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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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W Wish (2004)
Plot Summary:
Junna Tōno has a twin sister named Senna. He is an ordinary student at Sakurahama Private High School. However, in the past, a traffic accident deprived him of his parents and his memory. Junna survived the accident and since then, he lived only with his sister, though he's been looked after by his relatives. His present life with Senna at the same high school is so pleasant that he can forget his severe past. However, Junna begins to recall the memories he lost in the accident. He enjoys the happy and pleasant days, but he is tossed by his past, his present, and his future. What is the truth hidden in his memory?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: anime
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Tsuyokiss (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sunao Konoe is very lively high school student who dreams of becoming a professional actress. After changing schools, she wants to establish a drama club in order to follow the path of acting, but she is constantly denied by the student council president.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, ecchi, tsundere
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H2O: Footprints in the Sand (2008)
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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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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To Heart 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Following her graduation from middle school, Yuzuhara Konomi enters the same high school as Kouno Takaaki, her childhood friend. As the new school year begins, they meet their childhood friend Kousaka Tamaki, as well as many new acquaintances. Unbeknownst to the group, their encounters with each other will soon lead to many memorable adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, super sentai
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Over Drive (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mikoto Shinozaki is a high school student lacking in social awareness. In addition, due to his untidy appearance and low self-esteem, he is an easy target for bullies. Regardless, any misfortune that falls upon Mikoto is partly his own fault—at least, that is what Yuki Fukuzawa, the most popular girl in class, believes. With this assumption, Yuki invites Mikoto to join the school's bicycle club, in hopes he can improve himself and gain new friends. Motivated by feelings he has for Yuki, Mikoto has no reason to decline her offer—except for the fact that he does not know how to ride a bicycle. Despite his lack of even the fundamentals, Mikoto cannot get over the image of himself on a bicycle. Eventually, he succumbs to his curiosity and sneaks into the school grounds at night to practice. This begins Mikoto's journey as he pedals his way through the vast world of cycling, where the scenery of his life changes in ways he never thought possible.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Kakyuusei 2: Hitomi no Naka no Shoujo-tachi (2004)
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Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Loving Angel Angelique (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Ange is summoned to a Sacred Land and is chosen as the Legendary Etoile, whose mission is to save the newly-born Cosmos of the Holy Beast, which has recently fallen under a crisis. With the support of nine Guardians (who have the power of nine elements), she embarks on a journey to save the dying land of the Holy Beast and to discover her true self.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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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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Glasses Girlfriends (2010)
Plot Summary:
For most people, wearing glasses is a necessity for clear sight, but for four young girls, their spectacles mean so much more. From a teenage girl wearing her glasses with pride and a top idol who uses hers to disguise herself as a regular person, to a couple whose bent frames bring them closer together, a good pair of glasses can not only open your eyes, but also open your heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 14 min
Plot tags: anime
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Rokudo's Bad Girls (2023)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Tо̄suke Rokudо̄, a timid high school boy who gets bullied by delinquents. He receives a scroll from his late grandfather, leaving a mark on his forehead. The mark's effect causes a delinquent girl named Ranna Himawari to fall in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime
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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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Tesagure! Bukatsumono (2013)
Plot Summary:
The CG anime centers around the extracurricular activities of students.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Ane Log (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Konoe Moyako and her little brother, Akira, were young, he said he wanted to marry her. Naturally, Moyako decided that her little brother was a complete pervert who was obsessed with her. Now that they're both teenagers, Moyako is convinced she needs to "rehabilitate" him. However, it seems that the "perversion" is entirely in her imagination, and she can't seem to help turning completely innocent situations into creepy ones in her mind!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime
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TenPuru (2023)
Plot Summary:
"I know! I'll become a monk!" Akagami Akemitsu has spent his days and nights absorbed in studying and part-time work in an effort to distance himself from his family, which is notorious as a household of philanderers. One day, he falls in love at first sight with a girl named Aoba Yuzuki, and suddenly he's constantly drowning in worldly desires. Hoping to fight back against his genes and live a more stoic life, he enters a temple... only to find out that it's a convent filled with gorgeous girls! So begins a new rom-com about the temple life of three adorable triplets and two beautiful freeloaders!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi
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Mr. Nobunaga's Young Bride (2019)
Plot Summary:
> One day, a girl who loves me will suddenly appear before me. Middle school teacher Nobunaga has always been dreaming of such a gal game-like situation. However, the one who appeared before him was Kichou, a 14-year-old girl who proclaims herself as his wife. Appears to have arrived from the Sengoku era, she mistakes Nobunaga as Nobunaga Oda and urges him to conceive a child with her. Thus begins the age-difference love comedy between a gal game-loving teacher and a Sengoku era expert princess.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi
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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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Da Capo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Junichi Asakura lives with his adoptive sister Nemu in the crescent-shaped island of Hatsune Jima, a place where cherry blossoms bloom throughout the year. In this island, people have mysterious powers and attributes. For example, Junichi has the power to see other people's dreams, and he was also taught by his grandmother to magically create sweets. One day, Junichi's cousin and childhood friend, Sakura Yoshino came back from America all of a sudden. To Junichi's surprise, she looks exactly the same as the girl that moved away six years ago, and hasn't aged one bit. And she came back to remind Junichi of their childhood promise... It is a bittersweet tale of magic, love, hidden desires, and unattainable dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 598 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, ecchi
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FLCL Alternative (2018)
Plot Summary:
FLCL Alternative is a sequel to FLCL and FLCL Progressive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: anime
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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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Summoned to Another World for a Second Time (2023)
Plot Summary:
There was once a man who was summoned to another world, and saved it. Of course, he became too popular there, and turned into an isekai-normie. However, that man fell into a "trap" and was forcibly returned to his original world. Moreover, he had to start over as a baby! This is the story of the way-too-fantastic ex-hero who lived as a gloomy high-schooler, as he gets summoned once again to that same other world in a very unexpected development!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, ecchi
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Moyashimon (2007)
Plot Summary:
Follow the life of Tadayasu Sawaki as he enrolls in an Agricultural University and learn about bacteria and viruses that he alone can see with the naked eye.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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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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A Galaxy Next Door (2023)
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After his father’s death, Ichiro is left to care for his siblings alone. They’re barely scraping by with only a small inheritance and his job as a manga artist, which isn’t going so great. That is until a talented and beautiful assistant is hired! Her name is Shiori, and she’s a gift from above—literally. While working late one night, her true identity is revealed and they’re instantly engaged!?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen
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Sola (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sola is a Japanese work originally conceived by Naoki Hisaya with original character design by Naru Nanao. Sola is a mixed media project, first unveiled through the prologue of the manga featured in the Japanese manga magazine Dengeki Daioh on December 21, 2006, published by MediaWorks. The manga, which is illustrated by Chako Abeno, ended serialization on February 21, 2008. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Broccoli Books with the first volume being released in June 2008. A short drama CD which also served as a prologue to the series was released at Comiket 71 in December 2006, and a second drama CD was released in May 2008. An anime version aired in Japan between April and June 2007; the anime contained thirteen episodes, and two additional DVD-exclusive episodes followed. The anime was licensed by Bandai Entertainment for distribution in North America in a subtitle-only box set of all fifteen episodes. The title, Sola, is close in pronunciation to the Japanese word sora. At the end of 2007, Japanese anime fans voted Sola as the best anime of the year.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Disgaea (2006)
Plot Summary:
Laharl, the demon prince of the Netherworld and son of the late Lord Krichevskoy, is awakened by Flonne, the sugary-sweet angel-in-training sent to assassinate the overlord. Etna, the Prinnies, and Flonne, join the selfish, disgruntled, and perpetually hungry Laharl as he treks the deepest, darkest realms to become king of the cursed land.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Yamada's First Time: B Gata H Kei (2010)
Plot Summary:
OMG! There’s this girl at school, Yamada, who wants to make like a hundred sex friends. She totally thinks she can devirginize one hundred different boys! Can you believe that? That’s like every boy in the school. Who does she think she is? I heard from my friend’s neighbor’s cousin’s lab partner that Yamada’s never even been kissed. Oh. My. God. I would totally die. That’s like burn all your makeup and shave off your eyebrows embarrassing. I can’t even think about it. Today at lunch I saw Yamada flirting, like for reals flirting, with that geek Kosuda. You know the guy. Photography club, no muscles, boring face, kind of reminds you of a black-and-white movie. Super lame. If Yamada can’t even make the sex with him, she’ll never score a hundred cherry boys. She needs to take like Sex Ed or something because I heard she can’t give it away!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, touching, semi serious, captivating, sexy, humorous, manga, adult anime, ecchi, offbeat