Haré+Guu
Alt titles: Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
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Hale and his mother live peacefully in the jungle, until one day Hale is overtaken by a omnipotent shadow. Later, he awakens to find Guu, a strange girl with even stranger abilities. Notably, the ability to switch from a cute, lovable Guu, to a menacing delinquent who eats everything. Now Hale must live with Guu, and lead a normal life, despite her oddities.
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FLCL
Alt titles: Furi Kuri
Naota Nanbada is a boring young boy who leads a boring life in a boring town. His older brother has left for America, and the closest he comes to any excitement is when his deadbeat dad has too much sake. But things change one day when a bizarre girl zooms up to him on a scooter and smacks him in the face with her guitar. What's more, once Naoto returns home he discovers that this strange woman has arrived ahead of him and moved in! Not only does she constantly engage in perverted activities with Naota's father and flirt with the young man himself, but she also claims to be an alien who is searching for the ‘Pirate King.' Now, Naota must learn to live with this new intruder, deal with an odd government agent who sports exceptionally large eyebrows and the mysterious Medical Mechanica, and come to terms with the fact that there are a variety of robots and weapons emerging out of his head - amongst other things. Perhaps boring wasn't so bad after all...
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add recFast, strange, really funny and weird things happen; FLCL and Guu are two of a kind. If you want to laugh and like "wtf!?" humor, or if you just like really weird girls FLCL and Guu are both for you!
Both FLCL and Guu have plots that are centered around what appears to be a fair amount of randomness. I found that both successfully balance good entertainment value and at least a little plot with a strong dose of "wait, what just happened?"
FLCL and Hare+Guu have very similar characters. In both series, there's a young boy who is kind of awkward, then suddenly a strange girl invades his life. FLCL is a much shorter series than Hare+Guu but is just as good and may be even better in some people's opinions. FLCL is also a little more adult humored than Hare+Guu but both are very silly.
Both Furi Kuri and Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu are silly series that start from the same point. A normal, yet a little uptight boy's life is completely changed by the arrival of a mysterious girl. This girl's antics drive that boy off the wall and hilarity ensues.
Azumanga Daioh
- TV (26 eps)
- 2002
Ten-year-old genius Chiyo, animal-loving Sakaki, loudmouth Tomo, athletic Kagura, weight-conscious Yomi and dim-witted Osaka are six friends who share laughs, good times, and a high school homeroom. With scary (and sometimes perverted) teachers, school festivals, penguin suits and general hilarity abounding, you can be sure that there's never a dull day in the life of one of these students!
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add recAzumanga has close the same humour as Guu, but Guu is in a genre of itself. Both have fairly mindless stories. Just watch it and laugh.
I think people that like Azumanga Daioh would also like Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu because these two series have similar stupid situations, and the characters Guu and Osaka-san are awesome. I recommend these series!
One is set in the jungle, and one in a school, but with a similar sense of humour, if you liked one of these shows, you may well like the other. Whilst Haré + Guu generally has more of a fantastical element about it, both series follow simple day-to-day activities and make them seem more fun and interesting.
Excel Saga
Alt titles: Heppoko Jikken Animation Excel Saga
F City, F Prefecture: the battleground where good and evil have finally chosen to decide once and for all who will rule the world…or at least that's the general idea! Neither side seems up for the task, as surviving the brutality of everyday life is enough of a chore. On the side of evil is the organization of Across, its only member the loudmouthed and abrasive Excel who struggles just to put food in her stomach; on the side of good, three disenfranchised, unemployed bachelors whose only pursuit in life is romance. Add in alien invasions, jungle warfare, and Mexican immigrant laborers to Japan, and this war doesn't seem likely to be ending soon!
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add recJungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu and Excel Saga share a whole lot of similarities. Starting by the fact that they're both full fledged comedies - no action, no drama, risk the word "serious" from your dictionary when watching these - only siliness in its purest state is available.
They both follow the adventures and misadventures of a couple of characters - Excel and Hyatt, Hale and Guu - with tons of secondary characters to spice it up, that range from plain normal characters, to special and silly characters and mascots.
If you are into seriously silly, nonsense stuff, you'll find a treat both in Excel Saga and Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu. That's all you'll find in there.
If you thought Excel Saga was funny and random, you'll be rolling during every minute of Haré+Guu. This anime is filled with hilarious puns and senseless humor in the not-so-everyday life of Haré and new friend Guu.
Screwball comedies are a dying breed. Its hard to find good zany off-the-wall comedies nowadays.
Luckily, we have shows like Hare + Guu and Excel Saga. These shows deal with crazy situations, insane characters, and all manners of random comedy.
If you like that kind of comedy, I'm positive you'll enjoy these shows.
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
- OVA (8 eps)
- 2005
Angels are genteel and graceful messengers from Heaven, right? Wrong! Sakura Kusakabe will create an invention that inadvertently ruins the future for womankind and thus, angels from the future have arrived to do the only reasonable thing: assassinate him! Fortunately for Sakura, one of them, Dokuro-chan, takes a liking to him but her intentions to protect him prove downright lethal. When Sakura’s not dodging her spiked bat Excalibolg, he’s fighting for his life on river escapades. And when he’s not quick enough, Dokuro-chan’s catchy incantation brings him back to life! Bludgeoning and blood splatters aside, can Dokuro-chan save the one she loves without damaging the future?
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add recGuu and Dokuro-chan each have the same kind of bizarre off-color humor, so it's no surprise that they were made by the same people. Guu is definitely more family-friendly than Dokuro-chan, but anyone who's seen the Guu OVA's should already be prepared for the bawdy, violent and weird humor of Dokuro-chan, and vice-versa.
It should come as no surprise that Haré+Guu and Dokuro-chan were made by the same people, as they use a similar sense of humour. Both contain a crazy and original idea which will provide you with some great laughs.
Haré+Guu and Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-Chan both deal with very similar main characters. In HG, Hale is a normal student until the intrusion of Guu, and same goes for Sakura-kun until the intrusion of Dokuro-chan. Guu and Dokuro-chan both possess unexplained, powerful abilities that always trouble the poor boys. If you are ready to laugh in watching a long, desparate diary of another boy being molested by the works of an unpredictable girl that somehow lives with him, give it a try. Original settings don't matter once the story gets going, fast.
Haré+Guu and Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan both feature a relatively normal boy who suddenly has to have a crazy girl live with and torment him. The girl has strange powers and relatively little understanding of societal norms.
The difference is that in Dokuro-chan, there's more violence and ecchi, and it's a shorter series than H+G.
Di Gi Charat
- TV (16 eps x 5 min)
- 1999
One day, Dejiko, Puchiko and the strange ball-shaped Gema-Gema crash land their UFO in the middle of Akihabara. Without a single yen to their name they have nowhere to go, but following an unexpected and generous offer from the manager of a nearby store, the trio begin working at the shop in exchange for renting the room upstairs. Alongside Dejiko’s self-confessed rival Rabi-en-Rose, as well as a mysterious bear that has mastered the ability to appear happy, sad, depressed and angry all at once, the insanity is only just beginning! From shooting window shoppers with Dejiko’s Laser Eye Beam and the appearance of a bizarre farting impostor, to a sudden attack on the city by Godzilla, life at Gamers is certainly livening up.
