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MoffAlbert said:
Hokkaido Gals is still the peak of current day romcom mangas as far as I'm concerned. Even had the decency to end with a wholesome and beautiful series of colored final pages.
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While I do love Hokkaido Gals and I like the two other girls he added personality wise I still feel like it would have been fine without the drama because the chemistry between the two leads was already great. At least there were cute and rewarding moments at the end of the drama in the later parts of the manga.
 
Atatata said:
If you didn't figure this story is meant to be trainwreck 20 chapters in then I feel sorry for you.
This is the type of story you read as a melodramatic comedy, not a romantic one.
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Still, if the most notable things that has breached the surface out of this 500 chapter "melodramatic comedic manga", is the cuck panel that was memed to oblivion and this reveal, again, 500 chapters in, chapters mind you that to my skimming have a good amount of pages each and aren't just 3-5 short stories. Can we really say we're doing that great of a job that it warrants any praise?

If the guy has a fetish, let him rot away in his indulgence with his cohorts, but let's not pretend he's actually cooking anything in the kitchen.
 
My first exposure to rental girlfriend was this stupid image that used to be spammed in every romcom thread at the time, and because there was a three way tardwar on /a/ between readers of kaguya, gotoubun, and bokuben around then, there where a lot of fucking threads

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I think it was 50/50 between people who where just shitposting to annoy those three groups and people who actually believe it like the old soft seinen meme. But I'm not fucking sure anymore

As for some more recent romcoms, I still kind of like the barbeque one/Yaiteru Futari, TLDR on that one is a newlywed couple does some form of outdoor cooking every weekend although it does feel like its overstaying its welcome a bit (20 volumes)
I thought a new one called Hima-ten had potential but it has quickly ended up being as bland as Nisekoi
Blue Box I don't consider to be a romcom anymore, it still has some elements now and then but it feels more like a very slow sports series ever since the main couple got together
I did try kaoru hana wa rin to saku after a few more recommendations and after a handful of chapters I kind of like it, although I might just follow along with the anime next season.
 
I think the author ruined his manga because he "fell" in love with his own character. So basically the author cucked his entire fanbase. Additionally, I saw a photo where someone concluded that the MC paid the equivelant of 250.000 dollars to that rent-a-girlfriend girl. So the MC basically paid a girl 250.000 dollars and still got zero sex.

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So what's the draw of Rent-A-GF, and why's it so popular? I've stayed away from it because...well, mostly because of the usual "girls are icky" instincts that keeps me anchored to shonen, but also because the title sounds so goddamn narou-kei and loserbait. "What if you could pay someone to be your GF" sounds like a premise that would get you tossed in jail in a normal society.

And yes, I know about the cuck dream with berets on.
 
The man The only man said:
I think the author ruined his manga because he "fell" in love with his own character. So basically the author cucked his entire fanbase. Additionally, I saw a photo where someone concluded that the MC paid the equivelant of 250.000 dollars to that rent-a-girlfriend girl. So the MC basically paid a girl 250.000 dollars and still got zero sex.

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Honestly, seeing Reddit and 4chan mald about the latest plot development makes me want to get back into Kanokari, if just for the fascination of reading a steaming hot dumpster fire.

It is about to reach 400 chapters. That is 1/3 of the length of One Piece. A weekly manga is wildly successful if it gets 250 chapters. It is about to air its FOURTH anime season. A manga adaptation is wildly successful if it gets two.

Everywhere on the internet, I see coping about how this is actually brilliant writing and will lead to an amazing plot twist. Nah. Gotoubun is brilliant writing for a romcom. Kanokari is getting dragged out because the author wants to make more money, and because if the male MC gets together with the female MC, he will basically cuck himself. It's not that deep. Reiji has accidentally written Chizuru as borderline sociopathic just because he doesn't want the manga to end.

I would love it if that led to a plot development where Kazuya grows a spine, realizes that devoting every single second and penny of his life to a girl who can't even show him some gratitude isn't sustainable, and maybe Mami falls in love with him for real after he grows up. Or Sumi, but she's such a non-character that it would feel cheap. But we all know that won't happen. Instead, Reiji will walk it back and then drag the story on for 200 more chapters.

Congratulations Reiji Miyajima, you've managed to successfully write a story where every character is an asshole completely unintentionally, and the supposedly vile, manipulative villain is actually the most reasonable person in the entire series because she knows she's terrible and isn't afraid to call everyone else on their bullshit. Reiji, I hope your wife leaves you over your obsession with your cartoon waifu you created.
 
Red Dragon said:
I hope Okitsura ends well like Hokkaido gals. The world needs less pretentious bullshit and more anime that does what it promises well.
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You should try The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, it's not a comedy but it's the most sincere thing on the face of the Earth, and has its characters actually talk with each other about their issues like reasonable people who want to resolve their problems rather than drag them out. There's an anime adaptation coming up soon.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Next season has so many sequels... I know anime doom posting is trite but god damn, it feels like a lot of the charm is gone compared to the 2000's.
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The market has definitely become more conservative since the '08 crash, but it used to be that it meant that studios would wait until a manga/LN proved itself to be a good seller before it got an anime adaptation or before the adaptation got renewed. Even the "12 episode commercial" anime in the mid-teens were for good sellers that just needed that last little push to get over the hump.

Now? It seems like the studios are just going back to the same thing over and over again, even if the original anime's sales were mediocre to flat out bad. If it sold decently, or made the source material sell decently, they'd rather keep going with that instead of taking a risk on an unproven property.

Fortunately, the manga market is still wide open. I find myself watching less and less anime these days, mainly because of life, but also because it's mostly stuff I don't care about.
 
While I'm not interested in the vast majority of shows getting more seasons I'm happy for the people who like those shows because it sucked how rare it was for shows to get continuations in the 2000s.
 
Trollblade69 said:
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Not one, but two more seasons of Ninja fucking Kamui have been greenlit.
Am I living in reality, or in an infinite machine of unfathomable hardships? Has Faggit finally managed to get a successful Toonami original after a quarter-century of trying?
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Dude the first season is so fucking genuinely so fucking dogshit who asked for this. It has nothing going for it other than a handful of well animated fight scenes at the start.
 
A.P. Hill said:
The market has definitely become more conservative since the '08 crash, but it used to be that it meant that studios would wait until a manga/LN proved itself to be a good seller before it got an anime adaptation or before the adaptation got renewed. Even the "12 episode commercial" anime in the mid-teens were for good sellers that just needed that last little push to get over the hump.

Now? It seems like the studios are just going back to the same thing over and over again, even if the original anime's sales were mediocre to flat out bad. If it sold decently, or made the source material sell decently, they'd rather keep going with that instead of taking a risk on an unproven property.

Fortunately, the manga market is still wide open. I find myself watching less and less anime these days, mainly because of life, but also because it's mostly stuff I don't care about.
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It's just that modern anime is boring, there is no uniqueness anymore, just slop to go to from one to the next. Compare with 20 years ago:
Or even 10 years ago:
 
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