Slice of Life (397)

Slice of Life stories are focused on a seemingly random and mundane period of the main characters' lives. The absence of a central plot to carry the story towards a charted destination means Slice of Life stories frequently lack overarching conflict and resolution. While life is not without conflict and Slice of Life neither, here conflict appears and dissipates seemingly at will, without a specific narrative to enforce it. Slow story pacing or episodic storytelling does not equal Slice of Life. Drama/Romance stories can be slow and soft while maintaining a central plot of human/relationship struggle. Comedy stories may lack progress and have mundane settings, but they have narratives focused on eliciting laughter rather than amusing moments happening naturally. Thus, Slice of Life is incompatible with Comedy, Drama, and Romance by definition.

Takemitsuzamurai

Matsumoto, TaiyouEifuku, Issei 2024
Although the rounin Souichirou Senou quickly discovers that most of his new neighbors in the Katagi Apartments do not trust him, his childlike wonder at the world around him allows him to strike up a friendship with the carpenter's son, Kankichi. With Kankichi's help, Souichirou begins to establish a life in Edo's tenements and exchanges his longtime sword Kunifusa for a bamboo blade, due to his newfound desire to refrain from violence.

Unfortunately for Souichirou, avoiding conflict in Edo is not always possible. Before long, Souichirou finds himself stalked by the brutal assassin Shinnosuke Kikuchi, who delights in butchering anyone caught between him and his target. Each time Souichirou must step forward to defend himself or the people of the tenements, he reawakens the intense bloodlust of his younger days and resurrects memories he would much rather forget.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Aug 7, 2006 to Mar 15, 2010 | 84 chp | Publishing

1/3 Romantica

Shibano, Yuka 2024
From Midnight Scans:
“Sorry, I went out with my teacher.”
Hana started going out with Tokumoto-kun, who’s popular with both the class and the girls. She’s being played around with by the guy’s pace. Hana falls in love more and more with his kindness and his sense of humor. But, then she finds out about his ex-girlfriend, who is a teacher…!

Also includes two other stories:
• Cm na Futari
This is a love story between childhood friends.
They’ve always been together so it’s hard to go from childhood friends to lovers, right??Michika thinks that people who try to trick her are bastards, but Yuki saved her. She thought he was so cool that she fell in love.
• My Life My Melody
2008 to 2009 | 5 chp | Publishing

Sekitou Elegy

Kira, Takashi 2024
Satoshi Yanagawa is working part-time as a police assistant, and works with a beautiful girl that he likes at first sight. But she has a pretty bad character. Are there any prospects for romance? Read on to find out, the story is hilarious at certain moments, and touching at others.
Mar 29, 2004 to May 12, 2008 | 165 chp | Publishing

Papa Told Me

Haruno, Nanae 2024
Chise is an elementary school girl who lives with her widowed father, a novelist. Her mother died when she was very young, but she is extremely close to her father. He is the one she loves the most, and because he works as a novelist, he spends most of his time at home, much to the delight of Chise.

(Source: Wikipedia)
Jun 1987 to Aug 2004 | 149 chp | Publishing

Joshiraku

Kumeta, KoujiYasu 2024
"This manga is about cute girls and what they do to entertain themselves. A manga that doesn't focus on frustrating topics or similar things."
5 girls asking each other about something completely random, but when they have reached a conclusion, it is always far from the original question.
(Source: Mangafox)
Sep 9, 2009 to Sep 9, 2013 | 53 chp | Publishing

Sukima Suki

Unita, Yumi 2024
Through his hobby, which is exploring (peeping?) through the spaces in-between, Heisaku-kun ends up falling in love with his neighbor, Fumio-chan. However, it turns out that Fumio-chan has also been spying on Heisaku-kun all this time. Will this uncontrollable pair's hidden love ever be realized?
(Source: Stiletto Heels)
2001 | 10 chp | Publishing

Sonna Mirai wa Uso de AruThat Future is a Lie

Sakuraba, Coharu 2024
A girl who can see the future. Another girl who can know if what you are telling is true or not.
Sep 9, 2009 to Jul 9, 2016 | 83 chp | Publishing

