Which do you prefer for your romance in stories?
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I think she is.
I think she split herself up and each girl is a 'part' of her. Thus why when the girls merged magically, part of her appeared.
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So I've been playing White Album 2, which continues after the anime. It definitely takes a turn with its romance type in its second half, Closing Chapter (the half not featured in the anime),
White Album 2 has an LN adaptation too. Don't know how that is compared to the visual novel, but it does seem to follow up through Closing Chapter.
Just figured I'd put my thoughts down for now where I'm still early in it and give the topic a bit of a bump for newcomers (I think the poll may still be active?).
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@terrence Here is me responding to your bump, Terrance. :+)
Looks like I'm in the majority liking traditional bilateral relationships. That said, one of my favorite fanfics is a Strawberry Panic/Yamibou crossover that has a very tastefully done three-way going. Really, I'll go with anything well written and with characters that speak to me.
Ironically, although my alias accurately suggest I edge on the yuri side, the only romance in my top five anime of all time is Toradora. So yeah, good stories for the win!
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@paul-nebeling Based on my understanding from reading the afterwords getting the relationship sorted (mostly on Koutarou's end, the girl's seem to have their side settled) is going to be the focus of the current arc. It also seems that the author has more story lined up after this arc (:D)
@dtta After having read all the volumes, I have a 100% confidence level that this is correct.
@Terrence Why not? Personally I like Theia, she may be a tsun but once she realized she was in love she made her feelings crystal clear. Also, one must remember that she and Ruth come as a set and who would want to disappoint Ruth.
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Lately I've been finding myself particularly fond of harem stories with harem endings. When there are multiple likable and well written girls I want all of them to be happy instead of having them facing rejection. One on one stories are also fine because there is a better focus on the main couple, while in harems (especially when the cast is large) there is of ten one heroine on the spotlight and the others in the back row.
In any case, the most important thing is that the romance must be vanilla. Absolutely no ntr or cheating and I don't like romantic dramas with lots of fights, misunderstandings, break ups...
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@lex said in Which do you prefer for your romance in stories?:
In any case, the most important thing is that the romance must be vanilla. Absolutely no ntr or cheating and I don't like romantic dramas with lots of fights, misunderstandings, break ups...
If the girls have never fallen in love until they meet the main character, even better.This is the most optimistic and fictional Romance I can think of. The not falling in love before would only make sense if they are young or if you mean Crushes do not count as love than older is fine too. I do not see anything wrong with breakups in Romances, especially if it is with young characters. I especially do not see anything wrong with Fights and misunderstandings, it is healthy to have disagreements that could lead to fights, fights can let off some steam and if the couple is still together afterwards then there bond can be even stronger. I do not mind misunderstanding, heck misunderstanding could even forward the story like in "The Incredibles" where the wife though her husband might be cheating on her so she activated a GPS on him that got him captured. Misunderstanding so not need to always be connected to the plot but if they are handled very well then I do not care, like in Death March in Volume 2, Satou cleared up a misunderstanding Zena had.
Though what you said is not bad it has to be really good (like series that have what you do not like). I really Like Cardcaptor Sakura and the world itself is very optimistic so having this kind of drama in the Romance would not work that well in it or would need to be executed really really well.
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Sam posted some translated thoughts from a Japanese editor of Infinite Dendrogram from a Q+A recently.
Question: Are there things that go against the principals of light novels?
Answer: In general, the only principal there is for "works sold in stores" is to "don't betray the expectations of the readers". On a quite personal note, I won't forgive something that seems to be about pure love and then turns into NTR.
https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/997831395534766080?s=20
I wonder if Dendro will go pure. May be upsetting for him a bit if it goes triangle (or maybe it'll be ok if it never seems pure to begin with).
I'm hoping for all that juicy drama personally. Of course, Dendro hasn't really focused on "romance" through 5 volumes, just building up character personalities and smaller interactions.
