Pinnacle 20 Best Anime Featuring Best Friends that are a Boy and a Girl

Men and women can exist friends, it'due south truthful. Granted, usually those kinds of friendships have a volition they won't they quality to them. And of course eventually a drunken nighttime, a tragedy or just a moment of weakness ends upwards destroying the friendship in exchange for hot, passionate sexual activity!

Well, not these friendships. We actually went on a search for the all-time anime serial that feature a boy and a girl who are just friends, the ideal kind. You may be thinking, 'Yeah, right.' Once more, boys and girls, men and women can be friends and merely friends and these stories show you how.

Instead of stripping down and knocking the boots in the face of a tragedy, these friends have each other'southward back through thick and thin with no sexual intent…for the most part (wink, wink). As much equally steamy manga stories or friendship anime where the 2 friends turn into lovers are very popular, strictly platonic friendship anime is a popular genre in its own right; maybe considering so many of us endeavour the friend affair and fail!

In these books, you'll find true loving friendships, partnerships that follow the main characters through many trials and tribulations. After a while, you too are rooting for their friendship to last and non blow up later a drunken haul call. Of all of the friendship anime stories out there, we found the best of the male child/girl best friend anime series, in no detail social club.

1. Accented Duo

Tooru and Julie simply become friends afterward they meet at the opening anniversary of the Kouryou University in a fight – the loser will be expelled. Tooru wants to win and become a Blazer; a soul changing force that gives students the power to "materialize weapons" somewhen hoping to achieve Accented Duo power. Instead, Tooru's powers plow out to be a shield – freaky! At present he will figure out who the person was that killed his sister with the aid of his new friend/opponent, Julie.

2. No Game No Life

In No Game No Life, the boy girl best friend duo is two siblings. This anime series centers effectually the gaming world and Sora and Shiro, the main characters, are so good at online gaming that they are legendary. Then 1 day, they are sucked into an online chess game. They larn that the stakes in this game are the highest – similar the fate of the whole earth high! Both legendary gamers don't fifty-fifty care about saving the globe; they merely desire to win then that they tin can rule the earth!

3. Magi

Even though Magi centers on a couple of dudes and their homegirl, nearly of the serial takes them each their separate ways. This long saga follows Aladdin and his two buddies Alibaba and Morgiana, each who has their own challenges to face dorsum in their own countries and kingdoms. In their journeys they build their magic skills only in time for a "bang-up state of war" that will soon consume them all.

4. Ergo Proxy

The story of Ergo Proxy has all the fixings. Civilization is well-nigh destroyed after a cataclysmic event, but there is one place where man life yet exists. In this new world, anybody has a human being-like robot assistant. The main character, Re-I and her robot helper Iggy volition eventually squad up with some other human, Vincent Constabulary subsequently a virus causes the robots to get cocky-aware at the same time that supernatural phenomena begin occurring everywhere.

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5. Planetes

Space buddies brand up the two boys and the ane girl in Planetes working aboard the "Toy Box" – basically a space dump truck used to remove unsafe space junk orbiting between the world and the moon. Set 50+ years in the future, the moon is civilized with a colony of humans and corporations accept planted their flags besides. The quirky trio, Ai, Hachirouta, and Philippe become best friends as the grunt workers in space who find means to take pride in their ridiculed profession.

6. Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai

Jinta'due south best friend returns from the dead in Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. Meiko (the ghost girl) appears first to her best friend who thinks he's imagining her talking to him. Shortly he realizes that she is really back and her spirit is restless. Together with their other childhood clique, they assist Meiko detect peace and at final put her spirit to rest – besides as theirs!

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7. Steins;Gate

Creating green slime in a lab fabricated from bananas may not sound like much, but what if it can allow you communicate via email into the past? That'due south exactly what Rintarou and his friends Mayuri, Hashida, and Daru discover in Steins;Gate. Now that they have the ability to fourth dimension travel in a way, what will they do with this power?

8. Kekkaishi

Killing demons is a gift that only Kekkaishi have through their supernatural powers in the anime series Kekkaishi. These demons chosen Ayakashi enter Yoshimura'due south homeland in lodge to feed on the ability that exists in that location but actually, they want to accept the identify over. Yoshimura has aid in his childhood friend Tokine who is a fierce Kekkaishi helping him combat these demons and save their world.

