Are you looking for a high school romance anime that is bitter and sweet, sweet and sour awkward, or refreshing and smiling? This time we will introduce the top 75 recommended anime broadcasted in the past!

30 Best high School Romance Anime

Introducing recommended high school romance anime and love in ranking format!

The appeal of high school anime is probably the youth unique to student life of boys and girls. Among them, the love between a clumsy boy and a hard girl has a sweet and sour taste peculiar to students. Here are the top 75 recommended animes that are refreshing, sweet and sour, smiling, hard or a little strange, and have the uniqueness of high school romance. Please note that some works are interesting, but have low romance because they rank according to their love and recommendation.

29rd place: One week friends

A sad friendship story of a girl who loses memory in a week

Yuki Hase, a high school student, wants to get along with her classmate Kaori Fujimiya, who is always alone and tries to get close to her. Kaori desperately refuses Yuki. In fact, she had a memory impairment that makes her forgot her friends in a week. Nevertheless, Yuki wants to be near Kaori, and every Monday, whenever her memory is reset, Yuki goes to see Kaori. Eventually, they start an exchange diary and gradually reduce the distance. One day, a transfer student who knows about Kaori’s past appears.

It is a story packed with lots of “cuteness” and “intent”.

28th place: Fuuka

Love patterns for boys and girls drawn through music

 Haruna is a shy Twitter fanatic. One day, Hao Mingyou collided with a girl named Feng Xia while buying dinner; Feng Xia mistakenly thought that Hao Mingyou was shooting his underwear exposed by a fall, and then smashed his phone to vent his anger. After they met, they started organizing an orchestra.

27th place: Itazura Na Kiss

In this romantic comedy story, a high school girl named Kotoko Aihara finally tells a fellow senior named Naoki that she has loved him from afar since she saw him on their first day of high school. However, Naoki, a hottie “super-ikemen” (handsome male) who is smart and good at sports, rejects her offhand. Fate intervenes when a mild earthquake ruins Kotoko’s family house. While the house gets rebuilt, Kotoko and her dad stay at the home of her dad’s childhood best friend…whose son is Naoki. Naoki eventually falls for Kotoko and starts to have romantic, protective feelings for her

26th place: Noucome

A breakthrough from beautiful girls and disappointing school life

The main character, Kanade Amakusa, was struggling with a curse called “absolute choice.” The ability is that you have two choices in your head and you have to choose one no matter what. He has no control over what choices appear. Many of them are weird or perverse and as a result, the curse has tainted his reputation with his classmates and other people around him, making his life difficult. one day, a choice he makes on his way home from school causes a mysterious, beautiful, young girl to fall from the sky.

Amakusa discovers that she was sent from the God World to assist him in completing a series of missions given to him directly by God himself.

25th place: Rewrite

The story follows the life of Kotarou Tennouji, a high school student with superhuman abilities who investigates supernatural mysteries with five girls from his school in the city of Kazamatsuri. This brings them to the middle of a conflict between summoners of relatives and superhumans with the destiny of the world at stake.

63rd place: Rainbow Days

Youth romantic comedy depicting four people

There are four high school boys who are the main characters. First, Natsuki, the protagonist, is a romantic boy who tends to dream and is not good at romance. Tomoya Matsunaga is a narcissist who likes girls, and has a charismatic personality, but is actually a good-looking boy. And Keiichi Katakura is a versatile sports boy who is always cheerful and cheerful, but in fact he carries a whip with his S personality. Tsuyoshi Naoe is a nerd boy with a high grade enough to take second place in his school year and is drawing manga. The four unique individuals are in the midst of their youth, and the only thing that interests them is love. It is a youth romantic comedy depicting the love pattern of those four people.

24th place: ReLIFE

Ever wanted to start over your life?

Arata Kaizaki is a 27-year-old unmarried single who has just lost financial support from his parents. He is unable to find a job due to previous experiences. One night after drinking with a friend from high school, Arata meets Ryō Yoake, a man who offers Arata some pills to return to him at the age of 17 to rebuild his life. After agreeing to join the experiment, Arata joins the high school class, and meets Chizuru Hishiro, a beautiful silent and socially awkward girl who longs to have friends. Connecting with her and other partners, Arata must find that she needs to live a happy life in the real world with a time limit of one year.

