Do you want to see yourself when you’re watching an Anime? This is what this topic is about! By reading the following paragraphs, you’ll know some of the best slice of life shows ever created based on Anime fans’ popularity (IMDb).

Best Slice of Life Shows:

Acchi Kocchi

The serious-minded, dense, yet kind at heart, Io Otonashi and the pure-hearted Tsumiki Miniwa who is sharp and sarcastic on the outside while loving on the inside feel like they never want to be parted, but haven’t become a couple yet. They are clearly more than friends but also less than lovers, they develop quite an awkward quasi-romance during the story.

Flying Witch

The story is about a young witch from Yokohama named Makoto, who moves to Hirosaki to live with relatives as part of her training. What follows is Makoto’s daily life as she gets used to her new surroundings. Her relative and the new friends she made there were introduced to the customs and peculiarities of witchcraft.

Honobono Log

Some of us are fortunate to have a partner to confide in on our bad days. Even in the most devastating times, we can count on our comrades to support us. Others are incredibly lucky to have a special someone they can just randomly kiss. Whatever the situation, there is always a close ally to help us out. Honobono Log features the best and worst of couples and families, appealing to romantic comedy lovers with various relatable situations.

Hyouka

At the behest of his older sister, student Hotaro Oreki joins the Classical Literature Club of Kamiyama High School to prevent its abolition, joined by his colleagues Eru Chitanda, Satoshi Fukube and Mayaka Ibara. The story takes place in Kamiyama Town, a fictional town in Gifu Prefecture that the author based on his actual hometown of Takayama, also in Gifu. Kamiyama’s fictional high school is based on real-life Hida High School. They begin to solve various mysteries, both to help their club and at Eru’s request. This is one of the best slice of life shows ever created.

Kimi to Boku

The story revolves around four teenage boys – cute twins Yūta and Yūki Asaba, effeminate Shun Matsuoka, and class leader Kaname Tsukahara – who have known each other from early childhood. Although they aren’t necessarily good or bad friends, they still attend high school. Half-Japanese transfer student Chizuru Tachibana joins the circle of friends in this comedy about everyday teenage life.

March Comes in Like a Lion

The story is set in Tokyo, following the daily life of 17-year-old shōgi player, Rei. Umino based the set for March Comes In like a Lion on research she herself conducted, when she was already familiar with the setting from her previous work, Honey and Clover. Rei lives alone, his parents and little sister died in an accident, he is separated from his foster family and has almost no friends. Among his acquaintances is a family made up of three sisters – Akari, Hinata and Momo Kawamoto – who also raise several cats. As the story progresses, Rei manages his maturation as a player and as a person, while also developing his relationships with others, especially the Kawamoto sisters.

My Roommate Is a Cat

My Roommate Is a Cat is a Japanese manga series written by Minatsuki and illustrated by Asu Futatsuya, serialized online via Flex Comix’s Comic Polaris website since June 2015. It has been compiled into seven tankōbon volumes. An adaptation of a television series hosted by Zero-G airing from January 9 to March 27, 2019.

Poco’s Udon World

The series revolves around the complicated but normal life of Souta Tawara, a young web designer from Tokyo who decides to return to his hometown of Kagawa after his father’s death and take a break from the city. On his return, he was sad to learn that the family restaurant had gone bankrupt during his absence; While remembering his childhood, Souta enters the closed restaurant and discovers a little boy with blond hair in rags sleeping in a cooking pot. Then Souta realizes that this child is a shapeshifter tanuki who has inhabited Kagawa for many years.

Polar Bear’s Cafe

It revolves around the daily life of a group of animals mingling with humans in a cafe run by a polar bear. An animated adaptation of Studio Pierrot aired in Japan between April 2012 and March 2013. It was streamed on Japanese TV on Crunchyroll as Polar Bear Cafe to worldwide audiences.

Senryuu Girl

The story focuses on the relationship between Nanako Yukishiro, a girl who only communicates through senryū written on tanzaku, & Eiji Busujima, a former offender who tries to write his own senryū. The story follows their different perspectives on daily life through their senryu. Most of the chapters take the form of a collection of yonkomas with a few more traditional pages added; these tell the story of the chapter when read in order.

Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless

Tanaka-kun is Always Listless is a Japanese slice of life & comedic web shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Nozomi Uda. It was published by Square Enix, being serially on the Gangan Online website from July 2013 to July 2019. Thirteen volumes were released in September 2019. An animated adaptation of Silver Link aired from April 9 to July 2019. June 25, 2016.

The Great Passage

Mitsuya Majime is an unsuccessful salesperson. But his love of reading and dedication, along with a postgraduate degree in linguistics, caught the eyes of Masashi Nishioka and Kouhei Araki, dictionary editors looking for a replacement for Araki himself. even as his wife is ill and he would like to spend more time at her bedside.

Tsuritama

Yuki Sanada is a high school student who lives with his grandmother Kaito, a woman whose career requires frequent moves which prevents the boy from forming true friendships, let alone the social skills necessary to initiate them. Whenever he gets anxious, he freezes in place, unable to breathe and feels like he’s drowning. During these episodes, he dons a distinctly demonic expression – so powerful with a seemingly latent rage that others are suspicious of him when he appears.

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