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Halcyon_Inseo2025-12-24 20:36
kare kano, ao haru ride, insomniacs after school, and a sign of affection… and while not strictly romance, cardcaptor sakura features a *really* cute slow-build romance (just beware that there's some questionable things in this old shoujo like teacher-student relationships)
Vast_Kiwi_68662025-12-24 20:37
Thank you I’ll definitely try watching them!!
No_Cartoonist_21572025-12-24 20:44
Hori san to Miyamura kun
Kind_Sky79542025-12-24 20:46
Ao Haru Ride
IneedAhaMburger2025-12-24 20:57
Kare kano.
YogurtclosetMiddle102025-12-24 21:37
Maid Sama
slightdepressionirl2025-12-24 21:37
Domestic girlfriend, can a boy girl friendship last, kimi no toro, fruits baaket
SpiritofBad2025-12-24 21:54
Popular options:
* Kaguya-Sama
* Toradora
* Dan da Dan
* Too Many Losing Heroines
* Horimiya
Less Well Known Options:
* Skip and Loafer
* I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying
* Tsurezure Children
* Pseudo Harem (Not actually a harem)
* Okitsura
ENRcartoons2025-12-24 22:18
Sakura Cardcaptor, Fruits Basket, Kobato.
greenTjade2025-12-24 22:44
School Days
Separate-Scarcity-442025-12-24 23:42
I see what you're doing
Low-Agency25392025-12-24 22:44
The dangers in my heart
Separate-Scarcity-442025-12-24 23:39
If you need a short watch try Tsuredure Children
If you have time try school rumble/kaguya sama love is war
developed-creature2025-12-24 23:48
Lovely complex, it’s romance funny and wholesome
MightyActionGaim2025-12-25 00:26
Aoharu ride and Horimiya
OkAssignment61632025-12-25 00:40
School Rumble
ThePervertedGirls_2025-12-25 00:41
Pseudo Harem... It's straight up happy ending and diabetes
Worst_Throws_NA2025-12-25 02:30
Toradora, Clannad, Rascal does not dream of bunny girl senpai
mihizawi2025-12-25 02:44
I can give you a whole list of romance animes or ones that have important romance subplots, with my own scores and descriptions.
All the romance I have watched so far, roughly in order from most to least favorite (part 1):
Cardcaptor Sakura (10/10) - Not a pure romance, but one of the cutest love stories ever, by the end the main romance is arguebly even more important than the other plot. The main romance takes its time to develop though.
Kimagure Orange Road (10/10) - A classic 80's romcom about a love triangle, and it has one of the earliest (and in my opinion greatest and most nuanced) tsundere love interests in anime.
Your Lie in April (10/10) - a very tragic but extremely beautiful love story between two teenage musicians. Will make you cry.
The Apothecary Diaries (10/10) - the romance is not the main focus for most of the anime, but in the moments it gets the spotlight, it's great and the whole series is so peak, with mystery, political intreague and historically inspired fiction.
Princess Tutu (10/10) - a very unorthodox magical girl anime, with a ballet theme and a lot of meta-commentary on story telling. The feelings of romantic love are what drives the plot, but the actual romance, while it is still there, is not a big focus.
Madoka Magica (10/10) - a darker take on the magical girl genre. Just like in Princess Tutu, the romantic feelings are quite important to the plot, but there's almost 0 actual romance, so I am hesitating if I should include this one. Still, a truly great anime.
Teasing Master Takagi-san (9,5/10) - one of the most wholesome and cutest but at the same time funniest romcoms ever made. It is quite episodic, with a lot of episodes being divided into short stories, but most of the independent episodes are somewhat connected and there's a sense of progress and development despite the episodic nature of the show.
Clannad (9,5/10) - starts as a fairly typical high-school harem romance with some fantasy/paranormal elements, but by the sequel, After Story, the main couple gets together and we get to see the struggles and challenges of a young adult couple, and stuff happens that will make you cry.
Your Name (9/10): a great anime movie where the romance is central to the plot.
Steins; Gate (9/10): another in a similar place to Princess Tutu and Madoka Magica, it has a bit of romance, but mainly, the romantic feelings drive the plot forward.
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (8,5/10) - together with Takagi-san, one of the most diabetic romances I've ever seen, but with less comedy, more of a pure romance, and I love it for that. And, while we are going to get a season 2 next year, this one reaches a very satifying conclusion in the 1st season with just 12 episodes.
Izetta: The Last Witch (8,5/10): a more military/political take on the magical girl genre where the yuri romance is somewhat important to the plot.
Fruits Basket: (8/10): a romance anime that may look like a reverse harem, but actually is more of a love triangle.
