The Other Side begins their look at various anime genres with Romance anime.
Episode Title: “Love Stinks! Yeah Yeah!”
Episode Count: 63
Run Time: 01:41:52
Host(s): Cody Baier, Max Vader, Andrew Erickson
Executive Producer: Sean Russell
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Song Credit: BT – Must Be The Love
SYNOPSIS
Starting off their look at various genres of anime, The Other Side begins with a subject they’ve had on the back burner for over a month or so. Romance is a genre that anime has crashed and burned in its attempts to pull off more than any other genre. The Other Side has seen bungled attempts at storytelling before, but the romance genre is littered with unfortunate implications. Where what is sold as the sweetest love story can be the ickiest thing you’ve ever seen. So join Cody, Max, and Andrew on a trip through sadsville as they discuss a doomed genre, examining WHY it’s doomed, why the great anime romances are, in fact, uncomfortable exercises in ickiness, and why romance works better as a subplot than a focus.
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