Anime like GTO

GOLDEN BOY: Sasurai no Obenkyou Yarou

Also known as GOLDEN BOY.

Studio: KSS , APPP , Discotek , Selecta Visión
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Ecchi

Kintarou Oe doesn't look like it, but he is a genius who completed all his university courses and then quit before graduating. He becomes a wandering student, going from place to place on his bicycle, seeking to learn what he can about life, the world, and women. He is willing and able to do any job he has to prove himself. His travels take him to a variety of locations and a variety of women, each who learns to love the hardworking guy, but not before he can run off.



Tags: Episodic , Work , Seinen , Satire , Male Protagonist , Travel , Cycling , Female Harem , Heterosexual , Nudity , Meta , Primarily Adult Cast , Tanned Skin , Motorcycles , Office Lady , Software Development , Swimming , Yakuza

Gintama

Also known as Gintama.

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo , Aniplex , Dentsu , Trinity Sound , Audio Highs , Miracle Robo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to make concerning their future career paths! This is especially true if, as in the case of Gintoki Sakata, they're not particularly inclined towards holding a day job, which is why Gintoki's opted for the freelance route, taking any job that's offered to him as long as the financial remuneration sounds right. Unfortunately, in a brave new world filled with stray bug-eyed monsters, upwardly mobile Yakuza and overly ambitious E.T. entrepreneurs, those jobs usually don't pay as well as they should for the pain, suffering and indignities endured!



Tags: Parody , Ensemble Cast , Samurai , Found Family , Meta , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Anachronism , Aliens , Episodic , Swordplay , Shounen , Police , Satire , Terrorism , Historical , Tragedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism , Space , Ninja , Mopeds , Sadism , Crime , Masochism , LGBTQ+ Themes , Homeless , Robots , Oiran , Gore , Mafia , Crossdressing , Ghost , Philosophy , Nekomimi , Fishing , Boxing , Yakuza , Pirates , Educational , Dissociative Identities , CGI , Kuudere , Body Swapping , Unrequited Love , Death Game , Mixed Gender Harem , Female Harem

Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

Also known as Assassination Classroom.

Studio: Lerche , Funimation , Kansai TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Supernatural

The students of class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any of them have ever had?

Tags: Assassins , School , Teacher , Primarily Teen Cast , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Tentacles , Aliens , Anti-Hero , Super Power , Male Protagonist , Episodic , Guns , Crime , Bullying , Found Family , Femboy , Artificial Intelligence , Baseball , School Club , Suicide , Tragedy

SLAM DUNK

Also known as Slam Dunk.

Studio: Toei Animation , TV Asahi , Funimation , Animax
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Hanamichi Sakuragi, an entering Shohoku high school freshman holds a record for being rejected by 50 girls during middle school. His nearly 2 meters height and bright red hair causes most students to write him off as a delinquent.

One day, a girl named Haruko Akagi approaches Hanamichi without any fear. When she asks Hanamichi: "do you like basketball?" Hanamichi falls head over heels for the girl of his dreams. Without missing a beat, Hanamichi tells her he loves basketball, and the two head to the gymnasium where Hanamichi learns about the slam dunk. He also learns of Rukawa, one of the country’s top basketball prospects, also a freshman at Shohoku.



Tags: Basketball , Shounen , School , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Educational , Ensemble Cast , Delinquents , Unrequited Love , Coastal

Kyou kara Ore wa!!

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

This anime is about two students who are tired of being normal and unpopular at their old schools, after they both transfer to a new one they try to change that by deciding to become delinquents. After a rough start they become friends and the righteous Itou with the cheater Takashi start their (dis)adventures trying to survive the other delinquents from both their own and other schools.

Tags: Delinquents , Shounen , Urban , Gangs , Anti-Hero , Chibi , Slapstick , Primarily Teen Cast , Surreal Comedy , School , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Martial Arts , Meta , Motorcycles , Work

Grand Blue

Also known as Grand Blue Dreaming.

