The 31 Best Romantic Comedy Anime

Scheming student councils share this list with 80s boarding-house crushes, and there is plenty of fake dating in between.

1. 1
   Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

   A-1 Pictures' 2019 series about two student council geniuses each scheming to make the other confess first.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Toradora!

   J.C.Staff's 2008 series in which delinquent-looking Ryuji and tiny, fierce Taiga team up to help each other with their crushes.
   871pts
3. 3
   Wotakoi

   A-1 Pictures' 2018 series Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku, about two office workers and longtime fans who start dating.
   782pts
4. 4
   Maid Sama!

   J.C.Staff's 2010 series about a strict student council president who secretly works at a maid café.
   635pts
5. 5
   Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun

   Doga Kobo's 2014 series in which a girl confesses to her crush and ends up as his assistant on his shojo manga.
   586pts
6. 6
   My Dress-Up Darling

   CloverWorks' 2022 series about a doll-making boy who helps a popular classmate sew cosplay costumes.
   586pts
7. 7
   My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU

   Brain's Base's 2013 series about a cynical loner forced into his school's Service Club, adapted from Wataru Watari's light novels.
   586pts
8. 8
   Rent-a-Girlfriend

   TMS Entertainment's 2020 series about a college student who hires a rental girlfriend after a breakup.
   532pts
9. 9
   Kimagure Orange Road

   Studio Pierrot's 1987 series about a psychic teenager caught in a love triangle between two very different girls.
   532pts
10. 10
    My Love Story!!

    Madhouse's 2015 series about Takeo Goda, a huge, kind-hearted high schooler who gets a girlfriend for the first time.
    469pts
11. 11
    Horimiya

    CloverWorks' 2021 series about two classmates who discover each other's hidden home lives.
    469pts
12. 12
    Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

    Kyoto Animation's 2012 series about a boy trying to bury his fantasy-obsessed past and the girl still living hers.
    469pts
13. 13
    Urusei Yatsura

    Rumiko Takahashi's comedy about a flirtatious teenager and the alien princess Lum, first animated in 1981 and remade by David Production in 2022.
    469pts
14. 14
    Fruits Basket

    TMS Entertainment's 2019 adaptation of Natsuki Takaya's manga about an orphaned girl living with a family cursed by the zodiac.
    469pts
15. 15
    Teasing Master Takagi-san

    Shin-Ei Animation's 2018 series about a middle schooler who keeps losing teasing contests to the girl at the next desk.
    397pts
16. 16
    Maison Ikkoku

    A 1986 Studio Deen series in which a struggling student falls for the young widowed manager of his boarding house.
    397pts
17. 17
    Ranma ½

    Rumiko Takahashi's martial-arts comedy about a fiancé who turns into a girl when splashed with cold water, first animated in 1989 and remade by MAPPA in 2024.
    397pts
18. 18
    Tonikawa

    Seven Arcs' 2020 series Tonikawa: Over the Moon for You, about a teenager who promises to marry the mysterious girl who saved his life, and she turns up on his 18th birthday to hold him to it.
    397pts
19. 19
    The Quintessential Quintuplets

    A 2019 series in which a poor top student is hired to tutor five identical sisters, one of whom he will marry.
    313pts
20. 20
    Miss Nagatoro

    Telecom Animation Film's 2021 series Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro, about a first-year who teases a shy art club senior.
    313pts
21. 21
    Ouran High School Host Club

    Studio Bones' 2006 series about a scholarship student who ends up working off a debt in an elite school's host club.
    313pts
22. 22
    School Rumble

    Studio Comet's 2004 series about a chain of unrequited crushes at a Japanese high school.
    313pts
23. 23
    Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

    Liden Films' 2015 series about a delinquent who swaps bodies with whoever he kisses.
    313pts
24. 24
    Saekano

    A-1 Pictures' 2015 series Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, about an otaku building a dating-sim game around an ordinary classmate.
    313pts
25. 25
    Nisekoi

    Shaft's 2014 series in which the heirs of two rival gangs must fake a relationship to keep the peace.
    213pts
26. 26
    Lovely Complex

    Toei Animation's 2007 series about a tall girl and a short boy who bicker their way toward romance in Osaka.
    213pts
27. 27
    Tsurezure Children

    Studio Gokumi's 2017 series of short episodes following several awkward high school couples.
    213pts
28. 28
    The Dangers in My Heart

    Shin-Ei Animation's 2023 series about a gloomy boy who fantasizes about violence until he falls for a cheerful classmate.
    213pts
29. 29
    Komi Can't Communicate

    OLM's 2021 series about a socially anxious girl whose classmate helps her try to make 100 friends.
    213pts
30. 30
    Love Hina

    Xebec's 2000 series about a would-be University of Tokyo student who becomes manager of a girls' dormitory.
    0pts
31. 31
    Kimi ni Todoke

    Production I.G's 2009 series about a shy girl, nicknamed Sadako by classmates, who slowly opens up to a popular boy.
    0pts

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