Successful businessman Ryou Amakusa is used to being the target of women’s affections despite never asking anyone out himself. One day, after feeling dizzy from a lack of sleep, he nearly falls down some stairs at the station. He is saved by high school otaku Ichika Arima, a girl who gives him her own lunch […]
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In all romance anime, it takes two to make a couple. However, in most narratives, the story is told from one perspective through one main character. Although romance anime is generally seen as a genre more appealing to women, just as many men enjoy the unique feeling that love can bring. I think the vicarious
Although lauded for being likable and intelligent, Kyouko Hori hides the fact that she has to take care of her brother and the housework because her parents are always working. Izumi Miyamura, on the other hand, is seen as a brooding, bespectacled otaku. Outside of school, he sports tattoos and nine piercings. By happenstance, the
You might be familiar with the cool kuudere or perhaps the ever-beloved yet difficult to love tsundere, but the practice of stuffing characters into a box and slapping a “-dere” label on their personality is a vast one. No well-written character is just one archetype, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of anime fans from
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Tomboyish Okami and her best friend Ringo are part of the Otogi Bank, a club that assists students with problems in return for assistance later on. Admiring Okami from afar is Ryoushi, a boy who can’t stand being looked at. After failing to confess to Okami, Ryoushi ends up inadvertently joining Otogi Bank. While Ryoushi
In order to make friends with some popular girls, Erika Shinohara has taken to lying about having a boyfriend. In order to prove it, she hastily takes a picture of a man, but her friends recognize him as a school mate, the popular Kyouya Sata. In order to avoid humiliation, she asks him to pretend
For Nishikata, no one knows him better than Takagi-san. Unfortunately for him, she uses this knowledge to unrelentingly tease him on a daily basis. Nishikata vows to get revenge for all that blushing he has done, but is he good enough to overcome her skill? Comedy and frustrating unresolved romance (mostly) at its finest. If
Do you remember your student council president from your school years? No, probably not, right? They really weren’t very important and typically didn’t have a lot of power. However, student council presidents in anime are often more than just people that want something fancy to put on a college application. Sometimes they have crazy, world-ending
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There is some debate as to whether blushing makes an anime girl cuter, but no matter where you come down on that, few things beat a good blush. Unfortunately, while there is some pleasure in romance anime where the blushing is rare and satisfying, others tend to go another route. Almost every scene the characters
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For those not in the know, a trap refers to a person of either gender that convincingly dresses as the opposite gender. Traps traditionally refer to boys dressed as girls while reverse traps are girls that dress as boys. As it comes from such a conservative society, it is often surprising that anime is such
