Top 20 Hilarious Anime on Crunchyroll to Watch in 2020!

Comedy isn’t something anyone can pull off that easily. Comedy needs to have the humor and the delivery time in sync. Otherwise, the humor would come across as an effort to make you laugh forcefully, which becomes torture for the viewer.

But there are some series which pulls off comedy with ease for its well-written plot and humor. Talking of those series, there are notable binge-worthy comedy anime on Crunchyroll, which will make you laugh your hearts out.

So, let’s begin with the list of top 20 comedy anime on Crunchyroll.

20. Squid Girl

One shouldn’t treat the sea as a garbage-bin, Squid Girl delivers that message through a light-hearted comedy.

To take revenge against humanity for making the denizens of the sea suffer by polluting the ocean for a long time, Ika Musume, a squid, has decided to come overland.

She has powerful hair-tentacles and can spit ink while using bioluminescence at will. Meanwhile, she surfaces at a Lemon Beach House where he meets the sisters Eiko and Chizuru Aizawa.

Right away declaring war against them, she destroys a wall of the beach house and ends up as a waitress to pay the repair costs, putting up her plans for world domination on hold.

19. Tanaka-kun is Always Listless

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless displays the art of creating humor out of laziness.

Being lethargic is Tanaka’s way of life. Not wanting to do anything that would need energy is what Tanaka wishes for his everyday life.

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And for the work Tanaka cannot do, his friend Oota helps him. With lethargy being the moral of life, Tanaka has to overcome obstacles of doing simple tasks to preserve his energy.

18. Amagi Brilliant Park

Amagi Brilliant Park takes you on an amusing ride along with a group of whimsical characters.

After being invited on a date by the beautiful Isuzu Sento to an amusement park, the self-loving Seiya Kanie is excited.

But upon reaching the amusement park named Amagi Brilliant Park, he found out that he was being baited there to work as the manager there.

Princess Latifa Fleuranza, the owner, wants him to save the park from being closed down. They have to bring in 5,00,000 guests within the next few months to save the park.

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Though not wanting to do the job at first, after hearing that magical beings known as Maple landers work there, he was ready to take on the job of bringing Amagi back to its former glory.

17. Chio’s School Road

Chio’s School Road portrays the importance of a road in your life.

Chiyo Miyamoto is a first-year student who always gets late to her school due to obstacles like street blocking detours, overzealous kabaddi players, and befuddled motorcycle gang leaders.

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She and her friends are on an adventure to find the best route to reach school on time.

16. Hozuki’s Coolheadedness

Hozuki’s Coolheadedness is a unique comedy series based in hell which deals with mythology.

Hoozuki is the chief deputy to Lord Enma, the King of Hell. It is only for Hoozuki that the business in the hell is running quite efficiently.

Be it advising Momotarou of Japanese folklore or completing tasks from Judeo, Christain Hell, Hoozuki is ready to take down any given task with ease.

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The one thing he cares about the most is maintaining law and order in hell, for which he can go to any extent.

15. Cromartie High School

Cromartie High School follows the life of a polite student who wants to change a whole school filled with delinquents into a normal one.

Takashi Kamiyama is an average high school student who is well mannered and polite.

But when he enrolls in Cromartie High School, his life is suddenly surrounded by delinquents as this high school is famous for graduating delinquents.

Cromartie is filled with aspiring delinquents, robots, and even gorillas, making Takashi’s life more amusing than he ever thought to be. Takashi, to tidy up the fellow delinquents, sets on a journey full of hardships.

14. Mr. Osomatsu

Mr. Osomatsu deals with the crazy adventures of sextuplets whose laziness leads to hilarious mishaps.

The Matsuno family consists of six identical siblings, each of them having different personalities like narcissistic, confident, rational, distrusting, extremely active, and lovable.

But the one thing they all share is their laziness for which they have decided to walk the path of NEETs.

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Whenever they try to land a job or want to become socially active, they are followed by bizarre incidents that have now become a part of their day to day life.

Note: Osomatsu-kun (1988) is the prequel to Mr.Osomatsu (2015).

13. Arakawa Under the Bridge

Arakawa Under the Bridge is a humorous way of showcasing the unpredictability of life.

Kou Ichinomiya is so rich that he can pay his own university tuition fees while maintaining a luxurious lifestyle.

His moral is not to be indebted to anyone, but that moral soon came to an end after being saved by a homeless girl named Nino from drowning in the river.

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Though Kou insisted on paying her back for saving him, Nino said that he can only pay her back by becoming her boyfriend.

On which he has no choice but to become her boyfriend as he doesn’t want to be indebted to her. And thus, his new life with Nino began under the Arakawa Bridge.

12. Teasing Master Takagi-san

Teasing Master Takagi-san is all about the cute embarrassment of a boy being teased by a girl close to him.

Nishikata is always teased by Takagi and is unable to get back to her. Takagi knows everything about Nishikata and takes advantage of that by teasing him in a way to get those expected expressions to embarrass him.

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Not able to handle the embarrassment, Nishikata vows to embarrass her as she is doing with him.

11. SKET Dance

SKET Dance is one of the very few comedy series where every character executes the humor with perfection.

The place where everybody turns up with their problems at Kaimei High School is a club known as the SKET Brigade.

The club is run by three people, Kazuyoshi Usui, an otaku and a techie, Hime Onizuka, a girl who is a force to be reckoned with, and Yuusuke Fujisaki, their leader with extraordinary concentration power.

