AnimeSuki Forum - View Single Post - What do we call it? (A Slice of Life/genre label discussion)

Sheba · 2012-10-14, 05:18

I'll suggest you to watch the three Aria series, The Animation, The Natural and Origination. It's truly a prime example of where slice-of-life as a genre play up its strenghts at the fullest.

Here is the one thing about this genre. Its characters, while it is true for every genres, it's even more true here. If you outright dislike them, can't get attached to them, the series IS lost on you. Unfortunately as the years passed, the definition, already loose, of the genre have diluted and as you can see, it have becomes increasingly harder to define what really is slice of life.

To me, slice of life is a window opened to observe the daily occurences of a cast of characters in an universe. There can be good things or bad things happening to them, but in the end, it will never truly affect the course of the things in the bigger picture. Perhaps, it is another defining features of the genre, that it is pretty low key.

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Sheba RUN, YOU FOOLS! Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Formerly Iwakawa base and Chaldea. Now Teyvat, the Astral Express & the Outpost Age: 44	I'll suggest you to watch the three Aria series, The Animation, The Natural and Origination. It's truly a prime example of where slice-of-life as a genre play up its strenghts at the fullest. Here is the one thing about this genre. Its characters, while it is true for every genres, it's even more true here. If you outright dislike them, can't get attached to them, the series IS lost on you. Unfortunately as the years passed, the definition, already loose, of the genre have diluted and as you can see, it have becomes increasingly harder to define what really is slice of life. To me, slice of life is a window opened to observe the daily occurences of a cast of characters in an universe. There can be good things or bad things happening to them, but in the end, it will never truly affect the course of the things in the bigger picture. Perhaps, it is another defining features of the genre, that it is pretty low key.