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Ouran Koukou Host Club

Also known as Ouran High School Host Club.

Studio: bones , VAP , Nomad , Funimation , Nippon Television Network , Hakusensha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Fujioka Haruhi wins a scholarship to attend Ouran Academy, a school reserved for only the most rich and prestigious. Despite what other students may think of her, she cares little for physical appearances or the fact that she is a commoner.

Unfortunately for Haruhi, her high school days take a sudden turn when she stumbles upon the Host Club, an elite club filled with super rich and beautiful boys who use their specific traits and charms to entertain young ladies. Even worse, Haruhi accidentally breaks an 8-million yen vase in the club. Since she is unable to repay her debt with money, Haruhi finds herself with no choice but to work for the Host Club, becoming a male host herself.

Tags: School Club , Shoujo , Crossdressing , Parody , School , Male Harem , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Ensemble Cast , Tomboy , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Surreal Comedy , Twins , Meta , Episodic , LGBTQ+ Themes , Femboy , Mixed Gender Harem , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Found Family , Love Triangle , Chibi , Ojou-sama , Food , Martial Arts , Delinquents , Gangs , Yakuza

Where to watch?

Hulu

Tubi TV

Toradora!

Also known as Toradora!.

Studio: Genco , Starchild Records , Magic Capsule , NIS America Inc. , Yomiuri Advertising , TV Tokyo Music , J.C.STAFF , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle high school student with a love for housework; but in contrast to his kind nature, he has an intimidating face that often gets him labeled as a delinquent. On the other hand is Taiga Aisaka, a small, doll-like student, who is anything but a cute and fragile girl. Equipped with a wooden katana and feisty personality, Taiga is known throughout the school as the "Palmtop Tiger."

One day, an embarrassing mistake causes the two students to cross paths. Ryuuji discovers that Taiga actually has a sweet side: she has a crush on the popular vice president, Yuusaku Kitamura, who happens to be his best friend. But things only get crazier when Ryuuji reveals that he has a crush on Minori Kushieda—Taiga's best friend!

Toradora! is a romantic comedy that follows this odd duo as they embark on a quest to help each other with their respective crushes, forming an unlikely alliance in the process.

Tags: Tsundere , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Unrequited Love , Slapstick , Female Harem , Tragedy , Food , Teacher , Family Life , Fake Relationship , Body Horror

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

Amazon Prime Video

Tubi TV

Horimiya

Also known as Horimiya.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Square Enix , Movic , My Theater D.D. , Global Solutions , Mirai Koujou , Kanetsuu Investment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

A secret life is the one thing they have in common. At school, Hori is a prim and perfect social butterfly, but the truth is she's a brash homebody. Meanwhile, under a gloomy facade, Miyamura hides a gentle heart, along with piercings and tattoos. In a chance meeting, they both reveal a side they've never shown. Could this blossom into something new?

Tags: School , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Primarily Teen Cast , Tsundere , Slapstick , Episodic , Shounen , Love Triangle , Bullying , Masochism , Iyashikei , Sadism , Chibi , LGBTQ+ Themes

Where to watch?

Hulu

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Amazon Prime Video

Kimi ni Todoke

Also known as Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You.

Studio: Production I.G , NIS America Inc. , Nippon Television Network , VAP , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Kuronuma Sawako is completely misunderstood by her classmates. Her timid and sweet demeanor is often mistaken for malicious behavior. This is due to her resemblance to the ghost girl from "The Ring", which has led her peers to give her the nickname Sadako. Longing to make friends and live a normal life, she is naturally drawn to Kazehaya Shouta, the most popular guy in class, whose "100% refreshing" personality earns him great admiration from Sawako. So when Kazehaya starts talking to her, maybe there is hope for the friendships Sawako has always longed for. Maybe...there is even a little hope for some romance in her future.

Tags: Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Love Triangle , Bullying , Unrequited Love , Tsundere , Chibi , Tomboy , Gyaru , Teacher , Baseball , Football

Where to watch?

Hulu

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Also known as Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun.

Studio: Doga Kobo , Sentai Filmworks , Sony Music Communications , AT-X , TV Tokyo , Frontier Works , Media Factory
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

You know how the story goes: girl crushes on guy, girl confesses feelings to guy, guy mistakes confession for a job application. Okay, maybe that's not how it usually goes, but that's what happens when Chiyo Sakura finally gets up the nerve to tell her classroom crush Nozaki how she feels. Since she doesn't know that he's secretly a manga artist who publishes under a female pen name, and he doesn't know that she doesn't know, he misunderstands and offers her a chance to work as his assistant instead of a date! But while it's not flowers and dancing, it is a chance to get closer to him, so Chiyo gamely accepts. And when Nozaki realizes how useful Chiyo can be in figuring out what girls find romantic, he'll be spending even more time with her "researching" while remaining completely clueless. Could Chiyo's romantic frustration possibly get any more drawn out of proportion?

