r/RomanceMangaAnime

Lately I have been in the mood for romance anime, so I'm looking for some recs!! It doesn't have to be a straight couple as I live yuri and am open to yaoi too!! Fanservice is okay!! I like pretty much anything!!

Some I've Aready seen/Am Watching:

Does it Count if You Lose Your Innocence to an Android? (8/10)

Chobits (9/10)

Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk (9/10)

The Shiunji Family Children (8/10)

Marika's Love Meter Malfunction (7/10)

A Silent Voice (8/10)

Komi Can't Communicate (8/10)

Yowayowa Sensei (9/10)

You and I Are Polar Opposites (7/10)

Inugami-San to Nekoyama-San (7/10)

WataNare (7/10)

(Images are of a few of the anime on this list)

Name/Title of the series - Amamori Jumma is Humid

Plot: Shigure Kurimoto meets Junna Amamori by chance. As they get excited talking about books and Japanese rock music, Shigure begins to glimpse a more intense and clingy side to the otherwise aloof Junna.

This series actually got a manga. Also first of this is my second account which I made so that I can post on this sub cause these mods really irritate me they banned me for not providing title even though it was there. But what can I do I'm a romance manga sucker and for past three months i wasn't able to post anything so thought it's better to make a new account to post here. So I'm taking precautions just in case.

Now for actual series, I was just browsing and then stumbled upon this. I've been a fan of the light novel since volume one and I've gotta say the light novel is actually really good like they are one of those a bit more and they would be called married couple type. The flirting is really good although a bit wish fulfilment type yet not bad. The side characters are fun and not annoying.

Solid 8/10 series which is a lot for a romance manga in this economy. So you should really read.

Name/Title - Ayamo no tsuki/The moon on a rainy night

Plot:

One rainy night, Saki is rushing to a piano lesson when she crashes into a beautiful, long-haired girl, dropping her sheet music in the process. Saki stutters an apology, but the girl simply hands back her sheet music and leaves without a word. Saki begins her first day of high school the following morning, only to find the stranger from the night before sitting at the desk next to hers. She learns that the girl's name is Kanon and that she is not quite completely deaf, but very hard of hearing. Though Kanon needs to be close to people to read their lips, she tends to push people away with her icy demeanor. Through one kind gesture, Saki slowly begins breaking down the walls around Kanon, even as she feels something new blossoming within her.

I absolutely adore this romcom, it's cute and funny enough for a 2am read

i love the facial expressions on this, the only thing i hate is the background characters in the first few chapters 😆

The names are in the second image.
Had to fix the order for repost.

If you love coming of age movies like "Stand by me" you definitely would love this.

Its a slow burn romance with a mixed of child adolescence grow. It's far from the generic loser/lonely MC that bags a model.

We never get to know what the FL is thinking as throughout the whole manga it was kept ambiguous. We get to see the MC grow as a person and boy it's wonderful seeing him get to the conclusions. FL also develops but later in the story

>! I saw people commenting that we don't see a lot couple interactions becuz FL confessed 1 chapter before the last chapter but i seeing how the characters developed and how the FL finally breaks when confessing was enough i would say !<

Hi, does anyone have recommendations for good 90s romance manga?

I remember reading Mint na Bokura when I was little. The main plot wasn’t exactly my taste since it had a bit too much drama and rivalry, but I really loved the atmosphere: the city setting, everyday moments, and fun side plots (like going to the amusement park, accidentally spilling cola, buying charms, etc).

These days, I think I’d prefer something a bit more mature/josei. Not smut, just romance with a calmer and more grounded plot, preferably with less loud or over-the-top drama. An introverted female lead would be perfect!

It doesn’t have to be similar to Mint na Bokura, but I’d really love to hear your favorite romance manga with that kind of nostalgic 90s atmosphere. Thank you ♡

I love the highschool dynamic mixed with something more real that isn't just comedy. GE is a good example, where they dive into some harsher subjects without that being the whole plot.

They can have comedy, but I want comedy to be just a genre it has and not a defining feature of the manga. It does not have to have other relationships with side characters, and doesn't have to have any slight love triangles, but I don't mind if they do. I'm trying to get a huge array of things to read as after finishing GE I'm both happy, and sad that I'm done it.

I would love some recs for a series where the main guy character isn’t a loser loner. I’m getting burnt out of the popular girl loser boy trope and want something new.

I really like Yamada from Polar Opposites, but he’s only a minor role, so a series with a MC like him would be sick. Thanks!

Blue Box is a Romance/Sports manga that follows Taiki who plays badminton at high school, he likes Chinatsu who is a year older and the best player on the girl's basketball team. He is often accompanied by his 2 best friends Kyo who also plays badminton and Hina who is the top gymnast for the school, and is the daughter of an Olympic gymnast. Taiki wants to excel at playing badminton and sets heavy goals for himself, such as reaching the nationals tournament for under 18s in Japan. Similarly Chinatsu has the same goal, and the 2 of them are always the first ones at morning practice in the gym. This is how Taiki gets to know Chinatsu and encourages her to push for her own goals as well. One day Chinatsu ends up living with Taiki as her parents are going abroad, but she wants to continue competing, and Taiki's parents are friends with Chinatsu's. This allows for their relationship to progress, being the main catalyst for the story to begin.

