After being bullied in middle school for her shyness being misinterpreted as coldness, Uka Ishimori hopes that she can get a fresh start in high school. After accidentally being sprayed with lemon soda by the cool and popular Kai Miura, she finds herself constantly crossing paths with Kai whose small acts of kindness and encouragement […]
After an event in her childhood, Hotaru Hinase believes that she is just incapable of understanding the concept of romantic love, and believes that falling in love is something that just wasn’t meant to happen to her. While out with a friend, she watches the messy break up between a girl and her schoolmate, the
While romance can bloom from literally anywhere, romance anime only has a select number of set ups to make a compelling romantic story. One such set up is where the popular person goes against all odds and begins to take an interest in their local outcast. While it may seem a bit insulting that an
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In romance anime, it takes two to make a couple, but there will almost always be a main character that drives of the story. As romance anime is still widely considered a genre aimed at women, most commonly you will find that the main character of a large chunk of romance anime is the female
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The world is filled with people who are fundamentally different from each other. For many, their lives will never intersect. However, sometimes there are moments where two very different people meet and fill what was once a void in each other. They show each other a different side of the world that they may have
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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Risa is very tall for a girl. Atsushi is very short for a boy. They are both in love with different people who actually end up dating each other. With both their loves taken, the two form an unlikely friendship that soon turns into something more. Intriguing as it is the female that first realizes
You know what can be so disappointing with romance anime? The relationship is built up for the ENTIRE series and you get that great kiss or declaration of love, then it just ends. It may not end for a few episodes afterward the new couple is made, but it is hardly enough time to see
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
As a young girl, Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and has awaited a love confession that sets her heart aflutter. However, when she gets one from a junior high classmate, she feels nothing. Unsure how to respond, she watches Nanami, her high school student council president, expertly let someone down who just confessed to
