Genres
Slice of life
Stories of ordinary daily experience with minimal plot conflict; often episodic and open-ended.
Slice of life covers ordinary daily experience with minimal plot or conflict; the structure is episodic and often ends open rather than resolved. In web fiction it frequently appears as a secondary genre tag layered onto isekai, progression fantasy or cultivation stories during "downtime" arcs, which is why serial platforms support multiple genre tags per story.
Its structural soulmate is kishotenketsu, the four-part form that builds shape from a turn rather than a confrontation.