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Kimikiss Pure Rouge

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It's spring, and love is in the air! Sanada Kouichi wakes up one morning to find a strange girl barging into his house and making herself at home. Only after his friend, Aihara Kazuki, shows up later does he recognize the girl as their childhood friend Mizusawa Mao, who has been living overseas for the past two years. With her parents still overseas, Mao will be living with Kouichi and attending high school with him and Kazuki. The three of them will rely on each other to overcome their challenges with school, friendship, and of course love!

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True Tears

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Shinichiro Nakagami is an everyday high school student, with the exception of having his beautiful and athletic childhood friend Hiromi Yuasa living in his household after the death of her parents. Unfortunately, their relationship is cold at best - Shinichiro can tell that she is suffering, but she acts coldly and distant from her foster family and so he is unable to help ease her sadness. His family is also forcing him to practice a traditional Japanese dance that does not interest him, adding to his frustration. On top of that, he is cursed to misfortune by another girl in school, the eccentric Noe Isurugi. Shinichiro juggles all of these problems on a day-to-day basis as he learns about love and the sadness of those around him.

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littlekitty

Both Kimikiss and True Tears thematically center around being honest with your feelings and discovering who you truly love. With interesting characters, emotionally engaging plots, and plenty of twists along the way, both are excellent romance series. Kimikiss has more of a "slice of life" approach, which TT is more dramatic.

Also, True Tears and Kimikiss uniquely feature both male and female protagonists, so both guys and girls will be able identify with these series.

dazn01

both series deal with some more realistic romances, of people falling in love then realizing different feelings. both give off a similar feel and both use dramatic cliff hangers well.

wolfangel87

The feelings of the main characters are the theme of True Tears and Kimikiss Pure Rouge. The emotional struggle of the high school ambiance is seen throughout each in a highly dramatic plot. There is a struggle with the main characters to determine to themselves what they are really looking for and what with their lives. The characters are also so well developed in each that they are easy to identify with.

ZetaAspect

KimiKiss and True Tears are both excellent romantic dramas.  Although they have distinct plots, they are similar in basic execution.  Both stick to the drama, avoid fanservice, and stay relevant, all of which combine to generate unusually good overall pacing.  Also, the drama in both is generated by love triangles, as opposed to harems.  Furthermore, both shows share in their avoidance of using idiocy and/or incredible foolishness as driving forces in their stories; the leads in both shows consistently act in understandable ways, greatly contributing to the plausibility factor.  They do have their differences, of course.  KimiKiss follows a much larger cast over a longer span of episodes, achieving a broader scope than True Tears while still properly developing the leads.  True Tears, on the other hand, chooses to focus intently on merely three characters and develops them to an impressive degree.  In the end, though, what matters is that both KimiKiss and True Tears are tasteful romantic dramas with understandable characters and relationships. 

Also, it might be of some value to mention that both shows involve childhood friends of opposite sexes living in one house (that of the primary male lead).  Each show handles this aspect in a very different manner, however.

naceale

Similar feelings when you are watching them.

When I watched True Tears, I felt that  every girl was absolutely splendid, and I felt a quite sad because, of course, only one of them would be able to get the boy who she loved. With Kimikiss I have felt exactly the same.

In both animes,you feel a quite sad about one of the girls because at the end you was in love with both of them!; but at the same time, you feel a injection of courage because that girl continues her life with cheerfulness. They are a real teaching about how to behave when you suffer because of love.

And on the other hand, you feel also very happy because of the girl whose love won, she is worth a fortune as well!

At first, Kimikiss seems very different from True Tears, but when you move forward the anime, you can see the similarities.

ukato

Both tell the storys of love between highschool students, and portray how difficult it actually is, to be loved and love, more than one person at the same time.

Kimikiss is a more lighthearted and comedic series, that steadily builds up the touching scenes; whereas True Tears takes a much more deep and dramatic approach of illustrating the love polygons that exist between the characters.

I (almost) cried multiple times in both series, so i think that if you enjoy romance-dramas then you will sure love both of these wonderfully moving stories.

