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Drama Anime from 2012

21 drama anime that aired in 2012, ranked by score.

  1. 1
    Bakuman. Season 3

    TV · 25 ep · fall

    Onto their third serialization, manga duo Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi—also known by their pen name, Muto Ashirogi—are ever closer to their dream of an anime adaption.

  2. 2
    Kids on the Slope

    TV · 12 ep · spring

    Introverted classical pianist and top student Kaoru Nishimi has just arrived in Kyushu for his first year of high school.

  3. 3
    From the New World

    TV · 25 ep · fall

    In the year 2011, a small percentage of humans began manifesting psychokinetic abilities known as "Cantus." Over a millennium later, in the small town of Kamisu 66, Saki…

  4. 4
    Initial D Fifth Stage

    TV · 14 ep · fall

    After earning a series of difficult victories in the prefectures of Tochigi, Saitama, and Ibaraki, the drivers of Project D—an amateur street driving group led by ex-street…

  5. 5
    The Pet Girl of Sakurasou

    TV · 24 ep · fall

    At Suimei High, the Sakura-sou dormitory is infamous for housing the school's most notorious delinquents.

  6. 6
    Blast of Tempest

    TV · 24 ep · fall

    Yoshino Takigawa, an ordinary teenager, is secretly dating his best friend Mahiro Fuwa's younger sister, Aika.

  7. 7
    Kokoro Connect

    TV · 13 ep · summer

    When five students at Yamaboshi Academy realize that there are no clubs where they fit in, they band together to form the Student Cultural Society, or "StuCS" for short.

  8. 8
    Little Busters!

    TV · 26 ep · fall

    As a child, Riki Naoe shut himself from the world, thanks to a diagnosis of narcolepsy following the tragic deaths of his parents.

  9. 9
    Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom - Dawn of the Shinsengumi

    TV · 12 ep · summer

    Beaten and left to perish, Ryuunosuke Ibuki is robbed of everything to his name. Seeing him in such a pitiful state, a man named Kamo Serizawa gives him a second chance and…

  10. 10
    Waiting in the Summer

    TV · 12 ep · winter

    While testing out his camera on a bridge one summer night, Kaito Kirishima sees a blue light streaking across the sky, only to be blown off the railing seconds later.

  11. 11
    Say "I Love You."

    TV · 13 ep · fall

    Friends will only let you down—that is the sad truth Mei Tachibana lives with, ever since she was wrongfully blamed for the death of a class pet by her so-called friends in…

  12. 12
    Robotics;Notes

    TV · 22 ep · fall

    It has always been the aspiration of the Central Tanegashima High School Robotics Research Club to complete the GunPro1, a fully functioning giant robot.

  13. 13
    Natsuyuki Rendezvous

    TV · 11 ep · summer

    Ryousuke Hazuki is a young man whose heart has been stolen away, stopping by the local floral shop daily in order to catch a glimpse of the beautiful Rokka Shimao, the shop's…

  14. 14
    Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse

    TV · 24 ep · summer

    In 1973, following the ruthless six-year-long Lunar War, the hostile alien species known as the BETA—Beings of Extra Terrestrial origin which are Adversary of the human…

  15. 15
    Love, Election and Chocolate

    TV · 12 ep · summer

    Yuuki Oojima is a member of his high school's Food Research Club, whose main activity is eating snacks bought with funds allocated to them by the school.

  16. 16
    Zetman

    TV · 13 ep · spring

    The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and ALPHAS, and then traces their origins - Jin Kanzaki, a young man with the ability to transform into a…

  17. 17
    Black Rock Shooter

    TV · 8 ep · winter

    On the first day of junior high school, Mato Kuroi happens to run into Yomi Takanashi, a shy, withdrawn girl whom she immediately takes an interest in.

  18. 18
    One Stormy Night: Secret Friends

    TV · 26 ep · spring

    A new anime adaptation by Sparky Animation, Duckbill Entertainment, Baku Enterprise and Bandai Visual of the book Arashi no Yoru ni (One Stormy Night...) by Kimura Yuuichi.

  19. 19
    Eureka Seven AO

    TV · 24 ep · spring

    The story is set on Okinawa's isolated island of Iwado, which has seen a growing movement advocating a return to an autonomous government.

  20. 20
    Xia Lan

    TV · 156 ep · winter

    When Nian Chi was a young child, his elder sister was kidnapped in front of him, while he could do nothing but watch, a thing that has tormented him for all these years.

  21. 21
    Lychee Light Club

    TV · 8 ep · fall

    Litchi DE Hikari Club takes place in an alternate reality where the Hikari Club does not fall into disarray after the completion of Litchi, the intelligent humanlike robot the…