Do you find the humor shown in manga and anime funny, or is it just not for you? Or is it more of an acquired taste?

Yes but I know Japanese, their comedy is 98% puns and word play so it's pretty much mandatory.

Amaburi was funny, though.

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Teekyu and Ai Mai Mii made me laugh hysterically. Gag manga biori was really good too.

It grew on me; time has made me more appreciative of Japanese comedy. Although it has surpassed the cultural barriers before; Bobobo and Shin-Chan were immensely popular in my country when it was airing.

I feel they always get the straightman/funnyman situations perfectly. Also when it comes to comedy coming from a characters internal monologue, they do it the best. Particularly facial expressions.

excel saga > level E > baka to test/grand bleue > danshi koukousei

I love weird humor when there isn't a straight man constantly screaming how the things happening are weird.

This. When everyone is a bit weird it works. A completely straight man makes it boring; you need everyone to be a tad odd, even if some characters are odder than others.

Probably acquired taste. Not sure, I've been watching anime for 20 years now and it just clicks most of the time. That's not to say there aren't trash shows, most western targeted anime are trash by default.

If only it wasn't yuri but rather het. I would fap the shit out of the dragons.

I prefer absurdism, observational humor and slapstick to cynicism and irony

i've laughed while watching anime and while reading manga, yes.

>western targeted anime
There's such a thing? I thought Japan made anime for the Japanese and the rest of the world either took it or walked away.

i use to think that the humor in anime was shit
till saw cromartie highschool
not saying that that is the only funny show
it's just the one that opened my eyes

What happened to Western humor? It feels as most current comedy is based on sarcastic jabs at either other people or the whole world.

Quite a few, yes.
It's hard to know if its an acquired taste or it was more that I didn't really try any comedy series for a while when I started. Aside from Azumanga I can't think of any other I tried early on.

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Panty Stocking/Carole Tuesday/Redline/new FLCL/Space Dandy/Dragonball Super/etc

These anime are very easy to spot.

>the manga still exist
>another studio can just pick up the show and continue it

Space Dandy was pretty out there, wasn't it? I thought that, despite the American aesthetic, the core was still Eastern.

Jew scriptwriters and producers want to farm easy Bazinga jokes, so they've conditioned Western comedy from 00's onward to subsist of the same shitty comedy with a laugh track to farm sitcom bucks.

I laughed my ass out with actual comedies like this or Another

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Too much western aesthetics = dropped for me. I like anime to be anime, unique in its presentation/humor/direction. If I wanted the American appeal, I'll watch Animerican shit and I do watch some American shit just not the low hanging fruits.

Is there any joke from an anime you still remember and that never fails to make you laugh?
Pic related for me; it's so perfectly told.
>Megumin putting up a cute and innocent facade before the only person who would buy it in the entire world
>Yuyun is moved
>that cut to Megumin pulling scissors as Yuyun is chanting "it's a draw" is cut short as hse chooses paper
>Yuyun's frozen expression of horror
>cue to pic related
>Yuyun loses it

It all flows so flawlessly and it cracks me up every time.

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I don't think the aesthetics go beyond Dandy being a greaser and having a taste for Hawaii. Everything else is purely Japanese weirdness.
There are some homages here and there, but they are all distinctly Nipponese

Thet literally aired the dub first. Unlike the other stuff on that list, its one of only a handful of shows that you can undeniably say was made for the west before the east.
Sonic X is another overlooked one. 3rd season was only made because 4kids paid for it. 3rd season never even aired on japanese tv or got released on dvd

does anyone have the webm of the exploding knees?

I didn't know that. Was it popular in Japan?

much like reading an actual book, although to a lesser degree

I find myself enjoying comedy in manga way more, probably cause I can enjoy all the characters in my own preferable voice and comedic timing.

It's the only thing that makes me laugh nowadays. FMP Fumoffu! is probably the series that made me laugh the most consistently. Seto no Hanayome just kept being better and better as it went on till it absolutely perfected its humor and character usage. Zetsubo Sensei's highs aren't just hilarious, they're clear examples of incredibly clever writing. Comedy anime is good because considering how much a language I have no word-specific knowledge of makes me laugh I don't even want to imagine how it'd be if I was native.

>He's previewing the afterlife!
>Time Paradog
>Hoozuki's S1 all leading up to the most subtle joke in the ending song
>Kyou Kara Ore Wa did something with its first and last episode
>Love letter turning into a murder threat when damaged, fucking amazing

>00's onward to subsist of the same shitty comedy with a laugh track to farm sitcom bucks.
Ironically that's when sitcoms started not using laugh tracks, Malcolm in the middle for example

It was mostly funny. One of the best comedy anime I've seen, granted I normally avoid the genre as I'm sure theres a good chunk of references and the like that go over my head due to my infamiliarity with nip culture

did something similar*
Also gotta mention Saiki. Best example of "typical archetypes" growing into lovable characters, which coincidentally extended their usage of comedic material. The author definitely knew what he was doing with that one.

Why was she never loved?

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I loved the 'lol so randumb', 'death is funny' humour of Angel Beats.

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It was worrying for quite a lot of episodes before it started getting really good.
After Sakamoto Desu ga I was feeling like that'd be another comedy I'd drop when Saiki was being such a dull character. From the cockroach episode onwards it did stay pretty consistently good.

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KIRU DEM ALLUUU
This is one of those anime that should have been a niche hit, but didn't for some reasons.

