| Agree. I dropped Hyouka at ep 5 first time seeing it. Now it's in my top 50 list. Nichijou yes but Tsuki ga Kirei is more of a coming-of-age than sol. |
| Great, thanks, I didn't need this reminder of my age. But yes, slice of life shows with good plot are great. Action scenes in anime usually feel really weightless, like in terms of execution, and actually convincing the viewer that it's importat to the plot, they frequently just feel like filler. |
| Same. I used to really love action packed anime with cool fights and shiny effects. Now, I seek anime that are more laid back. I guess we're getting old. |
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| It's not something I had to grow into, really. When it comes to anime, I've always prioritized characters > plot. It is much, much easier for me to grow feelings of attachment towards anime characters than real-life actors on TV. SOL/character focus is the anime medium playing to it's greatest strength. Plot heavy anime almost always fails to deliver. It seems there is a prevalent tendency to over-explain and over-complicate things in Japanese storytelling. At least in the animanga/jrpg sphere of influence. That's what I think anyway. |
epidemia78Jul 3, 2022 5:49 PM
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| As for me, age isn't a factor which determines whether I enjoy SoL genre or not, it all depends on my mood. |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
TRC_Randy said: Agree. I dropped Hyouka at ep 5 first time seeing it. Now it's in my top 50 list. Hyouka is a mystery manga center around the literature club solving various mysteries while it has some romance in bits and parts how is it slice of life... |
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ryo-san said: the fact that Houtarou living his daily life as a 1st year high schooler doing regular things with his friends? If you remove that there'd be no literature club tbw.TRC_Randy said: Agree. I dropped Hyouka at ep 5 first time seeing it. Now it's in my top 50 list. Hyouka is a mystery manga center around the literature club solving various mysteries while it has some romance in bits and parts how is it slice of life... |
TRC_Randy said: ryo-san said: the fact that Houtarou living his daily life as a 1st year high schooler doing regular things with his friends? If you remove that there'd be no literature club tbw.Hyouka is a mystery manga center around the literature club solving various mysteries while it has some romance in bits and parts how is it slice of life... Everyone is doing something with their friends in every anime.... so detective Conan and kindaichi are also slice of life?. because they are living as high schoolers and grade schoolers doing stuffs with friends? Hotaro doesn't like doing much anyway.. It's a mystery manga over sol.. |
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ryo-san said: yeah Conan and Kindaichi are technically sol too except they lean more towards mystery than sol but still all three of em have the "sol" tag.TRC_Randy said: the fact that Houtarou living his daily life as a 1st year high schooler doing regular things with his friends? If you remove that there'd be no literature club tbw. Everyone is doing something with their friends in every anime.... so detective Conan and kindaichi are also slice of life?. because they are living as high schoolers and grade schoolers doing stuffs with friends? Hotaro doesn't like doing much anyway.. It's a mystery manga over sol.. |
ryo-san said: TRC_Randy said: the fact that Houtarou living his daily life as a 1st year high schooler doing regular things with his friends? If you remove that there'd be no literature club tbw. Everyone is doing something with their friends in every anime.... so detective Conan and kindaichi are also slice of life?. because they are living as high schoolers and grade schoolers doing stuffs with friends? Hotaro doesn't like doing much anyway.. It's a mystery manga over sol.. the "mysteries" are all so very mundane. It's not like they're trying to figure out who is the serial killer or where the bodies are buried. SOL is a tricky genre to define. It's really one of those you know it when you see it kind of things. Hyouka and it's laid back slow paced nature positively exudes SOL sensibilities. |
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| Not in my 30's yet but I sure do feel old after seeing this post |
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| Yeah, my favorite genre has always been slice of life since I got into anime. |
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| yes i feel ya, its great watching slice of life anime while relaxing after a hard day at work |
