Animehas always had a reputation with westerly audience for being unearthly , and it ’s easy to see why . Japanese - style funniness is very different from what Western audiences are used to , and with how much gum anime tends to involve fanservice , eccentric eccentric designs , and over - the - top dialogue and shouting , it have sense for so many people to think the intact culture medium is eldritch , even with how mainstream it ’s become in recent age .

On the whole , anime is nowhere near as uncanny as people say , as there are just as many serious and attentive story as there are eccentric and absurd ones , if not more . Unfortunately , it ’s impossible for Zanzibar copal to completely shed that reputation , as not only is it too old to simply disappear , butthere are plenty of Zanzibar copal erstwhile and new that , for adept or worse , have maintained anime ’s repute for being incredibly uncanny . A few anime like that peculiarly stand out , but even with how weird they might be , they ’re all anime that are enough deserving watching .

8One Piece

Anime Series By Toei Animation; Based On The Manga By Eiichiro Oda

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In Toei Animation’sOne Piece , the cosmos has enter a heavy Age of Piracy follow the end of Gold Roger and the hunting for his legendary gem , the One Piece . Among the people search for it is Monkey D. Luffy , and despite the oddity of him ingest a body made of rubber , Luffy will garner a crew to travel through the Grand Line , find out the One Piece , and become King of the Pirates .

WhileOne Pieceis mostly a typical action - risky venture series , it ’s far more outre than its contemporary ; not only doesOne Piecehave plenty of egregious fanservice , but many characters boast utterly flakey character designs , and even the more normal - looking fictional character will frequently take over hyper - exaggerated expression in comedic and spectacular picture likewise . supply in the freakish variety of powers in its setting , andOne Pieceearns its reputation as a eldritch anime , but fortunately , the unbelievable craft put intoOne Piece ’s writing and activity makes it one of the few write up that can rip off being as weird as it is .

7The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You

Anime Series By Bibury Animation Studios; Based On The Manga By Rikito Nakamura & Yukiko Nozawa

Bibury Animation Studios’The 100 Girlfriends Who Really , Really , Really , Really , Really Love Youstars Rentaro Aijou , an off-the-wall vernal boy who ’s fallen in erotic love 100 time and been rejected every time . One day , however , the God of Love secern Rentaro that he will gain 100 soulmates during his meter in mellow school day , all of whom he must sleep together as or else risk killing them for depriving them of a soulmate .

100 Girlfriends ’ premise as a harem anime means that it ’s been make full with fanservice from Clarence Shepard Day Jr. one , but it somehow also finds way to rage things up to be as obscene as possible at all times , all while maintain an absurdist composition style based around pop culture references and satirize its story at every routine . The 100 Girlfriends Who Really , Really , Really , Really , Really Love You ’s compounding of fanservice and absurdist comedy make it one of the eldritch anime of recent years , but that , in turn , also makes it one of the best new - gen anime a person can see .

6Paranoia Agent

Anime Series By Madhouse; Directed By Satoshi Kon

In Madhouse’sParanoia Agent , an overworked character designer is short outrage while struggling to come up with a new character , and she tells the police that a rollerblading boy with a baseball game cricket bat snipe her . While the constabulary ab initio assume she ’s lying , more victim of the same male child , now dub “ Li’l Slugger ” , start cropping up , and what follows is an increasingly surreal geographic expedition into the mystery behind Li’l Slugger ’s actions .

Legendary director Satoshi Konwas famous for the surrealness of his gum anime , both in terms of their writing and their visuals , andParanoia Agentis no exception , asParanoia Agent ’s narrative about guilt feelings and responsibility is conveyed in as surreal a way as possible with its absurdist talks and animation , all of which get more and more laughable with each passing sequence . It ’s an anime that ’s as bizarre as it is bright , of class , and anyone who ’s a lover of Satoshi Kon ’s work would be delinquent to slide by it up .

5Space Dandy

Anime Series By Bones; Directed By Shinichiro Watanabe

Bones’Space Dandystars Dandy , a neat guy in blank who process as a mostly abortive alien bounty hunting watch alongside the automaton QT and the computerized axial tomography - similar foreign Meow . The three of them move around across the galaxy in search of Bounty and women , the latter being mostly Dandy ’s precedence , and their travels often get them involved in some variety of gonzo and nonfigurative dangerous undertaking .

