Tis the season for love so since romance is in the air we decided to list our favorite romantic comedy anime! Here are the recommendations from the PLEASE! Anime crew to you!
Toradora
Ryuji Takasu has always been seen as a scary dude
because of his eyes. At school he bumps into Taiga Aisaka, a scary girl
in school who happens to be the friend of Ryuji's crush. Ryuji and Taiga
later discover that they have crushes on each other's friends, and so
they agree to help each other catch their love interests. What they
don't realize is that as they work together, a slow relationship starts
to form between them.
Ano Hana (The Flower We Saw That Day)
A group of friends fall
apart after Menma, one of the girls in the group, passes away. After 10
years go by, Jinta, the leader of the group, stays at home playing video
games. A grown up version of his old friend suddenly appears as if she
was never gone. He ignores her at first, assuming that she is a result
of his stress over her death. Menma claims that she needs a wish to be
granted in order to be able to move on. Unfortunately, she can't
remember what the wish was. Jinta gets the group back together in the
hopes of finding a solution together. As they try to figure things out,
secrets are revealed and it seems that Menma isn't the only one who
needs to move on.
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun (My Little Monster)
Mizutani Shizuku is the type of person who
only cares for her own grades. But when she accidentally delivers
lesson notes to Yoshida Haru, he becomes convinced they are friends. Haru turns out to have a very innocent personality, but who would've thought that Haru would actually confess to Shizuku?
Kaichou Wa Maid Sama
Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student
council president at a once-all-boys-turned-co-ed school. She rules the
school with a strict discipline demeanor, but she has a secret: she
works at a maid cafe due to her family's circumstances. One day, the
popular A-student and notorious heart-breaker Takumi Usui finds out her
secret and makes a deal with her to keep it hush from the school in
exchange for spending some time with him.
B. Gata H. Kei (Yamada's First Time)
Yamada wants her cherry popped so that she can achieve having 100 sex friends, she sets her eye on young Kosuda to be the one to pop it, hilarity ensues when inexperienced Yamada starts to try to seduce Kosuda, this later leads to something that may be a romance between the two.
Golden Time
Banri finds himself completely lost after the opening ceremony and
tries to find his way to the freshman orientation. Along the way, he
runs into another lost freshman from the same school, Mitsuo Yanagisawa,
and they immediately hit it off. Somehow arriving at their intended
goal just in time, there appears in front of them a beautiful girl
holding a bouquet of roses, who congratulates Mitsuo on getting into the
school then hits him across the face with them before tossing the
bouquet into his lap and leaving. This stylish, well dressed, and
obsessive woman is his childhood friend, Kōko Kaga. As children, they
had promised to marry each other one day, something she has taken to
heart this entire time. Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the
examination for this private college in order to escape from her, but
she used her connections to find out about it, took the law school
entrance examination, and enrolled in the college herself in order to be
with him.
Full Moon O Sagashite
Twelve year old Mitsuki wants to be a singer so that she can achieve the dream that she promised her beloved Echi-Kun back when they were kids in an orphanage. There is just one problem, she has a life threatening throat illness. Two Shinigami show up one night and end up helping her to achieve her dream by transforming her into a 16 year old with a healthy throat to sing with. Mitsuki can now audition and become a singer so that her childhood love can hear her voice on the radio and they can find each other. This series is beautiful and make sure you have plenty of tissues when you watch this.
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun
High school student Chiyo Sakura has a
crush on schoolmate Umetarou Nozaki, but when she confesses her love to
him, he mistakes her for a fan and gives her an autograph. When she says
that she always wants to be with him, he invites her to his house and
has her help on some drawings. Chiyo discovers that Nozaki is actually a
renowned shoujo manga artist named Sakiko Yumeno. She then agrees to be
his assistant in order to get closer to him. As they work on his manga,
they encounter other schoolmates who assist them or serve as
inspirations for characters in the stories.
Bokura Ga Ita
Nanami Takahashi welcomes the start of her
high school life with great expectations of making as many friends as
possible. There is much talk among the girls about a popular boy,
Motoharu Yano, who has 2/3 of the girls in his middle school liking him.
When Nanami asks Yuri Yamamoto, the girl sitting next to her, about
Yano, the latter curtly replies that she dislikes him. Nanami is
clueless of who Yano is until the day of the class nomination when she
made a fool of herself by calling the name of her new friend wrongly. It
turns out that she has actually met Yano along the corridors (unaware
of his true identity) and he tricked her by providing a random name,
resulting in the embarrassing incident in class. Nanami was initially
mad at Yano but after a few encounters with him, she begins to find
herself liking him.
Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (Kare Kano)(His and Her Circumstances)
Miyazawa Yukino is the perfect student.
Kind, intelligent, pretty and modest, it's unbelievable that such a
person could exist. Little did everyone know Yukino's perfection was
just a facade. An act to fulfill her desire for praise and admiration.
Her life took a turn however, as a newcomer to their school Arima
Soichiro topped the exam rankings. Arima is more then just intelligent,
he's also kind, handsome and modest, an unbelievable person who can
actually exist. Even worse luck, Arima found out Yukino's secret,
blackmailing her to help him out. Their odd relationship soon develops
into friendship and eventually into love. But can their love prevail
through the many problems that come their way.
