# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published November 2, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-31-best-romantic-comedy-anime*

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1. **Kaguya-sama: Love Is War** — score 1000/1000
   A-1 Pictures' 2019 series about two student council geniuses each scheming to make the other confess first.
2. **Toradora!** — score 871/1000
   J.C.Staff's 2008 series in which delinquent-looking Ryuji and tiny, fierce Taiga team up to help each other with their crushes.
3. **Wotakoi** — score 782/1000
   A-1 Pictures' 2018 series Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku, about two office workers and longtime fans who start dating.
4. **Maid Sama!** — score 635/1000
   J.C.Staff's 2010 series about a strict student council president who secretly works at a maid café.
5. **Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun** — score 586/1000
   Doga Kobo's 2014 series in which a girl confesses to her crush and ends up as his assistant on his shojo manga.
6. **My Dress-Up Darling** — score 586/1000
   CloverWorks' 2022 series about a doll-making boy who helps a popular classmate sew cosplay costumes.
7. **My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU** — score 586/1000
   Brain's Base's 2013 series about a cynical loner forced into his school's Service Club, adapted from Wataru Watari's light novels.
8. **Rent-a-Girlfriend** — score 532/1000
   TMS Entertainment's 2020 series about a college student who hires a rental girlfriend after a breakup.
9. **Kimagure Orange Road** — score 532/1000
   Studio Pierrot's 1987 series about a psychic teenager caught in a love triangle between two very different girls.
10. **My Love Story!!** — score 469/1000
   Madhouse's 2015 series about Takeo Goda, a huge, kind-hearted high schooler who gets a girlfriend for the first time.
11. **Horimiya** — score 469/1000
   CloverWorks' 2021 series about two classmates who discover each other's hidden home lives.
12. **Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions** — score 469/1000
   Kyoto Animation's 2012 series about a boy trying to bury his fantasy-obsessed past and the girl still living hers.
13. **Urusei Yatsura** — score 469/1000
   Rumiko Takahashi's comedy about a flirtatious teenager and the alien princess Lum, first animated in 1981 and remade by David Production in 2022.
14. **Fruits Basket** — score 469/1000
   TMS Entertainment's 2019 adaptation of Natsuki Takaya's manga about an orphaned girl living with a family cursed by the zodiac.
15. **Teasing Master Takagi-san** — score 397/1000
   Shin-Ei Animation's 2018 series about a middle schooler who keeps losing teasing contests to the girl at the next desk.
16. **Maison Ikkoku** — score 397/1000
   A 1986 Studio Deen series in which a struggling student falls for the young widowed manager of his boarding house.
17. **Ranma ½** — score 397/1000
   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.
18. **Tonikawa** — score 397/1000
   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.
19. **The Quintessential Quintuplets** — score 313/1000
   A 2019 series in which a poor top student is hired to tutor five identical sisters, one of whom he will marry.
20. **Miss Nagatoro** — score 313/1000
   Telecom Animation Film's 2021 series Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro, about a first-year who teases a shy art club senior.
21. **Ouran High School Host Club** — score 313/1000
   Studio Bones' 2006 series about a scholarship student who ends up working off a debt in an elite school's host club.
22. **School Rumble** — score 313/1000
   Studio Comet's 2004 series about a chain of unrequited crushes at a Japanese high school.
23. **Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches** — score 313/1000
   Liden Films' 2015 series about a delinquent who swaps bodies with whoever he kisses.
24. **Saekano** — score 313/1000
   A-1 Pictures' 2015 series Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, about an otaku building a dating-sim game around an ordinary classmate.
25. **Nisekoi** — score 213/1000
   Shaft's 2014 series in which the heirs of two rival gangs must fake a relationship to keep the peace.
26. **Lovely Complex** — score 213/1000
   Toei Animation's 2007 series about a tall girl and a short boy who bicker their way toward romance in Osaka.
27. **Tsurezure Children** — score 213/1000
   Studio Gokumi's 2017 series of short episodes following several awkward high school couples.
28. **The Dangers in My Heart** — score 213/1000
   Shin-Ei Animation's 2023 series about a gloomy boy who fantasizes about violence until he falls for a cheerful classmate.
29. **Komi Can't Communicate** — score 213/1000
   OLM's 2021 series about a socially anxious girl whose classmate helps her try to make 100 friends.
30. **Love Hina** — score 0/1000
   Xebec's 2000 series about a would-be University of Tokyo student who becomes manager of a girls' dormitory.
31. **Kimi ni Todoke** — score 0/1000
   Production I.G's 2009 series about a shy girl, nicknamed Sadako by classmates, who slowly opens up to a popular boy.

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