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epidemia78 said: ryo-san said: Everyone is doing something with their friends in every anime.... so detective Conan and kindaichi are also slice of life?. because they are living as high schoolers and grade schoolers doing stuffs with friends? Hotaro doesn't like doing much anyway.. It's a mystery manga over sol.. the "mysteries" are all so very mundane. It's not like they're trying to figure out who is the serial killer or where the bodies are buried. SOL is a tricky genre to define. It's really one of those you know it when you see it kind of things. Hyouka and it's laid back slow paced nature positively exudes SOL sensibilities. So i said mystery...not murder mystery...hahaha |
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TRC_Randy said: Agree. I dropped Hyouka at ep 5 first time seeing it. Now it's in my top 50 list. Nichijou yes but Tsuki ga Kirei is more of a coming-of-age than sol. YES! THAT'S IT!! HYOUKA IS GOLDEN!! |
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| I agree with OP. Even though I'm way younger than him, I enjoy the simple yet smart content. This genre is more realistic, yet gripping. |
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| Wholeheartedly agree with you on how you describe slice of life as a truly special genre. Hopefully you could encounter more great sol shows. Reminds me why like watching anime to start with. |
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| I don't know if it's a matter of age in my case. The more anime I watch, the less I care about the plot since most plots aren't that good and thus I enjoy slice of life anime more. Conversely, I guess that new anime watchers don't like SoL because every plot is amazing for them, so lack of plot would always be a flaw. |
| Completely agree, when I was younger I was basically only watching action/shounen shows. Since then SoL has become one of my favorite genres, nothing better to watch after a stressful day at work. |
| I agree. However, I still like Mahou Shoujo, Digimon, Fantasy etc. But yeah, SoL is also my fav genre nowadays. |
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| I think it fundamentally boils down to the idea that slice of life is slow and does not aim to be exciting or to anticipate anything. As people grow older they become more fond of the idea of simply taking their time and relax. Also, I think younger people are more prone to the idea of justifying what they are watching or enjoying with some deep reasoning, and slice of life simply isn't the best kind to do so because it's more about flowing through than about tearing to pieces, and sometimes it is truly incomprehensible; like how in real life you also develop different vibes for people for no or very little rational reason. I can write a big wall of text about my favorite SOL and talk about every single aspect of it (done it a number of times), and yet it doesn't come close to explaining the sheer simplicity of one of these shows clicking right to me. That's something I think younger fans trying to figure out the logic behind everything struggle to understand. |
| The big part of SoL anime are seinen, but people still wonder why they like this genre as adults. I won't be surprised if in the future there will be threads like "I'm a girl, but I like shoujo. I don't know why." It's like people can't even do a superficial analysis of the media they like. ScionOfCyan said: I feel the same way. People are kinda the most complex at the end of the day. It's like we work through all of the other parts of the world that interest us but the variety in human behavior is the deepest well of them all. The reason is rather banal. Most of these shows are either created for people to unwind after work or for otaku to get another dose of moe content. This is one of the reasons why most of these works receive the seinen tag. |
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Nirinbo said: I don't know if it's a matter of age in my case. The more anime I watch, the less I care about the plot since most plots aren't that good and thus I enjoy slice of life anime more. Conversely, I guess that new anime watchers don't like SoL because every plot is amazing for them, so lack of plot would always be a flaw. Plot heavy SoL is the best though. It's hard to relax without some depression sprinkled in. Also action is just kind of bad in anime in general. |
| Most Slice of Life are seinen series so I also resonate more with those as time goes on....I don't need over the top action, violence or any type of fanservice or melodrama as long as there are good characters that I can relate with in the story... .....That's why most of my personal favourites are Slice of Life series....Haibane Renmei, Kemono no Souja Erin, Spice and Wolf, Akage no Anne, Nodame Cantabile, Romeo and the Black Brothers, March Comes in Like a Lion, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, Planetes +Manga like Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Otoyomegatari, Emma....etc .....Or series that I like a lot...like Mushishi, Space brothers, Nana...etc |
