40 Romance Anime Where They Live Together

Unable to resist taking in abandoned kittens, and amassing quite a collection of them, Sorata Kanda is forced to move to Suimei High School’s infamous Sakura Hall. This dorm is used to house all the misfit students that don’t quite fit in the regular housing.

There, Sorata meets an array of different oddballs that inspire him to work towards getting back into the regular dorms and away from them. However, when a new transfer student moves in, he meets the incredible artist, Shiina Mashiro.

While talented, she is completely incapable of taking care of herself, and so, Sorata brings her into his care and his strange days truly begin.

Ever since his parents died, Ryo has been living alone with his sister. However, while they are living happily, they become entangled in a secret government project.

In order to combat the declining birth rates, the government is testing a program that arranges marriages for young people. Coming home late one night, he walks in to his new wife Shizuka and a whole slew of government bodyguards. While Ryo is unwilling to go along with things, Shizuka proves to be more enthusiastic.

Matsumaru is a salaryman that got stood up by his colleague on a date. As he was about to toss his movie tickets, a cute girl tells him not to and goes on the date with him instead.

While taking her home, it turns out that they live in the same area. It also turns out her apartment caught fire.

With nowhere else to stay, he invites her to stay at his place.

When their parents married, Masamune Izumi was thrilled to have a new adorable little sister. However, after their parents died, his little sister Sagiri became a shut-in. Now her only caretaker, Masamune supports them as a light novel author.

However, one day he finds out that the mysterious illustrator Eromanga-sensei that draws the lewd covers for his light novel series is actually his reclusive sister.

When Tooru Honda finds herself homeless, she decides to live in a tent in the wilderness. However, one day she is discovered by a classmate, Yuki Souma, and invited to come live in his house.

From there she gets to know many members of the Souma family, not realizing that they all are inflicted by a curse. When they hug the opposite gender, they turn into an animal from the Chinese zodiac.

Kotoko Aihara finally works up the nerve to confess to her crush, only to be coldly shot down. Her bad luck continues when her new house is crumbled to the ground by an earthquake.

While her father gets an offer from a friend to come live with them, her bad luck continues on when that family turns out to be her crush that just crushed her long-hidden love for him into the dirt.

Through the Goddess Help Hotline, humans can call to have their wish granted. However, Keiichi, a college student, accidentally calls and summons Belldandy.

In a joke he wishes that she would stay with him forever. Now, this young man finds himself living alone with a goddess.

Ririchiyo Shirakiin is the sheltered daughter of a rich family, but she has been dependent her entire life. However, while she seeks to change that, she has a sharp tongue that needs minding. As such, she moves into a high security apartment complex whose residents are not only strange, but half demon as well.

She also finds herself in the company of her new secret service agent, Soushi. He is a man who is handsome, quiet, and creepily submissive. All these factors combined will make sure her high school life is not a dull one.

On Kobeni Yonomori’s 16^th birthday, it is discovered that her grandfather arranged for her to marry the mysterious Hakuya Mitsumine.

Shocked, she now finds herself living with her future husband, his deceptive little sister, and her own perverted older sister. However, Kobeni takes it in stride, adjusting to her new life and trying to learn more about the new additions.

Miki is a simple high school girl, but her life becomes much more complicated when her parents decide to divorce after a holiday.

Even more shocking, they both are remarrying in what appears to be a partner swap with a couple they met on holiday. While Miki is thrown for a loop by this, she develops an instant crush on the other couple’s son, Yuu.

Kazunari Usa is starting high school and finally talked his parents into letting him live alone.

Excited for his new life, he moves into the Kawai Complex boarding house, only to find his new roommate a complete BSDM weirdo. Being put off by the eccentricity of it all, he is on his way to leave when he runs into his senior in high school, Ritsu Kawai, who also lives there.

The sheer presence of this cool beauty talks him into giving life in this new house a try.

Seiji is a legend at his high school. With a single punch he can take down anyone with his right hand. However, he is desperate for a girlfriend. His reputation keeps getting him shot down.

Then, one day, he wakes up to discover that his right hand has turned into a miniature of a girl from his class, Midori. Now with a living small girl in place of his hand, Seiji is kind of at a loss.

Several selected members from Earth were chosen and sent to other worlds. Only about half of them returned, with many who did bringing back several trinkets.

For Akatsuki, what he brought back was not a trinket, but the daughter of the demon lord he defeated.

