Rakuda Laughs! - Recommendations

• TV
• 2023

Follows a salaryman who has a reliable wife and a daughter in university who can sometimes act a bit rebellious, but has a happy life in his own way. Until one day he finds out his daughter has been beaten, and thus begins his journey into a dangerous world to protect his family.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1991

Kubota and Hachisuka meet up by accident in a Middle Eastern desert and return to Japan together to hustle their way through life. They start by getting involved in shady TV dealings, where they get jobs making fake documentaries.

• OVA (4 eps)
• 1998

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1991

Being the only son of the leader of the largest criminal organization (yakuza) in Kanto area, Shizuya Kondou chose not to join the gang and became a rookie designer of an underwear company. However, the assassination of his father forced him to inherit the gang, with one condition: keeping his day job while hiding his true identity from his coworkers, including an aspiring female designer, who is his love interest as well as the only person capable to keep his violent instincts contained. 

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1989 - 1990

Shinjuku gangster Sabu and his young wife Koiko try to live a normal life, despite the interferences of gang politics and criminal deals. After she saves his life, Sabu's gang-boss, Tominaga, falls in love with Koiko, and sends Sabu into increasingly dangerous situations, hoping to cause his arrest, and thus obligate himself to "take care" of Koiko while Sabu is in prison.

• DVD Special (2 eps)
• 2010 - 2011

The Headless Rider receives a mysterious red bag that creates big trouble. The Yakuza chase a gangster, and a wagon disappears on the highway, pursued by suspicious men in black suits. Mikado and his friends should be enjoying the summer festival, but have been swept up in the events. And, finally, a mysterious radiant object appears in the night sky over Ikebukuro...!?

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1993 - 1995

• OVA (3 eps)
• 1990 - 1991

Experience the life of a young member of the Japanese mafia. Our main character, Maji, lives his daily life as part of the Nagisa-gumi, protecting the locals and running their turf. He may not be the smartest man in the world, but he has the guts and attitude to become a great Japanese mafia member.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1994 - 1995

• TV (12 eps)
• 2011

Narumi Fujishima is an ordinary high school boy who is isolated from his classmates. When he reluctantly joins the gardening club and meets the reclusive, genius detective named Alice and her band of detectives known as the NEETs, Alice hires Narumi as an assistant and puts him to work solving the strange mysteries of Angel Fix, an illegal drug that makes people go crazy. Little does he know it could put him and Ayaka in serious trouble.