There is only one thing in anime that everyone loves, which is the Chibi anime series.
They are small, pudgy, and the epitome of joy.
And if you are someone who doesn’t like these cute chibi anime, then I think you just might have a dark hole in your heart.
We usually see these cute chibi characters occasionally in anime but the majority of their existence is in art or sometimes in split-second scenes that add some humor to the anime.
But Some series are dedicated to the existence of chibi anime series.
So if you need more adorable joys in your life then you must try these chibi anime series.
Updated July 5, 2024, by Shagun Singh: Chibi is a popular style of Japanese caricature often found in manga and anime, where characters are depicted with exaggerated features. Chibi figures are known for their adorable and playful appearance, with their large heads, short limbs, and simplified features. In the Western anime fan community, this term is commonly used to describe characters with exaggerated proportions, such as abnormally large heads and small bodies, which often result in comedic moments. The characters in chibi anime are adorable, chubby, and radiate pure joy. Chibi figures often make cameo appearances in certain episodes of anime, but they are more frequently seen in art or brief scenes that aim to add a touch of lightheartedness.
Here Are Some Of The Best Chibi Anime Series To Watch
27. hack//GIFT
As an expression of gratitude for the heroes of both the “.hack//Sign” and the “.
hack” game series, Helba has prepared a special event for all the characters to find the newly established “Twilight Hot Springs.
” The characters can get their well deserved rest and relaxation by having a soak in the wonderful hot springs, but there is only one problem—the hot springs are hidden and there have been mysterious player murders.
With the only clue being the word “GIFT,” the race has begun to find the culprit and the location of the hot springs.
26. Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season Specials
After a momentous New Year’s vacation and with Valentine’s Day approaching, Sawako Kuronuma is beginning to get along with her classmates.
However, now that Sawako has realized her romantic feelings for the popular Shouta Kazehaya, she grows hesitant toward giving him obligatory chocolates and decides to not give him any. In turn, Kazehaya, who likes Sawako, feels a distance between them.
As February ends and April arrives, the second year of high school begins for Sawako.
Luckily, she ends up in the same class as her friends Ayane Yano and Chizuru Yoshida, along with Kazehaya and his friend Ryuu Sanada, in addition to the newcomer named Kento Miura.
When Kento develops an interest in Sawako, Sawako and Kazehaya’s feelings for each other are put to the test.
25. Di Gi Charat
Di Gi Charat is a series of shorts created as advertisements for “Digital Gamers”, a store in Akihabara.
The series follows Dejiko, princess of Di Gi Charat planet, and her companions, Puchiko and Gema, as well as Dejiko’s rival, Rabi~en~Rose through daily ordeals they encounter while working at Gamers.
Princess Di Gi Charat came from the planet Di Gi Charat given only a cat cap and an outfit to disguise herself.
Unfortunately she came with no money, only her guardian Gema and friend Petite Charat. Luckily the three stumbled upon a manager of the store Gamers, who offered them a home if they worked at the store.
However Di Gi Charat is a selfish young girl who wishes of becoming a star.
24. Dragon Half
Mink—the daughter of a dragon and a retired dragonslaying knight—sets out on a journey to get tickets for a concert held by Dick Saucer, world-famous teen idol and dragon hunter.
Meanwhile, the corrupt king of the land is trying to take her hostage to get at her mother, and his magic-using daughter seeks to foil Mink’s quest out of sheer spite.
23. Shakugan no Shana Movie Special
The world has become a slaughtering ground for the Crimson Denizens, mysterious beings from a parallel universe who thrive on the life energy of humans.
These merciless murderers only leave behind scant remainders of souls called “Torches,” which are mere residues that will eventually be destroyed, along with the very fact of the victims’ existence from the minds of the living.
In an ambitious endeavor to put an end to this invisible, hungry massacre, warriors called Flame Hazes relentlessly fight these monsters.
One fateful day, Yuuji Sakai ceases to be a regular high schooler—he becomes trapped in a crevice of time and is suddenly attacked by a Denizen.
Coming to his rescue just in the nick of time is a nameless hunter who seems no different from an ordinary young girl except for her blazing eyes and burning crimson hair.
However, before Yuuji can learn anything more about his situation, he discovers that he has already been reduced to a Torch—merely a scrap of memory waiting to be extinguished.
22. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Ni!
Goofball Yoshii’s still leading his crew in Avatar battles against the brainier students in school, but the girls in Class F have grown way less concerned with improving their status on campus.
