Least favorite: --I see they have something called "the big misunderstanding" there. I'm not sure exactly what that refers to, but I can guarantee you that if a romance gets dragged out because the characters are constantly misunderstanding each other in ways that would be fixed if they'd just freaking talk to each other, I'm going to want to throw something at the characters. --Anything where one character (especially the woman, because it's usually the woman) has to adhere more to stereotypical gender traits in order to be acceptable to the other. --Anything where one character (especially the man, because it's usually the man) "protects" the other character by preventing them from doing things.
Favorite: --I really like when two characters have some unusual previous connection (something less typical than a childhood marriage promise, although if done well I guess I could go for that too) and this later develops into a romance.
I'm kind of headdesking over this at the moment, actually, because one of the anime I follow just resolved a romantic plotline that I'd been very interested in (read as, in fandom terms: canoned my OTP!) in such a way as to contain both least favorite and favorite tropes. AUGH.
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Date: 2008-11-18 08:55 pm (UTC)--I see they have something called "the big misunderstanding" there. I'm not sure exactly what that refers to, but I can guarantee you that if a romance gets dragged out because the characters are constantly misunderstanding each other in ways that would be fixed if they'd just freaking talk to each other, I'm going to want to throw something at the characters.
--Anything where one character (especially the woman, because it's usually the woman) has to adhere more to stereotypical gender traits in order to be acceptable to the other.
--Anything where one character (especially the man, because it's usually the man) "protects" the other character by preventing them from doing things.
Favorite:
--I really like when two characters have some unusual previous connection (something less typical than a childhood marriage promise, although if done well I guess I could go for that too) and this later develops into a romance.
I'm kind of headdesking over this at the moment, actually, because one of the anime I follow just resolved a romantic plotline that I'd been very interested in (read as, in fandom terms: canoned my OTP!) in such a way as to contain both least favorite and favorite tropes. AUGH.