Yaoi, Yuri, Shounen ai, Shoujo ai, and transgender – these LGBT anime recommendations cover same-sex romances and gender identity in all their many forms.
Okuto Nakamura is a timid student who, after spotting him from a distance at his entrance ceremony, fell in love with his jovial classmate Aiki Hirose. Unfortunately, due to Nakamura’s awkward social skills, his many attempts to befriend his crush have failed spectacularly. Yet, while friendship sometimes seems like a distant dream, Nakamura’s determined attempts […]
A young country girl named Flum was chosen by the god Origin to become part of the hero’s party to fight the demon scourge. However, her one skill, Reversal, seems to have no practical use. The party’s sage, seeing Flum’s weakness, finds her to be a burden, eventually going behind the party’s back to sell
After a car crash that sent her family careening into the ocean in a burning car, Hinako, the only survivor, is left forever adrift wishing she had died with her family. While her best friend Miko tries to keep her spirits up, all Hinako can think of is death and despair. One day, Hinako is
Renako Amaori is determined to make her high school debut and leave her lonely, awkward middle school life behind. When she meets the confident and glamorous Mai Ouzuka on her first day and they have an immediate connection, she begins to think her life has finally begun. Then Mai confesses her love for her and
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Yuu Yuurani has always been a good girl—helping out around the house, getting good grades, and following all the rules. However, the good girl life has seen her go widely unnoticed by her crush, Atori Mizutori. As Atori is the Public Decency Officer at their school, Yuu formulates a daring plan—to become a bad girl
Everyone talks about yuri bait because it is so much more prevalent in anime, but just because the girls and all the subtext that lewd hand-holding and playful pecks on the cheek create get more of the focus doesn’t mean the other end of the queer gender equality spectrum doesn’t happen at all in anime.
Despite his mother’s disapproval of his love for cute things and dressing in cute clothes, Makoto Hanaoka secretly dresses like a girl at his high school. While his days are mostly peaceful as he successfully keeps his secret school life from his mother, the lively freshman Saki Aoi throws his world into chaos when she
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
After watching the band performance of an older student named Yoru Asanagi, Himari Kino falls in love. After the show, Himari confesses her love to Yoru, who is inexperienced in romance. After mulling it over, Yoru decides to return her feelings, but it turns out that Himari was in love with Yoru’s music rather than
Anime has always been, if we are all being honest, a bit gay. However, for the longest time when an anime was being about LGBT stories, it was all about the LGBT elements, as if they can’t be in any other type of story as characters. It was either full gay or no gay for
