Anime like Keroro Gunsou

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 , Homeless , LGBTQ+ Themes , Gore , Robots , Oiran , Mafia , Crossdressing , Ghost , Nekomimi , Boxing , Fishing , Yakuza , Pirates , Educational , Dissociative Identities , CGI , Kuudere , Body Swapping , Female Harem , Unrequited Love , Philosophy

Doraemon (2005)

Studio: Studio Pierrot , TV Asahi , Shin-Ei Animation
Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

A new Doraemon series produced by the same team as the 1979 series (in association with Studio Pierrot) with new voice actors and staff and updated character designs.

Tags: Kids , Primarily Child Cast , Episodic , School , Achronological Order , Alternate Universe , Robots , Bullying , Baseball , College

Osomatsu-san

Also known as Mr. Osomatsu.

Studio: Studio Pierrot , Rakuonsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The Matsuno sextuplets (leader Osomatsu, wannabe tough guy Karamatsu, straight man Choromatsu, cynical Ichimatsu, cheerfully stupid Jyushimatsu and lovable spoiled Todomatsu) are now in their 20s, still living together in the same house as NEETs. Their neighbors still include such eccentric characters as fish market idol Totoko, loud bucktoothed troublemaker Iyami, tiny rival Chiba, wacky inventor Dekapan, and giant mouthed glutton Dayon.

Join the Matsuno siblings as they overcome mundane hurdles in their daily lives, such as finding employment, figure out who should pay the bar bill, and who should get the extra pastry!

Tags: Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Family Life , Twins , Slapstick , Hikikomori , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Parody , Nekomimi , Primarily Adult Cast , Satire , Otaku Culture , Meta , Femboy

Shinryaku! Ika Musume

Also known as Squid Girl.

Studio: TV Tokyo , diomedéa , Lantis , Pony Canyon , Media Blasters , TYO Animations , Studio Jack
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Foolish land-born air breathers! Behold the terror from the depths, the tentacled conqueror of humanity: Squid Girl! With your pollution and stuff you really deserve it, so prepare for menacing, inky doom!

Squid Girl has come from the depths of the sea to conquer humanity for its pollution of the ocean. Within moments of arriving on the surface world, our easily distracted, little invertebrate is promptly bullied into working for the Aizawa sisters as a waitress, supplying their restaurant with squid ink. If poor Squid Girl can't handle two pushy Japanese girls, how will she ever subjugate the human race?



Tags: Monster Girl , Episodic , Slapstick , Female Protagonist , Coastal , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Chuunibyou , Work , Found Family , LGBTQ+ Themes , Urban Fantasy , Chibi , Primarily Female Cast , Shounen , Tomboy , Tanned Skin

Lucky☆Star

Also known as Lucky☆Star.

Studio: Kyoto Animation , Lantis , Rakuonsha , Lucky Paradise , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

What’s the best way to eat dessert? Do twins really have a psychic connection? What kind of guys are into moe girls? These are the kinds of questions that float through the inquisitive mind of anime super-fan Konata Izumi. When she’s not lost in her favorite manga or logging hours in one of her online games, she’s debating the mysteries of the universe with the best friends a girl could ask for.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Parody , Ensemble Cast , Otaku Culture , School , Meta , Episodic , Coming of Age , Twins , Video Games , Philosophy , Tsundere , Kuudere , Cheerleading , Ojou-sama , Shounen , Shrine Maiden , Baseball , Mixed Media

Tottoko Hamtarou

Also known as Hamtaro.

Studio: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , TMS Entertainment , Viz Media
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Slice of Life

5th-grader Laura Haruna owns a hamster, and his name is Hamtaro. After moving into a new town, Hamtaro finds that he's in the company of lots of different hamsters, making up a group of hamster friends that go on crazy adventures through the city. Before they save Laura and other humans from nasty predicaments, however, they have to learn how to save themselves.



Tags: Kids , Animals , Male Protagonist , Love Triangle , Ensemble Cast , Anthropomorphism , Episodic , Twins , Primarily Animal Cast

Arcade Gamer Fubuki

Also known as Arcade Gamer Fubuki.

Studio: Bandai Visual , Shaft , Lantis , Central Park Media , Enterbrain , Genco , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

Fubuki Sakuragasaki is a powerful gamer who, with the power of her Passion Panties, climbs up the ranks of the BAG (Best of Arcade Gamer) tournament to become the greatest Arcade Gamer in the world. However, the evil Gulasic Group is out to conquer the world through said tournament, and their gaming skills will prove to be a challenge. Fubuki must team up with the legendary Mr. Mystery to combat the four Gods of Gaming and make the world of arcade gaming safe for all.



Tags: Video Games , Parody , E-Sports , Female Protagonist , Henshin , Dinosaurs , Battle Royale , Primarily Female Cast

Youkai Watch

Also known as Yo-kai Watch.

Studio: OLM , TV Tokyo , Dentsu Entertainment USA , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Supernatural

Animated adaptation of Level-5's Nintendo 3DS video game.

While going deeper into the woods one day, primary school student Keita Amano ('Nate' in the English localisation) notices a bizarre capsule toy machine who tells him to insert money which he obeyingly does. But after opening the capsule that came out, a ghostly creature named Whisper materialises. Whisper, who was sealed inside the capsule, rewards his liberator Keita by becoming his Yo-kai butler and gives him a Yo-kai Watch. Whoever wears the watch gains the ability to see supernatural creatures called Yo-kai, each type possessing different kinds of magical abilities, and which are normally invisible to humans. The Yo-kai Watch also allows the wearer to summon any Yo-kai they have befriended, enabling the wearer to make use of the Yo-kai's powers. Using it, Keita and Whisper encounter many mischievous Yo-kai around town, resolving the trouble they're causing and befriending many at the same time.

Tags: Youkai , Kids , Dancing , Surreal Comedy , Proxy Battle

Shichinin no Nana

Also known as Nana: Seven of Seven.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Hal Film Maker , Genco , Asatsu DK , d-rights , AT-X , Media Blasters , NYAV Post , Studio Jack , A.C.G.T.
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Romance

Nana is your average high school girl with a boyfriend, average grades, interests, and problems until her inventor grandfather’s experiment goes haywire and produces 6 Nana clones! The trouble begins when they all have a crush on the same boy!



Tags: Magic , School , Clone , Shounen , Dissociative Identities , Female Protagonist , Kuudere , Super Power , Heterosexual

Di Gi Charat

Also known as Di Gi Charat.

Studio: MADHOUSE , Broccoli , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Di Gi Charat is a series of shorts created as advertisements for "Digital Gamers", a store in Akihabara. The series follows Dejiko, princess of Di Gi Charat planet, and her companions, Puchiko and Gema, as well as Dejiko's rival, Rabi~en~Rose through daily ordeals they encounter while working at Gamers.
Princess Di Gi Charat came from the planet Di Gi Charat given only a cat cap and an outfit to disguise herself. Unfortunately she came with no money, only her guardian Gema and friend Petite Charat. Luckily the three stumbled upon a manager of the store Gamers, who offered them a home if they worked at the store. However Di Gi Charat is a selfish young girl who wishes of becoming a star.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Chibi , Aliens , Work , Nekomimi , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Urban , Kemonomimi , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Henshin , American Football , Kaiju , Kuudere