Drama anime
Difficult choices, relationships and coming-of-age stories. Drama anime exploring emotions, loss and changes in characters' lives.
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★ 5.0Princess Connection
Otohime CONNECTION
OVA · 1991 · Drama, Mystery, Romance
Synopsis: Special based on the manga by Ooya Kazumi, published in Betsukomi Flower Comics. An all-male pop group doubles as a detective agency. The cute girl member of the agency is kidnapped when one of the men's past returns to trouble them all in the present. (Source: sandg-anime)
★ 6.3King Fang
Daisetsusan no Yuusha Kibaou
Special · 1978 · Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: The conflicting fates of human beings and wild animals are depicted in a naturalistic setting. The main character of the story is Fang, who was born to a hunting dog and a circus-runaway European wolf. Although Fang was raised by a human family, he is a wild animal after all, and…
★ 5.1Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Kinpatsu no Jeanie
TV · 1979 · Drama
Synopsis: During the civil war a girl living in Virginia, named Jeanie, waits for her old boyfriend Robert to marry him, according to a childish promise, but the war makes the things complicated and, Robert comes back as northerner soldier. Only with the conflict's end, and many misadventu…
★ 5.0Birthday Boy
Birthday Boy
Movie · Action, Drama
Synopsis: Korean War, 1951. Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life. (S…
★ 5.6The Degenerate-Drawing Jianghu
Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren
ONA · Adventure, Drama, Romance
Synopsis: The story takes place at the end of the Tang Dynasty, a time of political turmoil and widespread fear among both the court and the common people. The mysterious "Bu Liang Ren," an organization affiliated with the government, has vanished without a trace, along with the priceless …
★ 4.8Boyfriend
Boyfriend
Special · 1992 · Drama, Romance, Slice of Life
Synopsis: Takatou Masaki is the second youngest of four sons, and seemingly a delinquent by nature. His hot temper has put a wedge between himself and his strict father, gotten him kicked out of one school, and tossed him at a school notoriously horrible for the one thing he's truly good a…
★ 6.2Oshin
Oshin
Movie · 1984 · Drama
Synopsis: Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting another child, barely have enough to eat. In order to make ends meet for her family, 7-year-old Oshin gives up school and decides to bec…
★ 5.3FLAG: Director's Edition - Issenman no Kufura no Kiroku
FLAG: Director's Edition - Issenman no Kufura no Kiroku
Movie · Action, Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: For many years a civil war raves in Uddiyana. Even the peacekeeping forces of the United Nations can bring the situation not under control. Only a by chance taken up photo, this shows how civilians hoist an impromptu UN flag together with soldiers, hope for peace spreads by his s…
★ 5.1Galaxy Express 999: Beyond the Diamond Ring
Ginga Tetsudou 999: Diamond Ring no Kanata e
Movie · 2009 · Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: July 22, 2009. Galaxy Express 999 made a brief stop at Kagoshima on the day of total solar eclipse. Tetsuro gives a pass for the 999 to a boy named Kakeru dreaming of becoming an astronaut, saying "It's up to you whether you can use this pass or not". Now it's 2035, another total…
★ 6.0Kaijuu Iro no Shima PV
Kaijuu Iro no Shima PV
Special · Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: Promotional video for the Dragon Age Extra manga Kaijuu-iro no Shima.
