>A confession without beating around the bush>Without deafeningly fireworks>Without the chance of misunderstandings>Without waiting for unclear deadlines>Without waiting for impossible moods or last chancesWas Japan capable of this? UnbelievablePost the best confessions.Romcom council thread, I guess.
>>288279672HOWEVER, it was the the first girl to confess in a love triangle, so
What are the biggest rom-coms currently?
>>288279672I just read a romcom recently where the class chad MC asks out the quiet girl in class and she brings him to her room in chapter 1 and they fuck. The rest of the manga is them getting to know each other better with some minor drama, but it was shocking to see a couple actually kinda just be normal. Unfortunately it fell victim to "well the main characters are getting along well, time for side-couples"
>>288279794Sauce?
>>288279759100 girlfriends, too many losing heroins, bokuyaba? Kanokari, unfortunately. The genre as a whole is difficult to gauge right now, it's somewhat in decline compared to just 3-4 years ago.
Sometimes great confessions don't go as planned
>>288279896What doesn't help is that I don't think popularity + discussed on /a/ at the moment, at least not wholly. I mean, isn't Blue Box pretty popular? But threads seem to die near instantly.
>>288279759This is the season of romcoms in anime.>>288279710And she's the title girl, so
>>288279794Sounds like horseshit
>>288279944>+=
How do you feel about adult harem romcom?
>>288279838ill look to see if I can find it, I'm kinda curious if it's gotten more chapters.>>288279957sorry that missing out on teenage love has turned you into a weirdo
Anyone else read this? Kinda conflicted in the sense it feels way too forced drama, but also that it's not that far-fetched.
>>288279952What's the purpose of other girls
Here's some monokino with CF for you degenerates that like that sort of thing.
the "redoing your highschool" sub-genre is my favourite one
>>288279952>And she's the title girlThe titular garbage woman, yes
>>288280049To put up a fight before losing so the main girl doesn't win that easily.
>>288280083Being the title girl is too powerful, even if the title calls her a bitch.
>>288279672She confessed first, this is a major loser flag.>>288279759>>288279896Seihantai is definitely the biggest anime and it's better than a lot of older romances. For manga, probably Kanokari if we're talking objectively despite it being shit. Bokuyaba too obviously.I think the current anime season is pretty good since there's some good/decent romcoms (Ramparts, Kanan, Otogyaru) and some absolute crap (Tenshi, 2banme).But the state of manga isn't so great. The best indicator is that Himaten is inferior to both Bokuben and Nisekoi. It's not bad but it's not nearly as good as either of those which had much better waifus.
>>288280105>>288279952Except Sunao never considered her to be a bitch the entire series. Even at the beginning he didnt believe her lie about cheating on him. He just assumed she had her own issues going on. Lemon is very cute though.
>>288280049To sit on the cuck couch
>>288279987Calling me a weirdo? What?
>>288280138>HimatenAbout to get axed. One girl already said goodbye. Second one already gave him a letter with her retirement from the bowl but there's some arbitrary date when he has to read it.
>>288280160>Except Sunao never considered her to be a bitch the entire series.Meaning the title most likely refers to the way the story ends, with him wishing her happiness as they part ways
>>288280160True, the title was just clickbaiting.Both girls are very cute.
>>288279759Biggest is makeine by far
>>288280203Not about to be axed, it's already been confirmed that the current volume is the final one.
>>288279672>pretends to roll around nonchalantly to touch the boy (first time talking)behold, the GOAT of running romcom
>>288279672Finally, a council thread. I was planning on making one soon myself.When is the next big thing coming out, bros? Since Terrace and Amagami ended I've been left adrift. I need to get my weekly manga romcom/dram thread hype fix.
>>288280328Read Mayonaka Heart Tune and Umine the Island Inn.
>>288279672Wow, a confession in chapter 95! What a big deal! Best confession ever!Romcomfags getting uppity about the most trivial things that happened in most recent chapters will never not be funny.
>>288279794>>288279838Sorry, couldn't find it, it's probably not properly tagged. I'll leave some details if anyone recognizes itMain Male MCoutgoing guy who has dated a few girls, is popular kind of a goofy guyMain Female MCshy girl with a travel blogger mom and erotic novel father, both of them are rarely home and she gets interested in sex from reading her dad's books.Side MaleMClikes to cook and is kinda cold, his grandmother is going blind. goes out of his way to help the FemMC and in the last chapters I remember brought her to his room and home to help her from her family lifeSide FeMCdon't remember much about her, but she's forced to study really hard because her dad doesn't respect women at all and insults her and her mom all the time and she tries to keep him happy by being studious. her grades start slipping and she runs away from home. last thing I remember with her is that her mom finally reaches out to try and defend her and sympathize with her while she's at the Side MC's house/room
>>288280398>Mayonaka Heart TuneNo rom, barely any com>Umine the Island InnJust com with no rom
>>288280328I guess try So weren't into me.
>>288280328Magazine has been slacking with romcoms and jump+ garbage doesn’t hit the same
>>288280259I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this ends up as all three of them dating. I got the vibe Kogahara was starting to fall for Lemon too (even if it was just Sunao in her body at the time). I don't think it'd be the best outcome, but it seems like it could happen at this point.
>>288280528>>Mayonaka Heart Tune>No rom, barely any comQuite a generic description of the story. It's had a lot of romantic progression with all heroines. If you just want to see shallow gestures of romance then there are plenty of fluffy 1 on 1 romcoms out there.>>Umine the Island Inn>Just com with no romThat also is a weak description. The manga's still in the initial phase, would be bad writing to force romance so early on when the characters are just starting to get to know each other.
The biggest waifu wars of this era are either mayotuna or kanokari.Cucko is forgotten.
>>288280617that thing is mid as hell and just another one of Wakame's excuses to draw tits. it's gonna fizzle out and be forgotten soon enough just like all her other mangas
>>288280677I'd say she was only started falling for Sunao when Lemon was driving his body.Back when they told her I thought she'd figure it out and back down from the bowl for an early Lemon win.
>>288279759Makaine is the biggest at the moment, asobi no kankei will probably blow up when it gets an anime
>>288280656Magazine has romcoms they’re just highly ecchi-minded
>>288279794Normalfags are such cancer.
for me it's these dorks
>>288280812forgot pic
Are the other manga made the guy who did Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa worth reading?
Embarking on some tragic romcom today: Kyou no Kira-kun
Reiji needs to go back and learn how to make a proper romcom. Having his mc be repeatedly raped by the side heroine every chapter does not make for an interesting read if the mc is just going to sit there like a log every time it happens while the main heroine does nothing by choice for a billion chapters.
>>288281054He already has a better romcom.Arata does need to get raped by one of his sisters every chapter.
>>288280831>>288281053Redpill me on your picks.
>>288281282>Kyou no Kira-kunshoujo about loner weirdo FeMC who finds out that pretty boy popular ManC is gonna die in a yearim reading it because it's a completed story with like only 38 chapters so it's not a big time commitment
>>288280080Re-Life is the like only good toilet paper.
>>288281370>pretty boyThis sort of thing prevents me from reading it. Oh well.
Besides Houkago Kitaku Biyori, are there any good rom-com recs featuring height difference where the guy is actually taller?>every shoujoI'm more looking where its from the guy's perspective.
How do you feel about smol girls in romcom?
>>288279672Meanwhile, the most cliche fireworks-interrupting-a-confession ever
>>288281624"Dude and his fairy" appeals to me greatly but is basically nonexistent.
>>288281624Well that was cute.It is just a oneshot though.https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1029315
>>288281420is there really nothing else?
>>288281620aharen-san? takamine-san?
Any more romcoms where the love interest is a slob/weirdo and a loner in class
>>288280052These two are perfect
>>288279672Okay, time to push my motion. The following romcom ARE NOT council series:>medaka>idolatry>OP’s mangaNew addition to the council:>mayotunaThis motion is non-objectionable and has been ratified. An official resolution should be drafted not later than June 1st, 2026.
>>288281637As expected. The flat girl is running laps around the rest. They are not allowed to confess.
>>288281949This one, but it's too short.
>>288281637>Worst girlShe got what she fucking deserved
>>288279672>Post the best confessions.easy
>>288281987Agree on Medaka. Haven't read idolatry.Lemon is more rom than com, actually I feel like they completely forgot the body swapping premise at this point, which was the source of com. Mayotuna is not rom and not com.
>>288280043I just started it, I hope it isn't retarded
>>288281987Mayotuna has been a council member for ages, but the only other council member I can think of is 100gfs. Last real update still had Amagami on it as far as I remember.
>>288281928Already read Aharen. Loved it. Isn't Shirota shorter than Takamine?
>>288282068I still don't get the praise Horimiya gets. Its so stilted in its storytelling and there's so much whiplash and missing growth to their relationship. It's not bad, it's good even, but it doesn't deserve this "best romcom ever" nonsense I see get thrown at it.
>>288282061Sorry, but a previous resolution from 2020 states that there must be at least one ongoing toubun-like series in the council at a time. Amagami sisters ended, so Mayotuna it is.
>>288281237Niwatori is gonna apply the 5toubun formula. The one who's not currently active into sexually assaulting the MC will win.
