Am I allowed to say Frieren here or is that too much of a normie answer? But it has a mix of stuff so it’s not fully cozy.
I don’t know the exact names, but they should be close enough.
My time at the breakwater - awwducational fishing anime
DIY-do it yourself - literally a girls club about building home projects
Wage slave and the baby ghost - this is a moe anime. It is significantly more cute than anything else… And they had to nerve to make a Christmas episode. I got choked up. Plot line basics are, ghost haunts an office building and attempts to scare off overworker(s) so they don’t die of exhaustion.
Izakaya isakai-restaurant to another world. It’s a short cozy series where each episode is about a menu item. Unlike the other extremely closely names restaurant in another world, this one stays put. The front door opens to the other world, the back door to Japan. The second half of each episode is a live action bit to explain more about the food and show a bit of cooking.
- Laid Back Camp - Exactly what it says on the tin
- Supercub - Schoolgirl gets a little motorscooter and it expands her world
- Restaurant to Another World - Restaurant Isekais once a week and then cooks the locals food
- K-On! - High school girl joins a band
- My Roommate is a Cat - Lonely writer adopts a cat/cat adopts a human
- Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid - A little wilder than some of the other ones here, but still quite cozy
These are ones I’ve seen and would recommend
Does this one count: 'Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess?
Non Non Biyori. Period.
True Cozy - Nothing bad could happen even if you added the Konosuba cast
Non non Biyori
Is the order a rabbit?
Onimai
Sleepy princess in the demon lords castle
NekoPara
Laid back camp
WATATEN: An angel flew down to me
Strawberry marshmallow
Ruri rocks
Ms vampire who lives in my neighbourhood
Mitsuboshi colours
Konohana kitten
The helpful fox Senko-san
In a small Continental European styled town in Japan, teenage Cocoa Hoto enters the cafe Rabbit House, assuming there are rabbits to be cuddled.
Looked up “Is the order a rabbit?” because I made the same assumption
This right here. Don’t sleep (heh) on sleepy princess, its peak
loved this one. fluffy comedy with a ditzy, one-track mind protagonist
With You and the Rain
- Aria
- Non Non Biyori
- Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku
- Flying Witch
- Super Cub
Azumanga Diaoh
Lucky Star
and because I am weird like that, FLCL is also oddly comforting.
A recent one is The Cat and the Dragon.
As someone who enjoys hiking and the outdoors I found Solo Camping for Two very cozy.
I couldn’t get past the part where they get together because she tells him she’ll accuse him of sexual violence if he doesn’t help her.
Chainsmoker Cat
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You what?
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It’s… It’s so not.
Edit: it is a great series, but it’s as far from a cozy slice-of-life show as you can get without being a seinen battle series. Like, things Planetes has that definitely don’t show up in cozy or SOL:
- Radiation sickness
- Cancer
- Suicide
- Asphyxiation
- Kessler Syndrome
- Multiple terrorist attacks
- Graft
- Constant smoking
- Hijackings
- Frame-ups
- Spaceships as WMDs
- Hachi’s dad
Just to name a few.
Further edit: are you thinking of Space Brothers instead?
