Maison Ikkoku is a better romance than any anime from the

>>161696281
that's not really fair, considering it's literally the best of all time

>>161696281
Duh.

>>161696281
Why did you make this thread again right after the old one died when barely anybody replied the first time?

>>161696336
Are you sure?

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>>161696281
It's not really a contest if this is the only drama-romance anime that are NOT ABOUT HIGHSCHOOL KIDS.

>>161696281
Nah, but it's probably the best Rumiko romance. The whole "don't die before me" scene is 10/10.

>>161700087
>the quality of a series is determined by whether the characters are 17 or 20
This is not really how stories work.

>>161700410
in theory, no, but in reality that's how things are

>>161700410
Yes, but you can only do so much without the >muh first love bullshit.

>>161696281
Unfortunately like every work from Rumiko Takahashi, it suffers from a deadly case of filler and relationship resets.

>>161700599
>filler
I hope you don't mean UY, since a comedy series literally can't have filler.

>>161696281
How's the pace in this? I've never watched it but for some reason it looks terribly slow. judging from screenshots

>>161696281
Maison Ikoku is just a soap in the form of an anime.
It's not bad, but it's not that great either.

>>161696281
Blue Seed is better.

>>161696281
Thanks for the rec, faggot. I'm into romance anime recently.

>>161696281
>rumikotrash
>good

>>161700087
Watch Rose of Versailles then, faggot.

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>>161700087
>this is the only drama-romance anime that are NOT ABOUT HIGHSCHOOL KIDS
>What is Kodomo no Omocha which is a million times better than this trash?

>>161700087
Your personal inability to find shows like that is your problem and not the industry's. Fuck off.

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>>161696281
It helped that there wasn't really all that much filler for a 96 ep series

>>161701465
6-7 years covered in 96 episodes. The pacing feels right. Nothing feels dragged or asspulled.

>>161705819
Haven't watched this in its entirety. Did the anime take place over 7 years like the real-time manga, or just over its 2-year TV running time?

>>161705819
>nothing feels dragged
are you retarded

I'm probably gonna get shitted on for this but when i watched Toradora i really liked it for its sweetness and because of Ryujii
I also liked Clannad

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>>161696281

Like KOR, it is basically a collection of all the worst romance tropes. So no, it isn't.

>>161702934

Blue Seed would have actually been better if it just removed all the plant creatures junk and became a slice of life work related love story. But we got another show that did that.

>>161705668

>no filler
The entire show is filler. Random situations to keep from the main characters getting together.

>>161708956

That would imply the only 'non-filler' plot is the main characters getting together, which isn't true at all. A HELL of a lot happens that causes both (plus Mitaka honestly) to go through pretty serious character changes, courtesy of these plot situations. Godai in particular goes from a NEET loser at the start to a grown man with a great job he spent the whole show building towards, he only gets the girl when he truly deserves her. Likewise Kyoko gets the guy when she's truly ready and finally over Soichiro's dead ass.

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>>161708768

>Hating on both Ikkoku and Kimagure Orange Road

You should be disqualified from talking about romance anime. They're not using 'the worst romance tropes', these are the shows that brought them to the fucking table. If the six million copycat shows make you unable to appreciate legitimate creativity I can only pity you.

>>161709595

>a show did it first so it makes it okay
And even then, you're an idiot. They didn't pioneer anything. Go actually watch anime from the 80s. Well over 50% of them were the exact same plot and tropes as those shows. That was the fad back then.

>>161709777

I'd love to hear some direct examples but as you're talking out of your ass, I won't hold my breath.

You can probably make a case for Orange Road as certain elements were already tried and true, certainly espers, body swapping, high, school love triangles, all pretty established. But Ikkoku? What the fuck was like that? The 80s an era of supernatural bullshit - mechs, aliens, post-apocalyptic wastelands - you have to go back to the 70s to see any SoL and even then they were closer to sappy soap operas like Candy Candy than what MI did with the format.

>>161696281
Kagome!!!

>>161710502

Adachi and many other mangaka were writing romance stories at the same time that Ikkoku came out. We just focus on Ikkoku and Orange Road because they are the most remembered. For the reason you gave before. They 'set the standard'. But once again, setting a standard doesn't mean those standards were good to begin with.

People today complain all the time about cliche Visual Novels and harems. But those standards were also present in the 1980s romance shows. And for the record, they were also used much earlier. In Hollywood films and cliche romance novels before film even became a thing.

>>161710674
Also no one talks about Adachi because unlike how Takahashi made series with similar tropes, Adachi literally made the same short series over and over, swapping only which sport was the backdrop. Hell, he didn't even swap hairstyles.

>>161711066

He didn't swap the sports. It's always baseball. What he did change was the romance plot of the story. Cross Game is not the same as Touch.

>>161710528
At least Kagome wasn't used goods.

>>161710502
Was Urusei Yatsura an SOL? It was a mostly episodic show revolving around the characters bouncing off each other.

>>161696281
no