Do It Yourself!! is the big new slice-of-life anime of the season, featuring a group of high school girls learning to build or repair a variety of things using only tools and their own skills. The Fall 2022 season is stacked with loads of popular series, but Do It Yourself!! manages to stack up with the best of them in terms of viewership.
Fans of cute girls doing a variety of activities will surely enjoy this cozy, slice-of-life anime, but may not be satisfied with only one episode coming out every week. Here are some other slice-of-life anime to check out for fans of Do It Yourself!!
10 Encouragement Of Climb
The indoorsy Aoi Yukimura reunites with her childhood friend Hinata Kurae, who is an avid mountain climber. Despite having a fear of heights due to a bad fall in her youth, Aoi agrees to climb a mountain with Hinata to go see the sunrise they once saw when they were children.
Encouragement of Climb is a slice-of-life series centered around mountain climbing. The girls go on a variety of adventures while living their daily lives, meeting a bunch of girls who share similar interests. The anime's fourth season is airing right now, so there's quite a bit to watch.
9 Gabriel DropOut
Gabriel Tenma White was the top angel in her school and was heavily motivated to help humans and guide them throughout life. However, when she arrived on Earth, Gabriel quickly became addicted to video games, transforming into a lazy, unmotivated slob.
Gabriel DropOut follows Gabriel and the other angels and demons currently living on Earth as they live out their daily lives and go to high school. Their lives are usually filled with goofy antics as they attempt to hide their otherworldly traits from other humans.
8 Hidamari Sketch
Yuno gets accepted into Yamabuki Art High School, her dream school. She quickly moves into the nearby Hidamari Apartments, making friends with her fellow art students and residents. The story generally revolves around Yuno, her neighbor Miyako, and her seniors Hiro and Sae.
Hidamari Sketch is a cute slice-of-life anime that follows the daily lives of four art school students. While the stories are generally very lighthearted and fluffy, there are also a lot of introspective moments where the characters dwell on their future.
7 Is The Order A Rabbit?
Cocoa Hoto enters the Rabbit House café, not realizing that it is the boarding house for her new high school. She meets Chino Kafu, the granddaughter of the Rabbit House's owner, and learns that she will be working at the café to pay for her accommodations.
Is The Order A Rabbit? is yet another cutesy slice-of-life series, this time centered around working in a café. The series is largely comedic and revolves around the silly hijinks the characters get up to on a day-to-day basis.
6 K-On!
In order to save the Sakuragaoka High School light music club from being disbanded, Yui Hirasawa and three other girls become members of the empty club. Despite not really knowing how to play guitar, Yui resolves to become a core part of the club and endeavors to learn to play as quickly as possible.
K-On! is a massively popular series from the 2000s, and many older anime fans still hold it up as one of the definitive anime of its time. The four main characters are still highly recognizable to anime fans even to this day.
5 New Game!
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Aoba Suzukaze, a high school graduate and fan of the Fairies Story series, joins the company Eagle Jump as a character designer. As she gets acclimated to her new job, she becomes acquainted with her fellow co-workers and makes friends in the company.
New Game! is focused on the video game industry but from a cozy and lighthearted perspective. Aoba takes some time to get used to her job, but seeing her work at her dream job is surely a joyful experience.
4 Yuru Camp
Rin Shima is an avid camper, frequently going on trips by herself. She soon meets her classmate Nadeshiko Kagamihara, who convinces her to join the school's camping club. Together, the camping club travels Japan and experience camping in various locations.
Yuru Camp is an outdoorsy series centered around the joy of camping, and it is one of the more popular slice of life series of the past few years. The series has a documentary feel to it as the characters travel across Japan and visit various places on their journeys.
3 Lucky Star
Lucky Star follows the lives of Konata Izumi, sisters Kagami and Tsukasa Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara as they live out their lives at a normal Japanese high school. The story is fairly non-essential and mostly focuses on the various conversation topics that the four get into.
Lucky Star was one of the most popular anime series of the 2000s, and one of the driving examples of slice-of-life comedies featuring the everyday lives of cute high school girls. Lucky Star's popularity endures to this day, and it remains a lynchpin of anime fandom.
2 Bocchi The Rock!
Hitori Goto is a talented guitarist, but her appalling lack of social skills has left her unable to share her ability with her classmates. A chance meeting with fledgling musicians Nijika and Ryo gives Hitori, soon nicknamed "Bocchi," the chance to be a part of a band.
Bocchi the Rock! is a new series airing this season, alongside Do It Yourself!! Fans of anime focused on music will love this series, as well as those who enjoy the comedy derived from Bocchi's hilarious overreactions and expressions.
1 Shirobako
Aoi Miyamori was in an animation club with her close group of friends, and they all promise to work together on a real anime one day. In the present, Aoi is now a production assistant at Musashino Animation, while her former classmates are now working in various positions in the anime industry.
Shirobako is an amazing look into the world of animation, from the perspective of adult women rather than the high school girls anime fans are used to seeing. Shirobako is a huge breath of fresh air while still being the cozy slice-of-life series that many anime fans enjoy.