An index for Slice of Life Anime and Manga. See also the related genres Iyashikei and Schoolgirl Series, both of which often overlap with slice of life.
For tropes commonly used in these works, see Japanese Media Tropes.
- A Channel: Slice of high school girl life. Best summed up by the end credits.
- After the Rain (2014): Slice of life story of a highschool girl working a part-time job at a restaurant who likes the restaurant manager, who's divorced with a young son.
- Aggretsuko: Slice of office life starring an overworked and underappreciated red panda who vents her frustration by singing Death Metal karaoke.
- Ah... and Mm... Are All She Says: A young manga artist who has trouble speaking enters the world of erotic manga publishing, guided by an editor she moves in with.
- Ai Shite Night: Love Triangle slice of life with Rock 'n' Roll occasionally thrown in.
- Ai-Ren: Slice of life After the End.
- Akebi's Sailor Uniform: Slice of life about a girl who aims to make friends at her new middle school, despite how her Sailor Fuku makes her stand out from everyone else.
- Amanchu!: Slice of scuba diving life.
- Animal Crossing: The Movie details a girl moving into a village filled with funny animals. No villain, only minor conflicts, and no real overarching plot.
- ARIA: Slice of Venetian terraformed Mars life. With Scenery Porn. Lots and lots of Scenery Porn.
- Arrietty: Slice of life about a tiny daughter as she befriends a human and fight for her family's safety.
- Azumanga Daioh: Slices of the lives of six schoolgirls and two of their teachers. One of the most iconic examples in manga and anime, and it would become the Trope Codifier of the Schoolgirl Series, which is a closely related sub-genre.
- Baby and Me: Slice of big brother life.f
- Back Street Girls: Slice of life Black Comedy manga about three yakuza wakashus forced to become idols for their group.
- Barakamon: Slice of back country island life for a city calligrapher.
- BECK: Slice of high school (on the first part of the manga, and almost all of the anime) and rock band life (which makes up most of the manga from the halfway part, and became an Aborted Arc from the anime).
- Bamboo Blade: Slice of shinai-wielding life.
- Bananya: Concerning the secret lives of tiny cats disguised as bananas.
- Beauty and the Feast is an episodic story that follows Yakumo's and Yamato's daily lives, be it cooking and eating, baseball practice, or visiting friends and family.
- Binbou Shimai Monogatari: Slice of life with lots of Cherry Blossoms.
- biotop: Slice of life about an angel who is given the task to give wishes to 100 people, before Hilarity Ensues begin.
- Blue Flag: Slice of high school romance life where a group of teenagers deal with Unrequited Love and their last year of high school.
- Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight!: A Work Com about professional adult models, several of whom who also do martial arts.
- Breasts Are My Favorite Things in the World!: Slice of life about an archery club member who is obsessed with large breasts.
- Bunny Drop: Slice of parental life
- Café Kichijōji de: Slice of life about five Bishōnen waiters working in the titular cafe.
- Cahe Detective Club: Similar to above, but gender-flipped and it's a detective cafe.
- Candy☆Boy: Slice of life with hints of lesbian twincest.
- Car Graffiti JK: Slice of high school girls' car club life.
- Castle Town Dandelion: Slice of extremely Modest Royalty life with superpowers, under constant surveillance.
- A Centaur's Life: The daily life of a high school centaur girl.
- Cells NOT at Work!: A Macrophage cell tries to raise a bunch of Erythroblasts into full-fledged Red Blood Cells...but they refuse to grow up. Hilarity Ensues.
- Chibi Maruko-chan: The everyday life of a 9-year old girl, her family and her classmates in pre-Internet era Japan.
- Chibisan Date: A slice of peaceful life on an island.
- Chieri's Love is 8 Meters Tall: a slice of life about a 8 meter giantess going to Highschool.
- Chi's Sweet Home: Adorable kitty does adorable kitty things. Basically a kitty version of K-On!.
- CITY: A slice of life manga about the residents of a particular city.
- Coffee & Cat: Follows a high school student who failed to get into university and his cat that he literally cannot live without as they come to work at a coffee shop in Hakodate.
- Coji-Coji: Slice of life of fictional characters.
- Comic Girls: Follows a group of high-school aged manga artists who share a dorm together as they work hard to improve their skills
- Crayon Shin-chan: Arguably, a slice of a 5-year old boy's life, as he makes everyone's lives impossible. Hilarity Ensues!
- Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth: Slice of Parisian life
- Daily Lives of High School Boys: Slice of all-boys' high schooler life.
- Daisuki! BuBu ChaCha: The gentle adventures of a young preschooler learning about the world around him, supernatural themes notwithstanding.
- The Dangers in My Heart : Slice of life romantic comedy about two middle school students; a boy who holds back "murderous urges" (In actually, a socially awkward bookworm/Character Narrator with a Chuunibyou mindset) and a tall, clumsy girl with a huge appetite who works part-time as a model.
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Gakuen/Academy universe, originally created by the series author Gotoge Koyoharu as short segments at the end of each manga volume, transplanting the original cast into a modern world without any drama or fighting, just teens living their school lives and interacting with some wacky citizens. These shorts were adapted into slightly longer shorts for the anime adaptation, and eventually, a full spin-off manga was made by Natsuki Hokami.
- Den-noh Coil: Slice of tech-savvy, junior high-schooler life.
- Diamond Daydreams: Slice of Hokkaido life. Likely Piano's closest contender in terms of purity.
- Dinosaur Sanctuary follows the everyday work that goes on at an Extinct Animal Park as the zoo's staff takes care of its dinosaurs.
- Do It Yourself!!: Cute girls running a home improvement club in a near-futuristic setting.
- Doki Doki School Hours, excluding the out-of-place genre spoof episodes.
- Domestic Girlfriend: Slice of life of a young student who aspires to become a professional writer, and the romance that blossoms between him and his two stepsisters, one of whom is his teacher.
- Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro - Slice of life with a Loving Bully and BDSM implications.
- Doraemon: A slice-of-life cartoonish anime about a boy and his robot cat best friend from the future, although it does mix in sci-fi elements too.
- Dragon Ball Super: Slice of superpowered life at the beginning of the series, when you put aside Beerus' movements. The episodes in-between each story arc also follow this format, putting them into more mundane and light-hearted situations to flesh them out and show what their lives are like when they aren't defending the universe from outside threats.
- Dungeon Friends Forever: Fantasy slice of life in which an adventurer conquers a dungeon on a daily basis to hang out with the final boss, his childhood friend.
- The Elder Sister-like One: Slice of Lovecraftian-horror life about an unspeakable monster summoned as a big sister. Laundry ensues.
- The Emperor and I: Slice of life about a family who find an emperor penguin in their fridge.
- Endro~!: Slice of Life about four adventurers going to Adventurer School to learn how to stop the Demon Lord (again), and not doing a very good job of it.
- Eureka Seven starts out as a very mellow Slice of Giant Robot life anime. Around Episode 13 it starts picking up in action and darkness, and by Episode 25 it's turned into a nearly full-blown action series. This was intentional on the part of the creators, as they wanted to focus on what happens to characters before, during, and at the end of a war.
- Expressionless Face Girl And Emotional Face Boy: Slice of life about an abrasive high schoolboy trying to provoke an emotional response from an expressionless girl.
- Father and Son: Slice of life with a father and his son.
- A Fine and Bright Day: A slice of life of two stepsisters.
- Flower Girl in Dystopia: A post-apocalyptic slice of life about a girl living in a city full of non-humans.
- Flying Witch: Slice of a witch's life in a rural town.
- Free!: Slice of swim club life featuring a whole crowd of pretty boys.
- From Up on Poppy Hill: Although this is just one film, we can see the daily routine of the main character several times.
- Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu: Slice of high school life.
- Gakuen Babysitters: Slice of daycare life.
- Genshiken: Slice of otaku life.
- Gingitsune: Slice of life at a Shinto shrine.
- Girls' Last Tour: Slice of life following two girls after the collapse of civilization.
- Girls und Panzer: Slice of life on female students studying in Sensha-do (tank combat) schools.
- Gohan no Otomo: General slice of life about food, friendship, relationships, and life in general.
- Good Day to You, How About a Game?: Girls in a private Catholic academy bond over a mahjong mobile game, with some Deep-Immersion Gaming as their avatars do battle.
- Gourmet Girl Graffiti: Slice of life cooking and eating together.
- Grand Blue: Slice of life Seinen college diving club...with loads of drinking.
- Granny Girl Hinata-chan: Slice of life of a kindergartner who retains the memories, personality, and mannerisms from her past life as a grandmother.
