Comedy Anime

Master spy Twilight must build a fake family for a secret mission, so he adopts a little girl and 'marries' a city worker. What he does not know is that his daughter Anya can read minds and his wife Yor is a deadly assassin. The result is a warm, funny family comedy full of secrets. The Spy x Family anime is produced by Wit Studio and CloverWorks, adapted from Tatsuya Endo's manga. Anya's telepathy means the audience always knows what everyone is hiding, which turns ordinary school days and shopping trips into comedy gold. But Spy x Family is loved most for its warmth: three lonely people, each pretending, slowly build something real. It is one of the easiest anime to recommend to anyone, including people who have never watched anime before.

Momo believes in ghosts but not aliens, while her classmate Okarun believes in aliens but not ghosts. After daring each other to test their beliefs, both turn out to be real, and their lives become a crazy mix of spirits, aliens and teenage feelings. Momo Ayase comes from a family of spirit mediums; Ken Takakura, nicknamed Okarun, is a shy occult fanatic. One night in a haunted tunnel and an alien abduction later, Okarun is cursed by Turbo Granny and Momo awakens psychic powers. Together with Momo's grandmother Seiko, a famous medium, and friends like Aira and Jiji, they fight yokai, aliens and cryptids to recover what the curse stole. Animated by Science SARU with wild, colourful energy, Dandadan has 24 episodes across two seasons (2024–2025), and a third season is set for 2027. It is fast, weird and full of energy. A monster battle show with a sweet, awkward romance beating at its centre.

Ranma Saotome turns into a girl when splashed with cold water and back into a boy with hot water, thanks to a training accident at the cursed springs of Jusenkyo in China. Season 3 of MAPPA's remake premiered on 3 October 2026 on Nippon TV, with Netflix streaming each episode worldwide right after the Japanese broadcast. The remake keeps the formula that made Rumiko Takahashi's manga a classic: Ranma's engagement to the temperamental Akane Tendo, a growing crowd of rivals and fiancées, and martial arts applied to absolutely everything, cooking, gymnastics, tea ceremony, you name it. Season 3 opens with Ranma and Ryoga's rivalry front and centre, brings Happosai and Cologne's schemes back into play, and adds new faces, including Sentaro Daimonji of the martial-arts tea ceremony school. Most of the original 1989 voice cast is back in the same roles more than three decades later, which gives the remake a warmth no reboot could fake. If you like your comedy fast, physical and hopelessly romantic, this is the season to jump in, though the first two seasons are only 12 episodes each.

Sasaki is a tired office worker whose pet bird Peeps is secretly a powerful sage from another world. With Peeps' magic he hops between modern Japan and a fantasy world, but psychics and secret agents keep complicating his quiet life. Season 2 continues this unusual mix of fantasy and everyday comedy. Sasaki still dreams of a slow, peaceful life, trading goods between worlds, eating well at his otherworld restaurant and training in magic under Peeps, whose real name is Piercarlo, the Sage of the Stars. But his day job at the Cabinet Office's paranormal bureau, the magical girls and demons around his home, and new arrivals such as the demon Abaddon keep ruining his plans. Animated by SILVER LINK., the season premiered on 7 October 2026 with a one-hour special. New episodes stream on Crunchyroll every Wednesday, and the anything-goes mix (office comedy one week, magical battle or alien first contact the next) is exactly what made the first season a word-of-mouth hit.

Shigeo Kageyama, nicknamed Mob, can bend spoons, exorcise spirits and level buildings with his psychic power. The strongest esper alive is somehow just an awkward middle-schooler who wants to be liked, get fit and maybe impress his crush. He works part-time for Arataka Reigen, a cheerful con artist with zero psychic powers who sells Mob's talent as a real exorcism business while teaching him that powers do not make a person special. Animated by Bones across three seasons (2016–2022), Mob Psycho 100 balances wild, experimental action with a warm story about growing up: Mob joins the Body Improvement Club, clashes with rival esper Teruki Hanazawa and the esper-supremacist organisation Claw, and slowly learns to express the feelings he has bottled up, because when his emotions hit 100%, his power explodes. The anime adapts ONE's complete 16-volume manga in full, so the story has a proper, satisfying ending.

Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane are the top students at the elite Shuchiin Academy, and both are in love with the other. But their pride makes them see love as a battle: the one who confesses first loses. Kaguya is the vice-president and heiress of the powerful Shinomiya family; Miyuki is the hard-working student council president who earned his place from outside the wealthy elite. Together with secretary Chika Fujiwara, treasurer Yu Ishigami and maid Ai Hayasaka, their meetings turn into clever mind games over the smallest things, a movie ticket, an umbrella, a lunchbox. Over three TV seasons (2019–2022), one OVA and the film The First Kiss That Never Ends, the 'war' slowly becomes a real romance, and the jokes often turn into some of the most moving scenes in modern anime. A TV special, The Stairway to Adulthood, aired in December 2025, and a concluding film has been announced to finish the main story on screen.

