In this article, we continue with the second part of the Top 10 anime comedy movies series that we started with the first part about « Best Comedy Anime Movies », where we will talk about other new comedy anime movies.
Anime Movie Stand by Me Doraemon
Stand by Me Doraemon is a Japanese animated film that combines science fiction, comedy, and drama released in 2014. It is based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki. It was released on August 8, 2014. The dubbed English version of the film was premiered by Entertainment at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 24, 2014. Stand by Me Doraemon topped the box office for five consecutive weeks and was the second highest-grossing Japanese anime film of 2014 in Japan, with a total box office revenue of $183.4 million. The film won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the 38th Japan Academy Awards and a sequel was released on November 20, 2020 in Japan.
The film is primarily inspired by the first chapter of the manga « All the Way From the Future », the 1973 chapter « Mountain Rescue », the 1980 chapter « Goodbye Shizuka », the 1984 chapter « Imprinting Shizuka », the 1998 short film « Doraemon Comes Back » and the 1999 short film « Doraemon: Nobita’s Night Before a Wedding ».
Nobita Nobi is a fourth-grade student who constantly gets failing grades due to laziness and is always bullied by his classmates, Suneo Honekawa and Takeshi. Sewashi, his grandson from the 22nd century, brings along his robotic cat Doraemon who helps humans with his secret gadgets. Sewashi reveals that his family is in debt and in order to change his disastrous future, he enlists Doraemon to be a guardian for Nobita, and wraps Doraemon’s nose with a ribbon to prevent him from going back to the future unless Nobita obtains a better future.
Anime Movie Eiga K-On!
Eiga K-On! is a movie derived from the K-ON! anime series. It features an original story based on the series and is not a direct adaptation of the Kakifly manga series. Directed by Noriko Takao, it tells the story of the five members of the Ho-kago Tea Time school band on their graduation trip to London, the capital of the United Kingdom. They all decide to meet up with Azusa to go on a post-graduation mission to London and determine their destiny.
The film begins with Yui struggling to wake up to her alarm clock, reminiscent of the first episode of the anime series. At school, Azusa Nakano makes her way to the club room, where Yui and the others pretend to play an old song for Death Devil. Azusa Nakano gets into a heated debate: Ritsu and Yui argue about the musical style they are playing, and Mio explains how the disagreement about the direction of the club could lead to its dissolution. Exciting events ensue thereafter.
Anime Movie A Whisker Away
A Whisker Away is a Japanese romantic fantasy comedy anime film released in 2020, produced by Studio Colorido, Toho Animation, and Twin Engine. Directed by Junichi Sato and Tomotaka Shibayama, it is their first directorial appearance. The film was released on June 18, 2020 on Netflix in Japanese, with the English dub originally scheduled to be released alongside the Japanese release but was delayed until June 28, 2020 when it was officially released on Netflix.
Miyo Sasaki, a 14-year-old girl living in Tokoname Town in Aichi Prefecture, does not get along with her father’s wife Kaoru. She constantly flirts with her crush Kento Hinode, even though he has no romantic feelings towards her at all and often avoids her. One day she receives a magic mask from a mysterious mask seller, allowing her to transform into a cat. As « Taro », she spends time with Hinode, accompanies him during his study of Japanese pottery, and listens to his problems. She yearns to confess that the cat he loves and the girl he doesn’t love are the same person.
Anime Movie Seven Days War
Seven Days War is a comedic anime film directed by Yuta Murano released in 2019. The film revolves around the mysterious disappearance of students, as on a hot day right before the summer vacation, all the first-year students of the second year of the boys’ junior high school disappear. Was it an accident? A mass abduction? In reality, they were hiding in an abandoned factory near the river, using it as a liberation zone to rebel against adults. The adults are puzzled by the massive and unexpected operations in which the students collaborate. Intertwined with real-life abductions, corrupt mayor elections, and even involving parents and TV reporters who were thrilled to broadcast liberations and barricades. The comedic mystery moves at a light pace that doesn’t give the audience a chance to breathe until the fantastic end filled with satire.
Anime Movie Hetalia: Axis Powers – Paint it, White!
Hetalia: Axis Powers – Paint it, White! is an anime film inspired by the Hetalia: Axis Powers anime series released in 2010, written by Hidekaz Himaruya. The film takes a comedic look at world history and international relations, portraying countries as twisted characters. Earth is invaded by mysterious white alien beings that begin converting everything into homogeneous, featureless landscapes. It is up to the Axis powers (Italy, Germany, Japan) and the Allies (America, England, France, China, Russia) to save the day. Hetalia is a compound word from the Japanese word « hetare » which means useless in a derogatory sense towards Italy’s cowardice during World War II.
The main historical events portrayed in this work occurred between World War I and World War II using a comical template to touch on well-known historical events. Hetalia portrays cultural differences and international relations between parties, as well as the historical, political, and military interactions between countries as a social and poetic interaction between characters.
That concludes our article on the best 10 comedy anime movies. We witnessed a great variety in these exciting and truly wonderful films, most of which are considered some of the best works in the anime industry’s comedy genre, providing entertaining and creative comedy-themed topics. I now leave you to read our previous article titled « Top Anime of Winter 2024 ».
