>>12639538They're composed of a very small set of tropes and clichés that are handled only slightly differently. The stereotypical slice of life/romance anime/manga/visual novel/light novel includes almost all of the following:
Main character (an ordinary student with no special qualities) meets a girl at the beginning of the school year in spring under the cherry blossoms through some kind of odd coincidence
MC sits at the left-back corner of the classroom, and all of his friends sit around him
They join a school club
There's some kind of club activities
Preparations for the school festival
Summer vacations at the beach
Visit to the local shrine during the summer festival. Food eating and fair game playing scenes
School festival that takes place during early Autumn
Love confession at the rooftop/the back of the gym
Some kind of get-together for friends during Christmas.
Shrine visit during New Year's Day.
Then stuff starts cycling again when the new spring comes and everyone gets a year older.
There's like 5 or 6 different character types that appear in most of these anime (the protagonist with no special characteristics, the girl who sometimes acts like she doesn't like him and sometimes acts like she does, the girl with a very aloof personality, the girl who acts like a princess, the MC's friend who has an ugly haircut and tells dumb jokes, the girl who always acts happy). There's a few more to those, but those are some of the more basic ones.
Anime and that sort of stuff can be enjoyable in small quantities, kind of for the sake of getting distracted from real life, but it ends up becoming very dull if one consumes it as one's sole source of entertainment.
