I'm having a really hard time finding a romance anime I'd enjoy. Any help in that regard?

[fischer_elite12]

[link url=http://tora-dora.wikia.com/wiki/Toradora!_Wiki]Toradora![/link]



I heard a lot of great reviews and feedback for this Anime from my friends. I haven't watch it yet since I couldn't find great links to stream watch this. Did anyone here watch this one? help me find one... Pretty please.

[link url=http://inuyasha.wikia.com/wiki/Inuyasha]InuYasha[/link]

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Got to watched this. A very nice Anime Series. Kagome is such a brave girl to begin with. So much feels when Inuyasha is thorned which to go with, is it for the resurrected Kikyo who seek revenge to him or to Kagome, who is the reincarnation of real Kikyo. I won't spoil you, get the feels when you watch it. >.<

[link url=http://hanadan.wikia.com/wiki/Boys_Over_Flowers_(anime)]Hana yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers)[/link]

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An Anime Manga series turned into Anime Series and into Japanese Live Series. Super famous in Japan way back years. The so-called rich-guy-poor-girl into a roller coaster of a love-hate relationship. Flower boys mean beautiful men who study in a rich-ruled university wherein money speaks for all what you do. As a weed-type girl enters the university making the Uni-go crazy. Hilarious funny, with romance and a bit of heartfelt story.

Enjoy watching! :)

 

[kitsunefather]

I just started exploring anime myself, but I found Gamers! to be a really decent story and an interestingly funny romance that had a decent awareness of the tropes.

 

[ninja666]

@fischer_elite12

Toradora's already been suggested in this thread. It's not what I'm looking for beecause it suffers from all the tropes I mentioned I don't like.

Inuyasha is also out. It's based on a manga by Rumiko Takahashi, and while she can make decent-ish quality comedy, she couldn't write good romance even if her life depended on it.

Boys Over Flowers sounds more like something I'd like, but at the same time, the whole setup sounds a little bit too shojo-y for my taste. I'll consider it, though.

Thanks for the recommendations.

@kitsunefather

Sorry, but it's not what I'm looking for. I don't want "decent awareness of the tropes". I want there to be very little, or ideally none of those tropes. Thanks anyway.

 

[dscross]

Well, as an anime connoisseur you may have seen it, but I really like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. It?s one of my favourite animes, more generally, in fact, It?s the weirdest contrast between the completely mundane and the completely bizarre. It?s sort of comedy and slice of life meets sci fi. I?d still class it as romance though, although it?s not overt throughout. I think a couple of those criteria you didn?t want are in there, but in a sort of weird quirky way, so I don?t think you?ll notice at all.

Plus you can?t argue with that theme song...

 

[Kyrian007]

Its not romance, but have you seen Blue Seed. The couple of the main characters is reversed from your 1st gripe. The female is the awkward, shy, and dense one. The man is the "cool" character but is focused on other matters, aloof, and well... pretty dense in his own right. Other than that though, most of the other stereotypes do apply. But if you take the focus off the main characters (who are just teenagers and aren't all relationship things with teens pretty stereotypical and uninteresting) the adult members of the cast have far more interesting relationships with completely different problems. A manchild who never really grew up being thrust into a position of responsibility he's not ready for develops a reluctant relationship with a gun freak tomboy who has a problem with authority figures, a woman in probably not in her 30's yet who is seriously crushing on a guy easily in his late 50's, a career woman trying to reconnect with an ex husband to bring her family closer together.

Of course the focus is on the teen main characters who are annoyingly... teens. And just annoying in several other ways. And it isn't a romance story, what with all the monster fighting. But I like the team dynamic and pressures, the older animation cell style, the omaki shorts, and the tie-ins with many aspects of Japanese folklore. And... it ends. It doesn't draw out and go on forever. It tells a story, and finishes it.

It starts slow, but it does it for a good reason. The first dozen episodes each focus on a member of the cast to introduce them to the audience. And then the characters develop from there.