An index for Slice of Life Anime and Manga.
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.
- Aggressive Retsuko: Slice of office life starring an overworked and underappreciated red panda who vents her frustration by singing Death Metal karaoke.
- Ai Shite Night: Love Triangle slice of life with Rock 'n' Roll occasionally thrown in.
- Ai-Ren: Slice of life After the End.
- Amanchu!: Slice of scuba diving life.
- Ano Ko ni Kisu to Shirayuri wo: Slice of Girls' Love life n°2, following two genius girls and a few others.
- Ao no Flag: Slice of high school romance life where a group of teenagers deal with Unrequited Love and their last year of high school.
- ARIA: Slice of Venetian terraformed Mars life. With Scenery Porn. Lots and lots of Scenery Porn.
- Ashigei Shoujo Komurasan: A romance comedy about a high schoolboy meeting a flexible girl who does everything with her feet.
- Assassination Classroom: Slice of Comedic Middle School life with weapons and assassination attempts.
- Chapter 180.1 takes a break from the students' lives by showing what Koro-sensei does outside of his teaching duties — he's a slovenly bum at home who spends his time hoarding stuff, eating, betting on horse races and meditating in a room full of porn magazines.
- Azumanga Daioh: Slices of the lives of several girls in the same school. 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.
- Ballad Of A Shinigami is a Slice of Life both in terms of the lives of humans, which are presumably about to die, and of the grim reaper Momo. This sounds more depressing than it is, since Momo is (mostly) kind.
- 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.
- Binbou Shimai Monogatari: Slice of life with lots of Cherry Blossoms.
- The Borrower Arrietty: Slice of life about a tiny daughter as she befriends a human and fight for her family's safety.
- Bunny Drop: Slice of parental life
- Cafe Kichijouji 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.
- 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.
- Chi's Sweet Home: Adorable kitty does adorable kitty things. Basically a kitty version of K-On!.
- 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!
- 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.
- Dennou Coil: Slice of tech-savvy, junior high-schooler life.
- Diamond Daydreams: Slice of Hokkaido life. Likely Piano's closest contender in terms of purity.
- Dobutso no Mori, a.k.a Animal Crossing: The Movie, details a girl moving into a village. No villain, only minor conflicts, and no general plot.
- Doki Doki School Hours, excluding the out-of-place genre spoof episodes.
- Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro - Slice of life with a Loving Bully and BDSM implications.
- 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.
- 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.
- Father and Son: Slice of life with a father and his son.
- Flying Witch: Slice of a witch's life in a rural town.
- Free!: Slice of bishonen swim club life.
- 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.
- GJ-bu: Slice of Nondescript Club life.
- Gokinjo Monogatari: Slice of eccentric art school life.
- Gokushufudou: A Retired Badass Yakuza becomes a House Husband. Hilarity ensues.
- 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.
- Haibane Renmei: Slice of after-life (according to the most common interpretation of the series).
- Haruhi Suzumiya features this, as it does with most genres. The best example is the chronological last episode, that was so Slice of Life that it was boring (which was fully intentional).
- Season 2 has a "slice of Groundhog Day life", or rather, eight of the same slice.
- Hana the Fox Girl: Slice of life with a little fox girl.
- Here Comes the Three Angels: Slice of life about three young girls requesting the help of an older guy to form a rock band.
- Hidamari Sketch: Slice of art school life, high school edition.
- High School Ninja Girl, Otonashi-san: Slice of high school life with ninjas.
- Hinako Note: Slice of life about a shy girl who joins a theater club.
- Hinosan 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hyouka: Slice of mystery-solving, high school life. Notably, the protagonist prefers his slice of life to be a little more bland than other people's. Part of his Character Development is him realizing that having an interesting life isn't so bad.
- 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've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level: In spite of the stupidly overpowered nature of its protagonist, some dramatic misunderstandings, and the occassional Curb-Stomp Battle, most of the plot centers around Azusa and co.'s domestic life, like gathering mushrooms, attending dragon's weddings, and being a family of sorts.
- The iDOLM@STER - Slice of life with an Idol twist.
- Ikoku Meiro no Croisée: Slice of Parisian life
- Inside Mari: Slice of life combined with a terrifying take on "Freaky Friday" Flip.
- Interviews with Monster Girls : Slice of life about a high school Biology teacher interacting with demi humans and learning more about them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 slice of life following three high school girls" Momoko, Mayumi, and Shibumi respectively.
