Shows Like The Ryuo's Work is Never Done!
If you liked The Ryuo's Work is Never Done! (2018), a animation and comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Burning Kabaddi (2021)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyYoigoshi Tatsuya was a star soccer player known as "Yoigoshi the Unstoppable," but when he entered high school, he severed all involvement with sports. Now, he has been invited to a certain sports team. In these…
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Akiba's Trip The Animation (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedySet in Akihabara, the shopping area has been invaded by creatures known as "Synthisters" who prey on the patrons of Akihabara, feasting on their social energy and will to live. These enemies can only be stopped by…
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The Shiunji Family Children (2025)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and comedyThe Shiunji family with their seven children reside in a mansion within Tokyo’s Setagaya ward. The eldest son, Arata, is tired of being pushed around by his five sisters and daydreams of a life without them. That is…
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Rent-a-Girlfriend (2020)
★ 8.3/10Also animation and comedyKinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their…
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Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedyTomoya Aki is an otaku who has a dream. His dream is to create the best visual novel game ever. The main heroine for this game and the inspiration for this dream is a background character named Megumi Kato who somehow…
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The Prince of Tennis (2001)
★ 8.4/10Also animation and comedyTennis prodigiy Ryoma Echizen enters the tennis powerhouse Seishun Academy. Once he fights his way onto the team, the game will never be the same.
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Chio's School Road (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedyMiyamo Chio, a first-year at the completely ordinary high school Samejima Academy. Chio just wants to get through her school life without standing out too much, but for some reason, all kinds of obstacles await her…
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Special A (2008)
★ 6/10Also animation and comedyWhen Hikari was little, she and her father liked to watch professional wrestling, and she became very good at it. She is the pride of her family until she is introduced to Kei, the son of her father's friend.
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Samurai Girls (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyThe story takes place in Japan in the early 21st century, in an alternate reality where the Tokugawa Shogunate has remained in power. In this reality, student councils are tasked with oppressing schools. Yagyuu…
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Absolute Duo (2015)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyThis is the story of Tooru Kokonoe who has enrolled at Kouryou Academy, a school which trains students in wielding Blaze, soul powered weapons to prepare them for the Dorn Agency's special peacekeeping corps. When…
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Hayate the Combat Butler (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also animation and comedy16-year-old Hayate is really down on his luck. Because his unemployed parents are good-for-nothings who waste what money they have on gambling, Hayate had to start working at a young age to help out his family…
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Tawawa on Monday (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and comedyThe anime follows a salaryman who has a chance meeting with a girl named Ai on the train. They begin to meet every Monday on the train, with the man serving as her bodyguard on the crowded commute while they chat.
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SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedySixteen years after the "Law for Public Order and Morals in Healthy Child-Raising" banned coarse language in the country, Tanukichi Okuma enrolls in the country's leading elite public morals school and is soon invited…
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Ten Year Old Tom (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyThe misadventures of an average kid as he contends with questionable guidance from the well-meaning grownups around him.
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Hetalia (2009)
★ 5.8/10Also animation and comedyForget what you learned in history class, and imagine all the nations of the world as guys on an inappropriate reality show. Pledge allegiance to your favorite superpower in Hetalia Axis Powers!
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The PJs (1999)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyThurgood Stubbs lives with his wife, Muriel, in the Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs housing project, where he is the superintendent. This animated comedy follows the adventures of the Subbs and their friends, while taking a…
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Hands off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyKouyou Kotesashi, a sports doctor with massage skills, enrolls at Seiwa University Affiliated High School to secure a scholarship. He works as a live-in dorm manager, managing the school's talented female athletes and…
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Maken-Ki! Battling Venus (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedyThis romantic comedy is about Takeru Ohyama, a typical perverted teenage boy. His new school doesn't require entrance exams, and it just turned co-ed! Unfortunately, his dreams of a happy high school life are dashed…
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Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again (2024)
★ 7.8/10Also animation and comedyShouzou and Ine Saitou have been happily married for as long as they can remember. Even in their old age with wrinkles and cracking limbs, the strength of this love is evident in their precious bond. And then, one day…
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From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also animation and comedyBeryl Gardenant, a middle-aged swordsman running a dojo in the backwaters, lives a quiet life, until Allucia, former student and Commander of the Royal Order of Knights, appears! Beryl’s life is about to change…