I second Nana!
Title: Nana (obviously)
Genre: Drama, slice of life, music, romance
Synopsis: Nana Komatsu is a 20-year-old woman who constantly falls in love at first sight and is generally undependable and selfish, but when her boyfriend gets into art school in Tokyo, she leaves her hometown to be with him. On the train to Tokyo, she sits next to a woman whom she finds out is the same age as her, is going to be moving into Tokyo as well (to start a band as the audience finds out a little later), and surprisingly is named Nana Osaki. Through a bizarre coincidence, the two Nanas end up living with each other and become close friends despite their completely different personalities, but the more their lives intertwine, the more trouble and strife they experience.
+Great character development and interactions
+Amazing music by Anna Tsuchiya (who plays Nana Osaki's singing voice) and Olivia Lufkin (as the character Reira's singing voice. Speaking voice by Aya Hirano)
+Very tragic and heartwrenching scenes throughout the series
-Story starts off slow, but only because it switches between the origins of the two Nanas at first
I don't watch a lot of romance anime, so I can't really compare it to others. There's a lot of romantic struggles in it though (cheating, breaking up, marriage, etc) along with business and financial struggles for both protagonists.
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