It’s been nine months since the question was last asked. If you have participated before, has it changed?

I was planning to watch The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, but circumstances led me to a change of plans. Still, I plan to watch it someday. From what I’ve heard and read about it, it could be a contender, so I’m willing to wait.

  • isyasad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    Cardcaptor Sakura, Princess Tutu, Toradora!, Maison Ikkoku, Chuunibyou, and Kare Kano are all contenders. If I can expand to speculative / non-obvious romance, then K-On!, Hidamari Sketch, Hibike! Euphonium, and Bocchi the Rock! are also up there.

    Overall, the main couple from Cardcaptor Sakura may be my favorite, just extremely cute and well-paced. Miya & Yuno from Hidamari Sketch are also a really great couple.
    Also, shoutouts to this guy who did an extreme overanalysis of how gay Hidamari Sketch is.

      • isyasad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 days ago

        The tl;dr is “Yui x Ritsu”

        The slightly longer story is that if you watch K-On! while really trying to overinterpret every interaction and assume more stuff is happening off-screen, a few romantic dynamics develop, with Yui x Ritsu being the most obvious.

        The full story is 13+ charts and an 8 page writeup that I did as a personal project to justify this overinterpretation. I may post it somewhere if I ever decide to clean it up and make it presentable to the public eye, but there’s a lot in there. Ui x Nodoka. The Azusa->Yui->Ui and Jun->Mio->Azusa parallel. Yui-Mugi breakup arc. The Azusa human instrumentality arc.
        My friends have called me schizophrenic for making these charts and while I don’t agree with their non-clinical use of the word “schizophrenic”, you should know that when I say “speculative / non-obvious” for K-On! in particular, it’s at about that level of extreme interpretation.

  • Endmaker@ani.socialEnglish
    3·
    13 days ago

    If you have participated before, has it changed?

    Nope. This may be a toxic world view but I find that shared suffering leads to the best romance.

    I haven’t see any other anime as good in this regard, so Witch from Mercury and 86 still take the top spots for me.

    If this cheat has to be taken away, and I must pick standard romance anime, then I would pick Cherry Magic! and Wotakoi. The MCs are sweet but mature.