The Greatest Romance Anime Of All Time (March 2024)

Unlike other romance stories, anime romance makes you feel butterflies in your stomach and is very loved by the anime community. It even increases the standards of the viewers who like to watch romance anime. There are numerous Anime’s out there and it can be difficult to pick out the best ones out of them. Here are our top 20 greatest romance anime of all time to save you the time of searching.

20 Greatest Romance Anime of All Time 2024

20. Our Lie In April

Japanese Title: Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso

Studio: A-1 Pictures

Streaming on: Crunchyroll, Netflix

Our Lie in April is a manga adaptation anime produced by A-1 Pictures. A 14-year-old boy Kousei Arima who is a piano prodigy and was known by many lost his mother and experienced trauma. Since then he wasn’t interested in playing piano and had no interest in the way of life. He led a silent life after that with his two friends, Tsubaki and Watari. Until, one April, he met a girl that changed his life. Kaori Miyazono is a violinist, who is very cheerful and always looks on the bright side. She became friends with Kousei and helped him to face his trauma and start playing piano again. But she had her own reasons for doing so.

19. The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten

Japanese Title: Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsu no Ma ni ka Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken

Studio: Project No.9

Streaming on: Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime

Amane Fujimiya is a 16 year old boy who lives alone. He is a regular boy who doesn’t care for himself properly. He is an honest boy who is neighbors with the most beautiful and popular girl in his class, Shiina Mahiru. They are not close with each other and do not talk much to each other. Both of them mind their own business, until one day Amane sees Mahiru crying in the rain. He lends his umbrella out of kindness. To repay his kindness, she offers him to help clean his house. Slowly but steadily they bond closer to each other. They face many obstacles in their relationship but they grow stronger together.

18. Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

Japanese Title: Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii

Studio: Aniplex

Streaming on: Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime

This series contains love stories of various people and how they face obstacles to end with the person they love. But one of the main protagonists is Narumi Momose who is an office worker. She leads a free lifestyle. In her new workplace she stumbles up on her old childhood friend who works for the same company as her. Hirotaka is his name and he is a capable youngman who works hard but leads a style different to her. Many incidents happen in the series where both of them find comfort, support and happiness with each other. They slowly start to build their relationship. They find each other to be perfect for them but sometimes it is not easy to love.

17. Toradora

Japanese Title: Toradora

Studio: J.C. Staff

Streaming on: Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime, Netflix

Ryuji Takasu and Taiga Aisaka are classmates and find each other to be annoying at first. Ryuji is an honest and simple person but others dont like him because of his looks. He was avoided most of the time during school hours. He lives in a shattered house. On the other hand, Taiga is quite the opposite. She is a self centered person. Though her personality is tiny she is quite strong. She lives in a new apartment next to Ryuji’s house. Ryuji encounters Taiga and finds her to be frustrating. They always bicker and annoy each other. But one day they find that they have a crush on each other’s best friend and decide to help each other to confess to their crushes, thus creating a new bond of friendship.

16. Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

Japanese Title: Chunibyo Demo Koi ga Shitai

Studio: Kyoto animation

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Chunibyo is referred to as a disease which is the cause of past embarrassments. Yuuta Togashi is a young boy who finds his past as an embarrassment when he declared himself as the “Dark Flame Master” in his middle school. He even applied for his high school very far from everyone who knew about him to leave his dark past. But it wasn’t a happy ending for him. Rikka Takanashi, a new classmate, is still in her Chunibyo stage and declared herself as “Wicked Eye”. She often crosses paths with Yuuta, which makes his Chunibyo free life difficult.

15. Your Name

Japanese Title: Kimi no Na wa

Studio: CoMix Wave Films

Streaming on: Crunchyroll, Netflix

This movie starts when a highschool boy, Taki Tachibana and a high school girl, Mitsuha Miyamizu swap bodies even though they do not know each other. This magical occurrence changed their lives. Many situations lead to a lot of confusion for both of them. As the movie escalated with twists and turns they finally decide to meet each other. But it was not the end, by the time they meet their magic also starts to fade and they slowly start forgetting each other. But will the end up together, is a question which you can answer by watching the movie.

14. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

Japanese Title: Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabukome wa Machigatteiru

Studio: Animation Studio Feel

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Hachiman Hikigaya is the male lead in the series. He is an isolated person who doesn’t talk much and is not socially available. But his life changes when he is forced to join the school’s service club by his teacher. The president of the club is a smart and beautiful girl, Yukino Yukinoshita who is from a wealthy family. They have their own differences and matters but are able to help each other by giving advice through the club activities. This series tells us about different situations that teenagers face in their day to day life and how they cope up with it.

13. Ouran High School Host Club

Japanese Title: Oran Koko Hosuto Kurabu

Studio: Bones

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Haruhi Fujioka is the female protagonist of this series. She comes from a poor family but is able to attend a popular school which is usually for the rich kids based on a scholarship program. Ouran High school is famous for its reputation. One day she accidentally crosses paths with the famous school club known as Host Club and breaks a vase. She cannot afford to pay for the vase in return she accepts to do chores for the club. The members of the club are a bit rude to her in the first, but as the series escalates they find Haruhi suitable to be a member of the club. Finally, Haruhi is able to make friends inside and also outside of the club leading a happy life.

12. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

Japanese Title: Seishun Buta Yaro

Studio: Clover Works

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

A high school boy Sakuta falls in love with his senior, Mai who is invisible to others. At first Mai mistakes Sakuta as a pervert but later finds that he is a decent boy and decides to forgive him. Sakuta finds Mai facing the same bad situation that he faced earlier. He decides to help her in various situations. But soon both of them start having feelings for each other and their bond grows stronger. He helps her to have an existence so that everybody can remember her. He then later declares his love for her in front of the whole school and they become a couple.

11. Kamisama Kiss

Japanese Title: Kamisama Hajimemashitha

Studio: TMS Entertainment

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Nanami Momozono is a kind hearted homeless girl who wants to lead an average school life. She comes across a man who upon learning her situation offers her a home. Later she finds that he is a land God and his home is actually a shrine with his two familiars. Mikage, the man that Nanami met, makes her the new local God which she refuses at first but accepts later due to the situation demands. She finds herself with love in one of the familiars, Tomoe but is declined hy him as love between a human and a familiar is not possible. But even Tomoe finds himself falling for her slowly and even protects her from danger.

10. Maid Sama

Japanese Title: Kaichou wa Meido-sama

Studio: J.C. Staff

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Seika High is an all-boys school which was recently changed to co-ed school. The female students are less but one of them Misaki Ayuzawa proves to be exceptional in academics and athletics which earns the trust of her teachers and becomes the president of the Female Council. Though she is hardworking, she has a secret side to herself where she works as a part timer in a maid cafe. One of her classmates, Takumi Usui, finds out about this secret accidently. But he won’t disclose this to anyone. Rather, he becomes a daily customer of the cafe and falls for her slowly.

9. Horimiya

Japanese Title: Horimiya

Studio: Clover Works

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Hori Kyoko is a cheerful and popular girl in school who is an excellent academic student and Miyamura is a silent introverted boy who doesn’t fit in properly with his classmates. But both of them have completely different sides to them when they are not in school. Hori is a hardworking girl who tries to provide for herself and her brother in absence of her mother, whereas Miyamura turns out to be a cool guy with studs and tattoos. They come across each other in a strange situation where they know about each other’s true self. As the story goes on they fall in love with each other for who they actually are.

8. The Quintessential Quintuplets

Japanese Title: Go Tobun no Hanayome

Studio: Tezuka Productions

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Futaro Uesugi is a hardworking student whose mother died and father had a huge debt. Soon he wasn’t able to afford anything but when the Nakano family was transferred to his school his life changes. He is an excellent academic student but the Quintuplets of the Nakano family had no interest in studying. He was offered to tutor those five girls with a high pay. At first he finds it difficult to make those girls study. But gradually he gains theri trust and helps them improve their grades. He has a different bond with each of the girls and was able to befriend all of them. At the end of the series he was also shown as marrying one of the girls.

