Circa 2000, the trope was totally reversed. Every romantic comedy main love interest ended up being a childhood friend then. I feel like the current situation is really just a reaction to that, but at this point everyone seems to have forgotten how it started.Its so over for the childhood friend, but then again, when is it not over for them?
Haven't seen Love Hina mentioned in forever. Correct on all accounts though, yeah. Each generation of writers is reacting to what they grew up with and some work to "subvert" the stories of their childhood, inadvertently swinging the pendulum to and fro for the next generation that follows.Circa 2000, the trope was totally reversed. Every romantic comedy main love interest ended up being a childhood friend then. I feel like the current situation is really just a reaction to that, but at this point everyone seems to have forgotten how it started.
The progenitor of the harem genre as we know it, Love Hina, had the childhood friend connection as its narrative core. Only the childhood friend could win.
lol, someone clearly forgot/hasn't read this mangaka's last workIts so over for the childhood friend, but then again, when is it not over for them? Those two words as your job description might as well be a death sentence in romance!
Chat does he knowlol, someone clearly forgot/hasn't read this mangaka's last work
There's still time for the poly pivot.Damn, now I'm rooting for all three of them...
I don't know, it feels like any sort of romance is already a lot to grasp for our sports-for-brains main romantic interest, a polycule would be a very tall askThere's still time for the poly pivot.
Definitely not cope