Several of the usual romcoms have either ended or are stalling hard, let's talk about some new or less well known romcoms
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I really must read the rocket one.
>>283263638>less well knownBecause they are all shitto
>>283263638Only the one on the right from Horimiya author started somewhat interesting. The rest are just utter garbage.
>>283264050meant to say Horimiya artist*
I like the 2nd from the left since it is CF kino
>>283263638i think i have only watched Kare Kano desu, but that's just old, rather than unknown
>>283264050Hertz will outlive Hima-ten
>>283263638>usual romcomsHajimete no Gal reached chapter 200 and Junichi finally got to graduate... >>283256237
Does I'm Sick and Tired of My Childhood Friend so I Broke up With Her count as a romcom? I think it does.Childhood friend lost hard and then she was blackmail raped over a dumb reason.
>>283263638Osanananananananas is pretty cute>>283264031You should
I like Otaku x Gyaru (Kiramon)anime adaptation soon
>>283264777>You shouldnta but does anything happens or is it just endless status quo?
>>283265448They're getting closer to finishing the reconstruction of the rocket after it exploded
>>283265448It's an absolute borefest. I wasn't too high on Giji Harem, but this thing is miles worse. The girl lacks any charisma, they introduce pointless boring characters who take up time and pages.
>>283264800Yeah me too. I hope the translators will finally hurry up with the newer chapters, now that it will have more people reading it soon.As for the anime, it's a bit suspicious that there is no any anime visuals ready, but I guess they wanted to announce it right at the end of the "Shy hero and assassin princesses" anime, which is the other series of the writer author.
>>283265975That's a shame to hear
>>283263638I've been enjoying Norainu to Tenshi-chan It's more of a pure romance than a romcom but has been good so far
>>283264569>I'm Sick and Tired of My Childhood Friend so I Broke up With Her count as a romcom?In the same sense as boy's abyss does
Thread slower than usual.Anyhow, Eroko-san ended recently. Makes sense since there is really nothing to add to the story anymore. Hope the last chapters have a crossover or cameo from Henjo.Artemis is the newest series I started reading. Senpai is so best that it's completely unfair. 10-nenkan Tomodachi at least has a main heroine you can root for.Ouji-sama, Wolf-chan, Now that We Draw, and Ane no Tomodachi are the ones I like the most. Not just for the girls but also for the guys. They all have likeable casts.Cousin has tits. Lots of tits.
>>283268855>Now that We DrawI'm still mad at how this went down, there was really no point in adding the CF designated loser, just keep the main couple and focus on them becoming proper mangaka
>>283265975Rin made Pseudo Harem, she was great, but there wasn't anything else to it apart from her.
>>283263638>Female author>FeMC is literally me cute girl>Male lead is a tall, skinny twink petboy who's ooder than herWhy are they like this?
>>283263638負けを認めたら、もっと触らせてあげるけど？ ざーこ? Looks fun but I haven't had the time to read it yet
>>283263638the childhood friend one is really cute. i haven't read hertz or the rocket one yet.
>>283270324>Female authors make cute, lovable girls>Male authors make plain boys who spill their spaghetti every moment they getWhy are moids like this?
>>283263638Sauce for these please!
>>283270324>skinny twink petboyThis is the only part I hate.
>All the WSJ, WSM, WSS harems are finished or going nowhere Are there any good harems in the smaller magazines?
Shiroyama-Kun to Mita-San I found funny but also really liked their relationship.
>>283271136>ざーこThis could fill the hole that Zaako Zako Zako Zako Sensei left behind
>>283263638I read Gimai 5-nin Iru last week and it's better than I expected, nothing groundbreaking so far since it's just the first volume but the cast has been very enjoyable
>>283272279Someone hertzOsananananajimiHoukago, Bokura wa Uchuu ni MadouKoi to Yobu ni wa Sasayaka desuga
the space one is alrightkubo-san 2.0 is more of the same, but doesn't quite hitthe new one from hagiwara has potential
>>283263638>>283264031>>283274382Wait, there's a rocket club romcom?!>sluuuurpDammit, only sorta. Mainly about social media and vlogging. And yeah, pretty slow. Pseudo Harem had more, better characters, from just two people! Still, an exploding hybrid motor hurt on a personal level.
>>283273740Is it a harem?Who's winning?
>>283272444Author's fetish
>>283275700>Is it a harem?Not yet but it's clearly building up to be one>Who's winning?The girl in the middle is the same age as MC and the one that opposes him the most so she feels like the main heroine but she also pretty much goes dere by the end of vol1 which kinda lower her chances, the one with the white ribbon feels like the dark horse here
>>283271136Lewd brat
A bunch of middle schoolers got mogged
>>283264777>Osanananananananas is pretty cuteIt reads like a better planned version of Kuro-san, that one dropped it's premise after a while and became focused in the group of friends, but with this one that looks like it's going to be the focus from the start
>>283263638Is Hertz going to live or is it just axwbait?
>>283263638It's almost great but guess it was axed
Lewdest romcom right now?
kanokari makes no sense. If Chizuru has feelings why didn’t she act on them in the first place? Is she retarded? Then again none of the heroines except Sumi make any sense anyway especially Mini whose mission is to make Ruka as miserable as possible for little to no reason.
Do childhood friends really?
Have a bump while I check some of these mangos out.
>>283280176Do the sleepy sleep dance? Probably
I like the flashbacks
>>283280176I love the imouto. She's the cutest in a manga where everyone is cute.
