Top 10 Anime: Slice of Life
The highest-graded slice-of-life anime we have reviewed, best first.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2The second season keeps the first one's nerve: it still refuses to hurry, and it is still right not to.Read the review
Frieren: Beyond Journey's EndA fantasy series about the years after the quest, and it is patient enough to make that land.
A Silent VoiceA film about a bully seeking forgiveness that refuses to let him have it cheaply.
Journal with WitchTwo people who do not know how to be a family try anyway, and nothing is ever rushed.
Bocchi the Rock!A show about crippling social anxiety that is also one of the funniest and most inventively animated comedies of its decade.
Kiki's Delivery ServiceA witch movie with no villain, and the best film ever made about losing your nerve at work.
Fruits BasketThe remake that adapts the whole manga and turns a cult favorite into one of the decade's best dramas.
Clannad: After StoryThe rare romance that keeps going past the wedding and finds the hard part waiting there.
Spy x FamilyA sitcom about a fake family, executed close to perfectly, and it is still a sitcom.
Violet EvergardenThe most beautiful television Kyoto Animation has produced, wrapped around writing that reaches for tears too often.
