Romance manga and shojou has a special place in my heart.
As someone who is admittedly a very soft, squishy ball of emotions, I readily admit to being an absolute sucker for a good romance story. However, romance shojou in particular really strikes a chord with me because the first anime I ever watched was Ouran High School Host Club. Admittedly, I can be very picky about said romances, keeping a wide berth between the common formulaic rom-com movies that dominate the home movie scene. While I will accept most cliché's and archetypes with open arms, there are a few which I cannot abide by, including miscommunication being the only source of tension for a story, pushing a male and female lead into a relationship because they're the only characters with any development or any attraction beyond the fact that they're the male and female leads in the story, the male character's flaming reptile turd of a personality being written off as being a mysterious "bad boy", or, in the few mainstream queer romances, queer angst about being simply being queer. No thank you on that one, I've got enough of that in my own life. I think that's why I tend to be drawn to monstrous or horror based romances, as they tend to require more development and thought because of the fact that they are set in a world that is not our own. It causes the characters to look beyond the physical and develop actual relationships that make my heart squeal and dance with delight. Plus, what can I say, I like big monsters and I cannot lie.
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