Drama anime
Difficult choices, relationships and coming-of-age stories. Drama anime exploring emotions, loss and changes in characters' lives.
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★ 6.0Chocchan Monogatari
Chocchan Monogatari
Movie · 1996 · Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: This feature length film is based on autobiography of Cho "Chocchan" Kuroyanagi, who is better known as the mother of an actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The story starts in pre-World War 2 Japan when Chocchan marries violinist despite the objection of both of their families. They liv…
★ 6.6Kyouryuu Boukenki Jura Tripper
Kyouryuu Boukenki Jura Tripper
TV · 1995 · Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis: On a school yachting trip, fifteen children of various ages are mysteriously transported to another world where dinosaurs still roam. While attempting to return home, they encounter talking dinosaurs, revolutionaries, pirates, a princess and primitive scientists. These unlikely a…
★ 5.9Mirai Shounen Conan: Tokubetsu-hen - Kyodaiki Gigant no Fukkatsu
Mirai Shounen Conan: Tokubetsu-hen - Kyodaiki Gigant no Fukkatsu
Movie · 1984 · Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Shaken by repeated earthquakes, Industria will soon be overtaken by water. While its inhabitants are diligently preparing to flee from the isle, they are unexpectedly ambushed by Lepka, an enemy whom they had believed to be dead. Lepka has been hiding underground, waiting for an …
★ 6.1I'm Joybo OVA
Wo Shi Jiang Xiaobai Special Episode
ONA · Drama, Romance, Slice of Life
Synopsis: Jiang Xiaobai has regained his memories, and Tong Li cannot bring herself to face him. Separately, they confront the truths left unsaid for 10 years—about the band September, to which Jiang Xiaobai and Mu Xiyu dedicated their youth; about the love triangle between Jiang Xiaobai, …
★ 6.0School of Love: Heart's Story
Ai no Gakko Cuore Monogatari
TV · 1981 · Drama
Synopsis: Enrico Pocchini is a kind-hearted schoolboy with a strong sense of justice who lives in the Italian town of Torino. As a new term starts, he loses his beloved teacher, Miss Delacci, who is replaced by the stern Sr. Pelboni. Eventually, the boys in Enrico's class come to respect S…
★ 5.3Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert
Nessa no Haou Gandalla
TV · 1998 · Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis: A dispute between young band members and an unfortunate choice of melody inadverdently draws them all into the demonic horror known as the desert-god Gandalla.
★ 5.6Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
NAGASAKI 1945: Angelus no Kane
Movie · 2005 · Drama
Synopsis: August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of a new weapon used by the Americans on the city of Hiroshima. When the second nuclear weapon is dropped on Nagasaki, the hospital s…
★ 5.9Summer Pockets: A Lifetime's Worth of Summer Breaks
Summer Pockets: Tsumugi Wenders-hen
Movie · 2025 · Drama, Romance, Slice of Life
Synopsis: Theatrical compilation of Summer Pockets.
★ 5.9Rokudenashi BLUES 1993
Rokudenashi BLUES 1993
Movie · 1993 · Action, Comedy, Drama
Synopsis: Sequel to the Rokudenashi Blues movie.
★ 5.5Chie The Brat
Jarinko Chie (TV)
TV · 1981 · Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: Jarinko Chie is a movie directed by Takahata in 1981. Based on the very popular manga by Etsumi HARUKI, it is about ten year old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl in Japan," who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated. This sounds r…
★ 6.6Huckleberry no Bouken
Huckleberry no Bouken
TV · 1976 · Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: Based on Mark Twain's well known masterpiece about Huckleberry Finn, the bright and merry orphan, this film is full of life, laughter, and will be loved by children around the world. When Huckleberry runs away from his orphanage, he teams up with an escaped slave. Together, they …
★ 5.3Taisei Kensetsu: Singapore
Taisei Kensetsu: Singapore
Special · Drama
Synopsis: A 30-second animated commercial for the construction company Taisei. The commercial highlights the Thomson Line subway that Taisei built in Singapore.
