Top 10 Romance Anime To Watch If You Love 'You and I Are Polar Opposites'

[00:00] So, You and I Are Polar Opposites is

[00:02] done, and you're already missing that

[00:03] whole thing where two people who should

[00:05] have nothing in common somehow make the

[00:07] most wholesome couple of the season.

[00:09] Don't worry, I'm here to solve it. Here

[00:11] are 10 romance anime to watch if you

[00:13] love polar opposites. Let's go.

[00:39] In the supernatural world, creatures

[00:41] exist alongside regular humans. Morihito

[00:44] Otogi is just a normal high school guy,

[00:46] except he secretly comes from an ogre

[00:48] lineage. Yes, you heard that right. His

[00:51] [music] quiet life gets completely

[00:52] flipped when his childhood friend, Niko

[00:55] Wakatsuki, a witch in training, moves in

[00:58] and declares him her familiar. Niko is

[01:00] loud, clumsy, and completely gone

[01:02] [music] for Morihito. He's calm,

[01:04] composed, and everything dense about it.

[01:06] And her magic [music] keeps

[01:07] spectacularly backfiring, which makes

[01:09] everything so much worse.

[01:15] >> [music]

[01:18] >> Which Witch is basically what You and I

[01:20] Are Polar Opposites would look like if

[01:22] you threw magic and a prophecy into the

[01:24] mix. You've got the outgoing expressive

[01:26] girl hopelessly gone for a composed

[01:28] dense guy who barely notices. Same exact

[01:31] dynamic, just with spell casting

[01:33] disasters layered on top. It's like

[01:35] turning Harry Potter into a regular

[01:37] urban rom-com, and mix that with [music]

[01:38] the polar opposites logic, and it works

[01:41] really well.

[01:50] Takuya Seo is your classic loner otaku,

[01:53] guy who keeps to himself but seems

[01:55] nobody in his class would ever give him

[01:56] the time of day, especially the popular

[01:58] gyaru girls. Then he accidentally

[02:00] reveals his obsession with a certain

[02:02] anime series around two of them, Kotoko

[02:05] and Amane. And it turns out they're way

[02:07] more into it than they ever let on.

[02:09] Suddenly, the guy who thought he was

[02:11] invisible at the center gets some otaku

[02:13] gyaru [music] waifus.

[02:19] If Polar Opposites [music] clicked for

[02:21] you because of the whole completely

[02:23] different people getting pulled into

[02:25] each other's [music] orbits thing, Gals

[02:26] Can't Be Kind to Otaku runs with that

[02:28] idea but cranks their social contrast

[02:31] way up. It's the good old shy guy meets

[02:33] popular girl thing, but with a little

[02:35] bit more relatable twist. And what's

[02:37] really nice is how it isn't just wish

[02:39] fulfillment. Amane, a closet otaku

[02:42] hiding behind her gyaru exterior, gives

[02:44] the show that same hidden personality

[02:47] energy you loved in Tonikawa.

[02:54] Time for some old anime because you know

[02:57] how much I love old anime. It's like

[02:59] living in an old 1700s bungalow.

[03:01] Anyways, Risa Koizumi is the tallest

[03:04] girl in her class and Atsushi Otani is

[03:06] the shortest guy. They've been each

[03:09] other's school comedy duo since day one.

[03:12] Always bickering, always roasting each

[03:14] other. Then Risa goes and develops

[03:16] feelings for Otani, which is a problem

[03:18] because [music] the guy is completely

[03:19] oblivious. And to make matters worse,

[03:21] she's tall, he's short, and he doesn't

[03:23] like it when others call him short.

[03:34] Lovely Complex is one of those timeless

[03:36] romance anime that proves polar

[03:37] opposites don't have to be about

[03:39] personality. [music]

[03:40] Sometimes it's about two people who look

[03:42] completely mismatched on paper but

[03:44] [music] couldn't be more fit for each

[03:46] other. Here it's the height difference

[03:48] doing the heavy lifting, but it's It's

[03:50] that same vibe as Polar Opposites and

[03:52] it's got this little enemies-to-lovers

[03:54] thing going on, too.