★ 5.8Blood and heart: The legendary life of a Japanese youth in China
Xue Yu Xin
ONA · Drama
Synopsis: This work tells the legendary life of Megumi Sunahara, a Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier of Japanese descent, introducing the true history of this little-known special group of PLA members of Japanese descent. He was born in Kyushu, Japan in 1933, and came to Northeast C…
★ 5.3Miyazawa Kenji Collection - The Acorns and the Wildcat
Donguri to Yamaneko
OVA · 1988 · Drama
Synopsis: The Acorns and the Wildcat is a unique short film in picture-book format from the creator of Night on the Galactic Railroad and Gauche the Cellist. Unusually for an anime, a narrator reads Kenji's story aloud while the action is played out on the screen by a succession of warm an…
★ 5.8Once Upon a Time... Space
Ginga Patrol PJ
TV · 1982 · Drama, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Once Upon a Time... Space differs from the rest of the Once Upon a Time titles in the sense that the series revolve on a dramatic content rather than an educational premise. The series still has a handful of educational information (such as an episode discussing the rings of Plan…
★ 5.3Natsufuku No Shoujotachi
Natsufuku No Shoujotachi
Special · 1988 · Drama
Synopsis: In 1945, the second and third-year students of a Hiroshima girls' school are taken away to work in war factories. The remaining 220 girls of the first year try to make the best of their new-found status as the only teenagers in an almost deserted town, even amid the deprivations …
★ 4.6SHADOW SKILL: Kurudaryuu Kousatsuhou no Himitsu
SHADOW SKILL: Kurudaryuu Kousatsuhou no Himitsu
OVA · 2004 · Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis: The story takes place in warrior kingdom where a deadly martial art called Shadow Skill is practiced to defend the continued existence of the kingdom. Dreaming of becoming an invincible warrior one day, like the legendary warrior named Scar Face who has defeated 2,000 opponents, …
★ 5.7Hi no Ame ga Furu
Hi no Ame ga Furu
Movie · 1988 · Drama
Synopsis: An anti-war anime based on a book containing contemporary accounts of the fire-bombing of the city of Fukuoka on the evening of June 19, 1945.
★ 4.6The Sprites of Floria
Hanasaku Kizuna no Romantan
ONA · 2018 · Action, Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: After an invasion by the Vivolian army, the Sprite Himawari and her childhood friend Tsubaki flee their homeland of Floria for the town of Romton. There, they live out their lives in peace... for a time. One day, Himawari's friend and fellow Sprite Ajisai is kidnapped by mysterio…
★ 5.0Kaze no You ni
Kaze no You ni
Movie · 2016 · Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: Sanpei is a boy beekeeper and the sole survivor of an accident that killed his entire family. Sanpei meets Chiyo, a girl who gets stung by a bee, and starts a new life in her village. Eventually, Sanpei cultivates the land that the villagers had abandoned, and then disappears. In…
★ 6.6Little Women
Wakakusa no Yon Shimai
TV · 1981 · Drama
Synopsis: In the United States, the Civil War has just broken out and Mr March, a physician and father of four daughters, went to the front. Madam March remains alone with her four daughters: the eldest Margaret (Meg), Josephine (Jo) budding writer, a real boy failed, Elisabeth (Beth), the…
★ 6.0Nanaka the Distraction
Nanaka 6/17 Special
Special · 2003 · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Synopsis: Unaired series episode included in the DVD release.
★ 5.4Crazy little Thing
Yodomi no Sakagi
Movie · Drama, Psychological
Synopsis: The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude. (Source: Geidai Animation)
★ 5.1Secret of the Seal
Tottoi
Movie · 1992 · Adventure, Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: What a sensation Tottoi felt when he discovered the small creature in the mysterious cave! The beauty and pride of wild animals capture the hearts of innocent people who have not lost their passion for nature. Sardinia is abundant in beautiful beaches and mysterious caves which a…
★ 5.6ASTROBOY Tetsuwan Atom: Atom Tanjou no Himitsu
ASTROBOY Tetsuwan Atom: Atom Tanjou no Himitsu
Movie · 2003 · Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: Doctor Tenma, chief of the Ministry of Science, brought a digital brain genome from an aircraft. Doctor Tenma begins a trip to Mars, then combines the genome with a robot. Doctor Tenma's son, Tobio, who had died in a traffic accident, has been revived. (Source: AstroBoy Online)
★ 5.5The Day the Earth Moved
Chikyuu ga Ugoita Hi
Movie · 1997 · Drama
Synopsis: Tsuyoshi Takahashi, a 6th grader, lived in eastern Kobe with his parents and younger brother. Tsuyoshi was very ambitious and hoped to enter a prestigious private school, so his days were filled with study. Whenever asked by anyone for a favor, Tsuyoshi resented having to give up…