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nine. Motorcar-Doll wa Kizutsukanai

Smart robots are made life-like with the ability to think and reason in Kikou Shoujo (Motorcar-Doll) wa Kizutsukanai. While training to become the "Wiseman" at the Purple University, Raishin and his android Yaya have to faceoff with the best students in the University in order to make upwards for his dismal operation in his entrance exams. Instead he ends upwardly saving his opponents but has to find a unlike way to earn the title of Wiseman and larn the "forbidden" Machinarts.

10. Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry

Blazers like the ones in Absolute Duo are too office of Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry. In this anime series, one boy and one girl get roommates subsequently they are put to the exam when Ikki (the worst student at the Hagun Academy) is challenged by Stella (the all-time Blazer) to a duel. Whoever loses the battle must go the other'south slave – yikes!

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11. Robotics;Notes

Part of the aforementioned world as Steins;Gate, in Robotics;Notes, the duo are two childhood friends who are working equally part of a club to build a behemothic robot. Over many years the robotics society tries to perfect the robot but tin't. Aki is determined to arrive happen while his buddy Kai could care less – that is until he gets a weird message 1 solar day that he can't figure out. It is only then that he gets serious and works with Aki to discover out what it all means.

12. Shinsekai yori

Set up a millennia into the future, Shinsekai yori (From the New Globe), is about 5 psychic kids (Saki, Satoru, Shun, Maria and Mamoru) who wake upward to a earth that has been destroyed by a virus which gave mankind the ability to dispense matter and gave others powerful psychic abilities. Only after the psychics create their own new earth separate from anybody else does peace come and a new utopia…only is it?

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xiii. Isshuukan Friends

Yuuki has a beat, but Kaori (his crush) forgets anybody she knows later on only a few days in Isshuukan Friends. Through persistence, Yuuki continues to reintroduce himself to Kaori, hoping to eventually grade a friendship with the distant and cold girl. He before long finds out that her distance comes from a caring place; non wanting to injure those she loves by not remembering them. Yuuki withal will non give upward!

xiv. Nagi no Asukara

The world in Nagi no Asukara (A Lull in the Sea) is fabricated up of two kinds of people; those who live underwater and those who live on the surface. Iv friends, Hikari, Manaka, Chisaki, and Kaname who live underwater begin Academy on the surface and befriend a boy from the surface. He admires the body of water though prejudice and hatred keeps both peoples apart – only not these unlikely friends.

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fifteen. Kiznaiver

In Kiznaiver, babyhood friends Katsuhira and Chidori are made into lab rats in a fashion when they are kidnapped and forced into the Kizuma System. In the system, they are matched with four other teens who are bound together by each other'southward pain. If one feels pain, the others will feel the same pain. The problem – Katsuhira feels no physical or emotional hurting!

16. Bakuman

A author and a graphic artist get more than classmates, they get best friends when Akito, the author, asks Moritaka almost helping him to create the best manga series in the history of Japan. At first Moritaka refuses but then he thinks that past becoming a super famous manga artist, he simply might land the girl of his dreams by asking her to bring together the pair as the serial vocalization-over actor. That begins the tight partnership between the two artists in Bakuman.

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17. Orange

When 16 year old Naho receives a letter from her 26 year old self, her present life takes on a whole new meaning. The letter warns her about the time to come and aims to assistance her correct future mistakes in Orangish. Her future self tells her in the letter to lookout a new student, Kakeru, whose life may depend on what she does now.

18. Hachimitsu to Clover

Hachimitsu to Clover (Dear and Clover) is a truthful coming of historic period story as the series follows 5 college friends who discover love while growing into adulthood. Yuuta, Takumi, Shinobu, Hagumi, and Ayumi go through enormous changes until eventually they all go their own separate ways, yet the bond of their friendship endures long afterward they part.

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xix. One Piece

Luffy doesn't start out with a gang of friends when he sets out to get Pirate King in I Slice. The One Piece that he and all other pirates are searching for is a priceless treasure and fame. Though he is mostly in it for the adventure, he and his crew – all of whom become his friends and partners in the chance –work together to assistance Luffy go Pirate King by finding the One Piece.

20. Natsume Yuujinchou

The one time friendless Natsume is haunted by aroused restless spirits who take been bound in a volume by his dead grandmother after she put them under her command in Natsume Yuujinchou (Natsume's Book of Friends). Once he discovers why he's being haunted, he uses the Book of Friends in social club to give the ghosts back their names – freeing them and opening him up to true friendship.

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