This isn’t bait, I’m being serious here. I’ve noticed a worrying trend in recent anime and manga - an increasing amount of NTR (or at least NTR bait) themes creeping into otherwise normal romance or even action stories. I’m not talking about full-blown cuckold plots, but rather the emotional manipulation, humiliation, and possessive jealousy that have become disturbingly common narrative tools.It feels like mangakas have realized they can trigger stronger emotional reactions by flirting with those “NTR-adjacent” beats - teasing betrayal, love triangles with zero payoff, or deliberately humiliating male characters through romantic insecurity. What used to be a niche fetish genre now bleeds into mainstream romcoms, fantasy, and even shounen.Why? Maybe it’s because audiences have become desensitized, and writers need sharper emotional hooks. Or maybe it reflects something cultural - a sense of powerlessness, alienation, or anxiety about relationships in modern Japan. Either way, the emotional tone of modern “romance” anime feels less about connection and more about possession and loss.This isn’t about purity or moral panic - it’s about narrative direction. Romance used to explore intimacy and trust. Now it’s more about pain and jealousy for cheap engagement. And I think that says something pretty dark about where both creators and audiences are mentally right now.
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Love triangles and shit like that have been a staple of romance stories for millenniaThe only "trend" is your own increasing degeneracy being projected onto the entire medium
>>282840618This, these faggots wouldn't survive old shows nor shoujos, modern world fucking sucks
Netorase is goodNetori is bad Simple as
>>282840618I can only assume it's the crossover of the, "I'm so absurdly sheltered I have no idea what fiction is like beyond battle shounen" and "depicting immorality in fiction will manifest it in real life somehow".
>>282840527>bottom leftqrd?
>>282840527>Sono Bisque has NTROP is baiting.
>>282842316He also posted Koonloong or whatever is called, where the only "NTR" is FMC getting kissed by an actual faggots that just wanted to mess with MC.The ugly guy anime that I'm not sure if it has any NTR bait,And Módulo that also doesn't have any
>>282840527Remember in old anime where characters all acted normal and had normal relationships even the perv guy when he wasn't a pervert? Why it so hard just to get normal cast of characters again? Also not to sound like a damn but why did women in anime back then actually feel like real people and not just objects for the main characters or to be used in the plot compared to now? How is it anime is more sexist now then it was 20 years ago? I like having female characters who act like actual people.
>>282842415the new chapter has NTR bait
>>282842473Which one? Módulo or ugly guy?What happened exactly?
>>282842481modulo
>>282842510>>282842481Sorry but I skimmed through it and saw nothing.Just that the retarded lid repeating grade>Seriously sorcerers checking something like thatWas an ugly old man disguising as a kid
>>282842470>Remember in old anime where characters all acted normal and had normal relationshipsNot even slightly, no.
>>282842470holy larping newniggerthe only thing I remember is that female characters acted like/actually where whores as social commentary to "own" nips that liked moe and puritywhich is happening again nowso you should be happy but instead you want to pretend to be an oldfag for street cred on here like the brown tourist you arego back
>>282842316I haven't seen every show in OP's pic, but the ones I've seen don't have NTR at all, so I'm assuming he's a lying faggot
>>282843190Pretty much the only ones that have some NTR or bait in some way are Kanokari because of Kazuya delusions of Chizuru fucking with other men (nothing really happens in reality) and the Gyaru in the upper right, simply because she is used goods (she is loyal to MC who she is currently dating, though, so it doesnt fully count either)
Empowered female mcs
>>282840527>Thread made by a tourist Case closed
>>282842316Marin is the one NTR'd out of a photo with Gojo in the manga, so the anime had to fix that
>>282840527>ntr>marinIm so tired of forced shitposting.
>>282845442there was a scene when marin asked gojo if he'd like it if she ntr'd him with ojisans. read the manga first, newfag
>>282845599>delusions: the post
>>282845213explain
>>282840527Relationship drama with an outside party being a possible threat has been a common staple in any country’s romance works.Often in old anime if the main girl feels like she’s being ignored by the mc, she’ll spend time with another guy to make him jealous. Also I think the term itself is just much more mainstream now, so it’s coming up more and being noticed by regular audiences.
