Tag Archives: Slice of Life

Anime and the Slice of Life Genre

I was trying to watch another Kobato episode earlier tonight and I just could not stand it. The show is absolutely dull and you would be hard-pressed to convince me otherwise. I’m following Kobato as she goes around a giant university campus looking for some dude (I think his name is Fujimoto) and the big elephant in the room just kept jabbing me in the face with its nose: who gives a damn?

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Geijutsuka Art Design Class Ep. 2

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The second episode of the awkwardly-titled GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class was finally subtitled after several fallow weeks, no news as to whether the group responsible will continue the series or not. In any case, given the narrow range of even vaguely bearable new shows this season I’ve actually found myself looking forward to more of GA, which so far seems like a pretty enjoyable Hidamari clone.

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