Anime Like Ruri Rocks

Ruri, a fashionable high school girl, loves jewelry and accessories. After being captivated by a piece of quartz jewelry, and swiftly denied an advance on her allowance to buy it, Ruri’s mother tells her that her grandfather used to find quartz in the mountains all the time.

Ruri, thinking herself clever, goes to the mountains to try to find some—and fails! However, she meets professional geologist Nagi Arato who introduces her to the captivating world of geology.

After moving, Nadeshiko decides to go see Mount Fuji. She manages to bike pretty far, but has to turn back because of the weather and ends up fainting.

When she wakes up, she finds herself somewhere she has never been and no way to find her way back. It is in this wilderness where she is saved by Rin, a girl who was out camping by herself.

Upon discovering an old list she made in the last year of middle school, Mari Tamaki, who is now in her second year of high school, realizes she is not making the most of her youth. Whenever she tries to do something new, she is paralyzed with inaction.

Then one day she meets Shirase, a girl who’s mother went missing when she was in middle school on an expedition to Antarctica.

Knowing full well it is close to impossible, she works hard in order to go to search for her mother and invites Mari along for the ride.

As a child, Mira met a boy named Ao at a campsite. While they were gazing at the sky, Mira learned there was a star with her name, but none with Ao’s name. She made a promise that one day they would name an asteroid after him.

Years later, Mira is reunited with Ao at their school’s Earth Science Club. This is also when she discovers that Ao is actually a girl.

Hina Tsurugi has just moved to a quiet seaside town with her family.

While visiting the ocean, she stumbles upon a girl named Yuuki who invites her to join her while fishing. Hina manages to land an octopus, but being afraid of bugs and big creatures, she begs Yuuki to remove it when it lands on her.

Yuuki uses this as an opportunity to try to get her to join the Breakwater Club, a club where members catch and eat fish.

After the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cutting edge technologies have taken over and the old way of doing things is left in the dust. For childhood friends Serufu Yua and Miku Suride, they both applied to the elite Yuyu Girls’ Vocational High School that excels in teaching new technology.

However, due to her grades, care-free accident-magnet Yua could only get into the neighboring Gatagata Girls’ High School.

After getting into an bike accident, Yua has a run in with a passerby who fixes her bike effortlessly and later finds out that she is a member of the Do It Yourself Club. With the club in danger of shutting down due to a lack of members and becoming enchanted by the old way of fixing and building things, Yua hopes to gather new friendships and build new crafts by joining it.

Himeno Toyokawa’s mother was considered a legend in the world of pottery, but passed away when she was a child. Her memory lives on in the series of mugs that Himeno brings with her as she moves back to her mother’s hometown.

Bringing these mugs to her new school, she instantly attracts the attention of the Pottery Club that ropes her into joining.

With a deep knowledge of mineralogy, Richard Ranashinha de Vulpian is a handsome British jeweler who opened a shop in Japan. One night, he finds himself harassed by drunks due to his good looks, but is saved by Seigi Nakata, a college student.

Learning Richard was a knowledgeable jeweler, Seigi seeks his help appraising a pink sapphire ring left to him by his grandmother.

After solving that mystery, Seigi becomes a part-time working in Richard’s shop and the pair tackle a number of jewel-themed requests. Piece by piece, Seigi learns the little stories that can be behind every jewel.