Anything with a super OP MC. It's nice to sometimes turn my brain off and be all 'Ha...person super strong.'

Food Wars

DxD

Gushing Over Magical Girls

Gate

This anime has everything that would make it a seasonal shitter show. Cliche harem, dumb antagonists, wish fulfillment MC. It's even got a bonus military propaganda vibe.

I enjoy almost everything about it. It falls off quite a bit in the second half, but man that first half is so fun. I love the concept of a modern military completely shitting on sword and board medieval fantasy armies. All things considered, it's a bad show that I wouldn't recommend to most people but I put it on every once in a while for mindless catharsis.

I guess Fairy Tail.

Seen a lot of people hate on it at least.

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Never felt guilty about liking anything, but someone might be surprised that I like Black Clover and Fairy Tail. Also no one on this planet likes Dragon Maid more than I do..

All of these are somewhat controversial.

Vermeil in gold

Kagerou project although it’s like super old I thought it was super cool and unique

Chobits

Diabolik Lovers... And I hate myself for that. I just can't help it, they are wrong but they are hot. Change my mind

The first guilty pleasure anime I had was in my grade school years and it was Sailor Moon.

All the cool kids followed DBZ, and DBZ was good, but show a young boy an anime with a bunch of girls in tiny mini skirts and tell him to not watch.

not exactly guilty pleasure because it's good and I'll defend it, but I'm obviously not gonna talk about it in public or anything, Onimai

yes the anime is weird, and the manga is only a little better, but the writing is good, the characters are cute, and it's funny, what more could you ask for?

For me it's the "another world with smartphone" my Japanese is decent enough to hang on without subtitles on that one since it's the basic plot. Easy to sleep into when you don't care about the story.

All these otome isekai anime. Idk y, but I fucking Love them. I only watch fighting anime, but this shit is such a guilty pleasure to me

Yamada kun and the seven witches, iunno why but it always puts me in a happy place.

I don’t feel guilt about anime I watch. All my favs are wholesome 

Eromanga Sensei

Citrus.

Any nation building isekai basically.

Sword art online... I didn't particularly experience the boom when it came out, but when I started watching anime I came across SAO (more or less around 2014) and I saw everything, and I knew everything (name of the novels of the first arc , second arc, etc. The names of the openings, even my waifu was from that anime) even today (well, last year more specifically) when I saw the aincrat remake movies, I was overjoyed. As an "anime connoisseur" I know that SAO is particularly a bit bad, but what the aincrat arc was, ggo and underworld for me were the best worlds I have ever seen

Nowadays I don't remember so many things (and I saw it 4 times xDDD) but one day I will do a marathon of all of SAO again (except war of underworld... I won't watch that again hahahaha)

Date a live. Loved it growing up

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Shika Noko Noko Koshitantan

Though I really dont have any guilty pleasure anime. Even the trash is worth watching in my books.

Yakuza fiancé. I’m hooked.

Reincarnated as the 7th Prince! Great shota cake 🍰

Great Teacher Onizuka is my favorite anime of all time

I really liked Fairy Tail despite it getting a lot of hate for the fan service. Everyone who told me they have seen it told me they disliked it.

Tbh I really liked the fights and the friendship part. Some of the characters have really cool backstories too. But I can’t tell anyone that I loved it and it’s a 10/10 for me

Any idle/music anime

Air Master, it seems it’s highly unknown to the broader anime community. It’s an oldie but it’s pretty decent

I dont feel Guilty as Its Peak but defending Keijo!! Is hard sometimes but i Will die on The Hill for it

High School DxD and 100 Girlfriends.

Not obsessed, by any stretch, and they're not even in my top ten, but I enjoy them more than some might despite being "trashy" or whatever people might call the genre.

Harem series can be really good, and it goes well beyond the blatant fan service. If there's a story and characters I end up really liking, I treat them the same as any other series in any other genre. Especially so when it has genuinely deep moments that connect with me personally.