This will contain spoilers for the entire manga of Blue Box, as well as the manga for Ramparts of Ice so don't read unless you have finished them, or don't mind being spoiled.

I want to start this off by saying that this will NOT be ALL negative in the slightest.

I just finished catching up to the Blue Box manga after I watched season 1 of the anime a few days ago, and I don't think I have ever been quite as torn on a manga as much as this, almost to the point that I struggle to come up with a good score to give it. In my personal opinion, Blue Box had the potential to be one of the best romance manga out there, I found it super refreshing how it's able to blend in the romance with the sports. The sports part of the manga was the first sports I have personally encountered in any manga/anime so going in, I wasn't sure how I would feel about it, but I came out realising that is was very fun and compelling, though I don't have anything to compare to, so I have no ideas how it measures up to other sports manga in that sense.

Another thing that I found Blue Box to really excel at was the way it managed to craft and develop all of it's characters, most of the characters feel very human and natural, and each one has very interesting motivations behind how they act, and are fleshed out really well. Some of the characters even go through some very admirable character development in addition to this. I don't want to go into too much detail as I'm not really a reviewer and this is just a short rant anyway.

But this brings me to why I said it had so much potential, but obviously didn't reach that ( at least for me personally ) and that's the love triangle and the drama around all of that storyline, both with Hina and Ayame later on in the manga too. I know that love triangles are pretty much universally hated anyway, but I don't want this to come off of as me just complaining about it, because I do think that love triangles can have potential to come off as good story telling, but for me in Blue Box it just wasn't good. The original love triangle that happens with Hina, Taiki and Chinatsu is much worse than the one later on in the manga.

The reason I feel this way has many reasons, one of them being that Hina felt like a very fun character in the story, and it was very refreshing to have a completely platonic relationship between a male and female character in a romance manga. Taiki and Hina's relationship early in the manga was very fun to read and it was all kind of just thrown out of the window for something we knew wasn't going to go anywhere in the end anyway. Maybe because I already knew going in who the main couple was that I felt this way, but even then, it starts out with Taiki telling us that he likes Chinatsu, and we are shown that this will probably never change.

Another reason I hated it so much was because it relied so heavy on plot contrivances to push forward the idea of the triangle, and cause potential drama, whilst also being very predictable in the way it does it. For example, characters overhearing conversations, or seeing other people at misleading times, this can be ok one or two times, but it happens SO often in this story that it just didn't feel at all realistic, which is one of the things I liked about Blue Box, how real it felt compared to many other romance manga. The worst of this for me was when Taiki was roped into playing the prince in the play. I could see this happening from a mile away, even before Taiki had the crystal ball conversation with Nishida, it felt so predictable, and there was no real reason for it to even happen in the first place, it only happened to cause drama, which admittedly didn't have as bad of an outcome as I was expecting it to.

The last reason that I have for hating this love triangle is that it ruins a lot of character moments ( at least for me ) with Hina, especially later on in the manga. In the first love triangle arc with Hina, not once did she overstep anyone's boundaries, she was only ever honest and didn't, to my memory, try to meddle with Taiki's relationship with Chinatsu for the worse. This is a good thing, and pretty rare for a love triangle as far as I know, but this is then all ruined, as well as all of Hina's character development when she decides to kiss Taiki. I quite liked Hina as a character even though I always thought the story went the correct direction with Chinatsu, but this singular moment made me lose a lot of respect for her, and I think is by far the worst decision in the entire story. Whilst her motivations make sense, it doesn't feel in character for her to go through with that, no matter the circumstances, ESPECIALLY as she knows Taiki and Chinatsu are in a relationship, and as I mentioned before, it just ruins most of, if not all of her development. It also makes some moments just not hit quite the same as i feel like they should do, for example in chapter 224 where Taiki talks about how he has 2 great best friends. This happens BEFORE he is able to have a proper conversation with Hina about what she did, and honestly feels weird, even if we know Taiki will probably forgive her ( which in my opinion he shouldn't but that's not part of this discussion ).

As fore the love triangle that involves Ayame, Kyo and Takasago, in my opinion this was handled much better overall. The reason I say this is because it actually felt meaningful for the character development for Kyo, but even more so Ayame. I don't think I need to explain what the character development with her actually is but it meant that the triangle didn't feel too forced, and there was a reason behind it existing. It also did not rely on any of the contrivances I mentioned earlier, it only served as a way to push Ayame and Kyo's stories forward. The problem is that it still doesn't feel quite right, and the main reason for that, in my opinion, is that it's the second love triangle in the story. The former hurts the latter, even if in a vacuum the latter is a pretty solid depiction of a love triangle, and that's a shame.

This love triangle reminded me a lot of the one that happens in The Ramparts of Ice between Minato, Koyuki and Momoka. That one being my favourite love triangle depiction I have seen, and it shares all of the similar story beats, such as developing Minato as a character, giving him the final push to realise what is truly right for him, in the same way it does for Ayame.

