Best writing anime
80 anime about writing, ranked by community score. Tags come from AniList voters; the percentage on each title page says how strongly the tag applies.
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3.6Re:CREATORS
TV · 2017 · 22 ep
Re:CREATORSRe:CreatorsTV · 2017 · 22 ep3.6People have created many stories. Joy, sadness, anger, deep emotion. Stories stir up emotion and captivate. However, those emotions are nothing more than the feelings of a spectator. What if the characters in the stories had their own…
3.6Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
Movie · 2021 · 1 ep
Words Bubble Up Like Soda PopCider no You ni Kotoba ga WakiagaruMovie · 2021 · 1 ep3.6Cherry is a quiet boy who loves to make haikus based off of the things he sees. One summer day in a city in the Japanese countryside… At a shopping mall, he meets Smile, a beautiful girl in a mask. Cherry has trouble speaking in anything…
3.6After the Rain
TV · 2018 · 12 ep
After the RainKoi wa Ameagari no You niTV · 2018 · 12 ep3.6Akira Tachibana was once the ace of a track club, but an injury forced her to quell her passion for sports. Masami Kondou, a divorced father, had ambitions of being a writer and now manages a restaurant, where Akira works. It is the…
3.6Blue Literature Series
TV · 2009 · 12 ep
Blue Literature SeriesAoi Bungaku SeriesTV · 2009 · 12 ep3.6Anthology series adapting six modern classics of Japanese literature: No Longer Human ( Ningen Shikkaku ) by Dazai Osamu — A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse…
3.6Mob Psycho 100 REIGEN The Miraculous Unknown Psychic
Special · 2018 · 1 ep
Mob Psycho 100 REIGEN The Miraculous Unknown PsychicMob Psycho 100: Reigen - Shirarezaru Kiseki no ReinouryokushaSpecial · 2018 · 1 ep3.6Reigen Arataka, the GREATEST psychic of the 21st century, tells us the 100% true, never before seen story behind some of his greatest supernatural feats. The world renowned psychic narrates his tell-all book in a retelling of the events in…
3.6With You and the Rain
TV · 2025 · 12 ep
With You and the RainAme to Kimi toTV · 2025 · 12 ep3.6On a rainy day, Fuji meets a cute critter posing as a dog and offering an umbrella and a cue card that says, “Please take me home” and she can’t resist. With this dog-poster’s quirky charm and mysterious ways, life together becomes a…
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3.6R.O.D -THE TV-
TV · 2003 · 26 ep
R.O.D -THE TV-R.O.D: The TVTV · 2003 · 26 ep3.6Five years have passed since the occurrence of the incident known as the "Human Annihilation Mission." In Japan, a novelist is dealing with writer's block after her friend has gone missing. In Hong Kong, three sisters, masters in the use…
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3.6No Longer Human
Movie · 2009 · 1 ep
No Longer HumanNingen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-banMovie · 2009 · 1 ep3.6A theatrical film version of Madhouse's Aoi Bungaku Series anime. The film will re-edit the four episodes based on Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) novel, which have character designs inspired by manga artist and novel…
3.6Comic Girls
TV · 2018 · 12 ep
Comic GirlsTV · 2018 · 12 ep3.6The manga's story centers on the 15-year-old high school student and manga creator Kaoruko Moeta, who uses the pen name Chaos. After ranking at the bottom of a reader survey, Kaoruko's editor recommends that she enter an all-female…
3.6Letter Bee
TV · 2009 · 25 ep
Letter BeeTegamibachiTV · 2009 · 25 ep3.6Gauche Suede is on his last delivery before a big promotion. In the outskirts of Yodaka, the darkest area of Amberground, Gauche is surprised to find that the package is a young boy named Lag Seeing. Lag had been traumatized by his…
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3.6A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMA
TV · 2026 · 12 ep
A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMAAwajima HyakkeiTV · 2026 · 12 ep3.6At Awajima Opera School, girls from across Japan strive to earn a place on stage. Wakana is driven by her love of musical theater, while Kinue studies with quiet discipline. Scholarship student Emi draws attention from all—but especially…
3.6My Daddy Long Legs
TV · 1990 · 40 ep
My Daddy Long LegsWatashi no Ashinaga OjisanTV · 1990 · 40 ep3.6Daddy Long Legs is based on the novel of the same name by Jean Webster. It chronicles the adventures of Judy Abbott, an orphan in New York. During a meeting for the superintendent, with other important and rich people in attendance, a…
3.5O Maidens in Your Savage Season
TV · 2019 · 12 ep
O Maidens in Your Savage SeasonAraburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo.TV · 2019 · 12 ep3.5The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind…
3.5No Longer Allowed in Another World
TV · 2024 · 12 ep
No Longer Allowed in Another WorldIsekai ShikkakuTV · 2024 · 12 ep3.5Pulled into an otherworldly adventure with cute sidekicks and superpowers, you’d think Osamu hit the jackpot. Nope! From a time before pixels, the early 20th-century gloomy author just wants to find a quiet place to meet his maker, not to…
3.5Tales of Little Women
TV · 1987 · 48 ep
Tales of Little WomenAi no Wakakusa MonogatariTV · 1987 · 48 ep3.5Meg, faithful and gentle, Jo, independent and energetic, Beth, quiet and shy, Amy, amiable and precocious–the four sisters live vigorously and happily at home with their gentle mother while waiting for their father to return from the…
3.5A Sister's All You Need.
