>Why? I hate him, he's constantly sexually harassing me, making fun of me, always rubbing in my face how much better he is.
>So why am I so happy and blushing so much just because he gave me a necklace and says it looks good on me? I hate him right?
>God, I can't stand him
Is this not the finest type of love story in existence?

>>280543207 (OP)
You faggots hyped this up like it would be like this post the whole time and most of it was a boring slog.

>>280543207 (OP)
she's ovulating so she want sex and get pregnant

>>280543207 (OP)
The hate=love trope is so stupid to me, I've never wanted to fuck anybody I hated

>>280543343
Yeah I feel you have to enjoy the humor too.

It's mostly just well known because it basically popularized the trope I feel but it's like what, 25 volumes so it'd get boring quickly if that were all it was?

Good stories of this kind are honestly more condensed, 8 chapters or something is fine.

>>280543586
>Something is only good if characters are literally me.
Wow

>>280543207 (OP)
Fingers status?

>>280543682
Look fairly long to me but this always depends on the shop.

Misaki also has huge hands in this shot for instance, they're not always this big.

>>280543207 (OP)
Unbuttoned shirts are so hot

>>280543661
I never said it was bad or unenjoyable, just plain stupid.

>>280543902
>Something is stupid to me because the character isn't literally me.
Well that's still silly.

>>280543932
I'm the smartest man alive and deem it so, so it is true.

>>280543789
she's supposed to have big hands

>>280543207 (OP)
>>280543343
I didn't like the ending to this series, with the generic timeskip separation and them getting married at 25, like a good Japanese automaton. The ending also implies they're both going to be busy wageslaves who will rarely have time for each other.

>>280544069
They're not as big usually as in that shot though.
I also like how when this protagonist got drunk and became the rapechad, the character was suddenly drawn with far bigger hands than normal.

>>280543207 (OP)
Usui was just based, unlike other faggy MCs

>>280543207 (OP)
Usuis actually a pretty chill guy

>>280544197
That's a good marriage time though? A lot of series have depressing timeskips where they're like 30.

>>280544425
Anon, seriously, what is up with people like you who actually think Usui was the main character of Maid-Sama!?
Do you actually just go into this kind of stuff and watch all 24 episodes with the impression that Usui, not Misaki was the main character.
That is really weird and bizarre. That's like watching Star Wars IV and leaving it with the impression that Obi Wan Kenobi, not Luke Skywalker was the main character

>>280543207 (OP)
Why is /a/ full of faggots that love the most boilerplate shoujo shit? Are you guys actually little girls?

>>280545027
It's interesting

>>280545068
>Interesting
Lol, it's the most trite shit ever though Maid-Sama! was one of the first I guess so it was still original back then.
It's just a drug I will never grow tired off. It's like saying putting heroin into your arm is “interesting”.

>>280544994
There's been an increase in retards trying to pit shoujo love interests against shounen MCs like they're even made for the same purposes or have the same roles. It's usually ex shounen fags trying to come off as sophisticated but then you get utterly idiotic posts like the one you replied to which make it obvious they're operating under a completely warped, out of touch perspective.

>>280545027
pretty sure we're all little girls here bud
it's in the name
/a/ - little girls

>>280545407
Yes, I noticed that. It's really weird.
They actually seem to believe they are the main characters like unironically and when pressed further they typically just don't respond. Like that one anon who keeps thinking that Wotakoi is some kind of netorare title because the protagonist had many past lovers and seriously thinks the love interest is the protagonist and just doesn't respond when you point out how weird that is.

Also, plenty of shoujo love stories with male protagonists and female love interests by the way. It's often pretty good because they're clearly less afraid then on average to make the protagonist less pure.

>>280543682
LONG
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>>280544792
>That's a good marriage time though?
Shut up. I'm not interested in the "ideal" marriage age that scientists, statistics, and modern society have come up with. Manga shouldn't be beholden to real life values. It's on the same level as high school characters no longer being allowed to ride a bike in tandem because it's now against the law in Japan.

>>280545642
They just don't seem to get that it's a framing thing. And I do I like it when a male protagonist is portrayed as both sensitive but also not too pure.

>>280544197
The good part was that Misaki finally admitting to being in love with Usui was a rant of hatred with Misaki hating Usui till the bitter end but also falling in love with him rather than the garbo “You're totally forgiven and I'm now completely in love with you ze end.” crap but yeah after that nothing eventful.

This is the difference between an actual romance story like The Fault in Our Stars or Brokeback Mountain and vapid wish fullfilment that has no real planned plot.

The moment leading up to Misaki finally realizing it was also so stupid.
>22 episodes of utterly stagnant relationship with the same admittedly amusing crap repeated over and over again of Misaki being in utter denial
>Last two episodes, Misaki suddenly starts to realize it, no reason given why and boom, then the final ending kiss.

