Just finished watching this. It was good, but goddamn. It was

>>135970713
Read the LN dawg

>>135970713
Because Japan doesn't like romancing things.
That's a cold reality they don't want to face, it's either porn or beta.
Real romance is scary to them and they don't want to experience that or care about that.

My favorite part was when they had to be separated for a long time because Hero had to go to the demon world, creating lots of tension and romantic longing.

And then Hero casually mentions that he could have teleported to see her at any time.

>>135970713

Why didn't he go for both the demon king and knight? They both lusted for his cock, even shared a bed between them and yet no threesome route.

>>135972354
>Because Japan doesn't like romancing things.
>being this new/ignorant and pretentious

Muskets > Magic

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>>135970713
>It was good
It was god awful, one of the worst anime viewing experiences of my life.

The complete lack of romance was just disgusting.

>>135975481
>The complete lack of romance was just disgusting.
I wanted to pick it up, but after reading this I'll pass.
Are the LN's worth it though?

>>135975324
Well not in general but usually faggot.

>>135975527
LNs are never worth it.

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>>135975449
its not wroth it

I wish more main characters would fall in love with the "villains". It's a concept I'd like to see more of and never explored a lot.

>>135975527
Well I'm from /tg/ and read the manga but I liked it a lot.
It's mostly politics in a fantasy world with very little romance, but I like it that way since the romance doesn't distract me from my waifu economics.

>>135970713
>this aired three years ago

>>135975555
I don't know what you're basing your statements on but there's plenty of works with romance that actually delivers,

>>135974840
I hated him for that. What a dick.

>>135975625

There's another similar one... Superior I think.

Basically it starts the same, Hero is about to fight Demon Queen, a bit of fucking around and she joins his party.

>>135975810
The Devil Is A Part Timer?
Or "Hataraku Maou-sama!"?

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>>135975731

Yep.

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>>135976261
Picked up

>>135970713
Nips can't into romance. They're asexual

>>135976261
>Season 2 Never
Why f a m?

>>135970713
>It was good
It was a terrible show and a bad adaptation.
>It was as romantically blue-balling as chuuni
The "romance" was utter crap to begin with and brought nothing of value to the show.

>>135976471
Superior cross?

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>>135975722
Go ahead. Name them impress us all with your endless knowledge. The same endless knowledge that should tell you that no matter how many you name, it will comprise less than one percent of the total.

>>135976569
Was it? I don't know. I thought it was fun at least, but maybe I was being to forgiving. I'm just one of those fags that really want another season of spice and wolf and this just sort of filled the void.

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>>135970713

>>135976947
Almost the entirety of the shoujo and josei genre, to begin with.

Off the top of my head I can name:
Spice and Wolf (you even mentioned it)
Steins;Gate
The Monogatari series
Toradora
Oreimo
Evangelion (fucked up, granted, but still)
Aku no Hana
Koe no Katachi
Chuunibyou
Maison Ikkoku
Bakuman (though the romance is crap in this one)
Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
Welcome to the NHK

Of course romance is not the primary focuse of all of these.
It doesn't matter whether they make up 1% or 0,1% percent, some of them are rather famous and there is definetely an audience for them, so an assertion like:

>Because Japan doesn't like romancing things.
That's a cold reality they don't want to face, it's either porn or beta.
Real romance is scary to them and they don't want to experience that or care about that.
is dumb as fuck
Unless you just read/watch shitty battle shonen or shallow haremshit

>>135977429
>spoonfeeding
You fell right into his trap. Kill yourself.

>>135977429
>>135977454
Not only that but some of them if not most of them don't even fit the request.

>>135977484
How so?

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>>135977429
God, you're retarded it was bait to begin with.
Kill yourself.

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>>135977484
>>135977454
>>135977429
>>135977582
Nah, I wasn't asking. Anyone dumb enough to fall for that wouldn't be able to really recommend anything of any real quality.

They're saying that they don't fit the requirements because they don't fit the requirements. Evengelion a romance? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Fuck, I even called out chuuni in the OP for being as shitty as maoyuu was with romance. Your list was shit and out of the ones on your list, very few of them don't suffer from the problem I was talking about.

>>135977620
>Having shit taste
>I-I-It was bait, i swear.

>>135977620
Ah my bad. I thought you were quoting >>135977454

>>135972043
sauce?

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>>135977781
It's all good.
pic related.

>>135977733
Do you have ADHD? This anon (I guess it was not you) wrote:
>Because Japan doesn't like romancing things.
>etc
That's objectively wrong, and those examples, no matter how shit you may say they are, prove it.
I even wrote not all of them had romance as the primary focus, but my point still stands

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>>135977942
Honestly this sounds like bait, but I'm bored.