>>282840618>>282840642>>282841179all the reactions to Kijin Gentousho's first episode were hilarious
>>282846056Marin wanted to take a purikura photo with Gojo but then all the boys in their class appeared and took the photo with him leaving Marin out, the anime added a scene that did not appear in the manga in which Marin instead of confessing to Gojo asks him for a selfie and he accepts
>>282845771read this, faggot >>282846167
>>282846111this is also NTR trash? good thing i didn't watch that one hour long garbage episode
>>282846452>missing out on a photo compares to Marin wanting to fuck ojisansthis is a brain on NTR, don't be one
>>282846476no, she gets beheaded by the MC's demonic imouto before she could do anything
NTR makes me hard. Since I'm a gfless loser I learned not to get attached to women so the sluttier they are the better. I don't care if they cheat, they're all whores anyway
>>282846948grim
>>282846793still trash in my books
NTR done to characters I don't like is goodNTR done to characters I like is badsimple as
>>282840527Anime fans aren't exactly good-natured, emotionally mature people, just in case you never noticed before.
>>282840527Is just a thing newer generation are into, no need to understand it.
There is no NTR in Takamine-san.There is only a tsundere who is overtly in love with the lead.
/a/ is healing
>>282842470Not a single sentence here is true. Dumb retard
>>282840527NTR is realistic, a radiography of modern relationships.If a manchild fails at something, the girl will always try to find a better MAN.Mix that with virginshaming and loyaltyshaming against girls who are MCsexual and are the epitome of loyalty.
>>282840527>This isn't bait >post bait
Just don't self insert lmaoI fucking love seeing women get humiliated and just skip every page with the cuck on it
>>282840527>he thinks common romantic drama is NTR fetishism You people are so mindbroken by NTR porn it would actually be funny if it weren't so annoying.
>>282848867you're also skipping pages on your real life by being here
>>282840527lmao what a baby.
>>282849042there's a difference between>I saw her talk to another male in a professional settingand then series like cuckcacuck where the MC has to watch her be embraced by another man while he is literally physically unable to do anything about it and says word for word>fuuuuck I'm so jealousand you knowignoring her almost getting gangraped multiple timesthe author is a legit cuckold
>>282840527The Iliad is an NTR story. Yes, the founding story of the West is an NTR in which Helen of Troy is the whore who cheats on her husband, and that's how Western literature began thousands of years ago, not in recent years.
>>282853466>Yes, the founding story of the West is an NTRWhat about the Bible?
>>282855153That's Jewish propaganda from the Middle East.
>>282849042>>282853466>>282840527>>282840618>>282840642Hm, I don't watch new anime, so I cannot tell who is wrong here since it all sounds like its in bad faith. I know because I've seen retards denying real trends like this in the past with the same dismissive retardation.
>>282853466This entire comment feels like a fucking bot. What relevance does The Illiad have to do with fucking anything
>>282853466>The Iliad is an NTR story. Yes, the founding story of the West is an NTR in which Helen of Troy is the whore who cheats on her husband,There's no way it's the Illiad, there's got to be other stories created before it as its predecessor.
>>282856602>I don't watch new animeWhat are you fucking doing on /a/ then
>>282851399Which series is the one with multiple gangrapes?
>>282856694Maybe he's a vintage watching chad.
>>282840527>NTR in modern works>worrying trendWhat a fragile sissy. You must be cucked a lot by all bulls in your hometown if you react like that to NTR anime.
What you describe was one of the main romance plotpoints of one of the most influential anime ever made 40 years ago.You'd have a fucking melt down if you watched Macross when Minmay's childhood friend shows up and steals her away from MC while she keeps on being wishy-washy and stringing the MC along for 20 episodes and then friendzoning him (despite kissing him and other shit earlier) only to fall in love with him again after he moved on from being cucked.
NTRfags have become the new fujos. They inject their delusions in every anime they watch then start saying those anime are NTR.
>>282857477You wanna try actually thinking instead of just taking an opportunity to throw insults?
>>282840527>>282857593Or you'd have a fucking melt down if you watched Nadia and the Secret of Blue Water when some random black guy shows up for an episode really late into the anime and Nadia abruptly falls in love with him instead of the MC
>>282848590>i wanted our first time to be special!>takes his other girlfriend's virginity and proceeds to give not one iota of a shit about it
>>282857638Fujoshi are usually just unhinged teenage girls, immature and stupid but ultimately still human NTRfags straight up have no soul
>>282853466>be helen>one of the Big Gods decides to deliver you on a platter to some kid to win a pissing contest>he steals you away from your kingdom and husband>everyone acts like the ensuing war is all your fault, for millennia
>>282857641Or Turn A Gundam where one of the girls who's in love with MC goes and marries some other dude because she's pissed of that the MC's super dense
>>282857754I was about to answer this one but your response was way better
>>282857766off*
>>282857766In Turn A, I think it's more that Loran isn't interested in Sochie in that way. He's saving her, usually from herself, every other episode. They aren't equals.
>>282857641fucking disgusting. why is anime like this?
>>282857766Or Fantastic Children. I don't want to give away what happens but it would be absolute poison to the Othello-minded folk among us.
