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What kind of couples would you like to see more of in romance anime? I need to know!

Personally, I'd like to see more age gap couples. Ideally, one character would be 15 or younger, and the other character would be at least 25. It's a plus if they're blood-related.
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"What kind of couples would you like to see more of in romance anime?"

Yuri couples. <3



SerafosNov 3, 5:04 AM
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More age gap with the woman being older

But make it reasonable like a dude being like 20 and the lady like 25-27.
Nov 3, 5:13 AM
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  • tall girl x short guy
  • age gap couples
  • incest couples
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anything but pornstar x midget, that combination needs to cease existing
Nov 3, 5:19 AM
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Actually not for romance shows but when a show isn't about romance I love how Tomino had done it with most relationships in gundam, the fact that relationships, breaking up and becoming a couple was treated as just another part of life and not a big deal (I am pretty sure Kamille and Fa for example didn't even became a couple on screen, I remember that just at some point the story just treated them as a couple) feels fun

For romance I love how in UY and Ranma they are obviously a couple and act like a couple, yet they will never admit to being a couple (Amuro literally went on a date with Lum and didn't accept they are in a relationship)
Nov 3, 5:49 AM
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eh I guess something like My Life as Inukai-san's Dog would be great
Nov 3, 6:09 AM
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Tall handsome older brother x short cute little sister is the best and most vanilla pairing imaginable
edit: blood related (obviously)
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Milf x shota
Ugly bastard x gyaru
Nerd x loli
Blood related brother and sister
Yuri
Blood related Yuri
Gyaru x masochist
Sadist x ugly bastard
Chuuni x setokaichou
Nekomini x kitsune
Ghost x zombie
Yuki onna x kagutsuchi
Kappa x yamata no Orochi
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Nov 3, 6:17 AM
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more age gap couples [younger woman/older man]
Nov 3, 6:36 AM

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I wanna see Couples where the woman is physically abusive to the guy.
Nov 3, 6:46 AM

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A couple with childhood friend where she doesn't loss.
Nov 3, 6:47 AM

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We need more yuri... I think... yuri.

Nov 3, 7:04 AM

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I'm pretty open to everything as long as the couple is straight and wholesome.

WaterMage said:
A couple with childhood friend where she doesn't loss.
Yes, I'd certainly like more romances in general (not just with Anime) where the childhood friend is not just an option, but THE option, aka true route.
Nov 3, 7:08 AM
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Sick bipolar yuri with mood rollercoaster, cheating, breaks and comebacks, wild sex moments and neverending drama. Just like irl.
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Nov 3, 7:11 AM

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Height gap couples. Ugly x handsome couple. Rich x poor couple.
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Jeeze, I think the OP is probably FBI. I suspect that there are Internet police on all websites. I guess Ejrodiew is one of them.
Nov 3, 7:15 AM
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Jeeze, I think the OP is probably FBI. I suspect that there are Internet police on all websites. I guess Ejrodiew is one of them.
@DesuMaiden Would you like more pairs like you and him in anime?
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Nov 3, 7:15 AM

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Femdom based relationships preferably with an adult cast or slender,more human-like art
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Nov 3, 7:20 AM

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Anything with a reverse trap/female cross-dresser being honest. Preferably that is accepted by the other party and he doesn't try to change it. I'll be happy if that appears in yuri too, but female cross-dresser x regular straight guy is my preference
Nov 3, 7:23 AM

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Adult male paired with female child
Female child paired with female child
Older brother/younger sister pairings (especially if the younger sister is a child) ← Only if there is a blood relation, same goes for all further incestuous pairings
Father/daughter pairings (especially if the daughter is a child)
Heterosexual pairings where the female is masochistic (especially if the masochistic female is a child)
Harems consisting solely of female children
Socially accepted adult/child and/or incestuous pairings
Non-BL pairings of 2 heterosexual (or lesbian) males
Male paired with dark-skinned non-ethnic female
Male paired with overweight female (especially if the overweight female is a child)
Socially shunned homosexual pairings
Mother/son pairings where the mother is a child and the son is an adult ← This is my favorite
Nov 3, 7:25 AM

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The abusive stockholm syndrome kind
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Wholesome couples where they trust each other and the male lead is protective.



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i want the mc to chase someone for a long time before realizing they’re finally not compatible together, and go with someone who’s been supporting them the whole time and has much better chemistry with (kind of like toradora if it was slow burn and the endgame wasn’t obvious from the start)
Nov 3, 7:45 AM

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According from anime.plus I've been completed 359 Romance anime and I'm gonna say this.

An couple that understanding, honest, and growing their relationship each other without/less interfering from anyone else. This is the reason why I really dislike Love Triangle Romance anime.

Let them happy together.
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Nov 3, 7:47 AM

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Wholesome couples where they trust each other and the male lead is protective.
That's one of the most common types already.
Nov 3, 7:55 AM

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We need more yuri... I think... yuri.
@Absurdo_N

We also need a third season of Super Lovers for more incest.

