Talking about introverted characters, there are numerous introverted characters we absolutely love in anime. Most of them have a sunshine character with them for balance. Their silent observational and listening skills make them unique and relatable most time.
The sunshine character who adopts them plays the main role in communication and it’s just fun to watch how two opposites just become the best duo. Here’s some anime with such amazing plotlines with introverted characters.
10Natsume’s Book of Friends
The story revolves around Takashi Natsume, who was orphaned at a young age. He could always see youkai because of which he was isolated since childhood. He went from one place to another being an orphan. After the long ignorance by people, Natsume shuts himself out from others.
He gets his grandmother Reiko Natsume’s book called The Book of friends with the names of the youkais she defeated. This gives him the power to summon the youkai from the book as he pleases. But Natsume is not a fan of power, so he decided to protect the book instead. As he moves forward, Madara joins him in the form of a cat after making a deal to protect him if he hands over the book after his death.
9Komi Can’t Communicate
Komi-san is popular in school for her beauty. But this gorgeous girl is very mysterious because she doesn’t speak. Hitihito Tadano enters the class, determined to stay out of trouble, and finds himself seated next to Komi-san.
He finds out that the reason for Komi san’s silence is a communication disorder. He decided to help her reach her goal of making one hundred friends in school. Hence started their journey.
8Classroom of the Elite
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji joins a school where the students are divided into classes of four divisions. The students are free to do whatever they want; it almost feels like a dream. But little did they know their actions had not gone unnoticed.
Ayanokoji likes to keep his distance and observes everything around him. While his classmates went on to do whatever they wanted, he observed and deciphered the logic behind this freedom. He was a part of the D class, where all the students considered the worst were dumped. Will he be able to rise in class?
7Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku
Being an otaku is so hard, especially if you are working and people judge you for it. But it won’t be that bad if you have fellow otakus working with you. Narumi was determined not to let her new workmates find her secret that she is an otaku and fujoshi. But her cover was blown when she met her childhood friend Hirotaka at the same workplace.
Hirotaka is into games and rarely talks to anyone. He unveils Narumi’s secret by casually asking her about a meet-up in front of her coworkers. It turns out they are otakus too. The story unveils as they move forward with their secret dating as well as otaku life.
6Horimiya
You might have heard of opposites attract, and Horimiya is the best example of that trope. The cheerful, buoyant Hori meets the gloomy, silent boy Miyamura in class, only for their union to bloom into something beautiful, revealing a different side altogether.
Miyamura has his reason to shut himself from the entire class. He comes with his own deal of secrets. So does Hori. But they prefer to keep their different sides as their little secret. This is Hori’s and Miyamura’s story as they move forth with their sweet little secrets
5My Love Story with Yamada Kun at Lv999
Akane found love in an online game. But he ditched her for another player. Atleast she found herself a game to play along with a broken heart. Even though her ex-boyfriend was not good enough, the game was pretty amazing.
That is when the game launched an event, and Akane decided to pick up her broken heart and visit the event. But nothing went the way she wanted. There he was, her ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend. What’s worse, she fell down in front of all these people. But to her surprise, a young, gloomy boy helps her up. Turns out he is a famous pro gamer, Yamada. Did she find love again in her online game?
4My Dress-Up Darling
Gojo was so obsessed with traditional Japanese Hina doll-making that he was unaware of what his generation did at his age. Well, as we say, all introverts are adopted by a sunshine character; he was adopted by Marin. She was a very lively person and a popular girl at school.
Gojo happens to find Marin’s secret that she loves to cosplay and, hence begins their journey together. Gojo made her costumes and helped her with makeup. He accompanied her every step, and their friendship bloomed into something unexpected.
3I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Shiga loves spending his time being lost in between books. He shut himself from the outside world. He doesn’t even have friends, that his classmates are suspicious of him. But his world shifts after an unexpected encounter with Sakura.
He finds her secret that she is suffering from a pancreatic illness, which cuts down her life. He joins Sakura as she lives the final moments of her life. He changes along the journey as Sakura pulls him out of his gloomy world.
2My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
This anime revolves around Hachiman Hikigaya, a high schooler whose life views differ greatly from his peers. He lives a routine of being indifferent to everyone and alone most of the time. All these changed when he was forced to join a Volunteer Service Club, where he met the ice queen herself, Yukino Yukinoshita, with whom he set out to solve the students’ problems as they ask help.
By doing things contradicting his interests and accessing situations with his pure logic, this anime provides its viewers with a sense of relatability. An introverted high schooler whose views we would find out to be right. This anime is a must-watch for those bored with an OP character always taking the front lines.
1 A Silent Voice
As quoted by someone, “A silent voice isn’t the story about a guy falling in love with a girl, it’s about a guy being able to love himself.” The story follows the life of Shouya Ishida, who bullies the deaf transfer student, Shouko Nishimiya, in their class. His actions don’t go unnoticed, and soon, he is punished for his deeds. Soon after, she leaves the school, and he starts getting bullied. Now filled with regret and guilt, he shuts himself away from everyone.
He gets back in touch with Shouko and asks her to be his friend. The story hereafter shows the feelings that arise between the two and how he starts to open up to his world. Truly a masterpiece, this anime still lives in the hearts of everyone who has seen it.
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