>>282857754>>one of the Big Gods decides to deliver you on a platterHow did the Gods teleport her? They just decided to one day teleport her away to some random guy?
>>282857920Gainax prequel to P&S
>>282858053>Othello-minded folkWhat does that mean?
>>282856693>There's no way it's the Illiad, there's got to be other stories created before it as its predecessor.The Iliad is not the first piece of literature in the west, its just one of the oldest we have written down. There is references to gods and goddesses the entire length of the Iliad which directly implies that they have their canonical stories ages before the events in the story take place.
>>282858256>be Othello>see your wife talking to another guy>shitposter says that means she's cheating on you>believe him, chimp out and kill your wife because you're a retardShakespeare predicted modern 4chan.
>>282856812dandadan newfag
>>282840527>This isn’t bait, I’m being serious here. lollmao
What are some good cuckquean kinos
>>282858053I don't get it? MC did the same than in Othello? Or did he actually was sjustified because the cheating was real?
>>282858227Like anon said it wasn't her fault....still a big women moment in the greek mythology.It was the fault of the 3 main goddesses.They took some guy from Rome (can't member his name rn) and made him choose between them who was the best. If I'm not wrong, Hera offered richess and Athena offered power.But the winner was Aphrodite. She offered pussy love, and in exchange for the vote, delivered Helena to the guy causing the whole mess.
>>282841915>girl gets magic spell put on her to betray MC>still loves him, talks about how great he is, but does her best to fight against him and help others beat him, although she's the first one to acknowledge it's futile>MC doesn't care and knows he get her back>author inserts a couple of lines in LN mentioning it was sort of like an NTR situation>"betrayal" lasts a whole volume, and then goes instantly back to normal once spell is brokenThe whole thing with Atou is overblown. It provides good motivation to grind the other side down, much better than if she had just been kidnapped and imprisoned somewhere or something.
>>282861096No, I have just started to think of anons who see shadows of NTR everywhere as Othello-brained posters. Pardon my schizoposting.Fantastic Children is real NTR though, on a cosmic scale similar Bizon from Buddy Complex or Faceless from Karakuri Circus, only it actually happens to the MC instead of the villain. It would destroy someone who thinks that Dandadan or Dress-Up Darling is NTR.
People who see NTR everywhere give the same impression as fujos who think 2 guys are fucking because they looked at each once
>>282840527>but rather the emotional manipulation, humiliation, and possessive jealousy that have become disturbingly common narrative tools.3 point rule>This isn’t about purity or moral panic - it’s about narrative direction.this isnt just X its Xnice chatgpt post, faggot. you removed the em dashes to make it seem more real and replaced them with normal -.
>>282842415Just because he is gay doesnt me its not bait hell it just means its real NTR
>>282840527The only one with actual NTR bait is Kanokari and that's all in Kazuya's retarded head.please fuck off with the shitty bait threads you're wasting precious board space or something.
>>282840527Even one piece has peak NTR (Kuma and Ginny)
>>282840618>Love triangles and shit like that have been a staple of romance stories for millenniaMost examples of love triangles from the last 40 years were usually shat on.
>>282862038Sure, but because they're tedious and usually result in very annoying, contrived emotional drama. The kind of visceral, personally insulted, and often moralizing about social degradation reactions NTR engenders is a completely different kind of thing.
>>282857593>only to fall in love with him again after he moved on from being cucked.She was never in love with Hikaru, duh. What she did in the final 5 episodes was escaping forward from her issues and taking advantage of Hikaru's simpery (and the fact he was a deliberately dense simp who chose to not read Misa's hints. I'm on my 6th rewatch of Macross and it's more of a bitter romance where the MC only settled down w/ Misa simply because he was too balls deep into his duty, not because he loved her, a reminder he never told Misa the 3 words).I know from some experts nips HATED Macross end, and wanted Minmei to win. Not surprised Kawamori and Mikimoto don't want anything to do with SDF (and no. It wasn't bc of the lawsuit with HG) and rather want to focus in the AU series.
>>282857641Or the eva final rebuild where Asuka... you already know the story.
Seeing this thread makes me remember how much i enjoyed abyss threads (and the manga in general) during the flashback arc. Yuuko NTR'ing Akira w/ Uryuu bc the former was a spineless manchild, then him NTR'ing her back with ProtoChunko, followed by him not being able to control his dick and cause protochunko to almost kill herself, and finally Akira having his incel meltdown after "realizing" Abyss mama wanted him to become one with all her customers and schizoing an image of her that didn't exist. It only took a terminal cancer and his life inevitably going to an end to accept his status as a cuck only bc Reiji (and then the teacher) chewed him for being a spineless simpcelcvckIt truly was one of a kind manga.