After making a childhood promise with a girl who moved away, Keitaro is dedicated to getting into the prestigious Tokyo University. Unfortunately, he is hopelessly stuck failing his entrance exams.

In order to continue trying, he moves out of his parent’s house into his grandmother’s inn to work as a manager. However, what he doesn’t know is that her hot springs inn is also an all-girls dorm.

Tomoya Okazaki is a delinquent who finds everything dull and believes he will never amount to anything. That is, until a girl named Nagisa catches his eye one day on his way to school.

Suddenly, Tomoya begins to notice Nagisa more and more. She is sickly and weak, but she always tries her best in order to follow her dream of reviving the school’s drama club. Claiming he has nothing better to do, he decides to help Nagisa, and along the way ends up helping several other girls and potential drama club members.

However, as he learns more about the girls and helps them overcome their problems, he might just be able to overcome his own as well.

With his parents abroad, Kimihito Kurusu is living the quiet alone life. Or rather, he was until an incompetent interspecies exchange coordinator made him the caretakers of a Lamia named Miia.

With a supernatural creature now living in his house, it serves to not only break up his peace, but attract other supernatural beings as well.

Hayato Izumi is the perfect respectable student and is running for student council president. However, after his competition, Ui Wakana, promises sex education and free condoms, she wins by a landslide.

Still sore about his loss, things become even more complicated when Ui moves in with him.

Apparently their parents, the filthy lushes that they are, made a drunken promise to have their kids marry each other. Can he keep their life a secret and the student council in line at the same time?

Yuragi-sou was once a hot springs inn, but is now a boarding house that only has a few residents.

Rumor has it that the boarding house is haunted, and this rumor has attracted a homeless psychic that is hoping to exorcise the ghost in order for an affordable place to stay.

However, he discovers that it is not a malicious ghost, but a ghost named Yuuna that all the other residents can see as well.

After loving her for years, Naoya Mukai finally confesses his love to his childhood friend, Saki. However, just as he settles into dating her, a girl named Nagisa comes out of the woodwork and confesses her secret love for him.

Instead of shooting her down, he is charmed by her feelings, and suggests to both her and Saki that he date both of them.

After being ridiculed for his strange name, Nasa, like the space agency, decides he will become a man even greater than the starry sky.

However, one night, that all changes when he sees a beautiful girl. She ends up saving him from being fatally hit by a truck while crossing the street to talk to her. Having chased her down despite his serious injuries, he asks her out.

She says she will go out with him if they marry. He agrees, and passes out.

Waking up to find her gone, he abandons his ambitions until one day when she shows up with their marriage registration.

Office worker Yoshida finally worked up the courage to ask his boss out, only for her to swiftly reject him. Getting completely drunk, he sees a high school girl sitting outside by herself late at night.

After discovering that she was a runaway, he ends up taking her home while constantly shutting down her efforts to pay for her stay with her body.

After discovering that she traveled for six months from Hokkaido trading sexual favors for what she needed, he puts her to work cooking and cleaning instead so she can have a place to stay.

Twins Haruka and Sora Kasugano are coming back to a town filled with memories for them.

After their parents died in a horrible traffic accident, the twins want to start over peacefully at their grandfather’s house.

However, it is their own suppressed memories and emotions that come back to haunt them.

In order to make a statue for school, Jin carves a piece of an old sacred tree. When he takes it outside, it gathers earth and becomes a girl.

This girl, who was the guardian deity of the tree, is pissed it was cut down. She invites herself to stay in his home and upends Jin’s life.

One day, Basara’s father brings home two beautiful girls and introduces them as his new siblings.

However, it isn’t long before he learns that these two girls are actually demons. More specifically, the former demon lord’s only daughter and her succubus servant. Of course, Basara himself is a former member of Heroes, an organization sworn to fight demons.

However, after developing feelings for them, he decides to protect his new sisters instead.

After his father relocated, Koutarou Satomi moves into the Corona House’s Room 106 because it is cheap.

However, after wandering into a cave at his part-time job, he finds his apartment invaded with mystical creatures that all lay claim on it.

Natsuo is in love with his teacher Hina. In order to try and forget his feelings, he goes to a mixer and meets a girl named Rui.

Oddly enough, she asks him to do her a favor – to have sex with her. He does so, but soon he is faced with a unique problem.

His father has remarried and he now has two new stepsisters that he knows too well – Rui and Hina.

