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Plot Summary:
Arriving from Nagasaki with her wishful mantra is Tamaki Tsuru, who in high school could think only about volleyball. Things don’t begin well, however, when she looks for an extracurricular club to join and proceeds to immediately ding a glider at aviation club tryouts ending up having to work it off. She is initially disillusioned with campus life. Then Kuramochi, the club leader and glider pilot, takes Tamaki under his wing, and from the moment he takes her up for a flight in a glider, Tamaki becomes a captive of the vast beauty of the skies.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anime
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Blue Orchestra (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the fall of his third and final year of middle school, Hajime Aono, a violin prodigy, stopped playing violin for his own personal reasons. But it was also that year when he got to know a girl who told him about a high school with a prestigious school orchestra. Suddenly, the gears in the clock of Aono's life began to turn again. This is the story of a youth drama that brings forth the harmony between music and the heart!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Free! Timeless Medley: The Promise (2017)
Plot Summary:
Rin Matsuoka loves swimming! Especially his childhood friend Haruka he wants to beat at all costs. But then his old friend Sosuke shows up, he is a lone fighter and wants to convince Rin to focus on himself. A turbulent time is ahead for all, in which they must realize what really counts for them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Animation, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anime
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Free! the Final Stroke The First Volume (2021)
Plot Summary:
Haruka Nanase's new stage to take on the world is Sydney – a place he once visited, a place of dreams. One day, while taking a short break before his departure, Haruka coincidentally runs into a swimmer that competed at the All Japan National Championships, andi s burning for a challenge. With the feelings of his friends whom he swam together brimming in his heart, Haruka steps forward into a brand new world. What awaits him is the world champion, Albert Volandel. The swimmers mentally prepare themselves for the competition in Syndey. What will they fell and what will they swim for as they compete for a place at the top of the world? Their intense battle with the water begins here!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anime
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Your Light: Kase-san and Morning Glories (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yamada is a shy second-year high school girl who is a member of the greenery committee. Kase from the class next to hers is a beautiful girl who is the ace of the school's track team. As a result of the morning glories planted by Yamada, the distance between the two people who have never exchanged words shrinks little by little.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Animation, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: anime, super sentai
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Hiyokoi (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hiyori, a small and timid girl, goes to school for the first time in a year since an accident left her hospitalized. Follow her as she struggles with her social skills, tries to make friends and maybe even a little bit more...?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Animation, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Horimiya: The Missing Pieces (2023)
Plot Summary:
When the popular Hori and the gloomy Miyamura meet, they reveal another side of themselves. Could this be the start of something new?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, romantic comedy
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The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses (2023)
Plot Summary:
Komura starts his school year with a new seat neighbor in homeroom—the bespectacled Mie. Before long, he's nursing a raging crush on his quirky classmate who's always forgetting her glasses! While this might be ideal for Komura to get to know Mie better, will his poor heart give out from the daily strain of being up close and personal with the girl he likes?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, romantic comedy, shounen
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Bokura ga ita (2006)
Plot Summary:
Nanami Takahashi is a high school student entering her first year. Immediately on her first day however, she becomes the victim of a practical joke by the school's most popular guy, Motoharu Yano, who coincidentally also ends up in her class. While the two get off to a rocky start, they soon find themselves falling in love with one another and begin dating. But their relationship is marred by Yano's past which includes the death of Yano's previous girlfriend, Nana Yamamoto, and the betrayal surrounding her death. To make matters more complicated her younger sister, Yuri, is in the same class as Yano and Nanami. As Yano struggles to come to grips with Nana's death and his unresolved feelings for her, so too must Nanami learn to understand Yano if the two hope to continue their relationship with one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Love Flops (2022)
Plot Summary:
Asahi Kashiwagi lives the typical life of an average high school student — until the day a TV fortune teller’s predictions come true one after another, culminating in a series of risqué encounters! Destiny seemingly draws five beautiful girls into Asahi’s path, and soon he finds himself fielding not one, not two, but five love confessions. Asahi will need to follow his heart to find the perfect love for him, or else his love fortunes may end in one epic flail and flop.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, ecchi
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Asteroid in Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
