The romance anime landscape for the fiscal year 2025 delivers an impressive array of romantic storytelling, led by The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity, which secured the number one ranking with a score of 4.1. This season’s lineup features a strong presence of Summer 2025 titles, including highly anticipated sequels like Dandadan Season 2 and Grand Blue Dreaming Season 2. The rankings also highlight diverse genres within romance, ranging from the court intrigue of the Winter 2025 hit The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 to the magical comedy of the Spring 2025 release Witch Watch. With scores ranging from 2.9 to 4.1, this list compiles the most popular series added to user libraries for the year.
Summer 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
“Beyond that curtain lies a world that will never have anything to do with me.”
Chidori High is a bottom-tier boys’ school notorious for being a gathering place for idiots. It is thoroughly despised by Kikyo Girls’ High, a prestigious academy for the wealthy. Thick curtains always separate the two adjacent schools, preventing the students from ever glimpsing the opposing classrooms.
Rintaro Tsumugi, a student at Chidori, has grown accustomed to isolating himself; his intimidating appearance often leads people to judge and avoid him. One day, while helping out at his family’s cake shop, he meets a customer named Kaoruko.
“I haven’t thought you were scary even once, you know?”
Rintaro begins to feel a bewildered comfort in the time he spends with Kaoruko, who treats him without prejudice. However, he soon discovers she is a student at Kikyo…
This is a vibrant romance anime woven by two people who are so close, yet so far apart.
Dandadan Season 2 (TV Anime)
Summer 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
The story picks up immediately following the conclusion of the first season.
The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 (TV Anime)
Winter 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
With the revelation that the Emperor’s favorite consort, Gyokuyou, is pregnant, Maomao resumes her duties as a food taster at the Jade Palace. She spends her days in vigilance, ensuring no harm befalls the Consort or the unborn imperial child.
However, the court remains shrouded in an unsettling atmosphere. New complications arise: the daughter of a prominent statesman from the previous reign, Loulan, enters the inner palace as a new consort; an unprecedented, unresolved attempt on Jinshi’s life occurs; and the prime suspect, Suirei, vanishes. Amidst this unrest, a caravan of foreign merchants arrives, followed by a special envoy making impossible demands. Dark clouds begin to gather once more over the imperial court.
New and difficult mysteries await Maomao and Jinshi—mysteries that will eventually spiral into a major incident involving the entire nation.
Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsurasugiru (TV Anime)
(The Girl I Fell for in Okinawa Speaks in Such a Thick Dialect It’s Too Painful)
Winter 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
Teruaki Nakamura (known as “Teru”) transfers to a school in Okinawa and falls in love with his classmate, Kiyan-san. He expects a dreamy high school life to begin, but there is a problem: he cannot understand a word of her Uchinaguchi—her thick Okinawan dialect!
Fortunately, Higa-san is always there to translate for him. Teru relies constantly on her help, unaware of one crucial detail: Higa-san actually has a secret crush on him.
Set on a southern island distinct from Tokyo, a slightly unusual cross-cultural romance anime begins!
Witch Watch (TV Anime)
Spring 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
Her magic is beyond your wildest imagination!
Niko, a witch-in-training, moves in with her childhood friend Morihito Otogi, a high school boy possessing the power of an ogre. While Niko is thrilled to reunite with her old friend, Morihito has a serious mission: he must serve as her familiar to protect her from a prophesied calamity.
From unpredictable trouble caused by Niko’s magic to the awkwardness of two teenagers living together, their chaotic and mysterious daily life begins. This is a romance anime brought to you by Kenta Shinohara, creator of SKET DANCE and Astra Lost in Space!
Busu ni Hanataba wo. (TV Anime)
(A Bouquet for an Ugly Girl)
Summer 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
“A bittersweet romance anime straight out of a shojo manga will surely never happen to me… because of who I am.”
Hana Tabata is a high school girl with zero confidence in her appearance and no luck with romance. Although she longs for a fairytale love story, her overwhelming negativity keeps her living quietly in the corner of the classroom.
However, her high school life shifts dramatically when Yosuke Ueno—the handsome boy at the top of the social hierarchy—witnesses her in an embarrassing moment early one morning in the classroom. This incident sparks interactions not only with Yosuke but also with other classmates, slowly bringing life and noise to Hana’s once-quiet world.
Could spring finally be coming for this lonely, unpopular girl? A new type of school romantic comedy—mostly gags, sometimes heart-pounding moments—is now in session!
Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru (TV Anime)
(The Tattered Noble Daughter is Doted on by Her Sister’s Ex-Fiancé)
Summer 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
Dressed in rags and treated like a servant by her parents, Marie is the second daughter of an impoverished baronial family. Despite her treatment, she maintains an honest and kind heart, devoting herself to her family.
One day, a birthday party is held—not for Marie, but for her princess-like older sister, Anastasia. While standing sorrowfully outside the venue, Marie has a chance encounter with the incredibly wealthy Count Cyrus Granado.
The two are drawn to each other, and Count Granado falls for Marie at first sight. However, due to a misunderstanding, he accidentally proposes to Anastasia instead! The engagement between the Count and her sister proceeds rapidly. But when Anastasia dies in a sudden accident, Marie is sent to marry into the Count’s family in her place…
A Cinderella story of a “tattered noble daughter,” born from a misunderstanding, begins now!
Grand Blue Dreaming Season 2 (TV Anime)
Summer 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
Our summer isn’t over yet!
It has been three months since Iori Kitahara began his university life in Izu. Living at the diving shop “Grand Blue,” he shares a roof with his cute cousin, Chisa Kotegawa. With the addition of his other cousin Nanaka Kotegawa, the mature and alluring Azusa Hamaoka, and his classmate Aina Yoshiwara, he is enjoying a smooth-sailing, youthful campus life!
…Or so it would seem. In reality, the majority of his college life is a chaotic frenzy involving stark-naked guys.
Iori joined the diving circle “Peek a Boo,” where the daily routine involves burly men stripping down and drinking heavily, rather than actual diving. Together with Kohei Imamura—a handsome guy who happens to be a hardcore otaku—Iori has completely assimilated into the circle.
Just as Iori returns to Izu after completing his diving license course in Okinawa, a letter arrives from his younger sister, Shiori. Between his sister’s invasion, the women’s university festival, tests of courage, dates, and uninhabited island camping, Iori’s chaotic university life surrounded by lovable naked idiots begins again!
There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… (TV Anime)
Summer 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
“I’m going to win the best school life ever!”
Determined to leave her lonely middle school years behind, Renako Amaori makes her high school debut. However, her root nature as an introvert makes fitting into the dazzling lifestyle of the popular crowd nearly suffocating.
She is surrounded by the school’s elite: Mai O冢, a perfect beauty and active model; Ajisai Sena, a gentle, fluffy angel; Satsuki Koto, a cool, dark-haired beauty; and Kaho Koyanagi, the energetic mood maker. Renako tries her best every day to get closer to these girls she admires. But then—
“I think I’ve fallen in love with you…”
“Wait! What happened to being friends?!”
Friends? Lovers? Caught between fluctuating feelings, the maidens laugh, worry, and move forward. A non-stop youth romance anime begins here!
NEET Kunoichi to Nazeka Dousei Hajimemashita (TV Anime)
(For Some Reason, I Started Living with a NEET Kunoichi)
Winter 2025 Anime
Synopsis:
To protect himself from demons, ordinary salaryman Tsukasa Atsumi enters a master-servant contract with a genius kunoichi (female ninja) named Shizuri Ideura, on the condition that she lives with him.
Despite her reputation for dashingly defeating demons, Shizuri turns out to be an otaku NEET who spends all her time gaming. As Tsukasa spoils her, and Shizuri settles into a lazy cohabitation life, other eccentric female ninjas begin to gather around them…
A cohabitation romance anime featuring an otaku, NEET, genius ninja!
Romance Anime Epilogue
From the touching “Romeo and Juliet” dynamic found in the top-ranked The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity to the quirky cohabitation antics of NEET Kunoichi to Nazeka Dousei Hajimemashita, this year’s romance selection offers a wide variety of narratives. Whether viewers are looking for the girls’ love comedy of There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… or the cross-cultural misunderstandings in Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsurasugiru, these titles showcase vibrant relationships and unique settings. All of these ranked series, including the heartwarming Cinderella story Zutaboro Reijou wa Ane no Moto Konyakusha ni Dekiai Sareru, are currently available to play on U-NEXT.
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