Nov 3, 8:08 AM
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Paranormal seme x lonely uke
Idiot seme x idiot uke
Doting seme x denpa uke
Younger seme x older uke
Human seme x robot uke
Yandere seme x yandere uke
Sci-fi seme x fantasy uke
Cop seme x ex-cop uke
Shy seme x socialite uke
Uke-like seme x seme-like uke
Nov 3, 8:14 AM
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The abusive stockholm syndrome kind
@JaniSIr Do you have a few decent examples worth the time? I'll be happy to watch something like that.
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More age gap with the woman being older

But make it reasonable like a dude being like 20 and the lady like 25-27.
@dadnaya If it's "reasonable" it doesn't qualify as an age gap though. That's just regular romance.
A proper age gap romance needs to have that as a source of conflict, not just a mere mention of the character's age.
I guess you could try to argue that a working adult dating a university student is "odd", being at slightly different stage in life, but unless the older one is the younger one's professor, it doesn't amount for much.
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Nov 3, 8:28 AM
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The wholesome type of couples: Clannad, Lovely Complex, Relife type of caliber.
Nov 3, 8:41 AM

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@JaniSIr Do you have a few decent examples worth the time? I'll be happy to watch something like that.
@LoveYourSmile Uh, you looked through my manhwa favourites already (unless I forgot to link this to you), and still images can handle more than animations.
Maybe Happy Sugar Life counts?
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"delinquent" guy (with a soft heart may i mention) x anyone actually (ex, shy girl, anothr delinquent person etc etc)
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Adults, actually behaving like adults and not like shy high schoolers teleported into a working place.

Adult yuri. Gundam Witch, Simoun, Bloom Into You etc... is cute and all. Give me older lesbians, preferably in a fantasy or action setting.
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@JaniSIr Do you have a few decent examples worth the time? I'll be happy to watch something like that.
@LoveYourSmile https://myanimelist.net/anime/10620/Mirai_Nikki_TV (kinda)

otherwise maybe https://myanimelist.net/stacks/52398
Nov 3, 8:57 AM
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@Zarutaku Awesome, thank you! ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
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Nov 3, 9:16 AM
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LittleOwlbear said:
Give me older lesbians, preferably in a fantasy or action setting.

Just in case you don't mind guilty pleasure of mild smut:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3342/Mnemosyne__Mnemosyne_no_Musume-tachi
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Reply to LoveYourSmile
LittleOwlbear said:
Give me older lesbians, preferably in a fantasy or action setting.

Just in case you don't mind guilty pleasure of mild smut:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3342/Mnemosyne__Mnemosyne_no_Musume-tachi
@LoveYourSmile

Thanks, I've already watched that a while ago and forgot to add to my list.
Would be glad about more like this.
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I agree there could be more age gap romance. Also more stuff where one character has a physical disability that is properly addressed and not just there but irrelevant or used for cheap melodrama.

Just give me stuff I haven't seen a thousand times before and have it be good.

Maybe have one character somehow go back in time and do school romance nonsense with the maturity level of an adult. Perhaps even go back to childhood.

Or stuff where a big tiddie Onee-san goes "ara ara shota-kun".
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Ah, my favorite genre - Transgressive romance.

I'll say what I always say regarding this topic and in this instance, a sizable portion of my answer is exactly in line with your own.

First and foremost, incestuous pairings. Out of all incest, chiefly brother-sister, followed by first cousin pairings. I'm not into parent-child/offspring and not as into other sets of relations. Brother-sister unions are the purest most sublime manifestation of true beauty in this world. And it goes without saying, but I'm referring to entirely "authentic" pure-blooded relations. No half-siblings (though that is better and preferable than some other examples), no stepsiblings, no case in which one or both of the parties were adopted, no random honorary calling of someone "brother" or "sister" as a title of endearment when they're genetically a foreign presence or any other navel-gazing cop-out bullshit.

Secondarily, age gap. Generally, the larger the better though capping off at like 20 years difference or less. Like early-mid teens + late 20s would be the gold standard. Like 14 and 27 or something. Bonus if it's an incestuous age gap relationship. Incestuous age gap sibling? The perfect ideal.

Also, and while this last category could also be included with age gap, the different worlds both involved individuals come from is often enough a factor and hurdle to make it intense and weighty enough to be simply enough in and of itself and worth exploring and examining on its own, which is interspecies relationships (many species often have radical differences in both total overall average lifespan and the specific age both individuals from those respective species are at when they first meet anyway). Such as between a human and vampire, android, alien, mutant, youkai, fairy, centaur, beast person, or anything else.
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Height gap couples. Ugly x handsome couple. Rich x poor couple.

Ahaha imagine everything combined: short-ugly-poor guy x tall-beautiful-rich girl

The required suspension of disbelief would be beyond reach 😂
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Very excited , funny , but rough and proud at the same time guy but this guy is very timid and cant express his feeling with his gf , x playful girl (who like to tease him)
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"What kind of couples would you like to see more of in romance anime?"

Yuri couples. <3



@Serafos This


I don't need more characters to describe the beauty of yuri relationships, but MAL asks me for at least 30 of them; thus, this piece of useless text.
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The kind of couples I like to see are ones I already seen :3
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Genki girl x Emotionless girl



(Basically give me more ChisaTaki)
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Sister on Sister relationship couples.

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FZREMAKE said:
Height gap couples. Ugly x handsome couple. Rich x poor couple.

Ahaha imagine everything combined: short-ugly-poor guy x tall-beautiful-rich girl

The required suspension of disbelief would be beyond reach 😂
@Zarutaku But this could actually work apart from ntr hentai.
Dangers of my heart is somewhat similar to this.
Some isekai and stuff like lookism are technically similar.
I don't know why but I thought of Mineta x Momo from MHA.
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Paranormal seme x lonely uke
Idiot seme x idiot uke
Doting seme x denpa uke
Younger seme x older uke
Human seme x robot uke
Yandere seme x yandere uke
Sci-fi seme x fantasy uke
Cop seme x ex-cop uke
Shy seme x socialite uke
Uke-like seme x seme-like uke
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Clumsy seme x perverted uke.

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I would honestly like to see a catgirl be the main love interest in an isekai/fantasy romance. I see them in Harems, or just as side characters, but never as the main girl/romance.

And as far as age gap, I would honestly like to see more Middle school/High school couples. (preferable more than 1 year apart, early middle school/late high school, not a 3rd year MS/1st year HS)
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