 If you liked
Gintama
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 ...then you might like
Level E
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Comedy with surreal setting. Putting sci-fi elements into the realistic environment. Can be looked as both a pure comedy show with action sidekicks, or animated action show with certain degree of comedy. Must admit that putting comedy in that kind of setting is also a lot of fun. If you only have experienced school-life love comedy then it's about time you try something else.
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Recommended by lapisdragon
Ep 7 of Gintama has what I think may be a strong reference to level E manga. An Alien prince loses his pet and team Gintoki is charged with finding it; it has this funny scene where the characters are arguing about the Prince being a baka.
Stylistically and in terms of their approach, they're quite different. But on a superficial level they're quite similar in that they both use parody as a secondary element to their humor, feature aliens among humans and often involve plot build-ups leading to crazy antics and/or bizarre situational comedy.
Aliens assimilating into human society, shounen comedy, douchebags, violent government officials and alien princes known as 'baka-ouji.' Wouldn't be surprised if Gintama was inspired by Level E, since it was serialized in Shounen Jump some 8 years prior to Gintama's debut in the same magazine.
Level E pays more attention to the aliens, and Gintama to the shounen comedy/adventure. Gintama also has more girls.
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Recommended by senerikfred
1. They are both random.
2. They are both hella funny.
3. They both have aliens.
4. They are both epic.
5. They will make your day.
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Recommended by RavenlySadist
Level E is a fitting alternative to Gintama . in fact it would be proper to say that gintama successfully captured the spirit of Level E . alien invaded japan, idiotic and funny side characters , super troll moments and nearly unpredictable twists , unique settings connecting totally random events and a "baka ouji " to rule them all !! ...
damn...togashi should have continued level E !
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Recommended by headless_nick
Both have an arc that parodies RPGs, although the cause of the setting is different, both then proceed to try to funnily get out of the situation.
I like to believe that when Gorilla was a young chimp, that still suckled on his momma's tweet, he read Togashi's Level E. Both comedies are set in an alien invaded Japan (although the humans don't know about the aliens in Level E). But the only real reason I recommend these anime in a pair is that they were made to troll you.
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Recommended by TurtleHermit
This is the only anime I found to match Gintama's hilarity and absolute absurdity like Level E. You can never guess what might happen yet you can expect anything to happen. A great mini sample of Gintama's absurd spirit.
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Recommended by Niveen_Sleem