Drama anime

Difficult choices, relationships and coming-of-age stories. Drama anime exploring emotions, loss and changes in characters' lives.

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★ 5.5

Nutcracker Fantasy

Kurumiwari Ningyou

Movie · 1979 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Synopsis: The young girl Clara visits her Aunt Gerda and Uncle Drosselmeyer. Her aunt tells her scary stories about the Ragman, a creepy and mysterious man who turns children into mice if they don't go to bed on time. The Ragman is always spying on sleeping children searching for more vict…

★ 5.2

Shadow of the Cherry Blossoms

Hana no Kage

ONA · 2006 · Drama, Romance

Synopsis: In ancient Japan, a princess and her lover run away from their pursuers. When it became apparent that they would be caught, they vowed to commit suicide rather than have the princess return to her former life. Both of them took their blades to end their lives but something went w…

★ 6.4

Scutes on my mind

Katasumi no Uroko

Movie · Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: The scutes glisten in the corner of her mind and she starts to dig her memories up. What was like the museum director she encountered when she was lost?

★ 4.7

Watanuki's House Season 2

Watanuki-san Chi to

TV · 2020 · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Second season of Watanuki-san Chi no.

★ 4.5

Run Melos

Hashire Melos (1981)

Special · 1981 · Drama

Synopsis: Melos, a Greek country man gets arrested accused of conspiracy against the king. The king gives him three days to travel to his sister's wedding while Selinentius the sculptor and friend of Melos stays as a hostage. Will he get back in time before the king executes Selinentius in…

★ 6.7

Immortality 2nd Season

Yong Sheng: Shi Nian Zhi Yue

ONA · Action, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: In the majestic fantasy world, how does the protagonist Fang Han traverse the world with his own strength. Relying on an unyielding stubbornness to break through the mysteries of supernatural powers, and forge the physical body into an immortal body. There are endless novel magic…

★ 5.7

Break Ups

Jeolyeonjooui Sahang

ONA · Drama, Romance

Synopsis: Originally a 2009 Hoseo University graduation work by Joo Jaebum and Kim Sungdae. A young, feuding couple who, through the power of time travel, realize how strong their relationship really is. (Source: eigoMANGA)

★ 5.2

Chironup no Kitsune

Movie · 1987 · Drama

Synopsis: Foxes Ken and Chin become the proud parents of cubs, Koro and Kan, who enjoy a carefree life on the northern Japanese island of Chironup. They befriend a fisherman and his wife but are forced to run for their lives when soldiers on a military exercise decide to take home some fox…

★ 4.9

DESPAIR OF THE MONSTER

Zetsubou no Kaibutsu

Movie · Drama, Horror

Synopsis: A story about fourteen-year-old alien girl Aoi Hoshino. Her family uses certain medicine to disguise themselves as humans. For some reason the medicine slowly stops working, but only on Aoi... (Source: Official Website, edited)

★ 5.3

Man & Whale

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the head teacher is swept away with sentiment into a flashback from the past. Just then, on the ocean horizon... (Source: Official sit…

★ 5.7

Peace Maker Kurogane: Festival of Gion

Peace Maker Kurogane: Original Short Story - Gion Festival

Special · 2003 · Action, Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: Peace Maker Kurogane special.

★ 4.8

Goulart Knights: Evoked the Beginning White

Goulart Knights: Evoked THE Beginning White

OVA · 2011 · Action, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: Sequel of Goulart Knights: Evoked the Beginning Black.

★ 5.3

Megumi

ONA · 2008 · Drama

Synopsis: An anime biography on Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 when she was 13 years old. North Korea acknowledges abducting her and at least 12 other Japanese residents during the 1970s and the 1980s, but the country has not provided any conclusive evidence on her …

★ 6.0

Attack No.1 (1970)

Movie · 1970 · Drama, Sports

Synopsis: The first recap film of Attack No.1 , it covers the first 6 episodes of the TV anime. Kozue is a high school girl and an enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play on the Japanese national volleyball team. Over the course of the series she makes it from the school distr…

★ 5.6

Sunny Ryoko! You Were There in a Dream

Hiatari Ryoukou! KA SU MI: Yume no Naka ni Kimi ga Ita

Movie · 1988 · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Synopsis: The movie starts out with Katsuhiko going to the US, with Kasumi and Yusaku seeing him off at Narita. Two years later, Katsuhiko is a professional racer, and comes back to Japan to race (and to marry Kasumi). Yusaku's hobby is photography. (Source: AniDB)

★ 4.9

Pikaia!

TV short · 2015 · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: The story begins in the future when Earth itself is no longer inhabitable by living creatures. Humans began their interstellar migration with space colonies. Vince and Hana work as researchers in the Cambrian Project. Together with the creature Pikaia, they seek the Lost Code, th…

★ 5.1

Yasashii Lion

Movie · 1970 · Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: This is an animated version of Yanase Takashi's picture book featuring the friendship between a mother dog, Muku-muku, who lost her puppy, and the baby lion Buru-buru, who lost her mother. Although Tezuka Osamu planned to create an entire musical animated series for this story fo…

★ 7.1

Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers -The Finale-

Thunderbolt Fantasy: Touriken Yuuki - Saishuushou

Movie · 2025 · Action, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: Theatrical follow-up to Thunderbolt Fantasy: Touriken Yuuki 4.

★ 5.7

Takarajima Memorial: Yuunagi to Yobareta Otoko

OVA · Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Synopsis: A short story during Jim's adventure at sea. He encounters a man at a bar who told a tail about a one-legged man. Thinking it's Silver who the man is referring too, Jim later asked him for details. The man told Jim that, near the coast Maratoran, Silver left the ship they were on…

★ 5.9

White Fang

Hashire! Shiroi Ookami

Movie · 1990 · Drama

Synopsis: A boy named Lasset who lives on a farm in the rural northern US makes a perilous trek through the wilderness to a sanctuary 300 miles to the north to save the life of a gray wolf that he had raised from a puppy after an incident in which the wolf kills the family dog.

★ 4.4

Ijime

OVA · 2012 · Drama

Synopsis: The March issue of Shogakukan's Ciao shoujo magazine bundled a DVD with a special anime of Igarashi Kaoru's Ijime manga.

★ 5.6

One Stormy Night: Secret Friends

Arashi no Yoru ni: Himitsu no Tomodachi

TV · 2012 · Adventure, Drama

Synopsis: A new anime adaptation by Sparky Animation, Duckbill Entertainment, Baku Enterprise and Bandai Visual of the book Arashi no Yoru ni (One Stormy Night...) by Kimura Yuuichi.

★ 5.8

Raiyantsuuri no Uta

Movie · 1994 · Drama

Synopsis: An indentured Chinese laborer, brought to Japan to work in a coal mine during WWII, manages to escape his captors. He hides out in the Japanese countryside, so far from human habitation that he does not realize when the war ends, with ultimately tragic results. Based on a story b…

★ 5.1

MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi

OVA · 1987 · Action, Adventure, Drama

Synopsis: While looking for the ledgendary Mapman, the last surviving member of the Nomad Star tribe, Lipumira finds him in Tokyo. His name is Gen Tokishima and he is the only one able to get one part of the starmap hidden within the Earth. After retrieving the piece, Gen must make a decis…