Best Comedy Anime Like My Deer Friend Nokotan

The Summer 2024 anime season has had a lot of new hits, but none have been more surprising than My Deer Friend Nokotan, a comedy anime about a deer-girl hybrid going to school. School comedies are fairly common in anime, but My Deer Friend Nokotan takes things to another level, and it has already taken a foothold in anime meme culture.

While My Deer Friend Nokotan is still currently airing, fans of the series may want something to tide them over between episodes. It's certainly a unique anime, but there are plenty of similar options for those who want the vibe of a high school comedy with laugh-out-loud hilarious shenanigans. Here are some comedy anime to check out for fans of My Deer Friend Nokotan.

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8 Seitokai Yakuindomo

Dirty-Minded Students At A Former All-Girls High School

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

Takatoshi Tsuda decides to attend the newly co-ed Ousai Academy, since it is conveniently close to his home. He is almost immediately recruited into the student council by President Shino Amakusa, who wants a male perspective for the incoming male students. To his surprise, the girls of 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 quick and often sexual, though the anime itself is relatively tame. With a cast of quirky characters bouncing off of each other, this anime is tons of comedic fun.

7 Lucky Star

The Daily Lives Of High School Girls

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

Lucky Star is an incredibly popular comedy gag anime from the 2000s. While it is ostensibly a slice-of-life comedy, it is chock-full of exaggerated gags and references to popular media, which has boosted its longevity compared to its various peers.

6 Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei

A Darkly Humorous School Anime

• Produced by Studio Shaft
• 38 episodes

While walking to school one day, high schooler Kafuka Fuura discovers a young man, Nozomu Itoshiki, hanging from a tree. She saves him, only to find out that he was attempting to take his own life due to 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 dark comedy anime following Nozomu Itoshiki and his daily adventures with his bizarre, quirky, and frequently odd students. The anime tackles a variety of different topics, usually from both the Itoshiki's incredibly pessimistic point of view and Kafuka overly optimistic outlook.

5 School Rumble

A Love Triangle Between Blockheads

Tenma Tsukamoto is in love with Oji Karasuma, her stoic and somewhat airheaded classmate. Unbeknownst to her, she is the target of another student's affections: Kenji Harima, a delinquent who only comes to school for the express purpose of seeing her face. As these varied and off-kilter personalities clash, hilarity ensues.

School Rumble is a 2000s rom-com series with some of the most ridiculous shenanigans to come out of manga and anime. The character dynamics make for a lot of fun, and as the cast grows, the hijinks only get wackier.

4 Azumanga Daioh

Top Tier High School Lunacy

Azumanga Daioh chronicles the everyday lives of six high school girls, each with their own distinctive personalities. Whether it be the obnoxiously energetic Tomo Takino, child genius Chiyo Mihama, or the airheaded Osaka, each character does their best to make Azumanga Daioh the laugh-out-loud comedy it's known to be.

Azumanga Daioh is an incredibly popular 2000s anime, one that is beloved by anime and manga fans everywhere. It laid the groundwork for slice-of-life school comedy anime, and is still influential to this very day.

3 Daily Lives 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 problems normal to high school boys, such as how to be popular with girls, as well as getting into a variety of hijinks and schemes.

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Daily Lives of High School Boys is a school comedy anime all about the various shenanigans that high school boys often find themselves getting into. It's got a healthy mix of slice of life and absurd comedy, with quirky characters to keep things from getting stale.

2 The Disastrous Life Of Saiki K.

The Difficulties Of Being An Omnipotent Psychic

Saiki Kusuo is a normal high school student with a secret. He's been an all-powerful psychic ever since he was born, with powers like telepathy being child's play for him. His powers separate him from normal humans, but he nevertheless endeavors to live a normal life.

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. Is a supernatural gag comedy where most of the humor comes from the various people Saiki meets, as well as the various problems that are either created or solved by his powers. While Saiki and his powers might seem to fit well in an action series, the anime stays grounded in humor, preferring ludicrous humor to psionic action.

1 Nichijou

The All-Out Surreal Comedy

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

Nichijou is known strongly for its mastery of surreal comedy, with bizarre sequences such as a principal wrestling a goat making a splash in meme culture. While the overall narrative of the series is nonexistent, many agree that Nichijou is one of the funniest anime around.

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