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Osananajimi

: 幼馴染 【おさななじみ】
A commonly-used term in romantic anime, an osananajimi is a friend from infancy, a childhood friend or old playmate with whom one shares the special and intimate understanding that (according to such stories) can only come from having known each other since earliest childhood.

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