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Coming of Age/Middle School/Romance Titles


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.



Title Rating Synopsis
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Futakoi
Watch With his father taking an overseas position as an astronomer in Hawaii, the thirteen year-old Futami Nozomi chooses to stay with relatives in the city where he first grew up. While looking forward to meeting a pair of twin sisters with whom he played with during kindergarten, he is surprised to encounter another set of twin sisters in a convenience store, and then his aunt also has a pair of ten year old twin sisters. Well, Nozomi is both very cute and very kind hearted, how many twin sisters could he become close friends with? Six perhaps? What a troublesome life!!
I
If You Listen Closely Buy See Whisper of the Heart
K

Kamichu!
Buy In a quiet village town, the supernatural and ordinary coexist in a quiet harmony. And then one day, a normal junior high school girl named Hitotsubashi Yurie tells two of her school friends that she has suddenly become a god last night. But she still has problems to get the boy she likes to even remember her name...
M
Mimi wo Sumaseba Buy See Whisper of the Heart
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
Soukoi Watch See Futakoi
T
Twin Love Watch See Futakoi
W

Whisper of the Heart
Buy Tsukishima Shizuku, a middle-school student and bookworm, is surprised to find out that a number of books she borrowed from the lending library (where her father works) show a notice that one certain Amasawa Seiji had borrowed all these books just some weeks before her. While trying to find out who this guy might be, she has to face the challenges of growing up, be that at school, with her best friend's first love or being respected by her older sister and parents.
かみちゅ! (Japanese) Buy See Kamichu!
耳をすませば (Japanese) Buy See Whisper of the Heart
Release Year
2005(1) 2004(1) 2002(1) 1995(1)
Type
Movie(1) TV(3)
Setting
Fantasy(1) Modern(3)
Keywords
Action Drama(1) Adventure(1) All Ages(2) Artistic(1)
Bishounen(1) Comedy(1) Deities(1) Drama(3)
Mahou Shoujo(1) Moé(1) Music(1) Music Oriented(1)
Seinen(1) Shoujo(1) Slice of Life(2)

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