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Koori no Jouheki

2026, TV, 14 eps, 83%, Studio KAI

Heterosexual, Primarily Teen Cast, Female Protagonist

Socially inept, Higawa Koyuki maintains a wall between herself and other people. She spends her time in high school alone, until she meets Amamiya Minato, a boy who keeps trying to close the distance between them for some reason?! The loner Koyuki, the popular Miki, the…

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About Tsubasa to Hotaru (2016)

2016, Special, 3 eps, 57%, J.C.STAFF

The story revolves around Tsubasa Sonokawa, a 15-year old high school girl who fell in love with her upperclassman when he saved her after she fainted at the train station from anemia. She thought it was a meeting of fate, and visited him at his class every day. However, he told her that her feelings were "heavy," and he dumped her. She once again meets a boy after taking over her friend Yuri's job as boy's basketball team manager. She learns that she might have more of a connection with this boy named Aki than she first thought...

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