Anime like NINETEEN 19

Bobby ni Kubittake

Studio: MADHOUSE , Kadokawa Shoten , Project Team Argos
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

The "Bobby" referred to in the title is actually 17-year-old Akihiko Nomura, an underachieving high school kid with a deep love for motorcycles. His grades are failing, and his father – traditional and strict (but who must have also at some point gave in and allowed him to have a motorcycle) – is trying everything he can think of to get the kid to apply for college. His mother is so silent, she might as well not even exist. Really, his support system lies entirely in his twinkle-toed little sister, who's nosy but cheers him on in her own way.

Bobby really does little else but work on his bike. He cleans his bike. He tunes up his bike. He rides his bike. One would call him a motorcycle otaku. His most recent achievement seems to have been getting photos of himself on a road trip printed in a motorcyclist hobby magazine. This leads to an unexpected result: a girl his age, who picked up that issue on a whim, decides to write him a letter. A long, rambling letter, but dreamily romantic just the same. Bobby admits to his sister that he's never gotten a letter from a girl before. He writes back, "I got your letter. I'm happy 'cause it was from a girl."

Bobby is not a well-rounded kid. He barely speaks – even to his own family – and the "letters" he writes back to the mystery girl usually consist of a single sentence or so. His motorcycle obsession is all-consuming, to the point where he happily quits school to work at a biker bar. Of course, his father, at a loss, kicks him out of the house. Staying with a friend, he's delighted when his female pen pal says she'll call him. On that day, his boss at the bar decides to take him to a motocross track. But that's a day that wouldn't end in a way that anybody would expect.



Note: Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Tags: Motorcycles , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Coming of Age , Foreign

CIPHER

Also known as Cipher.

Studio: Victor Entertainment , Magic Bus
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music

Two brothers are in the spotlight: one a movie star making a football movie, the other a musician who occasionally goes to school (to cover for his sibling). What will destiny bring them?

Tags: Acting , Twins , Foreign , Shoujo , American Football , Male Protagonist , School , Dancing , Incest , Meta , Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes

Ai Monogatari: 9 Love Stories

Studio: Studio DEEN , Animate Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

An OVA based on the work of Kawaguchi Kaiji consisting of nine independent stories, each animated by a different director. With Beatles music involved, somewhere.




Tags: Anthology , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Seinen , Snowscape , Nudity , Rugby , Yakuza

Heart Cocktail Again

Studio: Hal Film Maker
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

An OVA produced to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Watase Seizou's Heart Cocktail manga.

Tags: Trains , Heterosexual , Iyashikei , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Urban , Mopeds , Motorcycles , Coastal , Rural

Umi ga Kikoeru

Also known as Ocean Waves.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Studio Ghibli , GKIDS
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Ocean Waves is high school love story set in Kochi, Japan. Morisaki Taku and Matsuno Yutaka are best friends when a girl from Tokyo named Muto Rikako transfers to their school. Excluding herself from group activities, she’s eventually labeled a snob. Matsuno has a crush on Rikako, so it’s no surprise that he gets a little jealous when Morisaki and Rikako start spending more time together. The rumors around school get worse, but Morisaki still insists there is nothing between him and Rikako.


Tags: School , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Coastal , Travel , Time Skip , Historical , Tsundere

B.B. Fish

Studio: Production I.G , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Ushio is a freediver with strange powers. He and his friends are at a tropical land in search of a rare fish, the Blue Butterfly. This pursuit leads them to Ayuuru, a local girl who might know where to find the legendary fish.



Tags: Scuba Diving , Rural , Nudity , Seinen , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast

Denei Shoujo VIDEO GIRL AI

Also known as Video Girl Ai.

Studio: Production I.G , Shueisha , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Ecchi , Romance

When Yohta is told by the girl he likes, Moemi, that she likes someone else, he rents a video girl tape from a strange video rental shop. When he plays the tape at home, Video Girl Ai emerges from the screen to help him win Moemi's love. But Yohta's VCR had been malfunctioning and now Ai's personality isn't quite what it was designed to be.



Tags: Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Artificial Intelligence , Shounen , Nudity , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Otaku Culture , Gore

"Eiji"

Studio: Movic , Shueisha , Pony Canyon , Animate Film
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

Legendary boxer Keijiro Akagi's second son, Eiji, is a high school dropout and the world's worst rock guitarist. Though his father and elder brother are both boxers, he hates the sport but suddenly takes an interest in it when he meets the local champion's little sister.



Tags: Boxing , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Delinquents , School , Slapstick , Achromatic

A-Girl

Studio: MADHOUSE , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Sisters Mariko and Mayu, along with Mariko's bad-tempered boyfriend, become involved with Ichiro, an arrogant, womanizing male model.

A-Girl has very few lines of dialogue and is performed against a background of Japanese pop songs composed by Okada Tooru and sung in English! by SEIKA. Intertiles provide continuity, like in old silent films.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Acting , No Dialogue , Love Triangle , Shoujo , Heterosexual , School , Food

Bakemonogatari

Also known as Bakemonogatari.

Studio: Aniplex , Shaft , Kodansha , Aniplex of America , Hanabee Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

First season of the Monogatari Series, part 1/6. Contains the arcs Hitagi Crab, Mayoi Snail, Suruga Monkey, Nadeko Snake, and Tsubasa Cat from the Bakemonogatari light novels.

Thanks to Meme Oshino, Koyomi Araragi, a high school student, is able to remain a human after coming across a female vampire... However, since the incident, Koyomi seems to meet girls who have an apparition-related issue. Hitagi Senjougahara doesn’t weigh anything, Suruga Kanbaru’s right arm becomes like that of a monkey’s, and a young girl, Mayoi, cannot find her way home no matter how many times she tries. Koyomi, a Mr. Nice Guy, ends up helping each and every girl solve her problem with the help of Meme Oshino.



Note: Only the first 12 episodes were broadcast on television; the remaining three episodes were distributed on the anime's website between November 3, 2009, and June 25, 2010.

Tags: Youkai , Ensemble Cast , Urban Fantasy , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Kuudere , Coming of Age , Vampire , Ghost , Satire , Primarily Female Cast , Meta , Heterosexual , Dissociative Identities , Primarily Teen Cast , Seinen , Psychosexual , Curses , Exorcism , Monster Girl , Gore , Rotoscoping , Gods , Yandere , Love Triangle , Mixed Media , Parody , Tomboy , Nekomimi , Female Harem , Nudity , Tsundere , CGI , School , Amnesia , Rehabilitation