Coming of Age/Drama/Shoujo Titles

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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.).

Drama: (Genre) Titles that show a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces. See also: "Action Drama".

Shoujo: (Target Group) (↗shoujo (少女) = "young lady", "virgin", "maiden"; opposite of "Shounen") A style of artwork and story created for girls (usually of age 10 to 18). Characterized by plots that focus on emotion and relationships, and art that tends toward the florid, with lanky characters and rather effeminate (but always attractive) men. Mostly popular with teenagers in Japan, most shoujo-style work has not spread widely, but it does occasionally gain recognition outside Japan (some examples are Revolutionary Girl Utena and X). The most common uses are "shoujo manga", literally meaning "girls' comics", and "shoujo anime" meaning "girls' animation." Also romanized as "shojo" (actually a different word "処女" in Japanese). (Please credit http://animeworld.co­m/glossary.html as the source of this information; see also: ↗Wikipedia:Shoujo Manga.)

Title Rating Synopsis
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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
M

Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto
Buy In a society very much like the one we have today, there are certain people born with the ability to apply magic, and a world-wide administration limiting and organizing the use of magic. During her summer holidays 17 years old Kikuchi Yume travels to Tokyo as to complete her apprenticeship to become an official mage, for which she'll live as a guest in the house of her instructor, a very handsome but lonely man. Together with her fellow apprentice Angela she'll find out what it means to be a mage, and what magic can and can't do to the life of those who apply it or ask for its application.
P

Piano
Buy A slice-of-life story about Nomura Miu, a second class middle school girl who has been playing the piano for six years already. She is a very quiet girl; there's a senior in her school who she secretly admires and likes. Learn what happens with her family, her cat, her best friend Yuki at school, and her piano teacher - and watch her life experiences being depicted by the rhythm of the tunes she plays with her piano, such as happy times being with friends and family, not to mention love of course.
Piano: The Melody of a Young Girl's Heart Buy See Piano
S
Someday's Dreamer Buy See Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto
T
Things Precious to A Mage Buy See Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto
ファーストKiss☆物語 Watch See First Kiss Monogatari
魔法遣いに大切なこと Buy See Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto
Genre
Romance(2) Suspense(1) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(1) Modern(3)
Demographic
All Ages(1)
Style
Keywords
Bishounen(1) Dating Sim Spinoff(1) Depression(1) Fan Service(1)
Friendship(1) High School(1) Magic(1) Middle School(1)
Music(1) Slice of Life(2) Supernatural(1)
Type
OVA(1) TV(2)
Release Year
2002(2) 2000(1)

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