Modern Romance

Noburiho Yamashita’s film, Linda Linda Linda, and Yoshifumi Kondō’s film, Whisper of the Heart are both deep, comedic, and romantic dramas that center around the lives of Japanese school girls. In Linda Linda Linda, the story centers around four Japanese teenage girls who are trying to form a band to perform at their high school cultural festival. Their names are Kei, Kyoko, Nozomi, and Son. On the other hand, in the Whisper of the Heart, the story centers around Shizuku…...

Introduction Modern anime films and shows have shifted their focus to male and female fantasies. These kinds of shows, especially for genres like Romance, are made to help viewers escape from reality. In addition to this idea, the sense of realism is replaced with the viewers’ perception of paradise or, in this case, guilty pleasure. Viewers tend to show satisfaction when they favor what the creators have developed with certain events or characters. Due to some fears of producing a…...

Romance is not always perfect, picturesque, and glamorous. The way we view romance is usually influenced by movies and television shows that the man pursues the women, they fall head over heels in love and live a happy and perfect life. While this is something we all thrive for, it's something unrealistic. The idea of romance is ever falsified by the entertainment industry and these warped ideas are impacting our lives today whether you realize it or not. The way…...

In Neil Gaiman’s short story “Chivalry”, an elderly woman finds and buys the Holy Grail in a thrift shop to use it as a decorative element in her house. At the same time, a knight from the Round Table is in the quest of finding this sacred object of God. This short story contains many elements of romance, such as the religious quest, love and adventure and courtly and chivalric life. By modernizing romance, Gaiman suggests that love and loyalty…...