Drama anime

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

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Dessert Catch! Teenieping

Seakomdalkom Catch! Tiniping

TV short · Drama, Fantasy, Mahou Shoujo

Synopsis: Puffping stole the Magic Sugar Ball! This has created a strange magical phenomenon where all the Dessert Teeniepings get sucked into a mirror which releases them on Earth for Romi to catch! Along with the Royal Dessert Teeniepings, Jellyping, Shashaping, and Fluffyping, Romi will…

Monotone

Music · Drama, Slice of Life, Supernatural

Synopsis: Music video directed by Toshitaka Shinoda for the song Monotone by YOASOBI. Note: The song featured in this music video also serves as the ending theme of the anime film Fureru.

Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae Pilot Film

Special · Action, Drama

Synopsis: The pilot film for Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae.

Haru no Niji no Soushiki

ONA · 2016 · Adventure, Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: Independent animation by Tomotaka Hoshi.

Beanie's Daily

Qing Chi Hong Xiaodou Ba! Wai Zhuan: Mo Xiang Wang

ONA · Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Extra stories of Beanie's Daily.

Inochi

Music · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: An official music video for the musician Hiwa. It was also shown later at the 2015 Kyoto International Art and Film Festival.

Mirai ni Mukete: Bousai wo Kangaeru

Movie · 2016 · Drama

Synopsis: The Tohoku Regional Development Association is developing an anime to raise earthquake awareness. The anime will illustrate lessons learned from the March 11, 2011 Tohoku (Northeastern Japan) earthquake and tsunami, and emphasize the importance of constant preparedness and disast…

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Kinyoubi no Yakusoku

ONA · Drama

Synopsis: A promotional video for the Miyagi Cooperative delivery service.

Chong Qi Chengyin: Lu Shao de Xinjian Chong 2

ONA · Drama, Romance

Synopsis: The second season of Chong Qi Chengyin: Lu Shao de Xinjian Chong.

Sky Colour Flower Colour

Sora Iro Hana Iro

Movie · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: A woman and a dog go on a spiritual journey and undergo a spiritual transformation while wandering in a forest side-by-side. Sora Iro Hana Iro is not a straight-forward narrative story, but rather series of subjective impressions to tell us more about the state of mind of the fem…

Saitama Bousou Saizensen Flag! Shinimonogurui no Seishun!!

OVA · 1994 · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Based on the manga Flag! by Hotta Akio, which was serialized in Young King from 1992 to 1995. The OVA depicts the tumultuous daily lives of three boys, including Noboru, Akira and Haruo, who inherit the flag of the locally famous fugitive tribe "Moonlight".

Gumihodyeon

Movie · Action, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: The mythical nine-tailed fox, gumiho, also known as Lee Yeon, has just moved into the city. Able to take human form, he cleanses human minds, while creating havoc. Nam Ji Ah, whose current show features urban myths, will stop at nothing to highlight an unusual, even dangerous sub…

Momoiro no Crayon

OVA · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: An educational film about the abuse done upon intellectually disabled children.

Ojii-san no Densha

Music · Drama

Synopsis: A boy and his grandfather love playing trains at home. Even if it means he has to cut baseball practice early.

Kushimitama Samurai

ONA · 2014 · Action, Adventure, Drama

Synopsis: The blind samurai Haku can perceive that which cannot be seen by the eye. But he does not try to see the world that the eye can see. 'This world is the full of darkness' Attacked by thief in the dead of night, he lost both his parents and his sight. From that day on his faith in …

Lantern Blade

Denglong Dao

ONA · Action, Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: Liu Ruyan, the daughter of the Liu family, was brutally murdered by the living dead under the command of the Old Mother of No Life on her wedding day. Fortunately, she was rescued by Lantern Blade, who was searching for the whereabouts of the Black Tai Sui. Liu Ruyan vowed reveng…

Ao no Doumon

OVA · Drama

Synopsis: Legend has it that before the tunnel (Ao no Doumon) was built, people had to climb over the cliffs through which the tunnel is built to reach an important local shrine. The path was very dangerous and people regularly fell to their deaths. During the Edo period, a Buddhist monk n…

Magic Candies

Amedama

Movie · 2024 · Drama

Synopsis: The other kids at the park never ask Dong-Dong to play. That's ok. He's fine just playing marbles on his own. One day, he buys a bag of colorful candies instead of new marbles. The first time he pops one of them into his mouth, his old sofa starts talking to him! The two share an…

Koi Nobori

Music · Action, Drama

Synopsis: Music video directed by Mitsuyuki Ishibashi and animation director Kousuke Sugimoto for the song Koi Nobori by JITTERIN'JINN. The song was originally released as a single in 2001 and was included as a bonus track on their 2007 greatest hits album "8-9-10! (Ver.2)".

Live or Let Live

Hana to Larva

Movie · Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: There's a pet caterpillar named Larva in my class. I don't like bugs but Larva is sweet and we become friends. But one day, I am faced with a horrible choice. Graduate Work 2018, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation (Source:…

First Hand Memories

Tenohira no Niwa

Movie · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: A girl looks at the surrounding world through a toilet paper roll, a play everybody has similar experience of. The Rakugo story of PARROT is told by a Rakugo-ka, or a lone storyteller formed of Japanese characters. 1st year work 2016 by Haruka Umemura, Tokyo University of the Art…

Yocchan no Biidama

Special · Drama

Synopsis: Based on the picture book by Kodama Tatsuharu.

Yi Shijie Zhongyao Pu 2

ONA · Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: The second season of Yi Shijie Zhongyao Pu.

Dodani

Movie · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: A 1989 Korean movie of Slice of Life genre.