| It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside when I see two characters fall in love with each other in a series, I just love love! |
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| And here I thought your name was supposed to be a joke.Oh, how wrong I was. |
| Sure man, if you like them because you can fantasize/self-insert yourself, good for you. That's a valid reason. Personally I think most people like romance anime because they are often idealized. I know what I see in anime is unlikely to happen in real life. Despite that, I still continue to watch because, well.. I like to see the unusual occur. The fantasy of the story is the appeal. I'll look into my life instead if I want a boring romance story. |
| I don't. It's even my least favorite genre according to my malgraph and it's impressive how it's even managed to be lower than harem, which generally is my most disliked one. And seems like the fact that 2 of my 10/10s (which is 50%) are tagged as 'romance' didn't really help - I'm not sure what happened. But yeah I'm generally not a fan of romance anime, most of the times they don't make me feel anything except cringe. I like romances with adults who don't overdramatize little things, and I also like the ones that focus more on comedy than the romance itself (like Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun or the first season of Oregairu), I kinda like the sad ones with supernatural elements too (if done right without too many ass-pulls), but I cringe when I see all those teenage dramas, shoujos or forced stuff like SAO. Maybe I'm too old for this, dunno. |
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| cuz you want them fuzzy feelings... |
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| Because when it comes to romance, I always have this feeling that I just want love. A lot of love~ I mean in real life, I get all excited when people talk about marriage or being in love. Too bad, I haven't been in love before... (Maybe that's why I watch a lot of romance anime...) |
Mikura39Jan 12, 2018 3:17 AM
 Help, I'm hooked into the Fate series (not all) and am obsessed with Shirou x Saber! Also, forever hoping for a ufotable remake of the Fate route! |
| I find cute romance heartwarming As long as the female lead is not a tsundere ofc |
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| me neither tbqh unless it's yuri romance so i can self insert as both |
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| As far as I know, people in real life like to encourage certain individuals to get together. Within fiction, it's a nice feeling to have this idea of an ideal couple where they seem to be made for each, something that most likely will not happen in real life. NihilisticLoner said: I'm pretty sure in real life when people first get together, they confess with "I love you" too. I don't quite understand the point you are making here. You want your fiction to specifically have characters distinguish romance and hormonal urges/platonic attaction, when no one in real life does anything of the sort with their word when confessing to the one they are attracted to?I believe that most fiction confuses hormonal urges and familiar, platonic attraction, with actual romance, something should take years to properly develop. fuyuki said: I get this feeling, it's genuinely strange and actually a little shocking when you ind that you have an unexpected genre you rate worst than the harem genre.I don't. It's even my least favorite genre according to my malgraph and it's impressive how it's even managed to be lower than harem, which generally is my most disliked one. And seems like the fact that 2 of my 10/10s (which is 50%) are tagged as 'romance' didn't really help - I'm not sure what happened. But yeah I'm generally not a fan of romance anime, most of the times they don't make me feel anything except cringe. I like romances with adults who don't overdramatize little things, and I also like the ones that focus more on comedy than the romance itself (like Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun or the first season of Oregairu), I kinda like the sad ones with supernatural elements too (if done right without too many ass-pulls), but I cringe when I see all those teenage dramas, shoujos or forced stuff like SAO. Maybe I'm too old for this, dunno. In my case, according to MALgraph it's managed to be ranked lower than 2nd lowest, slightly above ecchi but below harem. That said, I agree that anime that are more focused on comedy trying to switch to romance in its 2nd season often don't work as well |
BurningSpiritJan 12, 2018 4:47 AM
| I'm not a lolicon, you're just projecting your tendency to lewd 2D characters. If your favourite character is Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko, you are my soul mate. Been a long time since I've been here, I'll continue expressing myself freely and believe everyone should too. My MAL Interview |
| Because people (some of them) are not selfinserts, thats why OP. |
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| Fantasizing is like a major point to the romance genre. Another point is that romance may add a little bittersweet moments into the series which makes it good imo. |
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| Because even though I consider relationships to be a waste of time, I can help but d'aaawww when two characters are successfully being cute together. A good romance makes me care for them first, so I want them to be happy. It doesn't work in real life, of course, but it does when the people in question are fictional characters written specifically to be interesting. It's like having sentient pets. |