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>>283280176Yeah, so do neighbors
>>283276014Bishounen and ikemen are all too common in female orientated manga, unfortunately. Women just like men who look like women, it's annoying but I must accept it.
The two best, not counting the horny/lewd stuff which I put in a different category, school romances I'm reading right now are Houkago Kitaku Biyori and Class de 2-banme. Not surprisingly they're not shounen magazine but seinen magazine.
>>283279958Probably not the outright lewdest but the Tonari no Seki no Yatsu ga Eroi is often quite good and quite lewd. I'm not entirely sure whether the mangaka is a woman or a bislug/homo because the guy is draw very gay. Kokoro would have looked better without the baloontits though.
>>283280176A charismatic enough child can turn anyone into their parents. This is an evolutionary adaptation.
>>283282994And nerdy women are especially prone to liking twinks it seems
>>283272460I like this one, especially how it steadily reveals the characters secrets and backstories and uses them to advance the relationships instead of just keeping everything hidden until the last minute
>>283273740>>283276465Looks like most of vol1 is available for free for now, might as well give it a try
>>283264569I don't know what the fuck the author is thinking by pushing this revenge stuff so far.>>283266278I hope they don't cheap out on the anime and treat it as a series of sketches (which the Manga kinda does but the overall plot is still going forward).I hope the translation team that restarted this one eventually start releasing it more regularly.
>no one still posted the actual best ongoing romanceSad.
Just started reading Chigau Class no Suki na Hito a couple of days ago. Too early to tell what will happen, but main girl is pretty cute.
>>283263638>>283270324Since when the romcom has been accepting female-pandering shit?
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>>283263638very decent
>>283263638Eel potato a cute.
Is the Romcom/slice of life/LEWD legibile enough?Anything that should be removed in favour of something else?>>2832780166 chapters in? That seems too fast for an axe.
>>283268855I haven't finished henjo yet so I didn't atart eroko. I really like We draw, I'm gonna be miserable when Koi-chan loses but the gyaru must win.I just started ouji because of a thread were the imouto was posted, why do they make great characters destined to suffer?
>>283270324Kek, back in Horimiya, Hori liked when Miya was rough on her. Asked him to hit her a few times.
>>283284640Manga has some absolutely assbackwards clothes nowadays.
New chapter when! It's been years!
>pause studying and go jerk off Do class rep really?
>>283263638no romcom will ever surpass school rumble
>>283285704>go to school to do schoolwork but then bring school work home too and call it homeworkNever made sense to me, Azns are weird. 75% of shit you learn in school you never use again, and many kids that get a degree end up working in something unrelated and don't use half of what they learned there either. Only once you know exactly what your interest is or you're doing on-the-job training courses is it work investing more than the minimum time into this shit.
>>283284100The childhood friend according to the author is guilty of…I dunno…nono words? So he decided to give her her just desserts to make her pay for…saying wrong things by making her get humiliated at every turn including getting gang raped by her lackey for a week?Don’t really know why his self-insert mc couldn’t have just wore ear plugs or better yet left her at any point before those 10 years but ok. Since he broke up with her it’s not really his problem anymore even though he indirectly caused it by being a shit to her too.Well I like the author’s other manga at least the revenge is 100% justified there.
>>283285764It's already been surpassed many times. It was a good comedy but an awful romance.
I need more loser heroines.
>>283285935Is the guy going to win MCbowl?
>>283285059You can read Eroko without reading Henjo. Being the similar characters appearing there is no continuity you need to know.>why do they make great characters destined to suffer?At least with Ouji it is totally on-brand to think that sisters will impose themselves on their brother even after they marry. They're freaky like that.
>>283277588Axebait
>>283263638I've mostly given up on romcom manga, LNs are much better at it
>>283287521Tell us what you're reading anon, let other's enjoy the novelty of lightness.
>>283286035That was totally an accident and definitely not some tactical girl move thing.
>>283282994It’s mainly due to asian beauty standards. Women tend to be quite fluid in what they find attractive so the culture they're in or the media targeted toward them greatly influences their preferences.
>>283263638I like Osoraku Kanojo and Tonari no Neko the most for now.
>>283269351Anon this happens in almost half the time in any romcom, why are you mad now? it's because the petite tanned autist was best girl?>>283283760Also reading this as well, a good find. I still can't believe this is the same guy from Gamers!I mean, this is actually good
>>283287801Try this one
>>283288270The problem is her not bringing anything interesting to the story, even Manbagi was a better addition to that cast that her
>>283287801Asobi no kankei is supposed to be the next big thing
>>283264031It's bad, don't bother
>>283284680Qrd?
Are there any romcoms that are complete and finish with a happy ending? After a hiatus from anime/manga for the last 15 years/starting a family I found Boko Yabai and realised romcoms/slice of life is my thing but would like something that doesn't drag on.
>>283292363>Are there any romcoms that are complete and finish with a happy ending?Ookami shounen
>>283292363Our Precious Conversations was a fun read, also everything that Makoto Ojiro worked on by herself
>>283292843>>283292965thanks anons
>>283292363Yandere Kanojo.Boku no Pico.Jitsu wa Watashi Wa.Fujiyama-san wa ShishunkiJackie Chan.Yankee-kun to Hakujou Girl.Do Chokkyuu Kareshi x Kanojo.Cory in the house (you don't see people recommend this one anymore).
