Whether you’re relishing being single or cuddling up with your sweetie for a night of Pocky and anime on Valentine’s Day (or any other day, really), we’ve got a whole list of romantic anime featuring star-crossed, opposite couples to celebrate the special day with! Since Valentine’s Day is a Saturday for 2026, we’ve included a whopping 15 series for you to pick and binge-watch. Enjoy! Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! Kiyoshi Adachi, a misanthropic salaryman and lifelong virgin, discovers a hidden talent of his once he turns 30. He’s able to hear other people’s thoughts when he touches them. He doesn’t find the power too interesting, that is until he accidentally touches his popular, handsome, can literally light the room with his smile coworker, Yuichi Kurasawa. In Cherry Magic: Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! Adachi gets the shock of his life when he finds out that his outgoing coworker is in love with him, of all people. Adachi doesn’t understand how Kurosawa can like a gloomy guy like him, but maybe a few more encounters (and songs about first dates) can make him realize he’s worthy of love. DON’T TOY WITH ME, MISS NAGATORO All the timid Senpai in DON’T TOY WITH ME, MISS NAGATORO wants to do after school is draw his OCs and go home. Unfortunately for him, a bratty, mischievous underclassman won’t give him a moment’s peace. Her name is Hayase Nagatoro, and she seems to love nothing more than mocking her senpai and making crude jokes at his expense. Could she be hiding something? Can Senpai survive long enough to find out? Fruits Basket Kindhearted Tohru Honda goes to school with the aloof but popular student council president, Yuki Soma. Unbeknownst to anyone else in her life, Tohru lives in the woods as she’s an orphan who lived with her grandpa until he decided to remodel his house and she didn’t want to impose on him anymore. While exploring one day, Tohru comes across Yuki’s house, where he lives with his older cousin, Shigure. The two of them discover Tohru’s secret as her tent is destroyed by a landslide and invite her to move in with them. Here, she also meets Yuki’s brash cousin Kyo, leading to her accidentally discovering the boys’ family curse where they turn into animals from the Chinese Zodiac. Fruits Basket is a fan favorite shojo series for a reason, perfect for fans who want a LOT of drama with the budding romance throughout the series. Horimiya At school and at home, Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura (the “Hori” and “Miya” in Horimiya ) are complete opposites in different ways. Hori is popular and cheerful at school but pragmatic and family-centered at home. Izumi comes off as a big nerd but is actually a kind person with hidden piercings and tattoos. Once they discover the truth about each other, the two end up growing closer to one another. Can these two navigate their new relationship while embracing who they really are? I’m in Love with the Villainess Rei Okashi, a regular office worker, winds up working herself to death (literally) and is reincarnated as Rae Taylor, the heroine of her favorite otome game, Revolution . Not wanting anything to do with the game’s three male romance plotlines, Rae sets her heart on the game’s villainess, the scheming, snooty Claire Francois. While some would be opposed to Claire’s attitude, Rei is enthusiastically into her behavior (hence the title I'm in Love with the Villainess ). Can she get Claire to reciprocate her feelings and give the two of them a happy ending before the game’s plot kicks in and Claire gets her comeuppance? Kaguya-sama: Love is War At Shuchiin Academy, the student council is led by president Miyuki Shirogane and vice president Kaguya Shinomiya. Both are geniuses… except when it comes to admitting that they love each other. The serious Miyuki and the proud, haughty Kaguya don’t want to be the first to confess, so to preserve their pride, they engage in all sorts of silly hijinks to get the other to confess first. Who will win the battle in Kaguya-sama: Love is War ? Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! The “Chunibyo” in Love, Chunbyou & Other Delusions! means middle school second year syndrome or eighth grader syndrome. It’s a term used for when a teen at that age experiences a delusion of grandeur. That’s what happened to the withdrawn Yuta Togashi last year, and he doesn't want anybody to remember that. While he’d rather move on with his life, it doesn’t work out that way thanks to his delusional classmate and neighbor, Rikka Takanashi, who believes she possesses the deadly “Tyrant’s Eye” and, as such, always wears an eyepatch. Clumsy and always willing to fight, will Rikka’s delusions get in the way of what she and Yuta start developing? Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun starts with Chiyo Sakura being hopelessly in love with her slightly aloof schoolmate, Umetaro Nozaki. She finally works up the courage to confess to him by saying she’s a fan of his and, to her surprise, he gives her his autograph! When she explains that she wants to be with him, he invites her to his house and, once she shows up, has her assist with some drawings. It turns out Nozaki is the talent behind the famous shojo manga Let’s Fall in Love , writing under the pen name Sakiko Yumeno. Still wanting to get close to him, Chiyo agrees to work as his inker. My Dress-Up Darling Wakana Gojo wants nothing more than to work on his intricate Hina doll heads in peace, having low self-esteem and being a recluse since being mocked for this hobby as a child. But his life changes when he meets Marin Kitagawa, an otaku and gyaru who loves cosplay. A first year in his class, Marin finds out about Wakana’s skill and begs him to help her realize her cosplay dreams. Can the shy Wakana and bubbly, outgoing Marin get along as friends? And maybe… more? Perfect for fans of extrovert x introvert romance and cosplay, you’ll have to watch My Dress-Up Darling to find out! MY love STORY!! High school first year Takeo Goda doesn’t have it easy. Despite being a sweet, kind boy who gets along with people, he nevertheless frightens girls due to his huge, hulking stature and gangster-like expression; people even call him a shaved gorilla! Still, Takeo doesn’t let that get him down, even bravely defending classmate Rinko Yamato from a groper on a train. Used to seeing girls fall for his best friend, Makoto Sunakawa, Takeo’s surprised to learn that Rinko has fallen in love with him! The feeling's mutual, making My love STORY! ! one of those anime romances where the "will they, won't they" wills early on! Tamon’s B-Side Utage Kinoshita is a huge fan of Tamon Fukuhara, the center of the idol group, F/ACE. She devotes all of her time, energy, and money from her housekeeping gig to supporting Tamon with all of her heart. One day, she gets assigned a new house to clean, and it ends up being Tamon’s! Before she can properly fangirl over this new development, she quickly learns that Tamon is nothing like his idol persona. It turns out Tamon is extremely introverted, thinks of himself as being lower than trash, and struggles to hold a conversation with anyone. That won’t stop Utage from supporting her oshi… assuming he doesn’t simply pass away throughout the course of Tamon's B-Side . TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You starts with… a truck? One night, after receiving his practice exam results for high school, Nasa Yuzaki sees a beautiful girl across the street. Going to approach her, he’s so enraptured that he gets hit by a truck! The girl saves him and, following her to a bus stop, Nasa confesses his love to her. Revealing her name is Tsukasa Tsukuyomi, she agrees to go out with him, but only if they’re married. Happily agreeing, Nasa finally passes out from his injuries and wakes up in the hospital, but Tsukasa is nowhere to be seen. Years later, Nasa is 18 and gets the shock of his life when Tsukasa shows up at his door with a marriage contract and promptly moves in. Great! Um… now what? Toradora! Ryuji Takasu has a problem. He’s an ordinary, kind guy, if a little surly, but he has scary, delinquent-ish eyes that make everyone avoid him. Despite this, he’s in love with his beautiful friend, Minori. When her best friend, the short, feisty Taiga Aisaka, who’s known as the “Palmtop Tiger,” discovers his crush, he discovers hers on his bestie, Yusaku. This jumbled-up love story in Toradora! leads to Ryuji and Taiga scheming to get the other with their respective crushes. What could go wrong? Twilight Out of Focus Roommates and high school students Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Otomo had a rocky start to things, but now they get along despite their opposite personalities of “film nerd” and “loner.” The two have come up with three simple rules: Mao mustn’t tell anyone that Hisashi is gay and has a boyfriend, Hisashi mustn’t fall in love with Mao, and they must respect the others’ privacy when one of them “needs time to himself.” Seems simple enough, right? Well, both boys are involved in the school’s film club, which is making a short BL film about a classroom president and a delinquent, starring Hisashi as the delinquent. Acting as principal photographer, Mao quickly finds his feelings for Hisashi changing. Bonus? Twilight Out of Focus has two other love stories after Mao and Hisashi’s, with characters from the film club who have different personalities. You and I Are Polar Opposites And now for the anime that inspired this entire list. Miyu Suzuki is a loud, expressive, energetic girl with a secret. She’s got a major crush on Yusuke Tani, a reserved guy who bluntly, brusquely speaks his mind no matter what anybody else thinks. He’s, as the You and I Are Polar Opposites title suggests, her polar opposite, but she can’t stop thinking about him! Will these two ever work through their feelings? Wait, they hold hands in the first episode??? Yep, it's another romance anime with an established couple!