Peace after the fight with Majin Buu does not last long. When Beerus, the God of Destruction, wakes from a long sleep looking for the Super Saiyan God of his dreams, Goku's world opens up to a whole multiverse. Dragon Ball Super is the 2015 sequel series from Toei Animation, set in the ten quiet years between Majin Buu's defeat and the final episodes of Dragon Ball Z. After retelling the films Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F' with new detail, the series moves into fully new stories: a tournament against the fighters of Universe 6, the return of Future Trunks and his battle with the rogue god Zamasu, and the Tournament of Power, where eight universes fight and the losers are erased from existence. Goku reaches godly new forms, Vegeta keeps pace as his proud rival, and old friends like Krillin, Android 18 and Master Roshi return to the battlefield. Aired from 2015 to 2018 across 131 episodes, Super brought Dragon Ball back as a weekly global event and set up the films Broly and Super Hero.

In the kingdom of Fiore, wizard guilds take on jobs across the land, and none is rowdier than Fairy Tail. The 2009 anime, from A-1 Pictures and Satelight, follows Lucy Heartfilia, a young Celestial Wizard who runs away from her wealthy family to join the guild of her dreams. On her first day she meets Natsu Dragneel, a Fire Dragon Slayer raised by an actual dragon, and his flying cat partner Happy. Together with the ice wizard Gray, the armoured swordswoman Erza and a whole guild of lovable troublemakers, Lucy takes jobs that keep growing in scale, from dark guilds and cursed islands to a war against the Alvarez Empire. Fairy Tail is built on friendship: its wizards fight hardest when one of their own is in danger, and nearly every battle turns on loyalty rather than power alone. The anime ran in three productions between 2009 and 2019, covering all 328 episodes of Hiro Mashima's manga story, and the sequel Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest began in 2024.

Shoyo Hinata is short, fast and obsessed with volleyball, but his tiny middle-school team never stood a chance. Now at Karasuno High he must team up with Tobio Kageyama, the setter who once crushed him. Animated by Production I.G and adapted from Haruichi Furudate's manga, Haikyuu!! follows Karasuno (once called the 'flightless crows', a fallen powerhouse school) as a new generation rebuilds the team and claws its way back toward the national stage. Across four TV seasons (2014–2020) and now a run of cinema films, the series turns school volleyball into pure drama: no superpowers, no shortcuts, just real technique, teamwork and rivalries that grow over years. What makes it special is how much it loves everyone on the court. Rival schools like Nekoma, Aoba Johsai, Shiratorizawa and Inarizaki all get heroes, heartbreaks and reasons to win, so even Karasuno's defeats feel meaningful. The Hinata–Kageyama partnership, a lightning-fast quick attack built on total trust, drives the story, but this is an ensemble piece where bench players, managers and coaches all matter. Warm, funny and relentlessly exciting, it is widely loved as one of the finest sports anime ever made.

A mysterious light turns every human on Earth to stone. Thousands of years later, science-obsessed Senku Ishigami breaks free and sets an impossible goal: revive everyone and rebuild civilisation from scratch, one invention at a time. Dr. Stone turns real science into adventure (soap, glass, electricity and antibiotics become boss battles) with a huge heart and a tonne of energy. Ten billion percent exhilarating. Animated by TMS Entertainment from the manga by Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi, the series ran from 2019 to 2026 across four seasons and 94 episodes, adapting the complete manga story. Senku's method is always the same and always thrilling: identify the problem, remember the science, and build the impossible with whatever the stone world provides, stone tools, iron, gunpowder, telephones, ships, and eventually a rocket aimed at the mystery itself. Around him gathers the Kingdom of Science: Taiju's endless stamina, Chrome's reinvented discoveries, Gen's silver tongue, Kohaku's strength and the whole village of Ishigami. It is a rare adventure that makes knowledge itself the superpower, celebrating curiosity, teamwork and the 3,700 years of human progress Senku is determined to win back.

