Coming of Age/Romance/Romantic Comedy Titles

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Coming of Age: (Story/Location) A story in which the main character is confronted with issues related to their transition from adolescence (innocence) to adulthood (responsibility). Most typically found in a modern romance story in which the main character has to confront his/her feelings over their (first) love and/or deciding about the path in life (setting goals, attending college, getting a job etc.).

Romance: (Genre) Self-explanatory. If the title has a romance story to it, it would qualify.

Romantic Comedy: (Genre) In addition to having a Romance, there should be Humor too, often directly tied to the romance story.

Title Rating Synopsis
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Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka (TV)
Buy One day, Junichi Nagase the 'Geno Killer' saves a girl from getting accosted by 2 thugs. Walking away from her, he curses himself for acting 'too cool'. The next day his classroom gets a new transfer student, Yuuhi Katagiri. She turns out to be the girl that he saved. She walks up to him and asks him out. After having many fantasies about her, the next day when she talks to him he bends over and gives her a kiss on the mouth. She screams about stealing her first kiss and proceeds to beat him black and blue. Later that evening he gets a visit from Yuuhi and it turns out that she is to live in his house as his fiancee.
Akasaka (nickname) Buy See Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka (TV)
Ashita no Yoichi! Rent See Asu no Yoichi!

Asu no Yoichi!
Rent Having been raised and trained for the past sixteen years as a traditional samurai 'bushi', Yoichi was surprised when his father suddenly announces that there nothing more that he could teach his son, but he arranges for Yoichi to continue training at a dojo owned by one of their relatives. So now Yoichi must leave the tranquility of his remote rural mountain life and move to the city to live with his uncle's family to continue his studies. And if learning how to cope with city life were not hard enough, he finds himself living with 4 beautiful sisters and having to endure a ‘training’ regiment more severe than he could ever image.....
B

Baby Love OVA
Watch When they first met, Seara loved her older Shuhei. But how does a twelve-year-old boy talk to an eight-year-old girl, a girl who has just told him that she wants to be his wife? He tells her that if she were older and beautiful, then would consider accepting her confession. And now four years later, when Seara’s parents are having to move far away, she has somehow managed to arrange to stay with Shuhei’s family. Does Shuehi remember her, or his promise to her? Despite her efforts, they are still four years apart in age, but Seara has not given up on him and of winning his love.
Brighter Than Dawning Blue Watch See Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na
C
Crescent Love Watch See Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na
E
Eternal Rainbow Watch See Gift Eternal Rainbow
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Gift Eternal Rainbow
Watch The seaside village of Narasakicho is special in a number of strange ways. Crowned by an eternal rainbow, the village is rumored to grant all of its residents a once-in-a-life-time magic ability called a 'gift'. When two hearts are in sync, the gift of an aspiring love will manifest itself in a wondrous and magical way. A student named Amaumi Haruhiko finds himself entangled in the village’s special magic in his 2nd year of high school. His new school year starts with his cute adoptive sister returning home, a morning misadventure with a broomriding witch and numerous encounters with other cute fellow students.
Gift-er Watch See Gift Eternal Rainbow
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Itazura na Kiss
Buy It was love at first sight for Aihara Kotoko as top student Irie Naoki delivers a speech on the first day of high school. After 2 years of secret admiration, "I don't want it" is the rejection she gets when she plucks up enough courage to hand him a love letter. Dejected, Kotoko vows to give him up. By a twist of fate, Kotoko's house collapses; her dad and her put up at a friend's place, who happens to be Naoki's father. And thus, life with Naoki begins and Kotoko's love for Naoki rekindles again. Much laughter ensues when scatterbrain Kotoko makes her countless advances (supported by Naoki's wacky mum) on ice-cold Naoki who hates girls and is a genius at practically everything from studies to sports.
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Lamune
Rent Two childhood friends have spent many summers growing up together. When Tomosaka Kenji first moved to a new village many years ago he met a special little girl at the beach, at a time when ocean was shining like ‘lamune’ (Japanese for lemonade). It was only the next day when he learned that girl that he met lived next-door but a bond between them had already formed. The two kids grew up together, sharing a view on each other’s bedroom windows separated by only some two meters of distance. And then suddenly during the summer of their second high school year, the relationship between the two teen-aged friends slowly begins to change...
Lamune ~Glass Bin ni Utsuru Umi~ Rent See Lamune
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Mountain Summit Rent See Asu no Yoichi!
My Wife is a High School Girl Watch See Okusama wa Joshi Kousei
Genre
Action(2) Action Comedy(1) Comedy(9) Drama(9)
Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(2) Modern(6) Sci-Fi(1)
Demographic
Shounen(1)
Style
Classic(1) Kawaii(1)
Keywords
College(1) Comedy Fantasy(1) Dating Sim Spinoff(4) Depression(2)
Ecchi(2) Erotic Comedy(1) Fan Service(4) Friendship(1)
Harem(2) High School(7) Magic(2) Martial Arts(1)
Pantsu(2) Samurai(1) Slice of Life(6) Soul Mates(1)
Supernatural(2) Swordplay(2) War(1)
Type
OVA(1) Short(1) TV(8)
Release Year
2009(1) 2008(2) 2006(2) 2005(2) 2002(1) 1997(1)
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