Romance anime are in a different landscape nowadays filled with safe tropes that aim to tug the heartstrings of viewersand it did work in many momentsbut it has gotten so stale and homogenized that it would be difficult to find an identity in each romance show. Not to say that romance series now wouldnt dare to take riskssince there are a couple that do and made a step above on breaking the mediumbut its difficult to find a romance show where it is littered with heavy drama between its characters. However it used to be a norm back in the 2000s. Romance animes in the 2000s and early 2010s such as Toradora and MaidSama are filled with characters that often banter with each other creating this tension between characters and having that satisfying moment where they put their differences from each other aside and create this slowly growing bond warming up to each other until they have fallen in love. Not to say that this is the objectively best approach for romance anime but the abundance of these kinds of tropes captured many individuals in the romance genre. Fast forward to today the strong contenders for these banterstyle romance shows have been KaguyaSama: Love is War and the recently released Alya but these animes alone are a few rarities with what romance shows have become today. There are reasons why these tropes have slowly disappeared namely that they dont really work in this day and age. Peoples preferences have changed and the greater population has started to prefer a more dominantly calmer and wholesome approach in romanceand there is nothing wrong with that. However at some point you might have a craving for rewatching those old tropes flourish once again. And this is where this anime enters in. Im Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in my Class is basically what the title is. Its a straightforward romance anime with a flair of the good and bad tropes of romance shows in the 2000s. It is littered with your expected spicy tropes that youve expected ranging from characters bantering with each otherwhich is the main attraction that has carried this series all throughoutand side characters that are obviously ripped from yesteryear namely the sisterrole characters and a love triangle charactersomething that is rare too nowadays apart from harem shows. With that said this is not a show where you will find meaning or profundity with its output. The characters in the show are playing their stereotypical roles to the point of having no unique personality that separates them from other characters from different shows plotlines that you can expect from a mile away and it can get tedious as you keep on watching with its repetitiveness. This show is not the best romance show out there as it pretends to be but it is mainly banking on its 2000s anime tropes hitting that wave of nostalgia for the people who grew up with anime with these kinds of tropes. If you miss these kinds of tropes you will be better off rewatching old romance series that mightve offered better characters plotlines storytelling animation and direction. But if youre seeking a romance anime that tackles old tropes with a modern flair this can just serve at its bare minimum.