The 20 Best NTR Betrayal Animes

NTR animes are a genre of anime that involves the betrayal of a couple. In this article, we will see the best-known NTR animes that viewers tie to Netorare; Netsuzou Trap is a series of its own, with NTR in the subtitle.

For those who don't know, NTR is the abbreviation for Netorare. The word comes from 寝取られ and means having a partner taken away. If you want to know more, we recommend reading: Netorare: Unraveling the Japanese betrayal genre

Animes of this genre tend to generate strange feelings in viewers, usually involving hatred for the characters, sometimes mixed feelings, but it is a sensation that makes some seek more. We will cover a list of the titles we consider the most interesting. Anyone who wants that same betrayal placed in Japanese married life can read Betrayal, infidelity, and divorce in Japanese marriage.

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Kuzu no Honkai

Hanabi Yasuraoka, the main character of the work, used to spend a good part of her time with Narumi Kanai, her childhood friend who is now her teacher.

Hanabi gradually develops admiration and strong feelings for him. Kanai sees her more as a little sister and is drawn to the music teacher Akane Minagawa. The girl meets Mugi Awaya, who also loves Akane. The two start dating to fill the emptiness. Later Sanae Ebato, Hanabi's school friend, enters the picture. A strong recommendation for those who expect to see Netorare.

School Days

Makoto Itou, an ordinary high school student living in Haramihama (a fictional city), notices a girl he is in love with, named Kotonoha Katsura, while taking the train to school.

Gradually, he meets another student during the organized seat changes in the study environment, Sekai Saionji, with whom he also ends up creating a more intimate relationship. The infidelity spreads until almost no one comes out unhurt.

White Album 2

The narrative features several characters involved in the same plot. Everything revolves around the members of a band, which is dividing among its members.

Kazusa Touma and Setsuna Ogiso play with Haruki Kitahara at a big festival. After the big performance, Setsuna confesses to Haruki and they start dating. That creates a fracture, because Haruki is also attached to Kazusa.

Nozoki Ana

The anime describes the love life of Tatsuhiko Kido, an art student who moves to Tokyo. He starts spying on his neighbor's apartment and notices Emiru Ikuno doing something intimate.

Unfolding into an anime about mutually spying through a hole in the partition of their apartments.

Sometimes they both get involved, but act normally, each living their lives, but gradually Kido realizes some feelings for Emiru.

Rumbling Hearts - Kimi ga Nozomu Eien

The anime shows the connection between Haruka Suzumiya and Mitsuki Hayase, great friends. One day Haruka asks her friend to help her get closer to Takayuki Narumi, a boy she really likes.

Over time, she confesses to Takayuki, and they start dating. Then, Haruka suffers a horrible accident, which puts her in a coma for three long years.

A romantic drama that extends to show the evolution of the characters in various details, including the characters getting older, while Mitsuki's bond with Takayuki moves to the foreground.

Peach Girl

The work revolves around Momo Adachi. When she arrives at her new school, she meets Sae Kashiwagi, with whom she becomes friends. Momo is secretly in love with Kazuya Tojigamori, but Sae is jealous of Momo and will do everything to prevent her from being happy.

Momo tans easily, and she never tried anything with Toji because she thought the boy wouldn't be interested in someone like her.

Kairi Okayasu, one of the most sought-after boys in school, is actually very interested in her. Sae twists rumors until Toji and Kairi fall into the same conflict.

Netsuzou Trap

The anime revolves around Yuma Okazaki and Hotaru Mizushina, two childhood friends who are now in their second year of high school. Hotaru suggests some things for Yuma to attract her boyfriend more, and the help culminates in a kiss from Hotaru, who tells her that she certainly knows how to kiss a boy.

After some time reflecting on the kiss, Yuma realizes that kiss was even better than the one from her boyfriend. Things start to take another turn and Yuma begins to fear that her boyfriend will find out what is happening between the two girls.

Nana

Nana tells the story of two young women who end up being united by fate. On a train they both board together, they notice that their tickets have the same name written on them. The girls start to interact and despite the name, each has her unique and opposite personality.

One arrives in Tokyo in search of studying and the other has a dream of becoming a punk singer.

The work unfolds showing both having to live together and their lives intertwining more and more. Infidelity keeps showing up around Ren, Takumi, and Reira, and it tears at the shared apartment. Readers who want romances without that break can start with the 100 Romance Animes.

Yosuga no Sora

The anime tells the story of Kasugano Haruka, an orphan who has a twin sister named Kasugano Sora.

In mourning for the death of their parents, Haruka spent most of his time at home, unable to get used to and adapt to the new place.

However, he overcomes part of his pain when he starts a friendship with Ryouhei, Akira, Nao, and Kazuha. You will certainly find a lot of Netorare in this anime, especially in the routes where one bond crowds out another. More explicit ecchi titles sit among the best ecchi animes of all time.

