With access to a wide variety of genres comes a need to be careful about watching anime on the living room television with your family around. While your mother won’t be too pleased about the intense fight scenes, which include blood and violence, the unprovoked fanservice might receive more than just a few raised eyebrows.
If you want to keep your anime-watching privileges from being revoked, be careful about what you watch around your family. Here is a comprehensive list of anime you can watch around and with your family and maybe even lead them down the same rabbit hole.
10Sweetness and Lightning
Follow the story of a sweet and hardworking high-school teacher and his daughter as they navigate life after the death of his wife. Due to his inability to cook and busy schedule, Kouhei is having difficulty feeding his daughter proper meals and is worried. To raise his daughter to the best of his ability, Kouhei decides to get help from his student.
Sweetness and Lightning is a heartwarming story that teaches you the importance of warm, home-cooked meals and the privilege of eating with your family, which is so easily taken for granted. It is a perfect anime to watch while eating with your family, and it will leave you feeling warm and happy.
9Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless
Tanaka is leading his ideal listless life, busy not listening and falling asleep at any moment. Even thinking about hard work is hard work for Tanaka, who survives only because his friends and family look out for him. The story follows Tanaka, whose only wish is to lead the most uneventful life ever, but he gets roped into situations more often than he would prefer.
Tanaka-Kun is Always Listless is a chill and laid-back comedy that follows Tanaka and his friends, who can’t bring themselves to leave him alone. A stress reliever after a tiring day, this is one of the best shows you can watch to unwind with your family. You might get to hear little teasing jabs of being like Tanaka, but nothing you can’t handle because, honestly, we have all heard worse.
8Bocchi The Rock!
Gotou Hitori is as shy and introverted as they come. With her inability to reach out or make friends, her dream of becoming a guitarist seems too far away. However, as the story goes, she is dragged into the music world by an extroverted and friendly Nijika, a drummer, in search of a guitarist. Follow Hitori as she tries to overcome her fears and rock the stage.
When an introvert decides to break out of her shell, hilarity ensues, especially if you’re so far on the spectrum like Hitori that it should be a category of its own. With a perfectly paced storyline and stable build-up, every episode makes you look forward to the next. The characters carry the story easily, with their own endearing quirks and wholesome dynamics.
7Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting
After getting into one too many dangerous situations, Kirishima is assigned to watch over his boss’ daughter, Yaeka, until further notice. The heartwarming comedy follows Yaeka’s daily life as she slowly warms up to the scary but fun Kirishima. The kindergartener and the Yazuka family’s right-hand man overcome their differences and become friends.
Be honest: Who doesn’t like tough men with tragic backstories who have soft spots for children? With his penchant for fighting, it is funny to watch Kirishima work so hard to earn the favor of a kindergartener. The sudden shift in their daily lives and how they deal with it are funny to watch while hanging out with your family.
6Buddy Daddies
Assassin partners Kazuki and Rei end up becoming instant parents to a four-year-old girl named Miri, who gets roped into one of their missions. Intending to shelter her until they find her mother, Kazuki and Rei take Miri in. However, things don’t go as planned, and Miri’s presence in their lives extends. Follow the story of Kazuki and Rei, who now have a little girl to raise while continuing their dangerous way of living.
Does ‘Not One but Two Assassins and Their Parenting Diary’ sound intriguing? It does, even more so when it features two men with contrasting personalities living together. With the sudden weight of parenthood, traumatic past incidents, and high expectations to face, Rei and Kazuki are in for a wild ride, with Miri holding the steering wheels. Watch them avoid all crash-and-burn incidents while having a laugh with your family.
5School Babysitters
After losing his parents, Ryuchi, a high schooler, has to get used to his new life and step up as his little brother, Kotaro’s guardian. He gets offered a roof over his head, but on one condition—be the school babysitter. While it does not sound too tough, the severely understaffed club has a handful of kids with wildly different personalities to deal with.
Heartwarming and occasionally triggering your tear ducts, this wholesome story is a must-watch with your family. Surprisingly, loveable children warm their way into your heart, and their dynamic with their families and friends makes up for an endearing storyline that will leave you feeling content and happy.
4Way Of The Househusband
Leaving the underworld behind, the infamous yakuza, Immortal Tatsu, has now taken to becoming a devoted househusband. After disappearing for good, his sudden reappearance, with an apron no less, has everyone stunned. Trying his best to get used to the mundane day-to-day chores, Tatsu faces new challenges while dealing with many misunderstandings because of the shadow of his past.
The story’s premise is enough to make you blink twice as the ‘scary yakuza to devoted househusband pipeline’ is not a recurring theme. From beating people with a pipe to beating the dust out of blankets, Tatsu’s complete 180 has more to do with his profession and less with his personality. A light-hearted comedy that makes you giggle is another good watch to unwind with your family after a long day.
3Barakamon
A talented but annoyingly narcissistic about it, rising star calligrapher Seishuu flips out after getting his award-winning piece called “unoriginal” and gets into trouble. Getting exiled to a remote island as a punishment, Seishuu needs to self-reflect and find new inspiration…if only he were left alone for enough time. With nosey neighbors, Seishuu gets more than he bargained for, but in a good way.
Another easy-to-love cast ranging from loud kids, fujoshis, and wild old men who teach much more than our protagonist hoped to learn, Barakamon is another light-hearted comedy that warms its way into your heart. Follow this slice-of-life anime with your family and reminisce about all the times you spend with them, laughing and arguing, but with love.
2Haikyuu!!
Hinata dreams of becoming a great volleyball player, and he will let nothing come in the way, not even his small height. After getting on the same team as the tyrant prodigy Kageyama, who defeated him in middle school, Hinata has to work with him despite their mutual dislike. The story follows passionate high schoolers who chase their dreams of becoming the best and overcoming all challenges.
Sports-oriented animes are a hit-or-miss but you can never miss with the best. With the story focusing on achieving goals and overcoming hardships along the way and featuring hard-not-to-love characters, the anime is bound to be a hit among families. The biggest problem you will have with Haikyuu!! is deciding which team to support.
1Spy x Family
An undercover spy gathers a makeshift family for his mission. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is an assassin, and his daughter is a telepath. With secrets of their own, the three try their best to keep the family together while attempting to achieve world peace.
It goes without saying that Spy x Family is one of the best shows that you can start your family on. With a cast of endearing characters and their weird shenanigans, it constantly pokes your funny bone. Cute, funny, and wholesome, it’s an anime about family for family.
Special Mention: Avatar – The Last Airbender
In a universe where the power of elements and martial arts is by your side, Aang has a destiny to fulfill. However, he just wishes to be a normal kid with no responsibility, especially not as big as being the long-awaited Avatar. On a mission to bring peace to the war-filled world they live in, Aang sets on a journey to live his fate as the Avatar.
Avatar: The Last Airbender deserves special mention because of its engaging plot and beautiful animation style. With lovable characters who struggle with their own issues, the show deals with a complex range of problems in a meaningful way. It is a must-watch with your family if you want something that will leave a long-lasting impact.
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