>>288282107It’s jarring how we hadn’t had regular Mayotuna spoilers until recently. That’s why it didn’t feel like a proper council member.100gfs is not romcom, it’s thinly veiled yuri. There won’t be a bowl winner, therefore it is not a viable council candidate
>>288279672
>>288282199100gf has been a council member for ages, your opinion doesn’t really matter. It was accepted and hasn’t been put in a situation where it should be kicked off, like say, Cuckoo was.
>>288282191>that post>pic is the girl who has assaulted MC twice and confessed to him thrice
>>288282215that's from that weird and deranged "talking powers" web manga that seemed romcom at first and is now going full on demented, isn't it?
>>288282226Wrong, but if that helps you sleep at night, 100gf cultist…
>>288282107Mayotuna is komi tier garbage now and it'll remain that way until S2 is over and the editor allows it to end
>>288281054He shall do a dark romcom or a femme fatale subversion romance. Kanokari proved he can have the same sensibilities and sensitivities a female mangaka has and can make decent misery porn and realistic shit. Kanokari can also be a femme fatale deconstruction mamga where it's Kazuya who's being the femme fatale who drags his suitors into the quagmire and reveals their darkest selves and that may explain why the plot is being like it is.
>>288282273I don't know why anyone would ever willingly get onboard another Reiji ride after KanoKari ends.
>>288282243Right now, Ouka, Minami and Seiha are being the most aggressive tho. Not!Yuta is being mostly supportive.
>>288282273Boy’s Abyss ended. Get over it already, schizo.
>>288282260This was the last romcom council that could be considered somewhat legitimate. I might've had gripes with Boy's Abyss being on there, but it was generally accepted. I don't think Mayotuna (which replaced Cuckoo iirc) was ever officially inducted, but I don't think anyone actually ever argued against it. 100gf was on multiple prior council threads, nobody ever asked for it to be taken off.
Somehow Mayotuna slipped my notice until now. How would you rank it, would it fill the void?>>288282226Why was Cuckoo voted off? I know it's shit and no one reads it anymore, but is that really a deciding factor?
>>288279980I really did like the progression from the couple trying to heal each other to being a throuple. The progress was slow, earned and felt real.Now it's just gone to shit with the author immediately spilling the entire office into his marriage and making it a shitty harem.
Knowing Sangeki's gonna be short lived, hopefully next Ryou long serialization is going back to a romcom tone. Still missing Hatsukoi Zombie despite how it ended.
>>288282317>that could be considered somewhat legitimate.Opinion dismissed
>>288282293it's about time we stop pretending kanokari is bad
>>288281620The tiny senpai office one?The tiny senpai shogi one?
>>288282321I think Mayotuna just replaced it and nobody cared to argue it, cause it had fallen apart. Don’t ask me why Boy’s Abyss wasn’t taken off instead, but I don’t remember seeing any arguments at the time.
>>288282307Aku no hana also exists, retard, and is a quite decent femme fatale subversion.
>>288282321Mayotun is 3/5 as it's best, it has good moments here and there but for the most part the story just spins it's wheels and none of the girls stands out in any way, MC was the main appeal early on buy now he's just a one note joke that got old
>>288282321>How would you rank it, would it fill the void?MC is great, girls are great. Mystery bait not so great but you can ignore it.
It's been a while since we had one of these threads. Any lesser known stuff you think is good?
>>288282411>Any lesser known stuff you think is good?Yes but I don't want you retards ruining the threads
>>288282354Unfortunately I have already read both. Ayumu is Souichirou's magnum opus.
>>288282250yes
>>288282317If we did take this as the baseline, we'd have to replace 3/5. We could reintroduce Cuckoo, if only as a space-filler. I remember going to bat for Kanan, but it still doesn't get dedicated chapter dump threads, it's gotten dumps in the anime threads at least. I might argue >>288281637 could fit, if only for lack of better options, because it does get consistent dumps.
Does the ongoing sasugaslop and the loser dating Not!Makima manga count as romcom?
>>288282317Kusunoki deserves a spot
>>288281282Dude is traumatized by girls getting close to him to get to his ikemen brother. Gets healed by quirky classmate
>>288281620Maybe pic related, it's more of a romdrama though
>>288282321>How would you rank it, would it fill the void?It's an aggressively okay generic harem that gets overhyped. It's fairly inoffensive, and the girls (especially Nene and Iko) are cute, though. Just don't expect a masterpiece.
>>288282436I'm hardly on this dogshit website that much anymore outside of /sp/.>>288282502This one is surprisingly good.
>>288282502It lost its spot when it introduced the designated loser tomboy, same as with now that we draw when it introduced the designated loser promise girl CF
>>288282502I really dislike the author torpedo'ing Kusonoki to try and redeem Hebikawa recently. Also the needless Moe torture because she never stood a chance at all and the author seems to just use her to buy time to setup some more bullshit with the other 2.
>>288280043Read spoilers about the WN and dropped it.
>>288282645She was always a boring mary sue. Giving her flaws was much better.
>>288282411Pic related is the best ongoing harem, just the perfect mix of rom and com
>>288282713I haven't followed it in a while, but I really don't like this type of MC. The plain guy with a heart of gold shtick is tiresome.
Anyone else reading this one?
anything new on the gyaru front?
>>288282757it's been on my backlog forever
>>288282757The starting is really rough.
>>288282713Isn't it almost over?
>>288279672>There will never be bodyswap sex doujinsFucking boats ruining everything!
>>288282191Kotono will win like Yotsuba
>>288281624>>288281827>she falls>he catches her>she's hurt>classmates: "did he do something to her???"the writer should be killed
>>288279672Uh so much time since the last one
>>288282757>native isekaiNo thanks.
>>288282713>>288282502These have been in my backlog since forever.>>288282813Kotono will bake the cake for the winner.
>>288279896Kanokari isn't a romcom tho
>>288282801No
>>288279980As long as MC takes all the girls instead of choosing just one, it's ok
>>288282502>monthly>best girl is online volume baitNope. Council members must be weekly.
>>288282877I'm not sure he'll take the third girl (or the 4th) but at least the first two are secured.
All of the mainstream romcoms are boring and tame compared to the niche stuff.
If it doesn’t have weekly manga dump on this board, it can’t be a council member. Let’s all agree on this point.
>>288282411>Any lesser known stuff you think is good?This is what every mystery harem should strive to be like
>>288282757iirc we got a dump thread for ch1 and didn’t catch on for reasons. Same reason that one harem about some rich guy and 10 gold diggers didn’t catch on too.
>>288282934>mysteryDoes almost every chapter end of a cliffhanger with the next chapter/arc trying to increase the scale of the mystery to the point you just stop giving a shit? Because that's what most of those feel like.
>>288282757>all of the are 18 or olderhag harems don’t belong to the council
>>288282910Fair enough, I can't stand the MC bowl faggotry where just one of 10 girls wins, don't even call it harem at that point
>>288282148It should be telling to you that 99% of the time horimiya gets brought up, it's about the chapter where they have sex.
>>288282971No, the mysteries get developed and resolved and MC's relationship with the girls changes accordingly
>>288282985>t. 50yo anon
>>288282985Hags are cute. Cute!
>>288282757Elisa will continue Yots' legacy
>>288282148>>288283021Before sex happened I remember it was because Hori liked Miya getting rough with her.
What was the title of that one whereC gets isekai'd into a world with nore women and a JC tomboy ends up raping him?
>>288279896>nagatoro ended>kaguya-san ended>takagi-san ended>bokuyaba about to end
>>2882830981:5
>>288283098Is the guy a twink? Maybe the dungeon island inn one.
>>288283096Did the manga even have his sadistic side? They sanitized the shit out of the webcomic. Like the sex chapter had him practically scarring her sternum by gouging her
>>288283102Every single one of these went on for hundreds of chapters more than they should have.
>>288283098>>288283109Yea, it's 1:5. It's about to go into full sex mode now that the JC rape train departed the station. Which is kind of a pity, I liked it a lot when it was all world building and him inadvertently being a fuckboy. The writing for 1:5 is surprisingly deep and well thought out for what amounts to a harem jerkoff story a trite premise.
>>288283149I recall him being pretty uncomfortable with fulfilling her masochism fetish in the manga, though it's possible that changed later in the series and I just forgot? I remember binging it and then not following it very closely after I caught up.
>>288283174I don't think you belong in this thread.
>>288279672I hope you're not referring to this manga.
>>288283210The masochism thing was so such a out of nowhere thing in the manga which left me so confused, but I am fairly certain it only started showing itself after the sex chapter. After I finished the main story and thought about it some more, I kinda just concluded that her masochism outbursts were a replacement for them having sex. The proposal came out of nowhere in mind and I thought it was stupid that their relationship would've gone from having sex 1 time to marriage, but then I kinda formed that theory of the masochism she shows was the author's way to substitute their physical intimacy and deeping bond since I don't think the publisher would've been comfortable with a real depiction of a couple getting to that stage.
>>288283234I didn't know this was a SoL thread.
>>288280248The English title is a bit of a departure from the Japanese title.
>>2882831811:5 is the most grounded of the sub-genre. You have female characters who exists who aren't a love interest and male characters who are shown to be both successful and nice. But the biggest problem with it is that all of the big drama lacks any conclusions with everything somehow working out. The OL's story is the best example of it.