>>283272460There is also WYJ harems like 100 girlfriends which should run for years and years. Anime just got season 3 announced as well.
>>283263638How is Hertz?
>>283293082>No real story>Same gag repeated for years and yearsNot my cup of tea
>>283263638Anime when?
>>283292363Actual answerUmi no Misaki,14 sai no koi,Sweat and Soap,Otonari ni Ginga,Hadi girl,Fujiyama-san wa Shishunki,Tedama ni Toritai Kurokiya-san,Hajimete Datteba!
>>283276979Very lewd
>>283264569It lacks the com part almost entirely.
>>283293877Then why am I laughing?
>>283263638isn't this like the tenth time in a month you've posted this? anyway I really like pic related "Namaiki Asahi-chan wo Wakarasetai" since childhood friend probably will win.
>>283264569even the most obnoxious of power fantasy isekai aren't as cringe-worthy as this piece of shit.
>>283264569If you ignore all the shit that happens to her, then sure, I guess.
>>283285855I don't get why she gave into the blackmail like that getting raped at a public bathroom for a week willingly, like she's basically getting sex trafficked at this point. I just don't get this author at all.
>>283263638>Romcom councilmore like NTR council
>>283294836Is it still rape if she agreed to it?
>>283292363I still think Senryu Girl was the best romcom of its generation in terms of balancing both the rom and the com>>283293076>Yandere Kanojo.If this series has started up a few years, I think it definitely could've gotten an anime>>283293502among manga-adapted narou romcoms, I think Number Two Me and Number One Girl would have enough juice for an anime adaptation
>>283293972Asahi a cuteAsahi a bestAsahi will win
>>283294836She’s actually stupid enough to believe she deserved it. Her former boyfriend would make her believe she’s this horrible person/monster that is 100% responsible for all his traumas but in reality she’s just an idiot and a bitch who can’t keep her mouth shut to save her own life.
>>283295705NTA I need to actually read the manga, but I liked the Senryu Girl anime Kino was incredibly cute
>>283271136Does it have a transmission that isn't MTL garbage? Looks fun.
>>283295212>>283296036it's just such a weird turn for the manga, the latest translated chapters has basically made me drop it.
>>283295964it doesn't feel like it'll be a long manga, probably 45-50 chapters at best, but the MC and the girls are actually decently written and not garbage like typical romcoms. The way he acts is similar to boys who grow up with older or younger sisters and know how to snap back at girls and aren't completely hapless losers.
>>283296450that's how miyuki in kaguya is written too, he has plenty of female friends and acts normal, mainly because he's had to deal with his own little sister... though in that Namaiki Asahi-chan story, the little sister is actually asahi, the childhood friend neighbour imouto.
I know it's not in fashion to link gookslop, but this one manhwa, mia has returned, has actually been pretty fun. stonescape . xyz/series/mia-has-returned/
>>283296693I read the first 9 or so chapters and it was surprisingly enjoyable. I like the low-stakes mystery solving element that seems to be present. I haven't gone back to read more of it yet, but I plan to at some point. Would also recommend.
>>283293502I like the flat version better
>>283263638Kimi ni Todoke
>>283296789it's very tropey but what manhwa isn't, at least this one seems fun and it isn't a story that is often explored in romcoms, as in old lovers in their teens reuniting as adults in college or workplace. there are definitely SOME, but it is an uncommon one. the art is nice too.
>>283296805There's also the loli version
>>283296450>The way he acts is similar to boys who grow up with older or younger sisters and know how to snap back at girls and aren't completely hapless losers.This is the best part of the manga, they really feel like they've known each other for a long time and are used to teasing/bantering with each other
>>283297423plus the actual genuine brotherly care he shows towards her and her problems is very wholesome, even if this is heading towards romantic direction.
>>283297423yeah it's not just a typical "I knew her as a child" osananajimi, it's like an ongoing long-term friendship between a boy and a girl who have known each other since infancy as next door neighbours. she even used to call him onii-chan before high school.
My top 3
>>283296261>Does it have a transmission that isn't MTL garbage?Not yet at least
>>283296225>Kino was incredibly cuteBasedIko a cute too
>>283296450>it doesn't feel like it'll be a long manga, probably 45-50 chapters at bestI just hope the author gets to unleash her horniness in the actual manga instead of just in random doodles
>>283299708What a fucking tragedy. I want to read it.
>>283300155if it starts selling well perhaps the timeframe can be moved forward and it might last 100 chapters.
>>283300036Unbelievably fucking based.
>>283300852I think it's time for an Iko thread.
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Battle harem bros...We're so back!
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>>283301505Wrapping it up with peak.
>>283301530Based Ikochad
>>283301642I'll never stop holding out hope. Although a Nene win is acceptable as well.
>>283301678Fine, one more.>Do not RepostLol try to stop me faggot.
>>283301530>>283301642Ikobros, why does Igarashi bully her so much?
>>283302222I actually think Igarashi loves her. But I guess we'll see for sure how deep that love goes via her upcoming big moment in the current arc. She's the only heroine so far who hasn't gotten a spotlight at the end of a longer, school-related arc and he's been setting this one up a lot harder than the others. I'm personally expecting great things since she's the most popular character in the manga and the third most popular in the magazine according Kodansha's Valentine's Day poll (though to be fair literally every heroine in the magazine got fucking violently dog walked by Asahi Amagami, which is pretty understandable).
