We all love consuming romance fiction for different reasons. Some of us watch or read romance to feel good, and some use it to escape from our troubled lives. Some of us consume romantic media to fill some love in our lonely lives, and some just want to spend quality time with our loved ones.
Whatever the reason is, there is a lot of romance fiction available that one can consume. From Collen Hoover’s latest novels to a vast number of K-Dramas to hundred of Shah Rukh Khan films, there is no end to the number of Romance stories you can consume.
And there is also an end number of Romance Animes out there. If you’re looking for an anime filled with love and feelings, then you’ve come to the right place. We have listed down 25 beautiful romantic animes for you! We hope that you have a Netflix subscription because all of these animes are exclusively available on that platform. The list has all sorts of love stories, comedy ones, sad ones, and also, adventurous ones. Happy binge-watching to you!
More Than A Married Couple, But Not Lovers
More Than A Married Couple, But Not Lovers is the story of two people desperately in love with someone who doesn’t have a slight clue about their feelings. First, we have a teenage boy, Jirou Yakuin, who has a big crush on his childhood friend, Shiori Sakurazaka. Second, we have the cheerful girl, Akari Watanabe, who has fallen for the most popular boy in the school, Minami Tenjin.
To add spice to their love stories, we have “marriage practical,” a practical exam in which the school randomly pairs two people who now have to live as couples and come closer to each other. Sadly, Jirou and Akari are paired with each other, and Minami and Shiori are paired together. Jirou and Akari now have to make their way to the top 10 couples to switch partners.
Kaguya Sama: Love is War
Kaguya Sama: Love is War, one of the best romantic comedies ever created, revolves around the Student Council of the prestigious Shuchiin Academy. In the Student Council, we have President Miyuki Shirogane, ranked as the top student in Japan, a man of many talents. And next, Vice President Kaguya Shinomiya, the eldest daughter of the wealthy Shinomiya family, skilled in every field there is.
Everyone thinks they will make the perfect couple, and the plot is that they both also believe that they will make the perfect couple. But their superiority, or shyness, won’t let them confess. Love is truly a war in this anime, as both the leads will do the most desperate things imaginable to make the other confess.
Fruits Basket
Fruits Basket is the story of a girl named Tooru Honda. Since her childhood, she has been a fan of the stories of the Chinese Zodiacs that her mother used to narrate. The cheerful life of Tooru changed into a lonely one after the disastrous death of her mother. Having no money, Tooru now resides in a tent.
But things will change, as nearby her temporary home is the private property of the respected Souma Family. When the owners of the property, Shigure Souma, and Yuki, find out that Tooru has no proper home to live in, they offer her to live with them as a house caretaker. One day, when she tries to stop a fight between Yuki and his hot-headed cousin, Kyou, she discovers the family’s secret – they turn into Chinese Zodiac Animals when hugged by the opposite sex.
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You
Kimi ni Todoke follows a high school girl Sawako Kuronuma, who has been nicknamed “Sadako” thanks to her high resemblance to the Sadako character of The Ring series. Because of her nickname, people think of her as evil and terrifying, but she is the opposite of that, sweet and shy.
Sawako has a big crush on the most popular boy in the class, Shouta Kazehaya, who is happy and friendly. She appreciates his talents to make friends easily and attract everyone around him. One day, Kazehaya announces a test of courage and invites Sawako to participate.
This allows Sawako to get closer to Kazehaya and make new friends too. Throughout the story of this anime, Sawako realizes that meeting Kazehaya has changed her for the better. However, there is something that she hasn’t realized – meeting her has changed Kazehaya too.
Komi Can’t Communicate
Komi Can’t Communicate the Story of Shouka Komi, the most beautiful girl ever that is loved by everyone that lays their eyes on her. She has a mysterious persona that attracts everyone around her. But the truth behind this mysterious persona is she is an introvert who cannot communicate her feelings to anyone around her. Her anxiety doesn’t allow her to socialize, and due to that, this beauty has zero friends.
Enters Hitohito Tadano, an ordinary-looking boy who wants to avoid any sort of trouble. Mistakenly, he sits beside Komi, and now he is under threat of getting eliminated by everyone else in the class – as Komi is the class Goddess. Tadano realizes that Komi cannot communicate. Therefore, he decides to lend her a hand and becomes Komi’s first friend. 1 done, now only have 99 friendships to go!
Teasing Master Takagi-san
Teasing Master Takagi-san is the story of two childhood friends – Nishikata and Takagi. Takagi knows everything about Nishikata, everything. Having a friend who knows you more than you should be a good thing, right? Wrong! Nishikata’s entire life has been ruined because of this one fact. Takagi is a master at teasing, and she loves teasing Nishikata every single day.
