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Anime rankingsTop Romance anime of 2023
The hardest words to say can be the ones that matter most. Discover the top romance anime of 2023, from first crushes and missed signals to bonds that deepen with time. Find a couple whose every small step keeps you watching.
#10Tonikaku Kawaii: Joshikou-hen
Cute Anyway: Girls' High School Arc
Nasa Yuzaki accepts a request from his former teacher Yanagi and begins teaching programming at an all-girls high school. He expects questions about computers and algorithms, but the students quickly discover that their young instructor is already married and start bringing him problems about crushes, dating, and emotions no program can solve. Nasa tries to handle the chaos with his usual calm logic, while Tsukasa pretends the situation does not bother her even though she is clearly uneasy about so many girls surrounding her husband. Between the students’ romantic dilemmas and the couple’s everyday life, Nasa finds himself solving the one kind of problem for which there is no reliable formula.
#9Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan: Dakara, Shishunki wa Owarazu ni, Seishun wa Tsuzuiteiku.
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected: Climax - And So Adolescence Doesn't End, and Youth Goes On
Hachiman and Yukino are now trying to understand a relationship that has finally moved beyond the Service Club's old evasions. When Yukino invites Hachiman to dinner with her mother and Haruno, the evening puts him face to face with the difficult family dynamics that continue to shape Yukino's choices.Elsewhere, Yui speaks with Iroha and Komachi about the new couple and refuses to pretend her own feelings have disappeared. The friendships built through years of indirect words are changing, but adolescence is not ending neatly for any of them, and each must decide how to move forward without denying what they still want.
#8Aishang Ta de Liyou
The Reason I Fell in Love with Her
Lee Joon enters Minsong University hoping to reconnect with Kim Margo, the girl he has liked since high school. Instead, his new life is immediately disrupted by Lee Duna, the beautiful former idol living downstairs. Duna is impulsive, blunt, and difficult to understand, yet Joon cannot stop being drawn into her orbit.His romantic confusion only grows. Margo is constantly pulled away by harsh circumstances at home, while fellow student Choi Ira develops feelings for Joon after a reckless party game. As he learns more about Duna's painful past and the burdens Margo hides, Joon must untangle attraction, sympathy, friendship, and the possibility that the person he came to university for may no longer be the person closest to his heart.
#7Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
Mahiru Shiina is admired at school as the "Angel": beautiful, capable, kind, and seemingly perfect. Amane Fujimiya lives in the apartment next door and has almost nothing to do with her until he finds Mahiru sitting alone in the rain and lends her his umbrella. When Amane falls ill afterward, she repays the favor by caring for him.That should have ended their connection, but Mahiru cannot ignore the disastrous state of Amane's meals and apartment. Cooking for him becomes a routine, then shared dinners become comfortable evenings where neither has to perform the version of themselves everyone else expects. Behind closed doors, the perfect Angel and the careless loner slowly become simply Mahiru and Amane, and the distance between neighbors grows smaller without either noticing exactly when it changed.
#6Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Cosmos Movie
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Cosmos: The Movie
Usagi Tsukino and her friends are preparing for a new stage of life when Mamoru Chiba decides to leave for America to study abroad. Their farewell at the airport turns into horror when an unknown power erases Mamoru before Usagi’s eyes, and she buries the memory because she cannot bear to accept what happened. Soon afterward, the Sailor Starlights appear and Shadow Galactica, led by Sailor Galaxia, begins moving against Earth.Galaxia hunts the Sailor Crystals that hold the Guardians’ power and lives, taking Usagi’s friends from her one after another. Surrounded by enemies from across the galaxy and potential allies she cannot fully trust, Eternal Sailor Moon is pushed toward the final battle. This time the struggle reaches far beyond Earth, threatening the fate of every Guardian and the stars they carry within them.
#5Niehime to Kemono no Ou
Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts
After a hundred-year war between humans and beasts, their peace treaty requires a human girl to be sent each year as a sacrifice to the king of Ozmargo on the Night of Revelation. Sariphi arrives as the 99th offering, but she neither cries nor begs. She has no family waiting and no home she wishes to return to, so death holds little power over her.Her calm defiance fascinates the king everyone else fears, and he allows her to remain near him long enough for the two to actually know each other. Sariphi begins seeing the person behind the beastly appearance and the secret he hides from his kingdom. When the Night of Revelation arrives, that truth transforms their bond and leads the king to a decision that shocks the palace: he wants Sariphi beside him not as a sacrifice, but as a possible queen.
#4Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia
Insomniacs After School
Ganta Nakami spends most nights unable to sleep and most school days exhausted, irritable, and searching for somewhere quiet to close his eyes. He discovers the perfect hiding place in the abandoned astronomy-club observatory, only to find classmate Isaki Magari already using it for exactly the same reason. She also lives with insomnia, though almost no one at school knows.Rather than compete for the room, they begin sharing it. When their secret refuge is threatened, reviving the astronomy club gives them a legitimate reason to stay and turns sleepless nights into photography trips, stargazing, and conversations that come more easily in darkness. Their insomnia does not disappear, but loneliness begins to. As Ganta and Isaki grow closer, the observatory becomes a place where two people who cannot rest anywhere else finally feel safe enough to breathe.
#3Horimiya: Piece
Horimiya: The Missing Pieces
Hori, Miyamura, and their friends have already shared some of the most important turning points of their high school lives, but many smaller moments remain between them. Casual afternoons, school events, awkward jokes, teacher troubles, and conversations that seemed ordinary at the time become the pieces that fill the spaces between their biggest memories.These moments show how naturally Miyamura found a place among people he once kept at a distance and how Hori's relationship with him grew alongside friendships throughout the group. Graduation may be waiting at the end of their school days, but the memories that define them are often the ones nobody realized were important while they were happening.
#2Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu
The Dangers in My Heart
Kyoutarou Ichikawa is a withdrawn middle schooler who fills his mind with dark fantasies about murder, especially convincing himself that he wants to kill Anna Yamada, the beautiful and popular girl in his class. Repeated encounters in the school library, however, expose someone completely different from the image he created of her.Yamada may work as a model, but in everyday life she is odd, constantly hungry, terrible at reading the room, and surprisingly foolish. Instead of making Ichikawa want to hurt her, these discoveries make him worry about her and quietly protect her from embarrassment. The more he knows her, the harder it becomes to pretend the “dangerous” feeling in his heart is murderous at all. It may simply be a confused boy experiencing affection he does not yet know how to name.
#1Seishun Buta Yarou wa Randoseru Girl no Yume wo Minai
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Girl
Mai Sakurajima’s high school graduation is approaching, and Sakuta Azusagawa is waiting for her on the beach when an elementary school girl appears who looks exactly like Mai did during her childhood acting career. The girl vanishes as soon as Mai arrives, but the mystery does not end there. Sakuta discovers unfamiliar wounds on his body, a sign he recognizes all too well from previous cases of Puberty Syndrome.At the same time, Kaede receives difficult news: their mother has finally left the hospital and wants to see her daughter again after years of separation and pain. Sakuta chooses to face that reunion alongside his sister, only to realize that he has emotions of his own that he has avoided for just as long. Between the child version of Mai and scars that appear without explanation, Sakuta must finally confront what his own heart has been hiding.