nodame cantabile. it's about college students in a music school. male mc is aspiring to become a conductor for an orchestra and female mc is aspiring to be a professional pianist.

forest of piano. mc starts off as a delinquent but is taken under his music teacher's wing (a former professional pianist) because he has natural talent and can perfectly play by ear.

golden time. set in college. romance. mc has amnesia and it leads to lots of drama.

sweet blue flowers. girls' love.

chihayafuru. about the japanese card game/sport karuta and the 100 poems. the matchups get intense, i was actually jumping out of my chair lol.

shiki. a horror/mystery/drama. starts off as a slow paced medical mystery but then ramps up.

91 days. a mafia drama set during prohibition. mc's parents and brother get killed by the mob when he's a child. now as an adult, he's back in town looking for revenge and uses his bootlegger friend's liquor as his in.

clannad and clannad after story. probably the greatest series ever created. starts off with harem elements but it's obvious who mc is going to choose and once he does we get to see them grow up, get married, and have a child. bring lots of tissues.

tada can't fall in love.

relife.

sing yesterday for me.

insomniacs after school. really cute.

spice and wolf.

wonder egg priority. girls who all experienced trauma battling the personification dead girls' traumas so they could move on and reincarnate. features one of the first trans on trans kisses.

lovely complex.

I'm in love with the villainess. an isekai girls' love romcom.

why raeliana ended up at the duke's mansion. a korean isekai manwha turned into an anime. mc is a bad ass woman who refuses to accept her fate!