Pisu no Oshigoto - Recommendations

• TV (24 eps)
• 2007 - 2008

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!

• 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?

• Other

Naoto Watari has had his share of struggles: His parents died two years ago, and now he and his sister live at his aunt’s house. There, his desire to protect his sister earned him notoriety as “the guy with the sister complex,” — which never mattered to him, as his sister always came first. But when Satsuki, a childhood friend-turned-enemy, becomes his school mate, Naoto’s ordinary life is thrown into chaos… and Satsuki may just be the beginning. 

• Other

At the end of a summer when Hayato was a child, he made a promise to his precious (male) friend. 7 years later, Hayato transferred to a high school in the city and met his childhood friend again, who had become a... neat and pretty girl! Haruki, known as The Takamine Flower of her class, smiles innocently at Hayato with the face of a brat when they are alone, trades lunches in empty classrooms, plays games together at home… But she turns red when he makes fun of her and treats her like a girl. It’s cute. The country and the city, the boy and the girl, the grown-up mind and body. If there are things that have changed while they were apart, there are also feelings and promises that have yet to be changed.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2014

In case Yuuta’s hands weren’t full enough with his delusional girlfriend, Rikka, the arrival of a former friend claiming to be his soul mate is about to take Yuta's crazy life to a whole new level!

• 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?

• TV (13 eps)
• 2023

Boyish high school girl Aizawa Tomo finally manages to tell her childhood friend Jun that she's got a crush on him. Unfortunately, her confession goes right over his head—he didn't even realize she was a girl until junior high, and even now, Jun still thinks of her as a bro! How can Tomo-chan possibly convince him otherwise and win Jun's heart?

• Music Video (1 ep)
• 2021

Music video for the song Heikousen, used to promote Lotte Ghana Valentine Gift campaign.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2014

• 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.