She uses her vast knowledge of his behavior to predict everything he can do after she teases him. After such calculative teasing, Nishikata has no chance of making a successful comeback. But that’s what he wants. He wants to get the upper hand at least one time. His end goal is to make Takagi blush red from his teasing and give her a taste of her own medicine. It is not an easy goal to attain because he will have to defeat the master of teasing!
Ouran High School Host Club
Ouran High School Host Club follows the famous Host Club of the prestigious Ouran Academy. It is a club that consists of the most attractive boys in the school who are there to entertain various female students of the academy.
One day, the bright Haruhi Fujioka was looking for a quiet place to study, and she came across a music room that appeared to be unused. It was not unused, as once she entered, the boys of the host club welcomed her in.
The president of the club, Tamaki Suou, surprises the studious girl, which leads to her accidentally breaking up a precious vase. Having no money to repay them, Tamaki is given a choice. She will now have to work as a host herself and earn herself the money to repay the vase! The female’s job is now to attract other females while also coping with the rest of the club.
Violet Evergarden
Violet Evergarden is the story of a young girl raised as a tool for killing during war. Violet’s only purpose during the Great War was to kill as many soldiers on the other side as possible. She lost both her hands during the end of the war and was then hospitalized. Waking up in the hospital, she was left with the words “I love you,” said by the person dearest to her, but Violet was too naive to understand what the words meant.
The Great War has come to an end, and Violet has been offered a job at CH Postal Services. There she is working as an “Auto Memory Doll,” someone who writes down people’s feelings for them in letters. This job will let her explore people’s emotions and her inner self more than ever! And maybe she will understand what the phrase “I Love You” means.
A Silent Voice
During his elementary school days, Shouya Ishida used to bully people for fun. When Shouko Nishimiya, a deaf girl, transfers to his class, he and his friends decide to bully her in the cruelest way possible. After a series of bullying, Shouko’s mother decides to notify the school about it. Everyone, including his friends, singled out Ishida and blamed him for all the bullying.
Shouko lefts the school, and Shouya is now the main target of all bullying. He is constantly traumatized by his classmates throughout his elementary and middle school days, and not even one teacher cares about him. Now in high school and still treated badly because of his past wrongdoings, Ishida sets out on a journey of redemption. He decides to meet Shouko and apologize to her for everything he did! A Silent Voice is the story of Ishida’s redemption.
Bubble
In Bubble, A Rainfall of mysterious gravity-defying bubbles happened on the planet five years ago. During this “Bubble Fall” phenomenon, a blast happened in Tokyo, making it ground zero as a gigantic bubble surrounded it. Tokyo has now been declared a prohibited zone by the government because it has now drowned in a gravity-bending sea.
Five years after the incident took place, Tokyo is full of parkour specialists who battle each other in the city’s abandoned buildings. And the champion among them is Hibiki, who can smoothly jump in between these bubbles.
He hears sounds from the Tokyo Tower and is determined to find the truth behind them. While uncovering the secret, he falls into the waters below. Out of nowhere comes a young girl who saves him. He named her Uta. Hibiki does not know that Uta is the key to knowing everything about the disaster that took place five years ago.
Flavors of Youth
Flavors of Youth tells three beautiful stories that take place in three different cities in China. The city life of China is crowded and relentless, but among this are the eternal memories of someone’s past life. Flavors of Youth uncover these tales of different pasts.
Reality keeps on changing with time, but what does not change are the memories of one’s childhood, memories full of family bonds, delicious bowls of noodles, and emerging feelings of first love. Follow three different people cherishing these loving memories as duration flows past them. Witness their stories as they remember the days of their past while also enjoying the flavors of their youth.
Ocean Waves
The Ocean Waves revolves around the city of Kouchi, where resides a high school student named Taku Moriasaki. One day, Taku receives a call from his best friend, Yutaka Matsuno, who wants him at school as fast as possible. After arriving there, Matsuno introduces him to the new transfer student, the beautiful girl from Tokyo, Rikako Muto.
Rikako excels at everything – she’s the top student in academics and is practically good at every sport. But unfortunately, she has a terrible attitude which is a big reason why she has very few friends.
During their class trip, Taku gets a chance encounter with Rikako, and from then onwards, he finds himself getting more involved in her life, and Matsuno warns him about it. Taku wants to find out his true feelings for Rikako and how the girl with a troubled past is affecting his entire life.