- The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!: The former second-in-commands is put into Perpetual Poverty in a childlike form after a magical girl destroyed the Demon Realm and its ruler.
- Haibane Renmei: Slice of after-life (according to the most common interpretation of the series).
- Hana the Fox Girl: Slice of life with a little fox girl.
- Handsome Girl and Crossdressing Boy: Slice of life with a gender-nonconforming couple who are both new to romance.
- Happy Kanako’s Killer Life: An ex-Office Lady unwittingly joins an assassination agency and becoming very good at it.
- Hatarakanai Futari: Slice of life about two unemployed siblings.
- Hello, Melancholic!: Slice of life Yuri story about a Shrinking Violet joining a band.
- Hello! Sandybell: Slice of life about a girl growing up in Scotland with her Big Friendly Dog.
- Hidamari Sketch: Slice of art school life, high school edition.
- High School Ninja Girl, Otonashi-san: Slice of high school life with ninjas.
- Higurashi: When They Cry: Starts off as a slice of life before devolving into a psychological horror series. The OVAs tend to stick closer towards this genre.
- Himitsu no Hanazono: Slice of life about a girl who finds joy in tending to her mansion's garden. An anime adaptation of the novel The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
- Hinako Note: Slice of life about a shy girl who joins a theater club.
- Hino-san no Baka: Slice of life about Class President Koguma tries to convince her fellow classmate to stop skipping class, but has to do bizarre requests for her to win her compliance.
- Hitohira: Slice of high school drama club life.
- Hitomi-chan Is Shy with Strangers: Slice of high school life focusing on the cute interactions of a Tiny Guy, Huge Girl duo.
- Hitoribocchi no OO Seikatsu: Slice of middle school life as an extremely shy girl tries to make friends.
- Honey and Clover: Slice of art school life, college edition.
- Horimiya: A quiet teenage boy makes friend with a seemingly ordinary teenage girl, although being different when she's not in school.
- How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? Slice of life featuring high school girls (and a teacher) trying to stay in shape.
- How to Treat a Lady Knight Right: Fantasy Slice of Life starring a badass female knight unprepared for love confessions and other aspects of non-warrior life.
- Hyakko: Slice of Elaborate University High life.
- Hyakuen!: Slice of money-saving high school girls' life, with a dash of comedy and hint of ecchi.
- Hyakunichikan!!: A high school boy living alone has to take care of a family friend's young daughter for three months.
- I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying: Slice of life of a married couple where one of them is an Otaku.
- Is Kichijoji the Only Place to Live?: Slice of life about two sisters running an estate agency.
- IS: Otoko demo Onna demo Nai Sei: About the lives of intersex people and their everyday issues.
- I Think Our Son Is Gay (Uchi no Musuko wa Tabun Gay): Slice of life about a family whose eldest son is probably gay and really bad at hiding it.
- The Idolmaster - Slice of life with an Idol twist.
- If a Demon Lord Were to Get Married in the Countryside: Slice of life manga about a demon girl and an average elementary schoolteacher in a countryside.
- Inside Mari: Slice of life combined with a terrifying take on "Freaky Friday" Flip.
- Insomniacs After School: Slice of life about two teenagers with insomnia finding companionship with each other.
- Interviews with Monster Girls : Slice of life about a high school Biology teacher interacting with demi humans and learning more about them.
- In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki: Slice of life about a clan of female ninja-in-training all wanting to learn about men.
- In This Corner of the World: Slice of life about a young woman during World War II, at least until Harumi's death and Suzu losing her right hand. After that, the plot and tone become much more serious.
- iromonia: Slice of life about a blind girl lost in another city after being separated by her parents. But it is also famously known for its dark tone despite the light-hearted premise.
- Is the Order a Rabbit?: Slice of coffee shop waitressing life, set in an idyllic beautiful European town.
- It's My Life (Imomushi Narita): Slice of life in a fantasy setting involving a retired guard and an elf.
- Iwa Kakeru!: Sport Climbing Girls: Slice of life about a sports climbing team competing to become the best team in Japan.
- Jingai-san no Yome: Slice of life following a group of high school students being married to strange creatures.
- Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable follows the daily lives of Josuke and his friends in Morioh Town. Their very bizarre lives.
- Joshi Kausei: A silent slice of life following three high school girls, Momoko, Mayumi, and Shibumi.
- Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu: A slice of life following a couple adopting a cat at their pet. Based on Ito's experience in raising a cat of his own with his wife.
- Just Because!: Slice of high school life.
- Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition: A mangaka tries to keep his job a secret from his daughter.
- Kamichu!: Slice of divine life. Shinto-flavored, of course.
- Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama: A slice of divine life with a mixture of Shintoism and Christianity.
- Kanojo ni Naritai Kimi to Boku: A trans girl and her best friend starting high school.
- Kaasan Mom's Life (Mainichi Kaasan): Follows the life of a manga author raising two young children.
- Kids on the Slope: A slice of life manga set in 1966 where three high school kids find common ground with jazz while living in the 1960s years after the end of World War II.
- Kiki's Delivery Service compresses this trope into a movie, and quite successfully so.
- Kimagure Orange Road: Romantic Comedy Love Triangle slice of life with Psychic Powers
- Kimi ni Todoke: A slice of high school life.
- Kin Iro Mosaic: Slice of school life, this time with two cute British exchange students.
- Kirby: Right Back at Ya!: Half Kirby kicking ass, half slice of the townspeople's life under a corrupt and presumably illegitimate monarchy. Contains a lot of subtle satire and social commentary.
- Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl: Slice of Yuri life n°2, following two genius girls and a few others.
- Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House: Cooking slice of life about the daily life of a young caterer in a maiko house.
- Kocchi Muite Mikko: Slice of life about an elementary schoolgirl's life with her family and her friends.
- Kokoro Library: Slice of library-managing life.
- Komi Can't Communicate: Slice of life about a beautiful but socially awkward girl and her attempts to be more outgoing and make friends.
- Komori-san Can't Decline!: Slice of life about a girl that can't decline requests.
- K-On!: Slice of all-girl high-school rock band life.
- Konohana Kitan: Slice of life about fox girls working at a supernatural inn.
- Kurage no Shokudo: A slice of life about a runaway boy in a restaurant.
- Kuro: A slice of life with some horror elements about a girl and her cat.
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service: Slice of dead people's lives and of the people who talk to them.
- Laid-Back Camp: Slice of camping life.
- Lamune: Slice of seaside summer life.
- Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan: Slice of life manga about a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s trying to find stability in their life while working in a TV station hosting for a kids-themed show.
- Love Hina: Slice of life about a guy forced to live in an all-female apartment dorm.
- Love Is in the Bag: Slice of high school life involving a girl who turns into a bag.
- Lucky Star: Slice of life with a lot of Lampshade Hanging and references to Otaku culture.
- Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow: Many episodes are about Lucy May getting to know more about her neighbours, - the kind baker Jane, the friendly carpenter Jamling, and the old shepherd Larry. Some episodes focus on their families and what brought them to Australia too.
- Luminous Witches: A slice of life series about a group of singing Witches trying to improve morale during the Neuroi battles.
- Mahoraba: A slice of cute, romantic life.
- Magical Sempai: Slice of stage magic club life.
- The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious: Slice of life about an orphaned young boy being taken care of by his maid.
- Manabi Straight!: Slice of high school student council life 20 Minutes in the Future.
- Maple Town: Slice of life about a world filled with anthropomorphic cute talking animals. Mainly focusing on a talking cute talking rabbit and her daily life in town and school life.
- March Comes in Like a Lion: Slice of Life as a teenage professional shogi player.
- The Marshmallow Times: Slice of life of seven children running a journalism team.
- The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today
- Massugu ni Ikou: Slice of dog life, with some scenes about their owners as well.
- Midori No Makibao: Horse-racing! Buying back your mom! It doesn't get more slice of life than this!
- Minami-ke: Slice of three sisters' lives in an apartment. Every episode even begins with a statement asking the viewers not to expect anything more than that.
- Midnight Occult Civil Servants: Slife of life manga on Shinjuku city employees keeping an eye on the supernatural and mediating conflicts.
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Slice of life about a dragon serving as the maid of a woman who saved her life.
- Mitsuboshi Colors: Slice of life of three elementary girls playing around a park.
- Mokke: Slice of ghost-haunted life.
- Momokuri: Slice of life for a high school girl who stalks her own boyfriend, but in a cute way.
- Mono: Slice of life about five girls traveling across Japan while taking pictures.
