Anime Like Twilight Out of Focus

Despite a somewhat rocky start, Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Ootomo have found a way to co-exist in their shared dorm room. They made three simple promises for happy coexistence – to not out Ootomo as gay and having a boyfriend, Ootomo must not fall in love with Mao, and the two must respect each other’s needs for “alone time.”

While these are simple asks, their happy dorm coexistence is threatened when the school film club Mao is a part of starts trying to convince Ootomo to star in their short film for the year, a boy’s love romance.

While Mao manages to convince Ootomo to star in the film, as he views Ootomo’s delinquent character falling in love with the class president behind a camera lens, feelings start to bloom in his heart. However, Mao’s complicated feelings are not the only one’s starting to bloom among the film club’s members.

Much of his life at his all-boy’s school for Miyano is worrying about how girly his face looks and hiding his secret love of boy’s love manga.

However, after witnessing a fight, he has a clandestine meeting with an older delinquent student named Sasaki. Afterwards, Sasaki seems to jump at every opportunity to be around Miyano.

On one particular day, Ritsuka Uenoyama decided that two things he loved – playing guitar and playing baseball – had become boring to him.

However, when he encountered Mafuyu Sato holding a broken guitar, he fixes it. Upon fixing it and hearing him sing, it leaves a huge impression.

After 30 years of life passed him by, Kiyoshi Adachi discovers that the old saying that if you remain a virgin until you are 30 you will gain magic powers is actually true!

However, instead of anything magnificent, the only power that Adachi has is to read the thoughts of anyone he is touching. Thinking his skill is pretty lame and now wanting to avoid overly crowded places, he trudges on with his newfound burden.

One day, while in a crowded elevator at work, he discovered that his handsome and well-liked co-worker Yuuichi Kurosawa has a major crush on someone in office. Curious and probing further, he discovers that the person Kurosawa has a huge attraction to is none other than him.

Uncomfortable at first, the more time Adachi spends with Kurosawa, the more he begins to appreciate his feelings.

While testing out his filming camera one night, Kaito is blown off the bridge by a streak of blue light. As he is falling, the last thing he remembers is a hand, grabbing his own.

When he wakes up, he finds himself mysteriously back in his room, dazed but uninjured.

As Kaito proceeds with his summer break, deciding to make a movie with his friends, he takes an interest the new upperclassman wandering the town, Ichika Takatsuki, and she ends up invited to join them.

Swearing off music after a certain incident, euphonist Kumiko enter high school looking for a fresh start.

However, it turns out she is surrounded by people with a passion for instruments that end up dragging her into a band aiming for nationals, and not a very good band at that.

Haruka Nanase has a passion for swimming that led him to compete and win a tournament in elementary school with his friends.

Years later, they reunite as high schools students, and while Haruka and three friends decide to form a swim club, his fourth friend, Rin, attends another school in order to surpass Haruka in skill.

He has also made it clear he has no interest in being friends again.

After high school student Masaki Takahashi has the shocking first meeting with novelist Akihiko Usami after catching him fondling his older brother in his home, somehow this perverted boy’s love author became his private tutor.

Elsewhere, Hiroki Kamijou, a university literature teacher, is grieving his failed romance. However, he has a clandestine meeting with Nowaki Kusama who is hoping to get help on an upcoming exam. After begrudgingly agreeing to help Nowaki, Hiroki feels himself getting even closer to the student.

At the same time, wealthy teenager Shinobu Takatsuki discovers that his sister has divorced You Miyagi – and he swoops in to ask him out! Shinobui had been in love with You since he saved him from a robbery three years prior. As You does not feel the same way, he attempts to scare the boy off.

These are the complex tales of three whirlwind romances.

Masaki Fujiyoshi is an omega, a secondary gender that allows one to give birth regardless of if they are male or female. While he struggled with the discrimination that omegas face from alphas, he has been able to accept the feelings of his loving husband Hiromu and settle into domesticity with their son, Hikari.

Moving away from a discriminating neighborhood that made life miserable for Masaki, the small family settles into a quiet new neighborhood just before Hikari’s second birthday. Together, they form meaningful bonds with their neighbors and new friends. However, old problems always have a way of following them to new places.

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.