>still the best romcom in the history of man
>>288279759>What are the biggest rom-coms currently?surprised nobody mentioned noa-senpai since it surpassed the million copies. granted it was some gag manga for the first volumes before it hard pivoted into romcom
>>288283527Noa is not romcom in the slightest. It's still gag, it's like 95% gag 4% drama and 1%rom
>>288279672Isn't blode the ex-gf? I hope he doesn't get back with that whore
>>288280316are these idiots made of magnets?
>>288280138if seihantai counts then the answer is actually just still toubun and bisque doll
i think tsurezure is a great romcom
Cafe Terrace should have had a true harem ending even though my best girl won.
>>288283741The cuck ending was fine
>>288283310You don't belong in those either.
>>288281053>love triangle involves a his closeted male best friendWhy the fuck do I ever bother giving shoujo romcom a chance. Female authors are the fucking worst.
>>288283845There are good female shoujo that even a guy cns enjoy though.It's pretty old now, but UFO baby is better than most modern shit.
>>288283527I didn't because their it's a friends comedy
You know what's better than harem ending? Harem that actually formed in the middle of ever earlier instead of 5 seconds before the end.
Is the MC in that Lemon manga already aware that the cheating was just a lie? I can't remember
>>288283968not a harem and also I hate the whole 1 guy dates 2 girls but the 3 of them never interact fully throuples. if the author is gonna be degen enough to have twins date the same guy, he better also make them all interact with each other like how the throuple in BatsuHare does
>>288284020Do what as a throuples? The one I poster have just started dating and they definitely are moving together.
>>288284017i dropped it long ago. what the fuck was the reason for that stupid lie anyway?
>>288283546>>288283953I can understand because there really was ZERO romance for the first 100 or so chapters, but lately it is clearly a romcom, they're even introducing a serious romantic rival and noa is awared of her feelings
>>288284017Not overtly, but he's fairly certain. >>288284086She panicked because her friends were getting jealous of her being happy and thought she was going to be bad for Sunao.
>>288284217i knew it would be something fucking retarded, but i'm still annoyed
>>288284261It’s a bit more than what they said. Lemon has some sort of complex, she started feeling like she couldn’t be herself even in front of Sunao, she didn’t actually blame him, it was all her insecurities. She was making a joke about the rumors, but since he’d actually heard the rumors and responded in a way that made it clear he knew about them, she freaked out and ran… and proceeded to never say anything for the next three years.
>>288284344yeah, that's peak retarded writing
>>288280496Was it Tsurenai Kanojo?
>>288284387Yep, that was it. I liked it; an actual chad MC.
>>288279672what's up with the rise of cousin heroines these past few years? I know cousin incest is legal in japan but you rarely saw a cousin lover, now almost every new harem has a cousin as a haremette
The best romcom are the ones that makes the readers mad. Like when confession happens in chapter 1, but first kiss only tries to appear in the very last chapter, but even then it doesn't happen because MC refuses.
>>288284124Nope not at all, she still considers Rihito a special best friend and Kizaki is totally not a rival, at least for now. Then only thing I can concede is that they're accumulating moments one after another that some point will make them do a step forward, buuut for now their still in theor cozy friendship zone
>>288284602they'reFuck my phone
>>288284529pretty sure it's because immediate family incest just recently got a whole bunch of restrictions on it in media
>>288284661>pretty sure it's because immediate family incest just recently got a whole bunch of restrictions on it in media... How does that make any sense? It's not like cousin fucking got any more illegal anyways, unless you're american people would just call you a freak for fucking your cousin but that's it
>>288282835Yeah. It's misery porn, character study, human drama and romcom subversion.
>>288281624>>288281827This one's extremely weaksauce, unfortunately.Stories featuring tiny, hamster-sized heroines always leave a nagging feeling at the back of my mind about how delicate and easy to squish they would be, and how anxiety-inducing being in love with someone like that would be. Bit of a similar feeling at the back of your mind as seeing a giantess in an otherwise lighthearted series fall into a building.
Any word on this one? I was enjoying it but I heard it was axed and revived. I wasn't liking that it started giving me harem vibes, not a fan of those.
For me it's Sentai Red Isekai
>>288283968>Harem that actually formed in the middle of ever earlier instead of 5 seconds before the end.What do you mean by "ever earlier"? Any moment in time before the ending?
>>288285402Typo: or even
>>288283712I've been meaning to read this pretty much since it started but I saw some pages of Motoyama? getting rejected or whatever and I thought it was pretty cruel to have a manga dedicated to so many couples and then have a guy who just suffers for no reason like some grim reminder to the reader about the reality of life and love and I've put it off indefinitely as a result
>>288281053Ok, finished reading it. I give it like 6.5~7/10i saw the ending coming a mile away, but a bit too much bullshit and the men are all written blatantly like women. I'd say give it a read cause I did tear up a couple times and some of the tension was good.
>>288284597>The best romcom are the ones that makes the readers mad.Very true.
>>288285976The ratings for this and the endless torrent of comments about every chapter are fucking hilariously depressing.People trying to disparage this absolute masterpiece of character writing because they're not equipped or willing to engage with it on its level.But yea, this goes from romcom to drama in one single panel
I very much enjoy sudden confessions
>>288284602>Nope not at all, she still considers Rihito a special best friendyeah a special best friend whom she wants to marry and have a baby with
Anybody read this? Still reading it, but I like the two MCs do sexual shit together.
>>288284661>pretty sure it's because immediate family incest just recently got a whole bunch of restrictions on it in mediawhich ones?
>>288280895The train one is funny and cute. (I say this as someone that still hasn't found the time to read Jitsu Wa though)
>>288282199>>288282260100gf literally RULES these threadsrentarous harem is bigger than every other protagonist combined and its not even finish yet
>>288287047>sir, we can provide you with even LARGER amounts of low quality trash
>>288287084cope
>>288281237>Adopted siblings>5 girls and 2 guys>All 5 girls fall in love with just one of the brothers>the other one gets fucking nothingIs there a bigger loser in the history of anime romcoms?
>>288286832Just started reading this and I hate it.
this thread has some great recs. thanks guys.
>>288287338Doesn't he has a gf already?
>>288286269Sounds like pseud delusions
>>288286269Memes aside, I wish more stories had a tonal shift like this
>>288287352>Just started reading this and I hate it.I hate that the slutty cousin isn't getting enough screentime
>>288287803nah, it feel needlessly mocking to the MC. i don't like it. it's like soft NTR
I love this autistic MC
>>288281971what one is this?
>>288287819I take it back, it's just cuck porn. Almost every chapter has the MC fantasizing about another guy fucking his cousin.
>>288287920Read the filenames, retard
>>288288260ah yes cf what was i thinking
>>288286996>The train one is funny and cuteFor those wondering it is >Kessa mo YuraretemasuAnd I would say it's a lot more than just funny and cute. It's excellent. Great premise, great use of side characters. Very good pacing imo. Sublime art and facial expressions. Excellent comedic writing and writing as a whole. Would fiercely recommend. It is a weekly, new chapter's eng TL dropped today.
>>288286819Now now, she just want to tie him down, it's not a romantic yet. Be patient young anon, the time will come but for now it's just autism
The kinoest of romkinos. The kinoest of kinocoms.
>>288288933I don't know, I remember I've the first chapters, but they were just cold as fuck so I lost interest pretty quickly
ComRom is better than RomComchange my mind
>>288288933>>288289011You should continue reading, it is addressed and is changing. for those interested it is>Futari Bus
This is too precious I almost don't want to share it here.
>>288288933>Modern audience "swimsuits"Even kanokari's less cucked than that
>>288289149Latest chapter has been a strong reminder as to what this manga really is about. Precious isn't quite the word I'd use to describe it.
>>288289513>no revealing swimsuits means you are cuckedThey're first year middle schoolers. who, besides your mindbroken ass, cares about that?
>>288288274Follow quotations, retard
>>288289575Modern audience detected
Just getting into the genre and fully finished my first romcom and now feel empty inside. Is this normal? Also what should I watch? Kaguya-Sama seems interesting.
>>288289071what's the difference
>>288289657it's normal. watch takagi-san.
>>288289516Yes it has some extremely lewd chapters. That doesn't make it worse.
>>288289657Kaguya is better if you've read a few romcoms before since it jokes about some of the usual tropes
>>288289638I'll bet my nutsack I've been reading manga before you were even a thought forming in your parents' mind. Don't lump me in with your retarded opinion regarding horny wish fulfillment in romcoms.
>>288289657Go with a classic like nisekoi
>>288289852Oh I didn't say it made it worse. Just that it was a stark reminder that it can be very different than the vibe in the page you posted.
>>288289934>nisekoi
>>288289924>Implying futari bus is not shameless self-insert wish fulfilment Let me guess, you also like Tenshi and 2banme don't you?
>>288280496Romcomfags still not reading shoujoKINO lmao
>>288289987Stop being tsun and admit you liked it
>>288290018No, I dropped it 120ch in. It was dogshit. All harems(with an obvious main girl) are trash.
>>288289992Only thing shameless here is your acknowledging you want to self-insert into middle schoolers. Seriously, self-inserters should all get the rope.
>247 replies>Not one mention of Arakure OjousamaIt's pretty good..
