Is this the best romance anime of all time?

saabiK said:
not reading all that, just reacting to the title. Not even close, there are romance animes which are 10x better

Hacker075 said:

Would you care to provide some examples?

bpcrash said:
While I love it, to say the best of all time is just recency bias.

Otakupervert890 said:
@Hacker075 for me personally I would say if you still think that in 5 years with more romcom under the belt I am the first to back your claim but if you change your stance on it then I am the first to throw the kettle.

bpcrash said:
@Hacker075 Oh tbh I could buy it being your favorite out of what you've seen so far. But do you think it is probably better than all other romance anime out there, including ones you haven't seen? Including ogs that are still talked about?

I'm in no position to doubt you if you are saying you put recency bias aside and it's still your favorite. I just think it's hard to give it best of all time label since there are so many earlier pioneers in the genre that are complete and have somewhat stood the test of time.

Or maybe you don't think there is much competition?

SenpaiMikey said:
Dangers for me just hit the #2 spot in my romance goat discussion and i've watched a ton of romances. It overtook fruits baskets for me recently but its hard to beat clannad for me. I would never be mad if someone said dangers is the best because i love it so much. If i didn't read the manga i might have it #3 behind fruits baskets but who knows. Dangers is top tier.

albagolf said:
Top for me is orange road, bokuyaba is probably in my top 5.

UrabeMikotoChan said:
No, it's too early to say.

I'm reading some of the responses and I'm seeing things... We need to calm down a bit and be objective, a beautiful romance is not necessarily the one that will make us cry the most, but the one that is the most consistent, that touches us, conveys a message.

For example, I read The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, sorry but it's one of the worst I've ever seen, the romance is atrocious, no logic, no coherence, the level of writing maturity is close to nil.

Toradora is good, but overrated for my taste.

Kaguya Sama... Why not, in any case, season 3 is perfect in my eyes, with all good episodes and a grandiose finale.

If I had to pick just one, I'm sorry, but it's Clannad by far, a story so touching and so realistic in its universe, characters so well written, so very human...

Season 2 of Boku no is so far really excellent, touching, I'm looking forward to the sequel and if it's as good as the beginning of season 2, we'll be able to say it's one of the best yes.

UrabeMikotoChan said:
@Hacker075 Thank you,

I add that for me, a romance is also an evolution, once again logical, and the problem with many romances is that the evolution is too often poorly constructed, incoherent or even absent.

Concerning Clannad... In its day, many people said that Clannad had changed their lives, without any exaggeration, and that's perfectly understandable. Clannad is a simple, deeply human story with which we can all identify.

I'm going to quote Stendhal, a 19th century French novelist, Le roman, c'est un miroir que l'on promène le long d'un chemin in French, The novel, it's a mirror that you walk along a path You can take a lot of inspiration from this and put it into a romance that you watch. It's a story of feelings and passions, reflecting above all the interactions between people, and I think Clannad has done it better than anyone else.

DeadFlagBlues90 said:
i never bought into the characters so a definitive “absolutely not” from me.