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beccastareyesDay 10 - Favorite slice of life anime: Here is Greenwood
In general, I've found slice-of-life works best for me when it's comedy. Because life is hilarious.
This was kind of a toss-up between Here is Greenwood and Azumanga Daioh. Both are comedic stories about high school students in a single-gender school. In the end, Greenwood won out here because I've seen more of it. It might not actually count as slice-of-life since ghosts show up in one episode, but since the focus is more on 'look at they crazy characters getting into crazy situations', rather than any overt fantastic elements.
To use an example of the other type, the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is also about crazy high schoolers in crazy situations, but most of those are driven, at least in part, by Haruhi's hidden powers or the other characters' responses to them (possibly involving their hidden powers). With the possible exception of Kyon, all of the other major characters of Haruhi have their relationships dictated by their theories on Haruhi's nature and their own supernatural pasts, so even a story about them at the school's culture festival isn't strictly mundane.
Anyway, it's mostly about four high school boys who live in the Greenwood dorm of the Ryokuto Academy, an all-boy school. The dorm is said to be an old insane asylum so the other students assume that's why they put all the odd-balls there.
The characters include Kazuya, who moved into the dorms after his brother married Kazuya's first crush and decided to get away from the situation; his roommate, Shun, who is so feminine-looking and dressing that the dorm decided to try to trick Kazuya into believing that Shun was a girl, set up to attend the school for obscure reasons. (It lasted until Kazuya caught Shun in the bathroom.) Also, President of the Student Body Shinobu, who has a rivalry with his crazy older sister*, and his roommate, the Head of the Dorm, Mitsuru (both of which like to break the fourth wall to tease slash fans.)
I'd really like to see the manga of this series, but it was translated *ages* ago. Google also tells me there's a live-action version. (I'll add it to 'With the Light' as one I need to see.)
* Anime club watched the dub on laser-disc, because... well, we had the disc, and the player. Hence 'Shinobu!', said in the tone of his sister's dub voice, became a short-lived meme.
Previous Days
Day 1 - Very first anime: Speed Racer; Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2
Day 2 - Favorite TV series: Slayers
Day 3 -Your anime crush: Thoughts on anime adaptions
Day 4 - Favorite Film: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were): Mizuno Ami, Sailor Moon
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character: Louise, Familiar of Zero
Day 7 - Character you’d most like to slap: Miaka & Tamahome, Fushigi Yuugi
Day 8 - Most epic scene ever: Climax, Princess Mononoke
Day 9 - Saddest anime scene: Climax of final episode of Kino's Journey
In general, I've found slice-of-life works best for me when it's comedy. Because life is hilarious.
This was kind of a toss-up between Here is Greenwood and Azumanga Daioh. Both are comedic stories about high school students in a single-gender school. In the end, Greenwood won out here because I've seen more of it. It might not actually count as slice-of-life since ghosts show up in one episode, but since the focus is more on 'look at they crazy characters getting into crazy situations', rather than any overt fantastic elements.
To use an example of the other type, the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is also about crazy high schoolers in crazy situations, but most of those are driven, at least in part, by Haruhi's hidden powers or the other characters' responses to them (possibly involving their hidden powers). With the possible exception of Kyon, all of the other major characters of Haruhi have their relationships dictated by their theories on Haruhi's nature and their own supernatural pasts, so even a story about them at the school's culture festival isn't strictly mundane.
Anyway, it's mostly about four high school boys who live in the Greenwood dorm of the Ryokuto Academy, an all-boy school. The dorm is said to be an old insane asylum so the other students assume that's why they put all the odd-balls there.
The characters include Kazuya, who moved into the dorms after his brother married Kazuya's first crush and decided to get away from the situation; his roommate, Shun, who is so feminine-looking and dressing that the dorm decided to try to trick Kazuya into believing that Shun was a girl, set up to attend the school for obscure reasons. (It lasted until Kazuya caught Shun in the bathroom.) Also, President of the Student Body Shinobu, who has a rivalry with his crazy older sister*, and his roommate, the Head of the Dorm, Mitsuru (both of which like to break the fourth wall to tease slash fans.)
I'd really like to see the manga of this series, but it was translated *ages* ago. Google also tells me there's a live-action version. (I'll add it to 'With the Light' as one I need to see.)
* Anime club watched the dub on laser-disc, because... well, we had the disc, and the player. Hence 'Shinobu!', said in the tone of his sister's dub voice, became a short-lived meme.
Previous Days
Day 1 - Very first anime: Speed Racer; Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2
Day 2 - Favorite TV series: Slayers
Day 3 -
Day 4 - Favorite Film: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were): Mizuno Ami, Sailor Moon
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character: Louise, Familiar of Zero
Day 7 - Character you’d most like to slap: Miaka & Tamahome, Fushigi Yuugi
Day 8 - Most epic scene ever: Climax, Princess Mononoke
Day 9 - Saddest anime scene: Climax of final episode of Kino's Journey
