The Other Side - Episode 63: Love Stinks Yeah Yeah

Starting off their look at various genres of anime, The Other Side
begins with a subject they’ve had on the back burner for over a
month or so. Romance is a genre that anime has crashed and burned
in its attempts to pull off more than any other genre. The Other
Side has seen bungled attempts at storytelling before, but the
romance genre is littered with unfortunate implications. Where what
is sold as the sweetest love story can be the ickiest thing you’ve
ever seen. So join Cody, Max, and Andrew on a trip through
sadsville as they discuss a doomed genre, examining WHY it’s
doomed, why the great anime romances are, in fact, uncomfortable
exercises in ickiness, and why romance works better as a subplot
than a focus.