>>288290099Is it? All I know is the one screenshot of her being too much of a tease, getting BTFO, keeping a stiff upper lip, and then sobbing.
This one looked like it could be the next big romcom but then no TL in forever.
Doujima was a great little romcom.
>>288290180It's a good 'hate turned to love' story, imo. What you're describing is relatively still in the beginnig of the story.
>>288289993Always nice when an author treats women and men as interested in sex.
Megu looks like the worlds biggest loser so I won't bother caring. Also an adult MC with JKs is really creepy. Would work much better with JDs.
>>288279672>Was Japan capable of this?yes, but you chose to read shonenslop and haremslop real good rabukome doesn't shy away from relationships in fact, most of the chapters are during the relationship, hence why it's a ROMANCE and not just comedy with a little bit of romancethe chase before the relationship isn't romance
>>288289657Stop everything. Go read Bonnouji.
>>288288806>to tie him downJust a reminder babytrapping never truly works and only delays the innevitable
>>288290527Seconded. Warning - feeling of post-read emptiness will only increase.
>>288290409Generally it's better to read romcom by women, I still miss the show past season about the invisible man and his blind soon-to-be wife. Of course, women are capable of writing absolute trash as well but they're not as afraid of sex.
>>288290083>Self-inserter having a melty over his wish-fulfillment fantasy being criticized Many such cases
>>288290216>He doesn't knowIt went into hiatus for unknown reasons, vol4 will be the last one, author showed some signs of life recently to say they're working on it again so it should come back soon for the conclusion
>>288279759>LNMakeineRoshidereTenshi>Manga100 KanojoKaoru HanaMayotuna?Feels like manga romcoms have been on a steady decline while LN romcoms are raising, guess it help that for LN you don't have to kill yourself on a weekly basis.
>>288290618>being called a demented self-inserter>only response is calling the other anon self-inserter>no uBrilliant move, dumfuk.
>>288290683Still melting down
>>288290666That's too bad. Hope they get better now.
>>288290679>Mayotuna?lmao, even Umine is already mogging it on sales with just one volume out
>>288280528We already decided MayoTuna was welcome in a recent-ish council thread. That aside, it gets its own threads every week and is by far and away the most discussed WSM series on the board so it's not like we really need to discuss it at length here.
>>288282564>the girls (especially Nene and Iko) are cuteMy daughter and her pinktsun clubmate are two of the most adorable girls in any romcom right now.
Not sure how popular mayotuna is but you should go read senryou shoujo.
>>288290874That's Nanako btw, not Shinobu. But I understand the confusion.
>>288290216>>288290666This one is heartbreaking. It had so much potential, and it was genuinely funny. I was along for the ride from chapter 1 and intended to see it through until the axe fell or one of those precious little retards succeeding at seducing their onii-san sensei. There's no way that a rushed ending will be able to deliver a satisfying conclusion, but I'll read it when it comes.
>>288289852Which was your first?>>288289914I agree with this. Makeine is also one you should hold off on until you have more under your belt because it's very explicitly targeted at genre-savvy otaku.
>>288291047Meant for >>288289657
>>288289914>>288291047What gives you all the tropes? Love Nina & Nisekoi? Maybe Bokuben?
>>288284597Mysterious Girlfriend X?
>>288291237I personally don't think Love Hina is very good. It's definitely riddled with tropes, but it's pretty dated. I know a lot of people will disagree with me on that but I don't really give a shit. If you've somehow managed to avoid getting spoiled on the ending I'd Nisekoi, then yeah read that. It's stupid but it's fun. Of the three you listed, Bokuben is my favorite, and you should DEFINITELY read that while hopefully avoiding any and all spoilers for how it ends. If you're specifically interested in harem stuff, read 5toubun no Hanayome. Then read Bokuben. Assuming that wasn't the first one you read. That being said, none of those things are going to fully encompass every common trope you'll see in a romcom, but they'll certainly cover a lot of them.
>>288285976This straight up isn't a romcom. >>288287338Shion has a girlfriend and actively gets pussy.
>>288291047>Which was your first?Chunibyo.
>>288291528Well that sets a pretty fucking high standard. Especially if it was the anime because it's a massive elevation of the source material. If you check out 5toubun or Bokuben like I suggested to the other anon, make sure you read the manga. The pacing and order of events in 5toubun is fucked, and Bokuben just does its own thing with the anime ending. So read both of them.
>>288284362So realistic.
>>288291583Understood, thank you.
>>288291757No problem. I think between those two you'll get a good grasp of the things that really define a lot of romcoms. At that point, yeah. Check out Kaguya-sama. Or maybe read some other mono stuff like Horimiya or Sono Bisque Doll before that. Though both of those series come with pretty tremendous caveats.
>Boku no Suki na Hito ga Suki na HitoNow that is how you do a confession. Asahis truly are the best girls.
>>288290997>This one is heartbreakingIt truly is, now I just hope Masora can pull a win at the end
>>288284529>cousin incest is legal in japanIt's legal in most of the world, anon. Even the US.
>>288284124who is the rival you're speaking of?
>I like him because…he draws my favorite fujo ship
>>288284124>they're even introducing a serious romantic rival and noa is awared of her feelingsIt took 100 chapters to accomplish this? I think I read 40 at most before I just couldn't tolerate the combination of insufferable menhera and no progress occurring whatsoever.
>>288282495>the loser dating Not!Makima mangaThat's been in my backlog for ages. What's it actually about or is the 'dangerous evil GF' the whole plot?
>>288280043Retarded ending.
>>288292193Better reason than most romcoms>>288292198He's deluded, there's no rival, just Noa being mentally ill that a transferred employee has a new boss.
>>288279672>chapter 95Ehhh…
>>288279672>Without deafeningly fireworksBokuyaba S2 had loud rain instead so it's not fireworks kekI don't remember anything like this in Koiseka or Tonikawa
>>288288488This is easily among the best romcoms bring serialized currently. I can't even bring myself to read it weekly because it's so good that I have to let chapters build up to read in chunks otherwise I find myself desperately craving more. Same with Houkago Kitaku Biyori. That one's a fucking gem.
>>288292239I was referring to her being aware of her feelings.
>>288292228I wasn't all that thrilled when I was reading it, but thinking about it again I hate all the characters even more. They protags were fine at the start, but then it just never felt like they got along the more I think about it. Should've been one of those "ones that got away" stories more like never was in the first place
>>288292249>Bokuyaba S2 had loud rain instead so it's not fireworks kekBokuyaba also has a complete doormat of an MC who's fine with being humiliated to keep his relationship a secret, and a heroine who's perfectly fine with subjecting her boyfriend to that humiliation. I just couldn't keep reading it after that. I couldn't like Anna anymore. And I fucking tried.
>>288289149What with this manga cafe making girls horny and touching themselves?
>>288282815My man Shou telling it like it is, as usual. Any time I see shit like that I know the manga is the worst kind of low effort, no fucks given juvenile shounen mag slop they could come up with in the time it took to make their cup ramen.
>>288292346That's just the magic of a puffy vulva.
I've read a few "noblelady survives the villainess" shoujos lately just as a change of pace since I never read it and female focused romcoms are truly bizzare.while guys and girls have their own clearly alien and ficion only behaviours, the ones in those shoujos are incredibly baffling to me. I wonder if women feel the same way reading romcoms for male audiences
>>288292483Definitely seems that male-targeted romance does a lot better with women than female-targeted romance does with men. Though there's no shortage of women writing romance targeted at a male demographic, and those tend to be the ones that do well with women. Hyakkano is written by a man however, and at least in Japan women seem to fucking love it. But I'm betting Nozawa's character designs are a huge reason why.
>>288288214I feel like I am not Japanese enough to understand that manga or what it's trying to do.
>>288279980the 3-way titfuck will be crazy
>>288292619It's just seems to be a guy who's able to draw sexy women but is absolutely hopeless at writing. even just at a baseline "wacky comedy setups for sexy situations" it fails hard
>>288292638This thing is going to just go on forever and never resolve the ex-wife, isn't it?
>>288288488>>288292258Maybe I should give it another try. I probably read 10 chapters but it was very samey and I found the peanut gallery to be slightly annoying after a while. I felt like a 4-koma gag manga that someone had tried to expand beyond its merits. But I kind of trust what you fags are saying since I know what the mangaka is capable of, and I felt the start of this was far below his usual standard.
>>288292843I do kind of feel that if you read 10 chapters and didn't like it, that it may just not be for you. It definitely leans hard into a certain style of comedy. But I don't think it would hurt to give it another shot. I think it's legitimately sublime.
>>288289513The swimsuits were ugly as fuck but then so are most of the shitty bikinis that manga girls choose which, evidently, their mangaka think are sexy (poor taste). But it's kind of believable that a bunch of pure and innocent rural 13yo would wear something like that. Apparently outside of the West females don't actually dress like literal hookers 24/7 as soon as they are over the age of 9. If you're worried about 'modern audience' cucked shit then fine, but how could you have missed the subtle but very lewd An fanservice in the last few chapters? She was looking sultry compared to earlier in the mango.Pic unrelated, this isn't 'modern audience' shit and has only gotten better the longer it's gone on. Although it's basically plotless fluff and lewd.