23th place: Anonymous Noise 

Nino Arisugawa is a high school girl who loves to sing, has a beautiful voice; During his childhood he experienced two disappointments in love, since then he made a promise to continue singing until he met again. Years later the three enter high school, Kanade Yuzuriha, Yoshito Haruno and Ayumi Kurose ask her if she wants to be part of her band, she learns that her partner Momo is now a professional composer, now seeking her attention. Nino, nicknamed Alice becomes the new vocalist of the school’s music club and at the same time the band In NO hurry To Shout ; Nino tries to improve his song by seeking to stand out and reach the attention of Momo, his childhood friend.

22th place: The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

Thanks to the transfer of his parents’ work, Usa Kazunari high school freshman finally comes to enjoy life on his own at the Kawai Complex, a traditional guest house that offers accommodation and meals to its residents by the Friendly and somewhat disturbing owner, Sumiko. Ritsu Kawai, passionate reader, granddaughter of Sumiko’s brother and the senpai that Usa admires, also lives in that complex, along with a few “unique” individuals, for example, her masochistic roommate, Shirosaki; the beautiful and alcoholic, Mayumi Nishikino who has no luck in finding men; and the cunning, predatory university woman Sayaka Watanabe. Surrounded by all these people, Usa will no longer find her daily life boring

21nd place: my youth romantic comedy is wrong as i expected  

The story unfolds around a lonely high school student named Hachiman Hikigaya , who has a cynical vision of life. When he sees his classmates talking happily about their teenage lives, he mutters that they are all liars. When you are asked about your dreams for the future, your answer is: “Don’t work.” To help him fit in with society, his teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka forces him to join the “Voluntary Service Club”, which turns out that the most beautiful girl in the institute, Yukino Yukinoshita , who is as lonely as Hachiman is also targeted . Both will offer their help and advice to those who request it, as part of the work of the Voluntary Service Club.

20th: Our love was always 10 centimeters. 

Even though the distance is close, I can not feel each other’s feelings …

The main character is Miho Aida (Mio Aida). She is a kind, shy and modest girl. Miyoshi has been a close friend of Haruki Serizawa and Dai since she met at the entrance ceremony. The two were completely different types, but they had been on their way to school together. They are sometimes misunderstood to be dating, but have always been more than friends than lovers. In fact, the anime draw such a frustrating and painful youth, who can’t step on each other while feeling like each other. 

19th place: Domestic Girlfriend

Triangle relationship under one roof

Natsuo is a young second year high school student who lives alone with his father, because his mother passed away ten years ago. It is due to how he managed to overcome this event, which developed a fondness for reading first, and then resulted in wanting to write a novel himself. That is why in his breaks he goes to the roof of his school to capture his goal and that is where he establishes a friendship with Hina, the young English teacher. Over time, he develops a strong attraction to her, but feeling that it will be an unrequited love, he decides to accompany his class friends to a meeting with girls in a karoke. This is how he meets Rui, who after a brief conversation at the soda vending machine, proposes to sneak away, and thus takes him to his family’s apartment. Once there, She proposes to have sex for the simple fact of the experience itself. After having done so, he realizes that what he really wants is not to have the act itself but to be able to make love. In an unexpected event, Natsuo’s father tells him that he is thinking about getting married again, so he has invited who would be his new wife to come to visit the apartment. When she opens the door, she introduces herself and her two daughters: Hina and Rui. The destinies of the three would be intertwined after living under the same roof. 

18th place: Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai 

What caused my senior to disappear?

Sakuta Azusagawa’s life takes an unexpected turn when he meets teenage actress Mai Sakurajima, who walks through a library dressed like a bunny. Mai is intrigued that Sakuta is the only one who can see her, since other people cannot, even when she dresses normally or tries to stay away from the lives of celebrities. Calling this phenomenon “Puberty Syndrome,” Sakuta decides to solve this mystery, while continuing to approach Mai and meet other girls who also suffer from “Puberty Syndrome.”

