9,47class score
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
TV series · 2009 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 15 viewers of the class (50%) · Shikimori 8.53
9,47class score
Genre devotees
Contemplator
«Sometimes the best plot is simply a warm day.»
slice of life and serenitywatches for the atmosphereno action, no melodrama
Rarity
less than 0.1%
30 of 90,492 profiles
Class mean score
7.32
across all ratings by the class's viewers
Ratings per list
~112
on average per viewer of the class
Who Contemplator is
The Contemplator watches anime for the thing other people take vacations for: quiet. His list is slice of life, iyashikei, stories about tea houses, camping trips and country living; series where nothing happens for twelve episodes — and that «nothing» is told with such love you can't look away. Action and drama, to him, are noise interfering with the sound of rain.
It's one of the rarest classes on the site: only a handful pick slice of life as their main genre, and the algorithm deliberately keeps its concentration bar low — otherwise nobody would ever receive the class. You don't become a Contemplator by accident: the quiet genre must claim the lion's share of the list, displacing everything loud — a conscious way of life, not a phase.
In a culture forever racing after twists and cliffhangers, the Contemplator is the most countercultural viewer of all: he gave up plot as a currency and lost nothing. His top is the site's best burnout first-aid kit: proven stories after which you want to brew tea and harm no one. In the 2020s that's arguably a superpower.
a list of pure slice-of-life · values mood over events
Characters with the same temperament
If anime characters kept rating lists, these would score titles in the spirit of «Contemplator».
Anime for Contemplator
The Contemplator's quiet shelf: the slice of life whose atmosphere is the whole reason he watches anime.
9,53class scoreNatsume YuujinchouTV series · 2008 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 15 viewers of the class (50%) · Shikimori 8.30
9,53class score
9,62class scoreNatsume Yuujinchou SanTV series · 2011 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 13 viewers of the class (43.3%) · Shikimori 8.56
9,62class score
8,69class scoreKobayashi-san Chi no Maid DragonTV series · 2017 · Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 13 viewers of the class (43.3%) · Shikimori 7.90
8,69class score
9,82class scoreNatsume Yuujinchou GoTV series · 2016 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 11 viewers of the class (36.7%) · Shikimori 8.56
9,82class score
9,64class scoreNatsume Yuujinchou RokuTV series · 2017 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 11 viewers of the class (36.7%) · Shikimori 8.61
9,64class score
9,50class scoreNatsume Yuujinchou ShiTV series · 2012 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 10 viewers of the class (33.3%) · Shikimori 8.63
9,50class score
The card is built from the ratings of all 30 viewers of the class — each class has its own recipe highlighting its signature. Music videos and 18+ are excluded. The collection recalculates as the base grows.
What the professionals of peace — one of the site's rarest classes — watch and value. The top of the list is predictably quiet; the lower you go, the louder the general catalogue gets.
- 9,53class scoreNatsume's Book of Friends
Natsume Yuujinchou
TV series · 2008 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 15 viewers of the class (50%) · Shikimori 8.30
9,53class score - 9,47class scoreNatsume's Book of Friends Season 2
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
TV series · 2009 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 15 viewers of the class (50%) · Shikimori 8.53
9,47class score - 9,62class scoreNatsume's Book of Friends Season 3
Natsume Yuujinchou San
TV series · 2011 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 13 viewers of the class (43.3%) · Shikimori 8.56
9,62class score - 9,82class scoreNatsume's Book of Friends Season 5
Natsume Yuujinchou Go
TV series · 2016 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 11 viewers of the class (36.7%) · Shikimori 8.56
9,82class score - 9,64class scoreNatsume's Book of Friends Season 6
Natsume Yuujinchou Roku
TV series · 2017 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 11 viewers of the class (36.7%) · Shikimori 8.61
9,64class score - 9,50class scoreNatsume's Book of Friends Season 4
Natsume Yuujinchou Shi
TV series · 2012 · Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 10 viewers of the class (33.3%) · Shikimori 8.63
9,50class score - 8,69class scoreMiss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon
TV series · 2017 · Slice of Life, Supernatural
in the lists of 13 viewers of the class (43.3%) · Shikimori 7.90
8,69class score 
8,17class scoreDr. StoneTV series · 2019 · Shounen, Adventure, Comedy
in the lists of 12 viewers of the class (40%) · Shikimori 8.26
8,17class score
8,09class scoreOne-Punch ManOne Punch Man
TV series · 2015 · Seinen, Action, Comedy
in the lists of 11 viewers of the class (36.7%) · Shikimori 8.48
8,09class score
7,80class scoreJujutsu KaisenTV series · 2020 · Shounen, Action, Supernatural
in the lists of 10 viewers of the class (33.3%) · Shikimori 8.50
7,80class score
How the collection is built: we take the ratings of all 30 viewers of the class and compute each title's in-class mean score and audience size. The top features titles the class both watches en masse AND rates highly (a weighted rating that cuts off stray single votes). Music videos and 18+ are excluded. The collection recalculates as the base grows.
Notable representatives
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