Enrico Pocchini is a kind-hearted schoolboy with a strong sense of justice who lives in the Italian town of Torino. As a new term starts, he loses his beloved teacher, Miss Delacci, who is replaced by the stern Sr. Pelboni. Eventually, the boys in Enrico's class come to respect Sr. Pelboni, and learn about love, life and human kindness.
Ai no Gakkou Cuore Monogatari has finished airing and it has 26 Episodes. It is also Known as: 愛の学校 クオレ物語, School of Love: Heart's Story, The Tale of Cuore
Genres: Italy , Slice of Life , Europe , Coming Of Age , Past , School Life , Historical
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5. Kimitachi wa Dou Ikiru ka

A young boy named Mahito, yearning for his mother, ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
The Boy and the Heron has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 君たちはどう生きるか, きみたちはどういきるか, How Do You Live?, Kimi-tachi wa Dou Ikiru ka, Kimi tachi wa Dou Ikiru ka, Il ragazzo e l’airone, Chłopiec i czapla, Le Garçon et le Héron, Gutten og hegren, Pojken och hägern, Poika ja haikara, El chico y la garza, O Rapaz e a Garça
4. Akage no Anne

Anne is an orphan full of imagination. When she arrives at her new home she learns that sometimes you have to be a sensible person too; at the same time her unique character changes, or at least attracts, the people around her. The story covers Anne's growth from about eleven to seventeen years old as she makes friends, goes to school and studies. At a difficult point in her life, Anne will have to make a hard choice and perhaps find a new dream.
Anne of Green Gables has finished airing and it has 50 Episodes. It is also Known as: 赤毛のアン, Sekai Meisaku Gekijou, Red haired Anne, Anne the Redhead
3. Hadashi no Gen

It's the summer of 1945. 3 years have elapsed since the war between Japan and USA began. Gen is a young boy living a struggling yet satisfying life in the city of Hiroshima, that has been strangely spared by the bombing taken in almost every other Japanese City. Food is scarce, and Gen's family is suffering from severe malnutrition, which endangers his pregnant mother. There isn't much spare time as Gen and his little brother Shinji help their father and mother at work and try to make sure their family survives the tough times. Little do they know, what the Americans have in store for the city of Hiroshima and as of the 6th of August 1945, their lives are about to change dramatically.
Barefoot Gen has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: はだしのゲン, Gen of Hiroshima
2. Romeo no Aoi Sora

To get the money to pay for a doctor for his father, Romeo bravely sells himself as a chimney sweep. On the way to Milan he meets Alfredo, a mysterious boy on the run heading to the same fate. Upon being separated and sold to their new bosses, the two boys swear eternal friendship. Romeo has to learn the hardships of a chimney sweep's job. His boss' daughter, Angeletta, is a girl with a heart illness who is not allowed to leave her room. She asks Romeo to bring the blue sky to her. Alfredo unites the sweeps in a secret union, the "Black Brothers" to face together the "Wolf Pack" gang, who constantly attack them. With their help, Romeo succeeds in bringing Angeletta's dream to her. Soon the brotherhood faces more hardships than cruel bosses or street hooligans. Alfredo reveals his secret: he has sold himself in the name of his sister Bianca. It is now up to the "Black Brothers" to stand up for the truth, to save Bianca and to protect their leader's life with their own.
Romeo and the Black Brothers has finished airing and it has 33 Episodes. It is also Known as: ロミオの青い空, Sekai Meisaku Gekijou, Romeo's Blue Skies, Romio no Aoi Sora
1. The Wind Rises

Although Jirou Horikoshi's nearsightedness prevents him from ever becoming a pilot, he leaves his hometown to study aeronautical engineering at Tokyo Imperial University for one simple purpose: to design and build planes just like his hero, Italian aircraft pioneer Giovanni Battista Caproni. His arrival in the capital coincides with the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, during which he saves a maid serving the family of a young girl named Naoko Satomi; this disastrous event marks the beginning of over two decades of social unrest and malaise leading up to Japan's eventual surrender in World War II.
The Wind Rises has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: Kaze Tachinu, 風立ちぬ, Kaze Tachinu