>>283284263>romanceMore of a bait and switch to love triangle drama. Very good, but not the lighthearted romcom of the first volume.
>>283302222He realized making MC's VA climb mount Fuji while carrying a statue of her so they could see the sunrise together made the winner too obvious
>>283302489The hints at Iko possibly bring Apollo have unironically gotten a lot stronger since she won the popularity poll. Especially her fixating on whether or not he's ever moved and wondering if his bed is the same one he's always slept in.
>>283301068Damn... She's so small
>>283284263>author of Saekano>has a traumatic hateboner for osananajimisI've been burned once, anon. I'll never trust that miserable piece of shit for as long as I love
iko sucks so fucking bad, worst character in the whole manga
>>283302878Imagine having taste this shit. Couldn't be me.
I'm very interested in how much progress there will be in Yaotome x2. I feel like with how time is progressing it would be a copout if it stayed with the status quo like Seitokai Yakuindomo.>>283285221It comes out every issue reliably. Learn Japanese and read it. >>283296225I liked the anime but I hate that so many shorts stick with 12 episodes even though each episode is half the length. Some characters from the manga didn't even get introduced in the anime because of how little content it had.
Bump.
>>283293502>>283296805>>283296913>>283301642I love white haired girls
>>283284066Just finished reading what's available, Fuuka is best girl by far but I also ended up liking Chinatsu more than I was expecting after her introduction
Any where the male MC is actually a badass and not so annoying you just want to drop the manga? Delinquent mango is fine but if there's any romance at all it's usually very back-seat. I remember watching Denpa Teki na Kanojo back in the day and part of the reason it was good is that the guy wasn't a loser, even if he was a little on the edgy side.
>>283295964Why is it that when there's a girl named Asahi in the manga she's always the best girl?
>>283302448Just can't beat the JCs
>>283265448Does this serialized romance have constant progression or does it stall for eternity?What do you think?
>>283303923Wouldn't want to.
>>283303838Not Always
>>283304071She's pretty cute but no one can beat Manami.
>>283264050>whoreimiyaPass
>>283304274I think it's just the artist, not the author.
>>283304260I mean he did cite her as an Asahi who's not the best girl in her respective manga.
>>283303838it's only the best if she's super dry
>>283303724>Fuuka is best girl by farYes
I'm surprised Minna no Kiss Club is not more popular here
>>283304617Asahis should be super wet.
>>283263638This one seems like it has a lot of potential. Also, we should make these threads a regular thing.
>>283305882Yeah this shit was great.
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>>283305912Peak self-aware light novel comedy here.
It's okay.
>>283305937>Self-awareThese are usually a 50-50 of either beings a clever subversion of expection in a positive way or just a lampshading of the tropes it makes fun of in it's use in other manga before it uses them itself. In the first chapter, I'd say it more of the former, but I don't like how it does the MC is trying to stay hidden from attention thing.
>>283305979Yeah it always has the opportunity to devolve into unadulterated shit. But the first chapter was really good shit so I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.
I miss What's Under Kamiyama-san's Paper Bag?
>>283298756Based. Great taste anon-kun.
>>283306069Anyone who likes Houkago Kitaku Biyori is automatically a massive fucking Chad.
>>283306111Ah yes, a generic wholesomeslop #28348, what a chad taste
>>283306150I do feel like some of the blandest manga get shilled to death just because its wholesome
>>283306009I wonder if japanese authors die if they stop making puns with character names.
>>283306150The sloppy wholesome story is better than the best melodrama story.
>>283307165*most sloppy
Bros, is there any romcom with a younger male, preferably 18-25 year old with an older woman in her in mid 40s or so?
>>283306009Manga is over. We see what's under Kamiyama-san's paper bag.The LN has been in hiatus for years. I wonder if the decision to end the manga was because the LN stopped or it has always been planned as a short adaptation.>>283307670Choppiri Toshiue demo Kanojo ni Shite Kuremasu ka?Though both the male and female are younger than the age you want.
>>283308198>SpoilerI know, she's cute.>Manga is overWhat's the final chapter number though?
>>283308198>Choppiri Toshiue demo Kanojo ni Shite Kuremasu ka?Already know about it. It's the same author as the one I posted of. He's pretty based hagchad.
The LN got abandoned/axed but the manga never was axed. I heard that since the manga didn't get axed the author got worried and is working on it again. Apparently he wrote most of the volumes in highschool but bailed since it was interfering with college.
>>283308344>is working on it againOn what? The manga or the LN?
>>283308366The LN. I heard this last year but nothing is coming up. I'm kinda hoping the mangaka just goes rougue.
>>283308279>What's the final chapter number though?26 chapters>>283308299Yeah, just noticed it. He also has some high school stories with a female senpai, guess he likes his girls being older. based.Honestly, I think it's hard to find stories with such a large age gap. 10-15 years maybe but over 20 is a little hard.
>>283308463>26 chaptersDamn, I'm literally just missing the final chapter
>>283308400Nice, remember the first volume having potential plus the hiatus+college has already given the author a few new ideas and concepts to develop if he ever picks it back up.
Yuri better
>>283284680All of these low self-esteem MC are ass. That one from the author of Oreshura is the same.
>>283309295>Oreshura authorWhat were you expecting
>>283309315Oreshura's MC was more palatable than your modern wuss.
