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Usually, an anime of this genre focuses on the relationship and love between two people, and at the end of the work we see a happy ending.
Characters who are in love take risks and fight to be together. At the end, they get their reward.
The works of this genre are characterized by a dreamy atmosphere.
Love anime can also include genres such as comedy, everyday life, school, drama, adventure, or mystery.
Anime about love
1. Blooming youth (Hanasakeru Seishonen)
Year: 2009
Studio: Studio Pierrot
Category: series
Episodes: 39
© Hanasakeru Seishonen/ Studio Pierrot
Kajika is a fourteen-year-old heiress to the Burnsworth Corporation who just wants to live a normal life, but her father has other plans.
He tells Kajika that she is facing a difficult fate, but he will only tell her all the details when she is next to the man she is going to marry. As such, he created a “marriage game” for her. Kajika will meet three men he specifically chose, and she will choose one of the three to be her husband.
There's only one trick. Kajika must also make her chosen one fall in love with her, as the “grooms” do not know about the game they are participating in.
The girl has never loved anyone but her favorite leopard, so this game seems difficult for her. With her childhood friend and personal shadow Lee Ren, the girl will decide who will be her lifelong partner.
Blooming Youth Anime Trailer
2. Lovely Complex
Year: 2007
Studio: Toei Animation
Category: series
Episodes: 24
© Lovely Complex/ Toei Animation
This is a love story between a boy and a girl from Sakai, Osaka.
There is a girl named Risa Koizumi who is 172 centimeters tall and a guy named Atsushi Otani, who is 14 centimeters shorter than the main character.
For this reason, the pair are named “All Hanshin Kyojin” after a popular comedy duo who has a similar height difference.
In summer (some people study in Japan at this time of year as well), a new student named Ryuji arrives. Risa falls in love with him right away. There's also a girl that Atsushi likes.
Risa and Atsushi decide to team up to help each other in love affairs.
“The Touching Complex” anime trailer
3. Tiger vs dragon/Toradora!
© Toradora! /J.C.Staff
Year: 2008
Studio: J.C.Staff
Category: series
Episodes: 25
The main character is Ryuji Takasu, whose name means “dragon”, and he is also considered to be the coolest bully in the neighborhood.
It's his first day of high school and it seems like things are going upside down. He sits between his only friend, Yusaku, and more importantly, the girl he's secretly in love with, Minori Kushiedu. He thinks his school life is going to be great and no one can ruin it.
But how wrong he was. After all, he accidentally crosses paths with the scariest girl at school, Taiga Aisaku, nicknamed “Pocket Tiger”.
The couple become archenemies.
To top it off, Taiga moves into a house next door to Ryuji's house. Another girl turns out to be Minori's best friend!
Can this school year get any worse?!
Tiger vs Dragon/Toradora Anime Trailer
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4. Paradise Kiss Atelier
© Paradise Kiss/ Madhouse Studios
Year: 2005
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Category: series
Episodes: 12
Yukari is a typical high school student who only thinks about going to university.
But her boring life leaves a lot to be desired until an unusual team of fashion students ask her to model their new clothing line: Paradise Kiss!
Now Yukari must choose whether she'll give up the life her mother has prepared for her or whether she'll start making her own choices. As he takes his first steps into adulthood, Yukari is also beginning to understand that with freedom comes responsibility.
Life in the fashion industry is not easy, especially for those who are unsure of their intentions.
“Paradise Kiss Atelier” anime trailer
5. The Earl and the Fairy
© The Earl and the Fairy/ Artland
Year: 2008
Studio: Artland
Category: series
Episodes: 12
The story takes place in Victorian England.
The main character is 17-year-old Lydia Carlton. She has been nicknamed “The Fairytale Doctor” because she is interested in fairies and understands them.
A girl's life unfolds 180 degrees when she meets Edgar J.S. Ashenbert, the “Legendary Earl of Blue Knight” and his team. They're all going to London together.
Edgar hires Lydia as an advisor while searching for a cherished sword that once belonged to his family's ancestors.
The Count and the Fae anime trailer
6. It's my story! (My Love Story!!)
© My Love Story!! /Madhouse Studios
Year: 2015
Studio: Madhouse Studios
Category: series
Episodes: 24
The story revolves around Takeo Goda, a high school student. He is a tall and muscular guy who has no luck with girls, as everyone he starts to like ends up falling in love with his best friend, the charming and handsome Makoto Sunakawa.
One day things happen differently. Friends meet a petite and shy girl named Rinko Yamato. Takeo saves a lady and falls in love with her but thinks he doesn't stand a chance.
How surprised he will be when he finds out who the girl really has strong feelings for!
“My Story!” anime trailer
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7. Oran High School Host Club
© Ouran High School Host Club/ BONES
Year: 2006
Studio: BONES
Category: series
Episodes: 26
The comedy series follows the adventures of Haruhi Fujioka, a fellow at the prestigious Orange Academy in Tokyo.
Looking for a quiet place to study, Haruhi stumbles upon the abandoned Third Music Room, where the Orange Academy Host Club, a group of six students, meets to entertain client girls, as well as treat them to tea and sweets.
During their first meeting, Haruhi accidentally breaks an antique vase worth 8,000,000 yen (about 4,973,526 Russian rubles), and must now work off the money, namely perform various club duties.
Oran High School Dating Club Anime Trailer
8. Special “A” (Special “A”)
© Special “A”/GONZO
Year: 2008
Studio: GONZO, AIC
Category: series
Episodes: 24
Hikari Hanazono has always been second to Kei Takishima.
When they were six years old, their loving wrestling fathers introduced them to each other. Assuming she was the best at wrestling, little Hikari challenged Kay, but unfortunately he won. After this fatal incident, Hikari vowed to surpass Kay at everything.
To do this, she went to the same school as Kay. Now she attends Hakusen, an ultra-elite school for the rich that her carpenter father has to pay a hefty sum of money for. Hikari and Kay are two of the best students in school, and Kay is firm in her number one position. Although Hikari considers Kay a rival and an important friend, she is completely unaware that Kay has strong feelings for her.
Attention is also paid to the other five S.A. students: Akira Tudu, Tadashi Karino, Megumi and Junu Yamamoto, and Ryuu Tsuji.
Special Class A anime trailer
9. Fireflies twinkle in the forest (Hotarubi no Mori e)
© Hotarubi no Mori e/ Brains Base
Year: 2011
Studio: Brains Base
Category: movie
Episodes: 1
A six-year-old girl named Hotaru is lost in the woods and thinks she can't find her way back when a strange masked guy named Gin comes to her aid. He's the one who helps her get out of the forest.
From this moment on, an amazing story of friendship begins first, and then love. But there is one thing — the guy forbids the girl to touch herself. And the second odd thing is that Hotaru is growing up, but Gin is not.
What happens if she does touch him and who is Gin really?
“Fireflies Twinkle in the Forest” anime trailer
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10. And yet the world is beautiful (The World Is Still Beautiful)
© The World Is Still Beautiful/ Studio Pierrot
Year: 2014
Studio: Studio Pierrot
Category: series
Episodes: 12
Nika Remercier is the fourth princess of the Duchy of Rain who has the ability to cause rain.
She travels to the Sun Kingdom to marry Sun King Livius Ifrik to help her country despite her own reluctance. She soon discovers that the king, who conquered the world just three years after his ascension to the throne, is still a child. In addition, he demands that Nika make it rain, and when she refuses, he throws her in jail.
The story is about these two, who at first are married only on paper, but gradually begin to have real feelings for each other.
The trailer for the anime “The World Is Still Beautiful”