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Anyway, I'm Falling in Love with You (2025)
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Original name: どうせ、恋してしまうんだ。
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
It’s the year 2020, and Mizuho is having the worst 17th birthday ever. Her parents forgot it’s her birthday, she still can’t seem to get close to the senior she likes, and all her school trips and tournaments are canceled thanks to a new disease going around. She’s convinced she’ll never have the kind of youth she’s always dreamt of…until her childhood friend, Kizuki, suddenly asks her out.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, shoujo, anime
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, slice of life, teen romance, pandemic, high school life, youth, first love, friendship, young adult, heartwarming, isolation, teen angst, bittersweet, school, childhood friend, small town, school club, harem, adolescence, swimming, schoolgirl, fall in love, high school student, female protagonist ...
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Country: Japan
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Duration: 25 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Sakura Ooyagi returns to his old hometown in order to start school at Sōei High School. On the first day, he runs into an old childhood friend: a junior named Mihoshi Akeno. As children, the two used to play together, with Mihoshi, or Mii-chan, ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Style:
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Country: Japan
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Country: Japan
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Pessimistic high school student Hana Tabata doesn't believe her life could ever be like that of a heroine from the shoujo manga she reads—she's convinced she's ugly, and she's always alone. Still, she can't help but ...
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, anime, seinen
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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During Kazuya Maeda's first year of high school he felt like a nobody, just another forgotten face shuffling through the crowded hallways. Even his best friend from childhood, Nimi, seemed somehow more difficult to approach, since she had ...
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japan
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53%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
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Audience:
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Country: Japan
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Country: Japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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A very powerful industrialist directs his daughter to pick a husband from three candidates he has chosen for her. They are to come into her life, and their uniqueness would cause her to recognize them immediately. All three of the candidates are ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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japan, tokyo
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Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Country: Japan
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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Country: Japan
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Place:
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
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Plot:
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
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japan
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
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Country: Japan
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