A slice of life anime that will warm your heart

Key things

• Anime Slice-of-Life offers cozy and wholesome content for viewers who want a break from action and fantasy.
• Laid-Back Camp, Restaurant to Another World, and The Way of the Househusband are the best slice-of-life anime to watch.
• Sweetness & Lightning combines heartwarming moments, delicious food and family love.

When fans hear the word anime, the first things that usually come to mind are action, martial arts, and fantasy. After all, the most popular titles offered by this medium —Dragon Ball, Naruto, One piece, Demon Slayer, and My Hero Academiato name a few – belong to these genres. Therefore, these are the genres most anime fans love.

However, there are times when audiences just aren't in the mood for such loud, busy, fast-paced action fantasy stories. All they want is some cozy anime without overly complicated stories and flashy effects. Something nice and simple to soothe tired bones. For such a situation, Slice-of-Life anime is the best choice.

7 Comfortable camp

Cozy camping in picturesque places

One of the best things you can do to relax your tired bones and soothe your weary soul is to sit outside by a warm fire and gaze at the countless stars above your head with a cup of hot chocolate in hand. In other words, camping. If this sounds like your kind of jam, fans should watch Comfortable camp.

This anime is about a couple of friends from their school camp who are crazy about camping. Here, fans will see how they plan their trip, the different camping destinations they visit — all based on real places, by the way — and the kind of fun and relaxing activities they do while camping together.

6 Restaurant To another world

Delicious cuisine for magical creatures

One of the fastest ways to heal your heart is to fill your stomach with delicious food. Fortunately, there are plenty of food-themed anime that have come out in the past few years, so viewers have plenty to choose from. One of the most interesting of them has to be A restaurant to another world. Why? Because it's the perfect combination of slice-of-life and isekai.

IN A restaurant to another worlda western-style restaurant called Nekoya from Tokyo has a mysterious door that connects this great establishment to a world full of magical creatures such as elves, dwarves, beasts and the like. So every Saturday, Nekoya closes its Tokyo doors and focuses on serving good food to its magical customers who have never eaten such great cuisine before.

5 The husband's journey in the household

Ex-Yakuza Becomes Devoted House Husband

There is something healthy about seeing two people who truly love each other and want to do the best for each other. The husband's journey in the household corresponds exactly to the description. Not only that, this title also offers a lot more good things inside, which makes it different from other similar titles.

As a former member of the Yakuza, Tatsu is an intimidating man. His brash tongue, tattoos that can be seen from his loose shirt, sharp gaze behind his sunglasses and his menacing attitude are all enough to scare people. However, what most people don't realize is the fact that Tatsu is a gentle house husband who loves to cook delicious meals for his wife. Not only that, he is also very knowledgeable about home life. Which store sells the cheapest vegetables? How to clean a stubborn stain from clothes? How to make healthy and tasty hot pot? He knows it all.

4 Polar Bear Cafe

Everyday Life In A Cafe Owned By A Cool Polar Bear

When talking about things that can warm your heart, stuffed animals have to be in the top five. And when it comes to furry animals, bears are definitely at the top of the list, especially pandas and polar bears. Sure, a real polar bear is a dangerous animal and should only be admired from afar, but that doesn't change the fact that it's one of the most adorable-looking creatures on Earth.

So it goes without saying that an anime that revolves around pandas and polar bears will be completely wholesome and heartwarming. But what if the polar bear in this anime is a coffee shop guy who likes to play puns with his customers? And not only that, what if the panda is a lazy boy who works part-time at the zoo because his mother is pushing him to get a job? If this sounds like your kind of slice of life comedy, you should check it out Polar Bear Cafe.

3 Hakumei and Mikochi

Healthy life of small people in a big world

• Japanese title: Hakumei Mikochi
• Seasons/Episodes: 1 season/12 episodes
• Release date: January 12, 2018
• MyAnimeList Score: 7.69/10

The real charm of slice-of-life anime, and what makes it so wholesome, is the fact that it's a snapshot of the characters' everyday lives. In a way, this genre is about portraying mundane things in an interesting and wholesome way. in this regard Hakumei and Mikochi belongs to the best that this genre has to offer.

in the core Hakumei and Mikochi is a story about small people living in a big world. The audience follows the two main characters as they go about their days. He sees them riding a pair of beetles in search of a giant bird that resides on top of a hill. There's also the time they shop at a market the size of a city, visit a bar that offers local delicacies, meet a monkey shop owner who asks Mikochi to try his brand new soy sauce, have lunch under a giant tree in the heart of the market, and stand at the harbor watching sunset.

2 Teasing Master Takagi-san

Delightful interaction between two jokers

Of every genre in fiction, romance has to be at the top of the list when it comes to creating stories that warm your heart. Unfortunately, along with heartwarming, romance also offers heartbreak to create compelling drama. And that's where the slice of life comes in. So fans need an anime that has a heartwarming element of romance, no drama, and a healthy slice of life element.

The one title that most closely fits this description has to be Teasing Master Takagi-san. This is a story about two high school students – a boy named Nishikata and a girl named Takagi – who clearly like each other but are too shy to admit their feelings. Instead, they resort to teasing and playing games. Nishikata will challenge Takagi to all kinds of little games every day, only for Takagi to beat him and get teased for it. Their interaction is so sweet and warm that viewers can't help but smile during every episode.

1 Sweetness & Lightning

A wholesome story of love, family and food

Sweetness & Lightning it's kind of a culmination of the previous posts. It's a story about a single father, Kohei, who tries to do the best for his young daughter, Tsumugi, to give fans that sweet and innocent love. The husband's journey in the household and Teasing Master Takagi-san.

Kohei does this by learning to cook his daughter's favorite dishes from one of his students, Kotori, whose mother is a chef but is rarely home to eat with her. So there is a realistic element Comfortable camp and delicious food A restaurant to another world in it too. The sight of little Tsumugi excitedly eating the hamburger steak her father made for the first time is just cuteness overload, comparable to bears and pandas Polar Bear Cafe.

This anime is lighthearted, funny, heartwarming and just the perfect thing to watch after a tiring day. If there's only one anime fans can watch from this list, it's definitely one they should watch Sweetness & Lightning.