Why are pure romance comics so rare these days? All this noise about getting more girls into comics...

>Why are pure romance comics so rare these days?
because superheroes.
Jack Kirby was drawing romance comics in the 40's and then capes returned and became the hot new thing.

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Explain otome games.

It was a bit more complicated than that. Romance comics were the rage for a time, then crime, horror and westerns were a thing for most of the 50s, then superheroes became popular again at the ass end of the decade. He drew a few superhero comics like Fighting American (which was apparently meant to be a spoof anyway) and Stuntman, but mostly shifted to whatever the next big genre was. Superheroes weren't the reason romance comics fell out of fashion.

Those are not fujos. Fujoshis are women who enjoy romance between men. In other words, gay men fucking each other

It has less to do with women not being interested and more being out of the public eye. Romance comics died because comics moved to the direct market and out of places like news stands and supermarkets. IIRC a lot of comics, specifically anthologies, died that way if they weren't already killed or neutered by the Comics Code.

Basically, romance comics is rare, because it died decades ago as a consequence of decisions that impacted the entire industry.

Point is, there's an untapped market of sad women out there.

Not sure if it's untapped, exactly. Even if someone were to put out romance comics, they would be in direct competition against all the cheap romance novels that constantly get churned out, even if you took out romance manga out of the picture.

Hahaha yeah, I bet she gets off to the thought of him doing other girls hahaha

Most young girls buy shoujo manga. There.

Wasn't it to do with the Hays code? Or did escape that unscathed.

The Comics Code apparently hit romance comics as hard as it did horror and crime ones.

>Girls simply outgrew romance comics ... The content was too tame for the more sophisticated, sexually liberated, women's libbers who were able to see nudity, strong sexual content, and life the way it really was in other media. Hand-holding and pining after the cute boy on the football team just didn't do it anymore, and the Comics Code wouldn't pass anything that truly resembled real-life relationships.

Not Hays code, Comic Code

Wertham hated them especially, he made "Jon Juan the Super-Lover" (a very short-lived attempt by Jerry Siegel to capitalize on the popularity of romance comics and desert adventure movies) out to be as big as Superman in Seduction of the Innocent.

Well, maybe if Trina was more assertive this shit wouldn't be happening.

Girls don't read comics.

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they watch CW and Hallmark Channel now

Okay the truth of the matter and this is just the truth is well none of the romance comics became soap operas. Many where anthology stories and very one/done type deals.

One of the reasons superheroes took over like they did is the fact that Spider-man soap opera life set the standard of which all of them follow. Why read a romance comic when you can have Spider-man choose between Betty, Mj or Gwen. Much more complex stuff than typical at the time. Every superhero followed in this after.

And if you did want romance there where actual comic strips like Brenda Starr that could also work for you. The reason genre died in comics is that you could get much better material from other sources. No one tried it as an ongoing, and because superheroes got there first it was like why bother.

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well there was that wedding DC did not long ago, how'd that go?

>how'd that go?
It didn't.

Yeah, she really should fight for Nan.

It definitely got gutted by the code, but the romance genre still survived well into the 70s. I'm guessing the shift in tastes at the time in addition to changes in the market hit romance pretty hard.

I mean, the last straight up romance I read that didn't come out of Japan was lesbian BDSM erotica.
I guess they all just shifted over to a genre where they didn't have to stop at a kiss.

Seriously. That is true love there. Fight for her, Trina! You both deserve happiness!