{"id":966,"date":"2004-10-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/ask-john-are-there-any-realistic-anime\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-are-there-any-realistic-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-are-there-any-realistic-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Are There Any Realistic Anime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nPutting aside giant robots, magical girls, super-powered martial artists, etc., has there ever been any anime or manga that has tried to stay as close to real life as possible?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are countless number of slice of life, realistic anime. Among them, there&#8217;s a lot of variance between exactly how much or how little these &#8220;realistic&#8221; anime reflect everyday reality.<\/p>\n<p>Just a small sample of anime titles that could occur in real life include Azumanga Daioh, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Comic Party, Millennium Actress, Boys Be&#8230;, Piano, Whisper of the Heart, Only Yesterday, I Can Hear the Ocean, Graduation, Atashinchi, Momoiro Sisters, and Touch. Certainly, some of these series are a bit more exaggerated than others, but none of these titles include any &#8220;impossibly fantastic&#8221; elements that don&#8217;t exist in real life. Anime titles such as I Can Hear the Ocean, Piano and Only Yesterday are specifically designed to seem like an animated depiction of typical daily life.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve intentionally excluded numerous sports anime titles such as Slam Dunk, Princess Nine, Prince of Tennis, Dandoh!, and Dear Boys that likewise don&#8217;t include any characteristics that couldn&#8217;t occur in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Putting aside giant robots, magical girls, super-powered martial artists, etc., has there ever been any anime or manga that has tried to stay as close to real life as possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}