TV · 2017 · 12 ep
A Sister's All You Need.Imouto sae Ireba Ii.TV · 2017 · 12 ep3.5The story follows the everyday life of Itsuki, a novelist and "modern day Pygmalion" who works day in and day out to create the ultimate younger sister. He's surrounded by various other characters: a beautiful genius writer who loves him…
3.5Junjo Romantica 2
TV · 2008 · 12 ep
Junjo Romantica 2Junjou Romantica 2TV · 2008 · 12 ep3.5With the return of love, drama, and pure-hearted romance, we return to the troubled couples, focusing on the parallels between each of their relationships. Misaki Takahashi thought that Haruhiko Usami was a handful, until a new love…
3.5Junjou Romantica 3
TV · 2015 · 12 ep
Junjou Romantica 3TV · 2015 · 12 ep3.5Junjou Romantica 3 follows the ongoing story of three couples: The Romantica relationship between college student Misaki Takahashi and his tutor, Akihiko Usami. The stormy Egoist couple—Professor Hiroki Kamijou, a tsundere, doted on by…
3.5Yes! Precure 5
TV · 2007 · 49 ep
Yes! Precure 5TV · 2007 · 49 ep3.5Yumehara Nozomi, a regular student, finds a magical book called the Dream Collet in the library and meets Coco and Nuts, two creatures from the Palmier Kingdom. They plead with Nozomi to restore their world, which has been destroyed by an…
3.5Spring and Chaos
Special · 1996 · 1 ep
Spring and ChaosIhatov Gensou: Kenji no HaruSpecial · 1996 · 1 ep3.5A unique biographical sketch of the life of the great modern Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa, SPRING AND CHAOS is highly stylized and intense and draws on Miyazawa's writing techniques to tell his life story. Miyazawa often used animals as…
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3.5The Mystic Archives of Dantalian
TV · 2011 · 12 ep
The Mystic Archives of DantalianDantalian no ShokaTV · 2011 · 12 ep3.5Hugh Anthony Disward inherits an old mansion and a personal library from his grandfather. In the basement of the mansion, he meets a mysterious girl, Dalian. She is a Dantalian and a gateway to "Dantalian's bookshelf", which stores the…
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3.5"Bungaku Shoujo" Movie
Movie · 2010 · 1 ep
"Bungaku Shoujo" MovieMovie · 2010 · 1 ep3.5The protagonist of the story, Konoha Inoue, is a seemingly normal senior high 2nd year student. His high school life, other than a hinted incident 2 years ago, can be summed up as normal- if one can dismiss the secret fact that he used to…
3.5Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.: Menma e no Tegami
Special · 2012 · 1 ep
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.: Menma e no TegamiSpecial · 2012 · 1 ep3.5Special Picture Drama episode included on the Anohana Fes. Memorial DVD/Blu-ray Box
3.5Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!