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| Weeeeeell I often wonder "why do teenage boys need so much fan service in anime? shouldn't they just be watching porn if they need something to wank to?" I watch romance anime for the same reason I read non anime/manga romance novels. I enjoy living vicariously through the girl in the story. I wish it was more common in anime to resolve the romance more so. Shows like Itazura na Kiss are just too rare (where it isn't just the 4 years of high school). I like romance novels because it has a beginning and a resolution with all the drama in between. The girl always gets the guy. I wish my own life had the happy ending part too. I'm still waiting here, and after 3 years of online dating, well, I have nothing much nice to say about online dating. |
| Just living the life of an anime princess. |
| I like seeing characters grow from their relationships with other people. Light and fluffy romances are sometimes nice (Ore Monogatari, Akagami no Shirayukihime) but I tend to prefer romances that "beat the odds" and survive despite the obstacles and whatnot. |
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NihilisticLoner said: Squidster said: I like seeing characters grow from their relationships with other people. Light and fluffy romances are sometimes nice (Ore Monogatari, Akagami no Shirayukihime) but I tend to prefer romances that "beat the odds" and survive despite the obstacles and whatnot. By, "beat the odds" and, "survive despite obstacles", do you mean romances where the couple starts off hating each other, and society pressuring them to not be together? Pretty much. I like the idea of being with someone as the "less convenient option" so it really tests how much a character is devoted to the person they like. |
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| because love is beautiful and it's always nice to see the main characters end up together after a long trip.. and I do like seeing romantic scenes ofc.. this is the main factor, I guess. |
  "elles sont bien noires les pensées des nuits blanches"  |
| For me personally,im very awkward­ so seeing other people fall in love makes me really happy. I was really into normal romances,but not much now,but i enjoy shounen ai where they have an actual story. |
"those who aren't able to find a more miserable person than themselves turn to the internet and call others losers,even though they've never met"- Satou from nhk |
| I never watched a good romance because all the ones I watched (so far) are trash. |
The word elitist is stupid since it's just used by people who can't defend their favorite shows and use it on people who criticize their favorite shows.  |
| I got NTR more than 3 times in my life, so I escaped to fictional stories. |
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| 5th grade romance leading to spouting bitter nonsense and generalizing, is this real life lol Yeah, it's simply a cute thing to watch, can be fun or relaxing depending on how it's done, sometimes you want this over following a more complicated plot. It also works very well as a side thing to actual story, and most people seem to enjoy that, or at the very least not mind it, that's why it's so popular. I like watching stuff like that, unless the parties are stupid/annoying like in most shoujo romance. Couldn't handle how retarded the characters are in Ao Haru Ride or Wolf Girl and the Black Prince. |
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| I'm a huge fan of Romance Animes in general. It's one of my favorite Genres even tho I didn't enjoy some of them I've watched. I still love watching Romance Animes because of the interactions between the characters and how they deal with their feelings. I don't care if it's realistic or not. I love Shoujo Animes and most of them don't have realistic romance stories. They don't need to have something like these. I just want to be able to love the couples. |
-AyuJan 13, 2018 11:50 AM
 I will not believe that everything is controlled by fate. ll X ll |
| Majority of them honestly suck tbh. They're so drawn out and tediously having the "misunderstandings" that are usually nonsensical. If I want to indulge in romance I can do it with fanfiction with characters I already give a shit about. I will say though anime/manga that has the couple dating asap or cut the bullshit are already a positive mark in my book. |
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| It's like with why people like other genres, they tend to enjoy the structure of those genres a lot But for romance, it's pretty much this Specimen021 said: Because even though I consider relationships to be a waste of time, I can help but d'aaawww when two characters are successfully being cute together. A good romance makes me care for them first, so I want them to be happy. It doesn't work in real life, of course, but it does when the people in question are fictional characters written specifically to be interesting. It's like having sentient pets. |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| i dunno, just find them enjoyable. they're cute and fun to watch |
NihilisticLoner said: Stripesu said: Majority of them honestly suck tbh. They're so drawn out and tediously having the "misunderstandings" that are usually nonsensical. If I want to indulge in romance I can do it with fanfiction with characters I already give a shit about. I will say though anime/manga that has the couple dating asap or cut the bullshit are already a positive mark in my book. I also don't like that too. Which is another reason why I prefer romances where there's more going on, beside the romance. Because that way there are other things to distract you from the drawn-out confession scene. Actually, you might like Tsurezure Children if that's your problem with romance. Tsurezure Children was fine and cute. I didn't mind it but most the couples were so, what's the word, awkwardly slow? Like the only two couples who were fun to watch were the comedy duo and the class rep / rebel girl because they actually kissed and tried getting to second base without too much dicking around. It's mostly the fact that 90% of romance anime are building up to the confession / dating status and then you usually don't get time with them after that or if you do it's so painfully slow, I didn't read or really even watch Kimi ni Todoke but the fact that it took them 2 seasons to even confess and 71 chapters to even kiss sounds so nauseating. |
