Anime movies are one of the genres of movies that many people love. Especially with the romantic school anime genre, having fascinating love stories is something that no Anime fan can ignore. Love stories from school friendships are extremely romantic and pure and receive high praise such as Tsuki Ga Kirei, Natsu No Arashi!, Kanojo Mo Kanojo.... Each story has a fresh color of youth. Let's come to the top 10 best school romance anime from friendship to love right away.
1 Tsuki Ga Kirei
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Tsuki ga Kirei
Tsuki ga Kirei is a 2017 Japanese romance anime series, produced by Feel. It aired on April 6, 2017. Kotaro Azumi and Akane Mizuno were in the same class in the 3rd year of middle school (equivalent to 9th grade). They, along with other friends, begin to develop feelings and misunderstand each other, though they must also move on and become more mature to get through their senior year of high school on their own.
Azumi Kotarō A student in grades 3-1 and a member of the literature club. He has dreams of becoming a novelist and is a huge fan of novelist Osamu Dazai. He generally has a very calm demeanor, but is very embarrassed to show his novels to others. However, he learns from his love Akane to overcome all that shame and become more progressive. He was invited to perform at a festival at a Shinto shrine. Kotaro and Akane are secretly in love, and although he is liked by Chinatsu, he refuses. Later, Kotaro marries and has children with Akane.
2 Natsu No Arashi!
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Natsu no Arashi!
Natsu no Arashi! is a manga series created by Jin Kobayashi, who is best known for his earlier work in School Rumble. Shaft adapted the manga series into an anime series directed by Akiyuki Shinbo. The plot revolves around 13-year-old Yasaka who stays at his grandfather's house during summer vacation, where he meets a young 16-year-old girl named Arashi in a water bar and applies for a job there.
But in essence Arashi is a soul who can travel through time, she also has other soul friends who have the same ability. Yasaka and Arashi have taken many timeless journeys together to solve something and mess things up rather than solve it.
3 Kanojo Mo Kanojo
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Kanojo Mo Kanojo
Kanojo mo Kanojo is a romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki. An anime adaptation of the same name produced by Tezuka Productions began airing on television from July 3, 2021.
The story follows Mukai Naoya, who has always confessed his love to his childhood friend Saki Saki. Thinking that this relationship will be smooth, but the day that Saki accepts to be Naoya's girlfriend, he is confessed by another girl named Minase Nagisa. He hesitates at first, but decides to accept Nagisa as his girlfriend and convinces Saki to let him "catch fish with two hands". Since Naoya is currently living alone because his parents are on a business trip, he decides to live with the two. The love triangle story from there began.
4 Little Busters!
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Little Busters!
Little Busters!, Naoe Riki is a boy orphaned by his parents. The four members of Little Busters, Kyousuke Natsume, Rin Natsume, Masato Inohara, and Kengo Miyazawa, appear as his saviors, playing together and having a very close friendship.
The story then begins in Riki's second year of high school, and the friendship of the girls in the group is still strong. However, not wanting to waste their students' beautiful years before taking university entrance exams, they decided to "do something...." Adapted from Key's visual novel in 2007. Key is also the original of popular anime such as AIR, Kanon, Clannad, Angel Beats!.
5 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru
Yahari Ore no Seishun School Anime Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Image source: game4v
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru revolves around an antisocial high school student named Hikigaya Hachiman. He has a distorted view of life, so he doesn't have any friends nor a girlfriend. When Hachiman saw others excitedly talking about youth, he muttered, "A bunch of liars." When he was asked about his dream for the future, Hachiman replied, "Not working".
His classical literature teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka forces Hachiman to join the "Service Club", where he accidentally meets Yukinoshita Yukino - the most beautiful girl in school. After both of them received a request to help Yuigahama Yui make her own biscuits and then she herself joined the club. Club activities with two beautiful girls, "That's right, youth love story should be like this!"- he thought to himself. Although not as beautiful as that, Hachiman has experienced many things inside and outside the club, gradually having many good memories with Yukinoshita and Yuigahama. Because of that, his outlook on life changed.