It's a medium, there is both good and bad humor in it.
Please don't ask dumb questions like this again kudasai

Konosuba was just unfunny garbage where the characters have to make over exaggerated expressions to bring laughs out of you. It had zero subtlety and all the jokes were so predictable and repetitive.

>streaming
Nichibros did good because it actually had jokes

Japan hates female MCs.

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Yo Sakamoto is pretty good though, only moment that fell flat for me was that sequence with the three delinquents playing ball that felt too long for what it was. But otherwise that anime was consistently funny throughout and the end fucking caught me off guard.

>shits on Konosuba
>but praises Nichibros
Now that's a good joke.

Was Mayoiga a comedy?

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I hate how everything that's not Japan gets lumped into "western" now. It doesn't mean anything anymore.

>this disagrees with my opinion so it's a joke
So predictable and basic redditsubafag

Yeah. I'm sure Thailand and Malaysia are 'Western' too. And Singapore. And Ecuador. Some buzzwords should just die.

In my defense, I was referring mainly to America and Western Europe's latest humorist threads. Nonetheless, it was a dumb thing to say, so I apologize.

I think he was just being sarcastic user; he didn't think you were joking, just that you have shit taste.

Define 'Western Europe'. Is Mexico 'America'?

I already said I was overgeneralizing and was wrong. I don't need to make a fool of myself any further.

Ok.

>noone mentioned Sekko Boys

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delinquent humor is always 10/10, other than that it's usually bad

Referential humor is great.
But the best comedies I've seen are Tonegawa and SunRed Season 1 (Season 2 is a major downgrade). I don't know what categories they fall under.

Not funny enough to the point of making me laugh out loud, but some of them are amusing enough to make me crack a smile, and I think that's good enough.

youtu.be/zK5JZP3zeLQ
youtu.be/naLaZijShMw

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The last episode of Fumoffu.

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God, this. Sometimes a perfectly serviceable joke will be ruined by some "FUNNY GUY HAHA" character who will screech out the punchline.
Pic very much related

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Irony, cynicism, and a deep rooted desire to subvert everything as a result of those concepts have seeped into American comedy.
Pic related is from the writer's room of a show called Workaholics, an agreed upon list of "comedy" phrases that need to be retired

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Only ever laughed at two animes and that was Golden boy and Dragon ball because son goku was hilarious

Konosuba isn't funny.

Forgot to mention that random Internet memespeak of the 2000s also played a role in more "quirky" attempts at humor though I feel like that's starting get phased out really fast

So long as they can think of better things, I'd like to see most of this crap retired too.

People who claim japs can't do humor have never seen sayonara zetsubou sensei

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I like Ai Mai Mi.

Or Gyagu Manga Biyori.

Nichibros, Saiki, Hinamatsuri are some comedies I like. They actually have jokes instead of wacky yelling and over exaggerated facial expressions.

There are comedy anime that I find funny, like Konosuba, Gabriel Dropout, Umaru season 1 (not season 2 though), etc.

A lot of anime unfortunately are written by people that don't have a good sense of humor, so they recycle a bunch of tropes and cliches and hope people find it funny. Sometimes they think they can get away with it by lampshading or subverting the tropes.

Konosuba humor isn't like most Isekai humor, it's why Kazuma and co stick out like a sore thumb in Isekai Quartet.

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I laughed so much at Digi Charat. But I was like, 13.
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I believe Kazuma's character was made to pretend he was a cliche MC,but instead of reacting as such in the midst of that he gives an according impression to it's situation,a more human one.

Often I get tired from the comedy in certain shows or they don't do it well but I tend to find them funny.

Early Gintama I really liked, Cromartie, I did like Konosuba a lot, Danshi Koukousei, etc.

Sometimes they can be a little bit "too anime" for me and it kind of spoils any jokes they have in it.

>Konosuba, Gabriel Dropout, Umaru

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Pretty much. It's why when all the other MCs are campaigning to go back to their death worlds Kazuma is like "You're all crazy I'm staying here in this comfy SoL setting."

Perhaps I haven't been exposed to enough isekai, but I'd say it's usually the other way around. The average MC just kind of accepts his fate and enjoys his world, while Kazuma has asked several times to be returned home and expressed hate for his new world as often as he expressed enjoyment. I'd say he's more unique only in how he changes his mind constantly.

For me it's not so much the humor itself but the delivery. The VA has to be good. A lot of stuff in Konosuba for instance isn't objectively funny but the VAs' performances were hilarious

I think generally their comedy is pretty meh but some I absolutely love. Aho-girl, Asobase and Hinamatsuri were all recent ones I thought were really good.

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I'm talking about Isekai Quartet, not Konosuba specifically. In Isekai Quartet he and the MCs from three other settings are stuck in a highschool AU.

He's the only one who doesn't want to go back to his original isekai

Overall, no. If you want to make me laugh easily, dark or sexual humor works, specially when the characters are just big asses, reason why I liked konosuba, prison school or grand blue quite a lot.
For "all ages", anime humor overall is horrible, it's like the writers don't know how to write jokes without those elements, they just throw stupid shit and characters talking loud or making faces and expect people to laugh at it for some reason, literally humor for kids. From those I've seen the only "normal" one I consistenly liked was Saiki, I don't know who the writter is but he rocks.

It was mildy funny and entertaining, but the only things I really laughed out loud at was Vanir. Everything else just got the typical nose exhale. Still my favorite isekai though, if not my favorite anime.

>Gabriel Dropout

Fucking how?