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Plot Summary:
Shikada Kokonotsu's father owns a rural sweets shop, and his plan is for Kokonotsu to take it over one day. However, Kokonotsu wants to be a manga author instead! One day in summer, the cute but weird girl Shidare Hotaru, from the famous sweets company, comes to pay a visit. Apparently, Kokonotsu's father is famous and she wants him to join her family's company. However, he will only agree if she can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family business!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, exciting, light, captivating, entertaining, shounen, parody
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Taisho Otome Fairy Tale (2021)
Plot Summary:
Tamahiko Shima has been exiled to the country because of his disability, but the sudden arrival of an arranged bride upends his lonely life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, psychological, humorous, disturbing, shounen
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Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun (2007)
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Ninomiya is an ordinary high school student who lives at home with his older sister Ryoko. However, Ninomiya's life ceases to be normal the moment a cute girl named Mayu descends into the middle of his school's campus in a military-grade helicopter. It turns out Ryoko sent this girl, along with her older brother Mikihiro, to live at the Ninomiya household.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, anime, ecchi
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Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! (2021)
Plot Summary:
This is a slightly peculiar world where the shipgirls live in. A lively and enjoyable school life for girls from different factions will begin at the naval port of Azur Lane. Living out their lives to the fullest, these girls get into various shenanigans—slowly but surely!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, entertaining
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Shomin Sample (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kimito Kagurazaka is an ordinary high school boy who is kidnapped by an elite young lady's academy to be a "sample of the common people." The school is full of sheltered girls who have never met male peers before.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Shonen Maid (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the loss of his mother, Chihiro is left alone. With no known family left, he has to find a way to move on. Things aren’t looking good until a chance encounter with the young and handsome Madoka—who turns out to be his wealthy uncle! Madoka offers him his home and all Chihiro has to do is clean up after the messy, irresponsible man. The problem? This job requires a uniform—a maid outfit!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Hi Score Girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who's popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he can’t beat her at any game. Haruo can’t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd couple begins a strange bond and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, captivating, sincere, touching, feel good, mecha, seinen
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Brothers Conflict (2013)
Plot Summary:
Imagine being the only child your whole life, and then suddenly finding yourself gaining 13 step-brothers! Ema Hinata's lonely life takes a new and exciting turn when her single father Rintarou Hinata, a famous adventurer, falls in love and marries Miwa Asahina, an apparel maker. In order to give the newly-wed couple space, Ema starts living with her new step-brothers in a mansion called Sunrise Residence and for the first time, experiences being part of a lively and big family. She finally feels safe and content. Each brother has his own unique personality, and Ema soon realizes that it is not only family love that grows between them, but romance as well. Which brother will be the one to steal her heart in the end?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, romantic, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Danchigai (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on a four-panel manga by Kazusa Yoneda, Danchigai focuses on the life of Haruki Nakano and his four sisters, all of whom live together in the same apartment complex. The only boy of five siblings, Haruki lives with his older sister Mutsuki, difficult younger sister Yayoi, and mischievous twins Uzuki and Satsuki.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, seinen
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Kuro Gal ni Natta kara Shinyuu to shitemita. (2021)
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Shion and Rui are the dream team when it comes to hitting on women. Tonight was going to be another night of hooking up with girls for Shion, but he ended up taking a strange drug. When he woke up... he'd turned into a girl?! Rui came looking for Shion, but didn't recognize him, and started hitting on him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Animation, Short, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, sex comedy, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, hentai
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Mother of the Goddess' Dormitory (2021)
Plot Summary:
Down-on-his-luck Koushi Nagumo wanders the streets unemployed, homeless and in search of his next meal. His fortunes improve after a chance meeting with a vivacious young woman whose proposition seemingly solves nearly all his problems. Thanks to her, Koushi enters the welcoming halls of a dormitory at a women’s college… only this particular assignment is no stuffy, sleepy affair. The Goddess’ Dormitory is known for housing the college’s most unruly students! If he wants to keep a roof over his head, Koushi must become the “Dormitory Mother” charged with maintaining order and good discipline. But doing his job and keeping his sanity are no small feat with characters as endearingly eccentric and untamable as these!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: ecchi, anime, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Seton Academy: Join the Pack! (2020)
Plot Summary:
Seton Academy, a school full of animals where, thanks to population decline, there are fewer humans than any other creature. Mazama Jin, an animal hater and the only human male in his class, falls in love with Hino Hitomi, the only female human, the moment he lays eyes her. However he soon finds himself entangled with various other creatures after he reluctantly joins the 'pack' of Lanka the wolf, the only other member of her pack.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, sincere, touching, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, entertaining, adult anime
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Tamako Market (2013)
Plot Summary:
Tamako Market is a Japanese anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Naoko Yamada. The series aired in Japan between January 10 and March 28, 2013. The anime has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, light, captivating, feel good, humorous, shoujo, slapstick, super sentai, iyashikei
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Engaged to the Unidentified (2014)
Plot Summary:
Just an ordinary teenager, Kobeni Yonomori receives quite the surprise on her 16th birthday—a fiancé and a sister-in-law she never even knew she had. As a result of an arrangement that her late grandfather made, Hakuya Mitsumine and his younger sister Mashiro have moved from their countryside home to the Yonomori household in order to deepen their relationship with their new family members. This story follows Kobeni's "love life" with Hakuya as she tries her best to adjust to the abrupt changes forced upon her. However, as some extraordinary secrets regarding the siblings come to light, Kobeni will find her life changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, super sentai
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Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro (2021)
Plot Summary:
"A girl in a lower grade just made me cry!" One day, Senpai visits the library after school and becomes the target of a super sadistic junior! The name of the girl who teases, torments, and tantalizes Senpai is "Nagatoro!" She's annoying yet adorable. It's painful, but you still want to be by her side. This is a story about an extremely sadistic and temperamental girl and you'll feel something awaken inside of you.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, humorous, light, entertaining, manga, romantic comedy, feel good, slapstick, ecchi
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Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shiina Aki is constantly being treated like a girl due to his feminine looks so he decides to move to Tokyo to attend middle school in an attempt to change himself. However what awaits him in his new home, Sunohara-sou, is the kind-hearted caretaker, Sunohara Ayaka. Along with the three female members of Aki's new middle school's student council, Yukimoto Yuzu, Yamanashi Sumire & Kazami Yuri. And so begins Aki's new life in Tokyo living with 4 girls.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, sincere, captivating, disturbing, ecchi
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Teasing Master Takagi-san (2018)
Plot Summary:
"If you blush, you lose." Living by this principle, the middle schooler Nishikata gets constantly made fun of by his seat neighbor Takagi-san. With his pride shattered to pieces, he vows to turn the tables and get back at her some day. And so, he attempts to tease her day after day, only to find himself victim to Takagi-san's ridicule again sooner than later. Will he be able to make Takagi-san blush from embarrassment even once in the end?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, sweet, shoujo
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Bakuman (2010)
Plot Summary:
Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high school student, content to live out a relatively normal life as any other does, is persuaded by his classmate, Akito Takagi, to become an aspiring mangaka when the latter realizes his natural talent as an artist. However, Moritaka is reluctant to pursue his dream as his uncle, once a mangaka with his own serializations, died from overwork trying to regain his lost status. With Akito's help, Takagi gets another classmate and his school crush, Azuki Miho, who is an aspiring voice actress, to voice in the anime adaptation of their future manga once it is completed. However, Mashiro also proposes to Azuki, who surprisingly accepts only on the condition she will marry him when both of them have achieved their dreams. With a goal set before him, Mashiro begins a long and struggling path to become a famous mangaka. Source: AnimeNewsNetwork.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, manga, captivating, light, uplifting, semi serious, inspirational, shounen
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YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily (2011)
Plot Summary:
On her first day attending the all-girls Nanamori Middle School in Takaoka, Toyama Akaza Akari oversleeps, to be awakened by her one-year-senior childhood friends: the level-headed Funami Yui and the often self-centered Toshinou Kyouko. Planning on exciting club activities at school, Akari joins the club her older friends have set up. But as it turns out Kyouko and Yui simply took over the former room of the now defunct tea ceremony club for their own Amusement Club. In regard to what the club does, Kyouko explains: "We just hang out and do whatever we want!" This is not exactly what the helpful and energetic Akari had hoped for. Surprisingly a few days later Yoshikawa Chinatsu joins the club even though she mistook it for the former tea ceremony club. And so the four fun-loving girls could enjoy spending their spare time at the club were it not for the student council, in person of vice president Sugiura Ayano, who does her very best to shut down this unauthorized club.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, yuri, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Oreshura (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young boy called Eita enters high school aiming for the National University School of Medicine. Because of his parents' divorce and his goal, he shuns anything to do with romance or love. One day Masuzu, the school beauty with the silver hair, who's just returned to the country, enters his life in a most unexpected way. Chiwa, his childhood friend since elementary school, will not let this go without a fight.