TV · 2008 · 48 ep
Yes! Precure 5 GoGo!TV · 2008 · 48 ep3.5A direct continuation of the former season, this series again follows the story of Nozomi Yumehara and her friends from Precure 5. The girls who had formerly lost their powers and bade farewell to their friends Coco and Nuts from Palmier…
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3.4In/Spectre
TV · 2020 · 12 ep
In/SpectreKyokou SuiriTV · 2020 · 12 ep3.4At the young age of 11, Kotoko Iwanaga was abducted by youkai for two weeks and asked to become their "God of Wisdom," a mediator between the spirit and human worlds, to which the girl quickly agreed but at the cost of her right eye and…
3.4Kaze no Shoujo Emily
TV · 2007 · 26 ep
Kaze no Shoujo EmilyTV · 2007 · 26 ep3.4Emily is an orphan who gets sent to live with her relatives on Prince Edward Island, after her father dies. In New Moon she lives with her Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Laura, and Cousin Jimmy, and learns to adapt with the help of her imagination…
3.4When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace
TV · 2014 · 12 ep
When Supernatural Battles Became CommonplaceInou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka deTV · 2014 · 12 ep3.4The five members of the literature club awakened with extraordinary powers half a year ago. Although the members expected to be thrown into a world of super-powered battles at their school, their normal daily routine continued. No secret…
3.3Mysterious Disappearances
TV · 2024 · 12 ep
Mysterious DisappearancesKaii to Otome to KamikakushiTV · 2024 · 12 ep3.3Sumireko Ogawa’s dream of becoming a novelist is reinvigorated with new rumors of mystical incidents. Now a clerk at a bookstore, she enlists her young coworker, Ren Adashino, to investigate urban legends, black magic, and ghost stories…
3.3Junjo Romantica
TV · 2008 · 12 ep
Junjo RomanticaJunjou RomanticaTV · 2008 · 12 ep3.3Three very different couples caught up in a storm of pure romance! Romantica: Misaki is struggling to prepare for his college entrance exams, so his brother arranges for a private tutor. But Misaki's nightmare is just beginning when his…
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3.3The Grimm Variations
ONA · 2024 · 6 ep
The Grimm VariationsGrimm KumikyokuONA · 2024 · 6 ep3.3Once upon a time, brothers Jacob and Wilhelm collected fairy tales from across the land and made them into a book. They also had a much younger sister, the innocent and curious Charlotte, who they loved very much. One day, while the…
3.3Magic of Stella
TV · 2016 · 12 ep
Magic of StellaStella no MahouTV · 2016 · 12 ep3.3Tamaki's really excited about going to high school, but she's not sure what kind of club she wants to join… until she meets three girls who are making their own computer games! Remembering how she loved making board games when she was…
3.3Oreimo
TV · 2010 · 12 ep
OreimoOre no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga NaiTV · 2010 · 12 ep3.3Kousaka Kyousuke, a normal 17-year-old high school student living in Chiba, has not gotten along with his younger sister Kirino in years. For longer than he can remember, Kirino has ignored his comings and goings and looked at him with…
3.3Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
TV · 2024 · 13 ep
Sakuna: Of Rice and RuinTensui no Sakuna-himeTV · 2024 · 13 ep3.3Two realms exist in the ancient land of Yanato: the Lofty Realm, where gods reside, and the Lowly Realm, where humans reside. Princess Sakuna was the daughter of the god of war and goddess of harvest, but she led a lazy life. One day, she…
3.2Ao-chan Can't Study!
TV · 2019 · 12 ep
Ao-chan Can't Study!Midara na Ao-chan wa Benkyou ga DekinaiTV · 2019 · 12 ep3.2Most high school girls would be proud that their father is a famous writer, but Ao Horie’s father is an EROTIC writer, a purveyor of pornographic prose. He’s authored hundreds of dirty books and it has definitely warped his twisted…
3.2Kinokoinu Mushroom Pup
TV · 2024 · 12 ep
Kinokoinu Mushroom PupKinoko InuTV · 2024 · 12 ep3.2Picture book author Hotaru Yuuyami lost his beloved dog, Hanako. He was in the depths of a dark and deep sadness, regretting his inability to do anything about it. One day, he notices a pink mushroom growing under the snow willow tree in…
3.0Dog & Scissors
TV · 2013 · 12 ep
Dog & ScissorsInu to Hasami wa TsukaiyouTV · 2013 · 12 ep3.0Harumi Kazuhito could spend days at a time with his head buried in his beloved books, and little would make him happier than perusing the pages of his favorite author. Unfortunately, when Harumi gets himself killed, he inexplicably finds…