My favorite plots are with a girl that is strong emotionally or physically who has either a male rival or just someone she hates. Then, through certain events, they both find out they are crushing on each other. I'm not a big fan of 'love at first sight' so there would have to be things that happen which show each others strong points. A few fights here, a little competition, then love. I hate love triangles, but i love jealousy because every healthy relationship needs a bit of it.

You would have liked Special A, then? And maybe Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. But yeah, love triangles are a pain sometimes.

Healthy...relationship.... This may be true, but it's gonna have to do some shoving to fit in my head. Jealousy can be really destructive, you know. Though...if it's only a little bit...eh. Too hard.


I'm glad you think so.

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The angsty kinds or the ones that ends in tragedy.

And love triangles/rectangles/pentagons are awesome. ;3

And I admit, I don't hate reverse harems. (:

Hmmm... I guess what I like is best described as an unrealistic relationship with realistic characters. Make any sense to you? I guess examples of unrealistic relationships would be StudentxTeacher, BrotherxSister, etc., and realistic characters are people who are not perfect in everything, like a normal everyday person. I can't stand one where a character seems perfect at everything or a character is completely pathetic (there's too many of them out there...)

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I have a weakness for reverse harems and tragedies. I like reverse harems set in school but except for that, I can't stand school-life romances, shoujo or not, I see enough everyday drama to also read about it in mangas.
I also have an obsession with drama/tragedies they're excellent with supernatural themes.
Love triangles are tricky to handle though, I only liked a few out of all I've read. But if done correctly, they're amazing.

Guy falls in love with his bike/car and the 2 live happily together forever.... At least until he finds a faster bike/car.

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switch girl for car and faster for shinier and you've got the typical romance.

I like normal, healthy relationships;stuff that's comic, but low key - like Nodame or LovCom or even Kokou Debut. No pregnancies, abuse, rape, incest, etc.-just every day problems.

Guy is head over heels in love with a thick-headed girl. Examples: Special A, Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, some other ones.

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I like the plot where girl meets jerk but jerk becomes nice and falls for the girl. Or the plot where the girl and famous idol guy fall in love.

have to agree on that one,its so childish,its adorable xDD

i also like romances dealing with delinquents or other social look down upons (i think,i just invented a word??xD)
but all in all,for me its mostly depends on the characters

what i don't like is 15 volumes of love/hate getting together and after they do get together - the end...wtf, thats when the real fun and problems start...

oh and i don't really like harems nor reverse harems...
(i would like to read something in which a superhero is killing of main male characters in harem mangas for their stupidity and incompetence)

...love triangles are ok


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i like the love triangles that developes slowly with the heroine thats not perfect and differnt n the guy could see something special in her i rlly liked hissing, h20, Gakuen Ouji and Sonan Jyanaiyo

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I'm really into cleches, especially shoujo ones, but I like the plots where there is an older woman, and a younger guy falling in love and trying to make it work...
Though, they are not shoujo... but josei. Like Itadakimasu!
Toshiue no Hito also.


I also like plots where the romance is subtle, so you kind of need to wait for it, and you can't get enough from it.

I'll list my favorite shoujo, though not really romatic at thr begining..
Fruits Basket
Penguin Kakumei
and Bara no Tameni oh, wait, that's josei...

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LOL romantically retarded. I have never seen it expressed quite so eloquently. That had me laughing for a long time. Anyway back on topic, I like it when a guy is hopelessly in love with the girl but the girl is completely oblivious to his feelings. I guess I enjoy watching the guy squirm

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