How do you call romance tease genre?

[ThrillingHuman]

I think this should have a name of its own.
Saw it described here:

Recommendations - Teasing romance but never really going through with it

I read a few novels and found that I really enjoy the flirting stages of romance novels where one person is not that interested and another isn't...

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[CakeEatsNothing]

Drama?
Romantic Subplot possibly

 

[Agentt]

You can put this in feature reccomend if you want. I really think it should, teasing is a plot broad enough to have separate readers.

 

[DarkGodEM]

teasing but not doing shit? Ecchi

 

[Szaku]

i've read somewhere that romance as a genre isn't the same as romance as in the actions or affections attributed to it. (the thing i read was referring more to movies than novels but i assumed it to be the same as literature as well.)

basically, it stated that a romance genre is simply putting the main character and prospective love interest(s) in a "will they?" or "won't they?" scenario, and playing out as many of the possible cute and sweet or bittersweet misunderstanding moments that they can, before reaching a final conclusion of yes or no.

whether the two (or more) characters actually end up together is never the main point of the romance genre. it's kinda like that saying "it's not the destination that matters but the journey itself" when it comes to the romance genre

 

[Valmond]

i've read somewhere that romance as a genre isn't the same as romance as in the actions or affections attributed to it. (the thing i read was referring more to movies than novels but i assumed it to be the same as literature as well.)

basically, it stated that a romance genre is simply putting the main character and prospective love interest(s) in a "will they?" or "won't they?" scenario, and playing out as many of the possible cute and sweet or bittersweet misunderstanding moments that they can, before reaching a final conclusion of yes or no.

whether the two (or more) characters actually end up together is never the main point of the romance genre. it's kinda like that saying "it's not the destination that matters but the journey itself" when it comes to the romance genre

There is a whole contradiction on this matter. If I remember right, the Romance genre from some community. Saying it has to have a happy ending. This here contradicts with pretty much everything else. Since if you consider let’s see Romeo x Juliet, the animation version. They die, but they end up together in death. That community has it somewhere around the line that the characters must be alive.

Though, others states it differently. Whether the character gets together or not on the base line causes a whole bunch of issues. There are people that vigorously tries and defend the whole happy ending, and there are others that can easily deflect the point. To be honest, just fricking write. If it has Romance, fine, but end it whichever way one feels. The ending context wouldn’t shift the genre. If it ends tragically, it is still a Romance, but a tragic one.

 

[LostLibrarian]

i've read somewhere that romance as a genre isn't the same as romance as in the actions or affections attributed to it.

Romance itself is just a giant genre with tons of content-subgenre which actually define what happens. It's a bit like saying "all action movies". The main genre itself are often defined through the main value that is changing throughout the story.

For romance that would be the relationship between the MC another character ranging somewhere from the negative ("hate") to the positive ("love"). For your typical subgenres without much thinking:
- Courtship (will they/won't they): This would be what we normally think of as "romance".
- Marriage: People need to change because their relationship has to survive hardship
- Erotic: Driven by desire with or without actual feelings.
- Forbidden love Story: Romeo and Juliet
- Compulsion/Obsession: One going after the other without mutual feelings
...

And most of those can - but don't need to - end with a happily ever after.
Courtship can clearly end with "she rejects him", marriage can end with "She leaves him, but he realizes his mistake and changes for the better", forbidden love often ends in tragedy, etc.


Especially for the romance genre it's also often part of multiple genres, where the other genres give the actual reason to change (Your typical "he has to overcome X to realize").


For your teasing, it's often that the main content genre of the story will be action or something else and the romance is just a sub-genre to that plot, which is why they often don't hit all the points of a romantic love story...