 If you liked
ef: A Tale of Memories.
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Kuzu no Honkai
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Stories of school students seeking emotional connections with others through romance, but without an understanding of romance. They'll constantly hurt each other and themselves in trying to overcome past and present trauma. Both anime have stylized visualizations of their characters' emotional states, and both anime will have their characters go out of their way to make themselves suffer via short-sighted decisions intended to soothe their emotional wounds. These aren't fun to watch, but they're nonetheless interesting if just to see different ways trauma can be represented in a visual artform.