Prince Charming does not exist... and that's ok.

I posted this in response to another thread and thought it may be a good enough topic to start its own discussions. I'm a hopeless romantic and anime girls are more receptive to that in my experience. That's apposed to typical girls and boys posting on there Facebook they are because they think it makes them look cute, when they don't actually mean it. Prince charming relationships do not exists, Hollywood endings do not exist, But anime relationships (in more cases than not) more accurately reflect real life. Hear me out on this, How often do you feel awkward around a girl/boy you like? Your crush is into someone else? You don't even realize the girl/boy you talk to about other girls/boys is into you? Or many of the other real life scenarios depicted in anime. I want a happy ending with someone like then end of most series where things are just starting. I want a real relationship not a Hollywood ending and alot of the guys and girls I have met who are into anime want and expect the same thing. The only difficulty is we all seem to be a bit more shy and awkward (also reflected in the realistic relationship dynamics portrayed in anime). I'm just looking for the girl to start my own story with, no ending, to be continued.... Any follow up points about how anime has shaped your views or expectations of a relationship? Do you think this is incorrect and if so why?

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Maybe it's cause I've been out of the anime loop for a while, but I can't think of any anime series that's more realistic than the usual hollywood fare.

Anime tends to have an antagonist boy next door with flaws and the usual Hollywood fare is more dream girl falls for dream guy. All movies in Hollywood follow an arch intro, problem, climax, and ending. Matt stone and trey Parker in an interview after completing southpark: bigger longer and uncut, talked about how this model was thrown at them from every angle and they had to take mandatory classes teaching them how to follow it. In most anime there is a different rise and fall story model with each episode. but there is not often a single arch that concludes with a girl getting the perfect dream boy. All of the characters have quirks and faults. the antagonist in none of the anime I have seen has ever been the pretty boy / popular guy. Think of the above mentioned Ryan Gosling Being in only one or two scenes of a movie and the main character being someone plain that people don't know. This would be the same with the female rolls in most anime.

Are you talking about like a single episode's storyline in comparison to a whole movie? I don't really think those are comparable. Besides I think that in most anime series, in the end that's exactly what happens, said unrealistic protagonist gets his/her twoo luv. I mean, in comparison, something like Twilight is no different than most harem animes. An absolutely unremarkable protagonist has multiple fantastic people vying for their affections. Which is incredibly not realistic. I think you can still learn lessons from media that you can apply to real life pretty easily, it's just a matter of understanding that it's situation blown out of proportion for the sake of entertainment. I mean they're stories and stories are always drawn from real life situations and then dramatized.

Twilight is not a prince charming love story. It is "I love you fantasy world" for teenage girls. They used no name actors for the main rolls because it didn't matter who was in the movie. It was made only too make money off teenage girls. A more realistic Hollywood example would be Tru Blood. The relationships are all over the place and everyone is a little messed up other than being supernatural. http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2012/twilight-garbage-says-robert-pattinson-telerama-interview-0516/ http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/idolchatter/2009/02/stephen-kings-public-smackdown.html Anime is a perfect example of the use of a story arc and normaly ends with you not knowing other than seing a kiss or holding hands while watching fireworks. In the case of anime there could always be another season because its portraying a life situation. Movies are designed to package everything at the end where hot girl gets hot boy she just met. true love is not dream girl gets dream guy happily ever after. It Is guy with faults meets girl with faults they eventually start having a relationship and we hope it works out.

I used twilight as an example of how a genre of anime follows the same formula as some hollywood movies, not because I thought it was good or that it exemplified a prince charming scenario. I don't think movies in general actually give you a clue as to how the relationship will end up once the credits roll anymore than anime does. In films, they could have sequels which would qualify as a kind of second season. I'm not disagreeing with the premise of there is no perfect people, however I don't think you can base that off of anime being more realistic than movies because they're all unrealistic. Anime endings are as equally open to hollywood endings in terms of what will ultimately happen. That's why there can be so many fanfiction writers, lol