17 Romance Anime With Multiple Couples

You know what they say, one is never enough.

When it comes to romance anime, there has never been more true of a statement. If done well, one romantic couple in a romance anime can be enough, but romance anime junkies always want more.

They want more delightfully awkward hand-holding. More tender first kisses. More salve to those trauma backstories used for character growth.

This is what makes romance anime with multiple couples such an alluring affair. They offer more of what we love, and often do so with less of what a lot of people don’t like – contrived drama.

However, we’re not talking about ten tons of love triangles with little to no pay off or inexplicable harems. Truly good multi-couple anime series have their main couple, but also has side couples that are developed and fleshed out as well to provide double the diabetes-inducing sweet moments.

So if you think more is better when it comes to romance anime, give these multi-couple romance anime recommendations a try.

Best Romance Anime With Multiple Couples

Honey and Clover

While it can occasionally be hard for people to get past Honey and Clover’s lackluster first episodes, you get the pay off later in the series when you are drowning in a series of complexly developed relationships.

While there is some light love triangle drama in Honey and Clover, it is resolved fairly quickly leaving ample time to explore both romantic and platonic relationships between the wonderful cast of characters.

Furthermore, as a college-set romance anime, Honey and Clover explores a number of relatable young adult worries that shape the characters outside of their romantic lives.

Wotakoi – Love is Difficult for an Otaku

While it is easy for any anime fan to immediately love an otaku romance anime, Wotakoi is actually so much more.

Wotakoi follows the reconnection of a pair of childhood friends who discover that they now work in the same office as adults. One is a reserved gamer who lives out loud with his interests while the other is a fujoshi who keeps her passion for boy’s love a secret due to it ruining all her past relationships.

While Wotakoi focuses on this main couple. It also equally focuses on their pair of co-workers who are also otaku in a committed relationship and a young college couple that consists of a shy gamer girl and an extroverted normie whose purity shines brighter than the sun.

The clever thing about Wotakoi is that – in these three couples – it details love at different stages. You have the older, long-committed couple, the newly-formed couple, and two kids awkwardly realizing their feelings for each other. This makes Wotakoi easily the most rewarding romance anime with multiple couples to watch.

The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague

In an extremely similar vein to Wotakoi, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague is a workplace romance following the various romantic couples blossoming in an office. Although, there are no otaku this time – just yuki-onna, phoenix, and kitsune descendants.

In the world of The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague, there are those descended from Japanese yokai. However, this really isn’t the focus of the plot. Instead, the series focuses on the main character’s increasingly love for his quiet, but conscientious colleague.

As you follow their growing relationship, a number of side couples also make an appearance in the office. While this certainly makes sure things stay interesting for romance fans, relationships move slowly here.

Scum’s Wish

Do you want romance anime with multiple different couples, but want everyone to be incredibly unhappy about it?

Well, in Scum’s Wish, a romance anime where everyone loves someone else, you can get exactly that by watching all the characters makes each other miserable.

Scum’s Wish follows the relationship between two who appear to form the perfect couple. Except the girl loves her childhood-friend-turned-homeroom-teacher and the boy loves the music teacher that chronically manipulates men.

Scum’s Wish is a large love triangle romance, but one where multiple different couples form out of the unhappiness that everyone feels. It definitely isn’t for those looking for wholesome romance, but the drama and scumbaggery on display certainly is for some.

Tomo-chan is a Girl

While they get minimal love as main characters, Tomo-chan is a Girl gives anime tomboys the limelight and their shot at romance.

Tomo-chan is a Girl follows a tough girl from a martial arts dojo who is in love with her childhood friend and fellow martial artist. However, he often thought of her as a boy in their childhood years and is struggling to reconcile that she is, in fact, a woman as they matured into teens.

While Tomo-chan is a Girl is mostly a lovely comedy about her trying to get him to recognize her as a girl instead of just a “bro,” it at least does provide romantic progression. It also neatly packs two side couples in – although they don’t get as much focus as some might like.

Kimikiss Pure Rouge

When you present a series that revolves around a childhood friend (a girl) coming home to her two male childhood friends, you can kind of predict what sort of relationship drama is going to ensue.

However, when you throw their female classmates into the mix, things get even more complicated. In Kimikiss Pure Rouge, this open up the pathways for different friendships as well as romantic couples to form up without relying too heavily on the predicted love triangle.

The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall

The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall, while a light drama, heavy comedy coming-of-age story, also highlights a number of romantic feelings forming between its multiple couple.

