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Plot Summary:
Takuma Hirose, an emotionally wounded boy becomes blind after his mother died in his childhood. For medical treatment, he moves to his mother’s home village where he enters a new school.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, seinen
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Angel's Feather (2006)
Plot Summary:
When Shou transfers to the Yusei Gakuen school, he makes a remarkable discovery: his long-lost twin brother, Kai. But that's just the beginning, as Shou soon learns that his school is also a gateway to a magical world of mystery, intrigue and danger. Yasuhiro Kuroda directs this vibrant supernatural anime based on the popular video game.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, erotic
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Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and the Inexperienced Me (2023)
Plot Summary:
Ryuto Kashima is the school's gloomy introvert, and he's got a crush on Runa Shirakawa, the popular girl. After losing a bet to classmates, he confesses his feelings to Runa one day. Shocked and secretly just as inexperienced as Ryuto, Runa agrees to date him. The relationship grows between two people who are as similar as they are different. Will their young love blossom? Time will tell!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, romantic comedy, 2d animation
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Myself; Yourself (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hikada Sana returns to his home town after living away in Tokyo for five years. Although some time has passed the town has not changed much. On a detour to his apartment, he notices that a shrine maiden is watching him as he visits the shrine. The following day at school, Sana is surprised to find out that this girl is actually Yatsushiro Nanaka, a good childhood friend, whom he gave a bracelet before he left so many years ago. And even to this day, she is still wearing it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, depressing
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Kanon (2002)
Plot Summary:
7 years since Yuuichi Aizawa visited his aunt Akiko in her little northern town, he returns to uncover memories and secrets that have vanished from his head. He soon realises that something supernatural is happening, and that all of his new female acquaintances have links to his forgotten past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 286 min
Plot tags: anime
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Kanon at the End of the Dream (2006)
Plot Summary:
Yuichi hasn’t seen his cousin Nayuki in years. Now that he’s back, all knowledge of ever visiting has vanished. He tries to adjust to the vaguely familiar surroundings, but the gaps in his memory haunt him as time grows short. The pieces of the puzzle have appeared – an eerily silent beauty with blazing tresses, the mysterious girl with the winged backpack, and the sword-wielding demon slayer – but it’s up to Yuichi to discover how they fit together.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, depressing, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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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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Hanasaku Iroha: Blossoms for Tomorrow (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ohana is sent off to live with her grandmother, who owns the hot spring inn. Upon arriving, she is put to work at the inn. Thrust into a life where the customers always come first, she struggles to find her place and fit in with her fellow coworkers.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, romantic comedy
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A Good Librarian Like a Good Shepherd (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kyōtarō Kakei has always had an affinity towards books in hopes to find answers to his life. With a mentor's promise, he continues to search for a book with his absolute hope. However, this changes when he receives a foretelling message saying that "Today, something will happen that will change your fate. --From the Shepherd." Due to this premonition, his normal school life at Shiomoi Academy becomes entangled due to the optimistic Tsugumi Shirasaki and the Shimoi Happy Project.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, sentimental, touching, humorous, urban fantasy
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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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March Comes in Like a Lion (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rei is a 17-year old professional shōgi player, who lives by himself, not having a real family, and has scarcely any friends. Among his acquaintances is a family, which consists of a young woman, Akari, and two young girls, Hinata and Momo, and who also keep a numerous number of cats.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, semi serious, adult animation, seinen, humorous, captivating
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Wagamama High Spec (2016)
Plot Summary:
Protagonist Kouki Narumi is a high school student who also writes a manga serialized in a certain weekly publication. Kaoruko Rokuonji is the student council president and illustrator for a popular manga. One day, just as Kaoruko happens to be trying to recruit a male student council member, she learns Kouki's true identity and the fact that it's his manga she has been illustrating. Kouki agrees to join the student council under the condition that she keeps his identity secret. Then his younger sister, Toa Narumi, and her friend Mihiro Miyase also join the student council.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: ecchi, anime
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Student Council's Discretion (2009)
Plot Summary:
At Hekiyo Academy, all but one of the Student Council members are elected via popularity contests, and those seats are filled by the school's most beautiful girls! The lines between fact and fiction disappear at the STUDENT COUNCIL'S DISCRETION!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, super sentai
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Tona-gura! (2006)
Plot Summary:
Centers around four childhood friends and the romantic relationship between two of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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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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Aishiteruze Baby (2004)
Plot Summary:
Aishiteruze Baby is a shōjo romance manga by Yoko Maki. It was serialized by Shueisha in Ribon from April 2002 and January 2005 and collected in seven bound volumes. It was adapted as a 26-episode anime television series produced by TMS Entertainment and Animax, broadcast in Japan on Animax from April to October 2004. The series is about a teenage boy, Kippei, who becomes the caretaker of his 5-year-old cousin, Yuzuyu, after her mother abandons her. Both the manga and anime have been praised for successfully mixing serious issues with a light-hearted tone.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, touching, humorous, stylized, semi serious, shoujo, offbeat, realistic