★ 3.9Sotsugyou M: Ore-tachi no Carnival
Sotsugyou M: Ore-tachi no Carnival
OVA · 1999 · Comedy, Drama
Synopsis: Kato, Shimura, Arai, Nakamoto, and Takagi are friends at an all-boys boarding school. After they get tricked by their school government president, the five must put on a performance of the play "Little Women." (Source: ANN)
★ 5.5The Book of the Dead
Shisha no Sho
Movie · 2005 · Drama, Supernatural
Synopsis: When a young noblewoman, Iratsume, falls into a trance after copying Buddhist sutras and walks to a remote temple that women are forbidden to enter, she stirs up the ghost of the executed Prince Otsu. Otsu's ghost then mistakes Iratsume for one of her ancestors, a young woman who…
★ 5.4Future Boy Conan 2: Taiga Adventure
Mirai Shounen Conan II: Taiga Adventure
TV · 1999 · Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: An adventure story about "Ooparts Egg" and a huge stone statue called "Oobats" which was excavated from the remains of ancient times around two thousand years ago. Taiga travels around the world with his father, archeologist Dr. Daino. They come to South America to investigate an…
Gonta: The Story of The Two-Named Dog in The Fukushima Disaster
Tongari Atama no Gonta: Futatsu no Namae wo Ikita Fukushima Hisai Inu no Monogatari
Movie · 2022 · Drama
Synopsis: On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit the Tohoku region. The Tomita Diner family evacuates from place to place, leaving their 8-year-old dog, Gonta, behind. Meanwhile Yoshino, a female university student in Tokyo, joins a pet rescue volunteer group and goes…
★ 5.1Bara no Hana to Joe
Bara no Hana to Joe
Movie · 1977 · Drama
Synopsis: It's a Sanrio picture that feels partly like an anime art film and partly like a Warner Bros. cartoon. The film features some very creative imagery, a groovy 70's jazz score, and very little spoken dialogue. It's a story about a dog named Joe that falls in love with a rose and pr…
★ 5.3Please Save My Earth: The Passing of the Golden Age
Boku no Chikyuu wo Mamotte: Kin-iro no Toki Nagarete
Special · 2001 · Drama, Music, Romance
Synopsis: Please Save My Earth Music Image Video: The Passing of the Golden Age contains six music videos with footage not seen in the OVA and scenes taken from the manga, as well as a slightly different version of the OVA ending sequence, and the ending credits for the image videos. (Sour…
E, Shanai System Subete One Ope Shiteiru Watashi wo Kaiko desu ka?
E, Shanai System Subete One Ope Shiteiru Watashi wo Kaiko desu ka?
TV · Comedy, Drama
Synopsis: Ai Satou is the sole engineer maintaining her company's internal systems. It's too bad being the linchpin who keeps it all running won't protect her from sudden layoffs. Apparently, the new CEO doesn't approve of cosplaying at work. Depressed and jobless, Ai unexpectedly reunites…
★ 5.5Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
Ibara-Hime mata wa Nemuri-Hime
Movie · Drama, Supernatural
Synopsis: An alternate retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. The story begins in the same way as the original story but our young heroine instead of falling under the mystical spell begins to uncover the mystery of the man who cursed her and his relationship with her mother.…
★ 4.6Hana no Asukagumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale
Hana no Asukagumi! 2: Lonely Cats Battle Royale
OVA · 1990 · Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: Second OVA of "Hana no Asukagumi!".
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Li Shiya
ONA · Drama, Romance
Synopsis: Yuan Juntang and Li Shiya successfully joined hands, beginning the dream campus romance everyone had dreamed of. However, as the sweet filter gradually fades, feelings of inferiority, confusion, and growing pains arrive as expected. When passionate love collides with realistic dr…
★ 5.8Genji
Genji
OVA · 1992 · Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Katsumi and Sakura find themselves transported in the midst of a civil war between the Heike and Genji clans.
★ 5.5Yowai Mushi
Yowai Mushi
Movie · 2012 · Drama, Music
Synopsis: Another clip from Tekken, denouncing the intimidation experienced by certain Japanese.
