Romance Anime on Netflix

A blond transfer student desperate for social connection founds a club for people who have trouble making friends. Wacky (and awkward) hijinks ensue.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 8.8
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80132156 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After his mother's death, a piano prodigy's will to play disappears. But meeting a free-spirited girl who plays the violin turns his life around.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80041089 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The war is over, and Violet Evergarden needs a job. Scarred and emotionless, she takes a job as a letter writer to understand herself and her past.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 80182123 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Auto Memory Doll Violet Evergarden writes letters for people who can’t, learning about her war-torn country and her own hardened heart along the way.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix ID: 81010662 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two girls who share the same name -- one an ambitious punk rocker and the other a lovelorn follower -- arrive in Tokyo to for a new start.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 70205010 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A bored girl in the countryside starts sporadically waking up in the body of a city boy who's living the exciting life she'd always dreamed of.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.4
Runtime: 01:46:34
Netflix ID: 80161371 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With guts and determination, high school student Chihaya works towards her childhood dream of becoming the top-ranked female karuta player in Japan.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix ID: 81403566 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, Ryuji forms an unlikely friendship with Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80049275 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Traumatized by the murder of her father by her beloved suitor, a young princess vows to protect her kingdom and reclaim the throne.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 80150601 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The proudly privileged top two students of an elite school each makes it their mission to be the first to extract a confession of love from the other.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix ID: 81061754 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Baseball ace Kazuya, his slacker twin brother and the girl next door have been always been inseparable, but as they grow older, new challenges arise.

Year: 1985
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81086888 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To keep the boys in line, student council president Misaki runs the school with an iron fist -- while secretly working as a waitress at a maid café.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81104406 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After experiencing 'puberty syndrome' himself, high school pariah Sakuta keeps meeting girls suffering from it, including his sister and actor Mai.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 8
Netflix ID: 81228009 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a dip in a cursed spring, the heir to a martial arts dojo turns into a girl whenever he is splashed with cold water. His fiancée is not amused.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Netflix ID: 80147117 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Alienated Tomoya goes through high school by rote until he meets Nagisa, who's been ill. When she decides to restart the Drama Club, his life changes.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:33:56
Netflix ID: 80245375 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As the human-Zentradi interstellar fleet confronts an alien threat, the paths of pop star Sheryl, rising idol Ranka and aspiring pilot Alto intersect.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 81380345 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Middle class Tsukushi is not impressed by the four rich, popular boys who rule the prestigious academy she attends, even when one of them falls for her.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix ID: 70018258 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A high school runner is suddenly transported to the magical world of Gaea, where she must unite with the prince against the evil Zaibach empire.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80146069 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When sky pirates terrorize the Adriatic Sea, this Italian pilot is the only one brave enough to take them on. Only catch: he’s half-man, half-pig.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:33:31
Netflix ID: 70019060 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.8
Runtime: 01:49:03
Netflix ID: 81037593 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Forced to move to a dorm of strange yet extraordinary people, a high schooler takes care of a beautiful, famous painter and finds himself along the way.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix ID: 81165091 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Underemployed Arata is offered a job -- with a catch: become a tester for 'ReLIFE' and relive a year of high school after rejuvenation treatment.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix ID: 80218507 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Inseparable fourth-graders Takaki Tonoo and Akari Shinohara -- bonded by a love of books -- begin to slowly drift apart when their families relocate.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:02:44
Netflix ID: 70093699 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young high school student is killed by a girl on his very first date, he's revived by a girl devil and made a devil himself.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Netflix ID: 80005873 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Louise, a second-year student at the Tristain Academy of Magic, follows in her family's aristocratic footsteps to someday become a powerful mage.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 80193662 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, the fate of mankind is placed in Naruto's hands when the moon threatens a collision course with Earth.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:52:08
Netflix ID: 80037677 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One strange night in Kyoto seems to last a year. One hapless college student wants to confess his love to his classmate, but she's on her own journey.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:32:36
Netflix ID: 80990742 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teenage Yuu dreams of receiving a love confession -- until it happens and she's left cold. But when a girl confesses to her, she feels differently.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81025783 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A closeted fangirl begins dating a coworker and hardcore gamer. For these unrepentant nerds, navigating a relationship is far from straightforward.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81149659 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two teens in a "perfect" relationship keep a dark secret: they've agreed to use each other because they cannot be with the ones they truly want.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 80194878 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Three years after their first meeting is violently interrupted, Nasa reunites with the girl he compares to Princess Kaguya — and they get married!

