And if you change your mind and decide you would rather watch something that will inspire a good cry, make you feel a little more connected to the world around us, or be a stress reliever, well, we've got those too.
So here they are The Best Comedy Anime To Watch Right Now.
15. Fairy Tail
Lucy, a 17-year-old girl, sets out on a journey to become a full-fledged wizard and joins the strongest and most famous guild FAIRY TAIL where she meets Natsu, Happy, Gray, and Erza, who treat her more like family than friends.
This epic series takes us through all the dangers that the members of fairy tail face and eventually overcome them through mutual love and friendship.
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
14. Steins; Gate
Steins; Gate is a 2011 anime television series created by the animation studio White Fox based on 5pb. and Nitroplus's 2009 visual novel of the same name, and is part of the Science Adventure franchise along with Chaos; Head and Robotics; Notes.
It is set in 2010 and follows Rintaro Okabe, who together with his friends accidentally discovers a method of time travel through which they can send text messages to the past, thereby changing the present.
The series was directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and Takuya Satō, and written by Jukki Hanada, with animation direction and character design by Kyuuta Sakai, and music by Takeshi Abo.
It aired for 24 episodes and was simulcast in North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Europe by Crunchyroll and in the United Kingdom by Anime on Demand.
A 25th episode was later included with the DVD and Blu-ray releases; these releases were handled by Funimation in North America and by Manga Entertainment in the United Kingdom.
The series has also spawned four original net animation episodes and a film sequel, and Steins; Gate 0, an anime adaptation of the Steins; Gate game's sequel, premiered in 2018.
Steins; Gate was well received by critics: several reviewers liked the story and writing, although some criticized the pacing of the first half.
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Thriller
Episodes 24+1 OVA
13. Oreimo
Kyosuke Kosaka, a normal 17-year-old high school student living in Chiba, has not gotten along with his younger sister Kirino in years.
For longer than he can remember, Kirino has ignored his comings and goings and looked at him with spurning eyes. It seemed as if the relationship between Kyosuke and his sister, now fourteen, would continue this way forever.
One day, however, Kyosuke finds a DVD case of a magical girl anime that had fallen in his house's entranceway. To Kyosuke's surprise, he finds a hidden eroge inside the case and he soon learns that both the DVD and the game belong to Kirino.
That night, Kirino brings Kyosuke to her room and reveals herself to be an otaku with an extensive collection of moe anime and younger sister-themed eroge she has been collecting in secret.
Kyosuke quickly becomes Kirino's confidant for her secret hobby.
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
12. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
To the average person, psychic abilities might seem a blessing; for Kusuo Saiki, however, this couldn't be further from the truth.
Gifted with a wide assortment of supernatural abilities ranging from telepathy to x-ray vision, he finds this so-called blessing to be nothing but a curse.
As all the inconveniences his powers cause constantly pile up, all Kusuo aims for is an ordinary, hassle-free life—a life where ignorance is bliss.
Unfortunately, the life of a psychic is far from quiet. Though Kusuo tries to stay out of the spotlight by keeping his powers a secret from his classmates, he ends up inadvertently attracting the attention of many odd characters, such as the empty-headed Riki Nendou and the delusional Shun Kaidou.
Forced to deal with the craziness of the people around him, Kusuo comes to learn that the ordinary life he has been striving for is a lot more difficult to achieve than expected.
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy
11. Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu
Riko and Rimu Mikogami are twin sisters who live in Kamihama, a Japanese city abundant with natural wonders. On an otherwise peaceful day, while searching for a runaway cat, the two come across a mysterious Kirumin compact in an attic.
With the Kirumin, these character-costume-wearing girls can transform into real animals. Their older sister Nagisa Mikogami soon joins them.
Now the three have cute, funny, and sometimes dangerous adventures while solving a lot of mysteries they encounter.
Kawamori's theme for the anime is: "What if you can really transform into an animal?"
