Romance manga is one of the genres I'm most familiar with as a hopeless romantic myself. Some romance animes I remember seeing when I was younger were for Kaichou wa-maid sama, Ouran High School Host Club, My Little Monster, and Say I Love You. These were all some of the first series I had ever watched and really influenced my overall taste in anime/manga which is mostly shoujo/romance. Actually, the very first manga I ever read was a romance manga. It was called Kitchen Princess and I read it when I was around 10. A classmate of mine had an older sister who read a lot of manga so she would bring her hand-me-down books to our class to pass around. The manga was about a young girl who wanted to be a chef on a journey to find the "flan-prince" who was a boy who saved her from drowning when she was a little kid. This manga really effected me as a kid because the main love interest gets hit and killed by a car leaving the main character in shambles. I remeber crying in class over it and eventually our entire class read the series so we could all relate in the emotions. It was a lot for someone so young especially in something wrapped up in such a cute and relatable art style. I think this is where romance manga's thrive though. They are able to go places that other genres can't go as successfully. It makes the reader even more invested into the story by having such heart wrenching moments.
For this week I decided to read some of Slow Motion wo Mou Ichido. I had never heard of this manga and the plot summary sounded really interesting to me because I also really enjoy 80's music. From reading a bit of it I thought it was cool that the main male protagonist is labeled as just "a normal guy." It reminds me of the shoujo girl and how she is usually just a normal girl. In most of the other romance mangas I've read the male love interest is almost always some sorta hunk or school-wide crush kinda character but in this manga he really is just an average high schooler with interesting hobbies. The inclusion of 80's japanese pop was super intriguing and made me want to check out more of the music from that era.
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