Anime: Sakurasou no Petto na Kanojo

For a mix of "feels" and "squeals", this series is a good match for you.

In "Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo", "Sakurasou" is a dormitory for problem students of the Suimei University for the Arts Affiliated High school. It means when someone doesn't fit the bill as "normal", they get transferred there from the normal dorms.

And this is where the main male protagonist, Sorata, was unfortunately thrown into as he refused to throw away the stray cats he picked up and kept in the normal dorms. With a normal mind set than his 'artistic' co-inhabitants, which drags him into their weird ruckus everyday, he often refers to this place as a loony bin.

But fate has so much instore for Sorata since the day he met Mashiro, a genius artistic painter who seems like she lives in a world of her own, with not much skill in taking care of herself or interacting through the social norms. Like how he takes in cats, Sorata is forced to take in Mashiro... waking her up, helping her get ready for school, feeding her, doing her laundry, it became known in the dorm as "Mashiro Duty".

With a very well designed animation production and character development, the series advertises itself as a romantic comedy series, but it delves more into facing your insecurities, and personal development. A coming of age story hidden behind a mask of 'slice of life' romance comedy.

If you are hoping for a smooth love story, there are a lot of twists in relationships due to the friction caused by their difference in thinking and talent. Hoping to finally prove themselves, only to be dealt with a flurry of bad hands and twists in circumstances that pull their personal progress to a screeching halt.

But the story makes you anticipate the release of the next episode... keeps you glued to the series until it comes to a final realization..a trip of self discovery of sorts.