>>280808753
Even if scarce, nip media was more ironic about that since 40 years ago.
Remember Macross became a sleeper hit not because of the mecha fights, but bc of the romantic plot. Hikaru has the typical growth a nip teenager, who still hadn't his life path defined, gets oneitis for a certain bitch who only sees him as a friend and since that point, he starts growing... and getting over his simpery bc he realizes he loves piloting transformable F14s, choosing to settle down with the woman he hated, then somehow grew attached bc of whatever experiences they shared, then came to resent again bc his oneitis was ready to settle with him... only to finally settle with her bc oneitis-chan shat on his career.
Despite of the fictional settling, the relationship issues were quite realistic. And the fact you'll very likely never end with the person you simped the most passionately, but settle down with another person simply out of fear of loneliness, survival or because that person makes you feel at home despite of not having romantic feelings was something that still resonates a lot.
Saint Seiya's OG run can be defined as "this is gonna be your fate if you don't grow up and stop simping people out of your league" (ND came to partially fix that, with Seiya choosing to carry the punishment Athena and the humankind were gonna get and bekng willing to be memory wiped by Apollo).
Maison Ikkoku shows the grvtal reality of winning your oneitis by the end, because it wasn't le happy end people was expecting. Yeah, Godai could plap the manager and marry her... but that wasn't a happy end, as they still live in the Ikkoku, are still struggling to make ends meet and worse of it... they still live in the Ikkoku.
I''s and Ichigo 100% were the last Shounen Jump realistic romances with consequences.
