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Originally Posted by Triple_R
Real life is not static. It is not completely lacking drama. So why should slice of life be static and completely lack drama?
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It's not that it's static or completely lacking in drama. It's a matter of emphasis (which makes for a horribly subjective definition, but thus are all genre definitions
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K-on and Aria both have change in them. Seasons come and go, people graduate and get older, get promoted, and retire, etc. The emphasis, however, is on the passing of time and the mono no aware, rather than the drama or suspense of specific events or changes in the characters themselves.
In Clannad After Story, for contrast, (putting the last epsiode aside for a moment), you have changes that happen in many people's lives (loved ones dying, having children, geting married, etc.), but these events are working as part of one continuous narrative, and the emphasis is on the drama of the events and the changes in characters.
It seems to me that so far in Hanasaku Iroha, the emphasis isn't on the seasons and the passing of time, but rather on the drama of the events and the characters changing as a result of them.