There seem to be two common styles of romance, one is where the attractive love interest is very sexually forward and the average and bland protagonist is too dense to see this, and the other is where the attractive love interest is very sexually forward, but the just as attractive protagonist sees this, but doesn't want to honor it due to having mixed feelings about the love interest being so forward.
Which one do you like more, Any Forums?
There seem to be two common styles of romance...
Jackson Martinez
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Ian Wright
I like shoujo romance manga. Though there's plenty of shoujo romance manga with naive protags and others where both are naive. I like non-shoujo stuff too but not sure if anything that counts as romcom that I've read is on the same level of drawn out as stuff like Nagatoro and the other similar manga. Naivety can be cute.
Nathaniel Turner
This post is proof that “romcom” is this board's lexicon for “self-insert harem”
Maid-Sama! is a romantic comedy in that it's romantic, and meant to be humorous.
Christopher Allen
I've come to admire Maid-sama! I read the whole manga (a long slog) and discovered there's a lot of funny and creative ideas in it. (Later I watched the anime just to see how the adapted it, and the anime adaption is also great.) Also, although it's trash, Maid-Sama! has a really well-constructed premise. Misaki pretty much alternates between being a dominatrix and a submissive.
Chase Sanders
Maid-Sama! started or popularized it, but the trope of the headstrong, hot-blooded protagonist being matched up with the rapechad is quite common.
Gakuen Harem is my favorite execution of it because the protagonist actually beats the rapechad in the end and overthrows his powerbase but still ends up being taken by him and can't resist him any more at the end.
it's just so good to have a hot-blooded protagonist still conquered by the rapechad and hating it.
Anthony Robinson
The one where the protagonist gets over his first love interest after it turns out she likes someone else and so he falls in love with a better love interest and the previous one gets treated like shit by the person she wanted instead. Actually I don't remember how this ended I just remember it's good.
Jose Ortiz
Bottom is more attractive. Both the girl and the boy even though top is targeted to a male audience and bottom is targeted to a female audience. How does that happen?
Josiah Brooks
Maid-sama! devolves the same shpujo family drama eventually.
Blake Cook
>The one where the protagonist gets over his first love interest after it turns out she likes someone else and so he falls in love with a better love interest
Name 5 anime/manga where this happanes?
Matthew Powell
Moving on from your first love is a pretty common theme. I bet I can think of at least 5 but the first thing that came to my mind is this (obligatory not anime): v.animethemes.moe
Isaac Martinez
I've read several shoujo manga with this premise but with the genders swapped. The girl goes after someone but he likes someone else and then she starts falling for someone closer to her.
Jordan Parker
Personal taste or something?
Honestly, I think Hyakkimaru is better looking than Usui.
Why is Hyakkkimaru so beautiful? He wasn't in the original at all,
They just decided to for the 2018 series to somehow turn him into a doll, no idea why.
Also, Eren Jáger.
Alexander Diaz
My memory of romcoms is fuzzy. Maybe Golden Time?
One of the cute Gal manga is shaping up in that direction, though I can't say for certain until it finishes and the dude actually gets a GF.
There are also a few Korean webtoons that follow this vein, some with a time loop as part of it to freshen it up. Usually female leads.
I don't read romance all that often, so not an expert here.
Parker Gray
Yeah, it probably just went on too long. It seems to me that dynamic between Usui and Misaki is the same as the dynamic between Petruchio and Katerina in "the Taming of the Shrew". (That exact dynamic is in a lot of Hollywood movies too.) Once the "shrew" is tamed, the story isn't as much as fun. OTOH I really like Usui's true backstory, which is revealed near the end (with the Japanese butler father and everything) which Usui discovers from reading his mother's diaries. It's kind of rushed but that story in itself would have made a good standalone work.
Brandon Peterson
Lol I'm ashamed to admit I also love this trope. (Btw this is the same story in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" too with the two younger main characters, isn't it?) Also thanks for the recommendation.
Elijah Stewart
Mind you there needs to be distinction between the first girl/main girl and the winner. Manga like Nisekoi and Urusei Yatsura shouldn't count.
Jaxson Rodriguez
Probably to add contrast to the ugliness of his life or to make him look more "pure".
Luis Foster
I just remembered this trope (hotblooded female overpowered by rapechad) is in GOT too, with John Snow and that red-headed chick. It's probably a trope as old as time, because it's the best thing ever.
Mason Robinson
Onani master Kurosawa.
Robert Gonzalez
>GOT too, with John Snow and that red-headed chick
Never happens. Jon was a femdom chad, Ygritte topped him when she took his virginity.
Anthony Peterson
Especially when the rapechad is younger.
Brody Jones
Then you made the wrong example, read the manga at least