A few shows not yet mentioned:
Less comedic:
House of Five Leaves - unemployed ronin joins a band of petty criminals
Bakeneko/
Mononoke - tales about an itinerant medicine seller who also fights demons
Bartender - various patrons seek emotional healing in a Ginza bar
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 - a woman aids two kids trying to return home after an earthquake
Saiunkoku Monogatari - a young woman tries to build a career as an imperial official in a land similar to T'ang China
Planetes - lives of some space trash collectors working aboard a space station
More comedic:
Hataraki Man - a female editor tries to build a career at a Japanese magazine
Oh! Edo Rocket - fireworks, aliens, and political repression in 1843 Edo
REC - a young woman takes up residence with a man she just met after her apartment burns to the ground
Kuragehime - five 30-ish female otaku find their comfortable life threatened
Welcome to the NHK! - a young woman tries to "cure" a male hikikomori
Nodame Cantabile - students at a collegiate music academy work to develop their talents and perhaps find love
One show that you should keep your eye on if the subs ever resume is
Hyouge Mono. Right now only five of the projected thirty-nine episodes are subbed, and no new episodes have been released since June.
Even the comedic stories focus on mature themes; they tend to satire rather than guffaws.
Many of these shows come from FujiTV's
noitaminA block.