Tension is often essential to the romance genre in anime and beyond. A romance story just isn’t as fun if there isn’t something keeping the leads apart. Whether this is circumstance, ego, love ...

Amanda M. Castro is a Network TV writer at Collider and a journalist based in New York. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Amanda is a bilingual Latina who graduated from the University of New Haven with ...

The romance genre in anime has been a playground for emotional tension and the drawn-out “will-they-won’t-they” dynamic, where even holding hands takes ten episodes and confessions feel like personal ...

The 2025 anime fall season was marked by a few intense couples, from Momo-chan and Okarun in Dan Da Dan, Gojo and Marin in My Dress-Up Darling, to the multiple girls trying to date Renako in There's ...