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Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious (2022)
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There’s something really strange about the maid I just hired! No normal person could be so beautiful, or cook such amazingly delicious food, or know exactly what I want before I even ask. She must be using magic—right, a spell is the only thing that can explain why my chest feels so tight whenever I look at her. I swear, I’m going to get to the bottom of what makes this maid so...mysterious!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, psychological, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic comedy, shounen
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No-Rin (2014)
Plot Summary:
The sudden retirement of the famous idol Yuka Kusakabe from the entertainment business shocks the world and devastates her biggest fan, teenager Kosaku Hata. His classmates at the Tamo Agriculture School manages to get him out of his depression and bring him out of his room to attend his classes. But to everyone's surprise, Yuka Kusakabe - her stage name - comes into their class under the name Ringo Kinoshita as a transfer student. Kosaku realizes he has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get to personally know his dream girl and, together with his group of friends, try to find out why she came to the agricultural school and become more than just classmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, ecchi
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Ganbare Douki-chan (2021)
Plot Summary:
Douki-chan is an office lady who is working with Douki-kun in an office. Unbeknownst to Douki-kun, Douki-chan secretly has feelings for him. As Douki-chan struggles to confess her feelings, her rivals, both the kouhai and senpai, continue to vie for his affection.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 6 min
Plot tags: anime, funny, humorous, captivating, ecchi
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Tona-gura! (2006)
Plot Summary:
Centers around four childhood friends and the romantic relationship between two of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Wagnaria!! (2010)
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Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Sōta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who—despite being a year older than Sōta—is easily mistaken for a elementary/middle schooler, and Kyoko Shirafuji, the 28-year-old store manager who does not bother to do any work at all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, absurd
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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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It's Too Sick to Call this Love, Koikimo (2021)
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One rainy day, salaryman Amakusa Ryo is saved by a high school girl he doesn't know at the station. He later finds out that the girl is Arima Ichika. Ryo is somewhat of a womanizer and to repay her for saving him, he suggests giving her a kiss or going out on a date with her, in which Ichika tells him he's creepy. This, however, opens a new door for Ryo and he falls madly in love with her. Ever since then, Ryo tries to overly express his feelings to Ichika. Ichika just keeps insulting him and says he's being creepy, but he just seems to take it as her way of showing affection towards him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, romantic, funny, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining
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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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Engaged to the Unidentified (2014)
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Just an ordinary teenager, Kobeni Yonomori receives quite the surprise on her 16th birthday—a fiancé and a sister-in-law she never even knew she had. As a result of an arrangement that her late grandfather made, Hakuya Mitsumine and his younger sister Mashiro have moved from their countryside home to the Yonomori household in order to deepen their relationship with their new family members. This story follows Kobeni's "love life" with Hakuya as she tries her best to adjust to the abrupt changes forced upon her. However, as some extraordinary secrets regarding the siblings come to light, Kobeni will find her life changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, super sentai
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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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A Town Where You Live (2012)
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Haruto Kirishima lived a calm life out in the countryside, away from the fast-paced life of the city. Then Yuzuki Eba appeared in his life out of nowhere, having come from Tokyo to briefly live with her family. Their time together left him enamored with the memories of that short period before she just as abruptly disappeared from his life, and left him full of questions.Kimi no Iru Machi begins some time later, after Haruto moves to Tokyo to live with his sister, in order to pursue a career as a cook. In reality though he wishes to be with Yuzuki. Things don't start good though. When he arrives he is mistaken for a burglar and attacked by his sister's neighbour Mishima Asuka. After the misunderstand is cleared his feelings begin to waver though. Is Eba, who keeps avoiding him for seemingly no reason, the one for him or is it Asuka?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, ecchi
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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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This Art Club Has a Problem! (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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When Will Ayumu Make His Move? (2022)
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Ayumu just fell in love at first sight with Urushi and joined the illegitimate Shogi Club! But Ayumu has vowed not to confess his feelings until he can best Urushi, and he has a long way to go before he can stand up to her strategic brilliance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic comedy
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My Senpai Is Annoying (2021)
Plot Summary:
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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My Love Story!! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Takeo Godau is a giant guy with a giant heart. Too bad the girls don't want him! (They always go for his good-looking best friend, Makoto Sunakawa.) Used to being on the sidelines, Takeo simply stands tall and accepts his fate. But one day when he saves a girl named Rinko Yamato from a harasser on the train, his (love!) life suddenly takes an incredible turn! Takeo can hardly believe it when he crosses paths with Rinko again, and he finds himself falling in love with her... But with handsome Suna around, does Takeo even stand a chance?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, entertaining, humorous, manga, romantic, touching, feel good, captivating, romantic comedy
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Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan (2021)
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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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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Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House (2021)
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Kiyo and Sumire came to Kyoto from Aomori Prefecture, dreaming of becoming maiko. But after an unexpected turn of events, Kiyo starts working as the live-in cook at the Maiko House. Their story unfolds in Kagai, the Geiko and maiko district in Kyoto, alongside their housemate maikos. Kiyo nourishes them daily with her homecooked meals, and Sumire strives toward her promising future as the once-in-a-century maiko.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Africa Salaryman (2019)
Plot Summary:
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
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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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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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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Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! (2007)
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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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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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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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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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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