>>288282199>100gfs is not romcom, it’s thinly veiled yuri
>>288292332>Bokuyaba also has a complete doormat of an MC who's fine with being humiliated to keep his relationship a secret, and a heroine who's perfectly fine with subjecting her boyfriend to that humiliation.In bokuyaba there is that friend character that mirrors a type of girl irl who thinks it's fine to belittle and be rude with boy classmates (but for sure never against the popular ones). Realistic but annoying, one of the reasons I dropped it hundred chapters in
>>288293150Imagine thinking Hyakkano is attempting to veil it's yuri. Fuck that guy.
>>288279672I only read a bit of thisWhy did she broke up with the guy?I assume she didn't actually cheat on him
>>288292209Mc is a useless retard. Main girl gets off on seeing how pathetic he is and actively puts him down. That's it
>>288290454Is this trolling or is this modern 4chan?
>>288282635>same as with now that we draw when it introduced the designated loser promise girl CFI just can't understand the the fuck the mangaka was thinking with this one. Was it a decision made by his editor to add a "new dynamic"? Because all it accomplished was making me stop reading the manga the instant I saw a such an adorable character introduced who I knew was destined to have her heart ripped out and shit all over. Absolutely fucking baffling that anyone would think that was a good idea.
>>288293150>this is the first mention of Tenpuru in this threadHow come this didn't catch on? It's not as funny as grand blue but it's a proper romcom
>>288293283it's been meh since the winner is already guaranteed
>>288293283>It's not as funny as grand blueVery few manga have ever been as funny as Grand Blue. Pic related. That said, I read quite a bit of Tenpuru and I think it's more fair to say that it wasn't funny at all. It's one that I tried pretty hard to get into but just couldn't. The characters felt played out and the comedy was completely impotent.
>>288293313Also this. Very obvious winner that left the other heroines feeling insultingly superfluous. Why would I want to read a horse race manga when all but one of the competitors are running with two broken legs? Tenpuru sucks.
>>288293175You mean the small, ugly, cuntish one who was too retarded to figure out they were dating (unlike the more intellegent girl/s) but who is also somehow one of FeMC's best friends?
>>288290476>Shoneslop and hareslopI like fights and I like girls.Suck my dick.
>>288282679I liked the extended epilogue chapter where they finally get to do cute couple things together and then have sex
What happened to that one about the wolf girl? I dropped it because it was some sappy woman author shit about character's troubles and feelings for 75% of the manga, but instead of it being the main characters that was focused on literally whos and insufferance faggots only female readers could like (pretty boy vampire). The 'teehee I'm going to write in some NTRbait but if you feel like it's NTRbait then it's just cause you're a mad incel' shit certainly didn't help it, that was a woman moment alright.
>>288282757I am. I have been since the first chapter. I love it, but it benefits immensely from a binge read. Keeping up with new chapters is a bit frustrating. Chiara also mogs the rest of the harem pretty fucking brutally. Which isn't to say I don't like the others. Chiara is just constructed of alternative materials.
>>288293500It was on hiatus for a little while. I think it came back and is about to end after the confession.
>>288293500>>288293558Scratch that. I didn't read that whole post and was thinking of an entirely different wolf girl romcom. Do you mean Garuru Girl? If so, that ended..
>>288293433I think I would still had follow the manga if she didn't exist
>>288293663You're a better man than me. The flash mob confession just killed the manga for me. I gave it three or so more chapters but I couldn't enjoy it anymore. I found Anna borderline repulsive. And I adored her before. I don't think I've turned on a charger that fast since... the entire cast of Saekano.
>>288293729a character*
>>288288933don't carehere's my cutewife luluca
>>288293575I forget what it was called but it was like a school for 'demi humans' or some shit and the main girl was a wolf girl with big feet and there was some nice-guy-but-not-quite-total-doormat generic MC.
>>288293729>The flash mob confessionthe what?
>>288293801A bunch of Kyotaro and Anna's classmates conclude that he likes her (because no shit, they're dating in secret) and organize a flash mob to force him into confessing to her (again: they're already dating). He's visibly INCREDIBLY fucking uncomfortable while it's happening, but goes along with it so that Anna can publicly reject him in service to keeping their relationship a secret. I foolishly thought that the manga would flip the humiliation ritual on its head and put a stop to the banal, secret relationship bullshit that I was already only begrudgingly tolerating by having Anna accept the confession instead. I thought wrong. She did not. She rejected him on the spot, despite seeing the turmoil he was experiencing, and let him bear the full fucking brunt of that humiliation. It was absolutely brutal. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else say they hated it the way I did, but it was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I felt so awful for Kyotaro and disgusted by Anna the she let him go through that. All of the charm the series had just evaporated for me on the spot.
>>288293901What a waste of a potentially beautiful setup holy shit
>>288293927I'm sure it's partly my fault for building up an expectation in my head that the manga was about to do away with my least favorite part of the premise in the single most kino fucking way imaginable, while simultaneously cementing Anna as one of my all time best girls in romcom manga. All I got was disappointing, revulsion, and an immensity of pity for a protagnist who did not deserve such brutal treatment. Thinking about it legitimately just makes me sad. I've dropped plenty of series for pissing me off. I've begrudgingly finished series that pissed me off (again: Saekano—still waiting on that cancer diagnosis). Bokuyaba might be the only one I've dropped because it was simply that fucking depressing. And my favorite manga of all time is LITERALLY Kimitsuzu/The Summer You Were There.
>>288293901>he actually went along and did whatever the fuck that was>fmc didn't work up the courage to acceptalso>the next chapter the blond fuck buzzing around yamada-this yamada-that for 4 whole pagesholy fuck I forgot about that character/a/nons cream themselves over female authors and they do make richer female chars, but in here lots of screentime on bullshit boys dynamic and MC is so unrelatable, realisitcally even the most wimpy boy would had told all of them to fuck off
>>288294209>the next chapter the blond fuck buzzing around yamada-this yamada-that for 4 whole pagesAnd all the while poor Kyotaro looks like he's legitimately having a fucking panic attack. I just can't fathom how anyone could defend this. Even if it's not a deal breaker for you, how can you not recognize that it's a horrible way to treat your protagnist in what is ostensibly a cute, light-hearted story?
Pic are kinda similar series, the left is Taamo's latest, about the younger sister of a model who is taking Japan by storm who has a secret of her own. Art would appeal to any romcom fan but only runs monthly. Right is about an idol who needs to study help to maintain her perfect image. Characters are better than I would've expected from the premise, but I think the art is tolerate it or hate it, I like it fine, but it may not be passable to others. Both couples are "aware" and have formed a bond, neither are anywhere close to dating, though.>>288293175pic has been a fun one, a sperg MC who has enough willpower to keep his mouth shut about all his insecurities around a girl. from feMC's perspective, he has not made a bad impression or made a wrong move throughout the series. but from the latest, it seems like it's almost over now.>>288293558I liked this one, the spacey airhead boy love interest made it stand out>>288293795tsumiki ogami
Does a university student bring sexually assaulted by a JC count as romance and/or comedy?
>>288294297>it seems like it's almost over nowhope the manga keep going until they have sex or graduation, I don't see why the mangaka or the editor would want to slow down now
>>288292198>I think I read 40 at most before I just couldn't tolerate the combination of insufferable menhera and no progress occurring whatsoeverthe first 100 chapters were just gag stuff, now we have more real progress, people need to understand that rihito is a tsundere so he's slowly falling for noa, she also has been more sweet with rihito instead of only being a deranged menhera mess
>>288294435That's nice, and I'm glad the story is finally going somewhere with its characters. I, for one, am not interested in reading 100 chapters of borderline psychosis to get there. Them getting together wouldn't even feel satisfying to me. I've put my dick in crazy. I know what happens. I wouldn't wish that on a manga protagonist no matter how boring he is.
>>288294435I really am enjoying noa senpai's romance
>>288294489>That's nice, and I'm glad the story is finally going somewhere with its charactersmeant this for you>>288294503 and yeah, if you didn't like noa's crazyness then you might not enjoy the romance part that much if you can't endure the beginning
>>288294518I think you can write a heroine who's obsessively clingy and still have her be cute, endearing, and funny: in the right setting. Pic related. Noa-senpai did not accomplish that for me. All I saw was a very normal, ordinary person of a protagonist subjected to hell from a girl who's definitely cute, but neither endearing nor funny.
>>288292825I thought the president of the company wanted to make the wife happy?
>>288294435The art of this manga kind of reminds me about an unghinged manga about a landmine girl that made the protagonist kill multiple of her stalkers/exes
>>288293283Well it seems to be about to end so too late now.Mia best girl
>>288294649I checked out of curiosity because SURELY it couldn't be the case... Is it this one? Same mangaka.
