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Ashita no Nadja

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance

This story takes place about one hundred years ago. Nadja is a bright, cheerful girl who was raised in an orphanage near London, England. Nadja was entrusted to the orphanage when she was a baby. So she thought her father and mother were dead. But before her thirteenth birthday, she found out that her mother might be alive.

Nadja sets out on a journey to find her mother! With all of Europe as the stage, Nadja's exciting adventure begins!

Tags: Foreign , Historical , Female Protagonist , Circus , Coming of Age , Twins , Episodic , Work , Found Family , Travel , Class Struggle , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Disability , Dancing , Male Harem , CGI , Animals , Band , Detective , Shoujo

Lady Georgie

Also known as Lady Georgie.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , ASATSU , Asahi Housou
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

An Australian farmer returns home from the woods with a baby named Georgie. The girl lives ignoring the terrible secret hidden in the golden bracelet on her hand. Her "Father" and Her "brothers", Abel and Arthur, love her dearly, but her "mother" considers her an intruder and doesn't manage to open her heart to the girl. Georgie grows up into a beautiful young girl, and both her "brothers" are deeply in love with her. Not knowing the truth, Georgie eventually falls in love with the handsome grandson of the British Governor. When Mother finally reveals the truth to her and condemns the girl for being an exile's daughter, Georgie leaves for Britain in search of her real parents - and for her love, who has also left Australia. Abel and Arthur follow her and the three are thrown into the cruel world of London aristocracy, lies and intrigues.

Tags: Shoujo , Foreign , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Male Harem , Inseki , Historical , Female Protagonist , Adoption , Crossdressing , Nudity , Suicide

Alps no Shoujo Heidi

Also known as Heidi, Girl of the Alps.

Studio: Fuji TV , Zuiyou Eizou
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

After becoming an orphan, Heidi is forced to live with her grandfather Öhi, who lives in the Alps. She learns he's a very bitter man who only accepted by force to take her in. But Heidi's kindness may be able to open his heart. Together with the shepherd Peter and invalid Klara, she has lots of adventures.



Tags: Classic Literature , Rural , Foreign , Kids , Rehabilitation , Female Protagonist , Historical , Primarily Child Cast , Coming of Age , Animals , Urban , Family Life , Agriculture , Philosophy , Orphan , School

Versailles no Bara

Also known as Lady Oscar: The Rose of Versailles.

Studio: Tokyo Movie Shinsha , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Romance

Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires. She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen senses and compassion are not blinded to the poverty of the French people.



Tags: Historical , Class Struggle , Tragedy , Royal Affairs , Foreign , Military , Politics , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Crossdressing , Ojou-sama , Primarily Adult Cast , Gender Bending , Swordplay , Philosophy , Tomboy , Suicide , Terrorism , War , Time Skip , Guns , Heterosexual , Maids , Unrequited Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Religion , Love Triangle

Akage no Anne

Also known as Anne of Green Gables.

Studio: Nippon Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she learns that sometimes you have to be a sensible person too; at the same time her unique character changes, or at least attracts, the people around her. The story covers Anne's growth from about eleven to seventeen years old as she makes friends, goes to school and studies. At a difficult point in her life, Anne will have to make a hard choice and perhaps find a new dream.

Tags: Coming of Age , Classic Literature , Female Protagonist , Historical , Family Life , Orphan , Rural , Adoption , Iyashikei , Found Family , School , Time Skip , Foreign , Tragedy , Agriculture , Religion , Primarily Female Cast , Kids , Body Image , Horticulture , School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Trains , Tsundere , Musical Theater , College , Elderly Protagonist

Hana no Ko Lunlun

Also known as Angel.

Studio: TV Asahi , ASATSU , Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mahou Shoujo

The King of the Flower Planet is dying, but his heir can't take up the throne until the legendary Seven Color Flower, symbol of the King's power, is found. The Angels Cateau and Noveau are sent to Earth to find the Flower Girl, a young female who descends from both humans and Flower Angels (who once inhabited Earth, long ago) - and they find Lunlun in France. They convince her to go in a long journey to find the Flower - she'll know the good and bad sides of humans and Flower Angels (incarnated in the ambicious Togenishia and her sidekick Boris), and will fall in love with Serge Flora, a man who holds a great secret.



Tags: Magic , Travel , Foreign , Animals , Female Protagonist

Anne Shirley

Also known as Anne Shirley.

Studio: The Answer Studio , Fuji Creative Corporation , Fuji TV , The Answer Studio , Fujipacific Music
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

On the beautiful Prince Edward Island in Canada, an orphan named Anne Shirley is mistakenly sent to Green Gables, the home of Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. They choose to adopt her anyway, as Anne finds friendship, love, and happiness in her new home. Come along for the story of a purehearted and imaginative girl growing up, leaving for college, and returning home a changed woman.



Tags: Orphan , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Parenthood , Classic Literature , Rural , Historical , Iyashikei , Shoujo , School , College , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love , Coastal , Time Skip , Foreign , Adoption , Family Life , Teacher , Body Image , Boarding School , Writing , POV , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Tragedy , Work , Religion , Agriculture , Twins , Elderly Protagonist

Onii-sama e...

Also known as Dear Brother.

Studio: NHK , NHK Enterprises , Tezuka Productions
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Before leaving her cram school, Nanako Misonō asks one of the teachers if they can become pen-pals. The teacher, Takehiko Henmi, is reluctant at first, but eventually accepts the offer. The story is narrated through the letters sent from Nanako as she enters Seiran, a renowned private high school for girls only. There she encounters many difficulties as an ordinary middle-class girl invited to the prestigious Sorority, the most traditional and sophisticated club on campus..



Tags: Shoujo , Tragedy , School , Ojou-sama , Coming of Age , Bullying , Female Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , Yuri , Primarily Female Cast , Boarding School , Tomboy , Yandere , Heterosexual , Suicide , Drugs , Villainess , Basketball , Trains

Hello! Sandybell

Studio: Toei Animation , TV Asahi , ASATSU
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Romance

Sandybell is a playful girl from Scotland. She is happy even if her mum died when she was little. Past secrets begin to reveal after Sandybell gets a white lily from a rich lady. After a tragic act Sandybell moves to London where she is trying to find clues to her past.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Family Life , Foreign

Lady Lady!!

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Lynn lost her mother at the age of five and lives in with her father in England. Lynn's father is not able to be by her side all the time because of his busy schedule and Lynn is often left on her own. Despite having to endure the harsh loneliness, Lynn strives to protect her promise with her mother to become a strong and elegant lady.



Tags: Historical , Shoujo , Foreign , Female Protagonist