>>285789570
makes me think about the missing opportunities but i still watch/read them but only a few click with me

I don't get anime like Toradora or Takagi, the girl being mean to you doesn't mean she secretly likes you

I just find them boring.

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I didn't like pure romance when I was 13, and I don't like it at 23. Anime needs some other bullshit in the middle to be watchable. Highschool romance in particular doesnt feel aimed at anything other than 13-15yos.

>>285789570
the opposite, good romance makes me want to get my shit together and find a wife

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Most of the time they are just really boring
But once in a while there are some well-done fun shows with characters that I like

>>285789984
Duh?

>>285789984
>Anime needs some other bullshit in the middle to be watchable
my brother you just have adhd

>>285789570
I'm 26 and I've never had sex

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>>285789570
Yes, but then I watch them anyway just to feel anything.

>>285789570
>I'm not sure I ever will
Of course you won't, but don't worry because nobody else will either. Romance isn't real.

>>285790541
What is this reddit nonsense

>>285789984
HOLY

>>285789570
romcoms are one of my favorite genres of anime. i like to live vicariously through the characters and i enjoy romance in general, i find it endearing and sometimes motivating. but i'm not a virgin and i've experienced romance. when i'm in a relationship i don't watch as much anime, when i'm single (now) i watch a lot more anime, to fill the void of being single. hopefully the next girl i meet will be into anime just as much as i am. then i can have the best of both.

>>285789570
I'm the same as you but I'm a huge sucker for romcoms or just romantic implications between characters in whatever genre. I feel that it doesn't really make me sad because I have no concept of what it's like. I can't even imagine it happening irl anymore, the idea feels like a different world to me.

>>285792574
Doesn't it depress you? I finished Nagatoro last night and today it's like there's genuinely a hole in my heart

No because I'm married and these shows are made for women.

>tripfag
>married
What's his name

Imagine bragging about being married
At this rate soon people will start bragging about posting from jail or something

>>285794587
I'm 110% heterosexual.

>>285794696
I had to get a background check recently and was delighted to see my whiteness reflected back with a rubber stamped NO RECORD on said form.

>>285790291
16-18yos don't exist or what?

>>285790302
some premises are just lame

>tripfag
>hetero

They're actually dangerous for you, because they make you idealize women because they're usually written by men writing their ideal woman.
Women are awful human beings with a shitload of flaws, romcoms and pure romance tend to skip this because otherwise you wouldn't sell past the 10th chapter.

>>285795282
I am. You dont see many 50 year old weridoes given they have shortened expiration dates due to degenerate diseases.

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>>285795423
Is this made by a woman? It has to be. Too much projection of the perfect man from a sympathetic MC.

>>285789570
Ditto. I can only tolerate romance anime that's filled with fanservice and that's not common.

You can bypass this by reading the extremely shitty ones like 100 kanojo

>>285789570
Nah cause you can still feel those emotions no matter what age you are as long as it's genuine. Trust me. Never stop looking for someone who loves you anon.

>>285789570
Have you ever even tried

Are there any actually good romance anime/manga where they're adults with working libidos? I don't mean hentai but I'm so sick of "kyaaaa his hand is near mine"
Nagatoro was frustrating to read because the guy never took any opportunities

>>285789836
yes it does. if girls dont like you they just dont talk to you at all. if they pay you as much attention as taiga did ryuji then you're already in. takagi was never even mean, it was pretty obvious that everything she was doing was flirtatious.

>>285795748
I think he's talking about teenage high school romance, which is a chimera for 60% of boys btw
Most girls lose their virginity at 14 while the boys at 18, and this being an average means it counts those coming from broken homes, ghettos and such where everyone is more promiscuous
A 1st year student is statistically unlikely to get sex in High School, ESPECIALLY with the cute popular girl who is already being fucked by a drug dealer or a sports guy from College

So yeah you can get some sloppy seconds in College and onwards, but the ideal romantic teenage love is reserved for a tiny minority.

>I'm not sure
Allow me to dispel your concern: You won't! Now you can appreciate your only experience of love and virtue. Need further cope? Love and virtue don't exist in the real world, only in anime.

>>285789570
you are missing the comedy in the romcom
if it's boring then it's a shit anime

School romance makes me wistful, not about my lost youth or lost loves, but about the characters talking to the people around them when they get bored instead of just scrolling social media.
Even recent series like Nagatoro and Kanokari are written by authors who went to high school 20+ years ago, in a world that doesn't exist anymore. Their art drawn from precious memories is all we have left of it.

>>285794696
What kind of crimes do you think anons are most likely to commit?