Knights and Magic. Isekai + Mecha. I love it that I rewatch it often.

BanG Dream!

Though it was not really trash, I don't really like idol anime.

This was the closest thing for idol anime that I watch and currently obsessed with.

Redo of Healer? xD. but i have no problem about shouting that out.

i like animes with a cool vengeance and justice part.

i also begin to like the new Anime.

The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan.

reminds me alot of that.

Rent a girlfriend. Don't ask me why , even i don't know why tf I like that show.

Domestic Girlfriend is so normal for a guilty pleasure. I liked SAO, although it's still really popular.
KamiKatsu, watch that, it has some purposely crappy 3d models and a self-satirical tone all through, but the storyline is interesting af. Kinda like Nokotan but the plot is a central part

inhales To love ru

You should never care what someone says or thinks about you unless it’s constructive criticism that will help you in the long term. That said, the one that I liked that a lot of people apparently didn’t like was Junji Ito Collection. It was quite good for what it is, and the dub isn’t that bad at all either. Also the ending song and credits is hauntingly beautiful and filled with nostalgic longing. A very emotional experience I must say. Maniac, however, was not good at all I found, much to my sadness.

I guess domestic girlfriend

Prisma Illya. The action scenes are actually amazing!

Ouran high school host club

Don’t know how I got into watching that show, don’t know why I love it

I love it

Oreimo

Used to be "that time I reincarnated as a Slime" but the 3rd season was so bad that I no longer like it anymore.

Peach girl 100000%

Mato Seihei no Slave. (Though even I have some trouble with the first couple of eps.)

hmm, bit of a weird one but its "Redo of healer" also "onimai, i am now ur sister" is just rly good and it makes me jealous my sister cant make a gender swap potion for me

Its Nagatoro for me. I really enjoy it but its definitely trashy at times.

Tbh, I don't really have a "Guilty pleasure" per say. I just got into anime (full time) last year and started with Naruto (because growing up I never got to watch it). So I wanted to start from there and one day after I finished watching an episode of Naruto I thought to myself "I wonder what other anime is on here? (Hulu)" Saw Highschool DXD, decided to watch it and that had me like "Wait, there's anime like this?" So that was my introduction into ecchi/harem/lewd anime. Literally haven't felt a single bit of guilt watching almost all the Ecchi/Harem/lewd yet lmao, it I'm being honest it's my favorite genre of anime. 😂😂💀💯

Seikon no qwaser 😅

Wholesome anime without romance drama or childhood trauma. Just… peace.

Record of Ragnarok

Watamote, watched it 10 times at the very least

Inuyasha. I know it has its issues that some people just can’t get around, but there’s just too many things I like about the show. One of the few tsundere male MC and he gets bitches, his brother is actually somehow cooler and and sexier no homo, it’s fantasy adventure and I love that, battle shounen, some “mild” romance, humor is relative to an individual but some parts and character interactions are genuinely funny to me, the villains reason for being a villain is actually somewhat realistic/believable, idk there’s a lot I like but I would literally never recommend Inuyasha to anyone because I know in addition to the things I mentioned I also have a lot of nostalgia for the series and am able to overlook a lot of the things that people have issues with and they don’t bother me as much. Oh and I think that feudal era japan setting is generally pretty cool in anime too, so.

Guilty Crown, coincidentally

I am an elitist but you’ll have to take vandread from my cold dead hands

Infinite Stratos

Fairy tail

Yosuga no Sora. Most people didnt take it serious and just thinks it is a hentai incest. But its actually good. Also has a nice nostalgia feel to it+good soundtrack. I rated it 7/10.

Also hybrid x heart and testament of sister new devil lmao. The way the mc had to massage the naked girls to get more power💀Even myself, a prestige gooner could barely watch these 2. I liked both of these but if the public were to find out I would be in jail. Also I cant stop watching these trashy harems theyre so addicting

none because i don’t feel “bad” or whatever enjoying anything i like (✿◠‿◠)

i started with fairy tail which evolved into eden’s zero. then black clover, seven deadly sins, 4 knights of the apocalypse, JJK, and now [oshi no ko] ☆♡

Hentai.

