Dating Sim Spinoff/Coming of Age/Friendship Titles

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Dating Sim Spinoff: (Type subgenre) Usually an anime starts out its life as a manga but a Dating Sim can also become an anime. Dating sims follow a set choice or path and feature Bad, Good, and True Endings. Most of the Dating Sims though are ↗ero-based an usually involve the main character trying to 'date' each of the girls in the game; the anime usually picks one of the harem of girls available and plays her 'true ending' out. Other dating sims are not usually Ero in nature but still follow the other rules. Note that even an anime based on an Ero game may not contain any erotic scenes in many cases. See also: "Video-game inspired".

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.).

Friendship: (Story/Location) Titles in which the relationship of two or more characters as friends are important.

Title Rating Synopsis
F

First Kiss Monogatari
Watch High school senior Kana is depressed because her older boyfriend is away at university and her grades are falling. When Shogo, a new teacher, arrives at her school she becomes interested in him because he looks like her late father. It turns out that he is a cousin of her father's and will be staying at her house.
First Kiss Story (OAV) Watch See First Kiss Monogatari
K

Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo
Watch One morning, Wataru Hoshino found a sleeping girl - in nothing but her underwear - in his room. When she woke up, she quickly escaped by jumping out of the window, but not without punching Wataru in the face first. This girl, Rinna Sawaki, ends up being a transfer student of Wataru's school, as well as the new roommate of Wataru's dormitory. He lives with four other girls and their school teacher, but due to Temizugawa Heavy Industry's cancellation of their aviation branch, South Sakojima Island's major company, the families involved with the corporation have to be evacuated in one year. As a result of this, the four girls have to leave the island in one year's time. Knowing this, Rinna refuses to become friends with Wataru and the other girls, because of the pain that she might experience as a result of their eventual separation. However, Wataru disagrees with her, and over the course of the year, tries to convince her otherwise. (Source: ANN)
L

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
R
Ramune ~Glass Bin ni Utsuru Umi~ Rent See Lamune
W
wo~Youkosou-gumi Ryou e~ Watch See Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo
この青空に約束を― ~ようこそつぐみ寮へ~ (Japanese) Watch See Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo
ファーストKiss☆物語 Watch See First Kiss Monogatari
ラムネ Rent See Lamune
Genre
Comedy(1) Drama(3) Romance(3) Romantic Comedy(1)
Suspense(1) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Modern(3)
Demographic
Shoujo(1)
Style
Keywords
Depression(1) Fan Service(1) Harem(1) High School(3)
Slice of Life(3) Video-game inspired(1)
Type
OVA(1) TV(2)
Release Year
2007(1) 2005(1) 2000(1)

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