Genre: Magical Girl, Comedy, detective fiction
Episodes: 50
10. Lucky Star
Lucky☆Star follows the daily lives of four cute high school girls—Konata Izumi, the lazy otaku; the Hiiragi twins, Tsukasa and Kagami and the smart and well-mannered Miyuki Takara.
As they go about their lives at school and beyond, they develop their eccentric and lively friendship and making humorous observations about the world around them.
Be it Japanese tradition, the intricacies of otaku culture, academics, or the correct way of preparing and eating various foods—no subject is safe from their musings.
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
9. Cromartie High School
Cromartie High School is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiji Nonaka and published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2000 to May 2006.
It follows the everyday life of Takashi Kamiyama and his odd classmates at Cromartie High School, an infamous school for delinquents.
The series is a parody of Japanese "yankii" manga of the 1970s and 1980s. The style of art resembles Ryoichi Ikegami's works such as Otoko-gumi and Otoko Ōzora.
Both the manga and anime have been released in North America by ADV Manga and ADV Films respectively.
However, the manga was not completely published in North America due to restructuring issues at ADV. Discotek Media has since licensed the anime, after ADV's closing in 2009.
The series aired in the United States on the cable network G4 on its Barbed Wire Biscuit late-night block and on the UK satellite channel Rockworld TV.
The manga won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category.
It was followed by a spin-off sequel titled Cromartie Kōkō Shokuinshitsu in 2018, which was launched on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app.
Genres: Animation | Comedy
Episodes: 26
8. Tamako Market
Tamako Market is a Japanese anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation, directed by Naoko Yamada, and written by Reiko Yoshida.
The series aired in Japan between January 10 and March 28, 2013. The anime has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.
A film sequel, Tamako Love Story, premiered in Japan on April 26, 2014, paired with a short film titled Dera-chan of the Southern Islands.
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Romance
Episodes: 12
7. Level E
Level E is a Japanese comic science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi.
The plot follows the misadventures of alien Prince Baka Ki El Dogra, who crash-lands on Earth and forcibly begins living with high school student and baseball player Yukitaka Tsutsui.
However, Prince Baka gradually realizes that he is targeted by aliens from other planets, and he uses his clever wits to somehow maintain world peace each time.
Along with its short length and more realistic art style, the story of Level E focuses much more heavily on humor than Togashi's more famous shōnen series Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter.
Level E was originally serialized in the Japanese Shueisha magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1995 to 1997 for a total of 16 chapters.
These chapters have since been collected into three volumes, as well as two magazine-style books.
An anime adaptation of Level E directed by Toshiyuki Katō was produced by Pierrot and David Production and aired on TV Tokyo in early 2011.
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Episodes: 13
6. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
On his first day of high school, Kyon meets an eccentric girl named Haruhi Suzumiya, who announces to the class that she is interested only in meeting aliens, time travelers, and espers.
Discontent with the selection of afterschool clubs presented before her, she starts a new club called the SOS Brigade and enlists Kyon, a quiet bookworm named Yuki Nagato, a shy but beautiful junior named Mikuru Asahina, and a grinning and loyal transfer named Itsuki Koizumi.
Each of them except Kyon is secretly part of one of the groups Haruhi desired to meet, and they all must keep a close watch on her. If she ever grows dissatisfied with reality, she may unintentionally destroy the world.
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
5. Kill la Kill
Kill la Kill is a Japanese anime television series produced by Trigger. The series follows vagrant schoolgirl Ryuko Matoi on her search for her father's killer, which brings her into violent conflict with Satsuki Kiryuin, the iron-willed student council president of Honnouji Academy, and her mother's fashion empire.
Ryuko, Satsuki, and others obtain martial arts superpowers from their clothes, which appear to have a will of their own.
The series is Trigger's first original anime television project, directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima, both of whom had previously worked together on Gurren Lagann in 2007 and would go on to work on Promare in 2019.
Kill la Kill was broadcast in Japan on MBS' Animeism programming block between October 2013 and March 2014. An original video animation (OVA) was released as a 25th episode in September 2014.