Tokyo Daigaku MonogatariTokyo University Story

Egawa, Tatsuya 2024
Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, it comes time for them to take the entrance exams for Tokyo University. What will happen to their relationship if only one of them is accepted?
(from AnimeNewsNetwork)
1992 to 2001 | 375 chp | Publishing

Yoiko

2024
Fuuka Esumi is definitely not an ordinary fifth-grader: with the height of 163.5 cm, weighs 50 kg, and a body figure of an adult female, she sure causes a lot of misunderstanding and embarressments.

(Source: ANN)
1998 to 2001 | 176 chp | Publishing

Atashin'chi

2024
Outrageous misadventures of an almost normal family with a housewife, her husband, and their two kids Yuusuke and Mikan. Wacky humor about this weird family's daily life.
Jun 5, 1994 to Mar 11, 2012 | 760 chp | Publishing

Nonnonbaa to OreNonNonBa

Mizuki, Shigeru 2024
Mizuki takes another chapter from his life to create Nonnonbaa, a story about a boy in the 1930s who is introduced to the world of Japanese folklore by a old neighbor woman.

(Source: ANN)
Aug 1992 to Oct 1992 | 25 chp | Publishing

Kyou no Asuka ShowToday's Asuka Show

2024
Asuka is a cute and clueless high school girl who habitually does things, in all innocence, that seem sexually suggestive to the men around her.

(Source: MangaHelpers)
Aug 27, 2009 to Jul 27, 2013 | 48 chp | Publishing

Kodomo ga Neta Ato de

Hiiragi, Nozomu 2024
A single father takes pity on a drunken man outside his bar, only to be taunted by his equally adorable, and impudent young daughter. Little did they know that he will play a major part in their life.
(Source: MU)
Jan 25, 2007 | 1 chp | Publishing

Silver

Fujita, Kazuko 2024
Geraldine Francis is the innocent daughter of a wealthy aristocrat. Being sheltered all her life, she is oblivious to her cousin Charles' true intentions when he lures her in and makes her fall hopelessly in love with him. It is only after the murder of her father that she realizes his love was nothing but love for the money and the land that came with her name. She vows revenge, and she throws away her past in order to become "Silver," the perfect woman. With a new face, and a new lease on life, she will turn the tables on the man whom she once loved so that this time, it is he who will be left with nothing.

(Source: JShoujo Scans)
Nov 20, 2000 to 2002 | 61 chp | Publishing

Shimaism

Yoshitomi, Akihito 2024
Haruka (14) and Sakura (12) are sisters. Yoshiko (14) and Mai (12) are sisters as well. So what happens when best friends Haruka and Yoshiko have an attraction to each others sisters of the Yuri kind?

(Source: MU)
Feb 12, 2009 to Dec 12, 2012 | 34 chp | Publishing

Gakuen Babysitters

Tokeino, Hari 2024
Ryuuichi Kashima has always taken care of his little brother Kotarou due to their parents traveling most of the time. After the Kashimas suddenly die in a plane crash, an elderly woman named Youko Morinomiya offers to become the brothers' guardian until they both become adults. It turns out that she lost her son and daughter-in-law in the same tragedy. The teenage Ryuuichi can also attend the school where Youko works as chairwoman, on one condition: he must be part of the "babysitting club," which serves as a place to look after the children of professors.