>>283302448What makes you think Iko is the most popular character in the manga ? Did the manga had a poll recently or smth?
>>283302830Utaha best girlEriri a shit
My bro!
Whatever happened to this one? The CF ojousama was such an insufferable cunt but the other girls were super cute.
>>283312015God overshadowed by the other shoelacer
>>283312132*Got
>>283263638Where's Himaten?
>>283306150>romcom thread >getting assmad about wholesome, light-hearted fun
>>283314511Himaten gets its own thread.
>>283310787I'm not upset that Eriri lost. I'm upset that the writer simultaneously took a massive shit on the likability of every member of the cast and turned a genuinely fun, humorous story into crappy melodrama like four-fifths of the way in. He clearly has a thing for sudden, totally out of place tone shifts that exist for no other reason than cheap shock value. Fuck him and everything he writes.
Any new site that isn't shit yet? Been using batoto but i want to kill myself every time. They also scrape slow af. Most of the scanlators seem to have returned to fox
>>283263638Kubo's anime was so low budget and the ending was so trash. The manga got a lot better by the end and it was really nice. Too bad it won't get an adaptation
What was the name of the manga in which both MC and FMC want a divorce but then they get timeregressed to highschool and they fall in love again?
>>283316199"Ore no Class ni Wakagaetta Moto Yome ga Iru"/"My Ex-Wife is Young Again and She's in my Class"Seems like it got unceremoniously axed after only two volumes. Unless that really is all there was to adapt of the light novel, I guess. I never ended up finishing it.
>>283316347The LN is very short, just 2 volumes, so mostly likely it finished it.
>>283316520One LN volume per manga volume feels like an insanely fast adaptation by pretty much every metric, but fair enough. Maybe I'll go back and finish reading it then.
>>283316347Thanks.I needed the sugar for my diabetus.
>>283314670Just ignore the shonenschizo
>>283316821No problem, anon. All I did was Google "ex-wife time travel manga".
Shitsudo takame na ryokataomoi looks cute but it isn't translated
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boku dake ga shitterun daze and zurikishis office age gap joint are probably my favorite on-going
>>283304071The exception proves the rule
>>283264569I'm a bit sad betrayal/regretkino never took off in the mainstream, I was hoping at least one of them would get an anime
>>283309611See the image attached to >>283302448It was a Valentine's Day poll including all of the heroines in WSM. Iko was third place in the entire magazine, which is a pretty clear indicator of where she stands relative to the other girls in her manga. Although as mentioned, the difference between first place and everything below it was... well, yeah.
>>283318235I like them as well, but they aren't romcoms. They're drama. Also, the best ones aren't from JP.
>>283318235There are plenty of light novels that fill that niche. They're even more blatant slop than the average LN, but they exist in abundance. Shitty web novels too, though as always the translation quality for those is typically atrocious.
>>283318235No one likes shameless power fantasies like that outside of isekai
>>283277029I've missed a fuckin chapterrrrr
>>283319132God I wish this were true but the success of Solo Leveling proves that it isn't.
>>283318368I see. I thought something else has came out since then,maybe an interview from the author because he kinda neglects her in the manga
>>283319132That's bullshit and you know it. Power fantasy is why these romcoms often beta makes pared with giga stacy heroines.
>>283319215That's isekai adjacent
>>283319307If you look at the totality of the manga, all four heroines actually get relatively equal time in the spotlight in the form of short arcs focused on one or two of them at a time. The only thing Iko hasn't gotten that the other three have is a major moment to cap off an arc that features the entire cast, and she's going to be getting that this arc over the next couple of chapters. And this has been the longest arc thus far, with the potential for the biggest payoff. She's in a great place.
>>283319334Yeah, fair point. Though even the most generic isekai have better character writing than that fucking abomination.
>>283319215>Solo LevelingLeave that to me...
>>283319307>I thought something else has came out since thenThere's the thing with Buki's MC taking her up mt. Fuji to watch the dawn together, but in general she's a hard character to develop much since, unlike the other girls, the author is hiding her backstory and thoughts from the audience>>283319405>the potential for the biggest payoff.I'd like to believe this but it's probably going to just end up with MC thinking he can't keep ignoring the girls feelings and the back to the status quo, at most I expect a swings like scene for her
>>283264569Wait she actually got raped?
>>283319899in the very latest chapters translated she gave in to her lackeys blackmailing her for money and started basically seeing "clients" in a public bathroom for a week, she's being sex trafficked, which I suppose you could call rape? I don't know. From a plot perspective, this is the dumbest turn this manga could have taken which has made a lot of people drop it. Fuck the mangaka, there were a lot of ways they could have done this without sex trafficking a guilt-ridden bully high schooler osananajimi.
>>283319847Aren't cats super related to luck in japan ? Or like did the actor talked about Iko ?
>>283319945Idk what better way could there be to punish her? She's been a cunt to others for years.
>>283319405I don't think they get equal time or even equal focus. Iko often get shafted and the focus is more on Rikka when they share an arc. I think there's a difference in the way the author uses Iko/Nene and Rikka/shinobu. And yes this arc is longer but it's because all girls had a solo moment with Arisu unlike previous arcs, and didn't focus on Iko only. Whereas only nene got a solo moment with Yamabuki during the fireworks arc for instance
>>283320141still very off-putting, and it feels like the artist is trying to put her on a redemption path given she's doing this to prevent spreading a video of the MC's embarrassing moment, it feels like a price too high. It's a weird revenge story. I don't like it at all that's all.