Studio: Zero-G , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Kodansha , Avex Entertainment , Q-Tec , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

A new life begins for Kitahara Iori as he begins his college career near the ocean in Izu city, full of excitement for his new life. He will be moving into his Uncle's diving store "Grand Blue." There he finds the beautiful ocean, beautiful women, and men that love diving and alcohol. Will Iori be able to live his dream college life?

Tags: School Club , Coastal , Slapstick , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Scuba Diving , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Outdoor Activities , Tsundere , Otaku Culture , Bar , Bisexual , Crossdressing , Educational , Yandere , Tennis , Incest , Cosplay , Idol

Gokusen

Also known as The Gokusen.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , Media Blasters , NYAV Post
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

Kumiko "Yankumi" Yamaguchi enters Shirokin High School to become a math teacher. She's assigned as the homeroom teacher for class 2-4, populated by a gang of delinquents. At first, the class tries everything to rattle her cage, but to no avail. In a short period of time, Yankumi gains the respect of the class. But what the school doesn't know is that she's the heir to the Oedo Group, a powerful yakuzan clan. So while Yankumi struggles to excel in her career as a teacher, she must also keep her yakuza background a secret.



Tags: Yakuza , School , Delinquents , Teacher , Tomboy , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Primarily Male Cast , Josei , Football , Suicide

WIND BREAKER

Also known as WIND BREAKER.

Studio: CloverWorks , Aniplex , Kodansha , Mainichi Broadcasting System , Tohan , CloverWorks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

Where the average scores are the lowest, but the fights are the strongest. Furin High School is renowned as a super school of delinquents. Haruka Sakura, a first-year student, came from outside the city to fight to the top. However, Furin High School has become a group that protects the town called the “Chime of the Wind Breaker” – Bofurin. The heroic legend of high school delinquent Sakura begins here!



Tags: Gangs , Delinquents , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Shounen , School , Found Family , Urban , Tsundere , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Bullying , Martial Arts , Coming of Age , Crossdressing

Prison School

Also known as Prison School.

Studio: J.C.STAFF , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Hachimitsu Private Academy was a revered and elite all-girls' boarding school on the outskirts of Tokyo...once upon a time. But with the new school year comes a revision to school policy: Boys are to be admitted into the student body for the first time ever. But on his first day at Hachimitsu, Kiyoshi Fujino discovers that he's one of only five boys enrolled at the school. Their numbers overwhelmed by the thousand girls in the student body, is it heaven or hell that awaits these five (un)fortunates?!.



Tags: School , Surreal Comedy , Prison , Parody , Nudity , Large Breasts , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Slapstick , Ensemble Cast , Torture , Femdom , Seinen , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Yandere , Matriarchy , Love Triangle

Gintama: THE FINAL

Also known as Gintama: THE VERY FINAL.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures , Shueisha , Aniplex , Warner Bros. Japan , Dentsu , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

Gintama: THE FINAL is the 3rd and final film adaptation of the remainder of the Silver Soul arc and is the series finale.

Two years have passed following the Tendoshuu's invasion of the O-Edo Central Terminal. Since then, the Yorozuya have gone their separate ways. Foreseeing Utsuro's return, Gintoki Sakata begins surveying Earth's ley lines for traces of the other man's Altana. After an encounter with the remnants of the Tendoshuu—who continue to press on in search of immortality—Gintoki returns to Edo.

Later, the regrouped Shinsengumi and Yorozuya begin an attack on the occupied Central Terminal. With the Altana harvested by the wreckage of the Tendoshuu's ship in danger of detonating, the Yorozuya and their allies fight their enemies while the safety of Edo—and the rest of the world—hangs in the balance. Fulfilling the wishes of their teacher, Shouyou Yoshida's former students unite and relive their pasts one final time in an attempt to save their futures.

Tags: Samurai , Dissociative Identities , Swordplay , Shounen , Found Family , Surreal Comedy , Meta , Parody , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Anachronism , Philosophy , War , Historical , Aliens , Gore , Ensemble Cast , Memory Manipulation , Afterlife , Ninja , Kuudere , Robots