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See, I'm the opposite. I'd likely drop it if it went all love triangle angsty bullshit. :)
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@drone205 Well I'm not so extreme that I don't like a story if the main characters fight, but the overall tone has to be positive. An example of a series that had too much drama for my tastes was A town were you live. Basically romcom is ok, angst and drama not so much.
I'm also well aware that isn't realistic that a girl never had a love interest, but it's a trait very common for harem heroines, usually justified by having a crush in main character since young, or having always been in female only schools, or are extremely shy....sometimes it's borderline ridiculous, I admit.
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@lex I'd blame Seo Kouji there, drama can be handled well as proven by plenty of shoujo manga (Nana, Sukitte ii na yo, Koi to Uso, Kuzu no Honkai, etc), Seo's series are just way too angsty. FU Yuzuki. Asuka or Nanami should have won. Heck, even the older girl at the restaurant was a better pick (Shiho?).
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@terrence Speaking of personalities, since Reiji has met three girls that play Dendro, with the possibility of a fourth or fifth (Hugo and Marie), the differences between their in-game and real-world personalities will become paramount. The one I'm looking forward to seeing the most is Francesca/Franklin.
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@lex said in Which do you prefer for your romance in stories?:
@drone205 Well I'm not so extreme that I don't like a story if the main characters fight, but the overall tone has to be positive. An example of a series that had too much drama for my tastes was A town were you live. Basically romcom is ok, angst and drama not so much..
I'm guessing you don't like most of the Visual Novel based romances. White Album series, Rumbling Hearts, Myself;Yourself, In Search of the Lost Future all VN turned anime that have those feels.
I live for this kind of stuff personally. Some of the aforementioned VN turned anime time skip to the future to show how their younger drama affected their future psyches too (Rumbling Hearts' anime is the one that really plays with this; White Album 2's VN has this in the 2nd half). It's not too dissimilar to Eren's unfortunate circumstances driving a crazed rebellion against the Titans that builds up through his formative years. Or in Dendrogram volume 5,
(Infinite Dendrogram 5 spoiler)
It's all drama mostly in the formative years that shapes a person. I think I like that.
If you guys haven't seen some of those series I mentioned, and you're curious:
Rumbling Hearts (Full Series uploaded by Funimation):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC02363C709C69834In Search of the Lost Future (Ep 1):
https://youtu.be/URD5N5T0ri0White Album 2:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/white-album-2Myself;Yourself:
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@terrence I don't know the series you mentioned, but I'll give them a try.
I have to say that my previous posts were specifically referring to romances. While it's absolutely true that I prefer comedy to tragedy, my favourite manga is still Hokuto no Ken, and it's filled with sad moments. The thing that is imprescindible to me is the happy ending, but the road to earn it can be hard. -
@terrence In Search of the Lost Future is soooooo underrated. I know that the CGI can be off-putting for some people, but the story was awesome. Too bad the ending was so rushed and we didn't get the full story. I'm pretty sure the VN is worth reading.
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@paulnamida said in Which do you prefer for your romance in stories?:
@terrence In Search of the Lost Future is soooooo underrated. I know that the CGI can be off-putting for some people, but the story was awesome. Too bad the ending was so rushed and we didn't get the full story. I'm pretty sure the VN is worth reading.
I really want to read the VN. Dunno if it's one that's been fanslated or no, I should look into that.
Rumbling Hearts VN is also one I need to see. Only ever found a few subtitled videos of it on YouTube, and I guess a fan project to translate the latest version of the game is in limbo. Apparently, the people that made the Japanese VN are the same people behind MuvLuv, "âge". So fans were hopeful that if Muv-Luv did well we'd get Rumbling Hearts... but Muv-Luv is no longer an active project from American localizer Degica (they gave the full reigns to another company to complete the Kickstarter rewards and republish the games on Steam). So I don't know how hopeful that is now. =[
At least we got Shuffle.