Office worker Satoru Mikami dies and wakes in a fantasy world as a small blue slime with the power to absorb and copy almost anything. Naming himself Rimuru, he befriends a sealed dragon, rescues goblins and slowly builds a town where monsters and humans can live together. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is a cosy, clever nation-building isekai with plenty of action when diplomacy fails. What makes it special is how Rimuru solves problems: he would rather trade, negotiate and throw a festival than fight, so his tiny monster village grows step by step into the Jura Tempest Federation, a real nation with roads, baths, schools and allies. The politics, economics and everyday life of that growing country sit beside big battles against demon lords, holy knights and human kingdoms that fear what Tempest represents. Animated by Eight Bit, the series has run since 2018 across four seasons and two films, and its light novel source finished in 2025, so the whole journey is now mapped out.

Saitama is a hero for fun who trained so hard he can end any fight with a single punch, and now the strongest man alive is bored out of his mind, hunting for a worthy opponent and a good supermarket sale. With his eager cyborg disciple Genos at his side, he drifts into the Hero Association, a professional league where heroes are ranked from C to S and monsters keep escalating. One Punch Man began as ONE's rough webcomic in 2009 before Yusuke Murata's spectacular manga remake made it a global hit. Madhouse animated Season 1 in 2015; J.C.Staff took over for Season 2 (2019) and Season 3, whose first cour aired in late 2025, with Part 2 announced for January 2027. Between the comedy (King, the 'strongest man on Earth' who is actually a terrified gamer) and the rising threat of the hero hunter Garou and the Monster Association, the series keeps asking what being a hero is even for.

At the edge of human awareness lives Yato, a forgotten god who will grant any wish for five yen. Noragami begins when schoolgirl Hiyori Iki pushes a stranger out of the path of a bus and wakes up able to slip out of her body and see the world of gods and spirits. The stranger is Yato, a broke, tracksuit-wearing minor god of calamity with no shrine, who dreams of fame and takes odd jobs while fighting phantoms with his shinki, the spirits who serve gods as living weapons. Together with the teenage shinki Yukine, the three form a strange family as Yato's violent past catches up with him: the war god Bishamon hunts him for an old tragedy, and the god Ebisu's dangerous plans drag everyone toward Yomi, the land of the dead. The anime by studio Bones has two seasons, Noragami (2014) and Noragami Aragoto (2015), plus four OVAs, mixing action, comedy and real emotion.

A tentacled super-creature blows up most of the moon, then makes a deal: he will teach the worst class in school for a year, and if his students cannot assassinate him by graduation, he will destroy the Earth. So begins Class 3-E's strange school year, where the homework is marksmanship, the field trips are ambushes, and the teacher, nicknamed Koro-sensei, is the kindest, fastest and most encouraging educator any of them has ever had. Lerche animated Yusei Matsui's complete manga across two seasons (2015–2016, 47 episodes plus the Episode 0 OVA), and unusually, the anime adapts the manga's ending in full. The compilation film 365 Days (2016), the Koro Sensei Quest spin-off and a brand-new film, Everybody's Time (March 2026), animating chapters the TV series skipped for the 10th anniversary, round out the franchise. Under the comedy sits a story about written-off kids learning their own worth.

Kuroko's Basketball follows Tetsuya Kuroko, the near-invisible 'phantom sixth man' of Teiko Middle School's legendary Generation of Miracles. Now at Seirin High, he teams with fiery forward Taiga Kagami to beat his old teammates and prove teamwork wins. Animated by Production I.G from Tadatoshi Fujimaki's manga, the series ran for 75 episodes across three seasons (2012–2015) and finished in cinemas with the film Last Game in 2017. Kuroko's gift is being overlooked: coaches and crowds miss him completely, and he turns that lack of presence into laser-guided passes that thread entire defences. Kagami supplies what Kuroko lacks, height, power and a hunger to beat the five prodigies one by one. Around them, Seirin is an ordinary team with no history, built on trust by captain Hyuga, injured founder Kiyoshi and their tiny coach Riko. The result is a stylish, emotional take on basketball where every match asks the same question: can a team of friends outplay five geniuses who stopped believing in teams? Fast, funny and surprisingly moving, it remains one of the most popular sports anime of its generation.

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is an enhanced edition of Dragon Ball Super, made by Toei Animation for its 70th anniversary and the Dragon Ball franchise's 40th. Instead of a simple re-release, the team rebuilt the opening of the 2015 series with large amounts of newly drawn animation, re-recorded voices and a reconstructed story that follows Akira Toriyama's original manga more closely. The remake tells the Battle of Gods, Resurrection 'F' and Universe 6 arcs in a planned run of just 19 episodes, cutting the filler that slowed the original down. It premiered on 11 October 2026, and for new fans it is now the fastest, cleanest way to start the Dragon Ball Super story, while long-time fans get to see famous scenes, including Goku's first fight with Beerus, the way they were meant to look.