In middle school, two bookish kids met in the library, bonding over books, and eventually dating. However, as time went on, the small annoyances began to add up, and so Mizuto Irido and Yume Ayai ended up breaking their relationship off.

Getting ready to move onto high school and move on with their lives, a wrench was thrown in their new separate lives when it turns out that their parents had married and they are now step-siblings living in the same house and going to the same school.

As they try to regard each other as siblings, their feelings are proving hard to move past.

Michishio Nagasumi is living a normal life when he almost drowns on summer vacation. He is rescued by, of all things, a beautiful mermaid.

Unfortunately, she is from a yakuza family that states if a human sees a mermaid, either the human or the mermaid must die.

To save her life, Michishio agrees to marry the mermaid and become part of this crazy family.

Mahiro Yasaka is just a normal high school student until he is attacked by a monster one day. Just when all hope seems lost, he is saved by a silver-haired girl named Nyaruko who claims to be the deity Nyarlathotep, of the Cthulhu Mythos.

She claims that the creature that attacked him is an alien called the Nightguard that was trying to abduct him.

While all that is pretty hard to swallow, it seems Nyaruko has also fallen madly in love with him.

Maiku Kamishiro has a past that is a mystery to him. His only clue on his family is a photograph of a boy and a girl playing in a pool as children. In an effort to learn more, he moves into his old house.

One day, two girls show up, both with the same photo, claiming to be his twin. In an effort to find out who is the real twin, he lets both girls move in.

After being abandoned by her family, Chise Hatori is a 16-year-old teenager without hope. In order to not have to worry about herself, she sells herself to slavers, only to be purchased by Magus Elias Ainsworth.

There she is told she will become his apprentice and, in the future, his bride. Together they work together to build a relationship and work to control her own magus powers that will eventually result in her early death.

Within the realms of the Sun Kingdom, it never rains. However, in the Principality of the Rain, the women of the family possess the ability to call upon the rain. So when the Sun King, recent conqueror of the world, Livius I decides to take a wife, it is only natural to pick one of the four princesses from the Principality of the Rain.

Nike Remarcier is the youngest and lost a game to her sisters, so she was chosen to go. Frustrated at her lot, she journeys to the kingdom and is surprised to find that the Sun King is not as scary as they say, and also that he is just a boy.

As an adult, Kyouya Hashiba left his office job to pursue a career in the video game industry. However, although he tried every role, nothing has worked out. Even with the bright potential of a popular game he got a job on after giving up, the division closes down abruptly.

Now moving back in with his parents, he wishes he had gone to the arts university he had gotten into instead of the safer business university he chose so that perhaps he could have trained with the similarly aged Platinum Generation of hit game makers.

Upon falling asleep one night, he wakes up as a high school graduate again getting ready to make his choice on which university to attend.

Kyousuke has a smart, cute, and extremely bratty little sister who hates him. While they got along when they were young, they grew apart as they got older.

One day when he finds an anime DVD he doesn’t recognize in his house.

He opens it up only to discover eroge inside. Later, he finds out it belongs to his sister, who is a super secret otaku.

Shinichirou is living the dream by living with his crush. However, while she is bright and popular at school, she is cold and distant at home.

As he tries to find the key to unlocking her heart, he has a run in with several other girls that are dealing with their own feelings.

After their home burns down and he is abandoned by his father, Koushi Nagumo wanders homeless until he collapses on the street.

He is found by a woman named Mineru and taken to a female dormitory. Koushi discovers that Mineru is the temporary manager there, and she invites him to be the permanent dorm mother to the problematic female residents.

Homeless and in debt, high schooler Nanami Momozono thinks things are looking up when she rescues a man and he offers to let her stay at his home. She soon discovers that his home is a rundown shrine.

Trying to leave, she is mistaken for the man she saved – the man that is also the land god of the shrine, Mikage.

Finding out she was tricked into being a god and not wanting to be homeless, Nanami tries to embrace her new divine duties, but has to deal with a hot-headed fox familiar to keep things running smoothly.

After being cursed by a witch as a child, any living thing that the young duke touches will wither and die. Feared by his mother, he is sent to live in a mansion in the woods. While secluded, he is not entirely alone. He was accompanied by his aging butler Rob as well as his maid, Alice.

Despite not being able to touch him, Alice enjoys teasing the young lord and her lack of fear allows them to grow closer, eventually spurring the duke’s desire to lift his curse.