Like Prof said, this show's main... attribute, is how familiar it all seems. That's true even for someone like me, someone who actually hasn't seen all that many in the way of RomComs. See, I knew someone like Taiga, short (but not unusually so) a 'straight shooter', to put it politely; and I found her impossible to dislike. Unlike Taiga, this girl was more a classic Tsundere, the sort that's not very friendly at first but grows to like you.

Minorin~n was another somewhat familiar presence in the show because I had known a couple of people who seemed at first to be airheads, but never to the point of being a CloudCucoolander like how she acted.

Ruyji too, but c'mon who here is ultra-secure about themselves?

Well they make stuff like this again and again, because there is an audience that does enjoy stuff that doesn't challenge them emotionally or intellectually and that wants this kind of loveydovey illusion. And then there are a lot of people that have not seen so much of this that they enjoy it sometime or are confronted with it for the first time.
And the companies do it because it is secure just because it does not take any risk. Guaranteed success. For the same reason we see rom coms in the cinema pop up every year.

I understand your frustration Prof. but what ya gonna do about it?

On my end I can only say I am neither a fan nor a hater of the show. It is just kinda meh. I have no problems with Tsunderes but the show still gets annoying sometimes. And then there is only a big chunk of "this is okay or kinda good" left soooo overall meh.

Prof. seemed to rage more about the actual concept than the show itself. I cannot vouch for anything since I have yet to see the show.
Which is strange, because I'm one of the ones that said to prof to not be too harsh on the show. I have not seen nearly as much anime as you prof, thats for sure. But even now I still try to find at least one good thing about a show, hell I even found a good thing about School Days and the second half of the Usagi Drop manga. I guess I'm just not as cranky as this 40 yea... I mean,. 25 year old XD
But hey, I watch more shojo love coms then moe love coms, so I might still enjoy it... who knows. I hate Tunderes, so there is a problem...

Well, I already bitched about it on Twitter, but I figure I should reiterate it here. People seem to be thinking that I didn't watch the second half of this snoozer. I did though I'll admit to kind of sleepwalking through it because I didn't give a flying goddamn about it. I think I should make it perfectly clear that if you can't get me to give a good go-around about the characters, then any drama faaaaails. What did people in the comments want me to do? Give a token nod to the fact that Taiga has a dad? Yeah, she's got a dad. Whoo hoo.

And yes, I raged more about the concept than the show itself but that's because the show itself is a concept at this point. Its more an abstraction than a show about a relationship. They had 13 episodes to make me care, and they didn't. The next 13 aren't going to make me give more of a damn.

Fair enough. I hope you don't need to suffer through more of this then. Toradora is the only Rom Com I watched (as far as I remember). So I guess I am not as effected by the cliché. But I have to admit I stopped watching at episode 9? So it was not good enough to get me to sit through some weaker part of it.

I agree with Prof completely.

That is all.

glad to know i can strike this off the to watch list.

I watched it and didn't like it. Don't know why people think this one is special, it ain't. Same story, same setting, same characters. Also one of the comments I read was hilarious and butthurt.

oh same Otakus forget how to have simply good time

toradora not that deep or great
but it is super fun ^_^

it is funny
the charchters are so nice
it one of the SHOWS i call "Easy Watch"

it is what you watch after long boring day at work

why you think F.R.I.N.D.E.S was popylar

these is empty head fun

just enjoy

I'd rather watch something that's more than okay, like My Bride is a Mermaid.