Ai Yori Aoshi (8/10) - a harem where the main couple gets together very early, but has to keep their relationship a secret, thus giving space for the harem situation to develop. If you want the trope of a perfect traditional japanese wife, I haven't come across a better example than the main girl in this anime, but she still has a fairly interesting and headstrong personality. The second season doesn't give us a satisfying conclusion, which is regrettable, but along the way there's still quite some progress with the main couple. In my opinion, there are many similarities to Love Hina in the way it handles the harem aspects, but I do prefer Ai Yori Aoshi, since it has a slightly more serious tone while still being a harem romcom.
mihizawi2025-12-25 02:44
Part 2:
Rose of Versailles (8/10): a historical drama with lots of courtly intrigue and several important romance subplots, most of which end tragically.
Revolutionary Girl Utena (8/10): a very surrealistic and symbolic anime with lots of messy romance subplots, a strange reverse harem not centered on the protagonist, and a yuri main romance.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (7,5/10): a romcom with a pretty fun premise and a very genre-aware humor, and overt fan-service without being ecchi, it is almost a harem, but with a very clear main romance. It has two main plots, the romance and the school council election, and I personally felt like the first season, while getting some progress in both, it wasn't enough for a satisfying season. Hoping to get more from Season 2, since it was a very wild and entertaining watch.
Skip and Loafer (7,5/10): a tame but sweet slice of life with important romance. Not extremely exciting, but for a chill, relaxed watch, still a very nice romance.
Love Hina (7,5/10): a classic harem where the protagonist tries to find a childhood crush to fulfill a promise to go to university together.
Anohana (7,5/10): a short and somewhat tragic story about going through grief for a lost one. There's some romance aspect to it.
Inuyasha (7,5/10, provisional score, currently watching): a classical isekai battle-shonen, but with a very important romance subplot, including a sort of love triangle.
Fushigi Yuugi (7/10): an isekai adventure reverse harem anime with very prominent romance. The levels of teenage girl romance drama are very high, though, so you have to get into the right mindset to watch it without cringing, but still, a classic on its own right.
Mother of the Goddess Dormitory (7/10): Extreme amounts of ecchi fan service, and a very questionable age-gap (but with the male protagonist being the youngest). Still, if you are able to forget about the age gap, and enjoy the ecchi fan service, it is not a bad harem romance, the interactions between the characters are actually quite sweet.
Kaitou Saint Tail (6,5/10): a magical thief anime that has a lot of robin-hood esque themes, not so much stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but stealing to give it back to the rightful or moral owner. The romance plays a somewhat important part in the anime, but the problem I have with it is that it is too episodic, with very few exceptions, most episodes could be watched in a random order without it really being a problem.
School Days (6/10): one of the most hated romance animes ever, I think. And I get why: it is what would happen if protagonist who is a bad person with 0 redeeming qualities and no redemption arc got a harem of girls, who are, to varying degrees, bad people themselves. It is an uncomfortable watch, but because I believe that was the intention of the anime, I still give it some credit for achieving the goal of making the watcher uncomfortable.
Maleficent-Term-1262025-12-25 05:47
horimiya
hot-dog-flavor-water2025-12-25 06:38
Horimiya
The quintessential quintuplets
Love and lies
FlipitLOW2025-12-25 06:59
ANGEL NEXT DOOR SPOILS ME ROTTEN.
it may not be on Netflix or Hulu. But this is the snime your looking for I'm telling you
Daxefic2025-12-25 08:27
Tonikawa, trust it's fire
carbys2025-12-25 14:16
Tonikaku kawaii
Sk8er_Infinity2025-12-26 03:12
Apothecary diaries, ToraDora is good (but I hate the lead females design), HoriMiya, Cyberpunk edgerunners, Yakuza Fiance and A Fragrant flower blooms with dignity all have romance :)
Gullible_Bat_54082025-12-27 21:10
Ore Monogatari (a.k.a My love story)
Karin
Golden Time
A sign of Affection
Wotakoi
The ice guy and his cool female colleague
Mission yozakura family
HoneydewJust4You2025-12-29 01:41
The Quintessential Quintuplets, Horimiya, & Fruits Basket (2019 version)
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* Kaguya-Sama
* Toradora
* Dan da Dan
* Too Many Losing Heroines
* Horimiya
Less Well Known Options:
* Skip and Loafer
* I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying
* Tsurezure Children
* Pseudo Harem (Not actually a harem)
* Okitsura
If you have time try school rumble/kaguya sama love is war
All the romance I have watched so far, roughly in order from most to least favorite (part 1):
Cardcaptor Sakura (10/10) - Not a pure romance, but one of the cutest love stories ever, by the end the main romance is arguebly even more important than the other plot. The main romance takes its time to develop though.
Kimagure Orange Road (10/10) - A classic 80's romcom about a love triangle, and it has one of the earliest (and in my opinion greatest and most nuanced) tsundere love interests in anime.
Your Lie in April (10/10) - a very tragic but extremely beautiful love story between two teenage musicians. Will make you cry.
The Apothecary Diaries (10/10) - the romance is not the main focus for most of the anime, but in the moments it gets the spotlight, it's great and the whole series is so peak, with mystery, political intreague and historically inspired fiction.