6 Sola
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Sola
Sola revolves around Yorito Morimiya, the main character, who is a boy in high school. He loves taking pictures of the sky at any time of the day and at any time of the year. One day, Yorito decided to take a photo of the sunrise overlooking the bay, but was prevented from doing so when he met a strange girl who was trying to force a vending machine to steal her money to give her what she wanted. tried to buy - a can of tomato juice. Yorito helped her tie up the machine while trying to strike up a conversation with her, even though it was already four in the morning. Yorito tells her why he's here, but when he ties the can out of the machine, the girl mysteriously disappears.
The next day, Yorito visits his older sister Aono in the hospital with his friend Mana Ishizuki and Mana's sister Koyori Ishizuki. Even though it was Aono's birthday, Yorito left shortly after to take a picture of the setting sun near an old church on the roof of the hospital. That night, Yorito went grocery shopping when it started to rain and stopped on the way home to wait for the rain to stop; While waiting, he ran into the strange girl he had met since yesterday.
7 Tada Never Falls in Love
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Tada Never Falls in Love
Tada Never Falls in Love is about Mitsuyoshi Tada, a boy who has never known love. He was taking pictures of cherry blossoms in full bloom when he met Teresa Wagner, a transfer student from Luxembourg, a European country. Looks like she separated from her companion when she arrived in Japan. Tada helps her and takes her to his brother's cafe. Teresa's companion and bodyguard Alec arrive and hit Kaoru for misunderstanding he is chasing Teresa. They discovered that the hotel they were supposed to stay at was actually next to Tada's cafe. The next day, they enroll at Tada's school and are in the same class.
Alec agreed to join the Photography Club at Teresa's request that she also wanted to take good pictures. Mitsuyoshi is really an aspiring photographer and wants to become like his father who was a famous photographer. Mitsuyoshi lost his parents in a car accident during their childhood. The last picture his father took and the camera were the only things that came back. The story focuses on the adventures of Tada and his friends and their building relationship.
8 Plastic Memories
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Plastic Memories
Plastic Memories takes place in a city in the near future, when people live with androids who not only look like but also have emotions and memories like humans. SAI Group, a leader in android manufacturing, has introduced Giftia, a high-end android model that almost resembles humans in every way. The life cycle of a Giftia is 81 920 hours (about 9 years and 4 months), and exceeding the shelf life leads to personality decay, memory loss and violence.
And as a result, the Post-Production Service was born with the task of retrieving end-of-life Giftia from their owners and erasing their memories. To do this job, Post-Production Service employees must work in a team consisting of a human (called a "spotter") and a Giftia (called a "marksman"). The story revolves around Mizugaki Tsukasa and his partner, Isla - a Giftia who is nearing the end of his life.
9 Kokoro Connect
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Kokoro Connect
Kokoro Connect is a Japanese light novel series written by Sadanatsu Anda, with illustrations by Shiromizakana. It revolves around five high school students who are faced with a multitude of supernatural phenomena that force them to reveal secrets that will test their relationship with each other. The series consists of 11 volumes published by Enterbrain from January 2010 to September 2013. Two manga adaptations have been published by Enterbrain and Kadokawa Shoten. A 13-episode anime adaptation directed by Shinya Kawatsura and written by Fumihiko Shimo.
The story mainly concerns five high school students - Taichi, Iori, Himeko, Yoshifumi and Yui - all of whom are the only members of the Student Cultural Research Club at the high school they attend. They all have to deal with various supernatural, sensory changes in their daily lives, all seemingly caused by a puzzling entity claiming to be 'Heartseed', who has intention to use the phenomenon to test the character for an unspecified goal. When five people experience these phenomena, the strength of their bond is tested.
10 Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai
School anime Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai. Photo credit: lyricsfromanime
Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai
Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkō Iinkai revolves around a group of high school friends who struggle to confess. The story begins when Natsuki Enomoto confesses his love to her childhood friend Yu Setoguchi. The film was cut in the opening, Blooming into the Colour of Love ("Koi-iro ni Sake"). After the prologue, Natsuki shamelessly rejects his love for Yu and calls it a "practice confession."
The next day, Natsuki confronts her friends, Akari Hayasaka and Mio Aida, and admits her failed confession. Her friends cheer her on and discuss Mio's love life; Mio has feelings for his best friend Haruki Serizawa. Although Mio and Natsuki are having trouble confessing their love, Akari still has no trouble with the possibility of unrequited love. However, she is the focus of attention of a boy in the class named Sota Mochizuki, who has been in love with her since the beginning of school.