- Junji Ito's Cat Diary Yon and 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.
- Kamichu!: Slice of divine life. Shinto-flavored, of course.
- Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition: A mangaka tries to keep his job a secret from his daughter.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kimi to Boku: 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).
- 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 an illegitimate monarchy. Contains a lot of subtle satire and social commentary.
- Kokoro Library: Slice of library-managing life.
- 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.
- 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.
- Love Live! and its sequel Love Live! Sunshine!!: Slice of school idol life revolving around girls trying to save their schools from shutting down by entering the titular Love Live! competition.
- Lucky Star: Slice of life with a lot of Lampshade Hanging and references to Otaku culture.
- Mahoraba: A slice of cute, romantic life.
- Magical Sempai: Slice of stage magic club life.
- Manabi Straight!: Slice of high school student council life Twenty 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.
- 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.
- Mononoke Sharing: Slice of life about a high school student and the five yokai she shares an apartment with.
- Mousou Telepathy: A Japanese webcomic about a mind reading girl and the guy who has a crush on her.
- 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.
- Muteki Kanban Musume: A slice of a group of Burger Fools in a shopping district that practice Mundane Made Awesome life.
- 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 Lovely Ghost Kana: Slice of life and life after death.
- My Roommate is a Cat: A reclusive novelist living with his new pet cat, slowly bringing him out of his shell.
- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU: Slice of life of a cynical pessimist in High School.
- 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.
- Need a Girl!: About four young men in their last year on High School, each trying to score a girlfriend.
- Nichijou: Slice of ordinary life. Except it's anything but ordinary.
- My Neighbor Totoro: Two girls move to a new place as they deal with the reality of their mother's sickness
- Nodame Cantabile: Slice of music school life.
- Non Non Biyori: Slice of country life.
- O-Inari JK Tamamo-chan!: Slice of life an Inari fox spirit secretly attending high school, oblivious to the fact she isn't fooling anyone.
- Only Sense Online: Slice of a novice player's life in a Virtual Reality MMORPG.
- Only Yesterday: Slice of nostalgic life.
- 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.
- Pani Poni Dash!: A slice of life depicting a class of high schoolers, but taken to ridiculous extremes and exaggerations.
- Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai!: A 19-years-old college freshman finds himself as the legal guardian of his three nieces.
- Paradise Kiss: Slice of average teenager life meets slice of oddball fashion design student life.
- Patlabor: Slice of Humongous Mecha pilot life.
- Persona 4 Golden: The 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.
- Plica: Slice of Japanese lesbian life.
- Private Actress: Slice of life centered on an highschool-aged actress who works on helping others keep up with their own lives.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sekai De Ichiban Oppai Ga Suki: Slice of life about an archery club member who is obsessed with large breasts.
- School Rumble: Slice of romantic (often surreal) high school life.
- 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.
- 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
- Shakugan no Shana: Slice of life interweaved with Demonic Invaders, though drops the slice of life towards its final season.
- Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō
- Shirokuma Cafe: Slice of life with FunnyAnimals at a cafe run by a polar bear.
- Silvr Nina: Slice of life of a NEET and his niece in the Japanese countryside.
- Silver Spoon: Slice of life in an agricultural school.
- Sketchbook: Like Honey And Clover and Hidamari Sketch, but with a Funny Foreigner and lots of cats.
- Siscon Ani To Brocon Imouto Ga Shoujiki Ni Nattara: a Romantic Comedy involving Brother–Sister Incest with Slice of Life elements.
- 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 Start
- 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.
- 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 Girls' Love life with a Love Dodecahedron.
- Sweetness & Lightning: Slice of cooking life.
- 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.
- The Tatami Galaxy is a slice of quirky College life, albeit with time rewinds.
- Today's Menu for Emiya Family is a slice of life anime in the Nasuverse that centers of food served in Fuyuki to the masters/servants.
- 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.
- Tsuribaka Nisshi: Slice of life fishing manga.
- Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!: An ex-JDSF pilot becomes a maid due to her obsession with a Russian-Japanese girl.
- Uchi no Musuko wa Tabun Gay (My Son is Probably Gay): Slice of life about a family whose eldest son is probably gay and really bad at hiding it.
- 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.
- 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 Ame and Yuki Slice of werewolf life, and their human mother.
- 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.
- Yuru-Yuri: Slice of life with yuri undertones.
- Yuyushiki: Slice of high school girl life... with yuri undertones.
