What makes Slice of Life the best anime genre?

>>148996681
Little expectations.

Romantic Teasing.

Vicarious living.

>>148996681
SoL is a descriptor, not a genre.
Nearly every American sitcom show qualifies as a SoL.
SoL is merely shorthand for no series-wide plot and episodic in nature.
We need a better definition.

Because it doesn't get fucked from the source material line akame ga kill

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>>148996882
Mai's dog

what was the name

>>148997025

Guillotine Gorilla

>>148996873
This. The slice-of-life shows I've always enjoyed most were ones firmly planted in another, conventional genre (Nichijo for comedy, Sakamichi no Appolon for drama).

>>148996873
I thought sol was that big shiny thing that revolves around the earth

Your life sucks dick and you never get a slice. This gives you that slice.

>>148996681

Coming of Age.

>>148996681
Because anime plots are always shit. SoLs avoid this pitfall altogether.

>>148997025
Human Chopper

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Watching the life I never lived

>>148997130
Pope please go.

>>148996681
your shit taste

>>148996681
Pretending to have friends and enjoy life

>>148996681
You being a loser.

>>148996681
the satisfaction of seeing the life of often flawless and actually competent characters living an ordinary unordinary life that most of us wish we lived.