History Main / Iyashikei

* ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' has some angsty and sad themes, but the main point of those is helping those themes get resolved as everyone heals together and you grow your farm and social relationships.
* The ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' franchise (formerly known as ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'') is one of the most classic examples, and one that inspired Stardew Valley. You move to a small farming town and start a farm and begin to socialize with/solve the problems of the local people, as you and they grow together.

* ''Manga/{{Mono}}'': A story about the group's heartwarming adventures and their friendship while travelling across Japan's famous real-life tourist spots, creating a pleasant experience for the readers. It bears similarities to the author's predecessor manga ''Manga/LaidBackCamp''.

* The ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' and ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' franchises are one of the most classic examples, and one that inspired the later-mentioned Stardew Valley. You move to a small farming town and start a farm and begin to socialize with/solve the problems of the local people, as you and they grow together.

* ''Manga/FlyMeToTheMoon'' (AKA ''Tonikaku Kawaii'' or ''TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You''): a ChildProdigy middle school boy is saved from a nigh-fatal traffic accident by a mysterious and profoundly beautiful girl, immediately falling in love with her and asking to become a couple, which she agrees to only on the condition that he marries her. Some years after promising to meet again, the girl shows up at his doorstep precisely to marry him (as she has reached the marriageable age of 16), [[FourthDateMarriage which they do in the very same night]]. The story henceforth deals with the loving adventure of a marriage between two young people who fell in LoveAtFirstSight, but don't know each other that well.

* ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'': An orphaned and clinically depressed professional Shogi player and teen prodigy finds respite in a house across the river from where he lives in, with a family of confectioners consisting of a grandpa and his three doting granddaughters.

Iyashikei (癒し系) is Japanese for "healing", a term used for {{anime}} and {{manga}} created with the specific purpose of having a healing or soothing effect on the audience. Works of this kind often involve alternative realities with little to no conflict, emphasizing nature, the mundane and the little delights in life. If anybody talks about a "{{Moe}}" genre about cute girls doing cute things, it may very likely be in this genre.

* ''Manga/MyCluelessFirstFriend'' ([=AKA=] ''Jijyou wo Shiranai Tenkousei ga Guigui Kuru''): An elementary school girl is bullied at school and nicknamed "Grim Reaper" due to her appearance, as she is gloomy and shy. However, a transfer student from the countryside is fascinated by her "darkness", finding it cool. Through the unbridled and fundamental joy he finds in being her friend, she starts realizing that being herself is not as bad as she thinks.
* ''Manga/MyNeighborSeki'': A gag manga about a girl who finds herself distracted by her next seat classmate, a wildly imaginative boy, who manages to perform outlandish distractions instead of paying attention in class.

* ''Manga/TheCluelessTransferStudentIsAssertive'' ([=AKA=] ''Jijyou wo Shiranai Tenkousei ga Guigui Kuru''): An elementary school girl is bullied at school and nicknamed "Grim Reaper" due to her appearance, as she is gloomy and shy. However, a transfer student from the countryside is fascinated by her "darkness", finding it cool. Through the unbridled and fundamental joy he finds in being her friend, she starts realizing that being herself is not as bad as she thinks.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': SliceOfLife story of a group of high school students and some of their teachers. Full of gags and cuteness.

* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'': An ageless elven woman adventurer who used to belong to the Hero's party must learn to live in a world where her party is past their prime and dying of old age, realizing that their company was the most momentous period on her long life, and that from now on she must live her life as joyously as her party members made it for her.

* ''Manga/InTheHeartOfKunoichiTsubaki'': By the same author of ''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'', the manga shows the playful adventures of a trio of ninja girls who live in an isolationist women-only ninja village.

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%%* ''WebOriginal/GetsuyoubiNoTawawa'' (AKA ''Tawawa on Monday'')

* ''Manga/SukinakoGaMeganeWoWasureta'' ([=AKA=] ''The girl I like forgot her glasses''): ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A tender story about a middle school boy who finds himself constantly helping his next seat classmate, the girl he likes, whenever she forgets her glasses, which happens way too often because she hasn't gotten used to carrying them.

* ''Literature/ByTheGraceOfTheGods'': A salaryman in a BlackCompany dies and is reincarnated as a kid in another world, where he becomes an adventurer, starts his own business, makes friends, and rediscovers the ability to have fun and enjoy life.

* ''WebOriginal/PusheenTheCat'': A pastel-colored series of webcomics and web videos with little to no plot, featuring a cast of {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s.

* ''Barbie Pet Rescue'' for the PC is all about saving cute animals and caring for them. A whole part of gameplay is simply petting the animals and playing cute games with them. The rescue and checkup parts are very low stakes; animals are always found healthy.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' is a calm life simulator about a human who moves to a small town filled with talking animals.