Shirokuma Cafe

These anime are mostly set at restaurants, cafes or bars. The characters are either working there, are frequent customers, or have yet another connection with these places.

(supposedly child-friendly and pure)
(this list is in no way complete and will be revised over time)

shows with penguins! still a growing thread.

Anime with unique art-style/premise and or surreal/dreamlike sequences

Animes starring anthropomorphic animals.


Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3720
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/6893

As far as I'm concerned there's an anime about pretty much everything if you look hard enough: diving, underwear design, insurance investigation (yup!) and don't even get me started on cooking. So there, picked titles with main characters directly involved and at least some focus on whatever they're doing for a living or a hobby or both.

Part two^ https://myanimelist.net/stacks/30206 (it's a work in progress though)

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Blautoothdmand. “The Appeal of Slice of Life.” The Artifice. 27 December 2017.
Roquet, Paul. “Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm: Mood Regulation in Contemporary Japanese Fiction.” Journal of Japanese Studies. 35:1 (2008): 87-95.
Zeria. “Iyashikei: The Genre of Healing – An Attempt at a Definition.” Floating into Bliss. 27 May 2017.
---. “The Definition of Iyashikei Isn’t So Simple.” Floating into Bliss. 15 July 2019.

Just some Iyashikei(healing) anime to make your day better.
This will be the ultimate list. I'll add more by time to time.
I'll add only one season of each anime.

animes where there are appearances of primates; monkeys, gorillas, etc..

some really good anime where all (or most of) the characters are furries

life is chaotic, so sit back and turn your mind off - watch these cute refreshing soothing show :)

Anime stack for you to relax and chill out

List of anime with pretty colors, cute characters or pets/mascots.

Maybe those works partially helped me and others to acquire Japanese by the work itself, directly or indirectly. No other hints(english, native subs via sub skimming and negative delay, memorized words) to the japanese being expressed were necessary

Not that Anime in general is difficult to comprehend in the long run, his show and tell and compelling narration helps a bunch. At least the top 500 on myanimelist have compelling stories for everyone.

Accepting suggestions for new stories.