[Top 10] Best Romance Anime for 2020 – Recommendations

Okay okay okay okay, so, I actually really love Kimi no Na Wa. It’s definitely one of my favorite anime films in recent memory – though if we’re talking about Japanese movies in general, that title would go to Confessions (2010). But anyway!

Two people live the most polar opposite lives you could imagine – Mitsuha Miyamizu is a high schooler who lives in rural Japan, dreaming of living in the big city. Meanwhile, Taki Tachibana lives a busy city life in college, as he dreams of becoming an architect.

However, one day, they wake up and find that they’ve switched bodies! As this occurs more and more, they decide they want to learn more about the other, and seek to find each other.

Byousoku 5 Centimeter is actually made by the same director who made Kimi no Na Wa, and is also about a love that’ll never reach.

Takaki Toono and Akari Shinohara were childhood friends, but circumstances tear them apart. Now, they’re promising to keep in touch with each other, but as time passes, they write to one another less and less. However, the memories were still there of their good times.

They still dream of being with one another, though, living their lives half-heartedly.

Hachimitsu Private Academy is an all-girls boarding school, known for their well-disciplined students. However, that’s all about to change. Now, boys are allowed to enroll as well.

Despite this, only five boys have been accepted by the start of the first semester. This, effectively, split the ratio to one boy for every two hundred girls. These five boys try to peep into the girls’ bath, but when they get caught, they’re to be punished for a month in the school’s prison.

Thus, begins their punishment in the Prison School.

A mysterious fire kills the family of Shirou, though he’s adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya. Now, Emiya teaches him the ways of magic.

However, years after Kiritsugu’s death, Shirou’s cleaning at school, when he gets into a deadly fight between two superhumans, called Servants. Shirou gets hit by a life-threatening injury, yet somehow he manages to survive and call a Servant of his own, Saber.

Now, they must participate in the fifth Holy Grail War.

After a violent accident, Banri Tada is struck with a terrible case of amnesia. His hometown and past is all but forgotten now. However, when he befriends someone named Mitsuo Yanagisawa, he decides to live a new life and start law school. But when a girl named Kouko Kaga barges into his life, he realizes that things are never going to be the same again…

One day, the sun abruptly disappeared. Arata Kasuga’s town was destroyed, and everyone inhabiting it disappeared without a trace. However, all is not lost – using a strange grimoire, Arata’s world is reconstructed. However, to investigate this strange phenomenon, Lilith Asami appears before him, and his world is destroyed.

He’s given two options – hand over the book, or die. However, there is a third option: enroll in the magic school Royal Biblia Academy. Arata, of course, chooses the third option.

Rito Yuuki has yet to profess his love for Haruna Sairenji – his classmate, who he’s had a crush on for years. However, things get a little weird when a girl crashes down on him. As it turns out, that girl turns out to be the princess of an alien empire. However, she’s more than willing to marry the average Rito so that she doesn’t have to go through a political marriage.

To LOVE-Ru goes through Rito’s bizarre life, trying to deal with an average crush and extraordinary girl who wants to marry him.

Naho Takamiya isn’t really having a good first day of high school. However, one day, when she wakes up late, she finds a strange letter. As it turns out, though, the letter is written by herself – ten years in the future!

The letter details that Naho’s life is filled with regrets, and that she hopes that her younger self can change those mistakes. Now, with this letter, she has to try and change her present, before she can live the unsatisfactory life that her 26 year old self suffers through! That includes keeping a close eye on the new transfer student, Kakeru Naruse.

Mei Tachibana knows that friends only let you down. Ever since was (wrongfully) blamed for the death of a class pet by her classmates, she’s stayed away from people so that she doesn’t hurt anything again. However, after a misunderstanding in high school, that all changes drastically. As such, she ends up getting closer to the most popular student, Yamato Kurosawa.

Many twists and turns await Mei’s love life at this point!

Can computers ever love humans, even if they become more similar in appearance?

Hideki Motosuwa is studying to get into college. He can barely even afford the basics, let alone the newest fad: the Persocom. They’re personal computers that look exactly like human beings. However, one day, he finds a broken down Persocom, who can only say Chii. Her mind can’t download information from the cloud, so Hideki starts teaching her about life the old-school way.

I hope you all enjoyed this article! Have you seen any of these anime? Let me know in the comments down below! Personally, I’ve only seen Kimi no Na Wa myself. In the meantime, though, I’m Sara Ann, and I’ll be seeing you in the next article!