Anime like Boku to Roboco

Doraemon (1979)

Also known as Doraemon.

Studio: TV Asahi , Asatsu DK , Shin-Ei Animation , Oh! Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Sci-Fi

Nobi Nobita is a 4th-grade boy in Tokyo. One day, a round, blue cat-style robot (minus ears) pops up in his desk drawer. Nobita's great-great-grandson (or something) lives in the 22nd Century, but thanks to Nobita's mistakes, the entire family is living in poverty. To rectify this, Nobita's descendent is sent Doraemon back to the past, to help prevent Nobita from making mistakes. Of course this is a difficult task since Nobita is the weakest and least intelligent child in his class. Doraemon does, however, have a 4-dimensional pocket on his front, which contains cool gadgets from the future. With these toys, Doraemon will try to help Nobita. Unfortunately, Nobita also has the bad habit of misusing Doraemon's gadgets and landing himself in yet more trouble?



Tags: Episodic , Kids , Robots , Primarily Child Cast , Time Manipulation , Family Life , Bullying , School , Baseball

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

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

Also known as Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

Studio: Toei Animation , Avex Entertainment , Dentsu , TV Asahi , Viz Media , Discotek
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

Bo Bobo is a man with the incredible power of hearing the voices of hair and using his own to fight. He uses his power to fight off the Margarita Empire and all of Emperor Tsuru Tsuruiina's minions who are stealing the hair off of anyone they find to power up their emperor.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Parody , Meta , Ensemble Cast , Super Power , Shounen , Dissociative Identities , Martial Arts , Aliens , Crossdressing , Male Protagonist , Guns

Hayate no Gotoku!

Also known as Hayate the Combat Butler.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , SynergySP , Studio Tulip , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance

Hayate Ayasaki's life wasn't great, but when he loses the job he used to support his good-for-nothing family, and his deadbeat parents sell him to the Yakuza for cash, it really hits rock bottom! Faced with having to pay off the huge debt before he's converted into black market organ parts, a desperate Hayate decides to kidnap oddball heiress Nagi Sanzenin for ransom... but when even that goes wrong and he accidentally ends up rescuing Nagi from other kidnappers, it turns out that Hayate is the bodyguard that Nagi has been looking for! So now he's the Sanzenin family's butler, and… maybe… it might be the start of a potential romantic relationship… assuming Hayate can survive the on-the-job training, of course.



Tags: Parody , Meta , Butler , Shounen , Otaku Culture , Male Protagonist , Female Harem , Maids , Crossdressing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Memory Manipulation , Age Gap , Tsundere , Tomboy , Kuudere , Orphan

Sekai no Owari ni Shiba Inu to

Also known as Doomsday with My Dog.

Studio: DLE , KADOKAWA
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life , Supernatural

The sole surviving human and her canine companion, Haru, wander a desolate wasteland after the destruction of civilization, but this is no dark doomsday tale. Haru, a wise-beyond-his-years talking shiba inu, makes sure his master stays one step ahead of post-apocalyptic pessimism with his clever antics, hilarious observations and philosophical ponderings. She may be the last girl on earth, but with Haru at her side, the road through the apocalypse will never be boring!



Tags: Philosophy , Episodic , Post-Apocalyptic , Animals , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Aliens , Fairy Tale , Mermaid , Educational

Ore, Tsushima

Also known as I, Tsushima.

Studio: Fanworks , Space Neko Company , Asmik Ace
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The story centers on a woman who is getting on in years, but all her cats think she's a man so they call her Ojii-chan. One day a brazen cat named Tsushima appears in Ojii-chan's yard.

Tags: Animals , Surreal Comedy , Elderly Protagonist , CGI , Female Protagonist , Family Life , Urban

Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoiyo!! Masaru-san

Studio: MADHOUSE , Bandai Visual , Magic Bus
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Okometsubu Fujiyama has recently transferred over to a new school, Wakame High School. His goal is to make 100 friends--until he meets the extremely wierd Masaru Hananakajima. Masaru is a martial artist whose specialty is the "Sexy Commando" form of martial art. Masaru forms a club based on this art, including Fujiyama, who he nicknames Fuumin, in the club. The club becomes full of strange, yet wacky people. Aliens, moustaches, and cute fuzzy animals are encountered as the club moves along and gets steadily more popular.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , School Club , School , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Parody , Primarily Male Cast , Aliens , Martial Arts , Baseball

Mahoromatic

Also known as Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden.

Studio: Gainax , Shaft , TBS , Pioneer LDC , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Romance , Sci-Fi

Vesper is a secret agency fighting an army of alien invaders by using super-powerful battle androids. Mahoro is Vesper's most powerful battle android and has won many battles, but she has little operating time left and soon will cease to function. However, if she lays down her arms and conserves her remaining power, the time she has left can be prolonged to just over a year. Mahoro is given an opportunity to live the remaining time she has as a normal human. She chooses to live as a maid for Suguru, a phenomenally messy high school student who lives by himself after his family passed away.



Tags: Maids , Robots , Heterosexual , Found Family , Military , Aliens , Nudity , Seinen , Female Protagonist , Teacher , School

Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan

Also known as My Deer Friend Nokotan.

Studio: Twin Engine , WIT STUDIO , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

Koshi Torako has everyone fooled. Her classmates see her as the perfect honor student, unaware of her secret delinquent past. But her new picturesque school life is thrown into chaos when she bumps into Shikanoko Noko, a girl with antlers! Mayhem seems to follow this strange doe-eyed girl. Who, or what, is she?



Note: Each episode streamed 4 days early on some streaming services. The original TV broadcast started on June 7th, 2024.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Animals , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , School Club , Meta , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Satire , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Episodic , Urban Fantasy , Tsundere , CGI , Unrequited Love , Delinquents , Monster Girl , Horticulture , Shounen , Chibi , Gods , Agriculture , Yandere , Anthropomorphism , Time Loop , Guns , LGBTQ+ Themes

Kikaijikake no Marie

Also known as Mechanical Marie.

Studio: Zero-G , Liber , Yomiuri TV , Pony Canyon , Hakusensha , Zero-G , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , BS Fuji , KLOCKWORX , Amusement Media Academy , Production Ace
Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance , Sci-Fi

“At last, she’s complete. This is Marie, a robot maid.”

Marie, a former legendary martial artist, now conceals her identity as a human and starts working as a “robot” in the mansion of Arthur, heir to a conglomerate that despises humans. Her human identity must remain hidden—because one slip-up and she’s dead! Her naturally emotionless demeanor helps her maintain her “robot” disguise and flawlessly perform her duties, all while struggling to protect Arthur from assassins sent to take his life. She lives each day on the edge with her heart racing, because Arthur is head over heels for Marie, and her human identity is nearly exposed!

A maid pretending to be a robot x A young heir who hates humans. Get ready for a heartwarming comedy that’ll make you laugh and cry! What began as a lie between master and maid blossoms into a love neither of them saw coming.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Maids , Shoujo , Heterosexual , Kuudere , Robots , Slapstick , Estranged Family , Medieval