17th place: Kids on the Slope

Love and friendship of young people who dedicate youth to jazz

The beginning of summer, 1966; because of his father’s job situation, 1st-year high school student Kaoru Nishimi moves by himself from Yokosuka to Sasebo in Kyushu to live with relatives. Until then, Kaoru was an honor roll student who tended to keep to himself, but meeting notorious “bad boy” Sentaro Kawabuchi starts to change him. Through his devil-may-care classmate, Kaoru learns how much fun it is to play jazz and finds the first person he can call a real friend.

16th place: Love and Lies 

In the near future, children who have reached 16 years of age are assigned by the government to a partner based on a compatibility calculation to increase the birth rate of the country; those who do not follow the government’s rules of being with their assigned partner will suffer severe penalties. Yukari Nejima finally manages to confess his love to his partner Misaki Takazaki and discovers that she has always felt the same. However, when he turns 16, he is assigned to another girl, Lilina Sanada. Lilina doesn’t care so much about being assigned, and is willing to let Yukari interact freely with Misaki, so she can learn what it really is to be in love with. The story follows the adventures of young people while trying to relate to each other while maintaining appearances in front of the government.

15th place: The moon is beautiful

Life-size love pattern for junior high school students

Junior high school student, Kotaro Azumi and Akane Mizuno in the track and field club. At the beginning of the same class, they start dating, but they are awkward at first, but they gradually become closer. A work in which the pure love of two shy junior high school students is drawn naturally. It has gained popularity because it depicts realistic sparkling youth.

14th place: bloom into you

Story of girls who do not know love

Yuu has always loved Shōjo(category of manga and anime directed especially to the adolescent female audience) manga , so he is aware of what he should feel if he receives a confession. But when a classmate confesses his feelings towards her, he feels nothing and says he needs time. When you enter high school, you are still unsure of how to respond. In his new stage in high school, Yuu has doubts about whether to enter a club or not, so he receives a teacher’s recommendation to support the work of the student council. On the way to meet the place where the council is, Yuu sees a couple of students hidden behind a school building, is the future president of the student council, Touko Nanami, rejecting a confession from a classmate of his.

Yuu is inspired to ask for advice, as it seems that the president deals with these feelings very often. The new student discovers that Nanami has never accepted a confession, because she says, none of them has made her feel anything in particular. Nanami is elected candidate for president of the council and wins. The two girls become good friends and spend time together, knowing their life. Nanami realizes that she could fall in love with Yuu, because of her attitude towards her, and decides to confess her feelings, which are answered in a negative or ambiguous way by Yuu. Over time, the president learns more about her new friend, spending more time together and even for a moment they are discovered by Maki, who supports their relationship, although Yuu denies it. In and out of school the two girls carry good chemistry.” A story about a little strange youth who do not know love. This work has a reputation for beautiful images and excellent psychological description. 

13th place: Scum’s Wish

Hanabi Yasuraoka is a high school student who has long been in love with her childhood friend, Narumi Kanai, who now turns out to be her high school teacher. However, seeing the look in Narumi’s eyes when he sees the new music teacher, Akane Minagawa, Hanabi realizes that he is in love with Akane and not her. Hanabi later meets Mugi Awaya, another student also in love with Akane, who used to be her tutor when she attended high school. Hanabi and Mugi make a pact and begin a false relationship to satisfy the loneliness caused by their respective unrequited love, both sexually and emotionally. Both agree not to fall in love with each other and end the relationship if their love is returned by the people they are in love with.. It is a pure but distorted love story of two people who scorch in unbearable love. 

12th: Chihayafuru

A youth story of a girl immersed in the competition carta

 The main character is Chihaya Ayase. When she was in elementary school, she met a transfer student, Arata Arata, and was aiming to become the world’s best in Karuta. Chihaya, who became a high school student, will be involved in the childhood friend Taichi Mashima and will be immersed in the world of competitive carta. This is a sports animation based on competitive carta. You can not miss their love patterns, which are drawn with the hero’s youth playing on the carta. 