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix ID: 81422316 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

At Cross Academy, two student disciplinary committee members are tasked with keeping the peace between a human class and a night class of vampires.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Netflix ID: 70309457 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a lonely teenager skips his morning classes to sit in a lovely garden, he meets a mysterious older woman who shares his feelings of alienation.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 00:46:04
Netflix ID: 70291121 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The summer of his freshman year, Hodaka runs away to bustling, ever-raining Tokyo and falls for Hina, a girl who seems able to manipulate the weather.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:52:27
Netflix ID: 81172898 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a world where humans are divided between the land and the sea, four childhood friends from the ocean must attend middle school on the surface.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80132218 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kazuya Kujo transfers to a school in the Alps infested with spooky rumors. There he meets Victorique de Blois, and together, they solve mysteries.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80209888 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Yuta wants to leave his past as a delusional weirdo behind. But his classmate Rikka has her own delusions, and she's interested in his.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 80239860 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Futaba reunites with her first love Kou, but the years they spent apart changed them both. To reconnect, they'll have to be honest.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix ID: 81341994 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shizuku, a hardworking student who isn't interested in socializing, finds an unlikely friend in Haru, an emotionally volatile boy at her school.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Netflix ID: 80011358 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Chiaki and Nodame have finally made it to Europe, where they must confront cultural difficulties as their talents are tested on a global scale.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80169677 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of high school students struggle through the pains of first love. It's not easy, especially for the clueless and the awkward.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix ID: 80993354 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Brought back to life as a zombie by a necromancer, Ayumu Aikawa searches for his killer while helping a magical girl and a vampire ninja battle demons.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4/5
Netflix ID: 80006166 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Chiaki's success as an international orchestra conductor brings him fame but drives a wedge into his relationship with the capricious Nodame.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80169491 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Desperate to fit in, Erika convinces a nice-guy schoolmate to pretend to be her boyfriend. But she soon learns he's not as kind as he seems.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80170348 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An awkward half-demoness moves into a special high-security building for people like her, but she feels stifled by her very loyal personal bodyguard.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80207320 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Raku, the heir to a yakuza family, must fake a relationship with the daughter of a rival faction in order to keep the peace between the two families.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80186309 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With his family deep in debt, Futaro Uesugi accepts a lucrative job tutoring underachieving quintuplet classmates to help them graduate high school.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81152346 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shy high school kid gets gleefully — but affectionately — teased by a sadistic younger girl in school. Weirdly enough, he kind of likes it!

Year: 2021
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 81427422 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After Miki's parents return from a trip, she finds out they're divorcing. Things get complicated when they invite another couple to move in with them.

Year: 1994
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 70308338 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A listless college grad passes the days in mediocrity. But his boring existence transforms after he meets a mysterious girl and her pet crow.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix ID: 81266992 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Japan is under two regimes after the country's loss in World War II. Hokkaido remains under Japanese rule while America holds the rest.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:30:19
Netflix ID: 70034902 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A high school boy’s dating skills might be humanity’s best hope of keeping a mysterious spirit from triggering another horrific natural disaster.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7
Netflix ID: 80220580 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High school nerd Tomoya forms a game development company with his friends Eriri and Utaha, then recruits his crush, Megumi, to star in their product.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Netflix ID: 80169594 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two hot classmates ask him out -- to confess their love for his friend! Joro’s life goes from bad to worse when gloomy stalker Pansy fixates on him.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix ID: 81203219 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

College student Taku recalls transfer student Rikako's arrival two years ago, and the fateful summer that tested his bond with his friend Yutaka.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:12:24
Netflix ID: 80158668 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shy high schooler in Kyoto meets a man claiming to be his future self, who tells him he’s hacked into the past to save their first love.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:33:53
Netflix ID: 81295070 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Hinako is heartbroken when her boyfriend drowns – until she discovers that he reappears in water when she sings their favorite song.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 01:35:18
Netflix ID: 81253737 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:44:27
Netflix ID: 81281872 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A girl turned yokai intermediary partners with a college guy who has supernatural abilities, and who she's attracted to, to solve yokai-related cases.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix ID: 81422750 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the school idol catches mediocre student Keita looking at questionable games, she invites him into the game club, opening up a whole new world.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix ID: 80196680 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After being dumped by the first girlfriend he's ever had, Kazuya decides to rent a girlfriend. She seems perfect, but things quickly get complicated.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix ID: 81299211 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this sweet alternate-reality spin-off of the 'Haruhi Suzumiya' series, Yuki is a shy schoolgirl nursing a secret crush on her wisecracking friend.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix ID: 80193441 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Rebellious Yuzu hopes to finally get a boyfriend, but instead she finds herself growing curiously attracted to her stern new stepsister.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix ID: 80231942 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The government now assigns everyone a marriage partner. Refusing is not an option. But for these teens, love and lust are beyond their control.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6
Netflix ID: 80227917 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Middle schooler Nazuna desperately wants to run away with her classmate Norimichi, who somehow turns back time on this fateful summer's day.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.5
Runtime: 01:30:04
Netflix ID: 81000505 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Art imitates life when Chiyo discovers her crush is a famous artist who wants to use their budding relationship as inspiration for his romantic manga.