At first, it may seem like a rough start for Ryuuichi, but with the help of his classmate Hayato Kamitani and many others, he will experience novel adventures with the children in the club.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Sep 24, 2009 to ? | chp | Publishing

Aiiro Shinwa

Yamato, Waki 2024
Nakaaki Keiko and Mimasaka Kousuke met when they were only 16 years old in high school. Keiko was the student council vice president and top of her class. Kousuke had been expelled from his previous school and spent most of his time making films. This story chronicles the lives of these two seemingly dissimilar friends over a span of 10 years, weaving a poignant tale of misconnections and missed opportunities in a pursuit to find their true selves.
1980 | 4 chp | Publishing

Vector Case File: Inaho no Konchuuki

Fujimi, Yasutaka 2024
Inaho knows a lot about various bugs and uses this knowledge to solve various mysteries.
Sep 2006 to Jun 2010 | 40 chp | Publishing

Love in the Mask

Han, Yu-Rang 2024
Hyun-Bin has been surviving on the streets by hiding the fact that she's a girl. In a tragic turn of events, her beloved little brother dies and Hyun-Bin runs away from the begging, from the gangs - straight into the clutches of a rich family. Her life might have become better but it's far from rosy: she has to undergo strict training every day and guard the family's youngest member, innocent and princess-like Yae-Ha. There are only two rules, Hyun-Bin has to protect Yae-Ha with her life and no one must ever find out that she's a girl. It's a lonely and cold way of life but a fateful encounter with the delinquent Yun-Ha becomes a catalyst of changes to come, where loyalty and a sense of duty clash with feelings of love...

(Source: dollie_mixtures)
Not available | 134 chp | Publishing

Barakamon

Yoshino, Satsuki 2024
Seishuu Handa is considered a prodigy in the calligraphy world. However, he is extremely narcissistic about his work, and when a senior curator dismisses his award-winning piece as conventional and bland, he loses his cool, leading to potentially career-ending repercussions.

After seeing his son's immaturity, his father⁠—also a master calligrapher—sends Handa to a village in the Goto Islands as punishment. Deprived of city comforts, Handa moves into a house in the local village with the sole intention of spending his stay engrossed in calligraphy. However, the house he has moved into was previously the hideout for some rambunctious children, headed by Naru Kotoishi, who are unwilling to move out. Furthermore, the neighbors seem very interested in the calligrapher, who they see as an amusing oddity!

Despite Handa having been uprooted from his comfortable lifestyle, his experiences with the village and its people will teach him things about himself, life, and calligraphy.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Feb 22, 2008 to Jan 10, 2019 | 135 chp | Publishing

Rakka Ryuusui

Sanada, Ikki 2024
After learning that she had passed the entrance examinations to enter the Sakuraba Girl's High School, Hayama Akiho, while attempting to escape from club recruitment staff, experiences love at first sight when she meets the president of the kyuudou club, Hokaze Minatsu...
Rakka Ryuusui is a 4-koma yuri comedy, and the setting is that of the kyuudou club in the school and its members.

(Source: MU)
Nov 19, 2005 to Feb 19, 2015 | chp | Publishing

Cahe Tantei-buCafe detective club

Fujishiro, Takeshi 2024
Tsubamegaoka Private Academy—all girls' high school located just inside the city, famous for it's large number of clubs. From the common ones to some freakishly impressive ones. It's always okay to make one, no matter what kind of club, and it's not uncommon to see students join this school for the sole purpose of making a new club. But what happens when five girls want to make a club and there's only one place left for new club to be created?

(Source: MU, edited)
Oct 22, 2009 to Nov 29, 2018 | 109 chp | Publishing

Hoozuki-san Chi no Aneki

Igarashi, Ran 2024
Gorou Hoozuki loves his older sister Haru very much. He tries his best not to make this fact obvious, but little does he know that his "secret" is known to many, including Haru! Due to this, Haru does all kinds of lewd and suggestive acts to her younger brother, which she takes much pleasure in performing.
Hoozuki-san Chi no Aneki is a tale about the everyday life of a perverted younger brother and a sadistic older sister filled with comedy, drama, and love.

[Written by Animeranku Rewrite]
Jul 4, 2009 to Jun 4, 2011 | 32 chp | Publishing

Ito Junji no Neko Nikki: Yon & MuJunji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon...

Itou, Junji 2024
Horror manga author Mr. J moves into his new house with his fiancée A-ko. Much to his chagrin, she brings two guests with her.

(Source: MU)
Nov 26, 2007 to Dec 26, 2008 | 10 chp | Publishing