>>283319972>Aren't cats super related to luck in japan ?Same as clovers
>>283320198>Whereas only nene got a solo moment with Yamabuki during the fireworks arc for instanceRikka got that chapter where she takes him away to show him her swimsuit, Shinobu took him out at night to talk, Iko claimed him in front of the beach slutsIt's just how the arcs are structured in this manga, each event gives all the girls some small moments before giving the big one to just one, Shinobu got the confession, Nene the fireworks, Rikka the kiss and now it Iko's turn
>>283266278The girls are nice in this but the main character really annoys me, and I'm typically patient with a lot of male leads that I see people complain about. It really doesn't ever feel like he has any characterization at all.
>>283318368jesus fucking christ i dropped this manga ages ago why is she so popular
>>283317952>zurikishis office age gapWhich?
>>283318368Total Asahi Victory
>>283317952I didn't have high hopes at the beginning but I shouldn't have ever doubted the Taiyou no Ie writer. I 100% expected it to be a generic "insecure loser male lead gets dick sucked by idol female lead" but both characters have way more going on than I thought. The male leads empathy is so well depicted and the development moves so much faster than I ever expect.
>>283321487ToT factor aside, she's just a well written character, she could easily be the protagonist of a non-romcom manga so she kinda mogs the rest who only work in a harem/romcom setting
Chanto Suki tte Ieru ko Musou just started and looks like it could be fun
>>283320141>She's been a cunt to others for years.What others? It was just to her former boyfriend and she was already punished for it. Anything extra and it’s like she chose this on purpose for the bonus pity bucks.>oh woe is me i’m getting raped to protect the image of my super cunt ex boyfriend who peed himself as a child because of me! I hope he doesn’t show up out of the blue after finding out what happened and saves me! *wink* *wink*
>>283319945It went from a little cringy to full cringe. I'm just reading to see the trainwreck it becomes.
>>283315587You are right but the meltdown after saranami's twist was great to watch.
What went so horribly wrong?
>>283324646Blue hair
>>283317269>>283317508>片想いThis romance isn't 1 sided at all. False advertisement. Big twist: they're both into each other. He gets jealous that she talks to mr ikemen and she deliberately floats out rumors that shark tooth weirdo is dating her so no other girl steals him.
>>283283760I just marathoned a couple chapters of this and fuck, it's so good!
>>283319476Anna will avenge every losing first girl!
>>283325454>Eatsuki>harem manga's most obvious red herring with no meaningful romantic development with the MC across 120 chaptersThere are two girls that obviously should have been there over her, anon. Hell it would have been three if Ichika hadn't reenacted The Titanic on her own ship. She never had a chance.
>>283320445I was about to say literally all of these things but you beat me to it. It's super easy to understand the structure of MayoTuna if you pay even a modicum of attention. And if you actually binge the manga you'll find the focus is spread pretty evenly across all four of the heroines.
>>283325863>>283325454You know what I'm stupid. I didn't see "first" in your post. Carry on while I continue being retarded.
>>283321685Domination the likes of which I haven't witnessed since Mafuyu BokuBen'd all over the other girls in her manga.
>>283321779Yeah, really good so far. Nothing in it is taken to the point of ridiculousness.>Taiyou no IeWhoa, I never would have noticed but then I hardly remember anything about that manga and haven't read it in probably like 15 years.
Bumping because threads like this one are rare and I don't want it to die.
>>283327475I wonder what happened to this one, it doesn't looks like it was straight up axed so maybe the author had some irl issues
>>283327688It had a ton of potential at the start but it seemed to really struggle to maintain momentum and utilize its characters to the fullest beyond a dozen or so chapters in. No sign that it met the guillotine, but I was getting bad vibes and nothing has come of it in months so it may just be dead in the water.
It's cute but it's hard to tell if the main heroine is just messing with the MC or not. Sad to see one sided love stories.
>>283327861They announced it's ending with vol4 but the lack of new chapters make me think the issue was on the author's side
>>283328105In that case we'll probably never know if nothing has been said by this point.
>>283325454Not the schizo but she isn't a romance heroine for the MC.
>>283283125Can't wait for Class de 2-banme anime! I will check out Houkago Kitaku Biyori since we may have the same taste in romance.
>>283329629>>283283125>Class de 2-banmeIn September they meetIn November they mutually confessIn December they dateIn March they XXXIn summer the blonde homewrecker oversteps the boundaries Maki clearly marks. It's a weird twist she was aiming for Maki before she knew Asagi liked him, at least I didn't notice.It's kinda nice to have progress in these sorts of stories and very little of the drama is actually around the couple. Communication, faith, and trust go a long way.
>>283318996Oh believe me, I read paged through as many of those stories and translations as I could find when they popped up in abundance 2-3 years ago, it's just when the manga adaptations started happening, it just never got to that next level of popularity and sort of faded from view, I think the tried and true formulas in the wn sphere will be sticking around for a while yet
>>283330323It never achieved a greater level of popularity because it's low-brow, pandering slop. I take no issue with people enjoying it, granted. I've read a bit of it myself and I also love haremshit. So I have no room to talk. But it's really easy to understand why such a gratuitous subgenre never achieved anything close to mainstream recognition. It's just.. gross.
>>283263638Motion denied. Carry on.
>>283301103Fucking based. I like this series' setting so much.
