Best 12 Episode Romance Anime New! May 2026

My Love Story!! (24 episodes) – no direct 12-ep substitute. Instead:

A 30-year-old NEET woman plays an MMO as a handsome male character and befriends a shy salaryman who plays as a cute girl – unaware they know each other IRL. best 12 episode romance anime

Two high school delinquents skip class together and slowly drift from friendship into something more. My Love Story

Adachi and Shimamura , Just Because! (ambiguous ending). Two high school delinquents skip class together and

Genius boy Nasa Yuzaki falls in love at first sight, proposes, and gets married immediately – then learns what living together truly means.

Two insomniac high schoolers take over an abandoned observatory to sleep during the day, discovering photography, starlight, and each other.

Two shy middle schoolers, Kotaro and Akane, navigate their first relationship amid the awkwardness of youth, school pressures, and parental expectations.