40 Days of Anime - Day 12
Aug. 26th, 2017 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennaria12: What is your favorite romance anime?
Wife is holding out for FUSHIGI YUUGI (of which I have watched all of one single episode, so I could share Kay's pain at the terrible, terrible dub), but I'm the one answering, not her. Ha.
...and I promptly draw a blank. I've watched explicitly-marketed-as-romance anime, but I hit the yelling-at-the-screen, "JUST KISS ALREADY!" stage a lot faster than the characters do. So to speak. :cough: KIMI NI TODOKE, I am looking at you.
Anyway. M/F, I'm going to choose INU X BOKU SS, in which Soshi is admittedly zero-to-sixty I AM SO IN LOVE WITH YOU from the first episode, but he gets regularly whacked over the head and told he's creepy when he's too pushy, so I'm more forgiving than I might be otherwise. Also, Ririchiyo has spent so much time holding absolutely everyone at arm's length that it makes a sort of sense that it takes someone who's determinedly HI I AM HERE ALSO I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU, someone who won't be easily driven away, to finally be allowed through her defenses.
M/M, it's YURI!!! ON ICE all the way. Victor starts out pushy, but backs way the hell off when Yuuri panics (unlike depressingly many BL 'semes' that I've seen). The relationship, and its growth, feels natural. We go from crush to friendship to love to 'holy shit did they just get engaged,' without feeling rushed. At least I don't.
F/F...anyone have any recommendations? Everything I can think of is either strictly subtext, or unhappy ending, or both. :-(
Wife is holding out for FUSHIGI YUUGI (of which I have watched all of one single episode, so I could share Kay's pain at the terrible, terrible dub), but I'm the one answering, not her. Ha.
...and I promptly draw a blank. I've watched explicitly-marketed-as-romance anime, but I hit the yelling-at-the-screen, "JUST KISS ALREADY!" stage a lot faster than the characters do. So to speak. :cough: KIMI NI TODOKE, I am looking at you.
Anyway. M/F, I'm going to choose INU X BOKU SS, in which Soshi is admittedly zero-to-sixty I AM SO IN LOVE WITH YOU from the first episode, but he gets regularly whacked over the head and told he's creepy when he's too pushy, so I'm more forgiving than I might be otherwise. Also, Ririchiyo has spent so much time holding absolutely everyone at arm's length that it makes a sort of sense that it takes someone who's determinedly HI I AM HERE ALSO I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU, someone who won't be easily driven away, to finally be allowed through her defenses.
M/M, it's YURI!!! ON ICE all the way. Victor starts out pushy, but backs way the hell off when Yuuri panics (unlike depressingly many BL 'semes' that I've seen). The relationship, and its growth, feels natural. We go from crush to friendship to love to 'holy shit did they just get engaged,' without feeling rushed. At least I don't.
F/F...anyone have any recommendations? Everything I can think of is either strictly subtext, or unhappy ending, or both. :-(