>>288294209Yeah, I agree with you but I also feel Kyotaro failed himself there. He did some self sacrificial un-indvidualistic bullshit instead of facing them directly and literally to diffuse their shit by either "Fuck it. Guess what we're already dating, you childish retards. So fuck off with your tiktok shit" or by explaining to them as clearly and to-the-point as possible they were being selfish and making other people feel embarressed, waiting a second to see if their sense of decency kicked in, and if not telling them something along the lines of 'maybe you don't care if you embarress me, fine, whatever. But do you want to cause stress and embaressment for Yamada too?'. It was a bit betafag and collectivist minded of him to actually 'go along' with what the social pressure was telling him to do instead of confronting it. Anna gets absolutely no points though, she proved herself unworthy of the love she received if she had even the slightest idea of the fact he was being humiliated to cover for her and still acted how she did. And before someone says 'he's just a young timid boy etc etc' well yeah he is timid but teenage boys sometimes do stand up to their peers at school, even meek ones, when they are pushed. Especially if they feel they are being fucked around or someone else they care about is. So it would not have been unrealistic. Instead of showing him to have some actual backbone when required the mangaka showed him to have "backbone(bootlicker variety)" when required and simply bow down and go along society around him. I expect the mangaka thought readers would see it as brave, selfless and a noble sacrifice but I just see it as lacking grit, common sense and a sense of self as well as and making poor choices.
>>288294012>in the single most kino fucking way imaginableI'll back you up here, a similar scene in Tenshi made it an unforgettable memory for me and lived rent free in my mind for weeks to the point I couldn't enjoy other series as much. I'd have reacted just like you had I been following Bokuyaba, I don't even know why I stopped reading around the time the protag broke his arm.
I'll admit that while i enjoy good romcoms like some of the already mentioned in this thread (like >>288288488 and >>288282713 ) i also enjoy some other minor romcoms that honestly, objectively speaking, they're cliché and elemental as fuck. Can't tell if i'm a judgemental, no-fun asshole or they're really mid storiesStill, if you want a quick, casual and sweet read, i'd also recommend >Osoraku Kanojo wa Ore no Aniki wo Neratteru (pic related)>Yamero Suki ni Natteshimau
>>288294691>spoilerDo you have any idea how little that word narrows it down?
>>288294721Add Otonari in front of it
>>288294688contdI can't remember but does he really just go through that feeling awful and watch his girlfriend do nothing for him, save her own skin (from a nothingburger really, lets be frank compared to the importance of their relationship to her it should be do-able to come out and tell them they're dating or make and act of it and accept his confession), and come out of it without feeling even slightly disappointed in her or disillusioned? >>288294256>a cute, light-hearted story?Well it kind of is and always has had themes of drama, self esteem issues and so on. But this was too far in, with too much development, to write such a severe let down. That felt like the way that the stupidly childish Anna and the totally self hating Kyotaro of the beginning of the manga would have handled it, not how the characters should have done it after as much development as they had and not how they should have done it when they're supposed to be in love and a couple and committed to looking out for one another.
>>288294710>minor romcoms that honestly, objectively speaking, they're cliché and elemental as fuckThe word you're looking for is "elementary", but you're among comrades here, anon. Romcom manga produces an abundance of junk food. But who fucking cares? Junk food is tasty. I fucking love more than my fair share is absolute pigslop. I can't begin to imagine the number of shitty romcoms and yuri manga that I've read and enjoyed. Some of them even count among my favorites. Fucking love Gal Gohan.
>>288294729Ah, I know the scene you're referring to. It was in factc so fucking kino that I immediately began reading the light novels. I didn't like them.
>>288294735>That felt like the way that the stupidly childish Anna and the totally self hating Kyotaro of the beginning of the manga would have handled itThis is actually a really insightful way of looking at it that I hadn't even considered through the obfuscation caused by my blinding disdain. Thanks, anon. Now I fucking hate it even more.
>>288294754Shame, the season 1 threads kept shilling the LN so I was very interested in reading it myself
>>288293189This >>288284217Basically nonsense.
>>288294818It was always a very saccharine series, but I liked it all the same. It was charming, even if it was heavy on the wish-fulfillment. But after they become a couple it just feels like it has its head so far up its own ass that it's ludicrous. The protagonist's internal monologue, and the extent to which he waxes poetic about how he can't be put down, and how nothing can bother him because his girlfriend is that bitch and it makes him mentally untouchable is just so galling and ridiculous to read. I can see how teenage Japanese boys would love it. I'm a white guy in my 30's with plenty of romantic experience, however, and I found it insufferable.
>>288294297>Houkago no Idol ni wa Himitsu ga AruI don't think I have heard of it or tried it. How would you rate it compared to Shit Run, which I like well enough and follow?And about the art: it's ShitRun that has art I have to try and tolerate. I would never say I like the artstyle. Just from that image alone I think it's quite likely right has the better art and designs.
>>288294867That makes him sound like the polar opposite of him from the first 4 volumes with low self esteem because of his past school happenings. I can see how it'd get annoying after a point, I won't comment without having watched or read it myself but I'll find out soon enough since this season's nearing its end
>>288294927Well yeah. Because his personality damn near does a near-instant 180 the second he subsumes a crumb of girlfriendium. It was atrocious character writing in my opinion.
>>288294503Rihito slowly gave up to hugs
>>288294965That doesn't sound very nice. Oh well.
>>288295007I peaked a few of the anime discussion threads of episodes that covered that material, and I saw anons with similar complaints. But your mileage may vary. Read/watch whatever you find fun. Citrus is one of my favorite manga of all time, and it's garbage. I just happen to be a raccoon.
I love it when characters try to cut through the retarded trope bullshit logic that some romcom manga and their characters run on. Pic related: best girl telling the two retarded MCs to unfuck themselves. I still dropped it at this point because it was trash and I hate the bullshit they pulled but I loved this bit so much I saved the page. Sanpaku eye'd gal/yankee girls are often the best girl, and so it was here. >nooooooooooo we can't date after admitting we like each other I have to focus on MUH STUDIES and MUH EXAMS>hurr we live together and could just like schedule out shit but no we have to agree to not date because of course you can't do anything else in life if you get a GF, literally everything goes to shit at that point>we still live together though because reasons>durr sexual tension late at night and we're about to kiss anyway after saying all that shit but MUH STUDY ALARM(yes, literally) goes off, interrupting us, and really we need to control ourselves otherwise we will never get soulless drone office jobs after years of pointless formal university education mostly about shit we will never need/think about again and will fail to become Responsible Members Of Society™®Sorry but I am not Japanese enough to stomach that stuff.
>>288294774>Now I fucking hate it even more.You're welcome.
>>288294883About the same I guess, it has been doing a good job showing how the protagonists are slowly become more and more attracted to each other and in chapters when they're not together, they'll usually talk with their own friend groups. It's comforting and there are no real surprises here, but the writing I think is about a half-step above the norm. About the art, the colored cover art is not representative at all, the regular manga art is scratchy and almost looks unfinished and the artist does not seem to like drawing hands.
This is very cute
>>288294867Is the manga like that? Because I can't stand that sort of thing either but in other posts anons are praising it, or at least a particular part of it, for being win.I suppose I'll just read it and if it's too full of bullshit before it ever gets to the good part I will just drop it as a matter of course.
Grounded stuff like this are much more entertaining than stuff that's tries to be too wacky.
>>288295036I have read too many manga and LN's that refuse to allow their characters to enter into a relationship for reasons that are exactly as banal and infuriating as this one. And god damn are those reasons always just SO fucking Japanese. Glad I never stumbled across this shit. >>288295053Fuck you. Just kidding, we're cool.
>>288295028I've exhibited raccoon behavior myself from time to time, wouldn't name any of them as being among my favorites but picrel was like a guilty pleasure. until the protagonist had this enlightenment moment and stopped interpreting every action in a negative light, which was the fun part in my opinion. That and it's now mostly just a generic harem, slightly on the edgier side. I'm a monofag so it was never gonna be a top pick for me to begin with
>>288295078The manga is an incredibly adaptation (this can not be emphasized enough: it's literally the best version of the story) that as far as I'm aware has still not gotten to that point in the novels. So pretty much everything in it should still be really good. Saccharine as fuck, but really good.
>>288294503Be honest anon, you would also fall for an extremely mentally ill whore for moments like these were she's being sweet and intimate with (you)
>>288294675Yep, that's the one, it's surprising how different in tone both are
>>288295086Ah fuck I read a bit of the manga adaptation for that one. I always end up feeling so bad for the heroines in series like that when they just keep getting shit on for their past, stupid mistakes. So I didn't read much of it. I've read revenge slop where the MC's ex did unspeakably heinous shit and stopped because I felt bad that it just seemingly could not stop punishing her with she was already beaten and broken. I get it. She was awful. And now she's suffered for it. Please move on to the MC being happy and let her move on and become better instead of ruining her whole life for being a dumb bitch in high school.
>>288295106Funny you say that, because my immediate thought was "that sounds exactly like the kind of menhera shit that mangaka would write before moving on to something with 'wider appeal'."Mangaka who wrote stories about crazy bitches seen to write EXCLUSIVELY stories about crazy bitches.
>>288279980>>288282877>>288292638>>288282331This harem series is written by a woman.
What about Sasha's manga
>>288295132This has become a genre in itself at this point and 'Dex readers absolutely slurp these up with how they always end up in the top 10 shill list.This series however >>288285355 scratchers a similar itch without pushing any of the girls onto an emotional roller coaster, another rare occasion where I liked it enough to want to read the LN eventually.