So we can agree that Mayo Tuna has become part of the council by now, right? I would argue Kusunoki also belongs in here too, but its monthly schedule is heavily detrimental to its nomination.
>>283330801Ikochad a Nene is still acceptable as well from before reporting in. You have my vote.
>>283330801I love Mayo Tuna but I don't really see it as a romcom. The MC is way too much of a lunatic to take seriously. I'd put it on the comedy council.The romance is too wish-washy and half baked. Progress is all over the place. Yeah, there are some good moments here and there but that isn't the strong point of the manga.
>>283331068Vetoed. I'm not even a Rikkafag and this shit had me squealing. When the romance in this manga hits, it does so with spectacular force.
>>283331118It's simply based.
>>283330801It's stagnating too hard already, better let it go until it reaches it's final arc which will be the only one with any romance
>>283331281I still find if fun.
>>283331315There are several of us.
Signing off with one last best girl. Bye-Iko.
>>283328015Did you just start reading or something?
>>283323153Didn't she also try to fuck with the glasses girl?
>>283321644https://mangadex.org/title/7991e715-40ae-4c3e-b0e0-aa8bee90ece7/shachou-to-sake-to-hoshi
>>283329629I don't find anything good about manga I like being adapted to anime. The threads attract retards and it's usually inferior to the manga.
>>283329629>I will check out Houkago Kitaku BiyoriOh and just be warned the recent chapters are quite steamy.
This one seems to be forgotten. It's slow, but I still enjoy it. The cheering squad is great.
>>283329942>marchGosling.jpg
>>283333278I thought it got boring fast. The premise got old after about 3 or 4 chapters.
>>283332047cute, I recognize Zurikishi's boob artstyle. That's a cute manga. 24-37 doesn't even register as age gap for me at this point.
As someone who dropped Amagami fairly early on, but liked Asahi, what about her character and the role/way she was handled later in the manga made her so beloved that she annihilated every other girl in the magazine in terms of popularity?>>283333339It gives me hope(false).
I want more romcoms with cynical or jackass MC's. Only through bants can the romancec bf mafe palatable
The romance is pretty good in mayotuna. First because it actually exists, the mc isn't a wimp that falls for the first girl showing some kind of interest in him and there's good balance of his tsun/kind sides. cuckoo, rent a, goddesses, all of them have terrible mc. Yamabuki reminds me of what was enjoyable with Futaro
>>283330442eh, fair. also, while i don't hate harems either, i get exhausted by them after like a dozen chapters and just stop following>>283333339I've been really impressed with how Zurikishi's art has leveled up once he got a weekly series, he's defiinitely stepped up his game instead of solely relying on what got him that spot in the first place>>283333605machino-san's male MC qualified as a cynic that was heavy on the bants but then the birthday domino thing was like the sweetest thing i've read in a romcom in years
>>283333785>Yamabuki reminds me of what was enjoyable with FutaroFuutaro was shit. He didn't have any semblance of chemistry with any of the quints.
>>283333868I'm guessing that he didn't pick your favorite girl
>>283333278I like the middle schoolers subplot
>>283333339>>283333578>>283333857he's been very good with his manga recently. sometimes good artists just need a chance to shine.
>>283333882He didn't, but that doesn't negate what I said.
is mayotuna just what we call it on /a/? I don't think anywhere else is Tune In to the Midnight Heart called that lol
Shinobu is gonna be voiced by Itou Miku, so she's gonna lose by default after being one of the most liked characters, huh?
>>283308344The LN was abandoned because the sales weren't too good. The manga was successful though, which convinced the publisher and the author to continue writing the novel. This might be a new model to gauge interest. I've seen a few adaptations for LNs that haven't had a new release in two years.
>>283333969i don't think so,she even got the yotsudate
>>283334019Manga adaptations often skip some stuff so maybe the LN just needed to be more concise in the way the story was being told, sometimes stories benefit from trimming all the fat
>>283333969She was playing the Miku role even before they picked up the VA
an unknown studio invested in one female character by picking an expensive VA while the other are less famous > "she's going to lose" >> ??
>>283295705>I still think Senryu Girl was the best romcom of its generation in terms of balancing both the rom and the comHow?They only got together in chapter 152, after a lot of wait where they would have a panic attack when just touching hands.Is not even 20 chapters because of how short they are and out of those 20 they are not even together in chapters: 154,157,158,159,162,163,164,165,166,167So that's HALF the chapters, and those remaining ones most of them are like 8 pages long.Why did the story needed to have all those girls who liked the MC? Should have been just a comedy, the romance was agonizing, embarassing, I might live in a country with a low birthrate, I am a shy person myself and still act more comfortable and normal than these subjects, is just too tiring, they don't feel real characters, they feel like a caricature of a caricature, as if the author learned not from real life but from Manga.Is like when you see a background element that when taken apart is just a bunch of lines together, it doesn't really have the shape of the element but we let it go because is enough for it to symbolize the element, is a shortcut, which can be fine for a background.>>283301112>chapter 21a fakeout that leads to nothing and is only good for a cliffhanger, how riveting and original.
>>283306150I think what makes it different from the usual is1) The narration does not overbear the story by treating us like idiots2) We dont' waste entire chapters on either character having long monologues overthinking everything3) None of them spazzes out when the other is within 1m of distance, they have a great relationship together that feels real, they are more relaxed together than many other stories where they are supposed to be married or a couple or even have been friends for a decade for example: "Last Game",Lady Lucetta's Second Chance at Life","Boyish Girlfriend","Hajimete no Gal",etc etc.....(I regret reading Last game but still want to read Lady Lucette).
