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Tomo-chan Is a Girl! anime cover
2023TV13 episodes

Tomo-chan Is a Girl!

Tomboy Tomo couldn’t have picked a more awkward high school crush ’cause it’s on her childhood friend, Junichiro, but he only sees her as one of...

Lucky☆Star anime cover
2007TV24 episodes

Lucky☆Star

What’s the best way to eat dessert? Do twins really have a psychic connection? What kind of guys are into moe girls? These are the kinds of...

S.A: Special A anime cover
2008TV24 episodes

S.A: Special A

Hikari Hanazono has always been second to Kei Takishima. When they were six years old, their pro-wrestling loving fathers introduced them to each...

Nichijou - My Ordinary Life anime cover
2011TV26 episodes

Nichijou - My Ordinary Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose...

Ouran High School Host Club anime cover
2006TV26 episodes

Ouran High School Host Club

Fujioka Haruhi wins a scholarship to attend Ouran Academy, a school reserved for only the most rich and prestigious. Despite what other students...

Horimiya anime cover
2021TV13 episodes

Horimiya

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...

SHIROBAKO anime cover
2014TV24 episodes

SHIROBAKO

Once upon a time, five girls made an animated film and it was so much fun that they pledged to get jobs in animation so that someday they could...

The Ramparts of Ice anime cover
2026TV14 episodes

The Ramparts of Ice

Socially inept, Higawa Koyuki maintains a wall between herself and other people. She spends her time in high school alone, until she meets Amamiya...

Azumanga Daioh anime cover
2002TV26 episodes

Azumanga Daioh

Ten year old child prodigy, Chiyo Mihama, is finding it tough fitting in at high school with the girls five years her elder: Osaka (dimwitted with...

Lovely Complex anime cover
2007TV24 episodes

Lovely Complex

Love is unusual for Koizumi Risa and Ootani Atsushi, who are both striving to find their ideal partner in high school—172 cm tall Koizumi is much...

Go For It, Nakamura-kun!! anime cover
2026ONA13 episodes

Go For It, Nakamura-kun!!

Love at first sight is no myth—just ask Okuto Nakamura. Whenever his dreamy classmate Aiki Hirose enters the room, his heart skips a beat, despite...

Komi Can’t Communicate anime cover
2021TV12 episodes

Komi Can’t Communicate

Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the...

Princess Jellyfish anime cover
2010TV11 episodes

Princess Jellyfish

Plain, timid and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete...

School Rumble anime cover
2004TV26 episodes

School Rumble

Tsukamoto Tenma is an ordinary 2nd year high school student who has fallen in love with one of her classmates, Karasuma Ooji. However, currently...

Teasing Master Takagi-san anime cover
2018TV12 episodes

Teasing Master Takagi-san

Having a friend that knows you inside out should be a good thing, but in Nishikata's case, the opposite is true. His classmate Takagi loves to...

Wasteful Days of High School Girls anime cover
2019TV12 episodes

Wasteful Days of High School Girls

Tanaka Nozomu isn’t exactly brilliant. But, given that her only goal for high school was to get a boyfriend, who else would fail to realize that...

Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu anime cover
2019TV12 episodes

Hitoribocchi no Marumaruseikatsu

Hitori Bocchi suffers from extreme social anxiety, she’s not good at talking to people, takes pretty extreme actions, is surprisingly adept at...