Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2000 - 2001

Six years have passed since Manami moved to Myanmar with her father, leaving her two best friends Masaki and Naori behind. Though love between Manami and Masaki once seemed probable, a newfound relationship with Naori has since blossomed. Now, in the present, Manami has returned, ready to pick up where things left off. Unfortunately, things become even more complicated when the jewel Manami brought back with her is found out to contain a vengeful spirit. Will love save the day?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1988

Kyosuke, Madoka and Hikaru are growing up and moving on; two headed for college, the third for the stage. This movie, which is a follow-up to the plot of the classic 80's series, details how each of the characters is coming to grips with their feelings for each other and where they are headed in their future. Unique storytelling wraps around the plot to give you a deeper understanding of the situation. An insightful movie that tugs at the heart strings, it serves to remind you that youth doesn't last forever.

• Web (1 ep)
• 2005

One day, at the beginning of his second semester, Makoto Itou fell for a girl he saw on the train; but as he's too nervous to approach her, the teenager is content with watching her from afar. However, following a seating change in class, Makoto meets Sekai, who soon learns of his secret crush. After teasing him for a while, the energetic teen decides to help Makoto in his romance by introducing him to the girl of his dreams, Kotonoha...

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2015

When Alice transfers to a new middle school, she hears an urban legend about a student who disappeared the previous year and is suspected to have been killed by his fellow students. Even worse, Alice discovers that she lives next door to his former house, a supposedly haunted home now occupied by a reclusive classmate named Hana. Hana and Alice decide to investigate this "murder case" together, but soon find their lack of detective skills may be an obstacle...

• TV (13 eps)
• 2007

Morimiya Yorito is a normal student who has an abnormal obsession for the sky. One day, he meets a strange girl named Shihou Matsuri who shares his interest, but as fate may have it, she isn't a human; Matsuri is a Yaka -- a "woe of the night" -- who is immortal and cannot stand the sunlight. A strange man is chasing Matsuri, to use her powers, so Yorito decides to help her hide. What are the strange man's plans, and what secrets does Yorito's sister hide?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1962

Life unfolds in the most unexpected places. Story of a Street Corner follows the bustling activities of a street corner, but not the ones you would expect. A hungry mouse, a moth desperately seeking the food caught in a spider’s web, and a love triangle unfolding between the posters lining the street are all depicted with an original musical score as the only sound.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2014

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1996

As part of a two-day school fair, all the clubs at Yazawa Arts Academy are running booths to help attract new members. Akindo and its quirky members have pulled out all the stops to try and make themselves known, but when Tsutomu and Body-ko attract a lot of admirers to their booth, Mikako's jealousy explodes and casts a pall over the event...

• TV (12 eps)
• 2017

For a group of high school seniors, a chance reunion with a transfer student will change the course of their final year. Eita Izumi has come back to his hometown after four years and encounters some unlikely acquaintances: Haruto Soma, Eita's childhood friend; Ena Komiya, the photography student who witnesses Eita and Haruto's reunion; Mio Natsume, whose feelings for her middle school crush still linger; and Hazuki Morikawa, a girl who seems uninterested in romantic relationships.

• TV (13 eps)
• 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.