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Okay, so I just found out what the second one was. Boy and the Beasts.
Is the first one Flying Witch? Although her staying with her childhood friend is more of a background detail. http://myanimelist.net/anime/31376/Flying_Witch
The first could be an amazing number of things. Going to need more than that
My best guess for the first one would be Ai Yori Aoshi, but Hylarn is right, a ton of romance anime fit that theme
I'm looking for two animes. 1) I only know the basic story for this. A guy has a childhood friend, who's a girl, who comes back into town and stays at his place.
2) I only know a couple of details for this. There's this guy with a sword, a girl, a bunch of animal people, and giant blue whale monsters.
Anyone know what these are? Tell me if you do.