The Funniest Anime That Might Depress You

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Around the late 2000s and early 2010s, anime was obsessed with high-school melodrama that liked to carry a heavy balance of humor and heartbreak. Shows like Clannad were hilarious but are primarily remembered for how depressing they could get, and in 2010, P.A. Works carried on the tradition with an original work called Angel Beats.

When Yuzuru Otonashi wakes up stuck in a strange high school with no memory of how he got there or his past life, he finds himself surrounded by a student body that is similarly stuck. A group called the Afterlife Battlefront attempts to fight against the overpowered student council president keeping them there, «Angel,» all while Otonashi tries to figure out the true nature of their being there. The school the characters find themselves in is Purgatory and all the principal characters are kids who have succumbed to unfortunate deaths. While Otonashi collaborates with students like Yurippe and Hinata to find a way out of purgatory, it becomes increasingly clear that the way to get out lies in sorting out unresolved problems from when they were alive.

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Anyone going into Angel Beats based on its reputation as one of those «sad teen death shows» might experience whiplash during the first episode when it's revealed to be far more explosive. In fact, the first joke of the series is how quickly and unceremoniously things go off the rails.

Within just five minutes, it's made clear that everyone is dead, there's a division between the supposed «warden» and a resistance group, and those that arrive don't have memories from their past life. It all moves along incredibly fast and rarely gives room to breathe, which is part of its unhinged charm. Angel Beats is the