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Not into the romance genre? good, that means you may have plenty to say about its shortcomings. But if you are into the romance genre, I'm sure you still have opinions on what makes a bad romance in anime.
Share your insights about the shortcomings of the genre. Harem not your thing? the main character is dense? side cast just love the MC unconditionally? tsundere archetypes are overrated?
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I super like romance animes, I’m into it lately too. I think every season I have at least one currently watching. 😂
And so, I rarely get bored with it. I usually end up watching the entire thing even when I have to wait weekly for new episodes.
But but but, when it comes to love triangles involving childhood friends of the opposite gender not ending up together, then goodbye. I like that childhood friends end up as lovers and not choosing someone else. 😂
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interesting!
as for me, i like romance anime too until the main character self pities and belittles himself/herself. the minute overthinking steps in the plot, i leave. i have enough overthinking in real life already. lols
@appleeatingapple how about you?
uhhhmmm... i dont watch anime with only romance👀 but.... I read manga where there a isekai and harem things going on... is that weird? hehe😅🤣
Ikaw @demotry, ano po masasabi mo?? hahaha
I really overused plot is the love triangle. If you watch one or two it can be entertaining, but after a while it becomes incredibly repetitive and therefore boring. Sometimes it doesn't even add anything important to the story.
This doesn't happen only in anime, but it's what I think is the biggest fail.
It's familiar and trying to get 4 people romantically involved is a lot harder. That's why polyamory stories hardly works unless the author goes through a harem route where there's a focus character tying them all up. But I've seen harem stories where the other girls diverge from the MC and create their own character than being a side character which the MC can choose anytime, the problem with this route is how it's harder to write about since the focus of the story is harem romance. Not saying the love triangle trope is bad nor is it good, it's just familiar and easy to produce as a base for a story.
Yes, I totally agree. It's not too bad nor too good either, but the only way I can see it workout is if the author makes a big effort to right a good story with good characters
A love triangle is always there in romance anime 😂
I remembered one anime from last season, Yubasaki To Renren (A Sign Of Affection) (oops, name drop lol) I didn’t continue watching anymore because the story seems to go with the good looking guy she just met over her childhood friend. While this guy is decent and somewhat kind, I can’t helped but be disappointed because I like the childhood guy for her. My personal preference though. That’s why I don’t like love triangles, I end up not watching anymore when the ones I like don’t end up.
So true! It's always the same over and over, and most of the time the main characters final pick is not the best at all 😅.
It's definitely a plot that becomes way too repetitive and annoying
I think they ran out of ideas with the plot 😂
Definitely 😅
I'm not really fond of romance anime, but for me, what really made it fail is that its plot is too unrealistic. I mean, how could you possibly fall in love with a man or woman whom you just met ?
I just don't get the sense in it (lol, it's just attraction or lust that they're feeling—how could they possibly label it as love?!), and also, the toxic ml who always gets the nice fml is really overused. I hate that they somehow show that fml gets a character improvement (daw), but ends up choosing the crappy ml (like, where's the improvement, huh?).
Hey, you can actually fall in love at first sight. It's not unrealistic. Some people do. 😅
Like when you laid your eyes on them, you'll just know he/she is the one. 😌
And actually this is normal in Japanese culture. One confesses love to another who he/she didn’t even met yet, but they end up as lovers. That’s common in Japan.
It’s like they’re having a trial versiok of their relationship, checking if they will be compatible.
I don't really believe in love at first sight thingy, because for me, love is much deeper than that. I would rather call it an attraction because I can't imagine a person falling in love just because he or she really likes his or her appearance. Maybe they're just attracted, not in love, and maybe when that attraction is nurtured, it becomes attachment, and of 'course, if they're attached to each other to the point that they want to spend the rest of their lives together, that's where commitment comes in.
I think love is more than the physical tension and attraction that they felt. That's why it felt wrong for me when they labeled the attraction that they felt for each other as love, especially those mcs whose bond looked forced and ungenuine—let alone realistic.
I don't really consider it a fail, but most of them have the same story... Unpopular girl meets the popular guy, then they fall in love... meet some challenges, get over them and live happily ever after. It's the same story. There are some exceptions though... I guess it's the reason why I like tragic love story or forbidden love story more than the usual happily ever after ones.
waaaaa!! that would be so sad! tragic story for me, that would be the point of failure 😂
forbidden love.. hmm that's kinda interesting to watch too!
I don't know, I think the similarity with TV novels is what I don't like, I mean the drama style; what I describe is making reference to anime of many episodes and where for example in "Saikano", an anime that I reviewed last February, I expose what I liked, being precisely the shortness of its story.
The romance genre in anime, I think I learned to respect it more from movies like "Your Name".
The plot difference- Your Name is just really a great one. Saikano - not too sure I haven’t watched it before.
You are right, stories change, evolve and I think it's all due to giving opportunities to certain stories that can be entertaining.
Many movies lately are really good!
Lack of reality, generally the genre of anime that involves couples drowns them and forces them to fall in love, their chemistry is forced, Invite @avdesing 😃/
Carecen de realidad, generalmente el genero del anime que envuelve a las parejas los ahoga y los obliga a enamorarse, su quimica es forzada, Invito a Avdesing 😃/
Hard to execute natural chemistry this way, especially if the plot was something related to a catastrophic event that brought them together. They are either drawn together by adrenaline or it's just actual attraction looking like adrenaline.
I watched too many romances and all the ones I saw failed in the same thing, of course, always from my point of view. All in love with the same protagonist when there are other characters that are more worthwhile.
Desperate to get the attention of a single person and when that protagonist has a partner, they do the impossible to separate them and for the slightest thing, they separate and then return and the cycle repeats itself haha 😂 OMG!
Probably an exploration for fandom satisfaction, Subaru x Rem and Subaru x Emilia. Sometimes both teams have equally good chemistry and sometimes it's just bad.
I've seen a few fail at the same thing. The protagonists are so standardized that they become very simplistic and predictable, there is no development in personalities, they end up together with almost nothing in common with each other, no connection, plus the terrible reliance on awkward situations or forced accidents to generate "romantic tension", instead of allowing feelings to develop organically and believably, as real people would.
Curious, can you give an anime as a sample?
The ones that come to mind right now are The Quintessential Quintuplets, Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji, and Kakkou no Iinazuke.
Ohh interesting. I actually like those animes. 😂
A romance anime fails when the girl is clueless while the boy makes all the effort...or vice versa. It's like everyone knows except the one person they're in love with...No good background of the characters and no specific future for the two. 😅
Yes, in general the dense MC trope is so overused and annoying. Here we have an awkward, shy MC but has a female friend who obviously like him. Then there are others who like him as well. All the while our MC continues to be shy and clueless.
Hahaha harem 😂
Romance frequently fails when a character decides to go for a different love interest without any logical reason for it. I one time saw something more aggregious: a girl turned straight when her entire goal and pursuit was for another girl when it didn’t make sense. When writing a romance, a plot outline and direction for it should be a priority.
This is frustrating, although no show comes to mind while writing this comment at the moment. I've read some fanfictions that pursue this character development and in makes no sense. I think the problem is the author having no mastery at the romance genre or trying to take a dip at it. Romance, like comedy is a hit or miss, either the viewers get goosebumps from the relationship on screen / panel or not. And there's the part where love can just be irrational bs card, as much as I detest this reasoning, sometimes it may just be what it is, at least that's what I see can happen in real life.
I feel pain on that last part because sadly, it can happen in real life way too often. Anime is an escape but sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. 😭
I think what ends up making an anime of romance boring is the lack of progression between the protagonists, many times seasons and seasons go by without seeing practically any progress between them, not even a declaration of love and others usually have this same failure but with a different approach, they start as a couple but after that the chapters go by and you don't see that they have progress and much less real problems, the chapters go by and they feel like the same couple of the first chapter.
Can’t recall a recent anime I watched with this plot.. fortunately. 😅
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I like Romance Anime. Where does it fail? I think it is subjective simply because we have different tastes. A failed romance anime to others can be good to others. Most of the romance animes that I watched lately are good to me.
I haven't really watched a lot or a handful of romance animes to see any failure in them. I always stop halfway and never complete it or I get bored and skip to the last chapters. I don't know, sometimes I feel they're unrealistic or they're too predictable and this is entirely my opinion though,I do not fancy a movie,anime,book, whatsoever that I can predict. I love challenging my mind to figure the plot of an anime. And I love it even more when I can't seem to figure it out and always fail when I come up with a conclusion only to find out that's not what's going to happen. Another reason why I really loved AOT. I think I've only watched like 3 or 5 romance anime, that's if you don't exclude bl.