[04:06] Tsuyoshi Yano is a second-year high

[04:08] school student with a very specific

[04:10] problem. The universe seems personally

[04:13] out to injure him. Every single day, the

[04:15] guy shows up to class covered in bruises

[04:16] and bandages. Kyoko Yoshida is the

[04:19] relatable class representative, and she

[04:21] is absolutely not okay with this. She

[04:23] starts to nurse the guy, but before long

[04:25] develops a crush on him.

[04:32] Yano Kun's Ordinary Days shares that

[04:34] same warm and funny tone that made You

[04:37] and I Are Polar Opposites so easy to

[04:39] love. Yoshida isn't as loud and

[04:41] extroverted as Suzuki, but she's still

[04:44] got that whole crush thing going for

[04:45] [music] a guy. She is anxious,

[04:47] expressive. Yano is quite an unreadable

[04:50] pairing that works the exact [music]

[04:51] same way Takeo and Suzuki do. And once

[04:53] again, this is more about how they fall

[04:56] in [music] love and not about whether

[04:57] they would fall in love or not.

[05:07] Takeo Gouda, this guy is huge, but also

[05:10] kind and wholesome. But he is not

[05:12] exactly what girls picture as their

[05:14] dream guy. Every girl he's ever liked

[05:16] ends up falling for his best friend Suna

[05:18] instead, the cool, good-looking one.

[05:20] Then one day, Takeo rescues [music] a

[05:22] girl named Rinko Yamato from a groper on

[05:25] a train, and something very unexpected

[05:27] happens. She actually falls for him, not

[05:30] Suna him.

[05:39] >> [crying]

[05:41] >> If You and I Are Polar Opposites made

[05:43] you love a romance where two people who

[05:44] seem like total mismatches turn out to

[05:46] be perfect for each other. My love story

[05:48] takes that idea to its absolute [music]

[05:50] extreme. Takeo and Riko make Miyu and

[05:53] Tani look like an obvious couple. And

[05:56] the best part, they get together early.

[05:58] No dragged out will they, won't they

[06:00] torture here. This is a shojo anime and

[06:02] I never would have thought it was a

[06:04] shojo since shojo always focuses on the

[06:06] attractive male lead. But hey, see how

[06:09] interesting a story could get when you

[06:10] make a difference?

[06:15] >> [screaming]

[06:20] [crying]

[06:22] >> Akane Kinoshita is a college [music]

[06:24] student who just got dumped. Her ex

[06:26] cheated on her with someone he met in an

[06:28] online game, which is some Game of

[06:30] Thrones level betrayal. So she goes

[06:32] venting to some [music] random guild

[06:33] member in that same game called Yamada

[06:35] who replies with a cold I don't care and

[06:38] walks [music] off. Then she runs into

[06:39] him at an offline fan event. He's stoic,

[06:42] unreadable, and somehow still a high

[06:44] school student.

[06:51] Oh come on, if you listened to anything

[06:53] I said, you know the similarity writes

[06:55] itself. Bubly emotional girl, cold stoic

[06:57] unreadable guy. Watching Akane's warmth

[06:59] slowly [music] chip away at Yamada's

[07:01] walls is that exact Miyu and Tani

[07:03] energy. Just with a gaming backdrop

[07:05] instead of [music] a high school

[07:06] classroom. Done by Madhouse, 13

[07:08] episodes, no season 2 announced yet, but

[07:10] it's a nice anime for all you gamers.

[07:23] Oh yeah, time for one of my favorites.

[07:25] Kyo Taro Ichikawa is the type of guy who

[07:27] reads true crime books in the back of

[07:29] the school library and seriously

[07:31] considers eliminating the most popular

[07:33] girl in class. Yeah, he's that kind of

[07:35] middle schooler. The girl in question is

[07:37] Anna Yamada, teen model, effortlessly

[07:39] popular, and somehow always ending up in

[07:41] the same library as Ichikawa.

[07:50] If you and I are polar opposites gives

[07:51] you the softer side of the opposites

[07:53] attract formula, then this makes it even

[07:56] more softer, more cozy, and makes you

[07:58] want to hug a cat and roll on the floor

[07:59] cuddling it. Don't look at me like that.

