Anime like Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa

Touhai Densetsu Akagi: Yami ni Maiorita Tensai

Also known as Akagi.

Studio: MADHOUSE , VAP , DR Movie
Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Sports , Thriller

While mahjong is a game that is often played with family and friends, it is also a game that is played in the darkest corners of society. Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated a debt of over three million yen. In a last-ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his life on a game of mahjong with the mafia. Unfortunately, as the game progresses, Nangou only moves further from the prize and closer to death.

When all hope seems lost, the game parlor is suddenly intruded upon by Shigeru Akagi, a young boy on the run from the police. Desperate to turn the game around, Nangou hands the game over to Akagi after teaching him a few of the rules. The mafia can only smirk as Akagi sits down to play. However, they soon come to learn that Akagi is a natural-born gambler. An imposing figure who does not fear death. One who is destined to become a legend.



Tags: Gambling , Mahjong , Noir , Death Game , Seinen , Anti-Hero , Historical , Time Skip , Crime , Yakuza , Police , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Vampire , Body Horror

Aggressive Retsuko

Studio: Sanrio , Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The show centers on Retsuko, a 25-year old red panda who works in her dream company's accounting department. But it turns out that she is forced to keep doing more and more impossible tasks by her superiors and co-workers. She doesn't talk back to them, but she still has to let off steam, so she ends up going to karaoke by herself and singing death metal.



Tags: Episodic , Work , Animals , Office Lady , Primarily Adult Cast , Chibi , Female Protagonist , Metal Music , Urban , Primarily Animal Cast , Office , Satire , Anthropomorphism , Flash

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Also known as Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.

Studio: Shaft , Starchild Records , Omnibus Japan , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Itoshiki Nozomu is always in despair! Even simple things like paying for the toll on the subway can send him to a despair so deep only attempted suicide is the answer. How Strange is it then, that he should be the teacher of a High School Class filled with students with even more emotional problems than his. This great Comedy will leave you in anything but 'Despair' as you meet each of his students and watch their wacky adventures.

Tags: Satire , Episodic , Surreal Comedy , Teacher , Suicide , Parody , Primarily Female Cast , Meta , School , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Philosophy , Female Harem , Nudity , Tsundere , Dissociative Identities , Heterosexual , Hikikomori , Shounen , Kuudere , Yandere , Ghost

3-nen Z-gumi Ginpachi-sensei

Also known as GINTAMA - Mr. Ginpachi's Zany Class.

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures , Bandai Namco Pictures , Aniplex , TV Tokyo , Dentsu , Shueisha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

An anime adaptation of the Gintama light novel spin-off.

Sakata Ginpachi is a high-school teacher with his trademark silver, curly hair, dead-fish eyes, and sloppily worn lab coat. He's in charge of Gintama High School's Class 3-Z: home to a ragtag group of frequent troublemakers including idol otaku, hurloines, stalkers, mayo guzzlers, sadists, delinquents, and many more.

If you thought this roller-coaster life would have Ginpachi holding his head in his hands, you thought wrong, as he nonchalantly resolves any trouble that comes his way. And if you thought this unique group of students would overcome adversity and come together as one, you thought wrong again, as they continue to raise hell!

"Oh, come on! Can 3-Z get any more ungovernable?!"

You can never tell what this atypical teacher is thinking and he never seems up for the task, but he always comes through when it counts. He and his students star in this school-life comedy full of laughs, tears, and the whole kitchen sink! Forget nerds, forget jocks, and come enjoy the kind of youthful days that only Gintama could ever deliver!



Note: Announced at the the "Gintama Ato no Matsuri 2023" event.

Tags: School , Surreal Comedy , Parody , Aliens , Educational , Shounen