Though they are renowned as a club for doing odd jobs, they help out anyone with their very best, which sometimes causes hilarious mishaps.

10. Beelzebub

Beezlebub portrays the upbringing of a demon lord’s baby through a hilarious fiction accompanied by wacky characters.

Tatsumi Oga is the most vicious fighter of Ishiyama High School, where non-stop violence and lawlessness are the norm. While on a riverbed one day, Oga retrieves a man floating down the river.

After retrieving, the man splits into two, revealing a baby who soon becomes attached to Oga. Not to his knowledge, the baby is the son of the Demon Lord, “Baby Beel.”

Soon after this, he confronts Beel’s demon maid, Hildegard. Together they raise Baby Beel amongst delinquents and demons.

9. One Punch Man

One Punch Man firmly depicts that hard work is the key to success.

Saitama has become incredibly powerful after relentless training for three years to become a hero but has gone bald in this process.

He is no longer able to enjoy the thrill of battling as he defeats his enemies with a single punch. All of this changes when he meets Genos, a cyborg who wishes to be his disciple.

Genos then proposes to Saitama to join the Hero Association to become a certified hero, and he agrees after seeing that he is not well known in society.

8. Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun

Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun is an exhilarating roller-coaster ride of emotions.

Chiyo Sakura is a high school girl who has fallen for Umetarou Nozaki, an aspiring mangaka. After her confession, she gets a signed autograph from Nozaki, who mistakes her as a fan.

Later Sakura comes to recognize that Nozaki is a respected shoujo mangaka pen named Sakiko Yumeno, which led her to be one of Nozaki’s assistants.

Soon her life changed as she encountered each of Nozaki’s friends who helped Nozaki out for his manga. Chiyo sticks with Nozaki with hopes of getting her feelings acknowledged by him.

7. My Love Story

My Love Story is the sweetest dessert you have long waited for.

Takeo Gouda, after saving Rinko Yamato from a groper in a train, falls instantly in love with her.

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But assuming that she might also have an interest in his best friend Sunakawa, he tries to be the middleman while his love for her continues to bloom.

6. Daily Lives of High School Boys

Daily Lives of High School Boys will make you laugh at the most unexpected moments.

Hidenori, Yoshitake, and Tadakuni are a group of friends of the all-boys Sanada North High School who are trying to pass the time with their colorful imaginations.

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Starting from RPG enactment to a sudden romantic encounter on the riverbank at sunset, their ordinary lives were filled with exciting adventures of their own.

5. Hinamatsuri

Hinamatsuri will make you laugh at the silliest jokes with its surreal voice acting and unmatched character portrayal.

Yoshifumi Nitta is a yakuza member who collects premium vases as an obsession.

But all of this changes after a capsule drops out of nowhere in his room. A girl named Hina comes out of the capsule who threatens Nitta of breaking the vases using her powers if he didn’t let her live.

Soon after being blamed for an attack on his boss, Nitta unwillingly takes up a gun to clear the mess. But to his surprise, Hina knocks out the whole rival Yakuza group using her powers.

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Following which Nitta’s perspective towards Hina begins to change as they begin their new life together.

4. Great Teacher Onizuka

A few degrees doesn’t make a good teacher, Great Teacher Onizuka confidently proves that through an ex-gang leader.

Eikichi Onizuka is a former member of a gang who has a dream to become the greatest high school teacher in Japan.

The ambition that seems to be a passion for teaching is actually to have a loving teenage wife at his greys.

Joining the Holy Forest Academy, he has to face the unwelcoming students of Class 3-4, who mentally break new teachers to quit school.

Not being an ordinary guy, he becomes the teacher and soon finds himself involved in the personal life of the students helping them grow out their shells.

3. Slam Dunk

Slam Dunk is one of the most realistic and funniest sports anime you will ever come across.

Sakuragi Hanamichi is a short-tempered, red-head with a tall stature, which is why he is feared by other school students. He joins Shohoku High to get a girlfriend after 50 consecutive rejections.

But soon after getting rejected by a girl, who was already in love with a Basketball player in this school, he starts hating Basketball.

But after an accidental encounter with Haruko Akagi, he falls in love with her at first sight. Haruko mistakes him for a Basketball player and, after seeing his athletic abilities, asks her to join the team, which he gradually does to impress her.

And thus begins Sakuragi’s journey from hating Basketball to finding himself liking the sports as he progresses.

2. Asobi Asobase: Workshop Of Fun

Asobi Asobase depicts a hilarious journey of three girls playing pastime games to enjoy their school lives.

Hanako Honda is the guide for the new transfer student named Olivia from America. Not able to take her mischief while playing past time games, Hanako requests Kasumi Nomura, an introvert, to play with her.

Soon after getting back at her for her mischief, they begin enjoying each other’s company and decide to form a club for playing pastime games, known as the “Pastimers Club.”

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Together they face various challenges to protect their Pastimers Club form the other clubs while playing cards, helping others, sharing their dreams, and sometimes creating ruckus amongst each other.

1. Gintama

Gintama is the perfect blend of comedy and tragedy.

After the invasion of aliens on earth, a prohibition on swords has been established, resulting in a disregard for the samurai of Japan.

However, Gintoki Sakata still possesses the heart of a samurai, which one might not agree with after witnessing his love for sweets and work as a yorozuya.

He is accompanied by Shinpachi Shimura, Kagura, and their oversized pet dog, Sadaharu, on the journey of doing odd-jobs.

Honorable Mentions

Some other comedy anime which are worth watching are:

Pop Team Epic, Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto.