ping pong

>>22630
lucky star!

detective conan maybe.
one outs kinda
9 love stories
black lagoon is pretty impossible, so ig uess not that.
there arent a lot of slow burners or pulpy stuff in anime with a modern setting. Plenty of slice of life, but those dont even have stories (see lucky star)

Try Kaiji

Uchuu Kyoudai. Easily.

>>22630
If you want regular people doing regular people things.

Honey and Clover
Usagi Drop

>>22745
also,

Welcome to the NHK

>>22650
>detective conan
is not realistic at all

>>22630
Beck, NANA, Hajime no Ippo, 5 Centimeters per Second, Perfect Blue

>>22630
Durarara.
Also seconding Honey and Clover.

>>23609
durarara
>realistic
wut? still decent anime though.

Cory in the house

>>22724
this

>>22630
Genshiken (otaku at university)
Hidamari Sketch (cute teenage girls at art-focused high school)
Hyouka (teenage detectives at high school)
Joshiraku (most japanese of all anime)
Michiko to Hatchin (girl and her mom on a road trip)
Nodame Cantabile (adult students at music school)
Shirobako (making anime, the anime)

seconding Welcome to the NHK, Nana and Perfect Blue

>>22630
Monster.

>>22630
if "modern times" include the 50s/60s:
- Kids on the Slope
- Mouryou no Hako

>>23674
Seconding this