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| after working at my dull work to earn some shit money which will never be enough and returning to my dull house all what can keeps me goin is some pretty paintings and bubbly feelings.. i just want to feel/see something pure after mentally crawling in dirt whole day. |
comedy anime rarely have good visuals and mostly not funny/boring you need to know japanese crap to understand most jokes anyway but yes its good to kill some time with it but not good enough. for example like i didnt get banana liking thing in aho girl till i watch a movie omoide poroporo >.> |
| Romance anime, (and Harem anime!!!) can be fun and funny most of the time to watch, some of these series, like Golden Time, are entertaining and interesting. It mostly depends on the series though. I didn't care for Fuuka at all...(FUU(c)KA Fuuka!) |
NihilisticLoner said: There might be a culture gap here. While there are some people very open about their sexual attraction here, I do think that's more commonly a western thing.@BurningSpirit I want to see romance anime where the main characters may start off with sexual attraction, and maybe a little romantic attraction. But only years later do they actually fall in, "love", because they like each others' personalities and share common interests. Then have their relationship go beyond that, "spark", which anime obsesses over and confuses with actual love. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2356319/Relationships-lose-sexual-spark-just-year-half-rating-love-lives-just-OK.html Loving someone takes years of knowing their inns-and-outs (personnel flaws, and other things), arguing a shit-ton Anime doesn't do that. In anime, two characters find each other hot, they spend some time (like everyone does), and just "fall in love". NihilisticLoner said: >Using Zero no Tsukaima as an example of a romance animeI never got why Louis and Saito fell for each other in Familiar of Zero, when there's literally nothing about their personalities that are compatible: Louis is 90% of the time a stuck-up bitch, and Saito can't stand that, and Louis can't stand people who don't submit to her. They don't seem to share any common interests. And no, opposites do not attract: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/magnetic-partners/201603/opposites-dont-really-attract https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/turns-out-opposites-dont-attract-after-all https://www.bustle.com/articles/143849-opposites-actually-dont-attract-study-finds So it makes no sense why Saito didn't pick Siesta, the sweet and kind maid, who was literally the first person to NOT treat him like shit when he arrived in the fantasy world. >LEL |
| I'm not a lolicon, you're just projecting your tendency to lewd 2D characters. If your favourite character is Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko, you are my soul mate. Been a long time since I've been here, I'll continue expressing myself freely and believe everyone should too. My MAL Interview |
| Usually I'm there for the bishounen but.. My girl friends usually watch romance anime because they want to fantasizes themselves as the girl MC of that anime. Since, the story usually fluffy which is the "ideal" kind of romance in life, and the Male MC usually a bishounen (which rarely exist around them.. Like me). As for male, I only have one male friend IRL that loves romance anime.. When I asked why he liked it, he just said he liked how the fluffy-calming story in most on shoujo romance.. So.. Maybe that's the reason.. |
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NihilisticLoner said: Aside from fantasizing, I don't understand why romance is such a beloved genre. Using that as a basis isn't a really good starting point. That's like asking, "Aside from the flavor, why do people like pizza?". It's for the flavor. And people like romance for the fantasizing/self-inserting. Plus it generally leaves a good feeling for the viewers (granted it's done right). It's human nature to want to be loved after all. |
| What's your rush now? Everyone will have his day to die. |
gen12Weeb said: It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside when I see two characters fall in love with each other in a series, I just love love! I get the same feeling. That is what makes me like romance anime so much lol |
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| @NihilisticLoner Bruh, you think way too highly of humans. People fall in love for the most stupidest and frivolous of reasons. For attractive people, the initial physical attraction catches your attention initially, just speak to them a few times are you're thinking of them constantly and when you ask them out (if the feeling is mutual) you'll eventually get to know them hanging out alone. For people that you don't initially notice, you'll eventually see them doing something and take notice(though there are sometimes where you just can't see them as anything other than friends). Then the process from previous paragraph starts again What complicated stuff are you expecting here? You mention time spent together, which is the same thing as getting to know someone's personality. Give me a scenario of a possible relationship development, and maybe we can access if that makes sense or if it's something that commonly happens. |
| I'm not a lolicon, you're just projecting your tendency to lewd 2D characters. If your favourite character is Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko, you are my soul mate. Been a long time since I've been here, I'll continue expressing myself freely and believe everyone should too. My MAL Interview |
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