11rd place: orange

A youth school animation where a letter from the future changes the regret of the past

On the first day of class, Naho, a 16-year-old girl, receives a mysterious letter from who she claims to be her self of the future, in which she accurately predicts everything that is about to happen to her. In addition, the sender advises you not to carry out certain actions. Ignoring her, Naho invites the new boy who has just arrived from Tokyo, Kakeru, to go out with his friends after high school. But something terrible happens to Kakeru that day. Something that might not have happened if I had returned home earlier. Knowing it, Naho decides to start following the instructions he receives from a future world in which Kakeru no longer exists. But dealing with the present without leaving room for regret is not as simple as it should.

10st place: Honey and Clover

A sweet and sour youth love story with the theme of “unrequited love”!

Yuta Takemoto, Takumi Mayama and Shinobu Morita are three young people who live in the same apartment complex and study at the same art university in Tokyo . One day, one of the art teachers, Shuji Hanamoto, introduces them to Hagumi Hanamoto, the daughter of his cousin, who has come to live with him and at the same time to be able to complete his first university year at the faculty of fine arts; and at that moment, Takemoto experiences a new sensation, a new feeling, love. This is how the plot that will be developed begins until each character has its own story to which more endearing.

Both the series and the mangathey present common situations in the life of students as celebrations for various reasons (birthdays, graduations, festivals, the search for the first job, among other things, etc.) reflecting the feelings and personalities of the protagonists in a subtle way and seasoned with fun situations. It does not develop a sequential plot but it addresses in an original way the coexistence of friends at the end of the student life and beginning of adulthood. It reflects in a great way the meaning of life, presenting in each character some of the conflict situations of personal development. Unexpected situations constitute the main fun of the series and the realistic way in which each character’s life is focused represents the strength of the story.

9th place: Your lie in April

Genius pianist and violinist with secrets. What is the end of a friendship that is both sweet and painful?

Kōusei Arima was a famous and prodigious pianist at his young age due to the daily piano practices he performed with his mother to please her desire. Her mother, who was also her teacher, died due to an illness that kept her hospitalized for most of Kousei’s childhood. Due to her death and her regrets for leaving her alone, Kousei had an emotional crisis while playing in a piano competition at the age of eleven. As a result, Kousei is unable to play the piano, since as he plays a musical piece, the sound of the keys goes off to the point of not listening, even when he has no problem hearing. Since then, Kousei sees the monotonous world, without any color, and abandons both music and piano.

Two years later, he attends high school together with his childhood friends, Tsubaki Sawabe and Ryōta Watari, until one day a strange girl appears in his life and changes everything. Kaori Miyazono, an extroverted violinist without regrets, who in her musical style reflects her personality, her way of feeling and her deep desire for the audience to remember her through music. Kaori helps him return to the world of music and shows him that it should be free and unpredictable, expressing his feeling to the public, unlike the structured and rigid style to which Kousei was accustomed.

8th place: Ao Haru Ride

Reunion of fate with first love partner! ? “Aoharu” is a school animation that starts moving!

Futaba Yoshioka wants to “restart” his life. In high school, girls excluded him because of his popularity among boys. The only boy she liked, Kou Tanaka, moved before she could tell him what she felt. Now in high school, she is determined to be everything improper for a lady so that her new friends are not jealous of her. While living his new life, he reunites with Kou, only now he uses the name of Kou Mabuchi and has a cold attitude. He tells her that he felt the same about her in high school, but that they can’t go back to what it was. She finds herself lost among the memories of the old Kou with the current one, rambling what her current feelings are.

7th place: say i love you  

Mei Tachibana is a quiet and modest sixteen-year-old girl who has spent her high school years without making friends or getting a boyfriend, due to a childhood incident that made her think that those people would betray her at any time. When he meets the popular boy Yamato Kurosawa, who is interested in her, he begins a relationship thanks to which Mei opens up and begins to diversify his perspective on life and make friends with other people.