[08:01] That's the best imagery I could think

[08:02] of. The gap between Ichikawa's dark

[08:04] antisocial inner world and Yamada's

[08:06] whole bright popular exterior is

[08:09] extreme. And watching an edgy guy slowly

[08:11] touching grass and realizing the perfect

[08:13] idol he sees is also not so [music]

[08:15] perfect gives one heck of a great love

[08:18] story.

[08:31] School Rumble is the OG chaos romance

[08:34] anime. Tenma Tsukamoto is a bubbly

[08:36] clueless high school girl completely

[08:38] hung up on her mysterious classmate

[08:40] Karasuma, a guy who seems more

[08:42] interested in curry than actual people.

[08:44] Meanwhile, delinquent biker Harima Kenji

[08:46] has been hopelessly in love with Tenma

[08:48] for ages and cannot figure out how to

[08:50] tell her.

[08:57] Now, this is the fate series of love

[08:59] triangles. Look at this image. [music]

[09:01] Tell me how a human being is supposed to

[09:03] understand this. Put this to an AI and

[09:06] even that will [music] start

[09:07] hallucinating. School Rumble has the

[09:09] same polar opposites anime energy going

[09:12] back in 2004.

[09:14] A whole classroom's [music] worth of

[09:15] mismatched people all in love with the

[09:17] wrong person at the wrong time. Harima

[09:20] and Tenma are basically the original

[09:22] rough guy meets airheaded girl formula,

[09:24] and this, ladies and gentlemen, has some

[09:26] of the best gags and comedic moments I

[09:28] have seen.

[09:36] Kashiyuka doesn't ever shows her

[09:38] emotions. Not a smile, not a frown, not

[09:40] even a flicker of surprise. It's just

[09:42] her face, a completely neutral canvas no

[09:44] matter what happens. Uta on the other

[09:46] hand is basically a walking emoji board,

[09:48] every single thought on his face at full

[09:51] volume. His whole deal is that he keeps

[09:53] trying to prank Kashiwada [music]

[09:54] into showing some kind of reaction. The

[09:56] problem, she already sees it coming

[09:58] every time because his face gives away

[10:01] the whole plan.

[10:07] This is probably the most direct

[10:08] parallel to You and I Are Polar

[10:10] Opposites on this entire list. And it's

[10:12] just pretty much the same premise but

[10:14] with the genders flipped. An expressive

[10:16] guy and an inexpressive girl. It's

[10:18] literally the Mio and Tony setup, just

[10:20] flipped. If Polar Opposites clicked

[10:22] because of how differently these two

[10:23] people handle their feelings for each

[10:25] other, Kashiwada and Uta are basically

[10:27] built for you. A lot of people missed

[10:28] the show when it aired, but this is one

[10:30] of my favorites and I'm really hoping

[10:32] for a season 2.

[10:36] >> [snorts]

[10:45] >> And we're finishing off with something

[10:47] from the same [music] creator. Koyuki

[10:49] Hikawa had a rough time in middle

[10:51] school. Short girl, constant comments

[10:53] about her appearance, and the kind of

[10:55] low-key social torture that makes her

[10:56] depressed. So when high school started,

[10:59] she rebuilt herself. Blonde hair,

[11:00] taller, walls firmly up. Now she's the

[11:03] ice queen of her class and nobody gets

[11:05] close. Then Minato Amamiya, one of the

[11:08] most relentlessly cheerful guys you'll

[11:10] ever see in anime, decides he's going to

[11:13] close that distance anyway. And you can

[11:16] guess why this is my top pick for anyone

[11:18] who finished You and I Are Polar

[11:20] Opposites.

[11:23] >> So good.

[11:27] >> Like I said before, it's created by by

[11:30] same mangaka. Two, the two are related

[11:33] and share the same universes. Three, it

[11:35] has that same art style, [music]

[11:37] character design, and character quirks,

[11:39] but with the genders flipped. Four, it's

[11:41] airing this season, one of the

[11:42] highest-rated anime for a good reason.

[11:45] At this point, the mangaka Agasawa might

[11:48] be the Rumiko Takahashi of modern

[11:50] rom-coms, but hey, let's put that aside

[11:52] and wait for Polar Opposite season 2.