Slice of Life Anime has been amongst the most popular anime genre for quite a while now. This is not something shocking or new. Millions of people throughout the globe show their liking towards this genre and that is one of the leading reasons for its growing popularity. These anime are light-hearted and give a dose of amusement to anyone who watches them. Many people tend to watch Slice of Life Anime when they are trying to recover from a tragic show or any sad anime they watched. Well, if you are here for the same, then we have prepared a list of the Top 10 Slice of Life Anime you should consider watching if you wish to feel light and give out a good laugh!
1. Wotakoi
Momose Narumi is in her late twenties. Despite being at a mature age, she is a die-hard fan of Yaoi. She recently changed jobs and there she is reunited with her middle school classmate, Nifuji Hirotaka, who knows about her little secret. Before switching jobs, she had broken up with her boyfriend and boasted about it to Hirotaka who had a crush on Narumi ever since they were young. He suggests her to date him and that calls in for the beginning of their awkward yet adorable romance.
2. Horimiya
Horimiya is a story of two opposite high-school students falling for one another. It was a pair no one could have foreseen coming together. Kyouko Hori is extremely popular at her school, while Izumi Miyamura is low-key and quiet. While Hori loves being in the public eye, Miyamura tends to stay away from any kind of attention. During school hours, both of them are regular students, however, the beginning of their love story takes place outside the school when one day Miyamura unknowingly visits Hori’s house.
3. Kaguya Sama
Inspired by ‘The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter’, Kaguya Sama: Love is War follows the battle of wits between Miyuki Shirogane, who is the Student Council’s President, and Kaguya Shinomiya who is the Vice-President. Both of them are top students who are admired by all. The story shows how the two of them are trying to make the other person confess their love first while secretly being drawn to one other. However, none of them is ready to admit their feelings for the other.
4. Clannad
Tomoya Okazaki hated his life. He is a third-year high-school student whose mother had passed away from a car accident at the time he was young. As a result of his mother’s death, his father resorted to unhealthy coping mechanisms like alcohol and gambling. Tomoya often fought with his father due to his addictive habits. He needed some colour in his dull life which is brought in by a girl he unexpectedly meets while walking to school one day.
5. My Ordinary Life
My ordinary life follows the life of three ordinary girls who make their life’s awkward moments a million times more embarrassing by doing something worse. Meanwhile, there’s a professor who also makes the life of a robot difficult. The only thing the robot wanted was to be normal; however, needless to say, it does not end that way. Normal is the last thing that would happen in the town where people experience salmon rain from the sky. You only have your friends whom you can count on but beware because they are just as weird!
6. K-ON
K-on is a light-hearted anime that showcases the story of a group of high school girls who get to know each other because of the Light Music Club. It features the five young girls’ aspirations to be musicians and how their journey towards their dreams starts from high school altogether.
7. Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Meiko Menma, a little girl, died in an accident when Jinta Yadomi and his friends were young. As a result, Jinta becomes distant from society. Oftentimes, he sees an older-looking ghost of Menma who used to tell him how she had a wish that needed to be fulfilled only then she’ll be able to get to the afterlife. At first, he thinks he’s hallucinating but later it turns out that the ghost was not just in his imagination. He gathers his friends, who were reluctant at first, to let Menma fulfill her forgotten wish and move on.
8. Barakamon
Seishuu Handa is a young, aspiring calligrapher who is severely talented. However, he is an arrogant narcissist. He once absolutely lost his cool when his award-winning piece was labelled ‘unoriginal’. As a punishment for his immature behavior, his father exiled him to an Island where life was very different from the luxury of typical city life. Handa thought he’d be going to a much more peaceful place away from people. However, the island was the total opposite of peaceful. Throughout the story, he learns so many things that he had never imagined he would.
9. Grand Blue
Iori Kitahara is about to start a new life on the Izu Peninsula. While preparing for college, he started living in a room which was above his uncle’s diving shop named ‘Grand Blue.’ However, it was not a regular room. He was shocked to meet the people of the local Diving Club there who were fully grown men with buff bodies. The funny thing about them was that they spent most of their time partying out, drinking beer, and stripping than actually diving. Kitahara tries to distance himself from them but gets swept up among them soon enough.
10. Hyouka
Houtarou Oreki is rather a quiet and uninterested high school student. He does not wish to waste energy on the ordinary life of a student and wishes to lead an extremely plain life. However, things do not go according to his plan and his boring life drastically turns around one day after receiving a letter from his older sister who was living overseas. He is introduced to a mystery that he was very much intrigued in solving along with some of his acquaintances.