Instead of moving up in the world, the girls are more interested in getting closer to the guys in the gang!
Of course, some of the boys are totally oblivious to the romantic intentions of their female friends.
That’s to be expected in a group of dim-wits and misfits. Nonetheless, the femmes of Class F aren’t giving up anytime soon. Because when love is on the line, even the biggest underachievers can find motivation – even if they can’t spell it!
21. Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya
A parody series featuring the entire cast of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in a smaller form factor.
Among the changes are: Yuki plays eroge, Haruhi is even more obnoxiuous and loud, Mikuru is even more emotional and Koizumi harbors a deep love for Kyon. Kyon, on the other hand, is generally the same as ever.
20. Shakugan no Shana II Specials
The world has become a slaughtering ground for the Crimson Denizens, mysterious beings from a parallel universe who thrive on the life energy of humans.
These merciless murderers only leave behind scant remainders of souls called “Torches,” which are mere residues that will eventually be destroyed, along with the very fact of the victims’ existence from the minds of the living.
In an ambitious endeavor to put an end to this invisible, hungry massacre, warriors called Flame Hazes relentlessly fight these monsters.
One fateful day, Yuuji Sakai ceases to be a regular high schooler—he becomes trapped in a crevice of time and is suddenly attacked by a Denizen.
Coming to his rescue just in the nick of time is a nameless hunter who seems no different from an ordinary young girl except for her blazing eyes and burning crimson hair.
However, before Yuuji can learn anything more about his situation, he discovers that he has already been reduced to a Torch—merely a scrap of memory waiting to be extinguished.
19. Maria Holic Alive
When Kanako Miyamae transferred to a new all-girls school, she hoped to find true love.
What she found instead was the beautiful Mariya Shidou, a charming classmate Kanako met on her first day.
But Mariya has one flaw: she is actually a cross-dressing boy!
After discovering Mariya’s secret and becoming stuck with him as her roommate, Kanako’s life has become a series of misfortunes.
All she wants is to find the girl of her dreams, which is hard to do with the meddling of the sadistic Mariya and his sharp-tongued maid Matsurika Shinouji.
Maria†Holic Alive continues the story of Kanako as she deals with being Mariya’s roommate and aims to find true love, while enduring high school itself.
18. Sora no Otoshimono Forte
Sakurai Tomoki has settled into his life with the two angeloids, Ikaros and Nymph, and is enjoying himself immensely. However, he keeps having weird dreams and asks all of his friends to help him investigate the cause.
Nymph conjures up a device that enables people, but not angeloids, to enter other people’s dreams.
The device malfunctions at first but eventually they get to what was supposed to be Tomoki’s dream but discover that something is very wrong with it.
Later, a meteor comes crashing down from the skies at the site of the large cherry blossom tree where Tomoki first discovered Ikaros.
An extremely well endowed blonde angeloid with a huge sword emerges from the meteor and sets off in search of Tomoki!
17. Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
It’s a gorgeous, spacious mansion, and four handsome, fifteen-year-old friends are allowed to live in it for free!
There’s only one condition—that within three years the guys must transform the owner’s wallflower niece into a lady befitting the palace in which they all live! How hard can it be?
Enter Sunako Nakahara, the agoraphobic, horror-movie-loving, pockmark-faced, frizzy-haired, fashion-illiterate recluse who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive.
This project is going to take more than our four heroes ever expected: it needs a miracle!
16. Shakugan no Shana S Specials
The world has become a slaughtering ground for the Crimson Denizens, mysterious beings from a parallel universe who thrive on the life energy of humans.
These merciless murderers only leave behind scant remainders of souls called “Torches,” which are mere residues that will eventually be destroyed, along with the very fact of the victims’ existence from the minds of the living.
In an ambitious endeavor to put an end to this invisible, hungry massacre, warriors called Flame Hazes relentlessly fight these monsters.
One fateful day, Yuuji Sakai ceases to be a regular high schooler—he becomes trapped in a crevice of time and is suddenly attacked by a Denizen.
Coming to his rescue just in the nick of time is a nameless hunter who seems no different from an ordinary young girl except for her blazing eyes and burning crimson hair.
However, before Yuuji can learn anything more about his situation, he discovers that he has already been reduced to a Torch—merely a scrap of memory waiting to be extinguished.
15. Sora no Otoshimono
Ever since he was a child, Tomoki Sakurai has always woke up with tears after a dream of an angel.
His childhood friend Sohara Mitsuki worries about this and decides to seek the help of Eishirou Sugata, an eccentric sky maniac.