Your examples don't "prove" anything. They were bad examples. You yourself even said that romance wasn't the primary focus for some of them. They weren't the primary focus because Japan, in general, doesn't like romancing things. Sure there's a series here or there that do it all right, but generally Japan itself stays away from romance.

Tell me, romance series can you name where the main characters act like adults?

Monogatari isn't a romance series.
Evangelion has so little romance in it, that I don't even know why you brought it up.
Oreimo the love interest is his sister and the whole series revolves around that instead of anything normal.
Welcome to the NHK wasn't romance. It was depressing. It was about how shitty of a person you are.
Chuuni and S&W have two people who like each other and do nothing about it.

It just goes on and on. The only show I can think of off the top of my head is Golden Time, but that was a long time ago and there was so much drama going on that romance almost took a back seat.

Quoted off of wikipedia

The romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass-market literary genre. Novels of this type of genre fiction place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending."

Ask yourself. What show have you seen that REALLY FIT THAT.

>>135978190
i'm just going to boil it down to six words
watch more anime. expand your taste.

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>>135978443
>Implying you've watched more anime than me.
>outright stating I should "expand" my taste to accommodate shit because Japan won't man up and romance their waifus.

>regretting blowing my OPM OK. picture to early.

>>135978190
>S&W have two people who like each other and do nothing about it.
Read the LN
Also, you're right when you say that chuuni is blue-balling, but at least they end up together, it's not ture they "do nothing about it"
But aside from that:
>Japan, in general, doesn't like romancing things
this sounds like a blanket statements that, at least to me, reads as
>there is no or little romance in japanese media
Discounting all the shoujo/josei works where romance is the main theme, I posted some examples where there actually is some, not necessarily belonging to the romance genre.
So I guess it was a misunderstanding

On a side note:
>must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending."
Though strictly speaking they probably wouldn't be labelled as romance, going by that definition love tragedies are a thing, too.

>>135978655
>Though strictly speaking they probably wouldn't be labelled as romance, going by that definition love tragedies are a thing, too.

I messed up, what I meant is:
Though going by that definition they probably wouldn't be labelled as romance, love tragedies are a thing, too. (I am not referring to any anime in particular)

>>135970713
I liked how innocent it was, hoping for more romance. Still waiting to see what's beyond that hill.

The OP is top-tier though.

>>135978190
emi muh girl, waanna fuck u with your sexy shirt on

>>135978655
>>135978690
>Read the LN
Have you read the LN? Can you garuntee me there's romance? Because what I'm expecting the rest of the story to be like
>hurr durr can't confess cause that's to embarrassing, but we both know that we like each other.
>doesn't matter though shit goes nowhere
>economic story conflict happens and is resolved
>time skip now we have a child
To me, acting like a faggot and trying to figure out if someone likes me for 99% percent of the series isn't romance.

But maybe you're right. Maybe I'm looking at this from a culturally naive standpoint. Maybe acting like autistic children IS romance in Japan.

And I know this is bordering on normalfaggotry, but have you ever been in a real romantic relationship. I know, I know, 3DPD and all, but if you ever stoop that low out of sheer loneliness, you're going to find that romance is entirely different than how it's portrayed in anime.

>>135978993
>you're going to find that romance is entirely different than how it's portrayed in anime.
Which is why it's shit. Women are fucking disgusting creatures.

>>135978993
>time skip now we have a child
Everyone thought the three of them were dead at the end.
Turns out they're at "the other side of the hill". And that's it.

Ainz > Yuusha > Kirito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduwA2AygRw

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When are we getting an anime of it with the superior designs

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>>135979140
>Literally "less than nothing" romantic development
How does Japan keep doing it?

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>>135979278
Never.

At least the music is great.

>>135977429
>No Kodomo no Omocha
Fuck you

>>135970713
Who care about romance, the fact that a literal demi-god got shot down by a god damn MUSKET is enough to tell you the writing ability of this author.

Romance takes a backseat to the boring politics

Guys it wasn't that bad... It's a nice anime.

>>135983509
Bullets are his weakness anon. Asides from that he can tank continent busting magic.

It's like kryptonite.

>>135983891
It makes sense, with all the power the author gave the faggot, he must come from some sort of advanced alien civilization and thus is weak to anything modern. Probably a lighter can burn him to crisp too.

>>135979474
For one second I thought it was female knight.
Then I saw the boobs. Who's this slut?

>>135984826
The Head of the Not!Popes bodyguard.