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. On serial platforms it works mostly as a secondary tag: Royal Road's slice-of-life tag search filters thousands of stories, and the first results commonly also carry isekai, progression fantasy or cultivation tags, 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.