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Plot Summary:
Folks, meet Takashi Kamiyama. Enrolled at Cromartie High, where everybody is a delinquent, Kamiyama is apparently the only non-delinquent in the school. Logically, therefore, he must be the toughest in his class—by the rather twisted logic that only a really tough rabbit would lie down with lions. Thus begins a story that parodies every cliché of tough-guy anime that you've ever heard of, and some you haven't. Oh, and Freddie Mercury is in it, too.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, surreal, not serious, sitcom, shounen, offbeat, parody, campy
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REBORN! (2006)
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Hitman Reborn is the story of Tsunayoshi Sawada, a spineless teenager nicknamed 'No Good Tsuna.' One day a baby hitman shows up & tells Tsuna that he's to become the new boss of a powerful international mafia family. Over time he whips No Good Tsuna into shape to take on the evil Byakuran who wishes to take over the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shounen, exciting, humorous, semi serious, urban fantasy
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Air Gear (2006)
Plot Summary:
Air Gear is a shōnen manga written and illustrated by Ito "Oh Great" Ōgure. Air Gear revolves around the life of Itsuki Minami "Ikki or Crow", also known as "Baby Face", "Lil Crow", and his friends. The story follows their use of Air Treks, an in-universe invention derived from inline skates. Initial sections of the plot carries out the introduction of characters that eventually join Ikki. As the story progresses, it focuses on their roles as Storm Riders and their quest to be on the top of the Trophaeum Tower. Air Gear won the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. The series concluded on May 28, 2012 with Chapter 357.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, serious, scenic, shounen, ecchi, 2d animation, campy
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Great Teacher Onizuka (1999)
Plot Summary:
About Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-gangster member and a virgin. He has one ambition that no one ever expected from him. His solely life purpose is to become the greatest high school teacher ever.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, manga, sitcom, shounen, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Nyan Koi! (2009)
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Nyan Koi! is a manga created by Sato Fujiwara. It started serialization on Flex Comix's free web comic FlexComix Blood on August 10, 2007. An anime adaptation premiered on October 1, 2009 in Japan. North American anime distributor Section23 Films announced that Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series. The complete subtitled set was released on December 14, 2010. The series will be re-released on DVD and Blu-ray with and English dub on September 13, 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, shounen, offbeat, ecchi
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Dream Eater Merry (2011)
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Dream Eater Merry is a Japanese action fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Ushiki Yoshitaka. The series is serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Forward. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by J.C. Staff which aired in Japan between January 7, 2011 and April 8, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, seinen, emotional, captivating, entertaining, light, manga, offbeat
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Beelzebub (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ishiyama High is a school populated entirely by delinquents, where nonstop violence and lawlessness are the norm. However, there is one universally acknowledged rule—don't cross first year student Tatsumi Oga, Ishiyama's most vicious fighter. One day, Oga is by a riverbed when he encounters a man floating down the river. After being retrieved by Oga, the man splits down the middle to reveal a baby, which crawls onto Oga's back and immediately forms an attachment to him. Though he doesn't know it yet, this baby is named Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, or "Baby Beel" for short—the son of the Demon Lord! As if finding the future Lord of the Underworld isn't enough, Oga is also confronted by Hildegard, Beel's demon maid. Together they attempt to raise Baby Beel—although surrounded by juvenile delinquents and demonic powers, the two of them may be in for more of a challenge than they can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, shounen, psychotronic
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Princess Princess (2006)
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The boy-school Ryo transferred has a strange system, “Hime” (princess). a student who is chosen as Hime must be disguised in woman’s clothes at every opportunity in order to add beauty to manly life. Ryo is selected as the candidates for Hime. At first, he refuses, but knowing that Hime has various privileges, he makes up his mind to become it.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized, adult anime, offbeat, realistic
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Kinmoza! (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story begins with Oomiya Shinobu, a 15-year-old, seemingly pure Japanese girl who actually did a homestay in Great Britain. Even after coming back to Japan, she still misses her time overseas. One day, an airmail letter arrives from Alice, the girl in Shinobu's host family in Great Britain. The letter reads: Shinobu, I'm coming to Japan! The Japanese/British girls' mixed comedy follows the lives of Shinobu, Alice, and other girls from both Japan and Great Britain.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized, yaoi, yuri, offbeat, realistic, super sentai
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Upotte!! (2012)
Plot Summary:
At Seishou Academy, girls don’t just wield guns— they ARE guns! In a school where every girl is a lethal weapon gunning for the chance to get their own personal serviceman, more than a few shots are about to be fired between Funko and her classmates. And when their newly recruited human instructor, Genkoku, arrives, he’ll have to learn how to deal with this living arsenal of high caliber cuties if he doesn’t want to get caught in the crossfire of their hair trigger tempers!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, semi serious, captivating, stylized, ecchi, offbeat
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Okami-san and Her Seven Companions (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ryōko Ōkami is a spunky high school girl who is a member of a "fixer" club called the Otogi High School Bank. She fixes the school's problems with her partner Ringo Akai ("Akazukin-chan").
