Best romance anime to watch with your partner on Valentine’s Day

Are you looking for a list of the best romance anime to watch with your other half on Valentine's Day? You came to the right place. Since we are in 2025, here's a list of 25 romance anime to watch on Feb. 14 with a lot of love, friendship, and cheesy, funny, and emotional moments.

This list is not in any specific order so don't read it as a ranking. Look out for the details you love to watch in anime. Don't forget to always spread love!

Starting strong and very emotional with this list. If you need love, music, and a lot of tears, Your Lie in April is the right anime for that. For many, one of the most beautiful romance anime ever made.

The story follows a young pianist named Kо̄sei Arima, who loses the ability to perform the piano after his mother's death, and his experiences after he meets violinist Kaori Miyazono.

In this house, we love cute and funny romance anime. Komi Can't Communicate is an amazing romance anime to watch on Valentine's Day.

Komi is a beautiful, but very shy girl who has a lot of difficulties communicating with people, just like the anime name says. With the help of her classmate Hitohito Tadano, they embark on a mission to make 100 friends and improve Komi's communication skills.

This is one of the funniest workplace anime. Perfect for adults who are looking for a more "grown-up" anime, this is a great choice.

A gaming otaku and a fujoshi reunite for the first time since middle school at work and we have the chance to see their love evolve as well as their friends' relationship. It's comic, it's lightweight, and it's very cute to see how slowly they get used to being in a relationship.

If you're looking for something that will cause permanent emotional damage, this is the one. Crying will have a totally different meaning in your life after watching Violet Evergarden.

In the aftermath of a great war, Violet Evergarden, a young female ex-soldier, gets a job at a writers' agency and goes on assignments to create letters that can connect people.

It's silly, it's cute, it's even weird sometimes. But overall it's a great romance anime for those who are looking for something "out of the ordinary" to watch on Valentine's Day.

After experiencing "puberty syndrome" himself, high school pariah Sakuta keeps meeting girls suffering from it, including his sister and actor Mai.

This is not an anime, it's a movie. But it's one of those that is going to change the meaning of your life for sure. It's emotional, it's difficult to watch, but it's so worth your time.

A high school student discovers one of his classmates, Sakura Yamauchi, is suffering from a terminal illness. This secret brings the two together, as she lives out her final moments.

This is a classic of the romance genre. Blue Spring Ride talks about love and the difficulty of expressing your feelings, especially when you're so young.

This anime revolves around Futaba, a girl who was in love with a boy named Ko Tanaka in middle school. However, it did not work because he transferred but in high school, her world is turned around once again when she meets him again.

It's an old-school anime from 2012, but it's super cute. If you're in the mood for some fantasy and comedy romance, this is a great anime to start the night.

Nanami is left homeless after her father runs away due to debts. When she saves a man named Mikage from dogs, he gives her his house which turns out to be a shrine and she becomes the new deity.

This is for the shy and introverted boys who only want to be in their corner, quiet and peaceful. Until a girl comes in the picture. Hikaru Tsutsui is a quiet, unassuming high school student who forsakes the company of his classmates to spend his time reading manga, playing video games, and watching anime.

Making friends or finding love is not easy when you're a "weird" person with a lack of communication skills. However, that's not impossible when you have the help of a friend who starts to be more than that to you.

Sawako wishes to make friends but her weird vibe and lack of communication skills are getting in her way. Fortunately, it's no longer the case since she met Kazehaya, an extroverted guy who she couldn't help but fall in love with.

Also a romance classic for those who have been in this genre for a while now. This is a mandatory watch if you love romance! Toradora tells the tale of Ryuji (dragon) and Taiga (tiger) helping each other confess to their crushes.

Are you into a good love triangle story? We have the perfect romance anime for you. For many fans, it's one of the best in the genre.

After Tohru is taken in by the Soma family, she learns that twelve family members transform involuntarily into animals of the Chinese zodiac and help them deal with the emotional pain caused by the transformations.

