 If you liked
Aria the Animation
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Hidamari Sketch
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Extremely high profile non-miyazaki slice-of-life anime that get many installment.
In one famous opinion piece about anime, "rowing a boat" is a coined term means slice-of-life anime with slow pace that watch the everyday life of bishoujo characters.
Both anime are rowing a boat. One is rowing in a utopia future re-make of classical Venice city, the other row a boat in a modern day Japanese high-school setting. Rowing-a-boat anime will be highly soothing or extremely boring depends on your preferences (of girls in the show or maybe settings.) Let's just say that rowing-a-boat is not new of a genre, but somehow only recently become highly-anticipated.
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Recommended by lapisdragon
Akari = Yuno w/ pigtails. Slice-of-life goodness.
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Recommended by Shinmeiryuu
They're both slow paced slice of life that are rather episodic, and help you relax after a long day. No need to worry about drama in both of them, as they're both light-hearted anime about taking life as it comes, not rushing it.
Though Aria is more sci-fi based and about undines, and Hidamari Sketch is about art, they both showcase the fun in the process rather than the end goal. They're both revolved around a group of girls who are all pursuing a dream that they wish to achieve. Aria being an Undine, and Hidamari Sketch being an artist. Both have characters that are easily
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