- Mononoke Sharing: Slice of life about a high school student and the five yokai she shares an apartment with.
- Monster Musume: Slice of life Harem comedy about Cute Monster Girls.
- Mousou Telepathy: A Japanese webcomic about a mind reading girl and the guy who has a crush on her.
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun: A slice of life about a high schooler who's secretly a manga artist and his friends. Frequently parodies Shoujo manga tropes.
- Moyashimon: Slice of college life with a guy who can see microbes.
- Musuko ga Kawaikute Shikataganai Mazoku no Hahaoya: Slice of life of a demon trying her best to raise her infant son right.
- The Mute Girl and Her New Friend: Slice of life about a mute girl befriending a girl with telepathy when she transfers to a new school.
- My Boy: Slice of life about a 30-year-old woman's relationship with a 12-year-old boy.
- My Bride is a Mermaid: Slice of life detailing the relationship of a high school student and a mermaid.
- My Girlfriend is a T-Rex: Slice of cute dinosaur/human hybrids' life.
- My Husband Was Actually a Woman: An autobiographical webcomic about a cis woman whose spouse comes out as a trans woman. It was published in one book on October 13, 2020.
- My Lovely Ghost Kana: Slice of life and life after death.
- My Neighbor Totoro: Two girls move to a new place as they deal with the reality of their mother's sickness.
- My Roommate is a Cat: A reclusive novelist living with his new pet cat, slowly bringing him out of his shell.
- My Senpai Is Annoying: A grumpy office worker with a height complex deals with the ups and downs of her taller and more boisterous coworker.
- My Wife Has No Emotion: The daily life of a salaryman and the household robot who has become his common-law wife.
- Nana: Arguably one of the strongest and human series about two woman, a naive and bubbly woman and a rise-to-fame singer both named Nana who share an apartment together.
- Natsume's Book of Friends: Slice of life about a boy who can see spirits, some obligations left to him by his grandmother, and his Snarky Nonhuman Sidekick.
- Neighborhood Story: Slice of eccentric art school life.
- Nichijou: Slice of ordinary life. Except it's anything but ordinary.
- Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy: A mangaka samples her favorite restaurants in Tokyo. Lots of Food Porn.
- Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary: The daily lives of high school staff and students in a world where everyone has weird mutations or powers. Imagine the X-Men Academy without the superhero stuff, and there are no Muggles.
- Nodame Cantabile: Slice of music school life.
- No Matter What You Say, Furi-san is Scary: Slice of life romance comedy where an alleged deliquent falls for the main character.
- Non Non Biyori: Slice of country life focusing on four girls in a small town.
- Nyanko Days: Slice of life story centered around high school girls with their cats.
- O Maidens in Your Savage Season: Slice of life/coming-of-age story about a group of girls going through the awkward stages of adulthood.
- Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God: Showcasing the lives of Ancient Egyptian gods, having fun and being in all sorts of shenanigans.
- Onee-chan Biyori: A slice-of-life schoolgirl story about two sisters in Kansai region.
- Only Yesterday: A young woman takes a vacation in the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood. The atmosphere is very low-key and focuses on ordinary, everyday events.
- Otasuke Miko Miko-chan: Slice of life of a gender-confused teenager who is also a Magical Girl.
- Oyako Club: The series is about the daily lives of two aliens and a human family.
- Pan de Peace!: A slice of life story about four girls, who have one thing they like in common: bread.
- Pani Poni Dash!: A slice of life depicting a class of high schoolers, but taken to ridiculous extremes and exaggerations.
- Paradise Kiss: Slice of average teenager life meets slice of oddball fashion design student life.
- Patlabor: Slice of Humongous Mecha pilot life.
- Mobile Police Patlabor: The Early Days: Mostly follows the Labor crews getting into mischief while waiting for the Red Alert to sound.
- Patlabor: The TV Series: Again, follows the Labor crews during their standby and off-duty lives just as much as during action.
- Perfect World - A manga serial about an interior designer starting a relationship with her former high school senpai, an architect with a spinal cord injury.
- Persona 4: The Golden Animation: 8 of 12 episodes have high school friends hanging out in their small rural town.
- Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation: Slice of school life centered around the mega-popular video game of the same name. Then mid-season Genre Shift hits around Episode 7, at which point it becomes an action series.
- Piano: Slice of Slice of Life life. Perhaps the purest anime-example of this trope one can find.
