Drama anime
Difficult choices, relationships and coming-of-age stories. Drama anime exploring emotions, loss and changes in characters' lives.
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★ 8.0Major S3
Major S3
TV · 2007 · Drama, Sports
Synopsis: Having bid farewell to his former teammates at Kaido High School's baseball club, Gorou Honda returns to his hometown eager to continue playing. Attending a new high school proves to be more difficult than he initially expected, as Tetsufumi Egashira's merciless slandering of his…
★ 8.0Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Digimon Adventure: LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna
Movie · 2020 · Action, Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: As the Chosen Children and their partner Digimon live happily together in the human world, Taichi Yagami and Yamato Ishida, alongside their friends, dedicate themselves to maintaining this hard-earned peace. Though united by this innate responsibility, each one has already starte…
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle III
Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugenjou-hen Movie 3
Movie · Action, Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: Third anime movie of the trilogy adaptation of the Infinity Castle Arc.
★ 7.3Goodbye, Don Glees!
Goodbye, Don Glees!
Movie · 2022 · Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Synopsis: Teen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the "Don Glees," an informal name for their backyard adventures. One day, when the trio gets blamed for a nearby forest fire, they set off into the woods to prove their innocence. As disaster strikes their expedition, tensions fla…
★ 7.4Sugar Sugar Rune
Sugar Sugar Rune
TV · 2005 · Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Synopsis: Chocolat Meilleure and Vanilla Mieux are both witches and childhood friends, pitted against each other in a contest to see who will become the next queen of the Magic World! In order to win, the two queen candidates must attend school in the human world, cultivating relationships…
★ 8.2Major S5
Major S5
TV · 2009 · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Synopsis: The Baseball World Cup is nearing, and Gorou Honda is eager to represent his country. However, one small problem stands in his way: the team roster has already been selected, and he is not a part of it. Nonetheless, Gorou remains adamant to join. He becomes a practice pitcher for…
★ 7.3Night on the Galactic Railroad
Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru
Movie · 1985 · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Synopsis: Giovanni is a young boy who lives on the outskirts of a small rustic village. His mother is bedridden and his father has not returned home since leaving to work on a fishing boat. An outcast at school, Giovanni has only one friend: Campanella, the mayor's son. During the town's F…
★ 6.4True Beauty
Yeosingangnim
ONA · Drama, Romance
Synopsis: Tired of being looked down upon for her unattractive appearance, middle schooler Lim Jugyeong turns to the transformative powers of makeup. First, she experiments with BB cream, lip tint, and eyeliner; then she begins using mascara, double eyelid glue, and colored contacts. Befor…
★ 6.2D.C.~Da Capo~
D.C.: Da Capo
TV · 2003 · Drama, Romance
Synopsis: Hatsunejima abounds in mysteries—one of which is the town's unwithering cherry trees that are said to grant the most genuine wishes. There are also rumors of people possessing supernatural powers, like Junichi Asakura, who can see other people's dreams and create sweets out of no…
★ 6.9Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 6: Our Future
Digimon Adventure tri. 6: Bokura no Mirai
Movie · 2018 · Action, Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: The Chosen Children are distraught; believing they have lost one of their friends, the group struggles to find a way to defeat the rampaging Ordinemon. With few options left, they turn to Yamato Ishida for guidance and leadership, but Yamato himself is unsure of what to do. Deter…
★ 6.7I Want to Deliver Your Voice
Kimi no Koe wo Todoketai
Movie · 2017 · Drama, Music, Slice of Life
Synopsis: The story focuses on high school girl Nagisa Yukiai who lives in a seaside town. She has believed her grandmother's story that spirits dwell in words and they are called "kotodama" (word spirit). One day, she strays into a mini FM station that has not been used for years. As an i…
★ 7.3Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
Oooku
ONA · 2023 · Drama, Romance, Slice of Life
Synopsis: Edo-period Japan stands strong and proud, decades after its imminent doom was prophesied. The new shogun, Yoshimune "Nobu" Tokugawa, encounters an array of traditions that, to her modern judgment, make little sense. An epidemic exclusively rages among men, resulting in men making…
★ 6.1Dragonaut -THE RESONANCE-
Dragonaut: The Resonance
TV · 2007 · Action, Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis: Twenty years prior to the story's beginning, an asteroid headed for Earth destroys Pluto. Due to Pluto's destruction, the asteroid, which is dubbed Thanatos, becomes temporarily stagnant. Now, in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the International Solarsystem Developm…
★ 7.1Cowboy Bebop: Session XX - Mish-Mash Blues
Cowboy Bebop: Yoseatsume Blues
Special · 1998 · Action, Adventure, Comedy
Synopsis: Due to the violence portrayed in the Cowboy Bebop world and violence in Japanese schools, the series was briefly cancelled and an extra session was created as a final episode to the first thirteen episodes aired. Called "Session XX: Mish-Mash Blues," a compilation of clips from p…
★ 6.2Cagaster of an Insect Cage
Mushikago no Cagaster
ONA · 2020 · Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: In a near future, an illness called "Cagaster" made its appearance. It turns humans into insects. The story begins 30 years after the onset of the illness, in 2125. It follows the adventures of Kidou, a boy who fights insects. (Source: MAL News)
★ 7.2Infinite Ryvius
Mugen no Ryvius
TV · 1999 · Drama, Mecha, Psychological
Synopsis: The year is AD 2225. Kouji Aiba and Aoi Housen are astronaut trainees aboard Liebe Delta, a space station located on the edge of the Geduld Sea. When saboteurs with unknown motives suddenly strike during a routine dive procedure, the station plummets into the Geduld—a plasma fiel…
★ 6.8Love Hina Again
Love Hina Again
OVA · 2002 · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Synopsis: Keitaro has finally passed the entrance exams, and is officially a Toudai student. But after breaking his leg in an accident in the entrance ceremony, he thought and re-evaluated himself. Having new goals, Keitaro follows Seta on an overseas archeology trip. During his absence, h…
★ 5.2Dances with the Dragons
Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru
TV · 2018 · Action, Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis: It is a world replete with dragons and Jushiki sorcerers. Jushiki is a devastatingly powerful formula that can alter the laws of physics, capable of creating enormous TNT explosives or poisonous gas through plasma and nuclear fusion. A down-on-his-luck sorcerer named Gayus joins …
★ 8.6Lord of Mysteries Specials
Guimi Zhi Zhu Specials
ONA · Action, Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis: * City of Silver (Episode 1) Above the undying gray fog, Klein Moretti, the enigmatic The Fool, presided over the Tarot Club when a new, distant prayer echoed through the mists. Reaching across the veil, he summoned Derrick Berg from the City of Silver—a cursed bastion trapped wi…
★ 7.1Tsurune: For Better or Worse
Tsurune: Kazemai Koukou Kyuudou-bu - Yabai
OVA · 2019 · Drama, Slice of Life, Sports
Synopsis: Unaired episode pre-screened at the event and later included with the 5th Blu-ray/DVD release.
★ 7.2A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMA
Awajima Hyakkei
TV · 2026 · Drama, Music, Romance
Synopsis: Awajima Musical School Training Camp is where young girls gather from all over Japan to perform on stage. Tabata Wakana aspires to be a musical star; housemaster Takehara Kinue attends to carry on her best friend's wishes; beautiful Okabe Emi is a scholarship student who is alway…
★ 6.5Napping Princess
Hirune Hime: Shiranai Watashi no Monogatari
Movie · 2017 · Action, Adventure, Drama
Synopsis: Kokone Morikawa has a strange napping disease that distracts her from reality, one that makes the world of her dreams and the real world near indistinguishable. In reality, she is an average high school student preparing for her university entrance exams; but in her dreams she is…
★ 7.2Heidi, Girl of the Alps
Alps no Shoujo Heidi
TV · 1974 · Drama, Slice of Life
Synopsis: After becoming an orphan, Heidi is forced to live with her grandfather Öhi, who lives in the Alps. She learns he's a very bitter man who only accepted by force to take her in. But Heidi's kindness may be able to open his heart. Together with the shepherd Peter and invalid Clara, …
★ 7.2On Your Mark
On Your Mark: CHAGE & ASKA
Music · Drama, Sci-Fi
Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic future, a police raid devastates the imposing headquarters of a religious cult. Upon evaluating the casualties, two officers discover a winged girl lying unconscious in chains and attempt to resuscitate her. However, she barely awakens before a group of spec…
