Comedy Island: Japan 2023

Rent-a-Girlfriend (2020 - 2023)

0 /10

Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and a beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin!

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2020 - 2023

Director: Taku Yamada , Fumio Maezono , Kazuomi Koga

Producer: Toshihiro Maeda , Hiroyuki Aoi

Stars: Shun Horie , Sora Amamiya , Aoi Yuki , Nao Toyama , Rie Takahashi , Yu Serizawa

One Piece (1999 - 2023)

0 /10

Years ago, the fearsome Pirate King, Gol D. Roger was executed leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the "One Piece" will be named the new King of the Pirates. Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who consumed a "Devil Fruit," decides to follow in the footsteps of his idol, the pirate Shanks, and find the One Piece. It helps, of course, that his body has the properties of rubber and that he's surrounded by a bevy of skilled fighters and thieves to help him along the way. Luffy will do anything to get the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 1999 - 2023

Director: Hidehiko Kadota , Akihiko Sano , Konosuke Uda

Stars: Mayumi Tanaka , Kazuya Nakai , Akemi Okamura , Hiroaki Hirata , Kappei Yamaguchi , Yuriko Yamaguchi

Mob Psycho 100 (2016 - 2022)

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Shigeo Kageyama, a.k.a. "Mob," is a boy who has trouble expressing himself, but who happens to be a powerful esper. Mob is determined to live a normal life and keeps his ESP suppressed, but when his emotions surge to a level of 100%, something terrible happens to him! As he's surrounded by false espers, evil spirits, and mysterious organizations, what will Mob think? What choices will he make?

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2016 - 2022

Director: Takebumi Anzai , Shinnosuke Ito , Hakuyu Go

Producer: Masahiko Minami , Ko Nakao , Tatsuya Saito

Stars: Setsuo Ito , Takahiro Sakurai , Miyu Irino , Akio Otsuka , Hiroki Matsukawa , Daisuke Kirii

The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today (2023)

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When Saku took in a stray black cat, she never expected that he would become the equivalent of a housekeeping life partner. But Yukichi, a giant cat who towers over Saku, is not your ordinary feline. He takes great pride in his culinary skills, and a good sale at the supermarket always gets his whiskers twitching. Saku may not have her act together yet, but at least she has Yukichi!

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2023

Director: Masayuki Tachibana , Susumu Kudou

Stars: Yui Ishikawa , Hiroki Yasumoto , Ai Kakuma , Katsuyuki Konishi , Mao Ichimichi , Miyu Irino

Tokyo Mew Mew New (2022 - 2023)

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The scientists of the μ(Mew) Project use DNA of endangered species to create a team of heroines imbued with amazing abilities. Armed with the skills of an Iriomote cat, Ichigo must band together with other Mew Mew girls to repel an alien incursion.

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2022 - 2023

Director: Natsumi Higashida , Tadao Okubo , Takahiro Natori

Producer: Rina Nakazawa , Yohei Takami , Eimi Shimizu

Stars: Yuuki Temma , Mirai Hinata , Ryouko Jyuni , Rian Toda , Momoka Ishii , Yuma Uchida

Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! (1989 - 2022)

0 /10

A Japanese variety show hosted by popular Japanese owarai duo, Downtown, with comedian Hōsei Tsukitei (formerly known as Hōsei Yamasaki) and owarai duo Cocorico co-hosting.

Average Episode Run Time: 30` . Year(s): 1989 - 2022

Director: Toshio Tsuchiya , Kenji Suga

Stars: Masatoshi Hamada , Hitoshi Matsumoto , Hōsei Tsukitei , Naoki Tanaka , Shôzô Endô

Nintama Rantarō (1993 - 2008)

5.8 /10

Rantarō, Shinbei and Kirimaru are ninja apprentices in the Ninja Gakuen, where first grade ones are called "Nintamas". They must learn everything a ninja must know, but as for our heroes, money, food or playing are more interesting. The series show the everyday adventures of our heroes.