A manga adaptation by Ryō Akizuki began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from October 2013 to March 2015.
A video game adaptation, titled Kill la Kill the Game: IF, was released in July 2019, with slight deviations from the main storyline of the anime.
In North America, Aniplex of America licensed the anime for a simulcast with a home video release starting in July 2014. The series premiered in the United States on Adult Swim's Toonami block in February 2015.
Genres: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Episodes: 24 + OVA
4. High School DxD
High School DxD is an anime series adapted from the light novels of the same title written by Ichiei Ishibumi and illustrated by Miyama-Zero.
Produced by TNK, directed by Tetsuya Yanagisawa, and written by Takao Yoshioka, the anime aired on AT-X from January 6, 2012, to March 23, 2012. Set during the struggle among the devils, fallen angels, and angels, the story follows the adventures of Issei Hyodo.
Issei is a perverted high school student who is killed by his first date, who is revealed to be a fallen angel. He is revived by Rias Gremory, who is a crimson-haired school beauty that is actually a devil and becomes her servant.
The first season adapts material from the first two volumes of the light novels and a few side stories from Volume 8.
Genres: Action | Comedy | Fantasy
3. Gurren Lagann
Gurren Lagann, known in Japan as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, is a Japanese mecha anime television series animated by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami.
It ran for 27 episodes on TV Tokyo between April and September 2007. It was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by veteran playwright Kazuki Nakashima.
Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome, who forces mankind to live in isolated subterranean villages.
The plot focuses on two teenagers, Simon and Kamina, who live in a subterranean village and wish to go to the surface.
Using a mecha known as Lagann, Simon and Kamina reach the surface and start fighting alongside other humans against Lordgenome's forces, before fighting the forces of their true enemy.
In North America, although initially announced to be licensed by ADV Films in 2007, the license was transferred to Bandai Entertainment in 2008 and then transferred to Aniplex of America in 2013.
In the United Kingdom, it was licensed by Manga Entertainment in 2007, then transferred to Beez Entertainment in 2008, and then transferred to Anime Limited in 2013.
The Sci-Fi Channel acquired the broadcasting rights of Gurren Lagann and began airing the anime in July 2008, as part of Sci Fi's Ani-Monday anime block.
The anime won several awards at the Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Animation Kobe and Japan Media Arts Festivals.
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy
Episodes: 27
2. Mr. Osomatsu
Mr. Osomatsu is a 2015 Japanese comedy anime television series by Pierrot, based on Fujio Akatsuka's 1962 manga series, Osomatsu-Kun.
Celebrating Akatsuka's eightieth birthday, the series follows the sextuplet Matsuno brothers from the original series as adults and features more adult-oriented humor compared to the original series.
The series aired in Japan between October 2015 and March 2016, with a special episode airing in December 2016. A second season aired between October 2017 and March 2018.
A third season premiered in October 2020. Both seasons have been licensed in the Americas by Viz Media. A manga adaptation by Masako Shitaro began serialization in Shueisha's You magazine in January 2016. An anime film premiered on March 15, 2019.
Genres: Animation | Comedy
Episodes: 73 + 1 Special
1. Gintama
In the early 17th century, Japan adopted strict isolation policies and severed almost all ties with foreign countries.
In 1853, the US fleet commanded by Admiral Perry forced the doors open, leading to a modernization of the nation's sociopolitical systems and the eventual fall of the Shogunate.
The samurai regime ended its life with the imperial restoration in 1868. That's what history tells, but in Gintama, that's not what happens.
Instead of the US fleet, the country is stormed by spaceships coming from four corners of the universe and soon we see it occupied by extraterrestrials.
The Shogunate has become a puppet of alien occupation armies. All samurais have been disarmed and reduced to temp workers with no skills who just try to make ends meet.
Gintama is a story of a handyman named Gintoki, a samurai with no respect for rules set by the invaders, who are ready to take any job to survive.
Genres: Animation | Action | Comedy
No. of episodes: 51
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