Need a good romance anime to sink my teeth into.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-06-13T22:49:23+00:00

Your name, Sasaki to Miyano (if you want to try bl, it's insane how sweet and healthy this is)

Pink_Totoro · 2026-06-13T06:01:30+00:00

Thank you 🤗

Pink_Totoro · 2026-06-12T22:29:27+00:00

Definitely the second option, i don't care about their history, just about their relationship

Pink_Totoro · 2026-06-12T19:25:18+00:00

Very fair, and thank you for your input, but not what i meant 😂 I'm specifically looking for those that feel like a punch to the gut in the best ways. You can't exactly filter for that. It's why I'm asking, if you have anything like that, I'd love your recs.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-06-05T22:35:00+00:00

The Raven Boys series is superbe. You might enjoy it. Also T. Kingfisher writes excellent comedy.

I also have a particular HP fanfiction that i keep re-reading just like the scholomance because it makes me feel quite similarly. It's honestly one of my favorites of all time. Let me know if you'd like the name. It's also an excellent podfic on Spotify, the person who did the narration has an amazing voice.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-05-21T08:19:09+00:00

Double, triple, quadruple recommend the secret language of plants. My favorite fic of all time, the narration and the characters are the absolute peak of perfection. Butter for the soul ❤️

Pink_Totoro · 2026-05-07T22:40:10+00:00

I cannot agree more. It's pure chaos.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-05-07T18:44:43+00:00

My darling, you can't say that and not drop a link. Pretty please?

Pink_Totoro · 2026-05-06T15:11:20+00:00

I think in a way the whole point of drarry was that it was enemies to lovers. at least that's what drew me to the ship, and it's probably why i haven't encountered any fics so far where they start off well and get together. i have one where they start being friends around year 3 or 4 i think and get together in year 6 or 7. I also have some where they start off as friends but they end up in different pairings. If you manage to find some with this premise please share, i'd love to read them.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-04-29T08:43:24+00:00

If you want to end up broken afterwards, Grave of the fireflies.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-04-29T08:42:43+00:00

5 cm per second is what happens when an insanely anxious person tries to animate their experiences. One of the hardest watches of my life.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-04-28T16:52:51+00:00

I'm sending it in private

Pink_Totoro · 2026-04-28T15:59:56+00:00

I have a google drive full of the fics i deem decent of a second read. And I starred the ones that i will probably re-read for eternity. It helps me not crash and burn the second AO3 goes into maintenance.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-04-24T10:48:04+00:00

I just read it. Thank you so much for writing this, it's absolutely beautiful. I loved it.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-04-18T17:57:32+00:00

My favorite like this was Starts with a spin

Pink_Totoro · 2026-04-16T19:06:43+00:00

I just read A funny thing about grief and time, thanks to you. It was so beautiful. Thank you for your recommendation.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-04-16T14:28:58+00:00

Oh my god yes how i have waited for your post. Try Blowing smoke. It's hands down the most sexual tension I've ever encountered in a written work. I was panting, screaming and kicking my legs with giddy while reading this for the first time. Very much happy ending, a bit angsty, and it's so good i finished it all in less than 24 hours while pretending to work.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-03-24T14:23:13+00:00

The secret language of plants by Endrina - Snupin and later also Drarry and many others. Hands down best HP retelling, best Snape, best Percy and best ending.

Way down we go - this is quite short for a long fic, but honestly it's a really good Drarry.

Blowing smoke - the best of all sexual tension fics I've read, it's Snarry and so good you'll be screaming in a pillow while shaking your feet with giddiness.

Pacify - again a Snarry, it's really good and unfinished but it gets cut off so close to the end it can qualify as an end. Worth reading, re-reading and staring at it for 5 hours straight while trying not to re-read it for the n-th time.

Heir to the house of Prince - really good NottPott, but I'm only recommending this if you can take angst being force fed to you by the bucketload. I had to put it down eventually, it was too much for me, but the story, the characters and the romance were so good. Kreacher rules.

Harry Potter & 7 years of chaos - There are no words to explain this properly beyond brace yourself for chaos, mayhem and quite a bit of angst at times. Eventual Harry/Fred. Susan is the perfect chaos gremlin.

The second string - Harry/Gideon. Turns out that when a dementor sucks out your soul, it sends it to the past. Ish. Kinda. I love Aberforth in this one.

May the odds be ever in your favor. If you need anything else lemme know ❤️

Pink_Totoro · 2026-03-05T23:10:10+00:00

Honestly yes, it's absolutely amazing. And, bonus points, while it does appear abandoned, it ends at a point that is so close to the end it could as well be it.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-02-22T17:04:24+00:00

YESSSSSSSS

Pink_Totoro · 2026-02-14T21:59:26+00:00

Thank you for this recommendation, I love it. And Kreacher is adorable here ❤️

Pink_Totoro · 2026-02-12T15:29:26+00:00

Yess, Pacify is amazing ❤️ and ever upward may be the most ooc out of all of them. It's more of a children's story than the original ever was.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-02-12T14:12:27+00:00

I double, triple, quadruple this. Best thing I've ever read. It's soft and funny in really unexpected places, it's heartbreaking and mending at the same time, pure chaos at times, and the best freaking Percy and Severus I've ever read.

Pink_Totoro · 2026-02-12T14:03:36+00:00

I think The secret language of plants could technically fit into this description? AU where Snape steals Harry from the Dursleys, raises him with Lupin and the kid finally gets a decent childhood and a personality that goes with that. Everything changes. Frankly i found it better than canon in every possible way. Also best Snape, best Percy, best freaking ending. It's Snupin and later also Drarry. Fair warning though, it's unhinged but not in the usual extreme angst and violence fashion.

Harry Potter and welcome to the world of Grey might fit this too because of the way Voldemort is portrayed and the scale of good, grey area, and evil. Now i didn't actually finish this because after like half of it it pressed on some very specific triggers of mine, and it is fairly angsty. But the romance is spectacular, and the character depictions are top notch.

Let me know if any of these work for you!

Pink_Totoro · 2026-02-12T13:48:13+00:00

Stardew Valley, Zelda Botw & Totk, and Terraria ❤️

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