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I have a problem with deinfing slice-of-life as a genre. By this I mean I have trouble with it as opposed to the common usage which means the subject is problematic. To me slice-of-life is more a narrative device rather than a genre unto its own; or at least, it's better discussed this way as opposed to the constant quibbling whether a work can be categorized as such in an attempt to judge it in more advantageous terms by the reviewer (advantageous to his purpose to either pan it or praise it, it could go either way).As a narrative device, it's very useful in portraying character very quickly. One can show possessions, interactions with intimates, reflection upon the things that matter most or at least most familiar to the character. We like it I think, because we like to like characters; and it is in these moments that we are seduced by them. Later on, the seduction pays off when the character does something big and dramatic; or dies.In Bokurano it's what distinguishes it from other works a large cast that would have been otherwise unwieldy, or one-note in a bad way becomes a powerful unity of different approaches to death and bad hands dealt.

Depending on how we define genre, I might agree with you. That is, I would also say that slice of life is a nariatrve device, or a set of related nariatrve devices (and that there's no point in quibbling about it). But to me a genre is just that we identify genre by the set of devices it's composed of. I'm definitely not suggesting that Bokurano's falling within slice of life precludes other genres from being applicable to it. In fact, I think of it more in terms of slice of life falling within Bokurano.