When she was little, Mira Kinohata met a boy named Ao at a campsite in town. While gazing at the starry sky together, Mira learns that there's a star with the same name as herself, but no star named Ao. The two then promised to one day explore asteroids together and find a star to name it after him. Several years later, Mira enrolls at the Hoshizaki high school and decides to join the astronomy club to fulfill her promise. However, she learns that the astronomy club will be merged with the geological research society to form the earth science club. Reluctantly, Mira goes to the club room and is reunited with Ao Manaka—the person she made the promise to explore asteroids with—and is shocked to learn that she is a girl!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, entertaining
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My Clueless First Friend (2023)
Plot Summary:
One lonely, gloomy fifth-grade girl is the target of her classmates' relentless bullying and teasing—that is, until a new kid arrives on the scene. Friendly Takada is as clueless as he is well-meaning, but somehow he possesses the magic ability to start drawing "Grim Reaper" Nishimura out of her shell. As the elementary schoolers experience all the fun of a childhood summer together—from going to the pool to picking sunflowers to watching fireworks—an unusual friendship blossoms!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing 'til You Cry (2022)
Plot Summary:
Yayoi Sakamoto, a diehard fan of comedians and comedy acts, enrolls in the private Kazuki High School in Nanba (Osaka's entertainment district famous as the starting point for many comedians). She reunites with Yomogi Takahashi, a childhood friend who once formed the comedy duo "Konamonzu" with her when they were little. Before long, they find themselves putting together a routine at a park like they did before, in order to enter a local shopping area's contest. At that moment, a mysterious girl calls out to them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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High Speed! Free! Starting Summer (2015)
Plot Summary:
A prequel to the 2013 Kyoto Animation series Free! which is an adaptation of light novel High☆Speed!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, inspirational, captivating, psychological, emotional
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The Tyrant Falls in Love (2010)
Plot Summary:
Being in love with your straight sempai isn't easy, but being in love with your straight, homophobic, and (to top it off) tyrannical sempai can be hell. And that's something Tetsuhiro Morinaga can relate to... especially now that he's had a taste of the forbidden fruit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: yaoi, anime, josei
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Twilight (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hakubo tells the story of two young people who live in rural Fukushima: Sachi Koyama, a girl who excels at playing the violin, and Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy who loves to paint. After an awkward, chance encounter, the two meet and begin to fall in love, but Yuusuke is still living in the shadow of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, atmospheric, uplifting, touching, emotional, stylized, independent film
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Aria the Benedizione (2021)
Plot Summary:
Neo-Venezia has reached a long winter. Ai, Azusa and Anya, who were practicing jointly in the cold weather, visit the Undine Museum, led by Akira who seems not her usual self. At the museum, the trio meet its director, Asuka who is Akira's senior known as Himeya's legendary undine. The two of them are the successors to a gondola that has been carefully passed down since the founding of Himeya Company. However, Akira reveals that Aika, who is expected to inherit the gondola, has no intention of doing so. Azusa, who is not convinced, tries to find out why.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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Bibliophile Princess (2022)
Plot Summary:
When book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher—her betrothed in name only—consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the annulment of their engagement is both inevitable and fast-approaching. What she doesn't realize is that this is merely a surface ripple—one of many where the truth runs deep, in a conspiracy surpassing her imagination!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Tsuki ga kirei (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kotarou Azumi and Akane Mizuno became third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. These two, along with fellow classmates, Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers through mutual understandings and feelings. As their final year at junior high school progresses, the group overcome their challenges to mature and become aware of changes in themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, semi serious, light, romantic, touching, 2d animation
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Happy-Go-Lucky Days (2020)
Plot Summary:
Love is love. Someday, the pain of being in love will be an endearing memory. No matter who the feelings are towards, no matter what form it takes, all love and lifestyles have the same value. An omnibus anime tells the stories of “The wedding of an ex”, “a student and a teacher at an all-boys’ school” and “childhood friends whose bodies and hearts change with adolescence.”.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, yuri
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I've Always Liked You (2016)
Plot Summary:
