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Crazy, stupid, love (the emotions, not the movie).

This is where we complain about romantic developments/resolutions/lack of resolutions that we really dislike.

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Me? I really hatespoiler[Ichika x Houki] from Infinite Stratos. This anime has the dishonor of being spoiler[one of the few that managed to overcome my natural preference for the childhood friend couple.

There is a complete lack of any chemistry between the two, whether it be in the everyday interaction or in IS battles. Houki is, like a lot of childhood friends, reluctant to admit her feelings, and she takes it out on Ichika when those feelings embarrass herself. This would be fine, if they work well together, but they don't.]

Why isn't it spoiler[Ichika x Charles?]

The one that quickly comes to mind is Love, Elections, and Chocolate, where the main dude decides to spoiler[go for childhood friend]. This might be fine in some cases, but here we find out that spoiler[her sense of attachment was actually a replacement for her dead brother, and he had been unhealthily going along with it]. There really was no proof that spoiler[her feelings for him were for him personally, and she really had some things she needed sorted out without messing other feelings into it]. And I thought the chemistry was pretty bad too, just not interesting together.

That setup reminds me of Imadoki, though in there, the character who spoiler[confused her feelings for the brothers] is a villain.

I don't think the guy deserves anybody. they could all do much better

getchman wrote:

I don't think the guy deserves anybody. they could all do much better

That's kinda the thing: they can't. In their society men are all considered worthless because they can't use IS. Since Ichika is the only male who can use an IS, he is therefore the greatest man in the world.

It's almost as if the likelihood of the protagonist ending with his childhood friend is inversely proportional to how well they've gotten along all this time. In Sword Art Online, spoiler[Suguha worked with Kirito much better as equal partners, but naturally, he ends up with the damsel in distress who was at best beating up fodder tier minions.]/rage

I know this is sacred cow territory, but I didn't like how Kannazuki no Miko ended. spoiler[For most of the show Himeko was getting closer to Souma, and they even kiss and everything. Yet she goes with Chikane at the end because they were lovers in their past lives. Arg, I really hate that! Past lives should have nothing to do with present ones! If Himeko had been developing romantic feelings for the present Chikane, I certainly didn't see it.]

Well, I wouldn't be that harsh on it. While not excusable, Chikane did spoiler[have a reason to assault Himeko other than just being horny or w/e. Chikane had to do something to get Himeko to hate and kill her, because Chikane knew one of them had to die.]

I wouldn't really call Erika a villain. Antagonist, maybe, but there isn't really any villains in Imadoki, which is actually sort of the point, IMO.

Plus, Tanpopo does almost the same thing.

Asuna was only like that in AOL. She was his equal partner in the first half of SAO. You seriously expected them to throw away thirteen episodes of her romance with Kirito in favor of his stupid cousin's stupid one-sided crush?