It's a cute and cheesy journey between both and the perfect romance anime to watch on Valentine's Day. It's a sweet tale between two people who the others would never put together. Two very different people - an academically successful schoolgirl and a quiet loser schoolboy - meet and develop a friendship.

A recent anime if you're looking for something from this year. For Uka Ishimori, middle school was the toughest experience she lived through. Now in high school, she has a chance for a fresh start and to improve herself. 

But during her first week, she is accidentally soaked in juice by her classmate Kai Miura, a flashy guy with lemon-colored hair. On paper, Kai is everything that Uka lacks popular, aloof, and bold enough to speak his mind.

Despite their contrasting personalities, Kai encourages her to slowly come out of her shell, offering a helping hand when others avoided to do so.

One of the best romance comedies of 2024. It's hilarious, unique, and has a lot of action if you're a fan of good-looking action scenes. When Momo and Okarun's beliefs clash, they're thrown into a world of ghosts, aliens, and awakened powers. Their chemistry is so good you can feel it from outside of the planet.

Another great choice for a romance anime to watch on Valentine's Day is Kaguya-sama: Love is War. It's pure comedy, love, and funny moments that are going to make you laugh so much you'll be out of breath. The proudly privileged top two students of an elite school each make it their mission to be the first to extract a confession of love from the other.

An anime that shows how trauma can affect you so much as a person and as a person in a relationship. An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, and love may have a chance.

This anime is the true definition of "love at first sight". It's a collage romance about love and the power of communication. When Yuki meets a handsome stranger who helps her out on the train, what sort of relationship will bloom? Could this be something real? Or will these feelings melt away with the snow?

Another great anime from 2023. There is nothing that can stop you when the night is your love scenario. Ganta Nakami is a high school student who suffers from insomnia.

He meets Isaki Magari, a girl with the same condition. A relationship forms as they share a secret and catch up on their sleep in their school's abandoned observatory.

Lovers to Enemies is always a great plot for a romance anime to watch on Valentine's Day. The strategist of an evil organization falls for the magical girl fighting against the organization.

His life changes abruptly when he understands what is to be in love. The interactions between Shun and Byakuya are wholesome and charming, and though their relationship seems simple, it's surprisingly well-developed.

Another workplace romance that you should watch on Valentine's Day. Himuro is an office worker who belongs to a race of supernatural beings with strange powers.

Himuro has a soft spot for his colleague Fuyutsuki, a calm woman who has a knack for providing simple solutions to his unconventional problems.

Whenever Fuyutsuki does something for him, a snowstorm of emotions builds inside Himuro's heart, and he fails to notice the raging snowstorm he causes on the office floor. 

Bloom Into You is one of the famous Girls' Love titles. It's a wholesome story about love and self-discovery that you can't miss.

Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and awaits the day she gets a love confession that sends her heart aflutter with bubbles and blushes, and yet when a junior high classmate confesses his feelings to her, she feels nothing.

This one is perfect for those who love a great romance between humans and beasts. If you're a fan of fantasy, this anime is a unique slow-burn romance.

Hatori Chise, 15 years old. Lost, without hope and family - she sells herself to a non-human mage known as Elias Ainsworth. Hesitant, she starts a new life with him as his new apprentice.

Another great anime and a very liked one among the fans. A quiet loner and the popular girl at school find common ground, making their cosplay dreams come true.

Normally they would never meet or interact, but making cosplays becomes their motive to be together more time. It's wholesome, funny, cute, and has amazing animated scenes. You should definitely watch this one!

The epiphany of emotional damage is Given. Love, music, and trauma built into one of the most beautiful anime ever made.

Ritsuka was ready to give up on music until he met Mafuyu Satou; now Mafuyu is taking guitar lessons from Ritsuka, who, after hearing Mafuyu's strikingly beautiful voice, hopes to make him the lead singer of his band.

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