Chuubyou Gekihatsu Boy

Boy version of the CGDCT genre. Mainly silly comedies and slice of life.

If you won't judge me I won't judge you...

edit. I realize there are like 50k idol and sports anime that would fit this stack, so for variety sake I'm willfully ignoring most of them

The anime stack of mostly all-male casts focused on joseimuke media: idols, mobile games, (not) otome games, and multimedia projects. I won't include the sequels because the stack is limited to 50 so you gotta find them out by yourself.

Part 2 (original & manga/novel adaptation): https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6190
Also check out pretty boys doing sports: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/2079

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Tanaka, Motoko. “Trends of Fiction in 2000s Japanese Pop Culture.” Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies. 14:2 (2014).
Uno, Tsunehiro. “Imagination after the Earthquake: Japan’s Otaku Culture in the 2010s.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias. 1:1 (2015): 119-124.
Yu, J.J. The Rise and Fall of Slice of Life Anime. Medium. 23 June 2021.

Anime with lots of cute boys mostly excluding the sports, yaoi, romance or harem genre. Just cute boys doing stuff.
There is a number 2 now https://myanimelist.net/stacks/37404

Link to Part 2 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/46052

If you want to boost your 'happy hormone', or just want a good engaging anime, check these out.
Of course, what works for me, may not work for you, and everybody's got a different taste and blah blah, but hey, still give it a try.

P.S: I'm not including sequels, OAVs etc or the list would be longer than it needs to be.

Shows that I personally feel are underwatched/underated, and should get more attention! They are not obscure, hidden gems that nobody has watched before, but even so, it'd be nice if more people discovered them :)

Anime in which characters have delusional personas, or believe they are a fictional character. Others may think they are out of touch with reality.

Chūnibyō (中二病) is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe early teens who have grandiose delusions, who desperately want to stand out, and who have convinced themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers. It translates to "second year syndrome" (i.e., middle-school second-year), and has been called "eighth-grader syndrome" in English-speaking countries. [Wikipedia]

Reference: https://www.anime-planet.com/characters/tags/chuunibyou?page=1

Continuation of my previous interest stack.

A list of anime that I find relaxing and perfect to watch after work. No focus needed, just sit down and enjoy the calm moments.


The list is obviously subjective. Your taste might differ and that's totally fine.

I am only adding the first seasons of each longer series!


PART 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/13836
PART 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/46073

You've heard of CGDCT before
now get ready for CBDCT!

Not really parallel to cgdcts, there's far less in this category and the line with BL is blur so just a collection of soft BL shows I guess. Halfway through it isn't even 'cute'
boys anymore lol.

Please pm any recommendations you have to add to this, I'll add it :)

The title speaks for itself.

CBDCT, an equivalent of CGDCT (cute girls doing cute things).

The cast of characters consists either predominantly of boys, or only of boys.

Some animes could be BL or have BL hints/fan services.

they're will make u laugh harder

Derived from AniFem's Top Picks for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019

See the website for their pros and cons per title:
https://www.animefeminist.com/feminist-anime-recommendations-2016/
https://www.animefeminist.com/anifems-top-picks-2017/
https://www.animefeminist.com/anifems-top-picks-for-2018/
https://www.animefeminist.com/anime-feminists-top-picks-for-2019/

See also
Parts 1-2, 4-7
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/17514
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/17515
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18755
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18995
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/18999
Manga Recs
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/17520
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/28358
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/28535
Chatty AF
Anime
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/22027
Manga
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/25862
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/25883
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/26994
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/27949

Anime that have cute shotas (short young-looking boys) in it.

A-P shota character custom list:
https://www.anime-planet.com/users/widenosebuttchin/lists/shota-957434?viewAs=grid

Shota as main character stash for male-oriented audience, some has harem themes:
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/20690

Shota & loli romance: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23125

Hi, hello, and welcome! This is mostly a personal list, but I decided to make it public - after all, finding serotonin boosters can be difficult, specially if usual recommendations don't work for you. All of the stuff here makes me happy (some more than others, of course), and a lot have been watched more than once, more than twice, etc.

The reason why I created this stack is because I started rewatching a specific anime after 3 or 4 years, and found out it was 100% comfort material. I had forgotten that, though.
And I do not want to repeat that mistake!

If you like some of the entries here, chances are you may like the rest! But you also may not, we are all different!!! I generally adore idiot characters and found family tropes, so that's the closest to a theme that can be found here. But it is something!

Feel free to recommend me stuff if you liked what's here and think there is something similar I'd enjoy! But be warned, my PtW is enormous and I sometimes start watching things on a whim.

No further ado, lets get to it!

not all of them are like light and some of them are a bit dark, but they all have cute boys doing cute things so its okay

This stack is for shoujo, josei or any other female-targeted show with a male protagonist. In case this stack is of interest to any of the guys, I tried to select shows with a non-objectified image of the guys first. But anyway, this stack is meant for any audience, so I didn't rule out fanservice shows or BL. Also, some shows, especially idols, usually have a formal female protagonist, but since most of the focus is on the male characters anyway, I took the liberty of listing some of them too.

List of Anime with 11 Episodes or Less

Notes:
1. TV only
2. Movie, ONA, OVA, and other type are not included
3. 1st Season/Part 1 only

Next: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/32362