Haai Step Jun - Recommendations

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2019

Shy Misuzu Moritani is a totally average girl — except for her totally out-of-this-world ability to stop time for three minutes a day! Most people are affected by her power, but Misuzu soon learns her abilities have no effect on her school’s idol, Haruka Murakami, when she’s caught sneaking a peek under her skirt. Against all odds, a relationship blossoms from this compromising situation, one as poignant and as fleeting as the three minutes Misuzu spends each day in frozen time.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2012

The story revolves around Tsubaki Akira, who one day notices the anti-social transfer student Urabe Mikoto drooling on her desk while she is sleeping, and he tastes it. Eventually the two begin to date and get to know each other better.

• TV

The manga centers on Hana Tabata, a girl who constantly deprecates herself, considers herself ugly, and keeps only to herself. She spends her time taking care of the flowers that decorate her classroom — but is careful to do it only in the morning when nobody is around, as she is afraid of being laughed at for being an "uggo who takes care of pretty flowers." But one day, the class' most popular guy Ueno sees her taking care of the flowers.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2009 - 2010

Short, athletic Hikaru Suzuki has just started his first year at junior high school, and things couldn’t be more eventful. He’s reunited with his sisterly childhood friend Chihiro Itou and had a glance at the wealthy, egotistical other Suzuki named Shinobu. However, most importantly, Hikaru’s first day of school yields another life-changing encounter: his first meeting with the shy would-be actress Sayaka Hoshino…

• TV
• 2023

With the new school year comes a new homeroom, new classmates, and a new desk for the timid Komura. But any trepidation he might've felt quickly dissipates when he catches sight of Mie, his new seat neighbor. Apt to quietly blurt out the most random things, the quirky Mie wears thick glasses that accentuate her lovely eyes, making Komura’s heart skip a beat! Unfortunately, Mie is pathologically forgetful and can never seem to remember to bring her glasses to class. It's not all bad, though! Her resulting squinty, mean-girl face sends Komura’s heart into overdrive too! While Komura is keen to help out and share his textbooks with Mie, will his heart give out from the almost daily strain of being up close and personal with his crush?!

• TV
• 2023

Ichikawa Kyotaro, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school’s social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates’ peaceful lives and pining after Anna Yamada, the class idol. But Kyotaro’s not nearly the troubled teen he pretends to be...and it turns out Anna’s a bit odd herself!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2003

Nanaka Kirisato is a serious 17-year-old girl whose main goal in life is to study hard and grow up quickly. She doesn't have any friends, except for Nenji, whom she has known since her childhood. Although she constantly lectures him about his immaturity and fighting, he is the only one that stays by her side. One day after an argument with Nenji, Nanaka falls down a flight of stairs causing her to lose eleven years of her memories. Now she believes that she is a 6-year-old girl! Nenji decides to protect Nanaka by keeping her condition a secret so she can continue attending school and lead a normal life. With Nanaka’s childish personality and her unstable medical condition, how long will Nenji and Nanaka be able to keep up this charade?

• TV (95 eps)
• 1982 - 1984

Short, assertive Shunsuke is fed up with femininity. He grew up surrounded by mostly female students and teachers, he has numerous sisters, and his family even runs a lingerie shop. So when he chose to transfer to Sunshine Academy, an all-male school, Shunsuke was dismayed to discover that it recently became co-ed. To make matters worse, he's quickly befriended by Natsumi, a towering yet kind girl who takes an immediate liking to the boy. With his confident and often brash attitude causing misunderstandings with classmates and teachers alike, Shunsuke's eventful life at Sunshine Academy has just begun!

• OVA (5 eps)
• 2001 - 2003

Chitose Hitotose is an orphaned high school student who lives with five female teachers that double as mother figures for him. As he attempts to live a normal life, he must keep his unique home situation secret from interested outsiders such as his class president, Fumitsuki Nanakorobi. As if that weren't enough, he must withstand comical abuse at the hands of his well-intentioned but highly eccentric "teacher mamas." Included in Chitose's adventures: surviving a "motherly affections" contest to determine who gets to act as his mother at school conferences, going to the beach, sorting out his feelings for his childhood friend, practicing a song for a school event, and being possessed by a mischievous spirit.

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2004

Chitose Hitotose’s life has never been more full (of "mamas"), what more could he want? But when the principal’s introduction of an "idea box" results in an older school building to be torn down for a library, Mutsuki-mama loses all focus. At a loss of how to help, the "mamas" turn to Chitose to discover the problem and what he finds is a big shock: the decrepit school building houses the memory of Mutsuki’s first love!