>>28829506415cm is the perfect height difference
>>288295079I generally agree but I love romance + adventure/fantasy/whatever so long as that part is done well. I actually don't like comedy, I never find manga or anime comedy funny but then I don't have an IRL sense of humour either. I just like of accept it as something there to create a bit of a relax or less rigid atmosphere and to fill gaps and form the feel of the setting; but I'd much rather it be some good action or mystery or fantasy or something instead of just romance + "comedy".
>>288295150Well it's her signature skill, why drop it? lolAlso Noa is a very cute and funny crazy
>>288295180Many such cases.
>>288279918You reading the train manga? I like it, though I struggled early on before coming to enjoy the onlookers, who are more the main characters in terms of dialogue (even if it's texting) than the romance couple they're watching.
>>288295212Why are there so many fanservice harem series written/drawn by women?
>>288281914There's definitely quite a few because I was searching for the one I really liked and found like 20 others that weren't it. If Mangafox were still around I could just scroll through bookmarks, but alas. That's what I get for not using a site like MAL
>>288295199>This has become a genre in itself at this pointYeah, hence why I called it "revenge slop". It's blown up immensely on Narō in the past half decade or so and is now past the light novel section of the pipeline and well into the manga adaptation section. Seems to be struggling to break into the anime space, however. It's not all completely terrible. Some of them have good stuff going for them. I particularly liked one called Four Colored Goddesses, though I didn't like the conclusion for the MC's love life in that one.
>>288295180The premise is too weird for me to get into it.
>>288295220Women are fucking horny.
>>288293901I think what they did was right to protect their relationship at a time where they absolutely couldn't afford to deal with social bullshit, but holy shit does it still hurt.
>>288295180That explains a lot, I'm slowly realizing that in the last years the only series I really liked are written by women (except for a disgusting pig who draws adventuring children in abyss of gore)
>>288279672Same energy.
>>288295232I'll drop a quick second on recommending Re:Life. I was blown away by it. It takes a lot for me to like a kuudere, especially one as autistic as Chizuru. It takes a whole hell of a lot more than that for her to wind up being one of my favorite manga heroines of all time. Spectacular series, look forward to re-reading it and crying happy tears again sometime.
>>288295243I wouldn't say I like them all that much, it's more of a fast food read sorta thing. Another food comparison but it serves as a palate cleanser after the sickeningly sweet stuff.It's amusing to see the trickle down effect, we're finally getting the first of gyarus being nice to otakus being the main theme in anime while LNs and manga are making meta jokes about it not being a thing.
>>288295272I couldn't disagree more, but you do you. I don't feel like ranting about that shit anymore than I already have.
>>288295220Most mangaka are women. There's money to be made writing this stuff for magazines and so some of them will do it. It's a job, after all.They're not just going to stick only to shoujo and josei passion projects just because they're women. If their editor says 'you could write a manga about a hot brow girl which will appeal only to straight males and it will earn you money, but you probably have zero personal interest in the subject matter' some of them are going to be like yeah sign me the fuck up and pay me.
>>288295303That's the Narō pipeline at work. Romance trends cycle way faster than action/fantasy/isekai trends, so by the time they reach the anime market, they're played the fuck out.
>>288295293Yeah already read and enjoyed Re-Life, redemption themes go hard. Also the one I was thinking of was Ore ga Doutei
>>288295308You're not wrong, but Marii Taiyou most definitely likes drawing big tiddy gyaru doing lewd and lascivious things. Because as I said: women are horny. Check out any amount of western round literature written for women, and you'll quickly find the the most degenerate works are written by the fairer sex.
>>288284387>>288284436>ShoujoNo wonder it has instant fucking
>>288285355>Any word on this one? I was enjoying it but I heard it was axed and revived.LN has hit Vol. 4 apparently and the manga has an official English TL so I think it's not in danger of getting axed again anytime soon.
>>288295363The guy not being a pathetic loser or a boring everyman should tip you off.
>>288295220Because women are also degenerates, sometimes even more so. A good trivia fact to know is that the writer for like the first half of the Rance series was a woman. That was also when he was at his worst personality-wise and he got softened up when a male writer took over.
>>288289993Bigger pichttps://files.catbox.moe/bcbw2s.jpg
>>288290565>Generally it's better to read romcom by women, Until it goes to love triangles or more
>>288295537yup, yupI'm filtered by women dramakino
>>288295373Imagine being the author of the LN. It was axed but for some odd reason the manga kept going, was one of the better selling one in the magazine*, and it picked up more interest because of it**Maybe the prose isn't great in the LN and it's better as a manga. *hearsay from /a/**not hearsay as the twitter engagement increased
>>288295377Is he a feminine looking edgelord, psychopath or rapechad instead? Not saying faggy shounen romcom males are good but neither are a lot of the shitty sterotypical female written male characters either.
>>288295614I briefly perused a couple of chapters since I'm not a shōjofag but was curious what they were talking about. He's just... an outgoing, popular, and genuinely likable person. The kind of guy who actually drowns in pussy in high school. It still didn't grab me since shōjo rarely does, but I would commit fucking crimes to have more MC's like him in shōnen romcoms. Unfortunately I think the impotent, Japanese male reader base is still resistant to romcom MC's actually being cool.
>>288295582>Imagine being the author of the LN.I imagine the irony of a loner story succeeding because of collaboration with an artist is not lost on him.
>proposed at chapter 69That was fast
>>288279672Modern romcom lack of NTR We all know how popular it in Japan and worldwide
>>288289071Romcom is focused in romance with a bit of comedyComrom is focused in comedy with a bit of romance
>>288296125Romance is half comedy already. So basically romcom is 75% comedy Loving someone is fun if it's not it trash
>>288288488this is from a dude that made jitsu ha watashi ha. hilarious, i highly recommend it
>>288296181I hate le funni faces so fuckin much
>>288295277H I B A R IIBARI
>>288296194i fuckin love em, but if you don't then you don't, yeah?
>>288289071Com and drama are both shit.I like my romance with a side of something else like a hobby club.
What does the council think of >Tonari no Seki no Yatsu ga Souiu Me de Mitekuru
>>288296230>>288295277I loved Hibari so much. It still hurts.
>>288295081I hear you anon. I truly can't understand why the confession is still the ultimate goal in many of these mangas, not only because we end up missing the relationship development, but because it's clear that the manga will shortly end after it, mangakas and editors make the impossible to drag and dilute the story until it happens without caring about suspension of disbelief, which often results in the characters having incredibly stupid reasons (like your example, Medaka Kuroiwa and MUH PRECEPTS, Hima-ten "i confessed and got rejected, but MC will confess to the other girl a month from now, time where he can stil work and meet me, all the while he still resolving his feelings for both and.....AAA FUCK HIMA-TEN. Not even having great girls can save this shit>>288295212Oh thank god this is the actual cover, not the edit with the giant penis
>>288297495>sexually interested girl>some easily embarresed moralfaggot boyi hate this shit
Disregard teenagers, give me more adult romcom
>>288297802You can just make mc or girl refuse to give up after rejection. In amagami mc was rejected but keep pushing forward into senpai pants. Even him not peeking on her naked body was an insult for her because of this. She was sure about him liking her but this made her doubt about it
>>288297916>adult romcomNtr bait as always
>>288297960Sweat and soap? Are you retarded? ntr has ruined your brain, anon
I'm still not sure if this will have rom. I thought it would be like a densha otoko between manga artists, I guess it's too early to tell.
>>288297916See >>288295079
>>288297934It's different when he's already on her route anyway.
>>288297802>I truly can't understand why the confession is still the ultimate goal in many of these mangasBecause the target audience are teenagers who are looking forward to or actively experiencing their first love so they want to read how the end result of that love is "they lived happily ever after", the stories that focus on the relationshio itself after the confession are aimed at an older audience that missed out on having a fulfilling love life and want to live it out vicariously through fiction
Do you guys make a distinction between romcoms and lewdcoms?
>>288298026There is no route. They don't know what. You're coward that run away after one rejection. If she doesn't start to date someone else door for you still exists. Probably it wasn't love at all if you give up so fast
>>288298065It's a subgenre, so kinda yeah I guess
>>288298065Lewdcom is subgenre of light ntr.
>>288298102>ntr again out of nowhereWhat is wrong with you anon, you need help
>>288279672>They're in college but stull act like they'e in middle schoolEvery romcom that does this is garbage
>>288298134>they're both adults but still refuse to talk in a first-name basis>a whole chapter dedicated to them finally having the courage to say each other's name
>>288298065lewdcoms and ecchicoms have more in common than lewdcoms and romcoms
>>288297990This feels like it's gonna be pure comedy and the only romcom is gonna be the obvious BL bait jokes between the author and editor
>>288298185That's a Japan autism thing, nothing to do with their ages.
>>288297960>NTR-obsessedYou can still be saved anon
>>288296254I guess
>>288296254I mean, I hate the overuse of them, it reminds me shit piece
>>288289657>Kaguya-Sama seems interesting.Fuck no, not that pretentious shit. The author isn't called Hacka for nothing. If you want to watch/read a "smarter" type of romcom, then go with Makeine or even fucking Oregairu.
>>288289657Kaguya sama is funny until the ova where it peaks and then its all downhill from there
speaking about aka, marchen crown is so godawful and also has shit sales i wonder how the hell it's still not axed yet
>>288289657>Kaguya-SamaFalls off hard.
