I have a confession to make.
When I watched Clannad and Clannad After Story...
-I cried.
If I see a romance anime that looks promising, I will watch it.
Although I prefer Romantic Comedies more than straight Romances.
A lot of guys I know will only watch Ecchi and Moe stuff, which I do watch them too, but there is so much more that one could enjoy. Also, for some reason those very same people won't watch Forbidden Love anime.
Some Romances/Romantic Comedies I like are:
-My Sister is Among Them
-Clannad
-Clannad After Story
-Say I Love You
-My Little Sister Can't be This Cute
-My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong as I Expected
-The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
My Little Sister Can't be This Cute & My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong as I Expected are some of the best out there. And I have to add My Little Monster to that list.
I've notice one character type recently from romantic comedies. I have yet to see a word for them. But I describe them as Social Introverts. The two best examples are Asako Natsume and Yui Yuigahama. These are two of the best characters I've
ever seen in a romantic character. They're actually so great that they tend to overshadow the main characters at times.
I'll probably do a blog post this weekend about them because the concept is just fascinating The basic idea is these are characters that appear to be extroverts at first, but once you start to analyze them you soon realize they are introverts who are socially
active. They tend to share many of the traits of tsundere characters but have a very distinct personality type that I just haven't seen in anime until recently.
But wait, I don't think Yui overshadows Hikigaya at all. Hikki is an extreme introvert and he does not fail to have us see that, in his thoughts and his actions. Yui, well, I think she could be just as introverted as him but perhaps a bit less. Because we
don't get a view into her life and her mind, we really don't see the extremities of her introverted-ness and that to me makes Hikki seem more of an introvert. She's definitely tsundere though, but I think that personality is more attributed to girls than male
characters in anime.
And, I think the term you use to describe them is correct. Even if there isn't a '-dere' word to describe them.