so I was just thinking, in romance anime, or in romance movies, what is the most common theme you see in them? To me something that stands out is that there is commonality in the anime, that a lot of them happen in Highschool or shortly thereafter, in the movies it can tend to be close to those specifics as well but more themed for Adults, however, I was thinking that a majority of the time that in most if not all there were always moments of Time, uninterrupted, typically not showing a job or career or student life aspect of falling in love, is Romance and the type you see on the movie screen, just unobtainable because of the fact that the majority of romantical people, have to be constrained and pulled in many directions therefore limiting the possibility of true romance, like in America its nearly unheard of to have third places, like places to just go to for the hell of it and to hang out, maybe a mall, back in the day Skating rinks, cafe's, library's, there used to be more places we could go, now Malls are closing, cafe's don't like you to loiter unless you've made a purchase, Library's want you to go in find your books and get back out, skating rinks are all but dead, so third places are gone... and then the financial responsibilities that we have here nowaday are getting to be horrendous, so we don't have "free time" to just pick up and go somewhere at the spin of a hat because we have to take care of the home or bills and jobs, idk just some thoughts