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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Love Stage!! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Izumi was born in a family of celebrities. His father is a singer, his mother an artist, his older brother the lead vocalist for the popular band Crashers. Izumi himself, however, is just a nerdy college student. He loves the manga "Magical Girl Lala Lulu" and dreams of becoming a manga writer himself. One day he is roped into filming a commercial where he wears a dress. Another actor on the set, Ryoma Ichijo, mistakes him for a woman and falls in love at first sight. As it turns out, though, they met ten years in the past. And Ryoma feelings don't change when he finds out Izumi is a boy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: yaoi, anime, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, super sentai
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Girlfriend, Girlfriend (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mukai Naoya has loved Saki Saki since grade school, and when she finally accepts his feelings, he's at his happiest. But one day, a cute girl named Minase Nagisa confesses to him! Not wishing to choose only one over another, Naoya chooses to go out with both of them!! What will be of this love triangle that challenges morality itself?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, entertaining, captivating, romantic comedy, shounen, humorous, tsundere, 2d animation
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Osamake: Romcom Where the Childhood Friend Won't Lose (2021)
Plot Summary:
My childhood friend Shida Kuroha seems to have feelings for me. She lives next door, and is small and cute. With an outgoing character, she's the caring Onee-san type, this being one of her greatest strengths. ...But, I already have my first love, the beautiful idol of our school, and the award-winning author, Kachi Shirokusa! Thinking about it rationally, I should have no chances with her, but, while walking home from school, she only talks to me, with a smile even! I might actually have a chance, don't you think?! Or so I thought, but then I heard that Shirokusa already has a boyfriend, and my life took a turn for the worse. I want to die. Why is it not me?! Even though she was my first love... As I was drowning in despair and depression, Kuroha whispered. —If it's that tough for you, then how about we get revenge? The best revenge ever, that is~.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, romantic comedy
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Kujibiki Unbalance (2004)
Plot Summary:
Once a year the prestigious Rikkyouin High School has a lottery to determine the next year's Student Council membership. On their first day of school Chihiro Enomoto wins the presidency while his childhood friend Tokino Akiyama picks the vice-president's ticket. There is one catch though, they must first pass a one year apprenticeship under the current Student Council and failure to perform the tasks assigned, however minor, will result in immediate expulsion from the school.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, parody, seinen
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Masamune-kun's Revenge (2017)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Masamune Makabe once suffered greatly at the hands of a wealthy and beautiful girl named Aki Adagaki, who nicknamed him "Piggy" due to his chubby appearance. Seeking revenge against his tormentor, Masamune works hard to improve himself and returns as an incredibly handsome, albeit narcissistic, high school student. When he encounters Aki once again, he is prepared to exact vengeance. With the aid of the rich girl's maid, Yoshino Koiwai, Masamune slowly begins to build his relationship with Aki, intending to break her heart when the time is right. However, as his friendship with Aki begins to grow, Masamune starts to question the objectives of his devious plans, and if bringing them to fruition is what his heart truly desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, light, exciting, psychological, disturbing, semi serious, romantic comedy, shounen, stylized
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Maid Sama! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president at a once all-boys school turned co-ed. She rules the school with strict discipline demeanor. But she has a secret—she works at a maid cafe due to her families circumstances. One day the popular A-student and notorious heart breaker Takumi Usui finds out her secret and makes a deal with her to keep it hush from the school in exchange for spending some time with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, touching, shoujo, romantic, feel good, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, stylized
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Chio's School Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of a nerdy bookworm girl on her way to school, and yes, that's the entire premise, as she's not getting to school any time soon. Taking her "usual" route to school, it becomes an increasingly unusual adventure, and all the more ridiculous as it carries on. It takes an unpleasant sentiment many can empathize with, the feeling of tardiness, and brings humor to it—making it a hilarious situation to look back upon.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Chocotto Sister (2006)
Plot Summary:
Haruma Kawagoe is an only child. A long time ago, around Christmas, his mother miscarried the child that would have been his baby sister. That night, young Haruma knelt down and offered up an earnest prayer: "Please make my mother well again, and please give me a little sister." Years have passed, and Haruma has nearly forgotten about his prayer. But Santa did not... so one Christmas, when Haruma is least expecting it, he receives an unusual present — a sister named Choko.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ecchi
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Mr. Osomatsu (2015)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of young Osomatsu Matsuno and his five sextuplet brothers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, parody, sketch comedy