Summary
As this anime season ends, dozens of fantastic series have been released in the medium’s many available genres. One of the top-performing genres of the year is romance. Aromance animecan hit all the spots that action anime hit, with less over-the-top animation and more refined emotional storytelling. The stories of the heart and the blossoming feelings the characters bring to life can touch viewers and leave lasting impressions just as well as other series.
A diamond in the rough isMakeine: Too Many Losing Heroines, a whimsical slice-of-life romance anime with a multiple-character story. Kazuhiko is an average high school student who doesn’t stand out much, living life day-to-day like everyone else. However, when he witnesses the rejection of the most popular girl in his class, he’s pushed into the spotlight when he becomes the white knight of several down-on-their-luck heroines who all have a story to tell. There are many anime available to watch whileMakeinereleases episodes, or to move on to once the series is finished. Here are some ofthe best anime that are likeMakeine: Too Many Losing Heroines.
Cute and wholesome,Tsurezure Childrenis an anthology-style anime that follows multiple couples in various stages of their relationships, putting their personalities under the spotlight. Of the various couples, most clash, and the series shows how they communicate their wants and needs to their partners.
Tsurezure Childrenis an easy-going series that needs little investment and does a spectacular job of portraying the little things that matter the most in relationships.
7Love Lab
Experimenting With Love
Love Labtakes place in an all-girls academy where the student council leads by example. Natsuo, the president of the student council, is the epitome of elegance, but has a secret longing to experience love. Riko discovers Natsuo’s secret but decides to help her branch out into the world and discover herself.
Natsuo and Riko begin to arrange cute events such as holding hands, chance encounters, and even kissing to find the true definition of the love Natsuo wants to experience. Things become a joint endeavor when the entire student body becomes involved, and everyone yearns to experience the feelings in their hearts.
Houtarou is an easy-going young man about to start his first-year student year in high school. Wanting to get away from the high-energy rumble of his classmates, Houtarou seeks to live a slow-paced existence, saving his energy for his later years.
His anti-social behavior backfires when he’s roped into joining a school club on the edge of being shut down for lack of members. In the club, he befriends the entire group, but it’s a young girl named Eru who drags Houtarou out of his grayscale life and into the world of color.
Miyamura is just another face in the crowd in his class, seen as a skinny, nerdy type. This changes when he and Hori have a chance encounter that leads both of them down a path of getting to know one another and slowly falling in love.
Miyamura, who has lived an emotionally harsh life until meeting Hori, slowly comes out of his disguise and begins to live fully. At the same time, Hori finds herself growing more sure of the things she wants in life thanks to the companionship of Miyamura. Together, they each lead by example andpush their friendsto find their own paths.
Yuuta Togashi has a plan to step into high school with a fresh start, hoping to leave his embarrassing history behind. In a past life, Yuuta gave into adolescent delusions of being a powerful demon lord and embraced an edgy aesthetic along with it. Thankfully, he shook his demon lord persona and became an average, everyday person like his classmates.
In comes Rikka, a classmate who has notgrown out of her childlike personaand still fantasizes about magical battles and imaginary scenarios. The more Yuuta tries to distance himself, the deeper he is pulled into Rikka’s world, where friendship, and more, blossom.
3Sing Yesterday For Me
A Melancholy Approach To Starting Over
Rikuo was supposed to have an abundance of potential after high school, but it all seemed to fall flat after graduation. Since then, he has worked the same dead-end job with no motivation to better his situation, and is resigning himself to a bleak future.
Just when he begins to get settled, a former flame walks back into his life and makes him take a good look at himself. At the same time, a peculiar young girl steps into his world, and things become extremely complicated. With the scars of history weighing all of them down, they find strength and growth in each other.
My Teen Romantic Comedy Snafutakes a unique approach to emotional growth, following Hachiman, a young boy with a bleak outlook on life and teen youth. Having extremely negative views toward those who believe in the joy of life and the relationships that one fosters while growing, Hachiman finds himself placed at the beck and call of the very types of people he dislikes.
Placed unwillingly into a club by a teacher, Hachiman is forced into social interaction and sees the things he criticizes up close for the first time. While not the most popular student in school, both he and his newfound friends learn new things about each other and each other’s points of view and hisnihilistic viewsbegin to fall away.
Two of the top students in the country also lead their school to greatness as student council president and vice president. Adored by their fellow students and teachers, Miyuki and Kaguya are doted as the perfect couple of the entire school. However, due to pride and weak will, neither will confess their feelings for one another.
Instead, both decide to force the other’s hand and use strategy to make the other confess first. A laundry list of over-dramatic scenarios follow suit, as love becomes a war in the daily lives of the Shuchiin Academy students inKaguya-Sama: Love is War.
