Yeah, exactly. It kinda started out as an interesting twist, but it quickly got with the formula within a few chapters. It lost all it’s uniqueness upsettingly quickly.

I shouldn’t be surprised, that Kaiju no8 is doing well, but I still am. It is one of the most formulaic mangas I have ever read.

Idk how far the anime has gotten, but I couldn’t read past >!when mushroom dude attacked grampa army leader!<

To be clear, I’m ok with romance and even school romance to an extent (lovely complex was great). But almost everything that gets an anime with a budget is so formulaic.

I’ll take a look at #10 thought, a few people have mentioned it’s different. It’s giving “I Reincarnated into an otome game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags”

Absolutely. Generally with Shonen, protagonists tend to be idiots, which is frustrating.

I’ve started reading Korean manhwa mostly now, because their protagonists tend to be competent adults.

I’ve only enjoyed a few romance titles, and they’re all older now so I don’t know if they still hold up. My fav was Lovely Complex. They actually acted like people their age might act, with a little leeway for comedic overreacting.

Idk if you would consider a Silent Voice to be a romance, but that manga was god tier.

I’m already all caught up on the frieren manga, so I’ll probably just keep reading the manga rather than watch the anime, but I agree it’s excellent.

I haven’t heard of most of the rest of these though.

This just makes me sad because I’m too old now. It’s bad to judge a book by its cover, but they all just look so… Shonen. Teen highschool romance, teen battle anime, etc. I’ve become so jaded wrt all the teen protagonist Shonen tropes.

At least frieren is at the top 😌