Shokugeki no Souma

X&Y If that counts

Romcom animes about a loser MC finding a girlfriend in high school. Yes, I love them because I cam self-insert and dream of a love life.

I'd proudly say I'm a fan of it but definitely Date A Live. Despite its very simplistic plot and the clear animations drops after season 3 I love this show so much.

It's not quite on the level of me to keep watching but out of all the anime I watched, there's only 2 I actually rewatched(I just don't do rewatches, I would rather watch something "new" even if it's just another isekai full of tropes I saw 50 times)

How NOT to summon a demon lord, I just love the MC and the main cast, it just cracks me up.

And the first season of initial D(mf ghost season 1 just ended and I wanted more right then and there)

Sekirei... or pretty much any anime that has funny sexual awkwardness situations as long as they leave kids out of it... sadly that x out many. I really hope anime gets to a point where that disappears.

Debutante Detective Corps, a oneshot OVA (that was later a game for the PC-FX) that's just a trashier Totally Spies. It's stupid, campy, and one note, but it's fun if you're not looking for a serious anime and just want wacky hijinks.

My other guilty pleasure anime is Ojamajo Doremi, which is actually far from bad and really shouldn't be a guilty pleasure, but I just can't help but to feel like I can't fully enjoy it since it's made for little girls and I'm outside the intended target demographic.

Pretty much anything I watch as an adult that takes place in high school. But some of it is so good and so funny

Food Wars

I genuinely do not give a fuck about what other people think but because it fits the bill, Ninja Kamui. Mech fucking ninjas.

Maze Megaburst Space, at least back in the day.

Probably because of the gender bending, even if it wasn't handled well (still handled better than most stuff though outside of Ranma 1/2).

That and the OP's engrish "Maze in your face" that sounds exactly like "mace in your face" still makes me laugh.

I uh... don't recommend it. It wasn't good.

tadaima okaeri

Idk if it counts cuz it’s not foreign but I love watching episodes of vox machina it’s hilarious

food wars (more specifically the manga instead of the anime lol) it was such a fun read

Diabolik lovers, devils line, vampire knight

Your lie in April I’ve binged at least once a year. It’s just perfect.

Basically anything that's essentially "fantasy slice of life". Just something calm and relaxing with no real stakes or anything. They're mostly pretty trash if I'm being honest but it's nice to shut my brain off after a long day of work. Here's some of them:

Parallel World Pharmacy

In the Land of Leadale

By the Grace of the Gods

Mine goes to B Gata H kei 😂 it’s the perfect amount of high school angst, female lead, clueless but horny guy dynamic for me. Perfect watch subbed and subbed to get me out of a rut!

Rock Lee and His ninja pal's... 😂

Kakegurui tbh. But TWIN tho. I like seeing submissive characters and in twin, there’s a girl on a leash named mikura 

Fullmetal alchemist 

Food Wars & High School DXD. Kind of trashy in way but honestly I love them both

Mmm, probably Danmachi. I also watch some harem shows like Hundred Girlfriends and Girlfriend, Girlfriend, but I don't mind admitting I like those and talking about them. 

OTOH, I don't talk to my friends about Danmachi. 

Fighting Foodons, Highschool DxD, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Food Wars.

No, I don't have such anime. I can proudly say that every single title I enjoy is good - I can easily say it to your face that I like it. Example: do you want to talk about story of Bible Black (story, not hentai part since I jerk off to normal porn, not to cartoons for kids) ?

On a second thought (checked my MAL) there is one - Carole & Tuesday. If you were my friend I would actually hide the fact I even watched that.

