My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999
2023山田くんとLv999の恋をする
Toti: It heads her list. A story that starts inside an online game, two people who meet while playing. Like ours.
Tamy’s world
The romance anime
The list she wrote where nobody knew her
On r/anime someone asked for "hidden romance anime". She answered with ten titles, in order, and closed with "I loved every single one of these 🩷🩷". That list is the closest thing to a ranking of hers that exists, and this is it.
The one she keeps naming
Prism Rondo turns up four times in a single month, across four different subreddits, always because she brought it up.
Recommended 4 times in 1 month
Prism Rondo (Love Through a Prism) isn’t exactly academic rivals to lovers, but there’s definitely an artistic and academic rivalry vibe between the main couple. They push each other to become better artists throughout the story, and I ended up loving it way more than I expected 💙It is from 2026, which means she found it moments ago. And still she works it into every conversation she can: r/anime, r/shoujo, r/AnimeReccomendations, r/RomanceMangaAnime. When she really loves something she cannot hide it.
Her list, in her order
The ten, numbered the way she typed them. The order is hers, not mine.
Prism Rondo
2026プリズム輪舞曲
Toti: The one time she explained herself in detail. What mattered to her was not the romance itself but that the two of them pushed each other to become better artists.
Kamisama Kiss
2012神様はじめました
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
2010会長はメイド様!
Special A
2008S・A スペシャル・エー
I don’t know if all of these qualify as hidden gems, but I don’t see them mentioned very often and I really enjoyed them: Special A, Prism Rondo (Love Through a Prism), 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!, Zenshu, Tamon’s B-Side, The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife, and Lovely Complex 💙
7th Time Loop
2024ループ7回目の悪役令嬢
Zenshu
2025全修。
Tamon’s B-Side
2026多聞くん今どっち!?
The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife
2026透明男と人間女
Lovely★Complex
2007ラブ★コン
Romance she named elsewhere
Three more that were not on that list but show up anyway: one in a stray comment and two on the Facebook pages she has followed forever.
Horimiya
2021ホリミヤ
Miyamura is peak husbando material 🩵
Kimi ni Todoke
2009君に届け
Vampire Knight
2008ヴァンパイア騎士
You like stories where two people get better because they are together. You said it about Prism Rondo without noticing you were also talking about something else.
— Toti, who pays attention 💜Everything in quotation marks was written by her, verbatim and untranslated. Everything else was written by me. The sources are the pages she follows on Facebook and two public archives of her Reddit comments. Nothing about her work, her health or her personal details appears here, on purpose.