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Plot Summary:
The story follows Hime Arikawa, whose absent parents have left him saddled with a huge debt. After being saved from debt collectors by three girls on the student council, in exchange for paying off his debt, he agrees to spend the rest of his high school career dressed as a girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, ecchi
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Petit Eva: Evangelion@School (2007)
Plot Summary:
The series is a parody of Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which the entire cast of the original series are now everyday students going to junior high school together at Tokyo-3. The series features three Rei sisters: one is a child younger than the rest based on Rei 1, the second is based on Rei 2 (the Rei seen for most of the normal series), and the third Rei is actually based on the hyperactive and klutzy Alternate Rei (seen in the alternate-reality dream sequence from the final episode of the original series). Further, Evangelion Unit 01 itself is one of their classmates, but this time as a human-sized robot who acts as something of a class bully. Even the Jet Alone robot is re-imagined as a character on the series.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, parody, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Polar Bear's Café (2012)
Plot Summary:
Pushed by his mother to stop lazing around the house, a Panda searches for a part-time job but has troubling finding one to accommodate his laziness. He soon stumbles upon the Shirokuma Cafe, run by a Polar Bear who is holding interviews for a part-time position with his faithful customer Penguin. Panda applies for the job but fails the interview, with the job instead going to a human girl named Sasako. However, the others soon point Panda towards a part-time job at a nearby zoo.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, entertaining, funny, light, humorous, captivating, parody, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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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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Isekai Quartet (2019)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious switch appeared one day. Upon pressing it, they were sent to a different alternative world!! There are also characters from other alternative worlds gathered together...!?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, parody
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Saki Episode of Side A (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nodoka Haramura's appearance on television playing in a high school mahjong tournament inspires her old Jr. high school friends to reform their schools club so they can meet and play her in the National High School Mahjong Tournament.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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We Never Learn (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nariyuki Yuiga is in his last and most painful year of high school. In order to gain the “special VIP recommendation” which would grant him a full scholarship to college, he must now tutor his classmates as they struggle to prepare for entrance exams. Among his pupils are “the sleeping beauty of the literary forest,” Fumino Furuhashi, and “the Thumbelina supercomputer,” Rizu Ogata–two of the most beautiful super-geniuses at the school! While these two were thought to be academically flawless, it turns out that they’re completely clueless outside of their pet subjects…!? As Nariyuki’s life is turned upside down by these quirky girls who just never learn, he must do everything he can to get them accepted into college! The stage is set for this romantic comedy featuring prodigies who never learn when it comes to studying and love!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, light, romantic, absurd, funny, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, shounen
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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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Tonari no Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of class at a certain school, Rumi Yokoi, a diligent student, has her in-class life turned upside down when her desk mate Toshinari Seki begins to play by himself at his desk in class. Although Rumi is irked by Toshinari's distracting yet intricate playtime, she finds herself being drawn into his interesting hobby. Never being able to focus, Rumi observes Seki's stunning ways of slacking off in class.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 8 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, seinen, super sentai
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Sister Princess (2001)
Plot Summary:
Wataru Minakami was at the top of his class in middle school and had a pretty comfy life. But, when he unexpectedly fails his only high school entrance exam because of a computer glitch, his life is suddenly thrown into utter chaos! Jeeves, Wataru's trusted butler, sends him off to attend school on a mysterious island. Upon his arrival, Wataru. encounters many friendly, cute girls. This isn't a problem until he finds out they are all his sisters! For most kids, adjusting to life at a new school in a different town is tough enough. But for Wataru Minakami, high school will be the easy part!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Ultimate Otaku Teacher (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kagami Junichirou was known as a physics genius when he was a teenager, and he was even published in "Nature." However, after college, he suddenly lost all interest in science. As a NEET, he's devoted himself to his anime blog and nerdy collecting habits. He claims he has a serious illness called "I can't do anything I don't want to do." Desperate to get him to do something with his life, his little sister manages to get him a job teaching physics at his old high school. He's certainly an unconventional teacher, but he becomes fairly popular with the students. After helping a girl who's being ruthlessly bullied, Kagami finds that he actually likes teaching. Will he continue his career as a weird teacher? Will he go back into physics? Or will he end up back where he started?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mitsudomoe (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mitsuba, Futaba, and Hitoha are not your typical Japanese students. Satoshi Yabe who's a newly hired teacher will have to learn to deal with these three girls as they terroize him or it will end up getting the best of him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious, ecchi, slapstick
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Three Leaves, Three Colors (2016)
Plot Summary:
Futaba Odagiri is incredibly energetic but is also a glutton. Teru Hayama looks like an angel but she is really a demonic class president. Yoko Nishikawa is the daughter of family that used to be a member of the upper class, but after her father's company went bankrupt, they became poor. All three high school girls have the kanji for "leaf" in their name but could not be any different from one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Kumamiko - Girl Meets Bear (2016)
Plot Summary:
The anime follows Machi, a middle school student who serves as a shrine maiden at a Shinto shrine and takes care of a bear, who lives on mountain in Japan's northern Tohoku region. The bear, Natsu, has the ability to talk and is Machi's guardian. When Machi explains to Natsu that she will attend a school in the city, he gives Machi a set of trials that she must pass in order to be able to survive city life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Chio's School Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of a nerdy bookworm girl on her way to school, and yes, that's the entire premise, as she's not getting to school any time soon. Taking her "usual" route to school, it becomes an increasingly unusual adventure, and all the more ridiculous as it carries on. It takes an unpleasant sentiment many can empathize with, the feeling of tardiness, and brings humor to it—making it a hilarious situation to look back upon.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! (2007)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2035 and schools have been suffering due to declining birthrate, having forced many of them to close. An energetic girl named Manami Amamiya transfers to a new school where she quickly becomes the student council president and starts to bring back vigor in the students' lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Doki Doki School Hours (2004)
Plot Summary:
With a class full of "energetic kids" teacher Mike Susuki has her hands full. the kids don't take her seriously because she looks like little kid herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Sekko Boys (2016)
Plot Summary:
Miki Ishimoto, a recent college graduate, is so excited to have landed her first job! Although she's inexperienced, she's to be the manager for a new boy band. Miki thinks life couldn't be going more smoothly, until she finds out that her new boy band members are all... Greco-Roman stone busts?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 8 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom
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Aharen-san wa Hakarenai (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story follows the "indecipherable" daily life of the short and quiet Reina Aharen and Raidou who sits next to her in class. Aharen is not so good at gauging the distance between people (or personal boundaries), and Raidou initially sensed some distance between the two of them. Then one day, when Raidou picked up the eraser that Aharen had dropped, the distance between them suddenly became uncomfortably close. From "way too distant" to "way too close" ... Aharen is simply unpredictable.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny
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Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san (2018)
Plot Summary:
Honda is a skeleton, but more importantly, he is a bookseller. And he'll tell you from firsthand experience that the job of a bookstore employee is more challenging than it may seem to the average customer. Alongside his equally eccentric coworkers, Honda constantly deals with the stressful requirements of the bookselling industry. From the drama of receiving new titles without their bonus material to the struggle of providing quality service to customers who speak a different language, the work of a skeleton bookseller never ends. Nevertheless, despite the hardships he faces, Honda thoroughly enjoys his job and strives to bring the best book selections and service to his customers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom, educational, shounen
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The Highschool Life of a Fudanshi (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sakaguchi is a high school boy and also a "fudanshi" who loves boys-love stories. He hangs out with his friends, a fujoshi named Rumi, his gay friend Yūjirō, fellow fundashi Daigo, and his "normal" friend Nakamura.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, shoujo
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Hyakko (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hyakko is a Japanese manga created by Haruaki Katō. It started serialization on Flex Comix's free web comic FlexComix Blood on January 16, 2007. An anime adaptation produced by Nippon Animation was first aired in October 2008 in Japan. An OVA was released on October 17, 2009.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Chronicles of the Going Home Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a group of high school girls who are in the 'Going-Home Club'. Instead of doing regular club activities, the 'Going-Home Club' is dedicated to having as much fun as possible, by doing such things as playing video games or even simply feeding pigeons in the park.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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RWBY Chibi (2016)
Plot Summary:
A spinoff of the popular rooster teeth show RWBY. This show is small clips of the cast of RWBY in their spare time.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, anime, computer animated
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Hanamaru Kindergarten (2010)
Plot Summary:
Anzu, Hiiragi, and Koume are three girls who attend the lively Hanamaru Kindergarten. There they have lots of adventures with their classmates and with Naozomi Tsuchida, their teacher who has just started working fresh out of school.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Cute Executive Officer (2021)
Plot Summary:
She’s not a genius. She’s not a prodigy. Heck, she’s not even old enough to vote! But somehow Najimu Mujina scored a totally above-average job as the president and “CEO” of the Mujina Company, where she navigates the world of adults with infectious, bright-eyed charm and enthusiasm. Whether it’s golfing with colleagues, negotiating contracts or pestering her executive assistant, Yuki, her hilarious antics are sure to captivate audiences of all ages.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Magical Girl Ore (2018)
Plot Summary:
"Love makes a girl stronger." Saki Uno is working hard as part of the new idol unit, Magical Twin. The one she admires most is Mohiro Mikage, who’s the older brother of her idol unit partner Sakuyo, and he’s also a member of the top idol unit STAR☆PRINCE. She would be willing to do anything for him, and one day, those feelings brought on a miracle. Saki ended up turning into a magical girl when she strongly wished to protect someone... But what she turned into wasn’t exactly what she was expecting.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, parody
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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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Perfect Hair Forever (2004)
Plot Summary:
Perfect Hair Forever is an American comedy animated television series which is largely a parody of anime. It was created and produced by Williams Street, and aired on Adult Swim and Teletoon at Night in the US and Canada respectively. Perfect Hair Forever premiered with "Perfect Hair Forever" on November 7, 2004, and ended with "Return to Balding Victory" on April 1, 2007; with a total of seven episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: adult animation, parody, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, spoof
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Mr. Osomatsu (2015)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of young Osomatsu Matsuno and his five sextuplet brothers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, parody, sketch comedy
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Emo Dad (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's the story of a father and a son who become Emo, but when the Emo guys were about to become Emo rockstars.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining