10 Friends To Lovers Anime You Must Watch In 2024

Love can spring from anywhere, but love relationships develop stronger when you know each other better. Here are 10 friends turn lovers anime you must watch.

10. Nisekoi Is A Friends To Lovers Anime With Yakuza Gangs

What does a forced relationship look like? Highschooler Raku Ichijo is the son of a leader in the Yakuza faction, and one day he finds that he has to date the rival gang leader’s daughter Chitoge Kirisaki in order to prevent a gang war.

Now, this would turn out to be great but Raku and Chitoge have already had several conflicts on the first day of school, so it would not turn out so great.

09. Love Hina Uses The Amnesia Trope To Turn Friends To Lovers

Okay don’t blame me but this one’s backstory is rather similar to Nisekoi. Love Hina centers on Keitarō Urashima and his attempts to fulfill a childhood promise that he made with a girl to enter the University of Tokyo.

Now years later he is forced to look after his grandmother’s dormitory, which is the house for five highschool girls. Among these five girls is Naru, another student aiming for the University of Tokyo.

08. Tamako Market Is A Wholesome Friends To Lovers Anime

One day a girl named Tamako Kitashirakawa stumbles upon a bird named Dera Mochimazzi who comes from a far away royal country in search of a bride for his prince. But soon this bird gets addicted to the mochi made in Tamako’s house and becomes painfully overweight after eating a lot of them.

Now unable to fly to its home, it decides to stay in Tamako’s house. Tamako market is filled with a lot of comedy and gags and if you didn’t feel like the friends turn lovers twist coming that’s because it’s actually a subplot.

07. Ai Yori Aoshi Is A Harem Anime Where The Main Girl Is The Childhood Friend

Ai Yori Aoshi or Bluer Than Indigo follows Kaoru Hanabishi, who moves away from his stepfather’s house after his mother’s death and lives isolated. But there is one girl out there who loves him. Her name is Aoi Sakuraba.

And now that she doesn’t want to get married, she flees with Kaoru, hoping to live alone with him. Both of them decide to keep their relationship a secret, and soon other members join their household.

06. Blue Spring Ride Is A Heartwarming Friends To Lovers Anime With Romance

Sometimes the childhood friends you make always don’t turn out to be the same when they grow up. Futaba Yoshioka, during her middle school years, was the most popular girl in school, liked by all the boys. But out of all of them, she liked only one boy – Kou Tanaka, a classmate with whom she shared a shelter in the rain once.

But after Kou’s disappearance, Futaba was left alone, and now at high school, she lives a carefree life with a tomboyish attitude trying not to draw any attention. But things change when Kou Tanaka comes back again, but drastically changed from his previous self.

05. Yona of the Dawn Has A Badass Childhood Friend

Yona of the Dawn is an anime that balances both the romance and its action. It follows Princess Yona, who after a betrayal by his own kin is forced to escape the kingdom with his childhood friend and bodyguard Son Hak.

Son Hak is Yon’s best friend and the more realistic one of the duo. Being raised as a princess among the luxuries Yona never realized the real struggles of the people, and the anime shows how she develops over time.

04. Cardcaptor Sakura Shows How A Bad Boy Falls For The Good Girl

Cardcaptor Sakura similar to Yona of the Dawn, uses romance in it as a subplot instead of mixing it in with the main narrative. It tells the story of Sakura Kinomoto who finds a pack of cards, loses them only to later learn their potential.

All of these cards contain abilities and are dangerous to be left alone. She is soon assigned to recollect these cards and the anime follows the various challanges she faces along the way.

03. Golden Time Is A Friends To Lovers Anime With Amnesia

Due to an accident after high-school, Banri Tada has lost his memories and is followed around by his spirit, possessing all the lost memories. Newly admitted into law school, he runs into Mitsuo Yanagisawa, who was trying to escape Koko Kaga, his childhood friend he promised to marry.

Koko enrols in the college herself, walks to Mitsuo, and then hits him across the face with a bouquet of roses before leaving. Meanwhile, Banri finds himself falling for Kaga.

02. Toradora Is About Two Friends Slowly Becoming Lovers

Nobody notices Ryuji Takasu’s gentle and caring persona all because of his intimidating eyes. Then there’s the tiny, doll-like Taiga Aisaka whose unruly hair matches her violent temper. When she accidentally slips a love letter meant for Yuusaku Kitamura, in Ryuji’s bag, she decides to induce amnesia with a quick blow to Ryuji’s head with a wooden katana.

For the love of his life, literally, Ryuji insists that a crush is nothing to be embarrassed and reveals his crush on Minori Kushieda. The duo decides to form an alliance once they realise that they have a crush on each other’s best friends.

01. Lovely Complex Is The Best Friends To Lovers Anime To Watch

Coming up at number one we have the love story of another two friends to lovers anime. This follows a pair of high-schoolers named Risa Koizumi and Atsushi Otani. The pair seems ordinary enough until you compare their heights, Koizumi is the tall girl and Otani is the short boy.

So when super tall Ryouji Suzuki shows up in her class, Koizumi falls head over heels for him because for once, here was a guy who was taller than her. On the other end of the class, Otani was falling for the shy little Chiharu Tanaka.