- Planetes: Slice of astronaut life.
- Please Go Home, Akutsu-san!: Slice of life about a high school girl frequenting a teenage boy's apartment room.
- Plica: Slice of Japanese lesbian life.
- Pokémon Concierge: Slice of life show set in the wider Pokemon-verse where a woman named Haru is recruited to work in an island resort and see to the needs of the customers and the pokemon.
- Private Actress: Slice of life centered on an high school-aged actress who works on helping others keep up with their own lives.
- Ramen Fighter Miki: A slice of a group of Burger Fools in a shopping district that practice Mundane Made Awesome life.
- Rain's Head: A slice of life about a beast girl who is suffering from a terminal illness and only has three years to live.
- Real Drive: Slice of cyborg life set on a tropical island, inspired by the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex universe.
- Ro-Kyu-Bu!: An inspiring slice of life story about a teenage basketball player roped into training a group of gradeschool girls in basketball.
- A Room For Two: Two girls with very different personalities share a room while going to highschool.
- Saint Young Men: Daily life in Japan as experienced by Jesus and Buddha.
- Sakura Quest: Slice of life of a girl forced to move to the countryside (again) in order to secure a job after failing to get one in the big city.
- Sakura Trick: Slice of school life for lesbian couples.
- Sanchoume Zouhyou Monogatari" Slice of life about girls claiming to be warriors throughout history living in a dingy, old apartment complex in modern day Japan.
- Sand Chronicles: A dramatic slice of life that follows Broken Bird Ann's life from her adolescence to adulthood.
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: Slice of suicidally depressed, socially satirical life pumped with crack and LSD.
- Sazae-san: Slice of life of a typical Japanese housewife at home with her parents, her very young siblings, her husband, and her child.
- School-Live!: Starts out as a slice of Zombie Apocalypse high school life, but the characters eventually leave the high school, and after meeting other survivors the story moves away from slice of life antics and focuses more on an ongoing plot.
- ''Seiyu's Life!: Three new female voice actors try to cope with the world of voice acting in Japan, although one of them's been working for a while since she finished training school.
- Sensitive Boy: Slice of life about a boy seeking a normal life following a traumatic incident.
- School Rumble: Slice of romantic (often surreal) high school life.
- School of Water Business: Slice of high school life... in a school teaching adult entertainment.
- Seishun Kouryakuhon: Slice of high school life, focusing on the impending graduation of a group of teenage boys.
- Senryu Girl
- Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō
- Shimeji Simulation: A slice of life about a girl who goes out of her closet after two years of reclusion. Except the manga is an Existential Horror and the very first Wham Episode changes the entire tone completely.
- Shinkaigyo no Anko-san
- Shirokuma Cafe: Slice of life with FunnyAnimals at a cafe run by a polar bear.
- Shouan Days.: A slice of life story about a dynamite-turned-human girl.
- Silver Nina: Slice of life of a NEET and his niece in the Japanese countryside.
- Silver Spoon: Slice of life in an agricultural school.
- Siscon Ani To Brocon Imouto Ga Shoujiki Ni Nattara: a Romantic Comedy involving Brother–Sister Incest with Slice of Life elements.
- Sketchbook: Like Honey And Clover and Hidamari Sketch, but with a Funny Foreigner and lots of cats.
- Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san - Slice of life semi-autobiography manga turned anime written by "Honda" based on his experience working retail in a bookstore.
- Slime Life: Slice of Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Slow Loop
- Slow Start
- solanin: Slice of life of two average twenty-somethings trying to figure out their lives after university.
- Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You
- Someday's Dreamers: Slice of magical life.
- Someday's Dreamers II: Sora: Slice of magical life, but with more drama still.
- Sound of the Sky: Slice of 5 cute teen soldier girls garrisoned in a peaceful town life except for the last 2 episodes.
- Spotted Flower: Chronicling the life of a newlywed couple: an Otaku Husband and a fiery pregnant wife, and their love life.
- Strawberry Marshmallow: Slice of four cute kids and their Cool Big Sis's life.
- Sukaraiti: Post-apocalyptic slice-of-life about a robot girl.
- Super Sonico: Slice of the daily life of a college student who also works part time as a gravure model and plays rock music as a hobby. Granted, said college student happens to also be the mascot character of nitro+, but this little detail is never mentioned in-universe.