This all feels really disappointing because for me Blue Box is a VERY good manga when you have no love triangle problems happening. The relationship between Taiki and Chinatsu is one of the highlights of the story for me and makes it a very good romance, I just can't help but imagine how much better it would have been if it just focused on them and the other characters without relying on unnecessary drama. As I mentioned before the characters are all very strong, and much more developed than you would expect from a romance, and its combined with the sports aspect of the story almost seamlessly which is very impressive. I still really enjoyed the manga overall, and I will be keeping up with it weekly now until it finishes, I just really needed to get this off of my chest to be honest.

I would really appreciate if other people could share their opinions with me as well as I'm all for a discussion, whether you agree or disagree. Also I appreciate if you actually read this, I only really made this to get a load off of myself after catching up with it 😃. To the Blue Box fans, I really do understand why you love this manga so much, and I don't hate it at all either trust me. I'm very curious to know what you guys think!

Name: Moriagaranai Date (unexciting date)

Plot: A So-So Match on a Dating App...

Haida, cursed with chronic bad luck, signs up for a dating app as part of her "what-the- heck" phase. She matches with Kuroi, a man who joined for equally reckless reasons. But their conversation never quite clicks, and an unmistakably low-key, awkward mood sets in. Everything they do backfires, resulting in a date that is astonishingly unexciting.

Thinking there's no way there'll be a second date in an atmosphere like this... wait, what? Why are they making plans to meet again!?

A first date with someone you met on a dating app that just doesn't take off? The deadpan, surreal banter is way too addictive! A slow- burn, gently unfolding romance that begins with a matching app

Status: ongoing (35 chapters translated)

The very dry humour is really funny and the manga feels so original, with awkward deadpan characters with bits of self-deprecation

No miscommunication, no harem, no love triangle, no big drama, just peak

So there was this manga about couple that got married/engaged right before starting school or moving to new one.

Pretty sure it was high shool

It was pretty wholesome slice of life that I liked because opposite of all other "marrige in highshool" in this couple weren't forced into marriage.

They where couple before, and where happy to get married (I think there was no secret scheme behind thier marriage other than just love but I don't remember for sure)

Marriage also wasn't a secret I recal in 1 or 2 chapter the shock of the teacher as they announce thier are happly married/engaged

The only other thing I recal is that guy was quite tall and buffy but had big heart (a teddy bear kind of guy) and girl was quite small and always full of joy

So the story is a romance with two people from two school that hate echother, but with them knowing each other outside the school setting the romance can blossom, the focus of the series is the dinamic between the characters, is really cute, is kinda an apology simulator but in a good way cause they are the climax and the pillar of the scene, I really recommend it is 13 ep so is really shot but really good.

I had a similar case where for some reason I couldn't talk to my friend group and my ex about my problems, that lead up to me breaking up with my ex and me realizing years later that I was a terrible boyfriend, someone that didn't talk, say thank you or sorry where it was really needed; now I can talk without problem with my friend group, I go to therapy and I manage to apologize for my actions to my ex; then last night I watched the entirely of the anime and I loved it, I really want to continue improve as a person and to not repeat the same mistake;

Thank you for listening

Ps: (is the series ended? They cut something from the manga? I really want to see if they do something with the other characters)

Series: the fragrant flower blossom with dignity

This story was so peak and authentic about through where the anime ended and up to the dating trial… then it dragged on forty episodes doing nothing, then abruptly ending with a flaccid relationship after a time jump. We don’t even see a kiss.

WHY DID THEY DO THIS? It was beyond rushed and yet rushed to nowhere. Such a waste. Made me really sad to see it go off the rails so dramatically for what appears to be no reason.

The only way it could have been worse is if they didn’t end up together at all. But so senseless. At least Call of the Night was trying to do something heart wrenching. This was just lame.

I don't know good art or good character designs which is the correct term but please recommend me something with art style like these . Also it's preferable if it's not shoujo

Sauce of the images used :-

Koi to Yobu ni wa Sasayaka desuga

Garuru Girl

Boku no Kanojo wa Dekkawaii

Izuki-kun wa Tadasaretai

Hochiya-san wa Amariaru

Tonari no Neko to Koi Shirazu

I Can't Choose A Childhood Friend!

Sharehouse Aobayu

XX Shinaide! Tsukimine-san

Karaoke de Utau Oneesan to Issyo

Haimiya-senpai is feared around school for her intimidating appearance and blunt way of speaking... Sparkling piercings! Bleached-gray wolf-cut hair!! And speaking in the Kansai dialect!!! But for some reason, this scary senpai always seems to treat me kindly—!? See how “scary” turns into “cute” in this romantic comedy!

This manga has been gaining a lot of popularity recently, and because of this I'm hoping to see an anime adaptation within the next 5 years.

I hope others can enjoy this manga aswell

The name of the Manga is

Did You Think You Could Live Normally Even In A World With A 1:5 Male-To-Female Ratio?~When Deeply Intense Feelings Of The Girls Are Unknowingly Toyed With By The An Oblivious Boy~

Plot:- As you can see by the title name it's about skwed gender ratio I read it expected it to be some goofy Manga but I couldn't be more wrong what I got was Pyshological Level Tension especially from the Onee San character