| I know that this is really just based on your sense of humor and opinion, but most of the jokes I see in anime are just obnoxious, something that I feel I have to deal with more than be entertained from. Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop are the only exceptions for me, but those were made with western audiences in mind, so maybe it's just a difference in culture. tl;dr: Most comedy in anime isn't very funny. Idk am I alone with this mindset? Am I just watching the wrong anime? What are your thoughts on comedy in anime? |
| Japanese humor does love screeching Sugita and other male characters. I'm sure it is because of the culture difference, but there are small comedic moments that I appreciate in non-comedy anime. |
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| I mean its as you said it depends on your sense of humour. I mean i don't find most school slice of life comedies funny, maybe amusing but never that funny. on the other hand something like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei i find really funny. It could also be because you don't like the style of humour, for example i don't find American comedies style funny, but i find the British style of humour funny. |
| There's definitely some anime comedy that have over-used humor that just relies on fanservice, which is crap. But there are some true gems out there. Namely, Gintama (of course), Hina Festival, and Skilled Teaser Takagi-san just to name a few. |
| The last thing that crosses borders is comedy (the first is horror). The more borders merge, the more comedy becomes, well, funny. Anime will become funnier the more countries making anime merge with countries that consume anime...we will get get horrified by scary anime much sooner though. |
| ching chang land doesn't have that good taste in humor, just the same shite over and over again. there are some comedy anime i laughed at though, like ouran and golden boy. shit like garzey's wang doesn't count |
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| This is easy. If you don't laugh at least couple of time and you're already 5 eps in, you better drop it. That series is not for you and not in your sense of humour. It's ok to drop an anime, don't force yourself. Just look for other anime that'll suit you for what you are. A weeb. xD |
| Sounds like you're just not watching good comedy anime lol. I promise there are really great ones out there. |
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fideldesu said: This is easy. If you don't laugh at least couple of time and you're already 5 eps in, you better drop it. That series is not for you and not in your sense of humour. It's funny you say that because i always end up finishing an anime even if i hate it. lol. |
| Gintama, One Piece, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou are funny to me. Some are certainly not funny. I don't find Samurai Champloo funny. |
| 'America is a stolen country' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM8WZ0ztMuc Zapredon said: It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person. Totally agree! |
| To be honest, comedy anime are hit or miss with me. Some are hillarious, some are okay but get old real fast, and some are just plain not funny. |
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| No you aren't alone but it seems you don't watchedโ the real comedies |
| I had the same mindset (and prefer western humor) until I watched Gintama which was just hilarious so I would recommend that series to you as well. |
| First, for visual comedy, most of what I find doesn't know how to cut. I find that knowing where to cut is a handy skill when doing visual comedy. Take a look at this general joke progression: [Setup] -> [Execution] -> [Conclusion] The thing here is that you can cut the execution part and go straight to conclusion, especially when the viewers can already easily extrapolate what happens in between the setup and the conclusion. Otherwise you're just dragging the punchline and lessening its impact For example: Step 1.) Fantasy isekai party encounters a slime monster and laughs at how slimes are basically easy-peasy RPG monsters in IRL PC games. Step 2.) Fantasy isekai party gets beaten by slime monster. Step 3.) Fantasy isekai party runs away from slime monster. Do you really need step 2? Can you make step two visually comedic and interesting? No? Delete it. It flows much better that way. It's a better punchline. It's funnier. There was that guy that posted about Japanese style of humor and how the confirmation that it is a joke is part of the joke. So, I guess this a different culture thing. Second, for aural-based comedies. It's not a comedy show. It's a scripted improv. It's two people taking turns being snarky to each other. This is actually more the trend in several Western shows and films I found than an anime one. Sure it can be funny. And a lot of people, including me, find it funny when it's done so well, but you can do so much more with the visual presentation. It's an audio-visual work. Surely you can do so much more than just close-up shots of people talking deadpan in a coffee shop. The comedy shows I love tend mix and match the two: aural and visual. And I find it so much better because it offers so much more avenues to be funny rather than relying almost solely on one. |
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| yes, isnt that the point of comedy??? |
