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Gal to Kyouryuu

Also known as Gal & Dino.

Studio: Space Neko Company , Kamikaze Douga
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

After a night of drinking, Kaede wakes up realizing that in her drunken daze she had brought an unexpected guest home—a dinosaur! Kaede just goes with the flow and accepts her new living situation. Now she navigates her daily life while eating, watching TV, and shopping with her prehistoric roommate. Together, the duo enjoys each other’s company as they take on whatever the day brings.



Tags: Dinosaurs , Surreal Comedy , Gyaru , Language Barrier , Stop Motion , Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Episodic , Fashion , Animals , Time Manipulation , Super Power , Pandemic

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou - My Ordinary Life.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Kadokawa Shoten , Movic , Rakuonsha , Bandai Entertainment , Kadokawa Pictures Japan , KLOCKWORX , Animation Do
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Slapstick , School , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Achronological Order , Parody , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Robots , Philosophy , Shounen , Drawing , Tsundere , Guns , Football , Love Triangle

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 July 7th, 2024.

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

Teekyuu

Also known as Teekyuu.

Studio: MAPPA , Earth Star Entertainment , DAX Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Teekyuu is based on a sports comedy manga of the same name featuring four high school girls who belong to a tennis club.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Meta , School Club , Parody , Primarily Female Cast , Tennis , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Female Protagonist , Shounen

Bessatsu Olympia Kyklos

Also known as Extra Olympia Kyklos.

Studio: Dentsu , Gosay Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life , Sports

Demetrios was a young man in Ancient Greece who was a potter's apprentice, but also a rather timid otaku. Despite pursuing the arts, he was blessed with natural athletic talent. One day, he gets dragged into a village conflict. Demetrios contemplates how helpless he is, but then is struck by lightning! When he comes to, he is no longer in Greece, but a strange land where he can't understand the language and people look rather different. Yes, he somehow ended up 1964 Tokyo! Of course, Demetrios has no idea what Japan even is. What will become of him?!



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Stop Motion , Athletics , Historical , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Time Skip , Time Manipulation , Educational , Seinen , Gods , Isekai , Wrestling , Swimming , Drawing , War

Plastic Nee-san

Also known as Plastic Elder Sister.

Studio: TYO Animations
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi

Based on Kurii Cha's gag comedy manga, Plastic Nee-san is a very short anime that follows a third-year high school girl who likes building plastic models and the wacky conversations she has with her fellow club members.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Seinen

Choboraunyopomi Gekijou Ai Mai Mii

Also known as Ai-Mai-Mi.

Studio: Seven , Dream Creation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The anime adaption of the four-panel manga "Ai Mai Mi".

The story follows girls in a manga club —Ai, Mai, Mii, and Ponoka-sempai—who might be fighting evil invaders threatening Earth, facing off against rivals in tournaments, and dealing with other absurd situations when they are not drawing manga.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Primarily Female Cast , Otaku Culture , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Seinen

Snack Basue

Also known as Snack Basue.

Studio: Studio PuYUKAI , Pony Canyon , Studio PuYUKAI , BS Asahi , Sotsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Welcome to Snack Basue! Delight yourself in this charming snack bar, just five stations away from Hokkaido's largest downtown area, Susukino. Run by the quirky proprietress, Basue, and her junior hostess, Akemi, the place is filled with laughter and smiles from its oddball regulars and walk-ins as they regale tales of their lives. So, pull up a seat and have a drink—is shochu OK?



Tags: Bar , Parody , Episodic , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Meta , Surreal Comedy , Slapstick , Primarily Adult Cast

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 , Super Power , Shounen , Dissociative Identities , Martial Arts , Aliens , Crossdressing , Male Protagonist

Atasha Kawashiri Kodama da yo: Dangerous Lifehacker no Tadareta Seikatsu

Also known as I'M KODAMA KAWASHIRI.

Studio: Lapin Track
Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

The story depicts the lazy, unhealthy daily life of Kawashiri, who loves alcohol and anything greasy, salty, or sweet.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Episodic , Philosophy , Educational , Amnesia , Zombie , Surreal Comedy