7. Ao Haru Ride

Japanese Title: Aoharaido

Studio: Production I.G

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

The story is about a 16 year old high school girl Futaba Yoshioka who experiences many things in her teenage life. One of them is her love life. When she is in high school, her first love who shifts in middle school is back. But he is different from before. Later she finds that his mother died and she helps him to move on and also grieves with him and eventually falls for him again. The whole story is also about her trying to make new female friends. The way she acts is unfeminine, it is because of how she was treated by her old friends.

6. Nana

Japanese Title: Nana

Studio: Madhouse

Streaming on: Hulu

The story is about two friends, how they met and their love lives. Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu move to Tokyo after turning 20 to pursue their dreams. Even though both of them are different from each other they find many common things in each other. They even coincidentally move into the same apartment. Nana Osaki continues her music career by joining the band, Black Stones. While Nana Komatsu gets into a relationship. As both of them try to live their lives normally, they are faced with many obstacles which test their friendship. Will both be able to stay as friends till the end?

5. Clannad

Japanese Title: Clannad

Studio: Kyoto Animation

Streaming on: Hulu

Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student who doesn’t have any interest in studies and is often avoided by his classmates and has no friends. He crosses paths with a third year high school girl, Nagisa Furukawa who is repeating her third year as she was mostly ill during the past year and was absent for the whole semester. Nagisa makes it her goal to finish her school this year and works hard even by joining the Drama Club. She asks Tomoya for help with the club activities but faces obstacles and Tomoya stands up for her. Slowly their bond grows and becomes friends.

4. Given

Japanese Title: Givun

Studio: Lerche

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Four students form an amateur rock band and form double relationships within the band. The first part is about the love story of Ritsuka and Mafuyu and the second couple is Akihiko and Haruki. It is an LGBT series depicting the love story of four boys. The whole series is about forming a band, giving their first live performance and also participating in the music festival. These boys face many criticisms from the public but still face them and manage to perform their music. The series is a whole roller coaster ride with different plot twists.

3. I Want To Eat Your Pancreas

Japanese Title: Kimi no Suizo o Tabetai

Studio: Studio VOLN

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

Sakura Yamauchi is a high school student who suffers from a rare pancreas disease but hides it from as she wants to lead a normal life. Another high school student finds her diary in a hospital room and realizes that they both go to the same school. He finds out about her secret but was not shocked by it. Sakura finds this interesting in him and becomes close to him. Soon the both spend time together and also go on trips. They do all of Sakura’s bucket list things together. A tragedy befalls them as Sakura was stabbed. She leaves a note for him and at the end of the series his name is revealed, Haruki Shiga.

2. Kaguya Sama: Love is war

Japanese Title: Kaguya sama wa Kokurasetai

Studio: A-1 Pictures

Streaming on: Crunchyroll

In the Suchiin academy, Miyuki Shirogane who is the president of the student council and Kaguya Shinomiya who is the vice president of the student council are a perfect match. But they do not confess to each other, as they think the first one who confesses losses in the relationship. They are aware of the fact that they like each other but they do not want to confess first. The whole series is about them playing tricks and making the other confess first. At some point they do manage to confess to each other but are now faced with new obstacles which they have to face together.

1. Fruits Basket

Japanese Title: Furutsu Basuketo

Studio: TMS/ 8 PAN

Streaming on: Crunchyroll, Netflix

Tohru Honda is a high school girl whose mother died in a car accident and after a series of incidents lives in a tent. Her tent is destroyed by a landslide and discovers that one of her classmates, Yuki Sohma and his cousin Shigure live in a nearby house and she seeks shelter with them. She also meets Kyo, Shigure’s cousin on the first day of stay. She accidentally touches them and they turn into animals. She then later finds out that they are cursed with the chinese zodiac animals and when an opposite gender touches them they turn into their respective zodiac animal. She meets all the zodiac animals throughout the series and helps them to find their palace in the society.