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| I'm in complete opposition. For me Japanese sense of humour is great and it IS funny. I'm not a fan of comedy outside anime at all and I often try to avoid watching anything comedy related that isn't an anime. The thing is you need to understand at least a little Japanese, know some kanji and their culture to enjoy it, because it's often multi-layered combo of puns, references (to precious episodes/situations for example), visuals and few contexts. That's why you can't watch a random episode of comedy series (even if it's episodic), because you simply won't understand it. I find most of western comedy movies/series (especially American) just pathetic and cringy rather than funny (there are exemptions like some British, French, older Polish comedies and generally European, but as I said, I try to avoid this genre as much as possible). That's why Cowboy Bebop wasn't funny at all for me and humor in FMA Brotherhood was just unbearable. Ps. There is almost no real comedies in your list to be honest. And even if - it is something like KonoSuba, NGNL or OPM which I consider as boring and completely uninteresting. |
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| Cromartie High School, Mob Psycho and Gintama made me laugh so hard, but it's as you said, it depends on each one sense of humor. |
| Some are funny and some are not, but I can't really see them being obnoxious or anything. Boring, maybe, but obnoxious? As for breast grabs and bathroom gyaahs and the like, which I guess could be obnoxious, not even sure they're written in with that much comedic purpose in mind. Even with cultural differences etc, I can't see the Japanese audience dying of laughter in those scenes, they exist for other reasons |
| Like drama, I'll usually only watch a comedy anime if there's another element to it. Have to agree, as someone who loves comedy, it's rare for me to find an anime that I find funny. More recently I've tried Pop Team Epic, which I couldn't watch past 3 episodes, and Gintama, which I stopped after 55. For Gintama, this was my second time trying to watch, and there were some episodes I thought were pretty funny, but I wasn't sure I wanted to sit through all the ones I didn't enjoy just to get to the ones I did. |
| Yes. And like you said it depends on your humour. What makes it sometimes unfunny because it felt forced or stereotypes. |
| Well, I don't usually find Comedy in general funny but the american-style of comedy is even worsr imo than japanese (extremely cringey and exagerated). I haven't laughed in any of them but on the other hand I have laughed endlessly in some animes. In the end, it just depends in your taste in humour (if you prefer brainless comedy or satiric comedy for example). |
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| I don't really like the comedy genre, Of course mainly because I don't find it funny. Comedy is just not the genre for me. But if you like comedy but anime comedy didn't make you laugh then that could be just your humour or perhaps as you said cultural difference. |
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| I really like anime comedy. Like someone else said someone has made a topic trying to defend it and I just happened to dig it up. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1717500 Apart from that you shouldn't expect to understand their jokes unless you speak basic Japanese and can read kanji because lots of their humor is lost in translation. |
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| Watch School Rumble. (That's the funniest anime I've seen.) |
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| Maybe you got offended by japanese humor. if you want comedy that will appeal to your taste then watch Rick and Morty instead. |
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| Yes. At least for me who are not from west. Anything i'd pick for watching is mostly have comedy tag in the genre, especially if it from yonkoma adaptation. I really liked them. For your question 1. Am i alone with that mindset? No, people who don't really into comedic rather than action/adventure/thriller/etc usually doesnt like most of comedy-centered anime. 2 Am i just watching the wrong anime? No, please... majority comedic centered anime are usually similar, with manzai there and there. And Samurai Champloo and Cowboy bebep is NOT comedy-centered anime i think (i'm watching that till now, so i don't know with it). So the answer is your watching wrong show, but even you watched the right ones it still be unfunny for you 3 You thoughts on comedy in anime? I think the comedy is needed in every anime even for the serious anime, to lower the tension in most action-related anime. Comedy on anime is usually overused, but i dont mind with that as long it not getting old and still made me laugh And comedy in anime is maintly using manzai technique which i always appreciated that and i really liked this kind of comedy. |
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| I think I'm the type that find humor in exaggerated and childish ones. The ones that would be obnoxious to a lot of people. Because if I were to pick an anime that made me laugh the most, it would be KonoSuba followed by To LOVE-Ru and Shokugeki which all have a perverted side to them that's common between those three. Angel Beats! deserved a recognition from me for probably making me laugh the hardest for a single scene, and that one was childish too. Stuff like Gintama and Daily Life of High School Boys doesn't really suit well with me. I mean, a couple of Gintama's humor really got me hard that I can't breathe for a while but I had to sit through a lot of episodes before getting to those ones. For the latter, some worked but not as much as Gintama. So I'm concluding that obnoxious jokes work well with me, although at times it can get pretty annoying too but that depends on the situation (such as character investment). |
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| The fun in Japanese humour lies on "The attempts to entertain" more than others as humility is a big part of their culture, and I really appreciate that. But ultimately it comes down to whether you share that sense of humour. |
