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
- TV (13 eps)
- 2008
- Winter 2008
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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add recBoth 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.
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.
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.
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.
I''s Pure
Alt titles: Aizu Pure
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 to 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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add recboth 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.
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.
Kare Kano
Alt titles: His and Her Circumstances
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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Ichigo 100%
- TV (12 eps)
- 2005
Manaka Junpei is an average guy who has only two dreams in life: to become a filmmaker and to find the girl of his dreams. Luckily for him, after a chance encounter on the roof of the school, he has a lead on the girl! She was wearing strawberry panties. Unfortunately, he can't figure out which one of the five girls chasing him it was; but he gets plenty of chances to find out the color-of-the-day in his Cinderella search for his one true love!
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Lovely Complex
- TV (24 eps)
- 2007
Lovely Complex is a story of a boy and a girl. The girl, Koizumi Risa, is much taller than the average Japanese girl; and the boy, Atsushi Otani, is much shorter than the average Japanese boy. Due to their immense difference in size and constant bickering with each other, the duo is unwillingly the school’s comic relief. As Risa and Otani continue to provide endless laughter for the masses, their friendship develops; and with that, so does Risa’s feelings for Otani...
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add recI'm usually the type that likes gentle romances with a bit of humor (unlike Peach Girl, for example, which is WAY too intense and frustrating). Kimikiss is such an anime and if you've liked Kimikiss (so far) then you'll definitely like Lovely Complex!
The gentle romance and not-too-intense problems are similar in both series. The romance is there and so is the humour! Well placed humour is very important if you're into this genre so Lovely Complex is definitely worth a try!
