Normally, I prefer little to no romance in the stories I like. But if there is to be romance, I'll pick boy-girl romance, preferably monogamous but no matter if it's a decent harem. The problem is the drama tag which often comes with romance, or the comedy tag which usually means I prefer not to read the story at all.

Since I read a lot more romance manga than anything I seem to prefer monogamous boy/girl couples than anything else. Harems seem to piss me off because the story of such manga seems weak at times.

No preferences. As long as it is well executed and isn't too laden with drama.

agreed.
i voted "monogamous boy/girl couples," since i read that the most, but i just prefer "monogamous couples"

Most of my favourite romantic mangas have a single heterosexual couple, and usually something like Couple Growth among categories. Though among my favourite romances I have also harems, love triangles and even one shoujo ai (that one is weird though, with 2 lesbians and a guy who is kinda loves them), also I have some shounen ai not so far from my favourites. I definitely hate one night stands. But still prefer monogamous couples, gender of lovers or even gender bending doesn't matter as long as it has a non-cliche type of romance. Love triangles and harems might fit in if they are unique enough. But one night stand isn't a romance, I generally grade those below 6 at best.

Also a correction to above thought, harems I usually like not for Romance, though some of them are for romance, especially if they actually have a harem ending, where MC actually chooses polygamy properly. There are so many ways to choose it improperly that I was unpleasantly surprised =(

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Actually there are tons of those since that's one common theme in porn doujinshi. Peaceful polygamy requires shallow women with extremely low self esteem or a very limited set of circumstances. Any setting where the partners have to think about it is bound to be filled with drama.

Now that's quite judgmental, and you should note that the word I used is polyamory, which is multiple men, and multiple women. As much as society wants to believe that it's impossible, amoral, and goes against nature, successful, happy polyamorous relationships exist out there, and I personally know one guy who has children with multiple women, and they're neither shallow, have low self-esteem, are unhappy, or in a limited set of circumstances.

I can't quite find an appropriate option.
I prefer monogamous relationships, but having the only options be "boy/girl" or "same sex" is rather weird and foolish (no offence meant).

I don't like guy/guy relationships. They're fine and all, but it's not what I like to read/watch.
I do enjoy girl/girl stories, however.
Many have the opposite opinion (enjoying boy/boy, but not girl/girl).
Thus having an option, that a lot of people can't choose, because they only half agree with it, is rather unwise.

Boy/girl or girl/girl. Either is fine by me (if anything, I might have a bit of a preference towards girl/girl).
Thus none of the options are valid.

I generally dislike harem (note that one girl, many guys [sometimes termed a "reverse" harem] is still a harem). Most stories that involve harem, are pretty shit ...and the harem aspect, is generally not something I like, even in good series with harems.
Love triangles... that depends.
One night stands... Well, there's not really much to those, so: No. (frankly, I fail to see how a one night stands would even qualify as being "romance", in any way)

I'm throwing in another vote for "monogamous regardless of genders of people involved" and don't get why that isn't the option considering non of the other choices are limited to het setups.

I voted "I don't like reading romance," which is only partially true. For awhile now, I've mainly steered clear of the genre because I am so sick of sloppily-written romance cliches, and anything with even a hint of wish fulfillment in it has me running in the opposite direction so fast I get whiplash. -sigh- Now a good romance -- that's something I'd love to read no matter the type of relationship, be it boy/girl, girl/boy, boy/boy, girl/girl, non-gender-binary, monogamous, polyamorous, asexual, love geometry, what have you. 'Cause I'm always up for a good story!

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This, me too. I'd read something with romance in it but preferably not as the only plot because of the aforementioned drama and/or comedy tags that almost always comes with it.

Romance that have drama or comedy in it is okay but not overly dramatic(eg. misunderstandings or fights whatever for 50+ chapters) or comedy just for the sake of comedy(eg. all the comedy harems out there). Basically meaning not to hammer some feelings into me just 'cus it's romance.

So I picked 'don't like reading romance' but really I'd read anything other than dramatic love triangles, and you all know there's no other type of love triangle story.

Last edited by KJacket at 6:33 am, Feb 10 2015

I'm pretty open to everything except for harems. I'm often not a big fan of love triangles either, but it depends on how the author employs them.