Love is blooming at Sakuragaoka High School. Natsuki Enomoto has finally mustered the courage to confess to her childhood friend, Yuu Setoguchi. However, in the final moments of her confession, an embarrassed Natsuki passes it off as a "practice confession." Oblivious to her true feelings and struggling with his own, Yuu promises to support Natsuki in her quest for love. While Natsuki deals with her failed confession, fellow classmate Koyuki Ayase struggles with his own feelings for Natsuki. Despite his timidness, he is determined to win over her heart. This movie follows Natsuki as she dreams of one day ending her practices and genuinely confessing to Yuu. Meanwhile, close friends also find themselves entangled in their own webs of unrequited love and unspoken affections.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: anime, sentimental, light, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki (2022)
Plot Summary:
The isolationist Akane Clan, composed of an all-girls body mainly consisting of young kunoichi in training, has a code to which they all must adhere: "As men are dangerous beings, interacting with them is forbidden." Kunoichi Tsubaki, the leader of the Dog Squad, is an excellent trainee with a promising future, but she has started to experience a strange feeling in her heart... whenever the subject of boys is brought up.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shounen
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Hataraki Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
Hiroko Matsukata’s determined to work her way to the top, and at only 28, she’s now an editor at Jidai Weekly. But she’s had to dedicate her life to work while suppressing her feminine character traits to blend in with her uncouth male coworkers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, seinen, super sentai
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Skip and Loafer (2023)
Plot Summary:
This country girl is ready for the big city! Well, at least she thought she was. Mitsumi's dream is to attend a prestigious school and make the world a better place. But when she finally gets to Tokyo, it turns out she isn't exactly prepared for city life. Luckily, she runs into Shima, a sweet and handsome classmate who becomes her first friend! Can she make it in Tokyo with Shima by her side?.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen
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Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible (2023)
Plot Summary:
First year high schooler Junta Shiraishi is a mob character who goes unnoticed even when he's standing right next to you. But his classmate, "heroine-level beauty" Kubo, always notices him and is there to tease him. Anyone can become special to someone, but it might be a little too early to call these feelings "love." Perhaps this story is still two-steps from being a romantic comedy--let's call it a sweet comedy where a background character becomes visible!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen
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The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya (2009)
Plot Summary:
A parody series featuring the entire cast of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in a smaller form factor. Among the changes are: Yuki plays eroge, Haruhi is even more obnoxiuous and loud, Mikuru is even more emotional and Koizumi harbors a deep love for Kyon. Kyon, on the other hand, is generally the same as ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: anime, parody, absurd
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The Dangers in My Heart (2023)
Plot Summary:
Kyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates' peaceful lives and pining after Anna Yamada, the class idol. But Kyotaro's not nearly the troubled teen he pretends to be…and it turns out Anna's a bit odd herself!.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, romantic comedy
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Mischievous Kiss (2008)
Plot Summary:
When her newly-built home is razed to the ground by an earthquake, low-achieving, clumsy, and troublesome third-year high school student Kotoko Aihara is forced to share a roof with the school's—and possibly Japan's—smartest student, Naoki Irie. Kotoko is not actually a complete stranger to Irie-kun; unfortunately, a single love letter that she tried to give him in the past has already sealed her fate as far as he is concerned. Throw in some quirky friends and a meddlesome mother, and Kotoko might not even have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the older Irie boy's heart. Yet Kotoko remains optimistic that, because she now lives in his house, her unattainable crush on the genius since the beginning of high school has never been more within reach.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, emotional, atmospheric, humorous, captivating
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The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022)
Plot Summary:
When five lovely young girls who hate studying hire part-time tutor Futaro, he guides not only their education but also their hearts. Time spent has brought them all closer, with feelings growing within the girls and Futaro. As they finish their third year of high school and their last school festival approaches, they set their sights on what’s next. Is there a future with one of them and Futaro?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: anime, romantic, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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This Art Club Has a Problem! (2016)
Plot Summary:
An art club in a certain middle school, and its members: Subaru Uchimaki, who is a genius at drawing faces, but only wants to draw the perfect 2D wife; Colette, a rich troublemaker who never stops making mischief; and the club president, who sleeps through sessions and collects sleeping aids. Mizuki Usami is the only person in the club who wants to do art club-like activities, and constantly struggles to do so.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, super sentai
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Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (2022)
Plot Summary:
Shikimori seems like the perfect girlfriend: cute, fun to be around, sweet when she wants to be… but she has a cool dark side that comes out under the right circumstances. And her boyfriend Izumi loves to be around when that happens!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, romantic comedy, 2d animation