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Top 10 Comedy Anime Movies – Part 2

Continuing with you the second part of this article as part of the Top 10 articles series that we started first about the first part of the article “Best Comedy Anime Movies”, where we will talk this time about other new comedy anime movies.

Anime Movie Stand by Me Doraemon

It is a Japanese animated film of science fiction, comedy, and drama for the year 2014 based on the Doraemon manga series and directed by Ryūichi Yagi and Takashi Yamazaki. It was released on August 8, 2014. Entertainment released the first English-dubbed version of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 24, 2014. The film Stand by Me Doraemon topped the box office for five consecutive weeks and was the second highest-grossing Japanese anime film for 2014 in Japan, with a total box office of $183.4 million. The film won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year at the thirty-eighth Japan Academy Awards. 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 fails his subjects due to laziness and is always bullied by his classmates Suneo Honekawa and Takeshi. His grandson from the twenty-second century, Sewashi, 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 catastrophic future, he enlists Doraemon to be a guardian to Nobita, and wraps Doraemon’s nose to prevent him from returning to the future unless Nobita Nobi achieves a better future.

Anime Movie Eiga K-On!

It is a movie derived from the K-ON! anime series. It contains 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 school band Ho-kago Tea Time on their graduation trip to London, the capital of the UK. They all decide to meet with Azusa to go on a post-graduation mission to London and determine their fate.

The movie starts 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 the Reaper. Azusa Nakano gets into a heated discussion: Ritsu and Yui argue about the type of music they play, and Mio explains that the disagreement about the direction the club will take could lead to its dissolution. Exciting events ensue thereafter.

Anime Movie A Whisker Away

It 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, and the film was released on June 18, 2020 on Netflix in Japanese. The English dubbed version was originally scheduled to be released alongside the Japanese release of the film but was postponed until June 28, 2020 when it was officially released on Netflix.

Miyo Sasaki is a 14-year-old girl living in Tokoname town in Aichi Prefecture. She does not get along with her father’s wife, Kaoru. She always flirts with her handsome crush Kento Hinode, even though he has no romantic feelings towards her at all and often avoids her. One day she receives a magical mask from a mysterious mask seller, allowing her to become a cat. As “Taro,” she spends time with Hinode, accompanies him during his Japanese pottery studies, and listens to his problems. She longs to confess that the cat he loves and the girl he doesn’t love are the same person.

Anime Movie Seven Days War

It is a comedy anime film directed by Yuta Murano released in 2019. The film revolves around the mysterious disappearance of students, as on a hot day just before the summer vacation, all the first-year students of the second grade of the boys’ high school disappear. Was it an accident? A mass kidnapping? In fact, they were hiding in an abandoned factory near the river and using it as a rebellion area against the adults. The adults are puzzled by the massive and unexpected operations in which the students collaborate. Interwoven with real abductions, a corrupt mayoral election, and even involving parents and joyful television reporters broadcasting the rebellion and the barricades. The comical mystery progresses at a light pace that doesn’t give the audience a chance to breathe until the fantastic ending full of sarcasm.

Anime Movie Hetalia: Axis Powers – Paint it, White!

It is an anime movie 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 creatures who begin transforming everything into homogenous, featureless landscapes. The Axis powers (Italy, Germany, Japan) and the Allies (America, England, France, China, Russia) must save the day. Hetalia is a compound word from the Japanese word “hetare” meaning useless or ineffective.

The main historical events portrayed in this work occurred between World War I and World War II using the comedy template to touch on known historical facts. Hetalia portrays cultural differences, international relations between parties, historical, political, and military interactions between countries as social and poetic interactions between characters.

Here we come to the conclusion of this article… We have discussed the best 10 comedy anime movies, witnessing a great diversity in these exciting and truly wonderful movies, most of which are considered among the best comedy anime works in the industry’s history, entertaining and creatively presenting comedic themes based on them. I leave you now to read our previous article titled “Best Anime Winter 2024”.

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