Drama anime
Difficult choices, relationships and coming-of-age stories. Drama anime exploring emotions, loss and changes in characters' lives.
Found: 3,463
★ 4.6Nostalgia
Suiren no Hito
Movie · Drama
Synopsis: An elderly man walks along his house and sees a turtle munching on a turnip. He does not disturb the creature but lets it eat in peace. Later that night, he has a dream of his late wife...
★ 4.7Paul Rusch: His Life and Dream
Yume Kakeru Kougen: Kiyosato no Chichi Paul Rusch
Movie · Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: An animated film about Paul Rusch, an American missionary who helped build churches, schools, hospitals in Japan and overall helped improve life in rural areas of Japan along with soothing post-WW2 relations between the two countries.
Huo Wang
Huo Wang
ONA · Adventure, Drama, Horror
Synopsis: The bizarre laws of Heaven, the extraordinary immortals and Buddhas—are they real? Or are they fake? Lost in confusion, Li Huowang couldn't tell. (Source: Tencent, translated)
★ 5.0Yakeato no, Okashi no Ki
Yakeato no, Okashi no Ki
Special · 2006 · Drama
Synopsis: The fifth film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa" (war story). (Source: AniDB)
★ 5.4Home of Acorns
Donguri no Ie
Movie · Drama
Synopsis: The Tazakis' only daughter named Keiko was born seriously handicapped, deaf and dumb and mentally handicapped. Her parents tried to accept her handicap but their suffering continued. Things changed after Keiko entered a deaf and dumb school. Not only Keiko but also her parents gr…
★ 4.7Do as the Fish Tells You
Sakana no Iu Koto wo Kiku
Movie · Drama, Psychological
Synopsis: A work completed by Onohana during her enrollment at the Tokyo University of the Arts. A young boy is compelled to release his pet fish into the sea.
★ 5.4The Degenerate-Drawing Jianghu 3
Hua Jianghu: Buliang Ren 3
ONA · Adventure, Drama, Romance
Synopsis: With the Qianling Mausoleum destroyed and the Longquan Treasure missing, former prince Li Xingyun seeks to retire to the mountains. Bu Liang Shuai resolves to use the son of heaven to command the nobles, rallying various forces in the martial arts world to restore the Tang Dynast…
★ 5.8Wagamama☆Fairy Mirumo de Pon! Wonderful
Wagamama☆Fairy Mirumo de Pon! Wonderful
TV · 2004 · Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Synopsis: One day, Kaede and Milmo met a strange creature. It was not a human or a fairly, but it was Tacos, an octopus-type robot. He said, I'm looking for the seven crystals dispersed in human and fairly worlds. I've been looking for them all over the world, and I finally found they were…
★ 5.4Missing you
Shiroi Unabara
Movie · Drama
Synopsis: Satomi Maiya's graduate work at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. A mother secretly threw a letter written by her daughter into the snow-covered ocean. The suspicious daughter follows her mother by sneaking on a rowb…
★ 4.5CosmicBreak: Sacrifice
CosmicBreak: Sacrifice
ONA · 2010 · Drama
Synopsis: The game is set in the distant future in a parallel dimension called the Cosmic Ark. There is a race of long-dormant, gigantic robots called Arks, which have suddenly awakened to find their galaxy being ruled by the evil Chaos. Since they lay dormant for aeons, the three remainin…
★ 5.0Aoi Hitomi no Onnanoko no Ohanashi
Aoi Hitomi no Onnanoko no Ohanashi
Special · 2009 · Drama
Synopsis: The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the deaths and injuries among the villagers' relatives. A element…
★ 4.0Oni Love Song
Ki Renka
Movie · Drama
Synopsis: Independent animation by Hayashi Seiichi.
Onegai☆Teacher Shinsaku Animation (Provisional Title)
Onegai☆Teacher Shinsaku Animation (Provisional Title)
OVA · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Synopsis: New Onegai☆Teacher anime project initiated after the 20th anniversary of the series and the closure of Lake Kizaki Capeground.
Versailles no Bara: Moetsukita Bara no Shouzou
Versailles no Bara: Moetsukita Bara no Shouzou
Special · 1980 · Drama, Romance
Synopsis: Due to a conflict in scheduling, the broadcast of Versailles no Bara was cancelled in several regions after episode 23. In order to conclude the story, an original episode titled Moetsukita Bara no Shouzou was created. While it features some similar story beats to the actual stor…
★ 5.5MONOCHROME
MONOCHROME
Music · Drama, Mystery
Synopsis: Music video for the song Monochrome by suisoh. The song was used the ending theme of the anime Bleach: Sennen Kessen-hen - Soukoku-tan.
Shanghai Melody
Shanghai Gushi
ONA · Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: The story revolves around an ordinary Shanghai family. Feifei Han, who has devoted herself to the advertising industry, encountered a career crisis in her first year. At the same time, her parents are increasingly pressuring her to get married. Under the double attack, Feifei's l…
★ 6.2MafiosA
MafiosA
Music · Action, Drama
Synopsis: Music video directed by Shoutarou Kitamura for the song MafiosA by Inugami Korone.
★ 5.4Chair
Chair
Movie · Drama, Psychological
Synopsis: A lone figure in a void struggles to sit in a chair. An animated 16mm short film hand-drawn on paper with crow quill ink pen. Featured at SXSW (2000), Anima Mundi (Brazil, 2000), Hawaii International Film Festival (2000) and others.
★ 4.2The Treasures of the Desert
Sabaku no Takara no Shiro
OVA · 2002 · Drama
Synopsis: Yuta's teacher gives him a photo of the desert near the Dunhuang Caves in China. As Yuta daydreams about finding the treasures of the caves, he is miraculously transported there. However, the treasures he discovers are way beyond what he had imagined.
★ 5.0The House
Jib
Movie · 2011 · Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis: The House, which echoes of the wildly surreal worlds seen in Spirited Away, focuses on Ga-young, a young woman who moves to an old town where she meets Zipsin, the spirit of a house that is soon to be demolished. Whisked away on an enchanted adventure, Ga-young and Zipsin seek ou…
★ 5.1Yi Shijie Zhongyao Pu
Yi Shijie Zhongyao Pu
ONA · Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis: After graduating from the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sun Jiayou returned home to inherit a traditional Chinese medicine shop. He found that although the people here would not use medicine as a treatment, they had own spiritual system. To realize his grandfather’s…
The Shaman Sorceress
Munyeodo
Movie · Drama
Synopsis: Mohwa, who lives with her deaf daughter Nang-Yi, has been practicing Shamanism her entire life. One day, her son Wook-Yi returns home but as a converted Christian. This sparks conflict between mother and son which ends in a terrible tragedy that leads Nang-Yi to create a mysterio…
★ 4.2Kakegae no
Kakegae no
ONA · Drama
Synopsis: Short animation by Rapparu.
★ 4.1The Boy and the Blue Sea
Aoi Umi to Shounen
Special · 1983 · Adventure, Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: The friendship between Hiroshi from Japan and Adel from the South Pacific island the two live on is severely tested when Adel finds out that his grandfather was killed in a battle with the Japanese army. Will Adel forget their quarrel when Hiroshi's life is in danger?