The main character is engaged in a small love triangle, but refreshingly enough, not every female in the series is obsessed with him. Aside from his love interest and the the childhood friend-type pining after him, you have two other couples that get explored in The Pet Girl of Sakura Hall.

Although it combines romance, drama, and comedy with all three pairings, it never truly feels like one is getting neglected.

Tsurezure Children

Tsurezure Children is a short episode format anime series that manages to surprisingly focus on over a half dozen different couples in a way where you enjoy all of them.

However, as each episode is only 12 minutes long, Tsurezure Children doesn’t have time for much character development, so it just barrages you with all those cute, fluffy moments that romance junkies live for.

However, despite the number of couples in the show and the small amount of time to focus on them, every couple is memorable, and all feel like they get just enough focus. Unfortunately, you always are left craving more – but that’s what the manga is for.

Amagami SS

Amagami SS is an omnibus romance – a small genre that takes the harem genre and does it in a way that adds a little more respectability to it.

In Amagami SS, the main character meets a series of girls, but the anime gives about four episodes to show off the romantic relationship he has with each girl.

He’s not two timing them, but instead the omnibus style of Amagami SS it is merely showing off the different “routes” he could take for romance before resetting time for the next girl’s story.

This provides more time to flesh out each girl and doesn’t show a harem series with one main girl and several unrequited loves.

Ef: A Tale of Memories / Ef: A Tale of Melodies

Both Memories and its sequel Melodies tell the tale of two couples, and at times it can be hard to explain either of these series without major spoilers, which is probably why it is so underrated.

In both stories, while they tell the trials and tribulations in romance and life of the two couples, the stories end up intertwined at the end in one way or another.

Nana

Nana is a story about two women that are coincidentally both named Nana who meet on the train to Tokyo and end up coincidentally living in the same apartment.

The series is about their very different lives – and that does include their ample love lives.

Both women find love, sometimes many different loves, and Nana explores their relationships with these men and with each other as they stumble through young adulthood in the unforgiving lonely streets of Tokyo.

Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again

Do you want to watch grandparents ship their grandchildren and try to manipulate them (harmlessly) into romantic pairings?

Grandpa and Grandma Turn You Again is about exactly what it says on the label. An elderly couple that has been married sixty years finds a golden apple on the dying apple tree they planted after their wedding, they eat it, and wake up young again.

Although they can turn old again and time is still ticking down on their lifespans, Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again offers you liquid sugar in terms of sweet romance as they do all they things they never got to enjoy in their troubled post-War youth.

Not only is Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again one of the more rare romance anime about married couples, but it also sets up multiple couples in the forms of their children and grandchildren.

Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-Kun

Like some of the best shoujo romance anime, at a glance, you’d think Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun is going to be about one main couple.

However, as it goes on, other relationships come into play that, while not part of the main plot, are given a reasonable amount of focus for audiences to enjoy.

Considering that Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun also has some superb comedy, it is well worth a watch. Although, it is a bit limited on romantic satisfaction.

Hatsukoi Limited

Hatsukoi Limited is one of the more satisfying multi-couple romance series out there if only in sheer volume.

In Hatsukoi Limited, you follow the love lives of multiple teenage girls. In general, each girl is given an episode and it explores their romantic relationship.

However, as the series goes on, you also begin to see throwbacks to previous relationships and the smaller roles they play in the episode’s current focus.

Convenience Store Boyfriends

While Convenience Store Boyfriends has about six different couples, it doesn’t always give as even of a focus to all the various couples that it has built up.

Yet, because the less important couples are, in truth, less interesting than the two main couples, the uneven focus is a little less cloying.

Despite that, the many different couples in Convenience Store Boyfriends provide a lot of tender romantic moments in the series – all centered around candid visits to the convenience store!

ReLife

ReLife follows a man traumatized by an event at his job who became a NEET in his late 20’s, unable to hold down any meaningful employment. However, he is offered the chance to rehabilitate his social skills by attending high school as a student for one year.

As ReLife does indeed follow an adult man in high school, it often eschews his own romantic story in lieu of follow the romantic connection of side characters.

However, while ReLife often focuses on rehabilitating the main character and helping him move past his own trauma through observing the trial and tribulations of his young friends – he does have his own building romantic connection. It just isn’t quite what you think – and definitely not creepy like it could be.

Kokoro Connect

Kokoro Connect is about the club members of a student club for those who don’t want to  join other clubs.

While the characters are all different forms of misfits, when they start randomly switching bodies, the feelings come pouring out. It is these outbursts that leads to the development of a couple different couples as well as advancing friendships.

There are a lot of other multi-couple romance series out there, we are sure. If you have any more that you think should be on this list, let us know in the comments section below.