Gohan’s Kamen Rider-esque superhero getup gets much more time to shine in Dragon Ball Z’s anime than it did in the original manga. With Bulma’s help, Gohan suits up as the “Great Saiyaman” so that he can save people without revealing his identity as an ordinary high school student. His classmate Videl is suspicious of the masked warrior and quickly figures out who he is in Toriyama’s manga, but in the anime, Gohan manages to elude her suspicions for a few episodes longer. He saves a pterodactyl from a circus, crashes the set of a movie being made about him, gets blackmailed into going on a date with a girl he doesn’t like... sure, it isn’t normal Dragon Ball Z fare, but we could watch Gohan be a dorky teenager forever!

There’s nobody in the whole world who admires All Might as much as Deku does—he knows every factoid, has every piece of limited-edition merchandise, hangs onto the man’s every word, and can even imitate his distinctive smile! The manga version of the scene where Deku tries to make Sir Nighteye laugh just mentions that Deku has been working on replicating the smile since childhood, but the anime actually shows a side-splitting clip of him practicing in front of the mirror, slowly morphing his face into All Might’s heavily shaded Western superhero-style grin. We never knew we needed this in our lives, but now we can’t get enough of it.

That scene in Venice where Mista and Narancia beat the snot out of some random rude civilian because they think he’s a Stand user is an absurdist classic in its own right, but the anime version adds one tiny detail that makes it even better. Oldest member of the team and resident sourpuss Abbacchio wearily looks at his two teammates kicking a man in the street, takes a long sip of wine... and then immediately joins them in the next shot. That simple two-second-long gag makes an already funny moment simply sublime!

Azumanga Daioh is based on a four-panel gag manga, which is a format that doesn’t really excel at long jokes that rely on buildup and suspense. So, while Osaka accidentally waking Yukari-sensei up with a knife instead of a frying pan is somewhat funny in the manga, it’s exponentially more hilarious in the anime because it’s given enough time to play out like a Hitchcockian scare. The slow reveal of the knife and the endless jump cuts between Osaka and the horrified Yukari-sensei are anime-only additions that cement this moment as one of the funniest we’ve ever seen!

This reimagined version of Osamu Tezuka’s 1969 manga is so different from the original that almost everything except for the basic plot structure and characters can be considered anime-only, but episode 19 is a completely original side-story that pays homage to the manga’s comedic roots without ruining the new dramatic plotline. Hyakkimaru accidentally gets engaged to a girl who lives in a town where everyone is cursed to say the opposite of what they mean, and Dororo desperately tries to fix the situation before it’s too late. Hyakkimaru’s social awkwardness and Dororo’s flustered bravado get played to their full comedic potential here, which is a nice reprieve before the final five episodes of suffering that come afterward.