[Top 10] Best Slice of Life Anime – Recommended Watch List

So, even though Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle highschooler who loves housework, his intimidating expression gets him labeled as a delinquent more often than not. However, there is also Taiga Aisaka, who is small and precious-looking, but she’s loud, feisty, and has a wooden katana.

However, as it turns out, Taiga has a crush on Ryuuji’s best friend – Yuusaku Kitamura, who is also vice president. But wait, there’s more! Ryuuji has a crush on Minori Kushieda, who is also Taiga’s best friend! Together, the two are on a whacky adventure to help one another with their crushes!

The story of Clannad goes something like this: Tomoya Okazaki is a boy who finds life dull and boring. With his best friend, he plans to cut school as often as possible and waste his days away. However, one day he meets a strange girl who exclaims “Anpan!” near him. After a bit, he learns her name’s Nagisa Furukawa, and she goes to the same school as him.

Now, Naiga was held back a year or two, due to a severe illness, and has dreams of reviving the school’s drama club. Eventually, Okazaki thinks “why not?” and decides to help her, and he grows closer with her and a bunch of other girls, he realizes that maybe life isn’t so boring after all.

Guess what? Our main character, Shigeo “Mob” Kageyma has psychic powers! However, he decides early on to only use these powers to impress crush, Tsubomi. She ends up bored with the same tricks, though, and it doesn’t do much for him anymore.

Kageyma ends up enlisting under Arataka Reigen, who claims to also be a psychic like Kageyma is. Soon enough, exorcising demons becomes part of Kageyma’s monotonous life. His psychic energy is barely the tip of the iceberg, and there is so much more for him to learn.

Houtarou Oreki is forced to sign up for the Clsasics Club at school, because his sister has pestered him to do so for a while now. However, he realizes just how in over his head he is when he learns about the deep-rooted history of this club. Now, he must conduct an investigation with a bunch of other girls into this 45-year-old mystery, and much, much more!

This anime was actually based off a light novel series, called Koten-bu, and tells a story of how life can be full of tiny mysteries that you may never know of unless you go looking for it.

This one’s a little less “average life” anime than most slice-of-life anime. Something called The Great War has finally come to an end after years of fighting, and caught up in the fighting was a young girl named Violet Evergarden, who was raised for the sole purpose of slaughtering her enemies.

Now, though, she has no memories of who she was, and learns of the work of “Auto Memory Dolls.” These dolls write down people’s thoughts, memories and feelings onto paper for them, and Violet decides to work as one herself. Now, she’ll reshape her clients’ lives, take her on great adventures, and perhaps even teach her who she really is. Perhaps she’ll finally learn what her purpose in life is after all.

Yui Hirasawa signs up for the Light Music Club, letting her imagination run wild. However, there is one slight problem – Yui actually has no idea how to play any instrument.

However, the other members (Rui, Mio, and Tsumgi) all convince Yui to stay and to learn how to play an instrument in order to keep the Light Music Club from disbanding. Together, they try to figure out how to teach Yui the guitar, keep up with their own life, and more – and they’re all hoping that they can do so in time for the Light Music Club’s debut.

Arata Kaizaki is a hopeless loser. He’s 27 years old and can’t keep a stable job, and overall society dismisses him as worthless, and to be honest, he is feeling rather worthless himself. However, one day Ryou Yoaka from the ReLife Research Institute approaches him, telling him he can change his life for the better with the help of one pill.

Arata, of course, takes the pill, but he ends up waking up as a 17 year old! Now, he must try to survive in a world of high school that’s changed in 10 years, avoid repeating his past mistakes, and learn more about his new classmates while he’s at it.

One day, Kobayashi sets off to go work, only to see a weird girl with horns on her head who introduces herself as Tooru. As it turns out, Tooru had nowhere to go, and while Kobayashi was drunk one night, she offered Tooru a place to stay. But wait, there’s more, too – Tooru is actually a dragon!

Now, Miss Kobayashi has a dragon for a maid, and her abilities are certainly extraordinary, and serve for whacky antics. I haven’t watched this anime myself, but I’m actually pretty curious about it now.

Kokoro Connect is actually a lot like Your Name, which is pretty cool! But anyway, five students realize they belong in no club in particular, so they form the Student Cultural Society, or StuCS for short. However, one day, two of the members switch bodies with each other!

It’s not just them, either – everyone starts switching bodies with one another, and secrets will be revealed and could possibly even tear them apart!

Mushi is the most basic form of life – they exist without goals or purposes. They just live. They take on many forms in this world, but why do they exist? That’s the question that one of the Mushishi, Ginko, constantly ponders. After all, it could be the meaning of life itself.

I hope you all enjoyed this article! Did you guys like this list, and have you watched any of these anime? Let me know in the comments down below, but in the meantime, I’m Sara Ann, and I’ll see you in the next article!