Tags: Parody , Slapstick , Drawing , Ensemble Cast , School , Unrequited Love , Otaku Culture , Female Protagonist , Work , Gender Bending , Heterosexual , Tomboy , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Shounen , Tsundere , Educational , Crossdressing

Where to watch?

Hulu

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Hoopla

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

Also known as My Little Monster.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Aniplex , Brain's Base , NAS , Kodansha , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

Standoffish, reclusive Shizuku Mizutani cares far more about earning stellar grades than cultivating friendships. But her opinions on friendship and relationships begin to change when she meets habitual truant Haru Yoshida, who happens to have a rather fearsome reputation. Like Shizuku, Haru’s reputation has made it difficult to make friends. And yet through their budding friendship and stirrings of attraction the unlikely pair learns to understand one another, the world around them, and the tenor of their own emotions.

Tags: School , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Tsundere , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist

Where to watch?

Crunchyroll

HIDIVE

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AsianCrush

Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji

Also known as Wolf Girl and Black Prince.

Studio: TYO Animations , Yomiuri TV , Nippon Television Network , VAP
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance , Slice of Life

The story centers around Erika Shinohara, a vain 16-year-old girl who tells her friends about her romantic exploits, but she actually has no boyfriend. She claims that a handsome boy in a candid photo is her boyfriend, but it turns out that boy is a schoolmate named Kyouya Sata. She has no choice but to make him her fake boyfriend. Unfortunately, Sata may look like a sweet person, but he is actually an ultra-black-hearted sadist. Sata takes advantage of Erika's weakness and treats her like his dog.

Tags: Shoujo , Heterosexual , Tsundere , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Gyaru , Love Triangle , Fake Relationship

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Kamisama Hajimemashita

Also known as Kamisama Kiss.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Dentsu , TMS Entertainment , Funimation , Pony Canyon , Sotsu , DAX Production , Hakusensha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Romance , Supernatural

Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his place is a shrine, and Nanami has unwittingly taken over his job as a local deity!

Nanami has all kinda of new responsibilities she doesn't understand, dangers she's unaware of, and a cranky ex-familiar who's... actually pretty hot. What's a new-fledged godling to do?

Tags: Gods , Shoujo , Youkai , Female Protagonist , Kemonomimi , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Age Gap , Episodic , Time Manipulation , Demons , Male Harem , School , Monster Boy , Love Triangle , Meta , Tsundere , Bullying , Slavery , Anthropomorphism , Cohabitation

Where to watch?

Hulu

Amazon Prime Video

YouTube

Special A

Also known as S.A: Special A.

Studio: GONZO , AIC , Sentai Filmworks , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Hikari Hanazono has always been second to Kei Takishima. When they were six years old, their pro-wrestling loving fathers introduced them to each other. Assuming that she was the best in wrestling, young Hikari challenged Kei to a wrestling match only to be thoroughly defeated by him.

Ever since that fateful incident, Hikari swore to beat Kei in school grades, sporting events - anything. To do this, she has enrolled in the same school as Kei since elementary. Now she attends Hakusenkan, an ultra elite school, that costs her carpenter father a lot of money.

Hikari and Kei are the top two students in the school, with Kei holding firmly to that number one position. While Hikari considers Kei to be a rival and important friend, she is completely unaware that Kei loves her. The story primarily focuses on Hikari and her constant attempts to defeat her one and only rival, Kei, and how she finds love in their rivalry.

Tags: Shoujo , Animals , School , Tsundere , Twins , Wrestling , Ensemble Cast , Slapstick , Bullying , School Club , Martial Arts , Heterosexual , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Dissociative Identities , Coming of Age , Musical Theater , Foreign , Maids , Incest

Where to watch?

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Sukitte Ii na yo.

Also known as Say "I love you"..

Studio: Starchild Records , Kodansha , ZEXCS , Magic Capsule , Sentai Filmworks , Yomiuri Advertising , GANSIS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Mei Tachibana has spent her 16 years without a boyfriend or friends. One day, she injures the most popular boy in school, Yamato Kurosawa, due to a misunderstanding. For some reason though, it seems that he takes a liking to her and one-sidedly claims that they're friends. Furthermore, he not only protects Mei from a stalker, but does so with a kiss…?!!

Tags: Bullying , School , Shoujo , Female Protagonist , Love Triangle , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Rehabilitation

Where to watch?

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