This has been a really good season for good, old-fashioned fun anime that's not too embarassing:
Space Dandy season 2
Picks up where the first left off: by continuing to increase in quality. The latest episode is about Dandy starting up a rock band with the commander-in-chief of an empire, except that both of them are really stupid and constantly fight over things like the name of the band or whether their first album will come with stickers or pennants. It feels like they're working without the restraint of being forced to appeal to the most common demographics in anime by a production committee, but at the same time these are talented enough animators that they know when to restrain themselves in order to make the ideas work and not just be about throwing lots of random things at the wall.
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
Lots of shoujo cliches subverted and lampooned in the name of comedy. The whole thing is just a lot of really goofy characters playing off of each other, and it's so well done that each episode is packed full of some truly hilarious moments, and it only gets better once all the characters have been introduced into the mix. It's good, clean fun and I can't recommend it enough.
Sabagebu!
Starts as a cute-girls-doing-cute-things show about an airsoft club, but it's so much more than that. This is a straight up comedy, going far beyond the bounds of what you would expect of what initially appears to be just another dull slice-of-life, by presenting a main character who is totally unhinged and unafraid to employ violence and betrayal in getting what she wants. In another show, an MC like that might now work, but in comedy, it's hilarious. She would basically be a villain in any other show. And there's lots of reference to Western stuff, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, and Star Wars.
Barakamon
Lots of fish-out-of-water comedy here, by taking a guy from the city and putting him a rural village populated by weirdos [except he's also a bit of weirdo himself]. It strikes a good balance between a lot of lighthearted comedy and heartfelt drama, without letting the drama become too heavy-handed or melodramatic. It's a more realistic show than the others and that definitely works in its favor, by being a breath of fresh air in an industry where everything tends to skew towards being over-the-top in one way or another, but that never gets in the way of the show being a lot of fun to watch.
Space Dandy and Barakamon are streaming on Funimation; Nozaki-kun and Sabagebu! are streaming on Crunchyroll.
