What is the best P.A. Works anime?

Hot-spring inns, afterlife schools and small towns that feel lived in. The studio's calling card is quiet, hand-crafted drama, with a few detours into the strange.

1. 1
   Shirobako

   A 2014 workplace series about a group of friends trying to finish an anime production on deadline.
   1000pts
2. 2
   true tears

   A 2008 romantic drama about a boy torn between two girls in a small rural town.
   877pts
3. 3
   Glasslip

   A 2014 summery drama about teenagers and a mysterious glass-like fragment of the future.
   840pts
4. 4
   Nagi no Asukara

   A 2013 fantasy romance between people of the sea and the surface world.
   600pts
5. 5
   Angel Beats!

   A 2010 afterlife comedy-drama about teens fighting against God in a school for the dead.
   600pts
6. 6
   Another

   A 2012 horror mystery about a cursed class in which students keep dying.
   600pts
7. 7
   Charlotte

   A 2015 supernatural drama about teens with temporary powers, written by Jun Maeda.
   600pts
8. 8
   Sakura Quest

   A 2017 comedy-drama about young women hired to revive a dying rural town.
   600pts
9. 9
   TARI TARI

   A 2012 music and school-life series about a choir club rebuilt by five friends.
   466pts
10. 10
    Canaan

    A 2009 action series about a photojournalist and a mercenary caught in a terrorist plot.
    466pts
11. 11
    The Eccentric Family

    A 2013 fantasy about a family of tanuki living among humans and tengu in Kyoto.
    466pts
12. 12
    Appare-Ranman!

    A 2019 adventure about a samurai and a Japanese engineer racing across America in 1908.
    466pts
13. 13
    Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

    A 2018 fantasy film about an immortal girl who raises a human child.
    466pts
14. 14
    Hanasaku Iroha

    A 2011 coming-of-age series about a teenage girl working at her grandmother's hot-spring inn.
    0pts
15. 15
    Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara

    A 2018 time-travel drama about a girl who uses magic to reach her grandmother's past.
    0pts

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