Days 10 & 11

[sara_tanaquil]

Whoops, yesterday got away from me. Luckily these two are pretty easy (if unoriginal).

Favorite slice of life anime



It feels like cheating to mention an anime more than once, but it's hard to choose anything but Azumanga Daioh for slice of life. I'm not even sure what else I would count toward the genre. (Does it count if something belongs to another genre, like romance, but does a really good job of capturing the feel of everyday life? If so, I might name KareKano or the much MUCH less well known BL anime Lesson XX.)

Favorite mecha anime



And again with the cheating. Escaflowne, all the way. I really don't like mecha in general, but I loved how Escaflowne incorporated mecha into the fantasy genre. Cloaks! Dragons!

Oh, but thinking of a runner-up for mecha, this has the interesting quality of combining an answer to both 10 & 11. I saw the OVA series at a campus anime club, and it's more slice of life than robot battle, very sweet.

Comments

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

I really don't know what slice of life is, that's my problem. Part of me thinks of it as "any anime that realistically evokes the details of ordinary life" (which is why almost all shoujo counts if it isn't set in a fantasy universe), but properly, I think it ought to be an anime whose only reason to exist is to do ordinary-life vignettes (i.e. not a romance, mystery, sci-fi story, etc). And not many things do that well.