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JaniSIr said: Plot heavy SoL is the best though. It's hard to relax without some depression sprinkled in. Also action is just kind of bad in anime in general. I just noticed that my mean score for SoL (7th highest rated genre out of 73) is quite higher than iyashikei (39th), so I have to agree. Regarding action in anime, I wouldn't say it's always bad but rather that it's not inherently exciting. Action can be boring too, just as every other genre. |
Nirinbo said: JaniSIr said: Plot heavy SoL is the best though. It's hard to relax without some depression sprinkled in. Also action is just kind of bad in anime in general. I just noticed that my mean score for SoL (7th highest rated genre out of 73) is quite higher than iyashikei (39th), so I have to agree. Regarding action in anime, I wouldn't say it's always bad but rather that it's not inherently exciting. Action can be boring too, just as every other genre. I think the only iyashikei I finished was Usagi Drop and I have no idea why it's tagged like that. And action isn't always bad, but empirically it usually is. Most action animen is shounen, so they lost me there, and even stuff like Vinland Saga, which I enjoyed for Askellad being a gigachad, had rather garbage action. |
Haneken2086 said: Thank you all for your comments. RobertBobert said: The big part of SoL anime are seinen, but people still wonder why they like this genre as adults. I won't be surprised if in the future there will be threads like "I'm a girl, but I like shoujo. I don't know why." It's like people can't even do a superficial analysis of the media they like. Tastes evolve over time, and slice of genre is a niche everyone fits into as they get older. Girls like shojo because it's natural, so why shouldn't that be discussed? Well, adults love SoL naturally too, because the genre was literally created for people to relax after work and life's troubles. |
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| It feels great relaxing a little after watching shows with action, complexity and twists, tho I think I was always a fan of these type of laid back series even when I was a teenager |
  MAL is the perfect place to shit talk about people's opinions. |
| i find SoL often times too boring and slow. the SoL characters gotta be highly intriguing and well written and the plot needs some exciting elements for me to enjoy. purely daily mundane events don't interest me. watching anime should be entertaining and thrilling and i always like to be at the edge of by seat rather than to relax and chill. there are ofc exceptions |
    ────── ☠ ☠ ☠ ──────❝𝕴𝖙’𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙’𝖘 𝖒𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖉 𝖚𝖕; 𝖎𝖙’𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖚𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖎𝖙.❞ ────── ☠ ☠ ☠ ────── |
| the older i get the more i enjoy isekai shows. |
| Sonic X is basically an isekai |
charliengo said: i find SoL often times too boring and slow. the SoL characters gotta be highly intriguing and well written and the plot needs some exciting elements for me to enjoy. purely daily mundane events don't interest me. watching anime should be entertaining and thrilling and i always like to be at the edge of by seat rather than to relax and chill. there are ofc exceptions Boring and slow is great though. Just gotta make it depressive enough to make it interesting. |
| Yeah, me too. I totally feel the same way. |
| SoL is the best genre, no doubt about it. When done right, it can change really someone's life or inspire them somehow. |
| In my case, the older I get, the more I dislike slice of life shows (and I never liked them to begin with). |
| As a new anime fan I got bored of action and fighting pretty quickly... I do enjoy action sometimes but it's hard to find one that I can truly enjoy Who knows though, I rated Kino no Tabi a 10/10 despite it having the axtion tag, it must just be a very specific type of action or maybe just unconventional action (at least in anime) in general |
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| They're chilling so its understandable that older people would like that over action shows that mainly get your heart pumping. |
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Soupisekaitrash said: Daily reminder that Hanasaku iroha is better then ur favorite show Objectively wrong. Shiroi suna no Aquatope > Sakura Quest > Hanasaku Iroha |
Soupisekaitrash said: Okay aquatope is peak but sakura quest is generic trash, not even in the same convo as the two Why would you say that, the story about rural decay was awesome. It's one real flaw is that it starts a bit stupid with the chupacabra thing. |
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