Dramas and high-school dramas are popular amongst audiences, and the romance genre has a different height of fanbase and plot. Generally, young or adult teenagers are the audience for the anime. Hence, high-school anime are high in number. It is a misconception that high school anime series are only romance-based, while they can be sci-fi, horror, and comedy. The fascination of these animes lies in watching different classes, clubs, and schoolmates, love stories and rivalry, school systems, and animated views of the places. These are very few listed high-school animes out of hundreds of fabulous creations.
1. Toradora
It’s a high-school romance anime to watch if you love triangles or love squares. This anime has a Square! The characters go along, fitting the plot well, and melt you with their love for each other. Ryuji and Taiga are opposite personalities but get along to help each other to get their crush recognition and love. Toradora is quite a hint to guess how the square will go uplifting.
2. Hyouka
Hyouka is a High-School Anime situated mainly in the school’s Classic Literature Club. It is not a romance anime but a mysterious one. Hotaru is an introverted student with basic life until his sister forces him to join the Literature Club in the school. He meets fellow club members and solves the mysteries in front of them. What would be so mysterious that changed Hotaro’s life?
3. High School DxD
It is an adaption of the novel written by Ichiei Ishibumi. Issei Hyoudou is a high-school student who is a pervert and killed on his first date. The devil, Rias Gremory, revives him. A return for her favor, Issei is now a slave to Rias. The romance does bloom later in the series, yet won’t assure if the visuals will interest you or not.
4. Another
Joining the high-school romance, mysterious, and comedy genres, Another enters with a horror and thrilling experience. The pot revolves around Class 3-3 of Yomiyama North Middle School and the newly joined student Kouichi Sakakibara. There is also a girl named Misaki with an eyepatch. She gets neglected and treated almost invisibly by her teachers and classmates. To find out the mystery behind the weird acts of the people, he gets closer to Misaki.
5. Orange
Naho Zakariya receives a letter from the 10-year future Naho. This strange letter contains a warning to help the new transfer student, who is preoccupied with suicidal thoughts. Kakeru Naruse is a transfer kid who is depressed enough to make friends. Naho Zakariya, after a few incidents and to avoid future regrets, helps and protects Kakeru. Orange is an excellent watch to learn how our surroundings or even a person can affect us positively and negatively.
6. Great Teacher Onizuka
This story is about a teacher named Eikichi Onizuka, an ex-gangster who decides to become a teacher. He then gets an appointment in a private school, where no teacher wants to teach them due to some circumstances. Now, will our teacher Onizuka overcome this hurdle and become a favorite teacher in this school?
7. Classroom Of The Elite
Classroom of the elite, written by Shōgo Kinugasa, is a story of the future where Japan government established an advanced school to teach life lessons to the student. However, there is one boy who is clumsy but has intelligence. When he meets his other two friends, he starts to get involved in many instances where the concept of the ordinary school changes.
8. Angel Beats
Angel Beats is a story of a boy who suffers from amnesia, and he forgets everything about his life after dying. So he now joins the afterlife School where he can't pass or reincarnate without overcoming the fears and trauma of his life. He meets a friend who convinces him to join the afterlife Battlefront. A lot happens ahead when they get entangled with the Angel, their enemy.
9. Assassination Classroom
Assassination Classroom is a fantasy school anime where an octopus-like teacher is teaching in a school, and students in the school decide to assassinate the teacher to save the earth from destruction. These class students are looked down upon by others. Yet they try to crack their teacher's weaknesses to save the planet dedicatedly.
10. Kaguya Sama: Love Is War
At the prestigious Shuchiin Academy, the War of Love and pride battles between the leads. Miyuki is the student council president, and Kaguya Shinomiya is the vice president. They are fighting to remove the love confession from the heart of each other, but neither one is willing to do it themselves. Will they get along, or will their pride win over love?
