5. Saiki K
Kusuo Saiki is one of the high school students who was born having powers, including psychokinesis and teleportation. He attempts to hide it from everyone at school. He is put in several seemingly normal scenarios in which he uses it to hide his special powers
4. Gintama
Gintama tops every list of comedy anime, and there is a good reason for it: it is amazing. It was based on a manga and has many versions, seasons, and OVAs, each crazier than the previous one, but the animation of the action scenes, the voice acting, and the inside jokes that will be another level of funny for lovers of anime really bring the level up.
So, zoom-in Japan, Edo period, full of samurai goodness… that has been invaded by the Amantos, an alien race that invaded a while ago. The protagonist is Gintoki, a general store owner that aims to live his life respecting the samurai code, helping people, and avoiding as many fights as possible. Unfortunately for him, he is surrounded by ultra-strong aliens, anarchists, warrior clans, impossible landladies and god dogs. The plot is a bit the love child of Samurai Champloo, Inuyasha and Dragon Ball, and if you liked those shows, you will enjoy Gintama.
3. Hetalia
This is the anime to watch if you have a World War II test coming up and you need cute anime boys to push you through an all-nighter. Hetalia anthropomorphizes world countries and makes them re-enact historical events in their own 5-minute skits that are somehow denser in dialogue than normal 20-minute episodes. If you are a fan of voice actor J. Michael Tatum, you will enjoy really his very off-brand depiction of France. Watch it if you are a history buff or if you enjoyed the silliest skits of Fruits Basket.
2. Ouran High School Host Club
Ouran High School Host Club’s tried to codify and parody every single trope and cliché present in shoujo manga, including, but not limited to, the Prince archetype, twincest, reverse and regular harem, cross-dressing, Megane characters, samurai and yakuza pretty boys, yaoi aimed at women, poor-girl meets group of ultra-rich, god-like young men, all-girl school with yuri under, over and all-over tones, the boy next door plotline, as well as all those special events like Halloween, school festivals, beach trips, a day in the life, the kidnapping plot… Ouran laughs at everyone and everything, including fangirls and French names. Every episode includes a plot twist that turns the chapter’s story on its head, and that will genuinely surprise you the first time you watch it.
The plot follows Haruhi, a scholarship student that has been accepted to the ultra-rich, pretty-in-pink versaillesque Ouran Academy. The first day, a priceless jar is broken, and Haruhi ends up in debt to a group of spoiled male students pretending to be hosts catering to their female classmate's appetites. Don’t worry, this is mostly kept PG-13. You will like it if you have ever watched shoujo, any shoujo, or if you find shoujo extremely uncomfortable to watch but you never could find words for that feeling.
1. Monthly Girls Nozaki Kun (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun)
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Monthly Girls Nozaki Kun is a very focused parody zooming into the shoujo manga industry and life and tribulations of your regular mangaka. The first protagonist is Nozaki-Kun, a very imposing and solemn high school student that is secretly a very famous romance mangaka; the deuteragonist is Sakura, an adorable girl that has a huge crush on him and that takes to the revelation of this secret with as much joy and gambarimasu as Goku chasing down dragon balls.
Although her strategy for seducing him by becoming his assistant is unsuccessful, this hilarious anime is a great window into the secrets of Japanese editorial management, the laws surrounding the kind of images that can be published, and the different ways comic book artists get inspired to work through crazy deadlines. A must-watch if you ever considered working in that industry.