 If you liked
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
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 ...then you might like
Arakawa Under the Bridge
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It's SHAFT, it's a quirky cast, it's the same main voice actor (KAMIYA!!), it's random culture references, and it's witty/ridiculous humor everywhere. If you liked one of them, the other comedy would probably make you laugh just as much. Note: Arakawa under the Bridge has a romantic plot (Nino <3) but Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei does not.
Almost the same humor, randomness, story (life of a guy surrounded by a bunch of weirdos) and all
Similiar in humor and randomness and lot of weird people
just replace the classroom with riverbank
Same absurd kind of humour and the main characters have a similar feel to them.
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Recommended by Yotsuba_Snake
Let's not beat around the bush - Arakawa is Zetsubou Sensei with a fresh coat of paint. If you've run out of SZS and need more, you should be watching this. You might just end up liking it more.
Both are presented in quite similar style,and filled in comedy,the seiyuu of both main characters are same so if you really enjoyed the comedic expression of Ichinomiya Kou a.k.a Recruit in Arakawa,u will surely enjoyed the same from Itoshiki Nozomu in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.
You have to have a weird sense of humor to laugh at any of these. But if you have the right sense of humor, you won't stop laughing.
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Recommended by papercutsmiley
Both anime have really weird main characters, I mean, really weird, the plot is funny and the graphics is pretty similar. Both are hilarious.
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Recommended by Patry-chan
Two shaft productions that uses gag comedy style of presentation. The anime are episodic, but each episode build on the character relationship. If you watch these without expecting any dramatic turn of events, you might just laugh at some random joke that they make, or appreciate some finer points about the society that the shows satirizes.
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Recommended by bunny1ov3r
All of the characters in both anime are crazy and weird. All the situations that arise are all funny as hell. Both male protagonists are similar in having a single ideology that make up for the main theme of both the anime..
Absurd at its finest
Really deep and funny shows that bring "absurd" from theatre to Animation
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Recommended by Franken-sama
Same studio, similar animation art style, both comedies with a cast of eccentric characters, same director, dame main voice actor.
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Recommended by ObscureObsidian
-Both are from Studio Shaft (being of the same studio isn't really important, except for Studio Shaft)
-Both have a absurd/typically japanese humor which is (at least for me)) absolutely hilarious
-Both MCs are similar (can't really explain why, sorry)
-Both have really good supporting characters (even though Arakawa is clearly better at this point)