Why do so many guys watch romance anime? Don't you find

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cuz i love it

Good shows are good shows, that is all there is to it.

>>153335255
>not enough action in romance anime
>not enough romance in other genres

anyone else know this feel?

>>153335255
Escapism.

>not knowing we're all little girls here
Lurk more.

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>>153335255
I really enjoyed Toradora in particular as well as Spice and Wolf.

I am a straight 19 year old male currently working and attending college.

It's probably just because I'm a lonely fuck.

>>153335388
The best romances are often anime that focus on something else, but also put a heavy focus on romance, like Eureka Seven and Cardcaptor Sakura. There are some absolutely amazing pure romance anime too, like Kimi ni Todoke, Kare Kano and Toradora, but when they include stupid drama because they don't have enough ideas for content, I don't like it. ( I like my pure examples more than my mixed examples, though.) But anime where the characters have good romantic chemistry while doing something else is something I want. I don't really demand action like you, cgdct is one of my favourite genres

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>>153335388
>not enough action

>>153335255
No, romance >>universe >> (battle) shounen shit.

>>153335255
You sound like an insecure faggot.

I like the story

>>153335777
yeah, the romance in shows like shokugeki and raildex is good to occasionally add to the plot, also makes more decent filler.

>>153335255
I guess one of the factor that made anime and manga so popular is the fact that aren't constrained in all those predetermined and retarded western standards.

Cartoons are for kids or for satire
Romance is for women
Comics are for guys


They just cut themselves out of thousands of potential buyers.

Romance is actually written by males for males. Girls only see the surface level.

>>153335255
vicariously reliving wasted teenage years

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People that watch anime tend to have broader tastes. Also, romance stories in other mediums tend to pander to women while anime panders to basement dwelling degenerates. And for a few exceptions this >>153335354
applies.

>>153335255
Most of the great romantic stories in history were written by men, and sure as hell not with only female audience in mind.

>>153335777
>The best romances are often anime that focus on something else
This. My favorite romances are comedies first but with a heavy emphasis on romance, like Working and Nozaki-kun. And they never get too heavy with the drama, it's always just right and balanced by levity.

>>153335255
Anons spend so much time justifying their shipping to others here I don't see what's farfetched about them watching romance.

>>153335255
Filling the ol' void.

>>153335255
Anime seems to be the only medium that bothers making romance that appeals to men. I consider practically all western romances to be garbage but I love good romance anime. Also romance does not exactly equate to shoujo romance. Shoujo romance sucks.

>>153335255
Men are the true romantics. All the deepest, most emotionally cathartic experiences in history have been put to paper by men. Women focus on the archetypes of romance established in their epoch while male writers go straight into the human id and craft stories that are universally appealing regardless of the zeitgeist of the age.

>>153336267
How is Nozaki-kun romance, there is literally nothing

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>>153336741

>>153335255

Because emotions are not limited to a single gender.

>>153335255
In the (post) modern world it's the number one thing people need but can't have. Especially the sort of people who watch anime.

>>153336741
I don't even know how to respond to this, I'm baffled.

>>153335255
Complying weith a sexist/conservative society's standards and not watching what you like is more weird to me.

Also to fill the void.

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>>153335255
Does Minorin liking Ryuuji make Toradora a harem?

Because I'm lonely and it fills a hole
Lot of Japanese writers wrote good romance stuff too, like Sotsuki Natsume, must be in their blood I guess

>>153335255
because we are lonely fags.

>>153335255
Fills the void, shows completely unrealistic love triangles, actually is about beautiful women with interesting personalities. However, I still hate myself for watching the genre since most Japanese writers are too fucking retarded to deliver a satisfying ending. I dont need to see the couple fuck, but I sure as hell dont want to be left with an implication that two people I "care" about ended up together, I also want to see it and how they behave as a couple. This sort of stuff can be wrapped up in 1 or 2 episodes, so I really wouldnt mind if it was more common. I'd rather take an open ending like Yahari one no Seishun, which I consider to be the by far best romance anime out there, over some unsatisfying shit ending like Toradora.

Romance as a genre is about character study, which comes really short in a lot of genres that are targeted towards men. There being other things to worry about, like physical or power development etc. (see sports anime, any shounen, most mecha shows). So if youre into that then its hard to actually avoid the genre.

>>153335255
Romance is a part of a mans life, just as much as a woman. Nothing wrong with watching and enjoying the awkwardness of starting a relationship. We all go through it at some point.

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I actually blame Toradora for the meme that shall not be named.

what's the true best love story ever told?
is it really toradora?

>>153335255
>only women are really interested in romance

That's a sad way to think about it.

>>153341778
Keit-Ai has been made into:

>a wiki
>a fanfic
>a fictionpress story
>a manga
>a meme
>an anime preview
>an anime episode
>an anime series
>an honest-to-goodness anime movie
>Oscar considered
>a critically acclaimed box office success in Japan
>a worldwide hit
>the no. 1 highest grossing anime film of all time

Meme magic is amazing.

>>153335255
I only like romance in hentai manga, incidentally the only porn I fap it is hentai manga with romance.

>>153342677
it always finds a way.

>>153335255
/a/ is full of men who wish they were born women