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ROMANCE Anime Poll! (Patreon)

Published:
2023-01-10 22:15:43
Imported:
2023-04

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Hey all!

Hope you had lovely new year and it's poll time!

So the way it's been working out with the rec / poll systems is that I've found I'll end up digging into 2-3 animes within a given genre and end up writing about all of them / whatever moves me most. It also ends up taking more like 1.5 months to watch / write instead of getting it all done within the month. 

SO I figured this would be a good way to watch a bunch of romance anime by Valentines day-ish! Though with a slightly more dramatic bent than trashy stuff like Rent-A-Girlfriend, though whatever works. I also want to watch Tale of Princess Kaguya to finish Takahata for January :)

The following are the options I cured from friends, but feel free to add any MUST WATCH ones in the comments!

<3HULK

Comments

Anonymous

For a deep cut, but Kare Kano remains the undisputed king of the anime romance genre for me. And its the follow up project from Hideaki Anno after Eva.

Anonymous

Oh no, I missed this poll going up. I think Fruits Basket / Your Lie in April will be a good pair of shows to see standard shoujo vs shonen het romance. Though uh, my first choices for those categories would probably be Kimi no Todoke and Toradora. Especially Toradora, you'd have a blast digging into writing and directing on display there. But that's not why I need to chime in. I'll briefly second Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances), Oregairu (My Teen Romantic Comedy Snafu) and Kaguya-sama Love is War, but all of those are still het romance, still firmly in romcom/coming of age stories, and still beside the point. I'll also second Bloom into You, and Given, as the best recent WLW and MLM shows, but the fact they've already been mentioned shows that they don't need me to champion them. If you're doing a poll for romance anime, the show you /have/ to cover is Onii-sama e aka Dear Brother written by the one and only Riyoko Ikeda and driected by the one and only Osamu Dezaki. You've possibly heard people reference The Rose of Versailles, which was earlier and is the same powerful tag team, but Onii-sama e is the work that refined their combined style and demonstrated it's equal effectiveness in a modern setting rather than the high drama setting of the French Revolution. It is the singular key to all of anime's visual language when it comes to serious drama, and especially when it comes to shoujo manga. You've certainly already seen multiple shows pointedly use Dezaki's postcard memories, or panning triple takes, or any of his other dozens of stylistic quirks that have remained long after he left us. I think you'd love basically any of his major works, but this one is the one that's stayed with me the longest. This is the show that you can look at and say "if this didn't exist, would Revolution Girl Utena exist? What about Marimite?" Please watch it, the grandmother of modern Yuri.