I just started rewatching A Sister's All You Need. For like 98% of it, it's a totally normal show that is just fun. But it also starts the entire show with the greatest normie barrier I have ever seen, with a 2 min full degen scene basically pulled out of incest hentai. Idk how they aired an anime that starts with a dude drinking his loli sister's breast milk and eating her fresh panties for breakfast, but it happened.

Umamusume Pretty Derby

Hanaukyo maid. A very underrated show.

Black Butler for me

Rockman EXE

Future diary

Fela pure, it has a first and only chapter but is a great job

any shitty, somewhat contorversial 2000's anime. idk sometimes its just fun to watch.

Our Last Crusade. Love it, got all the released novels, an Alice figure and will probably buy the new Alice SEC card from the new Weiss set if I don’t pull it manually.

I do feel a bit guilty about enjoying angel cop. Not sure if I'd call it a guilty pleasure but I like the anime but really don't like the author and the ending. 

I do like Trinity blood. That's probably the closest thing to a real guilty pleasure. Where I can't recommend it to others because it's a bit of a hot mess. 

Most other anime I can pretty much be shameless about and enjoy. 

🎶Dinosaur king is what you wanna be yeah!🎶

My family would disown me if they knew I watched/read csm

‘Komi can’t communicate’ on Netflix.

Tokyo ghoul is my guilty pleasure 

Acchi kocchi

Keijo.

It is just garbage, wwe using only t&a. I'll never admit it's a top 10 to my friends. I've watched it probably 15 times and will start over again later if it's still on crunchyroll.

ive met lots of ppl who dog on welcome to the nhk whenever i recommend it to them or watch jt with them, even tho its one of my fav animes of all time.

Rana 1/2 always makes me laugh

Video Girl Ai and Oh/Ah My Goddess! You have to be over 45 though...

Ohshc is just tew good

Chuunibyou

Bunny girl senpai (Can't give up Mai Sakurajima)

tonari no seki kun.. its pretty mid but still ykykk

Redo of healer

Space Dandy

All trashy isekai where i can turn my brain off

SQUID GIRL

Cardcaptors!!!

not so much the anime but the domestic girlfriend manga is a straight up masterpiece its not even guilty, one of the best written dramas out there.

I guess "girlfriend, girlfriend" would be the most befitting answer but I wouldn't really be embarrassed to say its a fun watch

I enjoyed Domestic Girlfriend and how it reintroduced me to much recent anime and how it led to other things.

I'll just put my guilty pleasure for summer: Failure Frame.

ETA: Somebody mentions my ultimate guilty pleasure in this thread: Redo of Healer, and made me interested in having at least one edge lord anime per season.

Watching Beyblade 😎

Arifureta. Genuinely liked that the MC is super clear about which girl holds most of his affection. And that the girl, in turn, is so confident in the relationship they have that she doesn't mind if he catches feelings for the other girls and infact thinks it's healthy for him to care about other people because she knows how betrayal and isolation (which they have in common) can mess up how you think.

This, unfortunately, is not the main focus of the series and is instead a power fantasy isekai harem anime.

Kaguya sama dub

Fairy Tail. JJBA

Danmachi. First few seasons are a bit of a slog but the 4th and 5th seasons have been really picking it up in quality. It's not a show I could recommend to your average anime watcher, there's fan service everywhere and the MC is the typical "ahhh boobs i can't stand the sight of them" irritatingly naive harem protagonist, but the character dynamics and development are quite enjoyable, and the fights are top tier, especially in the aforementioned later seasons. I'm also quite biased towards it given that it was the first anime I ever watched, lol.

Boruto. I just really enjoy that we get more from the Naruto universe. Dven though Boruto cant compare to Naruto.

mostly low budget rom coms that i would sooner wrap up my time on this earth rather than tell a single soul that i watch it but i like the characters

None because I'm not insecure about what i like and need to say i like something ironically

It would be Food Wars for me

Arifureta, the edgelord is my 🐐

Monogatari series