| If we're talking about Japanese puns or any related to Japanese culture when it comes to their humor, of course you might not find it funny because you can't relate to them since you're not Japanese/don't live in Japan. For me, excluding comedy that's about related culture, I doubt most comedy anime aren't funny for me. At the very least all comedy anime that I've watched has one very funny scene. |
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holysauron said: I really like anime comedy. Like someone else said someone has made a topic trying to defend it and I just happened to dig it up. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1717500 Apart from that you shouldn't expect to understand their jokes unless you speak basic Japanese and can read kanji because lots of their humor is lost in translation. Thanks for posting that link. That post makes the culture difference a bit more distinct for me. I also thought that maybe comedy anime would be more funny if I could actually understand what they were saying instead of reading the subtitles. |
impossablank said: I also thought that maybe comedy anime would be more funny if I could actually understand what they were saying instead of reading the subtitles. English Dub :> Worked for Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. |
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| I tend to have this for certain comedy anime. I saw a lot of Nichijou and Gintama moments in funny anime compilations, but majority of them never made me laugh. But there are some anime that made me laugh a lot. I mean, when it comes to funny moments in anime that made me laugh a lot, the first three moments that were in my head was either Shirou's reaction to Saber being naked in 2006's Fate/stay night, the 'make Kanade fail her exams' scene in Angel Beats, and that one scene in the first episode of Kotoura-san. They all made me laugh so hard, so it really depends on our sense of humour. |
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| There are some anime that made me laugh quite a lot but it's usualy either just hillarious or unfunny garbage I have rarely experienced any middle ground |
| If you try hard enough, every anime genre is comedy on its own way lol |
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| It's definitely the style of humor. I don't find Western jokes as really funny or worthy for me to go find more. I find humor in anime to be at least amusing for the most part and it doesn't need to make me laugh. It's like the smile made by Gintama characters when I watch comedy anime. All that it takes to make me laugh generally is like a popular Mr. Bean cartoon or real person. When you love a person or character, you'll be more invested in them and find more plus points to enjoy. |
| I adore comedy in anime but I would also say I thought the comedy aspect in Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo for the most part was pretty weak. |
| depends on your tastes, most comedy anime i have seen have sexual tones and tons of references and i find them hilarious....some comedy anime which made me laugh are konosuba osomatsu-san gekkan-shoujo nozaki-kun danshi kokousei no nichijou gugure! kokkuri-san and bonus.....oruchuban-ebichu |
impossablank said: I find that the stereotype of anime comedy involves slapstick gags, face faults, and exaggeration. Which really isn't my thing.I know that this is really just based on your sense of humor and opinion, but most of the jokes I see in anime are just obnoxious, something that I feel I have to deal with more than be entertained from. Samurai Champloo and Cowboy Bebop are the only exceptions for me, but those were made with western audiences in mind, so maybe it's just a difference in culture. tl;dr: Most comedy in anime isn't very funny. Idk am I alone with this mindset? Am I just watching the wrong anime? What are your thoughts on comedy in anime? On the other hand, more subtle humor elements tend to be more my taste. Witty comebacks, for example, or "only sane man" setups. They do occur, but they're just not quite as obvious and easily identifiable on a superficial level. |
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| Comedy anime is the only reason I didn't stop watching anime by this moment. |
| Define 'funny'. There's such a thing as comedic genres, and everyone has preferred and dealbreaker comedic genres. I, for example, really don't like reference-based comedy (which Lucky Star is full of, for example - I still moderately enjoyed Lucky Star for its other comedic genres) or blue comedy done poorly* (Seitokai no Ichizon is a giant example of blue comedy done poorly) but I don't mind blue comedy when done well (NouCome) Slapstick, deadpan and non sequitor are my favourite comedic genres which is why Nichijou and Danshi Koukosei no Nichijou are my favourite comedy anime. *Poorly done blue comedy is being too overt, in your face, lack of subtlety and often graphically explaining every single joke, killing their effect by patronizing the watcher. Anime that have made me roar with laughter at least once: Nichijou Nichibros Senyuu NouCome Working! (franchise) Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo Yuru Yuri Non Non Biyori Tonari no Seki-kun Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Denki-gai Gugure! Kokkuri-san Minami-ke (franchise) So not a lot, so far. But other comedies have been enjoyable despite not having me in stitches. And Nichijou is just king of them all, Nichibros not far behind. |
Red_TuesdayApr 21, 2018 4:48 AM
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| I definitely get some giggles out of comedy anime, but nothing compared to the laughs I get out of western comedy. Comedy is probably funnier to the target audience and demographic, afterall |
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