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Plot Summary:
Being an adult is hard, and for Uramichi Omota, that truth weighs on him. While on TV, he’s the upbeat exercise instructor for a children’s show, but he and his coworkers keep revealing the plight of adulthood on air. At least they’re working through it.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, josei
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Shonen Maid (2016)
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After the loss of his mother, Chihiro is left alone. With no known family left, he has to find a way to move on. Things aren’t looking good until a chance encounter with the young and handsome Madoka—who turns out to be his wealthy uncle! Madoka offers him his home and all Chihiro has to do is clean up after the messy, irresponsible man. The problem? This job requires a uniform—a maid outfit!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Kakushigoto (2020)
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Kakushi Gotou is a somewhat popular manga artist whose works are known for inappropriate content. Because of this raunchiness, when his daughter Hime was born, he vowed to keep his profession hidden from her, believing that she will be disillusioned if she finds out. This paranoia-induced belief leads Kakushi into hectic situations. Despite being a single father, he does his best and often resorts to extreme ends just to protect his secret, such as guising as a salaryman every day or holding emergency drills in case Hime somehow finds her way to his workplace. This show tells the story of a father and daughter living side by side, maintaining their peaceful existence as the father attempts to preserve the status quo. However, there is a saying: "there are no secrets that time cannot reveal." In time, Hime must learn the reality behind the things she took for granted as she grew up.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, entertaining, sentimental, manga, sincere
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Wave, Listen to Me! (2020)
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The stage is Sapporo, Hokkaido. One night, our heroine, Minare Koda, spills her heartbroken woes to a radio station worker she meets while out drinking one night. The next day, she hears a recording of her pitiful grumbling being played live over the air. Minare storms into the station in a rage, only to then be duped by the station director into doing an impromptu talk show explaining her harsh dialogue. With just one recording, the many eccentric facets of Minare's life begin to pull every which direction as she falls ever deeper into the world of radio.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining, seinen
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Hinako Note (2017)
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Born and raised in the countryside of Japan, Hinako "Hina" Sakuragi gets anxious easily when she talks to new people—so much so that she resembles a stiff scarecrow. To overcome this, Hina hopes to get involved in theater, inspired by a play she saw during her school's field trip. So, Hina moves into the Hitotose Manor in the bustling city of Tokyo to study at Fujiyama High School, aspiring to join the school's renowned theatre club. But to Hina's dismay, she learns that Fujiyama High's theatre club has been on a lengthy hiatus. Having already come to Tokyo and enrolled in the school, Hina is at a loss for what to do next. Sensing her disappointment and eagerness to learn theatre, Chiaki Hagino, the landlady of Hitotose Manor, encourages Hina to create a troupe with the residents of Hitotose Manor as its members. This story follows Hina as she begins a new life in Tokyo attending Fujiyama High while learning the ropes of theatre with the support of her friends along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, adult anime
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Petit Eva: Evangelion@School (2007)
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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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Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda, though, is physically weak, and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Animation, Comedy, History
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, shounen
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Servant x Service (2013)
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Imagine if three people suddenly found themselves as civil servants of the city Mitsuba. What sort of personalities and drives would they have to push them to seek out such careers? Lucy Yamagami, a serious young woman assigned to the Welfare Administrative Section, intends to use the job as a means of settling a vendetta against another civil servant. Yutaka Hasebe, a flirtatious young man assigned to the First Section of the Welfare Department, intends to slack off whenever he can and have a good time. And Saya Miyoshi, a college graduate assigned to the Second Section of the Welfare Department, intends to simply get through the first job she's had in her life as best she can. Servant x Service follows these three newcomers starting their jobs as government employees under their supervisor, Taishi Ichimiya, who is utterly clueless about how to direct them—despite having worked there for the last eight years. Nevertheless, he welcomes them as fellow civil servants and encourages them to work themselves like dogs for the sake of the citizens. We follow their day-to-day lives as they experience the rigors of government employment, including dealing with regulations, office romances, paperwork, and being the nearest punching bags when citizens need something to complain about.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, parody, seinen
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Polar Bear's Café (2012)
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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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Saki Episode of Side A (2012)
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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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Handa-kun (2016)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, light, inspirational, sweet, shounen
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Rainy Cocoa (2015)
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Aoi’s soaked by a sudden rainstorm and takes shelter at Rainy Color, a cozy café where the warmth of the staff compliments the sweet hot cocoa he’s served. When he falls into a job at the café he feels like things are finally looking up— until Keiichi Iwase, the man he couldn’t help but stare at on the train, shows up.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 2 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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An art club in a certain middle school, and its members: Subaru Uchimaki, who is a genius at drawing faces, but only wants to draw the perfect 2D wife; Colette, a rich troublemaker who never stops making mischief; and the club president, who sleeps through sessions and collects sleeping aids. Mizuki Usami is the only person in the club who wants to do art club-like activities, and constantly struggles to do so.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, super sentai
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Merman in My Tub (2014)
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Tatsumi is a high school student who lives on his own, until a merman named Wakasa takes up residence in his bathtub. His solitary lifestyle is turned upside down by the self-centered (but handsome) new roommate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Futuba Igarashi's new job would be great if her senpai, Harumi Takeda, wasn't so incredibly annoying! Futuba hates his laugh, she hates how big he is, and she really hates that he treats her like a little kid. Just because Futuba is short and looks young doesn't make her a kid, and just because she spends so much time with Takeda doesn't mean she sees him as anything but an annoying senpai...or does she?!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, ecchi
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Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues (2018)
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Nobody knows what it's like to be the bad man… except the bad man's right-hand man, who has to take the boss' deranged ideas and turn them into functioning plans. So, when the sadistic president of the Teiai Group decides he's bored with the routine leg breaking and widow/orphan evicting, he assigns the task of coming up with something "special" to his ruthless Number Two, Yukio Tonegawa. But how do you amuse someone who destroys a dozen lives before breakfast? There's a huge pool of potential victims in the form of TFO's swollen roster of defaulting borrowers, but if Tonegawa and his team of nearly identical men in black look-alikes can't create a "game of death" that tickles the boss' demented funny bones, they may end up playing the game themselves!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, seinen, super sentai
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Ramen Fighter Miki (2006)
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Miki works at her mother's ramen restaurant. She appears normal, but she can become violent when provoked causing issues in their otherwise peaceful lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, parody, 2d animation
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Ojisan and Marshmallow (2016)
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Kusaka is an older man who loves marshmallows, and Wakabayashi is an OL (office lady) who loves Kusaka. Their relationship unfolds at their office.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min
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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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Officer Mai Kawai has had enough! She’s sick of being a police officer—but just when she’s about to hand in her resignation, the arrival of a brilliant (and beautiful) ace detective named Seiko Fuji changes her mind. Will Fuji reignite Mai’s passion for policing? And will Mai uncover the mystery of why Fuji was transferred to this ordinary police box?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 194
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Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, seinen
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 70
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Country: Japan
Duration:
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The comedy follows a lion, toucan, and lizard as they live the lives of office workers in a capitalist society in Japan, while also dealing with their unique situations as animals living beyond the savanna and the food chain.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87
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Duration:
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Three Leaves, Three Colors (2016)
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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
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Country: Japan
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
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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
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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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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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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
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Hanamaru Kindergarten (2010)
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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
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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