No but you're so right... and in general, it's been a few years since I stopped watching anime (now I'm more oriented towards korean manhwas and novels) and I became aware from Youtube clips just how ANNOYING they make female voices in anime, WHY DO THEY WANT TO SOUND LIKE LITERAL CHILDREN SO MUCH IT'S CREEPY (there are also amazing voices, but they're the minority)
I used to like even those kinds of anime but now I just find them so cringe
I think you just outgrow highschool romance babe
Honestly tho honey lemon soda is just kimi ni todoke with a ML who is more traumatize lol is a classic of shoujo romance that sadly took too long to get animated
(The voice thing is valid but that's not just a romance thing)
Honestly I get it. I'm pretty flexible with whatever so it's not particularly shoujo that makes it annoying but the couple themselves. For example, Wotakai: Love is Hard for an Otaku is honestly good in my opinion. The second couple especially is adorable and their dynamic makes sense. Meanwhile, Honey Lemon Soda really does just sound cliche... but I also think it's up to the consumer to decide.
If it bothers you a lot, I hope you can work it out with your coworker to watch it with headphones or earbuds, or maybe use headphones or earbuds yourself to ignore it. Ultimately, you just gotta acknowledge their tastes even if it's not your cup of tea
Besides the fact that I’m way passed the age shojo anything is aimed at me, in general I was never a big fan usually because of the female protagonist. Most shojo MCs are bland, clumsy, and downright stupid yet the ML is usually cool, collected and smart. These dynamics aren’t conducive to a good romance in my opinion. The few shojos I did enjoy either weren’t romance heavy, the MC was male or the female MC was not your cookie cutter to-dumb-to-live standard.
I’ve read a review for honey lemon soda and it didn’t pique my interest. I’ve read a bit of kimi ni todoke and surprisingly enjoyed it. I guess MC is just interesting enough for the romance with ML to be believable because neither b outshines the other.
Thank you everyone for expressing your opinions!!
I am actually glad that my annoyance is somewhat valid. I just want to share and express it, but I read all your perspective and I do understand your point and this annoyance will just move on in time. (●'◡'●)ﾉ
I dont acknowledged her taste and really say that the anime is so cliche. She acknowledge that it is cliche, but just watch it as past time.
Also, our field of work do not allow us to usually use earphones and my workbench is near to her so I can hear the MCs voice ╥﹏╥
I just hope that the anime will be done quicker so she can move on
Wait, not the Kimi ni to some slander ;; the ml in that one isn’t an ass and he’s a lovable dork so it’s different I swear!!
Also to op, this is why I only read stuff where the ml falls in love first. Like, I only like it when the ml is all blushy instead lol
I wasnt hating on kimi ni todoke (￣∇￣") but it's literally the same trope just w a different flavor of ML. Like the girl who has never had friends and its socially awkward (lowkey autistic too) with the ML who constantly tries to protect her and integrate her into the group
lol I haven’t read honey lemon soda so I was just expecting the ml to be a jerk to the mc from what the comments said lol, so I was like defending my boy from being compared cause he was never mean to sawako lol XD but yeah, he does try to protect and integrate her into groups, but sawako made friends (the two girls) by herself at the beginning of the series and they also helped her integrate with the other classmates, not just the ml(if anything, the ml was sulking cause he couldn’t do more cause he was just a lovestruck dork)
(Also sawako didn’t really blush constantly since she was just happy to have friends lol)
I realize I am really defending kimi ni todoke like it’s my favorite story or something XD like I liked it but I never even finished reading it. I just heard what the others said about honey lemon soda and it’s like the yikes of all my most hated shoujo tropes. Meanwhile, kimi ni todoke had like a mix of great and meh tropes so I ended up defending it against my assumptions about honey lemon soda lol
Tell me if I got anything wrong I guess
I found my people. I literally can’t get into 90% of shoujo because of this I am tired of the shy girl blushing 99% of the time fl like I couldn’t even get into sign of affection, kimi ni todoke, honey, lemon soda, and many more bc I can’t stand the fact that they just blush and do nothing more. Sign of affection is a little excusable because well she’s deaf, but the fl is just so uninteresting she has no hobbies or goals. It’s literally just a ml who has dreams and goals while she’s just there blushing over him.
Idc if someone here is a simp for straight romance manga.
I just want to voice out my annoyance because my co-worker keep watching the anime series at work and I always hear the MC being a typical fiction girl.
My goshhh, when I hear her tiny voice and look at the screen of my co-worker, I always see her blushing when the ML is present. Then the ML has this aloof attitude, but shows little care to the MC.
If it was the past where I was so young. I maybe will giggle to its stupid romance scenario, but I cant handle it now
Anyways, when I see that straight romance manga, I realized how annoying are straight romance genre in general with all this blushing (although not all of them).
The animation is good, but I cant handle the cliche stupid romance scenarios and what annoys me the most is the giggle of my co worker and the anime being hype over.