5 Hilarious School Anime to Watch When You're Overwhelmed by Homework

5 Hilarious School Anime to Watch When You're Overwhelmed by Homework
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Tired of studying? Watch other people do it.

The summer is over and school is back. We have chosen five of the best funny anime series about school. For students, they will be an outlet, for everyone else, a pleasant nostalgia.

1. Skip and Loafer, 2023

Mitsumi has moved from the remote outback to attend high school in Tokyo. Her plans are grandiose, but feasible: to attend a prestigious university and then become an official to improve the lives of the people in her hometown. But all that is for later, and now Mitsumi wants to join the student council.

However, life in a big city turns out to be much more difficult than the schoolgirl imagined. Mitsumi has to find her way in a new place, make friends, and learn to deal with her fears.

Skip and Loafer is a light-hearted and cheerful anime about school, friendship and a little bit of love.

2. Kaguya-sama: Love is War, 2019

The main characters of the series are members of the high school student council and spend their days shooting ambiguous looks at each other. The student council president Miyuki and the charming vice president Kaguya are secretly in love, but they can't admit it. Or rather, they don't want to, because each of them wants the other to confess first.

The main characters of this anime not only suffer from their own complicated love, but also help other high school students with their romantic and academic affairs. The series features very funny main and secondary characters as well as exciting plot twists.

3. Blue Spring Ride, 2014

The main character of the anime, Futaba, was very lonely in middle school. Girls did not want to be friends with her because they were jealous. After moving to high school, Futaba decided to change her style, habits and way of communicating by becoming less feminine. Now she can easily avoid unnecessary attention from boys and make friends with girls.

But pretending turned out to be quite difficult. Futaba found out that a boy she once had a crush on is studying at her school.

Blue Spring Ride is a touching and sweet anime about first love, friendship, self-awareness, your feelings and the value of time. Every moment is precious and important in its own way, nothing is repeated twice, so even ordinary school life deserves to be enjoyed.

4. Horimiya, 2021

Beautiful and popular Kyoko meets her quiet classmate Izumi outside of school, who suddenly looks like a cool guy without his school uniform.

Piercings, tattoos and stylish clothes – Kyoko didn't even know this side of the young man, but the girl herself behaves differently outside of school, turning into a nanny for her younger brother. The characters get closer to each other, and gradually love flares up between them.

Horimiya is not just a romantic anime, it is a bright story with many versatile characters. They have fun together at school, help each other with their studies, and just enjoy their youth.

5. ReLIFE, 2016-2018

In a dark alley, 27-year-old Arata meets a stranger who introduces himself as an employee of a certain laboratory. He offers the man to participate in the ReLIFE project, which will allow the test subject to start over. Without hesitation, the man agrees and takes a mysterious pill from the stranger, which makes him look ten years younger.

Now 17-year-old Arata has to go back to school, study and pass exams. And get good grades, too, because that is one of the conditions of his contract as a test subject. The young man must find a common language with teenagers and regain his zest for life.

Tired of studying? Watch other people do it.

The summer is over and school is back. We have chosen five of the best funny anime series about school. For students, they will be an outlet, for everyone else, a pleasant nostalgia.

1. Skip and Loafer, 2023

Mitsumi has moved from the remote outback to attend high school in Tokyo. Her plans are grandiose, but feasible: to attend a prestigious university and then become an official to improve the lives of the people in her hometown. But all that is for later, and now Mitsumi wants to join the student council.

However, life in a big city turns out to be much more difficult than the schoolgirl imagined. Mitsumi has to find her way in a new place, make friends, and learn to deal with her fears.

Skip and Loafer is a light-hearted and cheerful anime about school, friendship and a little bit of love.

2. Kaguya-sama: Love is War, 2019

The main characters of the series are members of the high school student council and spend their days shooting ambiguous looks at each other. The student council president Miyuki and the charming vice president Kaguya are secretly in love, but they can't admit it. Or rather, they don't want to, because each of them wants the other to confess first.

The main characters of this anime not only suffer from their own complicated love, but also help other high school students with their romantic and academic affairs. The series features very funny main and secondary characters as well as exciting plot twists.

3. Blue Spring Ride, 2014

The main character of the anime, Futaba, was very lonely in middle school. Girls did not want to be friends with her because they were jealous. After moving to high school, Futaba decided to change her style, habits and way of communicating by becoming less feminine. Now she can easily avoid unnecessary attention from boys and make friends with girls.

But pretending turned out to be quite difficult. Futaba found out that a boy she once had a crush on is studying at her school.

Blue Spring Ride is a touching and sweet anime about first love, friendship, self-awareness, your feelings and the value of time. Every moment is precious and important in its own way, nothing is repeated twice, so even ordinary school life deserves to be enjoyed.

4. Horimiya, 2021

Beautiful and popular Kyoko meets her quiet classmate Izumi outside of school, who suddenly looks like a cool guy without his school uniform.

Piercings, tattoos and stylish clothes – Kyoko didn't even know this side of the young man, but the girl herself behaves differently outside of school, turning into a nanny for her younger brother. The characters get closer to each other, and gradually love flares up between them.

Horimiya is not just a romantic anime, it is a bright story with many versatile characters. They have fun together at school, help each other with their studies, and just enjoy their youth.

5. ReLIFE, 2016-2018

In a dark alley, 27-year-old Arata meets a stranger who introduces himself as an employee of a certain laboratory. He offers the man to participate in the ReLIFE project, which will allow the test subject to start over. Without hesitation, the man agrees and takes a mysterious pill from the stranger, which makes him look ten years younger.

Now 17-year-old Arata has to go back to school, study and pass exams. And get good grades, too, because that is one of the conditions of his contract as a test subject. The young man must find a common language with teenagers and regain his zest for life.