Drama anime

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

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★ 7.1

Yowamushi Pedal: Spare Bike

Yowamushi Pedal: SPARE BIKE

Movie · 2016 · Comedy, Drama, Sports

Synopsis: These are the recollections of a group of men who bet everything on their bicycles. The central pillars of their respective teams, the third years. New stories revealing their pasts are about to begin!

★ 6.9

Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire

Lie Huo Jiao Chou

ONA · Action, Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: In the current era, a small percentage of people called "Special Abilities" have skills and powers normal humans do not possess. An autonomous organization, the Deviant Control Office, keeps these Special Abilities in check. Though some wish to maintain this order and peace, some…

★ 4.8

Kimi dake ni Motetainda.

Movie · 2019 · Drama, Music, Romance

Synopsis: The story revolves around five boys who each possess a trait that have negative effects on them. The handsome boys owe a monetary debt to Sakiko Horinomiya, a girl from a rich family. Wanting the money back, she makes them enter the "Motemen Koshien" contest, so they can pay her …

We Are Aliens

Wareware wa Uchuujin

Movie · 2026 · Drama

Synopsis: One summer in the third grade, a quiet boy named Tsubasa meets Kyotaro, a boy everyone in the class looked up to, and the two become close friends. Within their small world, they share irreplaceable moments—until a small incident suddenly tears them apart. Spanning more than thir…

★ 5.7

Angel Links

Seihou Tenshi Angel Links

TV · 1999 · Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: Li Meifon is the head of a free, no expenses paid protection/security agency for escorting ships across outer space. Though only 16, she posesses great skill and leadership qualities while commanding her crew aboard their ship, the "Angel Links." However, some unpleasant memories…

★ 6.3

COCOLORS

Movie · Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: There is a world in which an endless rain of dark ash fills the sky, and covers the earth. Humanity, fearing the ash that burns and melts away human flesh, had no choice but to cover themselves in protective suits, and their faces with gigantic masks. Bundled up in their suits an…

★ 6.2

Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl OVA

Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl - Shoujo wa Shoujo ni Koi wo Shita

OVA · 2006 · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Synopsis: This is an OVA released on October 27th, 2006. It is also classified as the 13th episode (thus a sequel) to Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~. Hazumu confessed his love to Yasuna, but she turned him down him. To ease his heartbreak, he went to Mt. Kashimayama where he had met her firs…

★ 6.8

Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie Part 2

Saishuu Gakushou Hibike! Euphonium - Kouhen

Movie · 2026 · Drama, Music, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Second half of Saishuu Gakushou Hibike! Euphonium.

★ 5.7

Sci-fi Harry

TV · 2000 · Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Harry is definitely not your average American teenager. Instead, he is the epitome of an "alienated youth"—friendless at school, extremely weird, and nervous to the point of paranoia. But a chance occurrence causes Harry to start to demonstrate what appear to be psychic powers—ye…

★ 6.1

Altered Carbon: Resleeved

ONA · 2020 · Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Set in the same universe as the live-action series. This work will explore new elements of the story mythology.

★ 5.7

ROBOMASTERS THE ANIMATED SERIES

TV · 2017 · Action, Drama

Synopsis: The series will depict college students as they prepare and participate in a RoboMasters tournament. (Source: ANN)

★ 6.6

Embracing Love: A Cicada in Winter

Fuyu no Semi

OVA · 2007 · Drama, Romance

Synopsis: If time did not allow ordinary things to be ordinary. How would you have lived? It is the Bakamatsu and early Meiji Period. Akizuki Keiichirou and Kusaka Touma stand of opposite sides of the political scale of the time but still, something as fragile as the shell of a cicada bind…

Despera

TV · Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The story centers around Ain, a 14-year-old girl who builds devices despite the lack of the scientific background required for them. The science-fiction story is set in Japan's Taisho era in 1922 — one year before the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake in the Tokyo area.

Nyuugaku Youhei

— · Action, Drama

Synopsis: When he was eight years old, Yu Ijin was the sole survivor of a fiery plane crash in a foreign land. To survive, he became a notorious mercenary—honing his arm-to-arm capabilities, marksmanship, and combat prowess into those of a skilled predator. However, 10 years later, after e…

★ 6.1

Zenonzard: THE ANIMATION - Episode 0

ONA · 2019 · Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: The year 20XX. Humans called "Concodes" and ultra-high-performance AI called "Codeman" team up as buddies to compete in the card battle game ZENOZARD. People are going wild with excitement at the world championships, THE ZENON. One day, Souta Azuma, an average high school student…

Record of Ragnarok IV

Shuumatsu no Valkyrie IV

— · Action, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: Fourth season of Shuumatsu no Walküre.

★ 6.0

The Dagger of Kamui

Kamui no Ken

Movie · 1985 · Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: A young boy named Jiro finds his mother and sister murdered in his home. Falsely accused of the crime, he flees from his village and meets a priest named Tenkai, who has him kill a rogue ninja named Tarouza. After fulfilling that task, Jiro undergoes training to become a master a…

★ 5.5

The Keeper of the Camphor Tree

Kusunoki no Bannin

Movie · 2026 · Drama, Mystery, Supernatural

Synopsis: Imagine an ancient tree by a famous shrine, so powerful that visitors come from far and wide to commune with it by moonlight… When a run of bad luck lands Reito in prison, about to be sentenced, a distant aunt he has never met offers him a surprising way out: he must become the n…

★ 6.5

Pigtails

Mitsuami no Kamisama

Movie · 2015 · Drama, Slice of Life

Synopsis: A lone house stands amidst a barren landscape. Here lives a petite pigtailed girl, unfettered by her loneliness. There is rarely anyone for her to meet and interact with, save for the occasional masked visitors from a place unknown. Her only company is the inanimate objects prese…

★ 7.0

Blue Legend Shoot!

Aoki Densetsu Shoot!

TV · 1993 · Action, Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: Inspired by Yoshiharu Kubo's phenomenal performance that led Kakegawa High School to a miraculous victory in a soccer tournament, Toshihiko Tanaka decides to enter the same school as his idol and join the soccer club, hoping to become as successful as Kubo. Now a high school fres…

★ 7.6

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7: The Outstretched Hand

Natsume Yuujinchou Shichi: Nobashita Te wa

Special · 2025 · Drama, Fantasy, Slice of Life

Synopsis: Thirteenth episode of Natsume Yuujinchou Shichi bundled with the physical release.

★ 5.2

Harmagedon

Genma Taisen

Movie · 1983 · Action, Adventure, Comedy

Synopsis: From the depths of space he is coming... Ancient beyond understanding, his power is immeasurable. He has destroyed half the universe and is on his way here. He is... Genma. Only two people are aware of the imminent catastrophe: Princess Luna, a modern day prophetess and Vega, a c…

★ 6.8

Macross 7 Encore

OVA · 1995 · Action, Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: Three unbroadcasted episodes of the Macross 7 series. In "Fleet of the Strongest Women," the Macross 7 fleet encounters a rogue Meltrandi fleet led by an old rival of Millia. "On Stage" focuses on Ray's past as a fighter pilot, how he first met Basara, and how they formed Fire Bo…

★ 7.2

Yowamushi Pedal: Re:ROAD

Movie · 2015 · Drama, Sports

Synopsis: The movie will compile the episodes from the second season of the anime, and will also have new cuts of animation. (Source: ANN)