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40. Yuushibu
https://anilist.co/anime/18677/I-Couldnt-Become-a-Hero-So-I-Reluctantly-Decided-to-Get-a-Job/

What do you do when you are training to be a hero but the demon lord is defeated? You start to manage a small shop. What do you do when the demon lord's son comes for a job? What if it's his daughter instead? Yuushibu is an ecchi comedy that is grounded by a surprisingly relatable lead in Raul and one of the most likable ecchi female deuteragonists in Fino. While the premise and setting are not very new, the show does a great job at showing how the world they live in operates. The anime also manages to give both of them various new experiences and lessons and their characters and outlook on things start to change. Ironically, the weakest part of this anime is probably the fan service.

39. The Ambition of Oda Nobuna
https://anilist.co/anime/11933/The-Ambition-of-Oda-Nobuna/

Out of all of the "genderswap" sengokus and various takes on the most famous warlord in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga... this is the best take on it. The anime is actually an isekai where the main guy, Sagara is teleported to the time period. But he's armed with knowledge from a videogame to help Oda Nobuna win her battles. Sagara (who I believe takes the role of Hideyoshi in the period) is a terrific male lead that is matched by variety the rest of the cast gives. Oda Nobuna herself is great. There is a nice balance in building up the character relationships, stories, and progressing the story.

38. Magi
https://anilist.co/anime/14513/Magi-The-Labyrinth-of-Magic/

Magi is an anime I didn't really like at first but the level of world building and character development mixed with the presentation of the show started to turn me. Magi features one of the best developed main casts in shounen. You explore various histories and motives for each of them. The characters work very well as a team, but the show is not afraid to split them up and let them have their own journey. The anime has strong mix of good action sequences, and a story that encompasses the varying state of the world they are building. Despite how much overall praise this anime has actually gotten I still think it's fairly underrated when you compare it to the hype shows like HxH and SDS get.

37. Konohana Kitan
https://anilist.co/anime/98506/KONOHANA-KITAN/

While on the surface it's an unassuming cgdct show, Konohana Kitan is an anime full of thoughtful storytelling and building those stories around the various people and creatures that pass through this place between worlds. The anime manages to both have a overall "atmospheric tone" and also have each episode have its own flavor that fits the mood of the story. The series is just very well put together.

36. Asobi Asobase
https://anilist.co/anime/101001/Asobi-Asobase--workshop-of-fun-/

As far as comedy goes Asobi Asobase might be the best physical humor show of the decade (well almost). It has some of the best facial expressions in anime as well. Just the set up and how events unfold due to how awful the girls are is pretty great. I like too how there is like this whole legend or whatever around the club because of everything that happens. The side characters are great too, like the teacher, hat gloomy girl in the occult club, and that fucking butler. This is much less cgdct and more like girls you probably don't want to be friends with doing slightly mean or awkward things.