- Suzy's Zoo: Daisuki! Witzy: Magical soft toys coming to life notwithstanding, most episodes are about Witzy going on gentle romps in the location he's in.
- Sweet Blue Flowers: Slice of Queer Romance life with a Love Dodecahedron.
- Sweetness & Lightning: Slice of cooking life.
- Tamagotchi: Cute little alien creatures go about their daily lives. A mixture of this and the fantasy genre, with some episodes veering more into one of those genres than the other.
- Tamamo-chan’s a Fox!: Slice of life with an Inari fox spirit secretly attending high school, oblivious to the fact her classmates can see right through her disguise.
- Tanaka-kun is Always Listless is about the eponymous lethargic boy Tanaka, Ohta, the boy who tries to make sure he gets by day to day, and the friends that suddenly kick the door into their peaceful lives demanding that Tanaka actually get involved in things.
- Tamayura: slice of photographing life.
- Teasing Master Takagi-san: Slice of life centered around a middle school boy trying to one-up his female best friend, who has a crush on him.
- There's a Ghost Behind That Gal: Slice of life about two high-school girls, one of which has taken in a Friendly Ghost.
- Today's Menu for the Emiya Family is a Lighter and Softer slice of life spinoff from Fate/stay night that focuses on the food that's cooked and served by Shirou (and occasionally other characters as well) to the other characters.
- Tonari no Yōkai-san: Slice of life in a small rural town in Japan with youkai living there.
- Touken Ranbu - Hanamaru: An adaptation of the game that mostly focuses on the daily lives of the sword warriors and their relationships with each other.
- Trider G7: Slice of a Super Robot-piloting Kid Hero's life.
- Tsuki Ni Kakureta Taiyo
- Tsunokei Joshi wa Kokurenai
- Tsuribaka Nisshi: Slice of life fishing manga.
- The Unpopular Mangaka and the Helpful Onryo-san: A struggling mangaka lives with a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl.
- Twilight Star Sui and Neri: A heart-warming sci-fi story between the Genki Girl Sui and the sloth Neri in a future world.
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!: The life of a cute, but slightly annoying, college kouhai wanting to make sure her senpai has at least one friend in his life, even though he really isn’t an outcast, he just enjoys being alone sometimes.
- UzaMaid: Our Maid Is Way Too Annoying!: An ex-JDSF pilot becomes a maid due to her obsession with a Russian-Japanese girl.
- Virgin Night: Specifically life's sexual slices. Of the sort most people actually have.
- Wakako Zake: A series of Journal Comic-style vignettes about a young woman's adventures indulging in her favorite pastime: eating and drinking delicious food.
- The Walking Man: One of the more extreme examples of this genre, as this manga is entirely fixated upon the current moment in time, not an overarching narrative.
- Wandering Son: Slice of transchildren life.
- WATATEN!: an Angel Flew Down to Me: Slice of life about a college student falling for her younger sister's friend, and making sweets for her in return for modeling in cosplay outfits.
- Wave, Listen to Me!: Slice of life taking place in Sapporo where a young woman is recruited to work in a local radio station after airing her bad laundry over her breakup.
- The Way of the Househusband: A Retired Badass Yakuza becomes a House Husband. Hilarity ensues.
- What Did You Eat Yesterday? focuses on the daily lives of a gay couple and the meals they cook for each other.
- Where Are You Going Today?: A quirky slice of life about embarking on a road trip across Japan's famous streets and landmarks.
- Wife and Wife: The life of a young lesbian couple who have just moved in together.
- Windy Tales: Slice of wind manipulation life.
- With the Light: Slice of life raising an autistic child.
- Wolf Children: Slice of werewolf life, and their human mother.
- The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting: The righthand enforcer of a Yakuza clan is given the task of babysitting his boss's daughter.
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Slice of post-apocalypse life.
- Yomigaeru Sora — Rescue Wings: Slice of life of a JASDF fighter pilot who was (forced) to accept a post as a SAR chopper pilot to aid civil authorities in disasters and rescue ops.
- Yotsuba&!: slice of summer-vacation-with-new-kid-in-town life.
- You and Me: A slice of boys' life, about a group of boys who've known one another since kindergarten living out their high school days in relative peace (and hijinks).
- YuruYuri: Slice of life with yuri undertones.
- Yuyushiki: Slice of high school girl life... with yuri undertones.