Words Bubble Up like Soda Pop
Meet Yui “Cherry” Sakura, who is not so good at expressing himself until it comes to the haiku he writes and posts on the internet. He writes his true feelings in them, even though no one reads them. His family is going to relocate this coming August, and to help them prepare for that; he is working at a welfare facility this summer.
On the other hand, we have an upcoming influencer who wants everyone in the world to smile, Yuki “Smile” Hoshino. Although she hides her smile behind a disposable mask, she is too scared to show the world her braces.
She also becomes a part-time worker at the same facility after a chance encounter with Cherry. These two individuals are helping old Man Fujiyama to find an old vinyl record he wishes to listen to one last time. Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop is the story of their hunt for that record.
A Whisker Away
A Whisker Away is the story of a lively high school girl Miyo Sasaki. Miyo does not like her family as her father has no confidence in himself, and her stepmother tries so hard to maintain a good relationship with her stepdaughter but always fails. She tells everything she has inside her heart to a boy, who is also her crush, Kento Hinode. Her unusual way of showing her love to him, but in reality, just forcing him to her inner thoughts, does not help Miyo get closer to Kento.
That lasts until one day, Miyo turns into a white cat and immediately catches the attention of Kento. Kento is obsessed with the white name, naming her “Tarou.” But soon, Miyo realizes that she cannot help solve Kento’s problems that she overhears in her cat form. For that, she will have to return to her true human form and risk the bond they have.
Romantic Killer
The only three things Anzu Hoshino needs in her life are chocolates, video games, and her cat, whom she loves the most. She is not like other girls and therefore doesn’t waste her time looking for love and romance. One day, love came haunting her while she was playing a poorly programmed 3D otome game.
A wizard named Riri comes out of her screen and names Anzu “Subject 1,” telling her that she is the first person to play the real-life dating harem simulator game. Anzu is totally against the idea. Riri takes away everything Anzu loves and fills Romantic Cliches in her life.
And on top of that, Anzu has to play this game with the attractive boy, Tsukasa Kazuki. While Anzu is trying her best to resist Tsukasa’s charm, Riri introduces more pretty boys into her life. How long will Anzu avoid the romance in the anime – Romantic Killer?
Scum’s Wish
Scum’s Wish tells the story of two people in love with people they can never be with. These two people are Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya. Since childhood, Hanabi has had a crush on her neighbor Narumi Kanai. She was happy to know that Narumi was her new homeroom teacher. But Narumi soon falls in love with the music teacher, Akane Minagawa.
Akane also had feelings for Narumi, and soon a relationship started blossoming between the two. In comes Mugi, whom Akane had tutored in middle school, and he has loved her since then. He is left heartbroken, too, after the incident. The two people with broken hearts encounter each other in the hallway.
The lonely souls start spending more time together with each other and decide to use each other as substitutes for people they desperately love. Everyone thinks of Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya as the perfect couple, but in reality, they are using each other for physical intimacy only.
Spy X Family
Peace between the neighboring countries Ostania and Westalis is always at stake because of wild extremists, corrupt politicians, and forces that can give birth to war. But thanks to the secret agent “Twilight” for fulfilling countless dangerous missions to ensure that no child would ever have to witness the horrors of war.
His new mission is to gather intelligence on Donovan Desmond, a prominent politician who only occasionally publicly appears at his son’s school, the prestigious Eden Academy. For this mission, Twilight, alias “Loid Forger,” would need a family, a wife, and a child, to be precise.
To become his new bride, he marries the city hall clerk Yor Briar, and to be his daughter, he adopts the cute six-year-old Anya. But Yor and Anya have their secrets too, as Yor is a highly trained assassin and Anya is an esper that can read people’s minds. How will Loid Forger handle this mission and this family? Find out in Spy X Family.
No Doubt in Us
No Doubt In Us takes place in the Chinese Imperium Court, where the ascetic Emperor Xiao Jinyun and cheerful Empress Xu Yu are constantly quarreling with each other. To put an end to their quarrels, the universe does an interesting trick. One accident took place, and the Emperor and the Empress switched bodies. They are now literally standing in each other shoes.
Both of them are now facing unfamiliar responsibilities and circumstances, and they are trying their best to maintain their identities and ensure the smooth running of the nation. No matter how much chaos the situation caused, it also helped Xiao Jinyun and Xu Yu to learn about each other and form a bond much more special than they previously had. But they will have to return to their original bodies, or else any suspicion can even cost them their lives.
Heaven’s Official Blessing
Heaven Official’s Blessing revolves around Xie Lian, who was once worshiped by many as a beloved martial god, popularly known as the Crown Prince of Xianle. But nowadays, he is known as the god with an apologetic smile and no followers who go around and collects scrap. Xie Lian is on a mission where he finds himself in a forest under the dark moonlight.