Average Episode Run Time: 27` . Year(s): 1993 - 2008

Director: Tsutomu Shibayama , Soubee Amako

REBORN! (2006 - 2010)

2.5 /10

"No Good" Tsunayoshi Sawada is next in line to become boss of the powerful Vongola mafia family. The Vongolas' most powerful hitman, a cursed gun-toting infant named Reborn, is sent to teach Tsuna how to be a boss.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2006 - 2010

Director: Kenichi Imaizumi

Producer: Yoshiro Kataoka

Stars: Takashi Kondo , Toshinobu Iida , Kenjiro Tsuda , Yukari Kokubun , Yuka Terasaki , Junko Takeuchi

Shakugan no Shana (2005 - 2012)

7 /10

The world has become a slaughtering ground for the Crimson Denizens, mysterious beings from a parallel universe who thrive on the life energy of humans. These merciless murderers only leave behind scant remainders of souls called "Torches," which are mere residues that will eventually be destroyed, along with the very fact of the victims' existence from the minds of the living. In an ambitious endeavor to put an end to this invisible, hungry massacre, warriors called Flame Hazes relentlessly fight these monsters. One fateful day, Yuuji Sakai ceases to be a regular high schooler—he becomes trapped in a crevice of time and is suddenly attacked by a Denizen. Coming to his rescue just in the nick of time is a nameless hunter who seems no different from an ordinary young girl except for her blazing eyes and burning crimson hair. However, before Yuuji can learn anything more about his situation, he discovers that he has already been reduced to a Torch—merely a scrap of memory waiting to be extinguished.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2005 - 2012

Director: Kouichi Takada , Shigeru Ueda , Youhei Suzuki

Stars: Satoshi Hino , Rie Kugimiya , Masashi Ebara , Hitomi Nabatame , Mitsuo Iwata , Mamiko Noto

Doraemon (2005 - 2023)

0 /10

Robotic cat Doraemon is sent back in time from the 22nd century to protect 10-year-old Noby, a lazy and uncoordinated boy who is destined to have a tragic future. Doraemon can create secret gadgets from a pocket on his stomach, but they usually cause more bad than good because of Noby's propensity to misuse them.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2005 - 2023

Director: 젠소 이치로

Stars: Megumi Oohara , Wasabi Mizuta , Yumi Kakazu , Tomokazu Seki , Subaru Kimura

Monogatari (2009 - 2019)

4.9 /10

Although there are still traces of the brief period he became a vampire, third-year high school student Koyomi Araragi is human again. He happens upon others with their own supernatural problems and finds that he can empathize. Koyomi becomes involved in their lives, seeking to help them and occasionally asking for advice from Meme Oshino, the homeless man who helped him become human again.

Average Episode Run Time: 25` . Year(s): 2009 - 2019

Director: Tatsuya Oishi , Akiko Nakano , Yoshito Mikamo

Producer: Kazuki Adachi , Akiko Yoda , Atsuhiro Iwakami

Stars: Yui Horie , Maaya Sakamoto , Satsuki Yukino , Miyuki Sawashiro , Marina Inoue , Saori Hayami

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (2020 - 2023)

0 /10

Fifteen-year-old Yuna prefers staying home and obsessively playing her favorite VRMMO to doing anything else, including going to school. When a strange new update gives her a one-of-a-kind bear outfit that comes with overpowered abilities, Yuna is torn: the outfit is unbearably cute, but too embarrassing to wear in-game. But then she suddenly finds herself transported into the world of the game, facing down monsters and magic for real, and the bear suit becomes the best weapon she has!

Average Episode Run Time: 24` . Year(s): 2020 - 2023

Director: Junichi Kitamura , Hisashi Ishii , Kouki Uchinomiya

Producer: Yasuhiro Nakajima , Hiroyasu Taniguchi , Hideaki Miyamoto

Stars: Maki Kawase , Azumi Waki , Miyu Tomita , Satomi Amano , Rina Hidaka , Koji Yusa