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Too many straight romances aren't even really romances they're basically just vicarious waifu shilling. I don't even like calling them straight romances because heterosexuality and romance implies the male character has any real identity as a person. Look at how many shows are just
>here's this fucking loser that maybe likes otaku shit like you, you fucking dipshit
>and here's this absolute bombshell happens to like everything he likes and arbitrarily decides to spend a shitload of time with him
There was some RPG with romance or a VN that came out years ago and people were criticizing the writing as seeming unnatural and bizarre and the dev had to come out and apologize and say he had no experience with that kind of stuff in real life. That's what that shit often feels like, people that don't talk to other human beings trying to write about human beings communicating with each other and letting themselves be vulnerable and how they build different aspects of their lives independent of and with each other.

Yuri by virtue of its most fundamental elements at least lets its characters have real idiosyncrasies, even if it sometimes gets too overclocked as we see with all the menhera and petplay stuff.