How to find the right anime to watch. Help a dabbler out?

Hello! I use myanimelist or anime-planet to look up animes to watch. I don't watch a lot of animes but I enjoy romance anime occasionally. Can someone suggest the right keywords, based on my top favourites below. I feel like I can never get it right. Any help will be appreciated.

The animes I have fallen in love with:

1. Apothecary Diaries
2. Yona of the dawn (Love the manga too)
3. Kaguya-sama: Love is War
4. Spy x family
5. Horimiya
6. Kono Oto Tomare!
7. Fruits Basket (a rare love triangle exception)
8. Campfire cooking in another world
9. Why Reliana ended up in the Duke's Mansion (was already the manhwa fan)
10. Chihayafuru (a rare love triangle exception)
11. Dress up Darling
12. 7th Time Loop
13. My next life as villainess ( a rare harem exception)
14. Kimi no Toduke
15. The Water Magician
16. Tomochan is a girl

**Also my top 2nd would have been "Ascendence of a Bookworm", but as a LN fan, I just couldn't be satisfied with the anime.**

I almost always avoid harems/reverse harems/love triangles, I don't know why but they stress me out.

PS: I have watched more animes but these are the ones that I liked the most. :/ also if you feel like there is another thread I should post this, let me know. :) I just thought r/anime would be the best option.

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yourwigssliding2025-12-26 21:31

I cannot suggest your key words, as I’m a museum piece and a troglodyte. However, you might enjoy a few of these!
Call of the Night
Komi Can’t Communicate
Insomniacs after School
Toradora
Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl

Hope someone can help you in your search, but those were all truly enjoyable, light slice-leaning romance anime’s.

(Edit: Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! Is also on the same page of casual enjoyment as the previously mentioned series)

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 21:43

I guess it's true- museum pieces still hold wisdom. I will start with "Call of the night". The premise is so weird I like it.

yourwigssliding2025-12-26 21:45

It’s so good. Insomniacs is super chill though, enjoy!!

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 21:52

it has been on my watch list for so long. I just never get around to watch it.

MarmDevOfficial2025-12-26 22:24

Insomniac's after school was recently dubbed!

yourwigssliding2025-12-26 22:41

I’m a sub enjoyer, not a sub supremacist, and there isn’t an amount of dialogue that makes it difficult to watch/read. To each their own, but it is fantastic.

HoneydewJust4You2025-12-26 21:37

My absolute favorite rom-com anime (many other favorites are on your list already) is The Quintessential Quintuplets.

Some mistake it for a harem(because 5 pretty girls), but it's a beautiful story of the MC trying to navigate tutoring 5 quintuplet sisters.

I hope you'll give it a shot; the story has many twists & turns. Truly my fav <3

gud_fellow2025-12-26 21:42

It is a harem pretty much.

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 21:46

lol.. as long as the harem does not stress me out I guess it will work. I do love "My next life as a villainess" which is a harem too.

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 21:44

thanks, I will!

MarmDevOfficial2025-12-26 21:38

Laid back camp might be up your alley. Also known as Yuru Camp if you're looking up reviews.

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 21:47

thank you! and this is also on crunchy roll!

gud_fellow2025-12-26 21:39

Watch:

The Dangers In My Heart (Trust me, you'll enjoy this so much, gets better every episode just don't drop it a few episodes in)

Komi Can't Communicate

Call of The Night

Roshidere

Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady With The Lamp

Oregairu

Darling In The Franxx

Plastic Memories

I Want To Eat Your Pancreas (movie)

Your Name, Weathering With You, Suzume (Makoto Shinkai's big three movies)

5 Centimetres Per Second (also by Makoto Shinkai)

The Tunnel To Summer: Exit of Goodbyes (movie)

Boarding School Juliet

Kamisama Kiss (similar to yona the dawn)

Secrets of The Silent Witch

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 21:51

I will trust you and watch the Dangers in My heart. I love love Dr Elise (also a manhwa fan).

gud_fellow2025-12-26 21:53

I'm glad to hear! Just don't drop The Dangers In My Heart in the first few episodes. It can feel like wtf are you watching but after the 5th ep it takes off.

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 22:00

Thank you for the heads up. I usually drop them fast but I will take you suggestion and stick it out

gud_fellow2025-12-26 22:05

No Problem! I'm happy to help. Each episodes just keeps getting better and better in this anime and peak at the last episode of season 2, and the season 2 Opening is a banger. The Dangers In My Heart Movie is going to release in February 13, 2026 so I think this is a great time to watch the anime.

MarmDevOfficial2025-12-26 22:25

Is it going to be full of new content, or more of a rehash?

gud_fellow2025-12-26 22:30

It's going to be continuation of the story after the season 2. So new content.

BusyHoney97672025-12-26 21:44

Heres some series you may enjoy.

A Sign of Affection

Loving Yamada at Lvl 999

Kamisama Kiss

Snow White with the Red Hair

Saiunkoku Monogatari

Ore Monogatari

12 Kingdoms

Beast Player Erin

Taisho Otome Fairy Tale

Medalist

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 21:55

a lot of these I love! Haven't heard of 12 kingdoms. Maybe I'll start there! Thank you

7GrenciaMars2025-12-26 22:26

If you like 12 Kingdoms, and as you already like Yona of the Dawn, you might go back in time (90's) for Fushigi Yuugi. I prefer it over 12 Kingdoms as it's complete and I think just better done overall. Skip the related OAVs, though, as they're not nearly as good as the series.

The_Sigh2025-12-26 21:54

watch skip to loafer!!

Ok-Reason82762025-12-26 21:56

yes. that is a good one too. very stress-free

Quadhelix02025-12-26 22:16

>8. Campfire cooking in another world

For other anime like that, my go-to recommendation would be *Yuru Camp* (*Laid-Back Camp*), which is a show about girls going camping, and becoming friends in the process.

Other similar shows could include *Super Cub* (a show about a girl getting a motor scooter and making friends with other girls who are interested in motor scooters) and *Do It Yourself* (a show about a clumsy girl who joins her school's nearly-abandoned DIY projects club).

>11. Dress up Darling

Another show that is roughly similar to this one would be *The Dangers In My Heart*, which is about a shy loner with a special interest in serial killers (as opposed to hina dolls) who ends up falling into the orbit of his class's extroverted fashion who has a not-so-secret weird side.

>3. Kaguya-sama: Love is War

For this, one potentially similar show would be *The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love*, at least in the sense of being a gag comedy romance (rather, the author of *Kaguya-sama* said in an interview that *100 Girlfriends* was basically taking *Kaguya-sama* to the next level, but this was an interview **with** the author of *100 Girlfriends*, so that might have just been a bit of professional courtesy).

>7th Time Loop

Another show that has the "main character is denounced as a villainess, but is too independently minded to be seriously bother, and then ends up in the romantic orbit of a manipulative prince" would be the recent *May I Ask For One Final Thing* (which, admittedly, much more comedic in tone than *7th Time Loop* because, rather than drawing upon multiple lifetimes of experience to solve her problems, the main character of *May I Ask For One Final Thing* draws upon her fists. And time magic, but mainly her fists).