Anime Like A Condition Called Love

After an event in her childhood, Hotaru Hinase believes that she is just incapable of understanding the concept of romantic love, and believes that falling in love is something that just wasn’t meant to happen to her.

While out with a friend, she watches the messy break up between a girl and her schoolmate, the handsome and popular Saki Hananoi. Watching him sit sadly in the snow afterwards, she offers him her umbrella.

This seemingly small gesture comes back around when Hananoi confesses his feelings for her at school the next day. Although she initially rejects him since she has no romantic feelings for him, upon spending more time with him, she agrees to try dating and trying to understand this condition called love a little bit better.

After a traumatic incident in her past, Mei Tachibana swore off making friends, deeming all people as untrustworthy.

While her quiet life seems to be going quite normally, her core as an introvert is shaken by a few chance encounters with the popular Yamato Kurosawa.

Quiet and relatively timid, Sawako Kuronuma is misunderstood by her classmates. Due to her long black hair and shyness, they have taken to calling her Sadako, the ghost girl from The Ring.

Longing to make friends, she is drawn to Kazehaya Shouta, the most popular boy in school and his refreshing personality. However, when Kazehaya starts talking to her, Sawako’s lonely world begins to open up.

Futaba Yoshioka was an attractive middle schooler, popular with boys, but not with girls. It left her feeling lonely, but none of that mattered as long as her crush, Kou Tanaka, liked her.

However, when Kou moved away, Futaba decided to change herself, purposely adopting unattractive traits to be popular with the girls, but one day, Kou comes back as different of a person as she is.

Born with a hearing impairment, Yuki Itose is college student who rarely interacts with others because of her disability. However, when she has an awkward interaction with a foreigner on her daily commute to school, the multilingual Itsuomi Nagi steps in to intervene.

Learning of her impairment and having an interest in travel and learning various languages, soon Yuki and Itsuomi bond over his new interest in learning sign language to better communicate with her. As they spend more time together, their relationship continues to grow even deeper.

Although lauded for being likable and intelligent, Kyouko Hori hides the fact that she has to take care of her brother and the housework because her parents are always working.

Izumi Miyamura, on the other hand, is seen as a brooding, bespectacled otaku. Outside of school, he sports tattoos and nine piercings.

By happenstance, the two outside school personalities of these two classmates meet and they get to know a side of each other they don’t show their peers.

Shizuku Mizutani cares little of others and only about scoring top marks. However, when she is tasked with taking something to her desk neighbor, Haru Yoshida, her world begins to change.

Haru, too, knows little of human nature and hasn’t been to school for awhile due to fighting. Yet, it is the lack of friends that they both have that soon forms a friendship between them.

As a young girl, Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and has awaited a love confession that sets her heart aflutter. However, when she gets one from a junior high classmate, she feels nothing.

Unsure how to respond, she watches Nanami, her high school student council president, expertly let someone down who just confessed to her. Seeking her guidance, she asks for Nanami’s help.

However, the next love confession she receives is from Nanami herself, could this be the romance she was waiting for?

In order to pursue a career in politics to make a positive change for Japan, Mitsumi leaves her rural town to go to high school in Tokyo. While she has a clear life plan for herself, she is still a country girl in a big city and ends up late and lost on her first day.

Luckily, Mitsumi is noticed by a fellow new student, Sousuke Shima, and he guides her to school. This laid-back guy is charmed by her motivated personality and strikes up a friendship with her, supporting her as she tries to make meaningful friendships with her classmates.

In order to make friends with some popular girls, Erika Shinohara has taken to lying about having a boyfriend. In order to prove it, she hastily takes a picture of a man, but her friends recognize him as a school mate, the popular Kyouya Sata.

To avoid humiliation, she asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend. He accepts, but only if she agrees to become his dog.

Yukino Miyazawa is the perfect student to her peers, but it is all just a front to get the praise and admiration she thrives on.

So naturally when Soichiro Arima takes her spot as number one in the class rankings, she goes a little batty.

Yet after Arima finds out her true personality, he begins to blackmail her with it.

Risa is very tall for a girl. Atsushi is very short for a boy. They are both in love with different people who actually end up dating each other.

With both their loves taken, the two form an unlikely friendship that soon turns into something more.

Nanami Takahashi is ready to enter her high school life and hopes to make as many friends as possible. However, she makes a fool of herself during class nominations by calling a student by the fake name a boy gave her.

This boy is the super popular Motoharo Yano who has most of the girls in their class in love with him. At first Nanami is mad, but soon she, too, begins to like Yano.