My personal preference is Kimikiss because i found it more "enjoyable", but i feel that True Tears is a "better" series because of its deeper portrayal of emotions, if u can compare them like that.

tl;dr

- YOU SHOULD WATCH THESE!! THEY ARE BOTH AWESOME ROMANCE SERIES!!! XD

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien

Alt titles: Rumbling Hearts

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Narumi Takayuki is a normal high school student with a crush on Mitsuki, the school's swim star -- that is, until he receives a profession of love from his friend Haruka. But amidst the beautiful budding relationship, tragedy strikes when an accident occurs, turning Narumi’s life upside-down. Kimi ga Nozomu Eien is a compelling drama about one man, and the choices he must make for love.

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TheObjectSteve

On both this Anime shows Love between different girls, the chemistry of changing feelings, always a nice guy (who ofc is WAY to nice haha) and the Unique way of loving. Very very good animes - I highly recommend it as a Romance - Comedy - Drama - School life ( F A N )

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Kimikiss other than Kimi ga Nozomu Eien features multiple lovestorys at once. You get in both anime good love storys but Kimikiss is more centered around comedy than Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. I wouldn't say Kimikiss is without moments of tragedy but it certenly doesn't keep up with KgNE.

I''s Pure

Alt titles: Aizu Pure

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It's Christmas Eve and Ichitaka, with his friend Yasuo, await a double date. While waiting for Iori and Nami, Ichitaka reminisces about his experience with his life-long crush Iori. There were many opportunities to finally confess his love to Iori, especially the time when the two were selected to arrange the freshman entrance ceremony; but Ichitaka was either too shy or often misunderstood. The biggest misunderstanding of all was when Ichitaka's childhood friend, Itsuki came to live in Ichitaka's home all the way from the United States...

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TheVampireLastat

both of these animes are romance,drama, and slice of life animes. In both,there is a sorta shy guy with the hots for a girl who also likes him,but there love is going un realised to eachouther. Un anounced to the main charicter his child hood friend shows up and lives with him. You can guess what happens after if you have watched one of these shows. There are a bunch of simularities but i wont go into detail. Is pure is alot more sadder, and kimikiss has more comady. i liked both shows so i guess you may too.

wolfangel87

I’s Pure and Kimikiss Pure Rouge have same kind of feel to them in plot and character development. The stories deal with a high school setting of the students trying to deal with issues faced in a high hormone charged atmosphere. Interestingly enough they also both deal with a film setting involving the main characters.

Hatsukoi Limited

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Ayumi, Kei, Koyoi, Rika and Nao are five middle school friends whose hot topic of conversation is, as always, love. Ayumi dreams of having a boy confess to her and can't understand the idea that receiving unwanted confessions can be troublesome. She even believes that she will happily accept any guy who approaches her - that is, until she receives a love letter from Misao, a large, delinquent high school boy whose very presence makes small children cry! Not wanting to date him but too scared to reject him, Ayumi has no idea what to do, especially when Misao, now nicknamed Beast-kun by the girls, begins following her to and from school. To make matters worse, Ayumi then falls for Mamoru, a boy in her class who is Beast-kun's brother! With plenty of experiences in life and love left ahead, will the girls retain their naive beliefs, or is it time to shake off that brother complex and realize that appearances aren't everything?

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xkub4

Those two animes don't focus on story of one character, but on few. Action goes on in school, there is love triangle. Similar set of characters, similar art, similar feeling, same studio.

These animes are really similar, so if you enjoyed kimikiss/hatsukoi, you'll also enjoy other one of them.

naceale

Both of them are about first love, with several interlaced love stories.

The expression 'uncontrollable feelings' is very important in both of them, it is like the summary of the complete series.

Main characters are high-school girls in both animes.

Differences:- Hatsukoi is much more echhi, KimiKiss is mainly romantic- Hatsukoi is more comedy

Kare Kano

Alt titles: His and Her Circumstances

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Yukino had it all. Brilliant, athletic, popular and pretty, she was the perfect school girl with many friends and admirers. But then one fateful day she met her match: a handsome young man named Arima. Now, not only is he beating her at her own game, she's becoming more and more dismayed to learn that she's developing her first real feelings of romance. Can Yukino maintain her model student appearance, or will love ruin all her plans?

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pokopori

In both Kimikiss and Kare Kano, the main characters hide behind masks and in turn, must discover each others' true selves. Both series are light-hearted romances and are definitely relaxing watches. Give one a go if you liked the other!