Here in reverse order are my Top 10 Feel Good Anime, with maybe some minor spoilers.
By feel good, I mean:
1) Watching merely makes you feel good.
2) The story is inspiring enough to make you feel good.
So,
10. The Devil is a Part-Timer. Action/adventure anime are not necessarily “feel good,” but start off with the premise of the Dark Lord working in a fast food restaurant, and you have either the perfect TV comedy skit, or a ridiculous enough premise for an anime to make you laugh. The laughing part makes me feel good.
9. A Letter to Momo. The story about a young girl trying to cope with the death of her father is hardly feel good material. But with the help of three half-wit demons, Momo does get to say her final good-byes and obtains closure. It’s a happy ending which made me feel good.
8. Big Windup. Once you get past protagonist Ren’s wussiness, this is quite a likeable anime. Ren was the star pitcher on a high school team which always lost, so he got the blame. Now at a new school, Ren gets a second chance thanks to a female coach and a catcher who believe in him. Not possessing a strong arm, Ren learns to finesse his way from win to win, as we cheer him on.
7. Tiger and Bunny. Another action/adventure anime, but with laughs. In yet another world where certain individuals are born with super powers, middle-aged Kotetsu, aka Flying Tiger, is teamed up with newcomer Barnaby. They really shouldn’t. The two just don’t get along, at least at first, and that tension is the basis of this anime’s humor. It is a fun show to watch, thus feel good.
6. Kill Me Baby. This series is just plain dumb. The characters are dumb. The stories are dumb. But it is fun to watch. Schoolgirl Yasuna wants to be best friends with her classmate Sonya, a highly trained professional assassin. Add Agiri, a ninja looking to make a buck, and the Unused Character, you have a series whose silliness, at least a half hour per episode, will make you forget all your problems.
5. Cromartie High School. Takashi is a nice guy, well behaved, good boy, who is mistakenly sent to a high school for juvenile delinquents. The resulting conflict and drama is what you would expect when the leader of a rival gang is Freddie Mercury, and the control of the city’s gangland structure relies on one’s knowledge of yogurt. Yep. Another dumb, but fun anime. Forget your problems and feel good watching this one.
4. Tweeny Witches. WTF? A kid’s anime? Why not? Arusu, a mortal girl, finds herself in the land of the witches. Despite being taken captive, she eventually teaches the witches, assisted by her new friends Eva and Sheila, what magic is really all about. A sweet little series.
3. Step Up Love Story. A couple in their mid-20’s fall in love and get married. Only being virgins, they have no knowledge of sex. But with the advice of friends, they make a go of it. In the second half, they even become mentors to younger couples. OK, so this OVA is soft-core hentai. It is still actually a sweet story.
2. Love, Chunibyo, and other Delusions. The story of high school kids creating their own fantasy world away from reality, may give you pause to think of this anime as being about some mental health issue. Maybe it is. But it tells its story with a great deal of humor. This series is fun and happy. True the last few episodes of season 1 has Rikka confront her demons, but the ending is perfectly happy. It would have been a great place to stop, but there is a season 2, which is not bad. It’s just that season 1 ended so perfectly.
1. Ouran High School Host Club. Kind of weird that boys at an exclusive high school would create a club whose sole purpose is to indulged the female students. No, nothing sexual. When middle class scholarship student Haruhi joins, we get a series of happy adventures – and misadventures. There are colorful characters to lift our spirits. My only complaint is we needed a second season for the relationship between Haruhi and Tamaki.
Now it is your turn. List your favorite feel good anime series and movies. Say something about them as well.
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Who does not like dumb, but fun?
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