>>285795921
It's over

>>285789570
I don't feel the same because I've experienced it a couple times, but I do wonder if I'd be better off being in your position sometimes.
Loving and losing is unironically permanently damaging to the mind and physically painful

>>285795921
>A 1st year student is statistically unlikely to get sex in High School
And in the far remote case this 1st year student really manages to get the miracle, his parents quickly will cockblock him impeding having alone private time with his girlfriend precisely because they doesn´t want being grandpas so early

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>>285790470
This.

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Still suffering, OP

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>>285795827
>I don't mean hentai but I'm so sick of "kyaaaa his hand is near mine"

Saenai Boku ga Kimi ga Heya, the series starts with precisely the MC and the FMC fucking. But yes, it´s always the FMC who takes the lead and starts the sex scenes

>>285797105
God I love meganekkos

>>285798128
so what's the solution

>>285798128
This is what I'm talking about, the nostalgia! 8man talked to a girl on the phone. No one has done that for over a decade.

>>285789984
Anon the entire medium is for 13-15 year old boys.

>>285789570
You're not missing out on much. There's a reason romcoms end when the characters finally get together.

>>285798654
This shit again

>>285789570
99% of anime is romance and rom com slop that is watched by men who hate other men and themselves for being male.

>>285799116
I hate myself but not for being male

>>285798397
Dude, literally in this season we saw Kekqua talking to Akane on the phone in the first episode of this cour from Incest no Ko

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>>285795827
Toumei Otoko to Ningen Onna is literally airing this season. Some of you people don't even do the bare minimum of searching.

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>>285789570
just do what i did and give up on romance or 3d and just love the characters and buy a shitton of merch to fill the empty void in your heart

>>285800848
Those are gloves

>>285789984
I want to steal her pantsu :3

>>285789984
> I didn't like pure romance when I was 13, and I don't like it at 23. Anime needs some other bullshit in the middle to be watchable
This is just how I feel about romance stories in general desu. Sometimes it can work if it’s a statement about romance in general and how retarded it can be (Romeo and Juliet) or theres an added layer to it (mind games in Kaguya) but other than that that it’s a boring as fuck motivation for any character to have without any additional context.

>>285790749
Nah it’s called the blackpill

>>285798128
I made this mistake in uni. Real girls are either just nice or hostile, so it’s just safer to stick to 2D

>tfw wasted $500 on a prostitute because I thought the real flesh would help

>>285795827
yeah, a few hundred of them
I feel like you haven't even tried to look if you have to ask a question like this

>>285789570
No, because I just self-insert.

>>285789984
>Anime needs some other bullshit in the middle to be watchable
that's why fujos eventually devolved into just watching men rape each other. The vanilla romance got boring quick and they had to find ways to make it more interesting

>>285789570
nope. I put the effort in during my mid 20's to learn social skills and how to show interest in women without being a creep and it paid off

>>285795423
>They're actually dangerous for you, because they make you idealize women because they're usually written by men writing their ideal woman.
Is this bait? All 3 of the anime in the OP were adaptations of works written by women

>>285802859
You say this as if fujos haven't been watching battle shounen for decades now. If anything, your taste in anime is going to be closer to a lot of them than it is with anons who just want cute romance

>>285800579
How old is Shizuka supposed to be? 20? Kinda hard to tell given her small stature.

>>285789570
It's never too late. When I hit 30 and became a wizard I just stopped giving a fuck and began talking to girls, starting with my coworker. We became friends and with that confidence I went to a con and spoke with girls there. I became discord friends with a few of them and fast forward half a year and now I have lots of friends and one potential romantic interest that I play vidya daily with.

Toradora is low key shit albeit

>>285789570
i'm not japanese and 3d women aren't anime girl so i don't feel sad or missing opportunities or anything like that, it's just pure fantasy world for me, but i like seeing lovey dovey couples in an old man pov (late 30 virgin btw, never interest irl romance or sex)

>>285805211
I was gonna reply with
>discord friends
>potential romantic interest
(which I guess still I did), but then I reread that it's only been half a year. Good progress, and I genuinely hope it works out for you anon.
And even if it doesn't, keep at it and don't end up a jaded asshole like me, apparently. sorry.

>>285789570
I got my first gf at 30 because I wasted all the time prior developing better taste than anyone else on this website and met a japanese girl who was amazed at all the old mangaka I knew that no other westerners do (she grew up in the scene and had met some of them personally, so the amazement was mutual).

>>285789570
eh love isnt easy and its not always worth it. theres someone you have to consider at all times, theres someone who will eventually be in your space, they'll hurt you and you'll hurt them, bitterness and resentment might build up over certain things etc