Tonari no Seki-kun looks rather fun! I'll put it on my to-watch list. I heard good things about Kaguya-sama too, I'll probably watch the anime adaptation once it's done.
As for slice of life recommendations, here are some of mine :
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Welcome to the NHK : Based on a novel, this is the story of Sato Tatsuhiro, a 22 year old hikkikomori who dropped out of college 4 years ago and has fallen into a reclusive and solitary lifestyle. It's an unusual kind of anime that tackles a lot of psychological topics and feels a lot more genuine and human than most shows I've watched. It's easily my favorite anime but it's not necessarily for everyone. If you are looking for something carefree and relaxing, you may not find that here, though there's still some great dark humor and if you have any experience with the things Sato goes through, the shared misery can feel kinda comforting in a way.
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Super Sonico the Animation : While it seems at first glance to be nothing more than some cynical advertisement for Nitro+'s mascot character, I found this show to be a lot better than it has every right to be. Not only Sonico is a character with actual hobbies and interests and has a life worth following, the series itself also never gets stale as each episode does its own thing. One will have a mystery to solve, another one is a horror spoof, others will focus on music, and so on and so forth. One of the episodes (The seventh I think) also has her on a countryside trip, and I found it very engrossing but in a subtle way. This episode feels like it nailed the kind of "soothing" experiences that your median slice-of-life anime tries to convey but end up being absolutely boring instead. Here it was fascinating and I loved every moment of it.
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Cromartie High School : An absurd comedy revolving around the lives of some high school students who look like adult thugs but do and talk about the wackiest things. Some of the other characters are also pretty out there, such as the robot delinquent or Freddy. What's pretty good about this series too is that the exaggerated character design provides a very nice contrast to the absurdist style of humor that's mostly conveyed through the dialogues. It's not trying to hide itself by being artificially over-the-top, it just naturally unfolds its jokes and situations and it's so funny. Some of the episodes are more miss than hit though, but overall a great watch.
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Watamote : A comedy show about a weird and paranoid high school girl with lots of social anxiety. While the subject matter is rather serious and the depiction of her condition is pretty accurate, there are also a lot of funny situations that come out of it as she often gets herself in embarassing situations or overthinks what others think of her.
I guess my recommendations are a bit unusual as I am not really a big fan of the genre. The problem for me is that a slice-of-life show has to have characters whose lives are worth being the main topic. Most of your high school animes have boring copy-pasted characters who undergo the same trite situations anyway so why bother with them?
Vanguard wrote:
Danshi Kouhousei no Nichijou - A comedy about the daily lives of some high school boys. Captures the real essence of high school life far better than these things usually do.
I would also second that recommendation. The only thing I didn't like in it was the way they did the annoying thing of having girls beat up boys for laughs, especially here because the few girls are plain bad people and deserve to get beaten back, yet for some reason they get away with everything. There was only one instance of that that I actually found really funny :
I don't remember the exact episode, but the fight interrupted a concert, and one of the organizers asked the band to keep playing music to provide some BGM lmao.
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RegalSin wrote:
I think I have downloaded so much I am bored with downloading. No really I bored with downloading stuff I might consider moving to Canada or the pacific.
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