Ever tried your hardest at something, only to get smacked down? Ever wanted someone to help you up afterward? You might get hooked on Haikyuu!! The characters' camaraderie will make even non-sports fans smile! The team dynamic is excellent: all of Hinata and Kageyama's teammates are quirky in their own way, but don't hesitate to step up for each other. Kageyama in particular is a joy to watch initially he bristles at his upbeat teammate, but learns to work with Hinata to make the whole team stronger than any one of its members alone. It's fun to watch former archenemies get used to each other.
Eventually he forms a team of amateurs to compete in the school tournament, only to get wrecked by star setter Tobio Kageyama, the "King of the Court." Then in high school, they're put on the same team! Although he's the only member, he practices hard every day for months. Haikyuu!! MAL Rated 8.68, Ranked #43 | Aired Spring 2014 | Produced by Production I.GĪfter seeing a volleyball match on TV, pint-sized Shouyou Hinata starts his own volleyball club. If cute children bring out your maternal or paternal side, also check out Barakamon! If you're not lost in the scenery, you'll be aww-ing over the girls' friendship, with all the innocence, curiosity, and even romance that it has to offer. Non Non Biyori is set in a lovingly drawn and detailed countryside, from the forested mountains surrounding the village to the one schoolteacher's family's rice field. The adventures of Asahigaoka's schoolgirls are bite-sized stories with little continuity each episode is titled like a diary entry, such as "Summer Vacation Started," "We Made Snow Houses".and "I Became A Ghost and Tried Hard." If the titles alone didn't already have you smiling, watching the girls interact is sure to make you happy! They're all in the same class, because Asahigaoka is just that small. The show follows five girls ranging from first to eighth grade. Enter Non Non Biyori, set in the out-of-the-way village of Asahigaoka. With all that goes on in the cities of Japan, rural slice-of-life is surprisingly underrepresented in anime. Non Non Biyori MAL Rated 8.10, Ranked #414 | Aired Fall 2013 | Produced by Silver Link Even if you don't play instruments, the adorable cast and their happy days of club activities are sure to cheer you up! Cute, relatable, and with a great ear for rock, K-On! might be all the motivation you need to pick up an instrument again. If you have a musical background, you'll see a lot of yourself in Yui and friends, whether they're saving money to buy a guitar or gushing over Jeff Beck's technical skill. But while K-On! starts out mostly focused on schoolgirl antics, the girls' dream of starting a band and playing the Budokan slowly builds steam.
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The only problem is that she doesn't know how to play an instrument! Yui and her bandmates may not be the most musically gifted students, but what they lack in experience they make up for in dedication.Īs high school slice of life goes it's fairly standard: there's the friendly girl, the serious girl, the ambitious girl and the airhead. High school freshman Yui Hirasawa joins the light music club just to have something to do after school. K-On! MAL Rated 7.90, Ranked #660 | Aired Spring 2009 | Produced by Kyoto Animation
And as we all know, happy tears are the best kind! An episode of Natsume's Book of Friends may make you cry, but those tears will always end up as tears of joy. Natsume shies away from his duty to the youkai at first, but his own abusive past leads him to sympathize with them and gradually heal. Many of the youkai in the Book of Friends appear evil at first, but are actually misunderstood and shunned by humans and youkai alike. Keep tissues on hand for this one, because it's heartwarming and heartbreaking throughout.
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Like Yubaba in Spirited Away, Natsume's grandmother stole the names of the youkai to bind them to serve her, and Natsume decides to use the book to free them all.even the evil ones. The book's title is a bit of a misnomer: within it are the names of many youkai, or spirits, that Natsume's grandmother enslaved. If you try to see the good in everything.Īfter Takashi Natsume's grandmother passes away, he inherits her mysterious Book of Friends. Natsume Yuujinchou (Natsume's Book of Friends) MAL Rated 8.44, Ranked #128 | Aired Summer 2008 | Produced by Brains Base Whether slice-of-life or adventure, comedy or romance, short or long, we challenge you to suppress a smile while watching something from this list. There's definitely a time and place for heavy, dark stories, but we all need to indulge in some feel good anime at some point. Not every anime can be Aldnoah.Zero or Hell Girl.