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Dusk Maiden of Amnesia (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a first-year high school student, Teiichi Niiya who had just enrolled at Seikyou Private Academy. When he gets lost in one of the school's old building, he meets a girl named Yuuko Kanoe who reveals herself as a ghost with no memories. Teiichi then decides to investigate her death by delving deep into the infamous Seven Mysteries of the storied school along with Kirie Kanoe, Yuuko's relative, and the oblivious second year Momoe Okonogi. Throughout the story, Teiichi and Yuuko discover the truth about these ghost stories and help those who are troubled all the while inching closer to the truth behind Yuuko's death.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, ecchi, humorous, detective, shounen, atmospheric
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Kiss Him, Not Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kae Serinuma is a second year high school student and an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her classmates, Igarashi and Nanashima. The death of her favorite anime character causes her to become stressed and lose weight rapidly. Now that Serinuma has become an attractive girl to her classmates, snarky junior Shinomiya and senior Mutsumi, how is she going to deal with them with her constant BL-filled fujoshi mind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, humorous, captivating, light, touching, melancholic, sentimental, romantic comedy
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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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HaNaYaMaTa (2014)
Plot Summary:
Naru is a high school girl who is average in every way. She loves fairy tale heroines, though she’s never had the courage to escape her ordinary life. One day, she sees Hannah, a transfer student, dancing in the moonlit and becomes inspired to learn Yosakoi dancing.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, feel good, humorous, entertaining, super sentai
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Girls Beyond the Wasteland (2016)
Plot Summary:
Buntarou doesn't know what he wants to do in the future. He does not have any kind of dream that he wants to pursue, so currently he just spends his days hanging around with his friends. One day, his classmate Sayuki asks him if he wants to help with development of a gal game. She says that she had become interested in his help after she read one of his works intended for the drama club. Buntarou doesn't know anything about gal games, but Sayuki claims that she has the ability to make it a success. Can they make the game, and will it be a success like she claims it will be? This is the story of youths taking a daring step into the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, super sentai
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One Week Friends (2014)
Plot Summary:
High school sophomore Yūki Hase noticed that Kaori Fujimiya, his classmate, was always alone. He tried to start a conversation with her but was turned down: "My memories of friendship can last only a week," she said. Despite of knowing this shocking truth, Yūki keeps trying to be Kaori's "new" friend every week.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, shoujo, shounen, crying
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Looking Up at the Half-Moon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Even though Yuuichi Ezaki is in the hospital recovering from an illness, he's constantly sneaking out. One day he's caught by the head nurse, who makes a deal with him: she'll overlook his future excursions if he's willing to befriend a new patient, Rika Akiba. Due to a serious heart condition, Rika has spent most of her life in the hospital, and doesn't really have any friends. As Yuuichi and Rika spend time together and learn more about each other, their relationship soon blossoms into romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, sincere, captivating, disturbing, seinen
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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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ReLIFE (2016)
Plot Summary:
Arata Kaizaki (27) quit the job he landed after graduation in only three months. His life did not go well after that. Now his parents are threatening to stop sending money, and want him to come back to the country. He has no friend or girlfriend to share his troubles with...as he hits rock bottom a strange man named Ryou Yoake appears. He invites Arata to join a societal rehabilitation program for NEETs called ReLife. This program uses a mysterious drug to make him look younger, and sends him back to high school for a year.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, light, touching, humorous, romantic, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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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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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (2012)
Plot Summary:
Yuta has a problem. As one of the thousands of Japanese students afflicted with "chunibyo," a state where they're so desperate to stand out that they've literally convinced themselves that they have secret knowledge and hidden powers, Yuta spent most of his middle school years living in a complete fantasy world. But that's not his major problem now, as with a lot of work and effort, he's finally managing to overcome his delusions to the point where thinks he's ready to start high school with all his cards in order. No, his BIG problem is the girl he first encounters climbing on his balcony. It seems that his own efforts to rid himself of his chunibyo have attracted the attentions of another sufferer, and she's decided that this makes him her soul mate. And since Rikka's just moved in upstairs, now he's being sucked into her fantasy world! Can a formerly wild and crazy guy handle being the focus of a completely delusional girl? Or will his own chunibyo return with a vengeance?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, touching, humorous, semi serious, adult anime, suspenseful, super sentai, stylized
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Kiss x sis (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story begins with Keita Suminoe, a male third-year junior-high school student studying for his high school entrance exams. He is living in a home with his older twin stepsisters, Ako and Riko, who share no blood relation to him, and they help him prepare for his exams. Even though he initially dislikes himself for it, he begins to become attracted to his two step-sisters, and his two parents encourage him to eventually get married to one of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, sweet, romantic, ecchi, light, feel good, entertaining, manga, humorous, sex comedy
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O Maidens In Your Savage Season (2019)
Plot Summary:
The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, sexy, humorous, feel good, entertaining, shounen, ecchi, sex comedy, super sentai, 2d animation