21.Himouto Umaru-chan

20. Ouran High school host club

Haru not being one to care about appearances opts for comfortable clothes that give her a boyish appearance when she can’t afford her new schools uniform. She walks into what she thinks is an empty room to find a quiet place to study, only to end up in the school's host club. While trying to get away she ends up knocking over an expensive vase causing her to belong to the club as an errand boy until she is able to repay her debt.

Haru and the rest of the Host Club 

19. The Flowers We Saw That Day

18. Re: Life

ReLife Trailer 

Everyone wants a second chance, but what would you do if you actually had it? This is the case for Arata Kaizaki, a 27-year-old who has been jumping from job to job. One night he meets Ryou a member of the ReLife institute who offers him a pill that will give him a chance to return to school and a new lease on life.

Arata starting his new life.

17.Lucky star

Following the lives of Izumi, the Hiragi twins, Tsukasa, Kagami, and Takara. Though they have quite different personalities there’s nothing they won’t get into as we follow them in their daily lives.

The girls standing together.

16. Amaama to Inazuma

Sweetness and Lightning Trailer

Due to his wife passing Inuzuka has been left to care for his younger daughter Tsumugi all by himself. Due to the fact that he is constantly working and lacks the knowledge of how to cook a proper meal, often bringing home ready-made dinners from convenience stores, taking care of his daughter is harder than he expected. After one of his students invites them to her family restaurants and his daughter enjoys a home cook meals, he puts his best foot forward to be a better father and caretaker.

Inuzuka, his daughter and his student.

15. March comes in like A Lion

March comes in like a Lion Trailer

After reaching professional status as a shoji player while still in middle school, Rei Kiriyama began to feel enormous pressure from his family and friends, so much so that at the age of 17 he moved to Tokyo. Though due to his reclusive nature he doesn’t take very good care of himself physically or mentally, closing himself off from everyone. After meeting the Kawamoto sisters, he begins opening up with them and learning how to interact with others again.

Rei and the world around him

14. Hyouka

The listless Houtarou Oreki, joins his schools Classics Club under his sister's command, but little does he know that he will be pulled into a 45-year-old mystery surrounding the club room.  With his fellow club members, they knock the dust off works created before them and while also stopping for some smaller mysteries along the way.

Oreki and the Classics clubs.

13. Kids on the Slope

Kids On The Slope Trailer

Never staying in one place too long, Kaoru has adjusted to the life well, opting not to make friends and not even thinking about trying to fit in anymore. After being bothered by a friendly delinquent Sentarou and sharing a love of music together through different genres, the two end up making summer memories that neither boy will soon forget.

The boys chasing each other

12.Silver spoon

Silver Spoon Trailer 

Yuugo is always aiming to be number one, spending most of his time studying to get the highest grades. But after falling apart due to the pressures he skips town, he heads to the country and enrolls in an Agricultural school, which would be soothing if he had experience with farm life. Learning that nothing is ever as simple as we think it is, Yuugo must learn what it means to be a farmer.

 Yuggo and fellow classmate.

11. Nana

Sharing the same first name and not much else both Nana’s end up on a train to Tokyo. Running into each other and even ending up sharing an apartment. The deeper their friendship gets the more they begin to share with and support each other, as they become best friends.

Both Nana’s

10. Udon Nokuni No Kiniro Kemari

Souta returns to his family home and udon shop in order to get away from the city. While looking around he finds a small dirty child sleeping.  First thinking this is a normal child he feeds and clothes the boy only to find out that the child is a shapeshifting Tanuki. Deciding to keep him, the two build a relationship reminding Shota what he missed about his hometown and family in the first place.

 Souta and Poco

9. Shirobako

After forming an animation club in high school, Aoi, Ema, Midori, Shizuka, and Misa, now adults have all started working in the industry, but things aren’t as it seems when the anxieties of the job come down on them. We watch as these five girls make their dreams come true with a little elbow grease and a lot of creativity.

All the girls in the series 

Akari a novice tour guide on Neo Venezia, a city on the planet Aqua(formerly known as Mars), is a bubbly teenager learning how to do her job. We follow her as she becomes familiar with the residents, the city and even learns a couple of life lessons along the way.

Akari and friends

7. Hidamari Sketch

Yuno has finally done it, she’s been accepted into the school of her dreams, the Yamabuki Arts High School. Excited as she is, this will be her first time away from home, though her new neighbors make her feel right at home, leaving her to deal with the other weird problems such as her masculine landlady along with others that fill her world.

 Yuno holding and her friends.

6. Barakamon

A narcissistic up and coming calligrapher, Seishuu loses his temper after having his work called unoriginal, because of this, his father sends him to the Goto Islands. Here he must find his inner inspiration and figure out his style, all while the residents of the island run in and out of his house. Unable to be secluded in the countryside he learns more than he ever would have by himself.

 Seishuu and one of the residents of the island.

5.Engaged to the Unidentified

Confused by the appearance of a fiancé and a sister-in-law on her 16th birthday Kobeni has a lot to deal with, thanks to her late grandfather. Hakuya  (her fiancé) and his younger sister are forced to leave their country life to better fit his new relationship, both of them forced into something that they are not prepared for. Together they must find love in a very strange way.

Kobeni and her sister-in-law and mother.
4.Working!!!

WWW.WAGNARIA Trailer

While working is not normally fun Souta goes in head first, due to his love of cute things, is unable to turn down friend, Popura when she asks him to work in a family Restaurant. While everything is not exactly together and the workers aren’t normal, the whole staff manages to have fun and create an entertaining time for everyone.

All of the staff standing together.

3.The Disastrous Life of Saiki K

Most people would love to have psychic abilities but not Saiki, a powerful psychic, from chaining human DNA to implanting memories Saiki wants nothing more than to go unnoticed. Though due to the strange and wacky friends he attracts he only becomes more and more famous it seems.

Saiki and his friends.

2. Azumanga Daioh

Chiyo is ready to start high school and ready for all the adventures that life has for her. But it all starts off differently as she meets only the strangest people she can. Thought they are all weird they quickly become friends and start to understand the ups and downs of high school life together.

 Chiyo and her friends.

1.Natsume Yuujinchou

Natsume’s Book of Friends Official Trailer

 While most kids would be worried about being constantly haunted by Youkai, Takashi has decided that friending them might be the best way to stop them. A book passed down from his grandmother filled with the names of the spirits. Because the technically owns their names. Finding out that the spirits to haunt him to gain their freedom, so he decides to also help them achieve their goal.

Takashi and his book.