Koi to Uso

Koi to Uso, which in Japanese means Love and Lies, narrates a Japan where the government decides who you will marry. Since the birth rate is very low, the anime revolves around Yukari Nejima, who has been completely in love with his classmate Misaki Takasaki since childhood.

Then Ririna Sanada appears, the girl chosen by the government for him, while another person still feels repressed passions for the boy. A super intriguing anime that may leave some discussing its ending. The same forced marriage is covered more fully in Animes of Love of Lies and Forced Marriage: False Romances.

Sakura Trick

The story of the anime tells the life of Yuu Sonoda and Haruka Takayama, who see that the school they have always attended is going to close. Both decide to do something unusual, resulting in a kiss between the two.

Thus unfolding into something more intense between the girls, who start to get closer and closer during the anime. The piece lives on those kisses and belongs to yuri; similar starting points sit among the best Yuri and Shoujo-ai Animes to watch.

Domestic na Kanojo

Natsuo Fujii finds himself in love with his teacher Hina Tachibana. He then tries to get closer and closer to her. In the meantime, a girl named Rui Tachibana appears, with whom he unexpectedly loses his virginity. Natsuo discovers that his father is going to marry Hina's mother, who is also Rui's mother, so the two sisters become his stepsisters.

The three live under one roof, and each new bond hurts another. That is what makes the title interesting for viewers who want Netorare inside a family drama.

Kimi no Iru Machi

The work revolves around Haruto Kirishima and Yuzuki Eba. Yuzuki leaves Tokyo for a city in the countryside, in the rural area, the city where her father lives. Haruto's father accepts Yuzuki to live in his house, but Haruto finds it strange and doesn't like that decision, since to him Yuzuki was a stranger.

Another factor that makes the young man oppose the decision is the fact that he is already dating a girl his age, thinking that this would certainly cause a lot of headaches and misunderstandings.

Strawberry Panic!

The anime shows the life of young teenagers who are part of three affiliated schools, known as Spica, Miator, and Lulim.

The central heroine of the narrative is Aoi Nagisa, who ends up falling down a hill and becoming completely disoriented from the place she was in. She then meets Shizuma Hanazono, who helps her.

This connects the girl to other characters, who start dating, where the plot unfolds in these relationships.

Maria-sama ga Miteru

The anime narrates the life of Yumi Fukuzawa, a student at Lillian Girls' Academy, a school for Catholic students. The girl is invited to be a Soeur.

She is invited by Sachiko Ogasawara, someone she has always admired. A work with some doses of comedy and fanservice and some peaks of action, however, it is a work that focuses more on the central emotions of the main characters than on a partner being taken.

Berserk

A very popular work that narrates the life of Guts, who encounters a mercenary group known as the Band of the Falcon, from which he makes deals with the leader, Griffith, a utilitarian friendship that generates benefits for both parties.

Although Berserk does not focus on Netorare, there are occurrences that evoke revolting feelings in anyone following the narrative. Griffith sacrifices the Falcons; Casca carries the worst humiliation.

Okusama wa Joshi Kousei

It revolves around the life of Asami Onohara, a seventeen-year-old high school girl who ends up marrying her physics teacher, Kyosuke Ichimaru.

As expected, this is not the kind of thing accepted by society, so they end up needing to hide this marriage.

They are already married. Asami's father forbids them from having sex until graduation, and the tension comes from that secrecy and from third parties getting involved.

Boku dake ga Inai Machi (Erased)

Satoru Fujinuma discovers that he is back in the past, in his childhood. While traveling to the past, he remembers that a student, Kayo Hinazuki, was murdered during that time by a mysterious criminal.

Satoru also tries to uncover the story of the murder in the past until he finds the culprit. Over time, Satoru develops a deeper relationship with Kayo, but the series stays a crime story about the childhood murders.

Ginen Shounen - Manga

When Matataki Tokita, a high school student and member of the photography club, discovers that he can predict the future with his camera, he uses it to see the girl he has always liked, thus capturing an unexpected scene.

The girl he has always liked, Mirai, was kissing someone else, in front of a bell that, according to popular beliefs, would join those who kissed there forever. One note, this work is a bonus, as it can only be found in manga version: four volumes by Junpei Gotou in Shonen Sunday Super, from 2009 to 2010.

The titles above sit on a spectrum. School Days, Kuzu no Honkai, White Album 2, and Netsuzou Trap put the taking of a partner in the foreground. Nana, Sakura Trick, or Erased work with infidelity, jealousy, or entirely different conflicts.

If you are looking for Netorare, you notice quickly which work actually carries that mix of hatred and fascination. That strange mix is what made this list worth putting together for us.