Top 10 Anime: Romance
The highest-graded romance anime we have reviewed, best first.
Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze ArcThe film fixes what the series got wrong: Fujimoto's comic timing is back, and a small summer romance builds to the best action MAPPA has animated.Read the review
The Apothecary DiariesA poisoner's daughter solves crimes in an imperial court, and the show is as sharp as she is.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is WarTwo student council officers refuse to confess first, and the standoff is staged like a war film.
Your NameShinkai finally wrote a plot strong enough to carry the prettiest skies in the medium.
Fruits BasketThe remake that adapts the whole manga and turns a cult favorite into one of the decade's best dramas.
Howl's Moving CastleThe most beautiful machine Ghibli ever drew, attached to a story that comes apart in the second half.
Cardcaptor SakuraClamp's magical girl series, animated by Madhouse with a patience children's television rarely gets.
Your Lie in AprilThe most beautifully animated performances in any music anime, attached to a romance that reaches for tears a little too often.
Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across TimeThe first film is the best of the four because it spends its middle on Kagome and Inuyasha cut off from each other by five centuries, not on the demon.
You and I Are Polar OppositesA school romance with no villain and no misunderstanding, and no need for either one.