By that, I mean anime where the romance is at most a secondary plotline.
Ikoku Nikki: The main thematic is around mental divergence, acceptance and growing up, the side romance between the two side characters ( Makio and Shingo ) is just so good
Log Horizon
Lycoris Recoil?
You mean to tell me Lycoris Recoil isn’t Yuri first fun action show second?!
Planetes. I showed up for the sci fi, stayed for the wholesome.
I’d say Dragonball Z Abridged. It fixed Android 18 and Krillin’s romance and really elevated it to the next level. Where in the original it basically comes out of nowhere it is super wholesome and believable in Abridged.
Hmm. I don’t remember either of those statements being true. Do you remember any plot details off the top that support this? It’s cool if not. I’m not trying to grill you.
I’m not the person you replied to. But in case they never get back to you, Dbz abridged did a lot of stuff to flesh out characters and plot. They kept a vlog going when they were recording and basically they got really really bored with the bit 1/3 into recording the series and decided to just start spicing up the writing in a lot of places to keep themselves entertained.
For Krillin they wrote all the various L’s the show hands him as eventually contributing to a down-to-earth, unassuming, and resilient personality by the time he meets the androids. 18 on the other hand makes various jokes about having nebulous and inscrutable preferences in body type. She values in-group loyalty over other forms of morality so when they meet Cell and he immediately understands the Cell situation and begins working to save the other androids there’s at least a bit of a throughline for why their attraction was plausible. Though TeamFourStar did still play 18’s immediate magnetism to him for jokes.
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The love between Isami and Bravern in Brave Bang Bravern. Unironically.
Saekano
It’s been a loooong time since I watched the original Fullmetal Alchemist, but I seem to remember there being a lot of tension between Hawkeye and Mustang.
