Kanon: Honto no Omoi wa Egao no Mukougawa ni - Recommendations

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2020

Follows Riki Naoe and Kudryavka Noumi at the onset of the summer vacation. The other members of the Little Busters have returned home for the break, leaving Riki and Kudryavka to spend their vacation living at the school dormitories. However, the male dormitory is undergoing renovations due to a problem with the plumbing, leaving Riki without a place to stay. As Kudryavka has no roommate, she suggests to Riki that he live with her until the renovation on the male dormitory is finished. Riki and Kudryavka try to keep the other dorm members from finding out since it is against the rules for a boy and girl to share a room.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2013

The Little Busters may have completed their baseball team, but the game isn’t over yet as Riki discovers that they are reliving the same day over and over again. As Riki sets out to unravel the cause of one strange occurrence, he stumbles upon many more as he grows closer to learning the reason behind his narcolepsy and the secrets of the world. But the closer Riki grows to the truth, the further the Little Busters drift apart as the mystery of their world begins to unravel.

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2008

• TV (13 eps)
• 2004

When Makoto was forced to move away from his hometown, he left his childhood friend Minamo a harmonica and a promise: they’d meet again someday and eventually marry. Years later, Makoto and his sister Hinata return to Kazune, the city of supernatural powers. When Makoto hears a mysterious yet familiar harmonica melody being played on the roof of the school, he finds himself reunited with the girl of his all-but-forgotten childhood promise. The three and their friends happily go to school, spend time together, and slowly become more and more involved in the mysteries of a city which hides a great and disturbing secret – a secret that has touched all their lives more closely than they can possibly yet understand.

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2004

After ten years, Makoto Okano comes back to his home town with his little sister Hinata. There, he again meets his childhood sweetheart Minamo Narukaze whom he has given a harmonica (owns by his father) as a gift years ago. A strange girl suddenly shows up, making Makoto realize something is going on. The girl is attached to his parents, Minamo's father Akihito and the harmonica itself.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2003

As children, Ken, Yuki, and Hiyori were the best of friends. But like a flash, the companions were torn apart when Hiyori mysteriously vanished without warning. Now, as young adults, Ken and Yuki are in for a surprise when Hiyori returns, but in a manner that they would never think to expect -- falling out of Ken's closet? And what's worse is that she appears to be a ghost! Armed with newfound curiosity, the trio try to remember what happened in their past, and why their long-lost friend has suddenly reappeared...

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2015

• 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...

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2008

After spending his days skipping school and wandering around the city, the delinquent Tomoya met Tomoyo and gradually, the pair fell in love. It has now been a month since they started dating and Tomoyo has just been announced as the newest student council president of Hikarizaka high school. With Tomoyo being kept busy by her new duties as well as her quest to save the sakura trees, and rumors circulating about why the new student council president spends so much time with the school’s two most infamous delinquents, can Tomoya and Tomoyo’s relationship survive?

• TV (13 eps)
• 2007

After having lived elsewhere for several years, Sana returns to the town in which he grew up in, and quickly begins to reacquaint himself to his surroundings and new high school. While there, Sana runs into his four childhood friends: Shuu, Shuri, Aoi, and Nanaka; but for some strange reason Nanaka gives him the cold shoulder. As he goes about his new daily life, can Sana rebuild his friendship with Nanaka while trying to deal with a troubling secret from his past?