Drama anime

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

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★ 5.3

Demonbane OVA

Kishin Houkou Demonbane

OVA · 2004 · Comedy, Drama, Mecha

Synopsis: Lily Bridge, a young journalist, arrives at Arkham City, hoping to find a big scoop. However, with all the strange things occuring around the city, only the exceptional findings are news-worthy, such as the mysterious mecha known as Demonbane. However, upon finding a small piece …

★ 6.0

Hourglass of Summer

Natsuiro no Sunadokei

OVA · 2004 · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Synopsis: With summer vacation about to begin, Koutarou Makimura plans to confess his love to the popular Kaho Serizawa. After a strange incident, however, he finds himself traveling through time, experiencing the vacation out of order. When he learns that Kaho is going to die just before …

★ 5.7

The Death Lullaby

Nido to Mezamenu Komori Uta

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: An animated film describing the bullying of a Japanese child.

★ 6.0

Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven: New Order

Special · 2012 · Adventure, Drama, Mecha

Synopsis: A special summary episode that shows footage of the events that happened from episodes 48 and onwards with audio that had been previously recorded. The concept for this special was a possible real ending the staff of Eureka Seven thought up. In March of 2012, Studio BONES decided…

★ 6.9

ULTRAMAN: The Final Season

ULTRAMAN FINAL

ONA · 2023 · Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Final Season of Ultraman.

★ 6.3

Kurogane Communication

TV short · 1998 · Action, Adventure, Drama

Synopsis: In the aftermath of a great and terrible war, Haruka finds herself the last surviving human on Earth. Though humanity may have been wiped out, she is not entirely alone. Advanced robots have survived the apocalypse, and Haruka lives with five who care for her: Spike, a boyish and…

★ 6.3

Sentimental Journey

TV · 1998 · Drama, Romance

Synopsis: Sentimental Journey is a collection of twelve short stories about twelve different girls. Though unrelated, there is one common theme that binds the episodes together: each girl's bittersweet experience of first love. (Source: ANN)

Victoria of Many Faces Season 2

Tefuda ga Oome no Victoria 2

TV · Action, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: Second season of Tefuda ga Oome no Victoria.

★ 6.8

Library Wars: Romance Impairment

Toshokan Sensou: Koi no Shougai

Special · 2008 · Action, Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: Despite being around a decade older than her, Library Task Force (LTF) member Mikihisa Komaki has been friends with Marie Nakazawa, a girl from his neighborhood, ever since she was little. Their relationship perseveres through thick and thin, and when Marie suddenly develops a he…

★ 6.1

Sister Princess RePure

TV · 2002 · Drama, Romance

Synopsis: After a long time, Wataru has decided to leave his family home and live on his own. The girls have also decided to split up and most of them are living separately as well. But none of them have forgotten about their brother and still stick together to meet him. (Source: AniDB)

★ 5.6

I'm No Angel

Tenshi Nanka ja Nai

OVA · 1994 · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Synopsis: Thanks to first-year Midori Saejima's positive attitude, her fellow Hijiri Academy students affectionately nickname her "Angel," and she soon becomes a candidate in the student council elections. However, Midori's perfect plan for the debate falls apart when she trips on her way …

★ 6.9

Tomorrow's Joe 2 the Movie

Ashita no Joe 2 (Movie)

Movie · 1981 · Drama, Sports

Synopsis: It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcomed Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a me…

★ 6.6

Hakuouki OVA

OVA · 2011 · Action, Drama, Supernatural

Synopsis: Two short OVA of Hakuouki distributed to those who purchased all six volumes of the DVD. A fandisc game "Hakuoki Zuisouroku" and an official parody "Hakuoki SSL (a high school parody)" were animated.

★ 5.6

Midori-ko

Movie · Drama

Synopsis: One of the must-see gems making its premiere at our festival, Midori-Ko is adored Japanese animator Kurosaka Keita's whimsically nightmarish vision of 21st-century Tokyo on the brink of apocalypse. Ten years in the making and entirely, single-handedly rendered in colored pencil, …

★ 5.8

If I See You in My Dreams

Yume de Aetara (TV)

TV short · 1998 · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Synopsis: Fuguno Matsuo has never had a girlfriend all his 24 years in life and what makes things worse is that a fortune teller predicted that he never will. However, when he laid his eye on Nagisa-sensei he fell in-love right away and began earnestly wooing her. Along comes Hamaoka, a co…

★ 5.6

Wild Adapter

OVA · 2014 · Action, Comedy, Drama

Synopsis: Makoto Kubota wandered through life, not taking things too seriously or looking too deep within himself. His job as the head of the Izumo Group's youth gang kept him pleasantly occupied with yakuza wars, mahjong and assassinations... Until the day he stumbled upon a strange drug …

★ 5.2

Earthian

OVA · 1989 · Drama

Synopsis: Since the beginning of Earth's history, angels from the planet Eden have been carefully monitoring the behavior of its inhabitants, whom they call "Earthians." Chihaya and Kagetsuya are two agents sent from Eden to assess the positive and negative aspects of the Earthians' nature…

★ 2.8

Dark Cat

OVA · 1991 · Action, Drama, Horror

Synopsis: Hyoi and Ryoi, two brothers with the power to take the form of cats, must unravel the mystery of a creeping, tentacled, demon plague before it consumes them and their classmates. Ultimately, they must confront their old Dark Cat master Jukokubo, though whether they can put an end…

★ 6.2

Gate Keepers 21

OVA · 2002 · Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Thirty-two years have passed since the initial defeat of the Invaders. A.E.G.I.S is all but dismantled now and has become an underground organization consisting of only a few Gate Keepers left to save humanity. One of the members, Ayane Isuzu, is sick of society as a whole, thoug…

★ 5.9

Lemon Angel Project

TV · 2006 · Drama, Music

Synopsis: Lemon Angel was once the greatest girl band of Japan, but then it broke up and most of its members vanished. When a music producer decides to put together a new Lemon Angel, average high schooler Tomo Minaguchi is approached to audition for the group. Little does she know of the …

★ 6.2

X² double X

Music · Drama

Synopsis: X²: Double X is a short (two minutes and forty seconds long) prequel to the theatrical X film. It is a part of four music videos. The first three are stills of CLAMP's pre-1994 X artwork and live-action sequences. The fourth is animated by Madhouse. Being the only music video tha…

★ 7.5

The World's Continuation

Sekai no Tsuzuki

Music · Drama

Synopsis: Music video for the song Sekai no Tsuzuki by Ado.

★ 5.4

Peleliu: Rakuen no Guernica

Movie · 2025 · Drama

Synopsis: Shouwa 19 (1944), summer. Tamaru, a soldier who aspired to be a manga artist, was on Peleliu Island at the end of the Pacific War. The island was a paradise covered with beautiful forests and surrounded by a sea of coral reefs. It was also a battlefield on which 50,000 soldiers f…

★ 5.5

Key Princess Story Eternal Alice Rondo

Kagihime Monogatari: Eikyuu Alice Rinbukyoku

TV · 2006 · Action, Drama, Fantasy

Synopsis: Average high school student Aruto Kirihara is obsessed with the Alice stories, written in this alternate world by the enigmatic recluse, Alternite L. Tachyon. One night, while writing his own version of a potential "third book," he sees a girl flying in front of a full moon... an…