6th place: Amagami SS

Youth love omnibus depicting life-size high school students and their various romance

A second year high school boy is discouraged at Christmas for an experience he had in the past. However, at Christmas of that year, his hopes light up again when he finds the girl who will love him. The anime story is organized in an omnibus format, where each heroine gets its own version of the animated story. Each hero sings her own version of the closing theme.

It is also possible to consider each arc as a kind of parallel reality, that is, in each one it is possible to observe what happens depending on who is the girl from whom the protagonist falls in love.

5th place: From me to you 

Best friend, high school, love, and refreshing love animation

Sawako Kuronuma, nicknamed ‘Sadako’ by his teammates given his resemblance to Sadako Yamamura, has always been expressed badly, or rather does not know how to do it. His best attempt at a kind smile is easily confused with a psychotic gesture or the face of the most frightening evil spirit, preventing this throughout his life that people know his sweet and innocent character. There are rumors that Sawako can see ghosts, curse people and bring bad luck to those who approach him. But when the popular boy Shouta Kazehaya starts talking to her everything changes; He is in a new world, trying to make friends, talking to different people and cannot thank Kazehaya enough for giving him these opportunities. Slowly but surely a sweet love flourishes between the two that must overcome many circumstances and obstacles along the way, especially the insecurities and fears of both.

4th place: agi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea

Youth romance group drama woven between the sea and land

In the past, human civilization lived at the bottom of the ocean. However, there were many humans who wanted to live on the surface and moved to it, causing a separation between humans. After their school closed, four high school students from the sea must attend a surface school. The story tells everything about their lives as they adapt to a new environment and begin to emerge relationships among others.

3rd place: CLANNAD

Gentle and painful masterpieces

Clannad tells the story of Okazaki Tomoya, a melancholic third-year high school student. When his mother died when he was young, he is in the custody of Naoyuki, his father, who, being affected by this tragic loss, ends up in the game and alcohol. The father-son relations are complicated to the point where Tomoya decides to frequent his house as little as possible, developing a closed and indifferent personality, full of internal conflicts and without desire to overcome.

His life takes a turn when one morning on the way to school he meets Furukawa Nagisa, an enigmatic girl with qualities somewhat out of the ordinary and that will change his way of seeing the world. From that moment begins a friendship between them. Throughout history, new partners appear, new situations, new challenges, sad and joyful moments, and together they live strange and unusual experiences that make them understand the strength and fragility of life.

2nd place: true tears

Youth love story quietly and intertwined

True Tears tells the story of a boy named Shinichirō Nakagami who has an ability as a cartoonist. He lives with his parents, and with a classmate, Hiromi Yuasa , after her parents died. Shinichirō has known her since they were little, but she feels that since she lives there, her attitude has changed. At school, he meets a strange girl named Noe Isurugi who makes him a “curse.” Shortly after, he will approach her and will establish a friendship. Shinichirō also usually spends most of the time with his two childhood friends Miyokichi Nobuse and Aiko Endō . Aiko is in love withShinichirō , but he thinks that she and her friend Miyokichi have a deep romance which causes difficulties between them.

The series mostly focuses on the feelings and problems of the characters contributing drama and romance to the story.

1st place: Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

An impressive story of growing up childhood friends who survive the death of their best friend

A group of six sixth-grade-age childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko “Menma” Honma, dies in an accident. Five years after the incident, the leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, has withdrawn from society, does not attend high school, and lives as a recluse. One summer day, the ghost of an older-looking Menma appears beside him and asks to have a wish granted, reasoning that she cannot pass on into the afterlife until it is fulfilled. At first, he only tries to help her minimally because he thinks he is hallucinating. But since Menma does not remember what her wish is, Jinta gathers his estranged friends together once again, believing that they are the key to solving this problem. All of the group joins him, though most of them do so reluctantly. However, things grow increasingly complicated when his friends accuse him of not being able to get over the Menma’s death, as they cannot see her and believe Jinta is hallucinating. Menma shows her presence to the group in order to prove that she is indeed real. All the group members eventually wish to shoulder the blame for Menma’s death and long-hidden feelings among the group are rekindled. The group struggles as they grow from trying to help Menma move on and help each other move on as well.

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