories differs not that little, i truly think that you might easily like the another as well!
Happy watching~

If you liked one of these shows I'd recommend the other one because both are interesting because of politics that are involved and the romance seems more authentic/realistic to me than in the very long "school shoujo" you usually got where there are always misunderstandings to keep the story going in order to go through all the different holidays, school festivals, valentines day and so on. Both of these anime dont' have such "forced" romance because there is still a lot of other stuff to deal with.

This also makes them a bit different from Akatsuki no Yona - which also is recommended often because of the red-haired heroine. From my opinion I can say: I liked Akatsuki no Yona less because it was more travelling around and less overall politics at the court which I thought to be more interesting in Akakamig no Shirayuki-hime and in Soredemo Sekai.

Snow White with the red hair takes place in the same sort of time period as Romeo X Juliet and has a commoner falling in love with a prince/noble.

At first the main heroine being Shirayuki/Juliet is in hiding and in both cases get found by the main character which progresses their romances from their.

Both series have side characters that support the main characters through their struggles to keep their relationship together, in which both animes share a similar theme where the main characters relationships are thought badly upon.

Both animes main protagonist experiences events that strengthen their resolve for their royalty and both Zen and Arslan have loyal companions that they adventure with.

The only difference being that Arslan Senki looks at the war side of that time and Shirayuki-hime focuses on the political and romance side with much less actions scenes and more relaxing setting.

Both the anime explore the ever changing relationship between the main female and male characters. To top it all off, both anime have a very similar sense of humour and will warm your hearts up.

They are both also set in a fantasy like world with strong bonds between the main characters.

Another noticeable similarity is that both the main protagonists have red hair and both are alone.