Why can't modern anime romance compete? I know Maison Ikkoku

>>161693277
>but the romance was absolutely perfect
It was not becuase the ending was absolutely dogshit. You have 95 episodes of building up Kyoko to still be unable to smile at her wedding or while carrying her own child. The point of the show was to show her develop as a character and move on from Soichiro but then they fuck up the ending like that. Absolutely worthless.

>more captivating than romance the japs have conjured in the last 15 years.
Wrong, Tsuki ga Kirei surpassed it just last season. Its a different approach but it ultimately is a better product, also because theres virtually no filler.

Maison Ikkokus best aspect isnt even the main storyline, its Yotsuya. He single handedly carries the entire show. Every single one of his scenes is captivating and hilarious. The character never fails to amaze.

>>161693516
>waaaah m-muh ending!
>i-it undoes all the exceptional, nuanced romantic interactions unmatched by any recent anime
Thankfully children like yourself don't dictate the quality of these things.

>Yotsuya. He single handedly carries the entire show
Ok, so you're an idiot.

>Every single one of his scenes is captivating
>captivating
Nevermind that, you're actually mentally retarded.

>>161693277
Because it stopped being about the growth of the couple and most become harems with two dimensional characters who never change.

Maison Ikkoku had credible rivals. Kozue and Mitaka were about to win in more than one ocassion. Nowadays you can't have some other male watching the heroine without revealing that he is literally the antichrist.

Authors of today are pussies period.

>>161693583
>children like yourself
You mean the overly stretched arcs and misunderstandings as well as refusal to move on and/or commit? Maison Ikkoku definitely couldnt have had half its episode cut, and the other half condensed and would still have been just as good, if not vastly superior to what it is, or?

>m-muh ending!
Ending is pretty important to a romance, yes. Especially if its basically backtracks on most of the development that should have happened throughout the shows run.

>Ok, so you're an idiot.
Maison Ikkoku is a romcom for a reason. Yotsuya being the only actually amusing character of that show inevitably makes him the person to carry it.

>>161693683
Not even going to read your post. To suggest Yotsuya was a 'captivating' character shows you are such an idiot it's scary and have no idea what you're talking about.

>>161693675
>Because it stopped being about the growth of the couple and most become harems with two dimensional characters who never change.
I feel like this is an incredibly biased view. Yes, most modern shows are shit, but they also dont get a hundred episodes to flesh out their respective characters. And considering Maison Ikkokus or Touch's runtime, both shows did pretty damn badly at actually developing the cast. One hundred fucking episodes, its hard to even fathom to be honest. I dont even think that there is a single show in existence that made use of a hundred episodes and didnt feel like it was bloated.

>>161693739
Lelelelelelelee u suc idot. Is that it?

>>161693792
You're not qualified to challenge anyone's point of view, you embarrassed yourself by exposing your sheer stupidity.

>>161693849
Loads of substance in your posts.

>>161693869
It's all you're worth.

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>>161693739
>>161693849
>>161694238
You sound like a massive chode. Have you ever considered suicide? If not, you should.