He concludes that Tomoki’s dream is undoubtedly connected to what is known as the New World, a floating anomaly that scientists have failed to understand.
Recruiting the New World Discovery Club’s first members, Eishirou schedules a time to meet up in order to observe the mystery in the sky.
That day, Tomoki’s peaceful life is changed forever when a strange girl falls from the sky and begins to call him master.
Sora no Otoshimono follows the daily activities of the New World Discovery Club as they begin to learn more about the Angeloids that have arrived on Earth.
14. Hetalia: World Series
The third and fourth seasons of the Hetalia Axis Powers anime.
A continuation of the first 2 seasons under a new name, still adapting the online webcomics drawn by Himaruya Hidekaz.
Based on a popular web-released manga series by Hidekazu Himaruya, this has been described as a “cynical gag” story set in Europe in the years between WW1 and WW2 (1915-1939), using exaggerated caricatures of the different nationalities as portrayed by a gaggle of bishōnen.
For example, the Italia Veneziano character is into pasta and women.
The Deutsche (German) bishi loves potatoes and sausages, and Nippon is an otaku boy.
Installments of the manga have jumped back and forth in setting from the ancient times to modern-day geopolitics.
The manga’s title comes the Japanese words for “useless” (hetare) and Italy (Italia).
13. One Piece: Straw Hat Theater
Straw Hat Theater is made up of five shorts that aired alongside One Piece episodes 279 through 283 in October 2006.
They are based on Oda Eiichiro’s side comics that were drawn when he was given three sheets of blank paper by his editor and told to draw anything.
The first short is about Chopper Man infiltrating the lair of the evil Dr. Usodabada. The second short is a news report on what food was like for the Straw Hats before Sanji joined the crew.
The third short investigates the hypothetical situation of “if the Straw Hat Pirates were Obahan, who would be the strongest?” The fourth short is about the bosses of the Luffione, Zorocia, and Sanjino families fighting for control.
In the fifth short, all of the Straw Hats are carefree monsters.
12. Baka and Test
The story centers around a boy named Akihisa Yoshii, the titular baka (idiot) of the story.
He attends Fumizuki Academy in Japan, a school where the staff rigidly divides the students based on the results of their academic scores.
11. Lucky Star
Lucky☆Star follows the daily lives of four cute high school girls—Konata Izumi, the lazy otaku; the Hiiragi twins, Tsukasa and Kagami (sugar and spice, respectively); and the smart and well-mannered Miyuki Takara.
As they go about their lives at school and beyond, they develop their eccentric and lively friendship and making humorous observations about the world around them.
Be it Japanese tradition, the intricacies of otaku culture, academics, or the correct way of preparing and eating various foods—no subject is safe from their musings
10. Adventures of Mini-Goddess
A large collection consisting of the adventures of the Goddesses featured in the anime and manga series Ah My Goddess.
Parodies of other works, and a large number of jokes pervade this series of shorts in which the Goddesses torture and hang out with their friend Gan the rat.
9. Hetalia: Axis Powers
What if nations were people? What traits would they have? What would this mean for historical events?
Hetalia Axis Powers takes these questions and runs with them, personifying countries into characters.
The show takes a comedic and light approach to politics and historical events while educating the viewer.
Taking place primarily during the events of World War I and World War II, the story focuses on the Axis Powers and occasionally throws the spotlight onto the tumultuous relationship between the Allied Forces.
The Axis Powers feature the titular character North Italy, who is clumsy, carefree and loves pasta; Germany, who is very serious but easily flustered; and Japan, who is stoic but has bizarre interests.
8. Shakugan no Shana Specials
The world has become a slaughtering ground for the Crimson Denizens, mysterious beings from a parallel universe who thrive on the life energy of humans.
These merciless murderers only leave behind scant remainders of souls called “Torches,” which are mere residues that will eventually be destroyed, along with the very fact of the victims’ existence from the minds of the living.
In an ambitious endeavor to put an end to this invisible, hungry massacre, warriors called Flame Hazes relentlessly fight these monsters.
One fateful day, Yuuji Sakai ceases to be a regular high schooler—he becomes trapped in a crevice of time and is suddenly attacked by a Denizen.
Coming to his rescue just in the nick of time is a nameless hunter who seems no different from an ordinary young girl except for her blazing eyes and burning crimson hair.
However, before Yuuji can learn anything more about his situation, he discovers that he has already been reduced to a Torch—merely a scrap of memory waiting to be extinguished.
7. Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
Fumizuki Academy isn’t a typical Japanese high school. This unique institution has implemented a new and innovative system to sort its students.
At the end of their freshman year, students take a test that divides up the student body. The highest scorers are placed into A class, all the way down until F class, for the lowest of the low.
Unfortunately for Akihisa Yoshii, his supposedly “great” intellect wasn’t quite enough for such a test, and he’s now stuck at the bottom of F class.
Naturally, F class has the worst facilities: not only rotten tatami mats and broken tables, but also outdated equipment and worn out furniture.
On the bright side, his friend Yuuji Sakamoto is in the same class, and to everyone’s surprise, the genius girl Mizuki Himeji has also ended up in the same class due to an unforeseen fever on the day of the test.
6. Sword Art Online: Sword Art Offline
Sword Art Offline was a bonus series that recapped the events of the anime through the form of a talk show run by the show’s characters.
In between each segment, Yui would take over and host a segment called “Sword Art Trivia,” which involved discussion of different factoids about the SAO universe
5. Isekai Quartet
Despite completing all the tasks given to them, Ainz Ooal Gown, Tanya Degurechaff, Kazuma Satou, Subaru Natsuki, and the other members of Class 2 are surprised to find out that their role as students is far from over.
With no means of returning home, the class of eccentric personalities is still mysteriously stuck in the unfamiliar world.
Although, as they are becoming quite fond of each other, spending more time together does not sound that bad.
With the unexpected arrival of new transfer students, the comedic antics of our beloved characters continue to grow.
Thus, their bizarre yet nonchalant school life continues.
4. Accel World Specials
As many of you know, Accel World is nicely animated and has a huge variation of colours and drawstiles gathered within it (good visible when watching in HD). The 2 Accel World EX episodes were made the same way.
However, Accel World Specials is drawn in a way that you would expect to find in an American cartoonserie for people aged between 4 and 6. It’s completely ruines the artwork reputation the original Accel World series has.
Second, the storyline. Except for the characters and some basics from the Accel World series, it has nearly nothing to do with the original series. these ‘Accel World Specials’ follow a complete different storyline, and to my opinion it’s also a very dumb storyline.
Especially someone who just finished watching Accel World I’d strongly recommend NOT to watch Accel World Specials. It will completely ruin your idea of the Accel World Universe.
3. Toradora SOS!
After watching the series I had to see the OVA’s especially when I found out these dealt with food.
Let me say this first off.. To me.. this was almost better than the series.
I thought the series lacked the comedy everyone had said it had.. but to me.. these four OVA’s completely made up for it.
All of the episodes are about 5 minutes long and they honestly move very quickly.
The characters are all in chibi form.. plus the girls have animal ears and tails added lol… so.. the art is pretty cute.. and makes you laugh already..except Kushieda-chan has a flower on her head.. lol.. I didnt understand it either.. but it made it that much more fun..
The episodes talk about cuisine.. and that is basically ALL they are about but.. honestly they are very very informative.
There is alot of information in each one.. Surprisingly.. Taiga-chan’s response to every food she tastes was enough to leave me laughing even thinking about it
2. Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden
Welcome to the Hidden Leaf Village. The village where Uzumaki Naruto, star of the TV show “Naruto” makes his home. Every day, countless powerful ninjas carry out missions and train to hone their skills.
Our main character is one of these powerful ninjas…but it’s not Naruto! It’s the ninja who can’t use ninjutsu, Rock Lee! In spite of his handicap, Lee has big dreams.
He works hard every day to perfect his hand-to-hand combat skills and become a splendid ninja! And to achieve his dream, he puts in more effort than anyone else.
Under the hot-blooded tutelage of his teacher Guy, he works alongside his teammates Tenten and Neji. Watch the Beautiful Green Beast Rock Lee train, go on missions, and have all sorts of adventures!
1. Himouto! Umaru-chan
Umaru Doma is a model student who has a hidden side: when she gets home each day, she puts on her hamster hoodie and turns into a sluggish otaku fond of junk food.
As Umaru continues these daily antics, the friendship between her and her classmates—Nana Ebina, Kirie Motoba, and Sylphinford Tachibana—deepens, and more and more interesting events begin to unfold.
Of course, these events give rise to numerous questions. What did Nana ask of Umaru’s brother Taihei?
Who is the mysterious girl with the diamond hairpin?
And most important of all: why does this girl seem to know Umaru? These questions and more will be answered in Himouto! Umaru-chan R!