A handsome man dressed in red appears and helps him to find his way around the forest. And the man turns into a swarm of butterflies and disappears without leaving any names. Xie Lian finds out that the man is the infamous Crimson Rain Sought Flower, Hua Cheng.
Hua Cheng is a Ghost King who is feared among the gods and the devils. Before Xie can figure out why Hua Cheng will help a heaven official like him, he encounters San Lang. San Lang possesses vast knowledge about Hua Cheng, and to Xie’s surprise, about the forgotten crown prince as well.
The Way of The Househusband
Once feared as one of the strongest gangsters among all, the legendary “Immortal Dragon” Tatsu has given up the way of the Yakuza and has vanished. Where did he go? Oh, he is now inside his lovely home with his lovely wife, taking care of them as a modest Househusband, trying his best to live a peaceful life.
Tatsu has decided to become the best homemaker there ever was, and he is mastering every skill to attain the title – from cooking to cleaning to grocery shopping. Tatsu does it all efficiently. All of Tatsu’s past subordinates and enemies cannot believe this. But the truth is what it is, and Tatsu has moved past his controversial past and is living his best life as a Househusband in the Way of the Househusband!
Whisper of the Heart
Whisper of the Heart follows a 14-year-old girl who is full of energy and loves reading and writing poetry – Shizuku Tsukishima. One evening, while taking a look at the checkout cards of the library, she notices that almost all her books have been checked out by a boy named Seiji Amasawa. Shizuku is thrilled to find out that there is someone somewhere who shares her taste in literature, and she decides to look for him.
While traveling on the train, Shizuku befriends a cat and follows the animal to a charming antique store. And there, in the shop, she finds Seiji, and they both eventually become friends. Seiji tells Shizuku about his dreams and ambitions, which leads to Shizuku realizing that she does not have a single goal in her life. However, with time Shizuku starts finding inspiration and working towards it.
Nana
Nana is the story of two young girls with dreams and ambitions, coming from two different towns and having the same name – Nana. Both the girls, Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki, are headed to Tokyo for new beginnings. Nana Komatsu is the friendly and happy-go-lucky type, madly in love with her dependable boyfriend, Shouji Endo. Shouji has decided to study in Tokyo, and Komatsu has come following him there, working a tiring job.
The other Nana, Nana Osaki, is a heartbroken punk vocalist whose relationship with her band’s bassist had sadly come to an end. The lonely girl is determined to make the best out of her music career in the capital. Coincidentally, both the Nanas have ended up in the same apartment as roommates. And slowly, they grow closer to each other, helping each other achieve her dreams.
High Score Girl
High Score Girl takes place in the year 1991, when Arcade games have just started becoming popular among the masses. In a year where a job such as a professional gamer seems nonsense, sixth-grader Haruo Yaguchi has decided that it is what he wants to be.
Haruo is naturally talented at arcade games, and his popularity among local arcades has boosted his confidence and pride. Both of them are shattered when Akira Oono, a girl in his class, easily beats him in a game of Street Fighter 2.
Akira is perfect in every way – she is rich, intelligent, and beautiful. But Haruo never cared about such things as he always thought that no one was better at video games than him. Haruo hates the fact that this pretty girl rivals him at the arcade, but he also loves the fact that there is finally someone who is a worthy opponent – their battle will be legendary!
Lookism
Lookism follows the daily life of a chubby and insecure high school student, Park Hyung Suk, who is also a target of constant bullying. Every day, he faces humiliation and even violence at the hands of his bullies. Park Hyung Suk just wants to disappear from the face of Earth. Fortunately, a miracle takes place.
On the first day of his new transfer school, Park awakens as a tall, handsome, and athletic boy. He soon figures out that he can now transform into two different bodies. When the other sleep, the other wakes up. Entering his new school as a strong and attractive individual, Park soon realizes that it is no better than his previous personality, as he is now the target of girls who only like him for his looks and delinquents who wants to beat him out of jealousy.
Violet Evergarden The Movie
Violet Evergarden The Movie takes place several years after the end of the Great War. With the development of Telephones, the demand for “Auto Memory Dolls” have been on a decline. That’s not a problem for Violet Evergarden as she is becoming more popular than ever, thanks to her letter-writing skills.
The movie follows Violent as she is still learning about the concept of emotions and the meaning behind “I love you.” Along with it, there is a slight hope that the man who said “I love you” to Violet is still alive out there in the world.
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