How do you guys find these series? With so many fucking titles out there, I am always discouraged to search for something new. Usually I wait for stuff to end, see people discussing positively or negatively and then try the first few chapters.
>>283303825I would be surprised if you haven't read a very loud manga "Do Chokkyuu Kareshi x Kanojo".>>283305287I'll read it when is done, I can feel the author could at any time throw a curve ball.>>283305882I'll read the next chapter, but I have seen MANY stories that have a great idea but the author can't expand beyond that.>>283305979yes this, Manga loves lampshading so much and Mangaka write as if lampshading absolves them of their sin.
>>283334065Nah, it's because people are more willing to give something with visuals a chance than a light novel with mediocre prose.
>Classmate no Moto Idol ga, Tonikaku Kyodou Fushin Nan desuWish the translation was more regular, but is quite sweet and I look forward when something with Tonari Keru artstyle is adapted into an anime.
>>283303825'The Young Lady Has Been Acting Weird Ever Since Someone Confessed to Me' has a high spec male lead who manages to be an unintentioal lady killer. He is on the dense side which can be just as bad, but so far, it's tolerable since it's cute watching the girl get desperate.
>>283334270>they feel like a caricature of a caricature, as if the author learned not from real life but from Manga.That is the case in very many anime and manga.
I was reading this one a while back. It had a premise I always wanted to see, where both the male lead and the heorine were both average looking in universe. Unfortunately, the translations is slow if not dead, even after a new group picked it up a while back.
>>283332028>Didn't she also try to fuck with the glasses girl?She’s been too focused being a parasite on her ex to even try.
>>283334670Yeah, but I expect better from this Mangaka because I like the art, I like the comedy of his characters, maybe he should just stick to comedy.The romance doesn't feel organic, is not just that the protagonist in Mayonegg is a narcisissist, is not just that he doesn't feel like has changed, but that the story itself appeals to his behaviour, because all these girls at a certain point would give up, at least one of them, when the guy has clearly rejected them, it just breaks my suspension of disbelief, it feels done to appeal to the readers who might feel betrayed if their girl got a bf.is it gonna end like 5Toubun? Where the guy acts like he is making a favor to the girl by letting the romance happen and still has to manage the other girls who keep intruding into his love life?
Anyone reading this? Maybe is too early to tell, the story is stil in a flashback to show how it got to the first chapter, but I like the attitude the characters have, is like their classroom is trying to push them into the usual tropes but they don't care and just do their own thing, should happen more often.>>283334677I want to read it, I may have checked one chapter but the un-even translation led me to just wait it out....however many years it may take.
>>283318235I give it 3 years.>>283318386It always starts off as drama. But it also almost always ends up being romcom.
>>283334993These self-pitying MC with some chad foil characters are absolutely unbearable.
>>283330323>>283330442I find it adjacent to shoelace stories. Other than that it's with love interests instead of party members, it's actually very similar. It just needs one story from the subgenre to make it big for the flood to start coming.
>>283335252The shoelacer formula leaking into romcom has been a total disaster. Even outside of these type of regret story, you still have tons of these MCs who keeps a low profile but is actually high spec, and every single one of these story are ass.
>>283334270I’ve never cared about MCbowls but I really appreciate how it took two volumes of material to interrogate both losing heroines’ romantic interest in the MC, if you’re gonna stall for the main couple, i’d prefer it to be done in this manner before cinching them up together. and also they had a lot of cute, funny couple moments before they ever became official, that shit counts to me>>283334993the WN translation is completed, some of the drama is of the “uh really” variety and it hilariously ends with a and then everyone applauded speech but I really liked where it took me, even though it’s one of these >>283335296kind of stories
Is even a replica falls in love any good?, it's getting an anime next year
>>283335903>>the WN translation is completedFor Nibanme or Mitsuba-san?
What's a greeflag for you in romcom? For me, it's having the MC not be a loser or a mob.
>>283337100That's one of the biggest. Two other are a FeMC with character traits I like/admire and the manga showing exaxctly why they have good reasons to like eachother (not low effort writing).
>>283333278I need to catch up. I really enjoy the gimmick.
>>283337227I like when neither start off liking each other, romantically that is. They may have a superficial attraction to the other's apperance, but it only grows into romantic attraction as the story goes on. Sadly, it's rare to find it.
>>283337357*Find it outside of tsundere x tsundere.
It's a shame Bijutsubu girl stopped getting translated
>>283337100>it's having the MC not be a loser or a mob.Those are only redflags if in ch1 MC meets one of the top girls at school or if despite calling themselves a loser/mob they're actually the coolest/strongest/best at something random
>>283337787How would a romcom with an actual mob work?
>>283337357Yes. I also love the, kind of dramatic, enemies-become-lovers thing.
>>283337948Just have him meet another mob or just a regular girl, they try to help each other become popular and end up falling in love in the processYou could also just shit on the power fantasy genre, have a seething loser ignore the plain but cute girl from whatever club he is while trying to get back at the popular kids, he ends up roping her in his revenge plan and hurts her in the process, he gets character development and fixes things and stops seething at the world
>>283338404You're just trying to rewrite Onanie Master Kurosawa. That's no romcom, it's a drama.
