A slice of life anime that will warm your heart

Key takeaways

• Slice-of-life anime offers comfortable, wholesome content for viewers looking for a break from action and fantasy.
• Laid-back Camp, Restaurant to Another World, and The Way of the Househusband are some of the best life anime to watch.
• Sweetness and 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, a piece, Demon Slayer, and My Hero AcademiaJust to name a few – related to these genres. This is why these are the genres that many anime fans love.

However, sometimes audiences are not in the mood for such loud, busy, and fast-paced action fantasy stories. All they want is some comfortable anime without overly complicated stories and flashy effects. Something nice and simple to soothe one's weary bones. For such a situation, slice-of-life anime is the best option.

7 Rest camp

Comfortable camping in scenic locations

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 bonfire with a cup of hot chocolate in hand, watching the countless stars above your head. In other words, camp. If that sounds like your kind of jam, then fans should watch Rest camp.

This anime is about some friends in their school's camping club who are crazy about camping. Here fans will see their travel plans, the various camping destinations they visit—all based on real places—and the fun and relaxing activities they do while camping together.

6 A restaurant for another world

Delicious recipes for magical creatures

The fastest way to heal the heart is to fill your stomach with delicious food. Thankfully, loads of anime that have come out within the last couple of years revolve around food, so viewers have very little to choose from. One of them must be the most interesting Restaurant in another world. Why? Because it's the perfect marriage of slice-of-life and isekai.

in Restaurant in another worldA Western-style restaurant called Nekoya in Tokyo has a mysterious door that connects this fine establishment to a world full of elves, dwarves, beasts, and the like. So every Saturday, Nekoya closes its doors in Tokyo and focuses on serving good food to its magical customers who have never had such delicious food before.

5 The Way of the Housewife

The former yakuza became a devoted housewife

There is something wholesome about seeing two people who are truly in love and want the best for each other. The Way of the Housewife Fits that description perfectly. Not only that, this title also offers a lot of cool stuff inside, which makes it stand out from other similar titles.

As a former yakuza member, Tatsu is a terrifying man. His brazen language, his tattoos visible through his loose shirt, his sharp gaze behind his sunglasses, and his threatening attitude, are all enough to scare people. What most people don't realize, however, is the fact that Tatsu is a gentle husband who loves to cook delicious food for his wife. Not only that, he is also very knowledgeable about domestic life. Which shop sells cheap vegetables? How to clean stubborn stains from your clothes? How to make healthy and delicious hot pot? He knows everything.

4 Polar Bear Cafe

Daily life in a cafe owned by a chill polar bear

When talking about things that can warm your heart, fluffy animals have to be among the top five. And when it comes to fluffy animals, bears are definitely at the top of the list, especially pandas and polar bears. Of course, a real polar bear is a dangerous animal and should only be admired from a distance, but that doesn't change the fact that they are some of the most fascinating looking creatures on earth.

So don't say that an anime revolving around pandas and polar bears is going to be all wholesome and heartwarming. But what if the polar bear in this anime is a cafe owner who likes to play puns with his customers? Not only that, but Panda is a lazy boy who works part-time at the zoo because his mother is nagging him for a job? If that sounds like your kind of slice-of-life comedy, you should watch it Polar Bear Cafe.

3 Hakumei and Mikochi

Healthy lives of small people in a big world

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

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

At its core, Hakumei and Mikochi A story of small people living in a big world. The audience follows the two main characters as they go about their day. They see a couple riding a beetle in search of a giant bird that lives on a hilltop. There are also times when they shop around a city-sized market, visit a bar serving local delicacies, meet a monkey shop owner who asks Mikochi to try his brand-new soy sauce, eat lunch in the heart of a giant tree. Market, and stand on the harbor to watch the sunset.

2 Teasing master Takagi-san

A touching interaction between two pranksters

In every genre in fiction, romance should be at the top of the list when it comes to producing stories that can warm your heart. Unfortunately, along with heartwarming, romance also offers heartbreak to create an engaging drama. And that's where a piece of life comes in. So fans need an anime that has a heartwarming element of romance, minus the drama, and a healthy element of slice-of-life.

A title that most fits that description Teasing master Takagi-san. It is the story of two middle school students – a boy named Nishikata and a girl named Takagi – who clearly like each other but are too shy to admit their feelings. So they resort to teasing and playing games instead. Nishikata would challenge Takagi to all sorts of little games every day, only to be defeated by Takagi and teased for it. Their interactions are so sweet and heartwarming that viewers can't help but smile in every episode.

1 Sweetness and electricity

A wholesome story of love, family, and food

Sweetness and electricity Somewhat a culmination of previous entries. It's a story about a single father, Kohei, who does his best for his young daughter, Tsumugi, so fans get that sweet and innocent love. The Way of the Housewife and Teasing master Takagi-san.

Kohei does this by learning how to cook his daughter's favorite dishes from one of his students, Kotori, whose mother is a chef but is rarely at home to eat with her. So there is a realistic element of that Rest camp and the delicacies of Restaurant in another world Even at that. The sight of Sani Tsumugi enthusiastically eating the first Hamburg steak his father made him is only on par with bears and pandas. Polar Bear Cafe.

This anime is light, fun, heartwarming, and the perfect thing to watch after a tiring day. If there's only one anime fans can watch from this list, they should definitely check it out Sweetness and electricity.