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, seinen, feel good, semi serious, captivating, light, manga, fairy tale, parody
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A Destructive God Sits Next to Me (2020)
Plot Summary:
Koyuki Seri is just trying to have a normal school life, but instead he ends up acting as the straight man to his odd classmate, Hanatori Kabuto. Kabuto is is a delusional high school student, whose fantasies range from believing he is a knight on a journey, to claiming that removing his eyepatch will release a darker alter-ego who he refers to as Michael Offenbarung Dunkelheit. Seri is determined not to let himself get pushed around by Kabuto, but it seems that this will be easier said than done!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, exciting, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, anime, weird, josei
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Nichijou: My Ordinary Life (2011)
Plot Summary:
Follow the adventures of three ordinary girls as they make life’s awkward moments a thousand times worse. Along with a colorful bunch of classmates, they learn their most important lessons the hard way. Meanwhile down the street, a pocket-sized professor makes life difficult for a robot who just wants to be normal. But normal is the last thing you can expect in a town where salmon falls from the sky. In fact, the only thing you can count on is your friends, but even they are totally weird.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, parody, shounen, tsundere
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Magical Sempai (2019)
Plot Summary:
Our MC finds out that his school requires him to join a club and during his reluctant search he stumbles upon Tejina-senpai attempting magic tricks in her clubroom. Tejina-senpai has massive stage fright however and so now that she has an audience her attempts are simply comedic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anime, ecchi, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, hentai
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Hatsukoi Limited. (2009)
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Ayumi and her friends are all just entering the eighth grade, as, one by one, they discover that love is infectious and you can catch it from anyone! Now Ayumi's torn between two brothers, Koyoi has an altogether different kind of brother issue and budding theatrical impresario Sumire seems ready to do anything to land her leading man. Then there's tom-boy Rika, aspiring artist Nao, Kei, who's very 'mature' for her age and older girl Misaki who really IS more mature.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, uplifting, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, stylized
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Pani Poni Dash! (2005)
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The girls of Class 1-C are starting their tenth-grade year with a new teacher: Becky Miyamoto, an 11-year-old MIT grad! She’s an intellectual titan—but can she handle the temperamental teens and idiotic aliens that await her instruction?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, parody, shounen
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Wolf Girl & Black Prince (2014)
Plot Summary:
Erika Shinohara has taken to lying about her romantic exploits to earn the respect of her new friends. So when they ask for a picture of her "boyfriend," she hastily snaps a photo of a handsome stranger, whom her friends recognize as the popular and kind-hearted Kyouya Sata. Trapped in her own web of lies and desperately trying to avoid humiliation, Erika explains her predicament to Kyouya, hoping he will pretend to be her boyfriend. But Kyouya is not the angel he appears to be: he is actually a mean-spirited sadist who forces Erika to become his "dog" in exchange for keeping her secret. Begrudgingly accepting his deal, Erika soon begins to see glimpses of the real Kyouya beneath the multiple layers of his outer persona. As she finds herself falling for him, she can't help but question if he will ever feel the same way about her. Will Kyouya finally make an honest woman out of Erika, or is she destined to be a "wolf girl" forever?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, touching, captivating, light, feel good, sincere, romantic comedy, super sentai
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D-Frag! (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kazama Kenji likes to believe he is something of a delinquent. Moreover, others seem to like to agree that he is. Of course, Kenji's gang finds their way to a group of four not-so-normal girls—Chitose, Sakura, Minami and Roka—and all at once, whatever reputation he may have is nothing compared to the outrageous behavior of the girls. Shanghaied into joining their club, what will happen to his everyday life from that point on?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, ecchi
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Hidamari Sketch (2007)
Plot Summary:
For years, Yuno has dreamed of attending Yamabuki Arts High School, but now that she's been accepted, it means the scary prospect of moving away from her home and family for the first time! Fortunately, Yuno quickly learns that if her new neighbors at the eclectic Hidamari (Sunshine) Apartments aren't technically family, at least the majority share the bond of being fellow art students. From second year students like Hiro and Sae, who try to behave like helpful older sisters (mostly successfully) to her hyperactive new neighbor, classmate and best friend Miyako (who has the scariest apartment ever) Yuno begins to build the support network she'll need for dealing with strange characters like her oddly masculine landlady, her cosplay obsessed home room teacher, her tooth-chattering principal and all of the other odd denizens who inhabit her chosen world of art.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, yuri, realistic, super sentai