Year: 2014
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Netflix ID: 80081848 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Talented musical student Chiaki's path to success is hampered by his phobias. The eccentric Nodame opens his eyes to a different side of music.

Year: 2007
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80169652 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Teased constantly by classmate Takagi-san, middle-schooler Nishikata swears payback by trying (and failing) to give her a dose of her own medicine.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 80228274 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When half-demon Anzai rescues college student Tsukasa from a demon attack, their growing bond threatens her life and his resolve to never drink blood.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 80990627 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A chronic gamer abysmally inept in academics and sports finally meets his match at his usual shady arcade -- and it’s his rich classmate, Akira.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 80997338 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Memories in a bowl of steaming noodles, a fading beauty finding her way and a bittersweet first love -- all in these stories of city life in China.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:14:08
Netflix ID: 80234491 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After the sudden death of his twin brother, Tatsuya takes up baseball in his place while Minami becomes a rising star in rhythmic gymnastics.

Year: 1986
Runtime: 01:19:32
Netflix ID: 81086992 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A hopelessly single kid gets a love letter, and it upends his life. He wants to find the mystery girl, but the ladies around him are all … kinda weird.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81143739 · Watch on Netflix

With entrance exams looming, Rikka's sister wants her to move abroad. Yuta sets out to prove their love is real with a road trip through Japan.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:33:57
Netflix ID: 81212928 · Watch on Netflix

A retelling of the show from Rikka's point of view as she's caught between the delusions and realities of love, friendship and imagination.

Year: 2013
Runtime: 01:30:47
Netflix ID: 81212927 · Watch on Netflix

High schooler Sakuta's days with his girlfriend Mai are interrupted by his crush Shoko's double reappearance: she's a middle schooler, and an adult.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:29:57
Netflix ID: 81228006 · Watch on Netflix

The otaku is a hit with all the 2D digital ladies. But when a real girl enters the picture, he's got a lot to learn about the intricacies of 3D.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81227435 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an heiress hits her head, memories of her past life as a Japanese gamer emerge. Now she's got what she needs to avoid a real-life bad ending.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81245851 · Watch on Netflix

High schooler Natsuo is shocked to learn that the teacher he’s secretly in love with and the girl he just had a fling with are his new stepsisters.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81329523 · Watch on Netflix

Junpei falls instantly in love with a gorgeous girl he meets on the roof of his school. But he doesn’t know her name, just what her panties look like.

Year: 2015
Netflix ID: 81324816 · Watch on Netflix

A loner gamer thinks life is a game he’d rather not play, until his popular classmate decides to teach him exploits to make the most of the real world.

Year: 2021
Netflix ID: 81392165 · Watch on Netflix

Four high school guys spend their days goofing off. One, a hopeless romantic, falls head over heels for a classmate and tries to get her to notice him.

Year: 2016
Netflix ID: 81416901 · Watch on Netflix

Banished to the mortal realm to exorcise ghosts, a deity must reckon with a demon and soon uncovers a dark secret behind the heavenly gods.

Year: 2020
Netflix ID: 81364887 · Watch on Netflix

A young man moves back to the small Okinawan island where, three years ago, he met an aspiring novelist on the beach who fell in love with him.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 00:58:45
Netflix ID: 81438725 · Watch on Netflix

After meeting one bright, sunny day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.

Year: 2021
Runtime: 01:27:21
Netflix ID: 81400497 · Watch on Netflix

After Eriri and Utaha move on, Tomoya and Megumi embark on a new beginning, dealing with new challenges while developing another game together.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:54:49
Netflix ID: 81482746 · Watch on Netflix

After befriending a marine biology student, an artistic paraplegic woman with a sarcastic streak finally begins to experience the world beyond her home.

Year: 2021
Runtime: 01:38:04
Netflix ID: 81508630 · Watch on Netflix