Slice of life story

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A slice of life story is a category for a story that portrays a "cut-out" sequence of events in a character's life. It may or may not contain any real plot, and often has no exposition, action, conflict, or denouement, with an open ending. It usually tries to depict the every-day life of ordinary people. The term slice of life is actually a (more or less) dead metaphor: it often seems as if the author had taken a knife and cut out a slice of the lives of some characters, without concern for narrative form. It is sometimes called tranche de vie, from the French.

John Steinbeck is an example of someone who uses "slice of life." Steinbeck takes experiences from his own life and makes characters who could very well be real characters and turns it into a story. An example is Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.^[1]

It has also been defined as an "episode of actual experience represented realistically and with little alteration in a dramatic, fictional, or journalistic work." (cp. Answers.com).

There are typically no fantasy or science fiction elements in "slice of life" shows, movies, or video games.^{[citation needed]} Super Jinsei Game and Bakushou!! Jinsei Gekijou are two examples of "slice of life" video games. Sports may be present in "slice of life" in a thematic form in order to advance the plot of the story.

1 Examples
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

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Dubliners, James Joyce - (short story collection)^[2]
"The Sun-Dog Trail", Jack London - (short story)^{[citation needed]}
"The Traveller", Chris de Burgh - (pop song)^{[citation needed]}
"The Listeners", Walter de la Mare - (poem)^{[citation needed]}
Night on Earth, Jim Jarmusch - (movie)^{[citation needed]}
"Tom's Diner", Suzanne Vega - (pop song)^[3]
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, Hitoshi Ashinano - (manga series)^[4]
Yotsuba&!, Kiyohiko Azuma - (manga series)^[5]
Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques - (webcomic)^{[citation needed]}
Azumanga Daioh, Kiyohiko Azuma - (manga series, anime series)^[6]
Asatte no Houkou, J-ta Yamada - (manga series, anime series)^{[citation needed]}
Lucky ☆ Star, Kagami Yoshimizu - (manga series, anime series)^[7]
Crayon Shin Chan, - (manga series, anime series)^{[citation needed]}
Hidamari Sketch, Ume Aoki - (manga series, anime series)^[8]
Aria, Kozue Amano - (manga series, anime series)^[9]
Seinfeld, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld (television series) ^[10]
Genshiken - (manga series, anime series)^{[citation needed]}
The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland - (Novel)^{[citation needed]}
Z's Metro Tales - (webcomic)^{[citation needed]}
To Heart , Ukyou Takao and Naohito Takahashi - (manga series, anime series)^[11]
Kare Kano, Masami Tsuda - (manga series, anime series)^[12]

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^ Joe Banno. "Reigning Men", Washington City Paper, November 9-15, 2001. Retrieved on 2008-06-05. "It does justice to both Of Mice and Men's European smarts and its italicized form of Americana, without apologizing or attempting to hammer itself back into Steinbeck's slice-of-life original."
^ Christopher White. James Joyce, Dubliners Unabridged. Green Man Review. Retrieved on 2007-12-16. “The structure and content of the Dubliner stories, with their 'slice of life' approach and often lack of overt dramatic conflict and resolution, are today thoroughly familiar forms and devices, but were part of the explorations engaged in by Joyce and his contemporaries that transformed our literary tradition.”
^ Tom's Diner. The Rusted Pipe Web Site. Retrieved on 2008-06-05. “"Tom's Diner" was written in Tom's Restaurant, it's really about Tom's Restaurant, on 112th Street and Broadway in New York City, and it was really written from the point of view of my friend Brian, who is a photographer, and had made a comment to me one day that he felt that as a photographer, he saw his whole life through a pane of glass, and always felt like he was the witness to a lot of things, but was never really involved in them.”
^ Dirk Deppey (2006-10-13). A Comics Reader's Guide to Manga Scanlations. The Comics Journal. Retrieved on 2007-12-16. “The few actual incidents that occur in this series -- Alpha getting hit by lightning and recuperating in a hospital, or running out of coffee beans and riding her scooter to Yokohama to get more -- punctuate a calm, endless sea of chapters wherein she does little more than sit by the window, drink coffee, wander the fields with her camera, visit the beach with friends or pay leisurely visits to the town's few remaining human citizens.”
^ Carlo Santos (2007-11-27). RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - Society for the Study of Really Awesome Endings. Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2007-12-16. “Such is the way of Kiyohiko Azuma's slice-of-life storytelling, which was mastered within the four-panel pillars of Azumanga Daioh but perfected only in the full-chapter format that Yotsuba&! brings.”
^ Carl Kimlinger (2007-12-15). Azumanga Daioh GN - Omnibus Edition. Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2007-12-16. “Azumanga Daioh is a slice-of-life chronicle of high-school friendships cranked up to just the right extremity to be absolutely hilarious.”
^ "Lucky Star (TV)". “Genres: comedy, slice of life”
^ Hidamari Sketch. “For those of you who wish, count how many words generated in this post and we will see if it beats 1000. For I will talk about Hidamari Sketch, a slice of life anime thrown together with comedy, chibi, and a bit of cuteness that is not overbearing.”
^ Dirk Deppey (2007-01-24). ADV's Abandoned Manga. The Comics Journal. Retrieved on 2008-01-06. “Like this manga's closest spiritual contemporary, Hitoshi Ashinano's Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, it doesn't have story arcs so much as an endless string of idyllic moments. Rather than a plot, Aria contains a series of encounters with customers, townspeople and the city and surrounding countryside.”
^ "Seinfeld a Study of Modern Character". Annika Backlund. Retrieved on 2008-02-28. “...Television offers its viewers a slice of life of New York citizen Jerry Seinfeld and friends...”
^ To Heart. “Genres: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life No. of Episodes: 13”
^ Reviews Kare Kano aka His and Her Circumstances. Anime Planet (2004-09-11). Retrieved on 2008-02-07. “...I like slice of life shows. I like slow shows, and I like shows about nothing. But nothing about this slice of life type show was amusing, funny, or exciting, except the weak concept of a relationship which was ditched for randomness and "humor" early on.”