>>288289657>Kaguya-Sama seems interesting.Please don't. Go for Smoking behind the supermarket with you instead, the adaptation is going to come out this summer
>>288289657highly recommend you read it but also highly recommend to drop it after the confession
>>288298542He's probably sucking dicks, as Reiji does
>>288298626reiji still has decent sales, in comparison marchen crown barely sold 2k each
>>288298644>reiji still has decent salesAh yeah, too often I forget that japs are NTR coded
>>288285355>tells gyaru he likes gyaruI expect a gyaru end.
>>288289657>>288298517>Oregairu.Both are pretentious, but at least Oregairu is more upfront about what it is from the start, and doesn't preach about muh feminism like Kaguya-sama. If you want less sociopathic and more... genuine life advices, go with Oregairu.
>>288298787>Even the artstyle is so blandSeriously, I don't get how this stuff became so popular
aka created tsubame so he's cool in my book
>>288298842Aka's wife Mengo cheated with Fujimoto.
>>288298842And Hayasaka.>>288289657I'd say read it while you like it and drop it as soon as you don't. There's no payoff sticking with it til the end.
>>288298842>>288298922Yeah, the side characters were the better part of that manga
>>288298905for real?
>suddenly tons of posts shitting on Kaguya out of nowhere Great, the Aka obsessed schizos are here. It was a decent thread until now too.
>>288298542What about Renai Daikou? Was it good?
>>288298385Contenders for best ghost girl.
>>288279672So she lost huh.
>>288298922Yes, I love Hayasaka
>>288299055I was already here, I just didn't notice how someone was trying to advertise it, someone's gotta warn the people
>>288299072Not really
>>288299098This manga has been quick to solve misunderstandings and hasn't generally felt into many tropes so I'm sure it won't be like that this time.It sure seems to be close to ending now. The last arc will probably be about Sunao figuring out how to reject Natsumin.
>>288299055I shit on it because the forced drama towards the end was fucking awful and dragged on. I remember anons got tired of it fast.Or is this just bait?
>>288299213We wanted tsubamekino ending. Got nothingburger
>>288299115a better endgame
>>288299321At least she won in the live action adaptation
>>288299321I wouldn't call it kino, but it would've been better than what we got instead
>>288299349She did? Maybe I'll watch it.
>>288299055These people glaze the fucking mediocrity that is Seihantai, why are you acting surprised?
>>288299321It's funny how despite going through the whole Tsubame rejection he still didn't delivered on IshiMiko ending because he turned her into a drunk college slut with seemingly no romantic advances with Ishigami
>>288299449Yeah
>>288299055we were the sleeper agents, that post reminded us of our shared experience and reactivated our programming >>288298517
>>288299491Maybe because they never had feelings for eachother. Ishi loved Stacy, miko only liked gami due to being lonely
>>288299557this fucker looks like chibi
>>288299580The ending literally turns them into Kaguya and Shirogane-lite tho, let's just say Hacka can't write and leave it at that
>>288279759The only one I currently give a shit about is Kusunoki
>>288299491>>288299580I will never understand this forced headcanon when the manga itself screams at you that they're the next gen proxies of prez and kaguya.
>>288299605>>288299611Fuck off. gami never wanted to be replacement for prez. This is forced meme. They don't love eachother
>>288299557This is not real ishigami. Chad actor asked her
>>288299638Can't tell if mental illness or shipper seethe. Highest degree of cope either way.
>>288299611It's not a matter of the author intention, it's a matter of how believable he wrote it
nothing matters by the end of kaguya other than they fucked
I stopped caring about Kaguya past the point where it stopped being about their mind games and about the side characters all of whom I mostly don't give a shit about.
>>288299726They played with proxy war. Kaguya helped ishigami prez trained miko.
>>288299726ishibame could've been kino but aka had to project his own failed high school romance into that so it just pissed off the readers in the end, making miko to be the implied endgame for ishigami was something that aka also did it half-assed
>>288299611Because they CANONICALLY weren't shown to end up together.Meanwhile you have>shirogane kaguyaBlame aka here all you want.
>>288299726fair enough, they don't really work as couple, only as comedic gimmick
>Kaguya-samaOn one hand, it was big enough to absolutely derail the end of this thread.On the other hand, it was bad enough to absolutely derail the end of this thread.
>>288280052These two retards are fun to watch. I wonder if they’ll ever actually progress past being friends that are overly affectionate and touchy though. Feel like a premise that might wear thin if it drags too long.
>>288299713The manga all but states these two end up in the same position, they've been shown to have great chemistry and affection for each other over the series. Literally the only seed of cope here is that the epilogue didn't show them sucking and fucking. Do I need to explain why that's retarded?
>>288299789they're teens. they should be fucking 99% of the time
>>288299796a drunken slut like miko doesn't deserve best boy like ishigami
>>288299796The manga shows that Miko became a town bicycle in the future
>>288299753"We never SAW Nishikata impregnate Takagi-san" caliber of brain degeneration.
glad 1/5th the thread is seething about Kaguya-sama.
>>288299818>best boyOnly because there aren't many relevant male characters in the manga, basically just Shirogane and Ishigami, and Shirogane is too much of a simp
now you remember shiranui
>>288299930The tarsier eyed girl
>>288298587has this eventually gone anywhere? I remember dropping after like 30 chapters
>>288299839If this image somehow legitimately made you think that it might actually be too late for you.
miko drinking malort is canon
>>288299878>We never SAW Nishikata impregnate Takagi-sanBASED and TRUE suggestion
>>288299981I think they just now finally kissed or moved forward in some way. It's way too slow for me to care about, but it seems to be all done at a high level so if you want SLOOOOOOW burn it's enjoyable.
What's the deal with the ex-wife in Batsu-hare? I don't want to read it, but I'm curious to her fate.
>>288300071Nothing has happened to her yet. The president who's encouraging the MC to build the functional harem he never could has been asking him how he wants the ex-wife to be dealt with and in a show of maturity he has said "i don't care, I've moved past her and I only want to be happy with my new wife" and the pres has told him he will leave her alone (but is still going to do something, just not absolute scorched earth like he would've gone had he asked for it)
>>288300071she met her ex-husband only for ex-husband to announce he's currently married to 2 girls at the same time and she just leftthere's a talk that the original batsu hare dude would marry her but who knows for what reason
>>288299992Miko is canonically an easy girl like that, a prime NTR bait. And if Hacka based Ishigami on his younger self, then he might've based her on his cheating ex-wife.
>>288299072It was diet Kaguya and the main female mc was insufferable. Had it handled its other characters better maybe it could have turned out better it’s a shame.
>>288282757Let me guestLeftmost is the tsundereThen the onee-san typeLoliMain girlShy typeKuudereLast is the cheeky type
>>288299789They'll probably skip dating and go directly to marriage.
>>288300242that's some tall bitches. even the loli looks 2m tall
>>288300282only #2 looks tall, rest look like average women or smaller
>>288300301consider the perspective, my dude
>>288300282The guy looks small, given the perspective.
>>288299878Well, in this case we actually saw the result of that
>>288300242It'sGenkimuscleheadShyHorny sluttsunderebookwormmature
>Bump limit reached>No mention of MikadanoI know the manga hasn't been good lately but this still hurts
>>288300399OK, consider my expectations subverted.
>>288300442Mikadono? I dropped it in the first few pages when the premise was that the girls had manfaces.
>>288300442I didn't give it a chance because pawn is just a side character.
>>288300442Had a rough start too
>>288300493The girls get moefied quickly enough, the main problem is the story just never goes anywhere
>>288300442I dropped it during the school festival namek, after the second set of childhood friends who couldn't confess for dumb reasons I knew the author ran out of ideas, I would't be surprised if they end up introducing a third set of CFs eventually, maybe one with a sibling like relationship that can't break away from their family dynamic to confess so they can once again repeat the plot of the main cast helping them
Hopefully next time we have less kaguya seethe and more minor romcom chat
Why don't these threads stay up regularly like yuri or Isekai threads? Plenty of niche romcoms out there that's too small for a dedicated thread.
>>288301113this would just devolve into a general
>>288301257Doesn't seem it would be bad to have one for those obscure romcoms.
>>288297495Bascially this >>288297886MC isn't the worst but how he hasn't kissed her or more yet cannot be logically explained. It's nice seeing horny girls but this manga is so plotless that when the pay-offs we all want are dragged out for (insert however many chapters it is now) it feels overly long. They should have been on a one way tumble downhill into fucking like rabbits and it should have taken no more than 30 chapters then done and finished. Him putting the brakes on and being a tsundere is the weakest part of the manga.
>>288301378okay, you make the next thread
>>288301416As just a romcom thread or another council?
>>288301510yes
>>288301533Doesn't really answer my questions, but I'll give it a shot when thread dies.
>>288301113>>288301510I don't think we should have council threads too often because then it will turn into Aka hate general.But a small romcoms thread would be good.
>>288301589Just make a Kaguya or ONK thread to go along with it
>>288301510how about an OLD romcoms thread. like post your favortie stuff from the pre moe era
>>288301589>>288301814Made it. Post whatever you want, just don't talk about the ones that already get active thread.
>>288295634Didn't expect to see this, Mahoraba was the first manga I ever read all the way through.
