Highlights

• My Deer Friend Nokotan is a surprise hit in the 2024 anime season with its unique take on the school comedy.
• Fans waiting for new episodes might enjoy comedic anime like Seitokai Yakuindomo or Lucky Star.
• These anime series offer fans funny high school fun and quirky characters.

The summer 2024 anime season had many new hits, but none were more surprising than My deer friend Nokotan, a comedy anime about a deer-girl hybrid who goes to school. School comedies are pretty common in anime, but My deer friend Nokotan takes things to another level and has already gained a foothold in anime meme culture.

While My deer friend Nokotan is currently still airing, fans of the series may want something to tide them over between episodes. It is certainly a unique anime, but there are many similar options for those who want the atmosphere of a high school comedy with hilarious banter. Here are some comedy anime that fans of My deer friend Nokotan.

8 Seitokai Yakuindomo

Students with dirty attitudes at a former girls’ high school

• Produced by Studio GoHands
• 26 episodes
• Streaming on HiDive

Takatoshi Tsuda decides to attend the newly formed Ousai Academy for coeds because it is conveniently close to his home. He is almost immediately accepted into the student council by President Shino Amakusa, who wants to provide a male perspective to the new male students. To his surprise, the girls on the student council are surprisingly naive when it comes to boys, and their minds are dirtier than he expected.

Seitokai Yakuindomo is a gag comedy anime originally based on a 4-koma manga. The humor is fast paced and often sexual, although the anime itself is relatively harmless. With a cast of quirky characters passing the ball to each other, this anime is a blast for comedy.

7 Lucky Star

The everyday life of high school girls

Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, Tsukasa Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara are high school students who all attend the same school. Despite their different personalities and quirks, the four of them get along quite well, and the anime portrays the daily lives of these girls as they go to school and pursue their various interests.

Lucky Star is an incredibly popular comedy gag anime from the 2000s. Although ostensibly a real-life comedy, it is packed with over-the-top gags and references to popular media, which has increased its longevity compared to its various competitors.

6 Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei

A school anime with black humor

• Produced by Studio Shaft
• 38 episodes

One day, while walking to school, high school student Kafuka Fuura discovers a young man named Nozomu Itoshiki hanging from a tree. She rescues him, but then finds out that he tried to take his own life out of despair over the state of the world. As it turns out, Itoshiki is a teacher and Kafuka is one of his new students.

Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei is a black comedy anime that follows Nozomu Itoshiki and his daily adventures with his bizarre, quirky, and often odd students. The anime covers a variety of different topics, usually from both Itoshiki’s incredibly pessimistic point of view and Kafuka’s overly optimistic point of view.

5 School hustle and bustle

A love triangle between fools

Tenma Tsukamoto is in love with Oji Karasuma, her stoic and somewhat dim-witted classmate. Unbeknownst to her, she is the object of the affection of another student: Kenji Harima, a delinquent who comes to school just to see her face. When these different and dissimilar personalities clash, hilarious scenes ensue.

School hustle and bustle is a romantic comedy from the 2000s with some of the silliest jokes ever seen in the manga and anime genre. The character dynamics make for a lot of fun, and the more characters there are, the crazier the jokes get.

4 Azumanga Daioh

Top-notch madness at high school

Azumanga Daioh tells the everyday life of six high school girls, each with their own unique personality. Whether it is the intrusively energetic Tomo Takino, the child prodigy Chiyo Mihama or the dim-witted Osaka, each character does their best to Azumanga Daioh the laugh-out-loud comedy that we’re known for.

Azumanga Daioh is an incredibly popular anime from the 2000s that is loved by anime and manga fans everywhere. It laid the foundation for cut-scenes of school comedy anime and remains influential to this day.

3 The everyday life of high school boys

The hilarious ups and downs of male friendship

Tadakuni, Tanaka, and Tabata are three high school friends from Sanada North Boys High School. They spend most of their time talking about the normal problems of high school boys, such as how to be popular with girls, and getting into all sorts of pranks and schemes.

The everyday life of high school boys is a school comedy anime about the various pranks that high school boys often get up to. It’s a healthy mix of real life and absurd comedy, with quirky characters to keep things interesting.

2 The catastrophic life of Saiki K.

The difficulties of being an all-powerful clairvoyant

Saiki Kusuo is a normal high school student with a secret. He has been an all-powerful psychic since birth, and abilities like telepathy are child’s play for him. His powers set him apart from normal people, but he still strives to live a normal life.

The catastrophic life of Saiki K. is a supernatural gag comedy, with the humor coming primarily from the various people Saiki meets, as well as the various problems that are either caused or solved by his powers. While Saiki and his powers seem to fit well in an action series, the anime stays humorous, favoring silly humor over psionic action.

1 Nichijou

The totally surreal comedy

On paper Nichijou looks like an everyday school comedy, with the main characters being high school girls who spend their days going to school and pursuing their hobbies. However, there is more to the manga than meets the eye, even before the android comes into the picture.

Nichijou is known for its mastery of surreal comedy, with bizarre sequences like a lead character’s wrestling with a goat causing a furore in meme culture. While the overall narrative of the series does not exist, many agree that Nichijou is one of the funniest anime ever.