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Medaka Box (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kurokami Medaka is an exceptional first year student at Hanokiwa Academy who got elected as president of the student council with a smashing 98% of the votes. Extremely intelligent, strong, and rich; she wants to help anyone in need. To do that, she introduces a suggestion box that allows any student to contact her. Later known as the Medaka Box, it will bring forth incredible challenges to Kurokami and her friends of the student council.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, exciting, captivating, light, entertaining, ecchi, shounen, semi serious, super sentai
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The World God Only Knows (2010)
Plot Summary:
Keima is a dating sim champion. Cute girls are rendered powerless by his irresistible game playing techniques. Too bad things aren't that way in the real world. That is, until his tempting game playing causes a real live—and very bubbly-cute—demon hunter named Elsie to materialize! Now Elsie wants Keima to help her free hot girls from sneaky demons who secretly possess them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, shounen, offbeat
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Little Busters (2012)
Plot Summary:
Anime film about a group of friends including a kid whose parents were killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, light, captivating, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, super sentai
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Recorder and Randsell (2012)
Plot Summary:
On the surface it seems as if Atsushi is an adult, but really he's just an elementary student! However, he is paired with a second-year high school student Atsumi, whose height is just the opposite of his. These two together create an unusual relationship and will undoubtedly instigate some comedic antics in this slice of life comedy!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, shoujo
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Super GALS! (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sporting designer clothes, make-up, and nails, Ran Kotobuki is the very picture of a trendy, young Shibuya girl, but don't let that fool you. This girl comes from a family of cops, and she’s ready to lay you out flat if you even think about causing trouble in her town! At least, she will... when she’s not distracted with karaoke, shopping, and dodging her homework. Join Ran and her friends as they defend the streets of Shibuya and attempt to shop their way into the history books as the most famous Gals ever!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, realistic
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Kamisama Kiss (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nanami was just a normal high school girl down on her luck until a stranger’s lips marked her as the new Land God and turned her world upside down. Now, she’s figuring out the duties of a deity with the help of Tomoe, a reformed fox demon who reluctantly becomes her familiar in a contract sealed with a kiss. The new responsibilities—and boys—are a lot to handle, like the crow demon masquerading as a gorgeous pop idol and the adorable snake spirit who’s chosen the newly minted god to be his bride. As the headstrong Tomoe tries to whip her into shape, Nanami finds that love just might have cute, pointed fox ears. With romance in the air, will the human deity be able to prove herself worthy of her new title?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, exciting, romantic, humorous, touching, captivating, semi serious
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My Little Monster (2012)
Plot Summary:
Mizutani Shizuku finds peace in her studies. Working hard to stay at the top of the class, alone but focused. When she is tasked with delivering class materials to Yoshida Haru, her world starts to rapidly expand. With some new friends and feelings, will she be able to stay focused on her studies?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, feel good, humorous, light, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy, manga
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Tanaka-kun is Always Listless (2016)
Plot Summary:
This unconventional, surrealist comedy follows an exhausted high school boy who, despite multiple attempts from his friends, still manages to spectacularly... sleep. Much to the chagrin of the energetic (at times bossy) Oota, Tanaka is often found in a blissful state of lethargy, possessing the ability to doze off in any situation, especially in mid-sentence!.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, feel good, light, visually appealing, humorous, sincere, super sentai, iyashikei
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The Most Popular Girls in School (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Most Popular Girls in School (abbreviated MPGIS) is an American stop-motion animated comedy web series that debuted on YouTube on May 1, 2012. Created by Mark Cope and Carlo Moss, the series animates Barbie, Ken and other fashion dolls, usually with customized costumes and hairstyles, as various characters. MPGIS follows the exploits of a fictional high school cheerleading team in Overland Park, Kansas and their friends, family and enemies. Variety described the series as "Mean Girls meets South Park".
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, campy
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Ninja Nonsense (2004)
Plot Summary:
Shinobu is a naive ninja-in-training. In order to test her ninja abilites, she must steal the panties of all the high school girls. The first house she stops at is the abode of one Kaede Shiranui, who happens to catch Shinobu in the act. Kaeda is the voice of reason and the two girls become quick friends, despite a round yellow ball-thing who claims to be a ninja master and tries to get in the way of their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, not serious, tense, sentimental, funny, light, captivating, melancholic, absurd