WhileSpace Dandymight be another sci - fi anime by Shinichiro Watanabe ofCowboy Bebopfame , even being vaguely set in the same creation , it ’s a far more comedic narrative with increasingly bizarre humor , little to no continuity between episodes , and an ending that read everything that came before it and somehow makes it even more bizarre . Space Dandyis easily the uncanny Zanzibar copal Shinichiro Watanabe has ever put out , and while it stand out from the rest of his work , that singularity , in tour , is a big part of what makes it so great .

4Gintama

Anime Series By Sunrise; Based On The Manga By Hideaki Sorachi

Sunrise’sGintamatakes place in an alternative history to our own where noncitizen infest Japan during the late Edo period and transformed it into a land where samurai are outlawed and extraterrestrial reign supreme . Gintoki , a former samurai who push in the war with the extraterrestrial , is now live on as an eccentric independent , and after unwittingly taking on an prentice in Shinpachi , his freelancing becomes a full - fledge business organisation live as the Yorozuya .

Gintamais one of the most iconic comedy anime to amount fromShonen Jump , and it achieves that not just through its secure writing , but through just how far it goes with its funniness through visual joke and start culture acknowledgment , both of which are incessantly ramped up to be as absurd as potential at every turn . Gintamais one of the good comedy anime a person can watch because of how much effort it cast into being as ridiculous and phantasmagoric as potential , and even after almost 20 years , its style of comedy has n’t get old in the slightest .

3Panty & Stocking With Garterbelt

Anime Series By Studio Trigger; Directed By Hiroyuki Imaishi

Studio Trigger’sPanty & Stocking with Garterbeltstars the titular Panty and Stocking , a pair of angels who were sound off out of Heaven for their risky deportment . The two of them need to make with reverend Garterbelt to protect Daten City from evil Ghosts and eventually earn their way back into Heaven , but between Panty ’s obsession with sex and Stocking ’s compulsion with sweet , it ends up being a far more unmanageable task than need be .

Not only isPanty & Stocking with GarterbeltStudio Trigger ’s raunchiest anime with how unabashedly crass and fanservicey it is , especially in the English dub , but with the constant blending of different invigoration styles , whether it ’s traditional anime , claymation , or even visuals reminiscent ofDexter ’s LaboratoryandThe Powerpuff Girls , every installment ofPanty & Stocking with Garterbeltis utterly ludicrous both visually and narratively from start to destination . There ’s never been an anime quite like it , and withPanty & Stocking ’s sequel premiering in July2025 , there ’s enough more in store for fans one-time and new .

2FLCL

Anime Series By Production I.G; Directed By Kazuya Tsurumaki

Production I.G ’s FLCL asterisk Naota Nandaba , an ordinary boy whose life is suddenly train over by Haruko Haruhara , an alien charwoman who run Naota over with a Vespa . Haruko ’s mien periodically causes malign robot to spawn out of Naota ’s chief wound , and the only way for Naota to combat them is by fusing with Canti , the one good robot to follow from there , all while he easy unpick the truth about Haruko and what kind of individual he want to be .

FLCLhas a repute for being one of the weirdest Zanzibar copal of all prison term , and between its surreal and creative animation , the absurd handling of its total - of - age narrative , and how lilliputian effort it puts into making sense of things , FLCLis still one of the most wonderfully bizarre anime a person can follow and is a bad rationality why Gainax , a co - producer of the original serial , was noted for their bizarre production . The sequel tarradiddle are n’t nearly as iconic , but luckily , that does nothing to take away from how great a jobFLCLdoes of being unearthly .

1Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

Anime Series By Toei Animation; Based On The Manga By Yoshio Sawai

In the world ofToei Animation’sBobobo - bo Bo - bobo , the world is under beleaguering by the Chrome Dome Empire , a dictatorial conglomerate seeking to leave everyone in the world denuded . Leading the fight against them is Bobobo - bo Bo - bobo , the bizarre master of the Super Fist of the Nose Hair , and in his fight against the Chrome Dome Empire , he slowly assembles a team of allies to avail him who are just as eldritch as him , if not weirder .

Comedy gum anime is plausibly the most dominant anime genre there is , and whileBobobo - bo Bo - bobomight not be the most popular one around , the sheer scale ofBobobo - bo Bo - bobo ’s nonsensical writing , whether it ’s through random reference or but having the willingness to be as absurd as possible , make it one of the most eccentric and overall slap-up comedy anime a individual can watch . There ’s never been a comedy series quite likeBobobo - bo Bo - bobo , and there are few better rival for theweirdest Zanzibar copal a mortal can watch .

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