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If you liked Hourou Musuko add

...then you might like Watashi no Shiawase na Kekkon add

Both are pretty shows about a maligned protagonist struggling to love herself in the face of mistreatment by those around her.

If you liked Kuragehime add

...then you might like Runway de Waratte add

Both focus on the world of fashion design. The designer in both is completely untrained but manages to understand genius bits of design. The model in both is what gets the designer to pursue fashion seriously, and both models are very strong-willed as people the designers view as beautiful.

If you liked Paradise Kiss add

...then you might like Runway de Waratte add

Both are stories revolving around fashion design and how hard one must work just to attain a tiny fraction of success in the world of fashion. Both have a strong-willed female character protagonist, and an aspiring designer male protagonist.

If you liked Paradise Kiss add

...then you might like Torikagosou no Kyou mo Nemutai Juunin-tachi add

Both series feature a female protagonist who models for an artist and, over time, grow affectionate toward that artist and the place in which the art is done. Mind you in ParaKiss she's a model for clothing whereas in Birdcage Manor it's modeling for paintings. Both protagonists have a sense of independence and rebelliousness at that high school age. A character in ParaKiss is transgender and in Birdcage Manor there's a part-time crossdressing character featured. Neither protagonist really fits into a super common trope for characters. They're realistic and I wouldn't think it odd to see either in real life. This is in contrast to the plethora of characters in anime and manga that are not like this. I think this applies to the rest of the characters in both series as well. Both are set in a believable setting as well. Nothing in either, for me anyway, screams impossibility. Most slice of life stories that I read aren't really that realistic I think, or at the very least the characters are from more exotic backgrounds than those in ParaKiss and Birdcage Manor. Without going into spoilers, both end in a rather ephemeral manner that kind of exemplifies slice of life for me, because when I finished each I really thought to myself, "in the end this was just a slice of their life," not to sound cliché or anything of course. I got the same vibe out of the two in general, particularly their endings.