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Yeah.
There is drought of good lighthearted romance manga right now and has been for years.
Basically most bottom of barrel romance shoune/seine romance manga will get some level of popularity.
And they will remain popular unless they frick it up big time like rent a whore or Fuuka.
Waifubaiting works. Just look at bg3
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Yeah, I found that out during my romcom binge and this was several years back. Most of the recent stuff like rent-a-whore, neighbortoro, dress up slut, etc... is something I wouldn't have considered watching even during my tastelet teenage years.
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Do you have any recommendations for rom anime, new or old, that isn't shitty coomer bait and doesn't withhold any kind of progression of their relationship?
I get it's more dramatic but 99% of rom and romcom anime has their relationship go fricking nowhere until the last episode. Or sometimes not even the last episode and it's only shown in a DVD-exclusive epilogue episode. Frick me I hate how japs consider handholding a big deal in anime.
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What are the stuff you have already watched? Almost no romcom gives you a conclusive satisfactory ending. The first thing that comes to my mind is Toradora but that's something you've probably already watched.
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Toradora also took until the very end for them to actually be in a relationship, also TBH it feels like the modern trend is either getting together at the halfway point (Uzaki) or being a couple in everything but name only (Also Uzaki, but neighbortoro). And of course those are still p coomebait
Anyways it's only sorta a romcom but read "Dad, The Beard Gorilla And I" if you haven't
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Modern stuff is also a bit too mellow for my tastes. Stuff like neighbortoro feels a lot more meandering/plotless than Toradora. They feel like romcoms but in the vein of those cute girls doing cute things anime.
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So weird that both the Uzaki and Neighbortoro artist came from doujins/porn. There def is something weird about them compared to previous rom coms, probably how long they feel padded for length in relation to how much progress their relationships should have. Neighbortoro in particular where they will do everything EXCEPT bang and somehow are still not "together". I still enjoy Uzaki, probably because I Sakurai as an MC and the side characters are fun. Neighbortoro too cuz I like Paisan and watching Neighbortoro get mogged by literally everyone else in the manga.
Also another one, "The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length"
@ChristoffWChanderson , same author as "Onani Master Kurosaw" or "Kurosawa the Master of Masturbation" which is an unironic classic in the world of dumb schlock manga.
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Are you recommending me read a manga about masturbation I am genuinely curious lol
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I was recommending the guy's current manga "Dumb Prefect" since it fit the bill of what you wanted in the romcom but "Onani Master Kurosawa" is legitimately a good drama manga if you haven't read it yet
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That title sounds insane but I'll look into it, thanks!
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Haven't actually watched Toradora, most of the stuff I've seen/read is boomershit like Ah my goddess/Tenchi muyo/Onegai Teacher/Ai Yori Aoshi, there's just sooooo much trash in this genre, halfway decent romance anime is like a diamond in a giant dino turd pile, good luck finding it
Assume any rom anime made after 2004 I haven't seen, though I did watch MMO Junkie but that also ended right as their relationship started
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Watch Toradora, Welcome to NHK and Oreigaru SNAFU. I liked only one season of Oreigaru because it looked like it was making fun of the MC's incel delusions but then it became unironic incel wish fulfillment later on. Terrible . But if you're willing to sift through stuff like Onegai teacher then it won't hurt trying this one.
Also read the Fate/Stay night visual novels if you want action+romance. The adaptations are nice but are inferior to the VNs.
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Ignore these r-slurs, what you're looking for is Kare Kano (1995). It's directed by Hideaki Anno (creator of Evangelion) and is a beloved show. There's no beating around the bush, they get together, frick, and live happily every after.
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Thank you, will look into it!
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Dress up slut is ok. Its silly coomer bait. But it goes all in with coomer baiting.
Issue is right now. New generation of authors have come in. And they ahve no idea what romance or relationship is.
They know just waifu stuff.
Few even know how to coomer bait properly.
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That's happening across anime. Everything is getting flanderized and getting reduced to the most fanservice-y elements. Forget having irl experience, it's like authors never watched/read anything outside of tropey anime. Even when I find something that has some potential for fun like Prison School, OPM, CSM, it goes downhill after one season worth of content.
Yeah, guys like Miyazaki and Anno have been talking about this issue for years but it's definitely very noticeable now.
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I think the other side of the weird problem too is when the author, "grows up" as they make their work and then totally change shit midway through.
Attack on Titan is an obvious example where Isyama (?) wrote the ending as if Eren cared about Misaka at all through the running of the manga (he didn't), but Vinland Saga is another one where after the author got married he, for a lack of a better term, became "woke" and started applying 21st century California liberal morality to a manga about Viking murderers.
The "this generation of authors only grew up consuming shit media" is probably the bigger problem though, I am terrified to think of the frickers who will write stuff inspired by Oshi no Ko thinking of it as the gold standard of drama.
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There is still some intresting stuff happening.
Like dungeon cannibalism.
But these days. I like korean stuff more then japanes stuff.
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You mean new ones? Uzaki and Neighbortoro been running for years at this point, 100 GF didn't start TOO long ago.
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100 gf has started and stopped multiple times. Uzaki is probably only one that has filled that void propelly. But even that has been slowl for year or two.
Any new romance manga for dudes will get momentum simply by exsisting
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