These people can't write a story, they can write what turns them on, there is a difference. The endings often feel utterly fangless and pointless and they just get together and get married and then have children and that's it. It doesn't end with something that has an impact on the reader at all and it's utterly formulaic.

I really dislike these kinds of love stories that don't have a beginning, middle or end, it's just a countless wall of the same shit repeated until finally at the end they get together with no real plausible reason why then and not sooner.

>>280543207 (OP)
Rape/sexual assault is boring and predictable. Grooming is hotter.

>I hate him so freaking much!!!
>But the way he has sex with me... I just can't stop thinking about him...
>baka baka baka, no I HATE HIM!! *blushes*

>>280543586
You've never wanted to hate fuck an attractive woman? weird

>>280546529
The way you write it just leaves me with no emotion. It is an art form, it should be something like this
>Why... I hate him so much, he's so mean and forceful and constantly messes with me.
>But someone, when he touches me I just can't say no to him and get swept away...
>Why... I hate him...
It's also important to get the dramatic image with it.

>>280547150
Thanks for the tips sensei! My NTR Doujins will reach greater heights!

>>280543207 (OP)
kill yourself

>>280544069
>she's supposed to have big hands
For you

Anyway, we can all agree that all those people who seriously go into female-protagonist/male-love interest stories and think the latter is the main character should just be gassed right?

Like, what are they thinking. They always evade it when I ask them about their motivations and reasons so I really don't know how they can come to that conclusion, it just feels like such an utterly weird thing to think. Do they actually really think that Usui is the main character of this title? That is such a weird perspective.

>>280546290
To that end, one of the greatest romance stories ever was Tasogare Otome x Amnesia. The romance is tied directly into the main plot of learning the heroine's mysterious past. The hero keeps digging deeper, trying to uncover what happened to her to help her, which causes friction between them, but ultimately brings them closer. Then the final revelation of what happens is also the climax of their relationship and the story itself.

>>280543207 (OP)
I remember liking this show a lot when it aired but I couldn't even get halfway through a rewatch a couple of years ago.

>>280543661
>it basically popularized the trope
Cmon now, you could just say it was your first shoujo romcom instead of outing yourself like this.

>>280548811
Anon, no one uses the word “hero” and “heroine” in English to mean “male lead” and “female lead” outside of awkward translations from Japanese and even then, people who use the word “male lead” and “female lead” are typically either virgins or people caught in a loveless, sexless marriage dulling their pain with bad romance novels where they get to date Fabio.

>>280548940
I think the rewatch value is incredibly high because it's just a plotless dumb comedy that loses pretty much nothing when you already know what's going to happen.

>>280548974
Know any popular “interesting girl” titles from before Maid-Sama? I don't.

>>280549002
So what terms are we supposed to use, smart guy?

>>280549281
“male lead” and “female lead” are fine English terms, you're just a virgin if you use them.
Most people just use names of characters to be honest. I've never seen anyone refer to Eren as the “male lead” of Attack on Titan, that's just weird.

Or just “one of the main characters, while the other ...”
All those terms sound like normal English without necessarily betraying that the writer is a colossal virgin.

>>280549002
>no one uses the word “hero” and “heroine” in English to mean “male lead” and “female lead”
You're a baka.

God, why is it so good.
This drug never wears off.

>>280549033
nta but I can think of halfl a dozen off the top of my head that predate this show by at least a decade.
ask on /r/ and I'll tell you some.

I need more, more of this drug, more of this delicious, delicious drug.

> Meanwhile, in Fairy Tail

>>280552186
Fairy Tail has surprisingly fun romance subplots.

Yet another innit thread

I remember people hyping this up too and I hated it because it was the textbook example of a charming deMC gutted by romance with a dogshit male lead.

>>280543586
You need to be a woman for that to work.

>>280543207 (OP)
>what if I was chased by an attractive, confident, slightly unhinged guy
It's just wish fulfilment for women

If you’re an adult you shouldn’t be this confused about how attraction works between the sexes. Women value status above everything else, and so being teased by and being the center of attention of a high-status man is highly desirable for a woman. Similar to all these pretend-fetish threads about osananajimis, tsunderes, evil women, incest, etc, the only thing that matters to men is her appearance. No one goes into an evil women thread and asks “why are men like this” because we all understand that literally nothing else matters besides the woman’s appearance. Woman are similar to men but also different in some major ways, and this is one of them. If you’re an adult this should be known by you already.

>>280545027
>Are you guys actually little girls?
Well, yuri is popular on /a/, so could say that we are all girls, to some extent.

>this thread

>>280554962
Nigga it's a romance manga about highschoolers. Shoujoshit even. They don't always have high status MCs, instead they are just hot.