Hilarious school comedy that aren't talked about a lot

https://myanimelist.net/anime/32648/Handa-kun A fun spin off / prequel of Barakamon. Love the style of humor in it where everyone loves him but he thinks everyone hates him.

Paniponi Dash! (2005) is an underrated and overlooked gem for fans of the "zany girls comedy" genre set in school.

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This one should be even higher on my priority list, if you as well think it's worth watching.

Like that makes no sense to me, but whatever...

If you want me to shamelessly name-drop another title more conventional to being an actual comedy, there’s "Magikano". It’s basically what you’d get if fanservice was raised by cartoon gremlins and handed a script with no rules. A raunchy middle school perverted comedy for the whole family. lol

"Magikano" is one of those shows that feels like it made a dramatic escape from a voluntary mental institution, even when one could’ve just freely walked out of the place with no problem, and landed in a school uniform.

It’s chaotic, unhinged, and lives off pure early-2000s anime energy aimed at a general Japanese male demo. Like someone mashed a trashy magical girl harem and a slapstick pervy ghost comedy together, then triple-dosed it with extra-refined sugar and said, “Yup, that’s the tone". lol

It shouldn’t work. By all logic, it should be a mess. But somehow, that mess is hilarious. It doesn’t just lean into the absurd, it swan-dives off the roof of the school, shamelessly flaunting its white panties, and yells “Plot? What plot?!” on the way down. Even at times, it pokes fun at actual anime fanservice, while ironically offering it at the same time, in a way that isn’t inherently meant to sexually gratify the viewer at all in the first place.

Nobody ever brings this show up, and that honestly blows my mind. It’s comedy gold! It’s got that “your weeb friend randomly recommended it and you were just expecting it to be complete trash, but now you’re 4 episodes deep and actually loving the chaos” energy.

You want underrated? This is it. If your taste runs a little off-kilter and you like your school comedies cracked out, unpredictable, and aggressively anti-serious... Then metaphorically, "Magikano" is your dream girlfriend material tease that you had a huge crush on back in 1991. All dressed up in a trendy T-shirt they bought at the GAP, and wearing a very short and tight stone-washed jean miniskirt, white socks, and the silkiest white panties they probably own, all for your movie date. Knowing full well they’re expecting to get totally felt up that evening, sitting in the very back row of the almost-empty theater with you. "Magikano" can come off just that unhinged. lol

Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. Although it needs to be watched after the first season.

One of I like that not a lot of people talk about. It does kinda get repetitive though. https://myanimelist.net/anime/851/Kyou_kara_Ore_wa

Others I really like have already been mentioned.

Maybe it doesn't count because it's also some magic stuff but I really liked Machikado Mazoku and I never saw anyone talk about it or even mention it.
To be fair, I'm not that active so it's not hard for me to miss it.

Just wanted to mention it here. More people should watch Shamiko, I think. :)

Maybe it doesn't count because it's also some magic stuff but I really liked Machikado Mazoku and I never saw anyone talk about it or even mention it.
To be fair, I'm not that active so it's not hard for me to miss it.

Just wanted to mention it here. More people should watch Shamiko, I think. :)

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