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Comedy anime and manga

  • NarutoNaruto Uzumaki was born into a lie. On the night of his birth, his father, the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, sealed a monstrous nine-tailed fox called…
  • Dead LeavesDead Leaves opens with two strangers waking up naked on a dystopian Earth, stripped of every memory they once had. Their names are Retro and Pandy.
  • Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z premiered on Fuji Television on the 26th of April 1989, and from that first episode it was chasing something its predecessor never quite…
  • Panda! Go, Panda!Panda! Go, Panda! hit Japanese theaters in 1972, weeks after the government announced China would loan a pair of giant pandas to the Ueno Zoo.
  • Crayon Shin-chanCrayon Shin-chan is a Japanese manga series created by Yoshito Usui, and from its first appearance in 1990, it has never quite behaved the way anyone…
  • Cat SoupCat Soup is a 2001 Japanese animated experimental short film that opens on a kitten drowning in a bathtub. That accidental death sets everything in motion.
  • K-On!K-On! began not with a grand origin story but with a small crisis: a high school light music club on the verge of being shut down, saved by four girls who…
  • KonoSubaKazuma Satou, a Japanese teenage shut-in known as a NEET, dies in an untimely and embarrassing manner. He meets Aqua, a goddess who offers to reincarnate him…
  • My Neighbors the YamadasIsao Takahata directed My Neighbors the Yamadas in 1999 for Studio Ghibli. The project began as an adaptation of Hisaichi Ishii's Nono-chan manga series.
  • Mind Game (film)Mind Game arrived in Japanese cinemas in 2004 as the directorial debut of Masaaki Yuasa, a film that would go on to earn a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes…
  • Lucky Star (manga)Kagami Yoshimizu began writing a four-panel comic strip in December 2003. The series appeared in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine that month.
  • Cobra (manga)Cobra, the manga series by Buichi Terasawa, opens not with a hero striding across a starfield, but with an ordinary office worker named Johnson who is bored.