Princess Tutu (10/10) - a very unorthodox magical girl anime, with a ballet theme and a lot of meta-commentary on story telling. The feelings of romantic love are what drives the plot, but the actual romance, while it is still there, is not a big focus.
Madoka Magica (10/10) - a darker take on the magical girl genre. Just like in Princess Tutu, the romantic feelings are quite important to the plot, but there's almost 0 actual romance, so I am hesitating if I should include this one. Still, a truly great anime.
Teasing Master Takagi-san (9,5/10) - one of the most wholesome and cutest but at the same time funniest romcoms ever made. It is quite episodic, with a lot of episodes being divided into short stories, but most of the independent episodes are somewhat connected and there's a sense of progress and development despite the episodic nature of the show.
Clannad (9,5/10) - starts as a fairly typical high-school harem romance with some fantasy/paranormal elements, but by the sequel, After Story, the main couple gets together and we get to see the struggles and challenges of a young adult couple, and stuff happens that will make you cry.
Your Name (9/10): a great anime movie where the romance is central to the plot.
Steins; Gate (9/10): another in a similar place to Princess Tutu and Madoka Magica, it has a bit of romance, but mainly, the romantic feelings drive the plot forward.
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (8,5/10) - together with Takagi-san, one of the most diabetic romances I've ever seen, but with less comedy, more of a pure romance, and I love it for that. And, while we are going to get a season 2 next year, this one reaches a very satifying conclusion in the 1st season with just 12 episodes.
Izetta: The Last Witch (8,5/10): a more military/political take on the magical girl genre where the yuri romance is somewhat important to the plot.
Fruits Basket: (8/10): a romance anime that may look like a reverse harem, but actually is more of a love triangle.
Ai Yori Aoshi (8/10) - a harem where the main couple gets together very early, but has to keep their relationship a secret, thus giving space for the harem situation to develop. If you want the trope of a perfect traditional japanese wife, I haven't come across a better example than the main girl in this anime, but she still has a fairly interesting and headstrong personality. The second season doesn't give us a satisfying conclusion, which is regrettable, but along the way there's still quite some progress with the main couple. In my opinion, there are many similarities to Love Hina in the way it handles the harem aspects, but I do prefer Ai Yori Aoshi, since it has a slightly more serious tone while still being a harem romcom.
Rose of Versailles (8/10): a historical drama with lots of courtly intrigue and several important romance subplots, most of which end tragically.
Revolutionary Girl Utena (8/10): a very surrealistic and symbolic anime with lots of messy romance subplots, a strange reverse harem not centered on the protagonist, and a yuri main romance.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (7,5/10): a romcom with a pretty fun premise and a very genre-aware humor, and overt fan-service without being ecchi, it is almost a harem, but with a very clear main romance. It has two main plots, the romance and the school council election, and I personally felt like the first season, while getting some progress in both, it wasn't enough for a satisfying season. Hoping to get more from Season 2, since it was a very wild and entertaining watch.
Skip and Loafer (7,5/10): a tame but sweet slice of life with important romance. Not extremely exciting, but for a chill, relaxed watch, still a very nice romance.
Love Hina (7,5/10): a classic harem where the protagonist tries to find a childhood crush to fulfill a promise to go to university together.
Anohana (7,5/10): a short and somewhat tragic story about going through grief for a lost one. There's some romance aspect to it.
Inuyasha (7,5/10, provisional score, currently watching): a classical isekai battle-shonen, but with a very important romance subplot, including a sort of love triangle.
Fushigi Yuugi (7/10): an isekai adventure reverse harem anime with very prominent romance. The levels of teenage girl romance drama are very high, though, so you have to get into the right mindset to watch it without cringing, but still, a classic on its own right.
Mother of the Goddess Dormitory (7/10): Extreme amounts of ecchi fan service, and a very questionable age-gap (but with the male protagonist being the youngest). Still, if you are able to forget about the age gap, and enjoy the ecchi fan service, it is not a bad harem romance, the interactions between the characters are actually quite sweet.
Kaitou Saint Tail (6,5/10): a magical thief anime that has a lot of robin-hood esque themes, not so much stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but stealing to give it back to the rightful or moral owner. The romance plays a somewhat important part in the anime, but the problem I have with it is that it is too episodic, with very few exceptions, most episodes could be watched in a random order without it really being a problem.
School Days (6/10): one of the most hated romance animes ever, I think. And I get why: it is what would happen if protagonist who is a bad person with 0 redeeming qualities and no redemption arc got a harem of girls, who are, to varying degrees, bad people themselves. It is an uncomfortable watch, but because I believe that was the intention of the anime, I still give it some credit for achieving the goal of making the watcher uncomfortable.
The quintessential quintuplets
Love and lies
it may not be on Netflix or Hulu. But this is the snime your looking for I'm telling you
Karin
Golden Time
A sign of Affection
Wotakoi
The ice guy and his cool female colleague
Mission yozakura family