Curated playlist

Comedy anime and manga

NarutoOn the night Naruto was born, his father sealed a nine-tailed fox inside him. He grew up scorned by the village.
Dead LeavesIn the film Dead Leaves, the hero's head is a television set. Retro wakes with no memory on a dystopian Earth.
One PieceOda sealed the truth about One Piece's treasure in a box and sent it to the ocean floor.
Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z got its name because its creator wanted the series to end.
Pokémon (TV series)Pokémon, the Japanese anime television series, has broadcast more than 1,300 episodes and now airs in 192 countries at the same time. It began on TV Tokyo with a simple premise. A ten-year-old trainer and his partner Pikachu would travel a…
Dragon Ball DaimaDragon Ball Daima is a Japanese anime television series from Toei Animation, and it reached viewers just after the death of its creator, Akira Toriyama, on the 1st of March 2024. It is the sixth televised animated installment of the Dragon…
DoraemonDoraemon, the hero of a Japanese manga series by Fujiko F. Fujio, is a robotic cat with no ears. Robotic mice chewed them off, and he has feared mice ever since. The same sadness drained his original yellow color and left him blue. That…
Panda! Go, Panda!In Panda Kopanda, a girl home alone finds a panda cub asleep on her back doorstep.
Spy × FamilySpy × Family, a Japanese web manga written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo, had more than 42 million copies in circulation by April 2026. That puts it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its hero is an agent known as Twilight,…
Mob Psycho 100Mob Psycho 100 follows a middle school boy named Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, who carries immense psychic power and works constantly to keep his feelings down. The two facts are linked. His power threatens to break past its limits as…
GintamaGintama opens with a joke about its own page count. In the very first chapter, a character finishes a short fight and complains that it lasted only one page. The hero, Gintoki, snaps back: "Shut up! One page is a long time for a manga…
Naruto (TV series)The anime series Naruto opens on Naruto Uzumaki, a young orphan ninja who wants nothing more than recognition from his peers. His dream is to become the Hokage, the leader of the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Nobody around him takes that…
Crayon Shin-chanWhen Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui died in 2009, the manga did not end. His team began a new manga.
Cat SoupIn Cat Soup, a drowned kitten grabs his sister's soul and splits it in two. It's a 2001 Japanese animated short.
K-On!In a Japanese school-band anime, guitarist Yui Hirasawa had only ever played the castanets.
KonoSubaSnow kept the KonoSuba author from a Tokyo meeting about his own anime. He heard the news by phone in January 2015.
My Neighbors the YamadasMy Neighbors the Yamadas is a Studio Ghibli film about a family fighting over the TV remote.
Haruhi SuzumiyaHaruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese light novel series by Nagaru Tanigawa, illustrated by Noizi Ito, and it helped solve a math problem that had stayed open since 1993. In 2011, a crowd on 4chan set out to answer a puzzle inspired by the anime's…
Hajime no IppoHajime no Ippo opens its hero's boxing life with a test involving falling leaves. A professional boxer named Mamoru Takamura sets a bruised high school boy a task. Catch ten leaves from a tree at the same moment, with a single week to…
Lupin the ThirdLupin the Third, a Japanese media franchise created by Monkey Punch, once left a calling card where a statue should have been. In 2009, a campaign called Lupin Steal Japan asked fans to suggest real objects for the fictional thief to take.…
Mind Game (film)In the film Mind Game, a 20-year-old dies in the first act, then comes back and ends up inside a whale.
Lucky Star (manga)Lucky Star, a four-panel comic about high school girls, also spawned chemistry textbooks.
Panty & Stocking with GarterbeltPanty & Stocking with Garterbelt is a Japanese anime series that began with a director's blunt promise. Hiroyuki Imaishi said the theme of the show would be vulgar and indecent jokes. He added, "If we are going to do this, we will try it…
Cobra (manga)The manga Cobra opens with a bored office worker who asks for a dream and remembers a hidden life.
Delicious in DungeonDelicious in Dungeon, a manga by Ryoko Kui, opens with a red dragon swallowing a spellcaster named Falin Touden. Her surviving companions are cut off from most of their supplies, deep underground, with a rescue to attempt. Their answer is…
Haikyu!!Haikyu!!, a Japanese manga written and drawn by Haruichi Furudate, had more than 75 million copies in circulation by December 2025. That total places it among the best-selling manga series of all time. Its subject is a high school…
One-Punch ManOne-Punch Man is a Japanese manga series about a hero who can end any fight with a single punch. Saitama has trained so thoroughly that no opponent can test him, and the reward is boredom rather than glory. His creator, who goes by the…