What happened to all the romance comics...

What happened to all the romance comics? Why did they fall so hard from being one of the most profitable genres in the industry?

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The Guv'ment and Red Scare happened

Multiple reasons. Increasing pressure from the CCA to keep everything G rated, changes in dating culture, the sexual revolution/women's lib, and the increasing popularity of soap operas.

Romance genre only thrive in indies as mainstream attempts to bring it back ended in disaster. E.G.: Trouble

>one of the most profitable genres in the industry
Is that true?

I mean, romance novels are selling like hotcakes right now. And most fanfiction are romance-oriented

This is pretty much it. I’ve read older romance comics and at times you can feel the writers straining against their restrictions in an attempt to make something that resonated with audiences but it wasn’t often successful. And too often enough these romance comics were actually written by old men so the writing lacked authenticity especially deeper into the century. Without the CCA restrictions and more female writers the genre would probably still be healthy today.

In the 40s and 50s, yeah. It remained reasonably profitable through the 60s but was pretty much dead by the 70s.
My Mom was a literal boomer (born in 44) and was a life long consumer of salacious women's entertainment. She talked about reading romance comics when she was younger but she moved on to Soap Operas and bodice ripper paperbacks as she got older.

>Why did they fall so hard from being one of the most profitable genres in the industry?
Because non-romance genres started to introduce their own romance, indirectly fucking over both.

He's playing an F chord

Romance is inherently a female genre and women got less into comics as the decades went on.

>women got less into comics as the decades went on
Manga and webtoons for older women are a thing, you know

Same reason War comics died. Because of the CCA mainly like said.

mine wouldn't be caught dead with that stuff. it's just not her at all.

No, it just shifted with tv, like many other things. Romance comics still do okay, but as shoujo manga.
Also, girls fashion magazines used to bring comics inside (about one chapter of a mothly story) is this still a thing?

If you think Toni Braxton--Unbreak My Heart is a good song you're probably in the target market for those stupid grocery store romance novels with the ripped dude throwing the girl to the ground on the cover.

I think that stopped being a thing in like the late 90s/early 00s.

War comics lasted past the creation of the CCA. Same with Romance.

No, you're thinking of horror comics. Romance comics thrived until the early 70s.

Also, comics stopped being sold in pharmacies and supermarkets. When comics shops started becoming popular, romance titles died.

Raise in price and soap operas, IIRC

He's also having distracted thoughts about the girl with her head right near his crotch.

Women love bad boys ravishing them but bad boys ravishing pure girls is inappropriate and rape culture so publishers told women to stop liking what they like and like boring safe romance interests instead. Spoiler: it didn't work.

If you look at shoujo, josei and yaoi, you notice women aren't shamed because they love fantasizing about being raped and loving it. Romance thrives in Japan thanks to hot bad boys women want to be ravished by.

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The genre will never be healthy until the general public accepts women love erotic rape fantasies, where the "victim" is only a self insert and the author makes the "rape" mindblowing and good and fantastic because she wants to have consensual sex like that, with the man already knowing what to do and doing everything she wants without her having to do anything but lie back and enjoy the thrill.

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Manga don't have sjws screeching because the protagonist falls in love with her rapist and they live happily ever after.

Most women have very boring sexual fetishes--they just get off on the idea of a dominant dude throwing them around.

>Romance thrives in Japan

Lol

>we still don't have an otome isekai that's about a Diobolik Lovers-esque world where the main character hated the series, all the boys, and the rape so she has to fight the world trying to break her into the doormat heroine who secretly loves the rape and have the entire story be a psychological thriller instead of a romance
This shit writes itself but the nips have no taste. She'd probably just end up with one or all of the boys anyway because shit taste is universal.

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And the american public hates that, and as long as america hates female sexuality the romance genre will always be dead.

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Marvel tricked DC into killing them.

Why would she fight what she loves?

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>Yas Forums: what happened to all the romance comics? why did they fall so hard from being one of the most profitable genres in the industry?

>also Yas Forums: ew women enjoying males dominating and females submitting stop them stop them STOP THEM

Why'd you personally kill romance comics?

I'm pretty sure it's the D chord

I don't know what you're talking about dude. I love romance comics by women.

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I love these kind of covers

>And the american public hates that
American public loves thata

But clearly you murdered them 40 years ago because you are Yas Forums.

That's the thing, the isekai protagonist isn't into whatever bullshit the world want to throw her into. Also assuming it's the protagonist taking control or the original heroine's souless husk.
Make her a femminazi if you want the protagonist vs fate to leave the audience asking which is the lesser of two evils
Make her a dude if you just want to be a faggot and ruin any potential by having him end up embracing the doormat heroine role and learn to love the rape
Make her a stereotypical burly Russian mother with a loving husband and children she's desperately trying to get back to and actually have her go back in the end(a novel concept in iseaki trash)
Make her a dommanatrix who's turn-on do not match up with any of the given love interests, like she's into body hair and japanese bishounens are baby-smooth or she's into old dudes or women(if you wanna be a faggot), whatever
The potential is just a story for a man vs nature story, not a romance.
The reason the domineering male lead is a common trope in romances is because it allows the female character and by extension the self-inserting audience to get those lustful sexy moments without being the one to initiate it. Girls are raised to believe their sex-drives are bad or evil or just unladylike and to not be whores so they want a guy to make them 'their' whore.