Various thoughts on a variety of topics.
The Kameido high school’s tennis club consists of four girls who don’t actually play much tennis, instead being preoccupied with everything from aliens, to where to take a vacation, to simple everyday activities that become anything but.
Completely random episodic comedy delivered at a breakneck pace. To catch all, or even most of the jokes requires frequent pausing.
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One day while setting up a meeting for her boss, Tokine Amino finds herself transported to a strange alternate dimension. There she meets a floating mascot character who explains that she must solve a riddle in order to escape this closed space.
Part slice of life comedy and part quiz show. Instead of being episodic it takes a more narrative-driven approach, showing scenes from the protagonist’s daily life that suddenly get interrupted by a trip to the riddle dimension.
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Kiitarou finds himself forced to live in a neglected side building after being kicked out of the main house by his uncle. It turns out to be inhabited by a zashiki-warashi, and together they soon stumble across many other varieties of supernatural creatures.
A slice of life comedy fond of quick mood shifts from daily life scenes to gags. It mostly relies on slapstick, dipping occasionally into parody. There’s also a small love triangle.
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The characters from the smartphone game of the same name try various methods to increase its popularity, attempts which result in failure more often than not.
Half gag comedy (with an ever-shifting style of humor; 4th-wall breaking, situational, reaction, parody, etc.) and half literal advertisement featuring a notable streak of ecchi.
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Baramon High School is an all-boys private school for the elite. Having just transferred in, Yoshiki Maeda finds himself suddenly encouraged by the principal to fall in love with one of the other students.
A deliberately no-budget parody of the BL genre. There’s barely any animation, the character design is extremely simple, and the comedy is absurdist in nature.
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Sawako Machida loves books and trivia, wanting to be seen as a knowledgeable intellectual. The only problem is she can’t be bothered to actually read any books and so just makes things up as she goes along.
A fast-talking comedy heavy with literary references that are often explained with a large paragraph of text in the middle of the screen. The humor is centered on Sawako’s pretensions and the extreme passion the other students in the library have for literature.
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The five main characters of Glass no Kamen are transplanted into a modern-day school setting, where they seek to enliven the mundane through passionate performance.
A gag-comedy parody of the Glass no Kamen manga series. While the gags are centered on random school related topics, they all feature slightly exaggerated versions of the characters’ normally over-dramatic behavior. You’ll likely need to have either read the manga or watched one of the various Anime adaptations to get much out of it.
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After Toyohisa Shimazu is critically wounded while holding the rearguard against the Eastern Army, he finds himself suddenly transported to a different world. There he meets others like himself, transplants from Earth called Drifters who have been recruited to fight a war against an implacable foe who wishes to eradicate all human life.
A mix of hyper-violent action scenes and picture-drama style comedy skits. While it involves characters from a wide variety of time periods, it mainly depicts warfare out of the medieval and Sengoku eras.
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Continuing along the road to Nationals, the Kitauji school band must overcome several new personal challenges that threaten to tear it apart from within.
Much like the first season this has a large amount of relationship drama lightened by comedic bursts arising from Kumiko’s personality. Which may be something of a shock if you’re coming into this straight from the movie version, which downplayed the characters’ personal issues.
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Keijo is a professional sport similar to sumo wrestling played on floating platforms in which girls use their butts and breasts to knock their opponents either to the ground or into the water. Having just graduated high school, Nozomi Kaminashi seeks to rise to the top of the Keijo rankings for the large cash prizes.
This is a hybrid show. One part sports shounen and one part ecchi comedy it combines serious training, over-the-top attacks and abilities, and a ton of fanservice.
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